Linux-Setup Digest #752, Volume #19 Tue, 3 Oct 00 07:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc (Villy Kruse)
kernel upgrade > 2.2.17 > nic not working (Yokozuna)
Re: CD Burning Software For Linux (D. J. Poel)
Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc (Mike Oliver)
Re: NVidia gfx card under RH7.0 ("Jeroen Zwartepoorte")
Re: help: configuring fetchmail (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??! (Silviu Minut)
Re: partition table changes with lilo (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: partition table changes with lilo (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Transfer SCO Unix data to Linux
disable blanking screen (Damien Mattei)
telnetd under RedHat7 ("Tommy Harjo")
PCMCIA Driver Loading (McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant)
Re: Implications ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
No Sound Card............. ("Cool")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc
Date: 3 Oct 2000 07:22:37 GMT
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 01:16:35 GMT, Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:53:53 -0700, Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> I just checked it out. You will have to upgrade to rpm 3.0.5. It is
>>> available from redhat's webpage.
>>
>>It is? All I can find there are current versions (i.e. rpm-4.0.4).
>
>It is definitely in the errata for 6.2. That is where I got it.
>
Also note the errata description for 3.0.5. The purpose of this release
was to allow installing from new format rpms. There is also one for
RH5.2
Villy
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From: Yokozuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel upgrade > 2.2.17 > nic not working
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 07:43:02 GMT
After kernel upgrade from 2.2.10 to 2.2.17 (Suse 6.2)
my Compex RL 100 ATX nic does not work anymore.
I did a make menuconfig, but this nic was not included in the options. I
completed with make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules; make
modules_install
This is what I get:
# /sbin/init.d/network start
Setting up network device eth0
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
etho: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
I have tried the NE 2000 (PCI) , but it doesn't work either.
Anyone any idea how to solve this ?
--
Peter
Resultaat van m'n kabelverbinding bij bART/UPC
http://yokozuna.op.het.net/bij-bART/live.html
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From: D. J. Poel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Burning Software For Linux
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:53:40 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Les Labbauf wrote:
> >
> > I need some help in getting CD-Burning Software working under Red Hat Linux 6.2.
> > I downloaded KreateCD, CDPARANOIA, CDRecord + Miskofs. I am not sure how to
>install
>
> You don't need to compile anything. And cdrecord, cdparanoia and mkisofs
> are
> on the Red Hat cd in the /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS directory.
>
> If your cd-rw is IDE, you'll have to use the ide-scsi module, as Linux
> is scsi friendly. To use this module, you'll have to add a message to
> lilo that cd-rw is
> scsi, and does not load as atapi. Modules are all compiled and
> available.
>
> Even with this setup, I could not get cdroast to work.
>
> However, I had good luck with cdrtoaster that runs in X, and am still
> using it today, even though I now have scsi cd-rw.
>
> Read the cd-burning (or something like that) HOWTO!
>
> If this is just confusing, use email, and I'll go into more detail.
>
Or check the tutorial at
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/pages/
This explained a lot to me!
DJ
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From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 01:08:54 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:53:53 -0700, Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> >
> >> I just checked it out. You will have to upgrade to rpm 3.0.5. It is
> >> available from redhat's webpage.
> >
> >It is? All I can find there are current versions (i.e. rpm-4.0.4).
>
> It is definitely in the errata for 6.2. That is where I got it.
Look, how about a URL? I know all you people know where to find the
"errata" and so on, but I'm new, and most of the pointers I see
here are like saying "go to the corner of Lincoln and Fifth",
but I don't know in what city.
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From: "Jeroen Zwartepoorte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NVidia gfx card under RH7.0
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:24:42 +0200
Thanks,
But that didn't work :(
I manually build both the kernel and GLX, but i still get a "received signal
11" on starting X. (delete the libglx.so.1.0.5 in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions to make X start again).
This happens just after the GlxExtensionsInit. Must be something in GLX
right?
Has anybody managed to get the NVIDIA driver to work under rh7?
Jeroen
<moonie>; ")" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:
> >I tried installing the NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh7rc2.i386.rpm, but it seems
> >that driver has been compiled with kernel 2.2.16-21, and rh7 final uses
> >2.2.16-22.
> >
> >I worked around that by doing an insmod -f NVdriver, but when starting X
> >using the new driver, it fails with a "received signal 11". (and yes, i
also
> >installed NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-5.i386.rpm)
> >
> >Any ideas? Or do i just have to wait for NVidia to release rh7 drivers?
