Linux-Setup Digest #838, Volume #19 Mon, 16 Oct 00 12:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Minimal embedded linux? (Robert Kaiser)
Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions (Anita Lewis)
Re: Portfw doesn't work in RH7.0 (Jonathan)
test - please ignore (Przemyslaw Maciuszko)
HP35480A scsi tape drive config ("Guy Smith")
Re: Parallel port problem, RH6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH7 - Problems compiling kernel ("ne...")
ACPI question (Alex Deucher)
Re: HP35480A scsi tape drive config (-ljl-)
printing in Slackware 7.1 (Dave Lund)
kgcc and RH7 (Alex Deucher)
Re: Hardware accelerated OpenGL for RIVA TNT? (mst)
cdrecord and smart and friendly mach 12 (Alex Deucher)
Latex installation on SUSE 7.0 (Sean Clarke)
test ("aaa")
DHCP on Linux??!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I turn off the pc speaker (H Dziardziel)
Re: Beginners guide to qmail. (Vilmos Soti)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Kaiser)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.arch.embedded
Subject: Re: Minimal embedded linux?
Date: 16 Oct 2000 11:45:11 GMT
In article <8sdgtq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Macon) writes:
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>[See http://www.denx.de/embedded-ppc-en.html for images of the demo
>>system hardware.]
>>
>
> How does your demo compare in functionality to what QNX put on a
> 1.44 MB Floppy ( http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/ )?
>
> They fit the following in:
>
> POSIX realtime OS
> Full windowing system,
> Drivers for many common video cards
> HTML 3.2 browser,
> Embedded web server,
> Internet dialer
> Drivers for many modems
> TCP/IP stack
This demo disk is really impressive! That said, however, the only
things preventing someone from doing a similar thing with Linux
are the lack of a lean enough web browser and the lack of a lean
enough windowing system. Both areas are currently being addressed
by open source projects (see for instance http://www.viewml.com
and http://microwindows.censoft.com).
Rob
================================================================
Robert Kaiser email: rkaiser AT sysgo DOT de
SYSGO RTS GmbH http://www.elinos.com
Klein-Winternheim / Germany http://www.sysgo.de
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:49:15 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:20:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <8s0cfa$3lg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have tried the RH6.0 CD and while reading the instructions it went
>> into 'installation' mode. Anyway, I followed the prompts and ended
>> updating my RH5.2 to 6.0. I have located the LINUX partition as hda6,
>> and chose that as the LILO site instead of MBR.
>>
>> Now, Win95 can boot but LINUX would not. :-(
>
>Well, now LILO freezes at LIL
>here are my partition table that I wrangle out with fdisk and some
>redirection ...
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 281 2257101 b Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda2 282 367 690795 b Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda3 368 784 3349552+ 5 Extended
>/dev/hda5 368 449 658633+ b Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda6 450 577 1028128+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hda7 578 768 1534176 83 Linux
>/dev/hda8 769 784 128488+ 82 Linux swap
>
>hda3 looks very suspicious! My fstab is as follows
>/dev/hda2 /dos vfat defaults
>
>/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
>
>lilo.conf and fstab looks in proper order. Lili.conf is as follows.
>boot=/dev/hda6
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>other=/dev/hda1
> label=win95
> table=/dev/hda
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda6
> read-only
>
>
>Hope someone can help me to figure the partition table out.
The partition table is fine. /dev/hda3 is an extended partition.
The remaining partitions following are logical partitions of that
extended partition. If you add up all the blocks for hda5-hda8, it
should equal hda3.
Now I am thinking that there may be a problem with putting lilo on
a logical partition. I don't know - just a guess. Here is what
I would try just to be on the safe side and not put lilo in the mbr
just yet until we are sure it works. I would try putting lilo on
a floppy.
Edit lilo.conf so that you have boot=/dev/fd0. Put a floppy in the
drive and do 'lilo' to write lilo to the floppy. Leave the floppy
in the drive and reboot. Try accessing both windows and linux.
