Linux-Setup Digest #862, Volume #19 Thu, 19 Oct 00 17:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: redhat 7 installation problem ("Rick Bigelow")
How do I install a 2nd network card? (Wayne Jernigan)
Keyboard and Slackware (GD)
SSH for redhat 6.2 ("Scott Watson")
Re: default module location changed in 2.4.0-test9 ?? (Paul Kimoto)
CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP (Gotzon Berrojalbiz)
Re: Boot config advice wanted ("Patrik Heidefors")
Help for new Linux users (Ken Schrock)
Re: Help for new Linux users (Tony Lawrence)
Re: Tulip driver/Compile Network Everywhere NIC NC100 (Paul Meyer~)
Linux useradd command (Rick Chapman)
Re: [lilo] please critique this lilo.conf (observer)
Re: modem trouble ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network (SL News Posting)
compile a kernel by a normal user (Zhihui Zhang)
RH7 Network Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Tulip driver/Compile Network Everywhere NIC NC100 ("Larry Clark")
Re: USB Zip Drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
USB Support (Donald L Mainier)
Re: SSH for redhat 6.2 (Alex)
coolstuff: portsentry and grc.com (Steve Wright)
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From: "Rick Bigelow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 7 installation problem
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:20:12 -0400
You may need the annaconda update from redhat. You make a second diskette,
then type 'linux updates' and the install process will (eventually) ask for
the update diskette.
And don't forget to clean up your base and rpms directories before
installing.
Rick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8sleh1$qnp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to install Redhat linux 7.0 from my
> hard drive using a boot disk. It works in the
> beginning of the installation but after
> specifying the partition where all RPMS are, I
> get this error message
>
> Running anaconda - may take some time to load
> read: no such file or directory
> install exited abnormally -- received signal 9
>
> I have my RPMS in FAT 32 partition.
> Please help. Thank you.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Wayne Jernigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I install a 2nd network card?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:23:50 -0700
Mandrake 7.1 only found and installed one of my network cards. How do I install
the second one? Only one is listed in the HardDrake utility, and there does not
appear to be a way to add an additional one with that utility. Also, in the
Kernel Module field of the network configuration, in the pull down list of
available modules, the driver for my second card is not listed.
Please, echo your response to e-mail, just in case.
Thanks in advance!
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From: GD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Keyboard and Slackware
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:00:55 GMT
To All:
I have just installed SW on my new e-machine and when I rebooted I lost
the use of the keyboard, I have seen alot of posts about this, but no
one seems to have an answer as to what to do to fix the problem. Antone
have one?
TIA,
Garret
P.S. Yes, I have booted into single user mode and the keyboard did come
back, well for a little while, then it was gone again.
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From: "Scott Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SSH for redhat 6.2
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:47:40 -0400
Redhat announced that openssl was available for rh6.2. Great!! I
downloaded it and installed the RPMs. Now what really intrest me is using
SSH, however, all the packages are for RH 7.0 and trying to install it
requires tons of dependecies that need to be resolved. (RPM, initscripts
etc ...)
I was wondering if anyone has set up SSH on RH 6.2 using the openssl
packages the RH has made available, and what version of SSH did you use.
THanks,
scott.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: default module location changed in 2.4.0-test9 ??
Date: 19 Oct 2000 15:12:42 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newsgroups trimmed]
In article <8sn995$80g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don Harden wrote:
> The new 2.4-test9 modules are not in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/
> as I expected (from compiling 2.2.x and 2.4.0-test2 kernels) but in
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/. Furthermore,
> the directory tree is now deeper, i.e; scsi modules are in
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/scsi/ instead of
> /lib/modules/<kernel version>/scsi/
>
> My problem is that mkinitrd (2.4.1) can't find the 2.4.0-test9
> modules. Did I miss something in the Documentation
> for 2.4.0-test9?
Does mkinitrd directly look in /lib/modules/$(uname -r), or does it use
the modutils? In any case, you need up-to-date modutils, as discussed in
Documentation/Changes.