> >
> >I've got a TNT2 btw.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jeroen
>
> This is what I did to get my TNT2U card to work (also worked with TNT, and
TNT2
> M64):
>
> http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/mandrake/mdk_nvidia.html
>
> --
> moonie ;)
>
> Registered Linux User #175104
> http://counter.li.org
>
> KDE2
> Kernel 2.4.0-test5
> XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
> RAID 0 Striped
> Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: help: configuring fetchmail
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 08:46:07 GMT
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:15:27 GMT, David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
|On 26 Sep 2000 14:25:51 +0100, Andreas K�h�ri
|<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|>
|>What kind of problems do your have with Python? What distribution do
|>you run?
|>
|Hi Andreas;
|
|Iam running RedHat 6.2, I do not know how to use python, but I can
|type python and get an intro screen and >>> prompt.
|
|When I try to run fetchmailconf, I get an error message that (from
|memory) that ...python/tk is not configured for python/tk...
|
|All I want is fetchmail mail to fetch mail from isp.domain and send
|emails to goble@... to user degoble and email to erc@... to user
|begoble
This is what I use in my .fetchmailrc file. Just swap your real
account names & password, etc, and you may be OK.
poll isp.domain with protocol pop3
user goble, with password goble-pass, is degoble here
poll isp.domain with protocol pop3
user erc, with password erc-pass, is begoble here
This will try and talk SMTP to a server such as sendmail running
on your local box (the one running fetchmail). If the local SMTP
server is running on a different local box, add this line at the
end of each 'poll' section above:
smtphost local.smtp.server
This is also usefull if your SMTP server is only listening on
a specific IP address on your machine. DON'T put an IP address
here, as fetchmail uses this while talking to the SMTP server
and sends the email to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Universal Life Church http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-
xenaphobia: The fear of being beaten to a pulp by
a leather-clad, New Zealand woman.
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??!
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 04:42:33 -0400
> Incidentally, the C compiler is also broken, I hope you werent planning to
> build a custom kernel.
Broken indeed! In fact I only tried g++ and it gave some errors with
templates. However, I installed the compat-egcs, compat-egcs-c++, and
dependencies and all was well (as expected, because egcs worked with RH6.2).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: partition table changes with lilo
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:02:44 GMT
"Mladen Gavrilovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I want to boot DOS, Win98, and Linux, and I have a problem with the
>partition table changes necessary to do this. The only partition types
>defined in lilo according to some text file in the docs directory are
>DOS_12, DOS_16_small, and DOS_16_big. So what do I do if I want to
>hide/unhide a FAT32 partition? Ideally I would hide the Win98 partition
>from DOS when DOS boots, and then unhide it when Win98 boots.
>
>In case it's not clear what I'm asking for, it should eventually look like
>this:
>
>other=/dev/hda1 #this is DOS
>the usual...
>change
> partition=/dev/hda1
> activate
> set=DOS_16_big_normal
> partition=/dev/dha2 #the Win98 partition
> deactivate
> set=xxxxx_hidden #here's the problem
> #how do I
>refer to the FAT32 system?
>
>Note that this is just from my head, not from lilo.conf so some syntax is
>probably off,
>but I think it's good enough to show what I'm looking for.
>
>Anyone happen to have any ideas?
>
>Regards,
>Mladen
>From the Lilo readme file it seems as it is possible to define your
own change rules. Look for "change-rules".
FAT32 ending cylinder 1024 or later: 0x0C, hidden 0x1C
Other FAT32: 0x0B, hidden 0x1B
--
Svend Olaf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: partition table changes with lilo
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:03:57 GMT
"Mladen Gavrilovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I want to boot DOS, Win98, and Linux, and I have a problem with the
>partition table changes necessary to do this. The only partition types
>defined in lilo according to some text file in the docs directory are
>DOS_12, DOS_16_small, and DOS_16_big. So what do I do if I want to
>hide/unhide a FAT32 partition? Ideally I would hide the Win98 partition
>from DOS when DOS boots, and then unhide it when Win98 boots.
>
>In case it's not clear what I'm asking for, it should eventually look like
>this:
>
>other=/dev/hda1 #this is DOS
>the usual...
>change
> partition=/dev/hda1
> activate
> set=DOS_16_big_normal
> partition=/dev/dha2 #the Win98 partition
> deactivate
> set=xxxxx_hidden #here's the problem
> #how do I
>refer to the FAT32 system?