If that works, try it for a while and then change lilo.conf so that
boot=/dev/hda. Run lilo and that will write lilo to the mbr. There
is no reason not to have it there, because you are running a form
of windows that does not have a boot loader. If you end up installing
win2k, you will not be able to have lilo in the mbr.
I am wondering if you did something between where you say that win95
boots but linux does not and then you say lilo is stuck at LIL? Did
that change happen all by itself?
Does anyone know if lilo can be installed on a logical partition?
Anita
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Portfw doesn't work in RH7.0
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:36:18 GMT
In article <39e9e935$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ki Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've setup a firewall machine(Redhat 7.0) with ipchains and use
ipmasqadm to
> redirect external request into the internal server.
> Ipchains work fine but ipmasqadm can't forward the external request..
> Please help ^_^
>
> here is my configuration below:
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> /sbin/depmod -a
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc
> /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
> /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ
> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 202.66.20.246 80 -R 192.168.0.20 80
> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 202.66.20.246 21 -R 192.168.0.20 21
> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 202.66.20.246 9010 -R 192.168.0.20 9010
> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 202.66.20.245 21 -R 192.168.0.10 21
> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 202.66.20.245 9010 -R 192.168.0.10 9010
>
>
I hate to respond without addressing the question, but I would definitel
y not use Redhat 7.0 as a firewall. Redhat releases are buggy in the
x.0 versions and are patched toward stability/security with the x.1 and
x.2 releases. I get 7.0 bugzilla reports almost everyday and unless you
want to be updating your firewall very frequently, you are likely to
have lots of vulnerabilities.
For firewall use, I would install 6.2 and the eight or so patches that
are available and wait until 7.0 has been updated.
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From: Przemyslaw Maciuszko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test - please ignore
Date: 16 Oct 2000 12:55:30 GMT
Reply-To: Przemyslaw Maciuszko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Test
--
Przemyslaw Maciuszko
TP Internet
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From: "Guy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: HP35480A scsi tape drive config
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:02:59 GMT
I have loaded Red Hat 6.2 on an old PC. Most everything is working OK,
except for an HP35480 DAT drive. The device is seen at boot (see next -
dump from dmesg)
============================================================================
==================================
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense
key Not Ready
============================================================================
==================================
1) Not sure to what to make of the message
2) Cannot find any good documentation on configuring scsi tape drives, much
less anything specific on this model
Looking for any guidance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Parallel port problem, RH6.1
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:56:47 GMT
Problem solved. I modified /etc/conf.modules, ran modprobe, and the
paralell port worked perfectly. Many thanks to all who helped.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
repo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to add a printer to a RedHat 6.1 system. The hardware
is good:
> > it works fine when the PC is booted under Win95. In the GUI Contol
Panel, I
> > can add the printer, but I get an error saying that there is no
communication
> > via the parallel port, and that I should check for hardware
problems.
> >
> > Printcap looks as if it is correctly configured.
> >
> > I know the hardware is good. Where do I look to see if Linux is
correctly
> > configured to talk to the parallel port?
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> Hi
> download the latest modutils
> or as root add the following line at /etc/conf.modules
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> save /etc/conf.modules
> type
> modprobe lp
> If this doesn't work
> type
> /sbin/rmmod lp
> --
> Good Luck
> Repo
>
> http://beginnerslinux.saxen.net/
> http://beginnerslinux.org/
> Linux Red Hat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586
> 4:50am up 5 days, 4:20, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.48, 0.41
>
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 - Problems compiling kernel
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:14:04 GMT
On Oct 15, 2000 at 12:20, Metropolis eloquently wrote:
>Hey folks...
>
>Having problems recompiling a kernel in RH7. My steps are:
>
>1. cd /usr/src/linux (symbolic link to linux-2.2.17)
>2. make xconfig (import default Redhat config - make a few minor
>changes - save)
>3. make dep
>4. make clean (as directed by several sources, though I know some
>people dont' do this)
>4. make bzImage
First delete the /usr/src/linux and create the former link.