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: Gotzon Berrojalbiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:37:01 GMT
I've read the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and
I've realized that there's no posibility of compiling newer kernel
versions to support this soundcard. I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel for this
but I haven't been able to find the ADLIB options in 2.2.16 and 2.2.17
kernels.
THANKS
--
_-------------------------------------------_
| DEBIAN GNU/Linux 2.2 - Linux User # 175011 |
|---------------------------------------------|
| KERNEL 2.2.17 - P200 MHz - 64 Mb RAM |
`-------------------------------------------'
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From: "Patrik Heidefors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot config advice wanted
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:50:01 +0200
Thanks for the tips, folks. Appreciate it. I'll take a look at the NT bootloader howto
and bootmagic..see if any of those will do
the trick.
--
Patrik
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From: Ken Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.imux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Help for new Linux users
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:41:46 GMT
I am a Linux user and advocate...
I am a former Windows user myself...
I want to help other Windows users convert to Linux.
I feel that this forum and others like it are poorly suited to this
purpose.
Most Windows users don't read manuals and aren't programmers and
therefore...
Answers like "RTFM", "Have you read the FAQs?", and "Just re-compile the
kernel"...
Are not good answers for Windows users trying Linux for the first time.
This isn't helpful, feels like an attack, and drives these folks away...
Which is not good for Linux in the short term or long run.
If you feel the same way, and are knowledgeable about Linux...
And can spend a little time answering questions...
And don't mind answering simple questions...
Don't mind answering them repeatedly...
And can do it without anger, contempt, egotism, condescendence, etc...
Please e-mail me so we can create a place condusive to the goal...
Of helping average Window users try Linux and convert to Linux.
--
Ken Schrock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.imux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help for new Linux users
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:00:26 -0400
Ken Schrock wrote:
> Answers like "RTFM", "Have you read the FAQs?", and "Just re-compile the
> kernel"...
> Are not good answers for Windows users trying Linux for the first time.
> This isn't helpful, feels like an attack, and drives these folks away...
You are right, but you are never going to stop that type of
answer. Ignore it, and post a better answer when you can.
>
> Which is not good for Linux in the short term or long run.
>
> If you feel the same way, and are knowledgeable about Linux...
> And can spend a little time answering questions...
> And don't mind answering simple questions...
> Don't mind answering them repeatedly...
> And can do it without anger, contempt, egotism, condescendence, etc...
> Please e-mail me so we can create a place condusive to the goal...
> Of helping average Window users try Linux and convert to Linux.
No, this is the place. Nothing wrong with directing people from
here to answers elsewhere, though. I do that when I have already
written an appropriate article and have it on my web site. But
the answers *start* in the ng's 'cause that's where the people
ask..
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Meyer~)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Tulip driver/Compile Network Everywhere NIC NC100
Date: 19 Oct 2000 19:54:39 GMT
Just been through this, clean RH7.0 install, linksys etherfast 10/100
4.1 card, won't work with shipped tulip driver.
Downloaded the full www.scyld.com network driver rpm and installed it,
but it barfed on compiling pci_skeleton. It turned out that the
kernel source was not installed by default, and source files from
there were needed by the network driver package compile. I used rpm
to install the kernal source code off the cd, then used rpm to install
the network driver package from scyld, and everything worked. My
linksys tulip card is up and running.
If you need more details on what I did, send me mail.
Good luck,
Paul Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I speak for myself, not for Intel.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
anthony f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to obtain the latest tulip.o build for a Network Everywhere
>(Linksys subsidiary) NC100.
>
>I've obtained the latest source from
>http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html. I can't seem to get it to
>compile - I don't have the generated errors handy...
>
>From what I've gathered, the version of tulip.o that's been shipping
>with RH for a while isn't the latest which this NIC needs.
>
>If anyone has an Intel build of a later version, preferrably from RH 7,
>please notify me - I'd appreciate it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>--
>Sonnik,
>from Sonnik Innovations
>(to e-mail, delete "_nospam" from address)
>
>
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From: Rick Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux useradd command
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:03:42 -0400
What is the difference between using the -D option and
not using it? The man pages are fairly confusing.