>
>Note that this is just from my head, not from lilo.conf so some syntax is
>probably off,
>but I think it's good enough to show what I'm looking for.
>
>Anyone happen to have any ideas?
>
>Regards,
>Mladen
>From the Lilo readme file it seems as it is possible to define your
own change rules. Look for "change-rules".
Primary FAT32 ending cylinder 1024 or later: 0x0C, hidden 0x1C
Other FAT32: 0x0B, hidden 0x1B
--
Svend Olaf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Transfer SCO Unix data to Linux
Date: 3 Oct 2000 08:35:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Way back in my ancient history I used SCO Unix, AFAIK they had uucp. So what
you should do is to remove one of the terminals and the getty waiting on that
line in /etc/inittab. Then you have to create a nullmodem cable and hook your
linux box on the SCO box with that cable. Now comes the rtfm part:
Start uucico in slave mode for the serial port on linux (man uucico).
Create a System entry on the SCO box (man uucp AFAIK or the documentation
coming with SCO Unix).
Now tar and compress the data on the SCO machine and start uucp to copy
the result onto the linux box and go to sleep.
btw: I would use 9600 8n1 with software handshake, even 19200 can be too fast.
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:04:38 +1300, Ross Levis wrote:
>One problem with your idea is there is no network card in the SCO box. It
>currently just runs about 20 dumb terminals or PC's with terminal emulation.
>The operating system is at least 10 years old so will not natively support a
>CD writer.
>
>Cheers,
>Ross.
>
>"News User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:35:12 +1300, Ross Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ]>Actually I need to transfer about 200+ Megs of data from an old SCO Unix
>box
>> ]>(v3.2?) to a Windows NT box. The best way I can think of is to use
>> ]>Linux/Samba. I'm a moderately advanced Linux user but I have no
>experience
>> ]>setting up hardware under Linux.
>> ]>
>> ]>Option 1: Transfer the existing tape drive into a linux box. We will
>need
>> ]>to install a SCSI controller too as the linux box is only IDE. Is it
>hard
>> ]>to setup a SCSI controller? Will a plug'n'play card simply plug-in &
>work?
>> ]>Do I need a tape device driver for linux or will built-in drivers work?
>> ]>This is the prefered method so they can continue to use their existing
>> ]>system while we transfer the data.
>> ]>
>> ]>Option 2: Transfer the hard disk from the SCO box to a linux box. Can
>Linux
>> ]>(RH6.2) mount an old SCO partition.
>> ]>
>> ]>Option 3: Use serial communication programs. I seem to remember some
>> ]>y-modem comms software on the SCO box but this will take too long over
>38400
>> ]>baud.
>> ]>
>>
>> If the two machine are physically close to each other, I would simply use
>> a 100Mb ethernet connection between the two. You could then use a simple
>> ftp to transfer the data. Or, if you have WinZip on NT, you could first
>> create a tar file (.tar) or a compressed tar file (.tar.gz) on SCO. Then
>> ftp the tar file to NT and use WinZip to untar it (WinZip supports both
>> plain tar and compressed tar). Note that WinZip is a commercial product.
>>
>> Setting up a SCSI controller is not that hard (can't be, I did it <grin>).
>> I don't think that it is simply plug-n-play, but you just need to make
>sure
>> that you have a supported SCSI controller (I understand Adaptec is very
>good).
>> I have a BusLogic SCSI controller and TecMar tape drive. Works very well
>under
>> Linux. Generally, you load the SCSI controller module when you boot Linux.
>> Once the SCSI controller module is loaded, you load the SCSI tape module.
>> Or you can generate the SCSI controller and tape support directly into the
>> kernel.
>>
>> Another thought - if SCO supports it, put a CD burner on the SCO box and
>> make a Joliet (Windows) compatable CD (long file names). I don't know
>anything
>> about SCO, so I don't know if this is doable.
>>
>> Just some thoughts - worth what you paid me for them <grin>
>>
>> John McKown
>
>
--
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
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From: Damien Mattei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: disable blanking screen
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:52:43 +0200
i install linux for newbies in dual boot with windows , the machine is
in a public organisation
user comes see the blanked screen thinking that the machine is powered
off
and they press... the POWER button stopping the cpu and making linux os
crash
i want to know how to remove the screen saver (not to configure DPMS ,i
know that) that blank the screen in text console and X windows.
please help
--
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tommy Harjo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: telnetd under RedHat7
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:02:47 +0200
Hello!