Your system was not compiled with the 2.2.17 headers. You
also do not need the 2.2.17 kernel in /usr/src. Ask Linus
why.
Now to solve yur problem. Install the kgcc rpm. Untar
the kernel rpm in say /home/<user>/linux. make menuconfig
and save. Edit the top level make file and change the
CC from gcc or cc to kgcc. Then
make dep clean bzImage modules
Yep type it all on one line. It works.
Install modules, kernel and System.map as root......
[...]
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Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one,
an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke
9:07am up 15:01, 11 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:09:46 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ACPI question
I'm fairly new to acpi. I have it compiled into my kernel, and it seems
to setup fine upon boot. I have the appropriate entries in /proc/sys.
I compiled and installed acpid,etc. and all of that seemed to go fine.
Now I guess my question is how do I use it? How do I set the power
management options? How do I set it up to turn off my pc when I shut
down? Perhaps these options aren't available as of yet. I can't seem to
find this info anywhere, and the acpi FAQ seems to more detail the
technical aspects rather than using/seting up the features. Any help
would be much appreciated.
Please reply to me directly when you reply as I cannot always get access
to this list.
Thanks,
Alex
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: HP35480A scsi tape drive config
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:08:15 GMT
In article <70DG5.324081$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Guy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have loaded Red Hat 6.2 on an old PC. Most everything is working
OK,
> except for an HP35480 DAT drive. The device is seen at boot (see next
-
> dump from dmesg)
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------
> Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00:
sense
> key Not Ready
> -----------------------------------------------
Here you'll find some switch setting for your drive:
http://www.iohk.com/UserPages/wsyoung/12000e.html
got numerous other hits using:
http://www.northernlight.com
Looks like '/usr/src/linux/scsi/st.c' is complaining:
printk(KERN_WARNING "st%d: Error with sense data: ", dev);
? fatal ^^^^^^^^^ ?
---
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Lund)
Subject: printing in Slackware 7.1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:23:36 GMT
I am still basically a newbie when it comes to printing in Linux. I
have a Canon BJC-210 on lp2 and a plain dot-matrix on lp0. How would I
go about configuring this setup? I also want to be able to print from
my windows boxes through samba. I figure that i will need to configure
apsfilter (but I don't know how). I would also like to enable the
Auto-Install feature for the windows drivers.
If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:42:57 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: kgcc and RH7
I have redhat 7 installed and am trying to get the test kernels to
compile. I have heard that there are issues with gcc 2.96. I have kgcc
installed, but I'm not sure how to use it. I have tried the following
and it still seems to be using gcc. Also when I do use gcc (not kgcc),
the kernel compiles but it takes about 4-5 times as long as it did under
RH 6.1. The kernel even boots, but several modules fail to work.
Here's what I have tried:
1. Changing "hostcc" in the top level Makefile to kgcc
2. setting CC=kgcc as an environment variable and then compiling
3. typing "CC=kgcc make dep modules etc."
Yet when it starts compling each line in the output says gcc rather than
kgcc, and I get LOTS of warnings about "nothing can be pasted after this
token." Is this right? I never got this under the old rh6.1 gcc. It
also takes 4-5 times longer to compile in rh7.
Please reply to me directly as I can't always get to this list.
Thanks,
Alex
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Hardware accelerated OpenGL for RIVA TNT?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:52:06 -0400
Erik Max Francis wrote:
>
> I have an old RIVA TNT that I'd like to get running with
> hardware-accelerated OpenGL so that I can experiment. Unfortunately, I
> haven't had much luck getting it working. I upgraded binutils to 5.10
> (since I run SMP), then I upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1, installed the
> NVIDIA kernel drives and then the GLX modules and libraries.
Beside using XF86 4.x.x with the Nvidia-provided drivers, you may also
want to look at Utah-GLX with 3.3.x (especially for older cards, which I
think are not well supported by the current Nvidia drivers):
http://glx.on.openprojects.net
http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/
I've had good experiences while using it on a variety of supported cards
(TNT, S3V, Rage Pro).