Do all parameters need to be passed in for each new user?
Can the system assign unique incremental UID's for each new user?
Can I use the -m option to only copy some of the files
from /etc/skel in to the new users home directory? That
is I want user "joe" to get .profile and user "tom" to
get .bash_profile.
Thanks.
--
Richard Chapman
Eastman Kodak Co.
Video Research Labs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: observer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [lilo] please critique this lilo.conf
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:57:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> observer wrote:
>
> The easiest way, go into 7 and install its lilo in the same partition.
> In lilo which resides in MBR add in its lilo.conf.
>
> other=/dev/xxx #your 7 partition
> label=rh7 #or any other name.
> unsafe #meaning "Don't ask stupid questions just
do
> what I ordered!!"
>
> And rerun /sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> Now the MBR lilo wakes up and on prompt calls the other lilo which
knows
> everything about its install.
Yes, thank you, this is the idea I had in mind.
Is there something unsafe about booting this way?
>
> "man lilo.conf" helps.
>
What does lilo.conf have to say about your suggestion?
"unsafe: Do not access the boot sector at map creation time. This
disables some sanity checks, including a partition table check. If the
boot sector is on a fixed-format floppy disk device, using UNSAFE
avoids the need to put a readable disk into the drive when running
the map installer. `unsafe' and `table' are mutually incompatible."
If that paragraph is supposed to express the idea "consult lilo boot
sector on other partition", I would say it needs work.
--
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: modem trouble
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:04:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Greg Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> setup redhat 6.0 (,using disk from The Complete Reference by Richard
> Petersen if that helps any)first time using linux ever. everything was
> working ok i was online downloading browsing etc. however unlike
win95 where
> you click on the systray and click disconnect i have to go to network
> configurator window(open a terminal enter netconf) and click
disconnect
> which is buried behind other windows. i forgot once to click
disconnect and
> i just closed xwindows gnome and shut down normally. and now when i
booted
> back up in gnome desktop and i cant get modem to respond. i do not
know if
> thats what caused it but thats what i remember doing. i also noticed
when i
> boot back up into win95 i also cant access my modem and i got one
blue crash
> screen.
>
I guess you are not using a win modem, and that it is a Hayes
compatible one.
I am a bit puzzled why it does not work under windows. This would point
towards a modem problem.
Have you tried minicom under linux or hyper terminal under windows by
issuing an AT command? e.g. ATD0345484950 should get you to railway
enquiries.
If that's working then leastways you know that your modem and serial
port is ok, and one can take it from there.
--
--- Till Ruessmann ---
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SL News Posting)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network
Date: 19 Oct 2000 20:16:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> >Your admin is a shmuck, he does'nt know what he's talking about. Even
|> >if your linux box is running the namedd deamon, clients would have to
|> >be configured to use it anyways. Configure inet not to start the named
|> >d deamon and you'll be fine.
|>
|> Schmuck? We run the same policy, NO system is allowed to run ANY
|> server services without written permission.
|>
|> Would you really like your corporate network flooded with various
|> services?
DNS is a passive service, by default. It listens, and only listens
to people who _explicitly_ talk to it. Unless someone has configured
their system to request services from the Linux box, running named on
it will have absolutely no effect on the network (In fact, you can
run named as a caching nameserver on a linux box and it will reduce
the load on the main nameserver (but only for the single linux box)).
You're thinking of the microsoft crap which broadcasts service
availability. Unix doesn't work that way (well, except for rusersd
and rwhod which aren't enabled anyway by default for that very
reason).
Named listens, it doesn't talk.
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:29:09 -0400
From: Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compile a kernel by a normal user
I am using Redhat 6.2. Is there a way for normal user to compile a kernel?
Can normal user use the same source tree under /usr/src/linux. This setup
will be used for a class. Please give some suggestions. Thanks.
