Linux-Setup Digest #863, Volume #19 Thu, 19 Oct 00 19:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network (Jan Johansson)
ppp disconnect ("Larry Krigbaum")
Re: RedHat fails, Debian suceeds ("Adam H.")
Re: How do I install a 2nd network card? ("David ....")
Re: ppp disconnect ("Udaya Kumar")
Re: [lilo] please critique this lilo.conf (observer)
Re: USB Zip Drive (Leejay Wu)
Kernel compile question (Cosmo Kramer)
Re: Shutdonw problems (Black Dragon)
Re: Determinig functions build in Kernel (Mark Post)
Re: compile a kernel by a normal user (Juergen Heinzl)
Help with 2 NICs - strange problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
lilo and minimize linux ("Hung P. Tran")
Re: modem trouble (John Todd)
Re: Serial Port/ Modem Question (John Todd)
i810 (Tristan Wallis)
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From: Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:16:21 GMT
>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.
Doesnt matter, the service shouldnt be running unless authorized by
the management.
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From: "Larry Krigbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp disconnect
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:19:04 -0500
I'm working with Redhat 6.2 and trying to establish a ppp connection to
my ISP. I've been following the directions in the ppp HOW-TO using minicom
and 'pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS0 115200'. The ISP uses PAP and I believe I'm
okay with the pap-secret file/setup. I connect and login to the ISP and
immediately get the following sequence of messages:
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
Modem Hangup
Connection Terminated.
I've talked to the ISP who tells me that I'm connecting, authenticating
and hanging up, but that everything appears okay on their side. I've also
tried connecting via netcfg per instructions in the "RedHat Linux Bible" and
also with the Redhat rh-kppp Dialer. Both are equally unsuccessful, though
less informative.
Could someone please offer and suggestions on what I might be doing
wrong, or point me in the direction of some additional resources? Thanks.
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From: "Adam H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat fails, Debian suceeds
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:26:00 +1000
Hi Lord,
Had this problem last night myself. (RH 7.0).
In the end, I swapped my HDD to put it onto a different IDE port.
When I turned my computer back on, it booted up fine. (Paniced
of course, because it couldn't find my HDD on it's original IDE
port - but was able to fix that easy enough)...
"Lord Petrosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8skpkt$8fe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Everything installed ok until i went for the first reboot. It hung
> time after time. Tried various partitioning schemes. One time I got
> the L...then the I... and then hung (when you see LILO....). Something
> about the bios accessing the mbr or the /boot partition i set up on one
> scheme. i couldn't create the boot diskette either. before going down
> for reboot the console shows: vmlinuz does not exist.
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From: "David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I install a 2nd network card?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:07:11 -0400
Wayne Jernigan wrote:
>
> 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!
Well in redhat you would add a line like this to /etc/conf.modules
alias eth1 mudule
where module is the correct module for the card. Then you could use
netcfg to add an IP for it.
Then "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart"
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "Udaya Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp disconnect
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:31:50 GMT
Hi,
I do have a exact message and no further info.
Any suggestion is appricated.
Thanks
Udaya
"Larry Krigbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:qCJH5.15$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm working with Redhat 6.2 and trying to establish a ppp connection
to
> my ISP. I've been following the directions in the ppp HOW-TO using
minicom
> and 'pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS0 115200'. The ISP uses PAP and I believe
I'm
> okay with the pap-secret file/setup. I connect and login to the ISP and
> immediately get the following sequence of messages:
>
> Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> Modem Hangup
> Connection Terminated.
>
> I've talked to the ISP who tells me that I'm connecting,
authenticating
> and hanging up, but that everything appears okay on their side. I've also
> tried connecting via netcfg per instructions in the "RedHat Linux Bible"
and
> also with the Redhat rh-kppp Dialer. Both are equally unsuccessful,
though
> less informative.
> Could someone please offer and suggestions on what I might be doing
> wrong, or point me in the direction of some additional resources? Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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From: observer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [lilo] please critique this lilo.conf
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:31:42 GMT
In article <8snjmf$htp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
observer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
Ok, tried it with other=/dev/hdc2.