MST
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:02:31 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: cdrecord and smart and friendly mach 12
I have a 1st generation smart and friendly mach 12 12x scsi CDR. I
haven't found any documented support for this drive in cd-record or
cdrdao, although it seems to work using mmc. The drive is hanging off
an adaptec 2940. I have an a atapi 44x cdrom and a 7200rpm ata/66 hd,
both using dma. I'm using the 2.4.0 test kernels (both redhat's, and
self-complied ones) and redhat 7. I can't get the drive to burn
reliably. I can't get it to complete a burn at all from the cdrom, but
from the harddrive I can only get it to run at most 3-4x mode. If I try
it any faster or using the cdrom as a source, I get either buffer
underruns, if it actually starts burning, or I get errors complaining
about the pre-burn areas and failed commands and responses (I don't
remember off hand the exact messages, I'll look them up and post).
The drive works fine under win98 at all speeds using both the cdrom and
harddrive as sources. However, I got similar error messages under win98
initially, but a patch to adaptec EZ cd-creator 4 on adaptec's web site
fixed that.
So I guess I'm wondering whether this is a kernel issue, or a
cd-record/cdrdao issue. I have heard that there are issues with the sg
interface in the newer kernels. I'm using the cdrecord that came with
rh7 and the newest cdrdao (as of a week ago).
Any advice is much appreciated,
Please reply to me directly as I can't always get to these groups.
Thanks,
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Clarke)
Subject: Latex installation on SUSE 7.0
Date: 16 Oct 2000 15:27:45 GMT
Hi,
I have recently installed SUSE 7.0 which I got a version of from the
linux format magazine. I tried to install latex from my old SUSE 6.2
cds but after installation there was no latex executable to be seen.
I thought there may be some incompatibilities between the RPMs so I
downloaded a new RPM from SUSEs web site but I have the same problem.
If I go to /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i386-linux-glibc where latex
is installed on my SUSE 6.2 machine I see all the usual executables
but no latex.
Anyone have any ideas as to what has gone wrong or what stupid mistake
I'm making?
Cheers
Sean
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From: "aaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:43:33 +0200
sorry, its test
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DHCP on Linux??!!
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:39:19 GMT
Hi, there:
I got several windows PCs and Linux PCs. Lately I bought a Linksys
router (4 ports) to share my DSL connection in my home. It uses DHCP to
assign IP automatically to every PC client.
My questions:
1. If I turn off the DHCP feature and assign IP, DNS... to every PC by
myself, the connection performance to Internet will be bad or the same?
2. If I still use DHCP in this router, how can I config my Linux PC to
work well for Internet connection? Since Linksys assigns IP
automatically to PC clients from 192.168.1.100, currently I assign
192.168.1.105 to Linux PC A, 192.168.1.115 to Linux PC B, then
sometimes it works fine, but sometimes they don't work(I mean connect
to Internet).
Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks a lot!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Subject: Re: How do I turn off the pc speaker
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:58:43 GMT
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 17:00:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
wrote:
>On 12 Oct 2000 16:26:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Allan
>Holcombe) wrote:
>
>>I am running Red Hat 6.2. I found that some of the programs that I use
>>cause the pc speaker to beep when an error occurs in the program.
>>I let some of these programs run overnight, (I xlock'ed my terminal)
>>and came in the next morning to find many annoyed neighbors, that were
>>forced to listen to my machine beep at them for a few hours. Is there
>>a good way to disable the speaker? Ideally having xlock turn it off would
>>be nice, but I don't know of any way to do this.
>>Thanks.
>>--
>>Richard Holcombe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Deep in the voluminous documentation is a paragraph about setting the
>speaker beep tone volume and duration in the shell. Someday I too
>will find it again.
>
Found it, the "Visual bell mini-Howto".
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Subject: Re: Beginners guide to qmail.
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:58:17 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Is their a place where I can get a beginners guide to qmail, which will
> take me through step by step on how to install, configure and run qmail
> on linux. (RH 7.0)
Just download the source and follow the INSTALL* files. they tell you
exactly what and how to do.
Vilmos
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