-Zhihui
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH7 Network Problem
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:20:18 GMT
Hi, I'm having a problem with the network on RedHat 7.0. Here is my
machine configuration:
- Abit KA7 w/ memory hole 15M-16M enabled
- SB 128 PCI
- 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI (3C905C-TX)
- Voodoo3
I was able to install through FTP, meaning that the boot disk was able
to recognize my ethernet card, right?. The problem is when I boot to
Linux, it's not starting the eth0. Doing ifconfig -a only lists "lo"
interface, but it's listed in netcfg. However, when I tried to start
eth0 through netcfg, it's not working and saying "delaying ..."
something. Should there be /dev/eth0? Do I need to put alias="mem=128M"
in /etc/lilo.conf?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Before you buy.
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From: "Larry Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Tulip driver/Compile Network Everywhere NIC NC100
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:28:20 -0700
are you saying you use the source from the CD to install support for that
specific driver? after that was installed it would recognize it, and then
use the source for the scyld one? I am a little confused with the way you
wrote the reply thanks, larry
Paul Meyer~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8snjhv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Just been through this, clean RH7.0 install, linksys etherfast 10/100
> 4.1 card, won't work with shipped tulip driver.
>
> Downloaded the full www.scyld.com network driver rpm and installed it,
> but it barfed on compiling pci_skeleton. It turned out that the
> kernel source was not installed by default, and source files from
> there were needed by the network driver package compile. I used rpm
> to install the kernal source code off the cd, then used rpm to install
> the network driver package from scyld, and everything worked. My
> linksys tulip card is up and running.
>
> If you need more details on what I did, send me mail.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Paul Meyer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I speak for myself, not for Intel.
>
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> anthony f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm trying to obtain the latest tulip.o build for a Network Everywhere
> >(Linksys subsidiary) NC100.
> >
> >I've obtained the latest source from
> >http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html. I can't seem to get it to
> >compile - I don't have the generated errors handy...
> >
> >From what I've gathered, the version of tulip.o that's been shipping
> >with RH for a while isn't the latest which this NIC needs.
> >
> >If anyone has an Intel build of a later version, preferrably from RH 7,
> >please notify me - I'd appreciate it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >--
> >Sonnik,
> >from Sonnik Innovations
> >(to e-mail, delete "_nospam" from address)
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: USB Zip Drive
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:41:18 GMT
So if I gave this thing a whirl, would you be able to answer questions
if I had problems with Iomega's drivers?
Thanks,
Dan
In article <8smqgr$rvm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Has anyone here been able to get their USB Zip Drive to work? I am
> > just now reading the stuff on it, but I am confused whether I need
to
> > upgrade to the 2.4 kernel or if I can make it work with kernel
2.2.15.
> > Either way, I would like to know a few people who might be able to
> > give me some tips once I jump in.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan Allen
> >
> I had it working with 2.3.11 - usb is still in experimental only
you'll
> need either the USB backport or upgrade to 2.4.0-test for now
> --
> Steve Latham
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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Before you buy.
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From: Donald L Mainier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Support
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:54:58 -0400
For everyone's information:
Corel Linux OS2 is now supporting USB ports. The OS is very user
friendly compared to other versions. I am almost ready to dump
Gatesware forever. If only I could find a Linux driver for my
Speedstream 4060 Modem.
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SSH for redhat 6.2
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:55:45 -0400
Scott Watson wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has set up SSH on RH 6.2 using
> the openssl
> packages the RH has made available, and what version of
> SSH did you use.
>
I use openssh-2.1.1p4-1 (rpm package)
Alex.
> THanks,
> scott.
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From: Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: coolstuff: portsentry and grc.com
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:13:22 +0000
Guys,
wanna see something funny?
I installed Psionics' Portsentry and then visited grc.com and run their
portscanner.
grc.com lasted about 1/2 a second before portsentry blocked it!
tail /var/log/messages told the story!
even more amusing was watching the report page loading from grc.
once the report page had loaded, asking for another scan revealed a totally
invisible system.. impressive!
grc's reports are fairly complementary when it can catch you out a wee bit, but
it was notably terse when it could find -=nothing=- 8-O
Steve
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