I've just upgraded from RedHat 6.2 to RedHat 7 and experienced some
problems.
The most important (to me) is that telnetd doesn't start automatically, and
I'm not able
to make it start (both manually and automatically) from linuxconf.
I manage to start it manually from the command line (in.telnetd -debug) but
when I do
that, it accepts one telnet session and terminates when the session is
closed.
What happened to telnetd?
How do I reconfigure it to start automatically?
--
Tommy Harjo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: PCMCIA Driver Loading
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:46:33 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a PCMCIA ethernet card with an NE2000 compatable module for it,
(using strings on the .o file I have been supplied with). My card
manager is running, but when I put in the PCMCIA card I get a low then
high beep.
What I do not understand is where do I specify that I want my LNA100.o
module to be loaded as the driver for the PCMCIA card? I am using SuSE
6.3 and in the list of devices I can only pick PCMCIA, which starts up
the card manager, but there is nothing which loads the PCMCIA module. I
have been looking at the PCMCIA HowTo and it comments on my problem with
SCIOxxxx errors, but I get no errors when I look at the dmesg output, as
, I guess, it is not loading a driver for the PCMCIA device so has no
problem?
Thanks
Leo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.software.config-mgmt,comp.ai.gentic
Subject: Re: Implications
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:15:45 GMT
> >Buried in the excesses of my deranged
> >thinking, I wrote down something
> >that looks like this:
> >
> > X --> P --> E
> >
> >How amazingly deranged.
>
> That is not deranged, but so simplistic
> as to be too laughably obvious and
> useless to anyone who has ever configured
> a computer. You take some software
> X, put it into store P and you have
> configuration E. Hmm, I think that's not
> clear enough, so let's draw a box and
> arrow diagram! Got any chalk?
DNA --> RNA --> Proteins (function)
This is the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (CDMB).
It is a biological counterpart of my own illustration,
though I did stop short of referring to my drawing as
the "Central Dogma of Computer Science". But I could have.
If we were talking about understanding how cells
actually manage to configure themselves, you could make
the same claim about CDMB's "laughably obvious" nature.
If the CDMB is so "laughably obvious" and "useless", why
is this progression referred to with reverence in Biology?
Check out the reference (one of thousands on the net):
http://www-
bioeng.ucsd.edu/research/research_groups/gcrg/Presentations/sld002.htm
>
> I think the deranged part was comparing your
> installation to having sex.
>
> You need to stop diddling your computer
> and start taking your medication. :)
Look, I have been taking my meds, honest! :)
I know the idea that computer systems depend on the exchange
of genetic material sounds deranged. But there is no stork.
The functionality of your computer system comes from *somewhere*,
and computer systems don't just appear all configured in
a bundle tied with a ribbon. (Okay, maybe they *do* come all
configured in boxes, if not ribbons, but somebody had to
configure the system before you got it :)
Everyone you know, the food you eat, the grass in your
yard, your pet (if you have one), and nearly every living
thing you see is the result of genetic exchange. What is
genetic exchange? In computer systems, it is the first step,
that of establishing your software library, in the "laughably
obvious" and "useless" process of configuring a computer
system.
You really should try to open your mind a bit. Biology might
be messy, but organisms do a far better job of configuration
management than we do with our computer systems. Cells and
computer systems are both computationally based, and they are
both faced with the same types of configuration problems. My
"laughably obvious" observation implies we should establish a
single set of mechanisms to perform the configuration management
tasks in our computer systems. Furthermore, these mechanisms
will scale to any computer system, quite independent of the
functionality of that system. Why do I believe this? Because
that is what living organisms do, from bacteria to whales.
Better yet, do I have to throw out C and Java, rewrite Linux
to apply the techniques these "dogmas" imply? No I do not. Like
the dogmas state, configuration mangement of a computer system
can always be implemented in a fashion independnent of the
execution environment.
Useless indeed.
Paul Snow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Cool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No Sound Card.............
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 19:00:02 +0800
Hi All,
I've unplug my sound card from my Linux Box. Didn't change any setting or
conf. The system try to load it everytime it boot, or even everyday. And
there are some error message about my scsi hard drive and /.kterm.1x.gz, it
said input/output error. My system still work but it worries me. What do I
need to do with the system for removing the sound card, (or hardware)?
Thanks in advance.
Emil Koo.
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