RH7 starts OK, until it gets to
"Checking root file system
/dev/hdc2 is mounted. Cannot continue, aborting."
Then I have to reboot.
This happens with or without the "unsafe" keyword.
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Before you buy.
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Zip Drive
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:51:37 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.setup: 18-Oct-100 USB Zip Drive by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Has anyone here been able to get their USB Zip Drive to work?
Managed to use mine. Only tested reading so far (read a ~60MB
self-extracting binary off a 100MB Zip disk, and it worked fine.
Haven't yet tested writing on 100MBs, or anything beyond a
directory read (ls) with 250MB disks). Thing detects like a
charm on bootup, no echoing to the /proc/scsi interface needed.
Detects fine if no disk is in the drive at bootup, also.
> 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.
My kernel's 2.2.16, with the backport as noted on www.linux-usb.org.
I'm not on that machine right now, so configuration details would
be a bit of dubious guesswork. FWIW, I had better luck when I
compiled the SCSI code into the kernel itself instead of using
modules.
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From: Cosmo Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel compile question
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:59:13 -0700
Hi
Im trying to install slackware 7.1 on my ata100 drive. I have an Abit
KT7-RAID motherboard with the Highpoint 370 ata 100 controller on it.
I dont want to use the raid function rightnow due to the fact that
linux doesnt support hardware raid yet but I do want the ata100
function to work. I downloaded the linux patch for the hpt370 so my
drives can be recognized. The problem is that I dont know how to
install the patch into the kernel. How do I compile the kernal when
linux doesnt even see the drives in the first place. I never compiled
a kernel before so any help would be apprieceated.
Thanks
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Shutdonw problems
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:08:11 GMT
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:05:35 -0700 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Mick' said:
>Thanks for info - but I completely screwed this time!!!! I went to "startup"
>programs and deleted "apmd" from running and the rebooted. Linux RH6.2 just
>freezes at the Boot: Linux ...... screen. How do I recover?
Mick,
For starters, don't just go randomly deleting files to remove services.
You can get away with it sometimes on another brain dead OS, but it's a
big no - no on Linux.
To recover, boot Linux into single user mode (run level 1) by entering
"linux single" at the LILO prompt. After logging in, run the command
"chkconfig apmd off". Then check your run level script directory's (on
Red Hat, for example, they are: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d, rc2.d, etc) and make
sure that the symbolic links for apmd begin with the letter K and not
the letter S. If they begin with the letter S, chkconfig failed, and
rename them changing S to K with the mv command. When all done, just
type exit and your system should come up normally.
>Davide Bianchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:32:15 -0700, "Mick"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Probabily some problem with the APMs routines. Try disable APM
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Black Dragon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Determinig functions build in Kernel
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:11:52 GMT
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:22:46 +0200, "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When troubleshooting some issues with linux, it often seems like a good idea
>to verify that the functionality one is looking for, has indeed been
>compiled, either directly into the kernel or as an module. For example, the
>solution to a sound or network problems can sometimes be as simple as
>determining that there is no sound support compiled into the kernel, or that
>a module for a specific card has not been built.
>I was wondering if it is possible to determine and verify which functions
>have been built into the kernel, and which functions have been built as
>modules? Talking about a 2.2.16 kernel here. I thought that you might be
>able to get this info from /proc on a running kernel, or with some other
>clever debugging tools on a non-running kernel, but unfortunatly I have no
>idea how to accomplish this.
So far as I know, there is no way to extract this information from a running
system. If you are using the same kernel that you chose during the
installation process, you can go back to the install media, and look at the
config file for that kernel. If you have created a customized kernel, then
the definitive source is the .config file in the /usr/src/linux directory
where you did the make config/xconfig/menuconfig.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: compile a kernel by a normal user
Date: 19 Oct 2000 22:12:05 GMT
In article <Pine.GSO.BU-L4.10.10010191626410.23448-100000@bingsun2>, Zhihui Zhang
wrote:
>
>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.
[-]
One specific user ( group eg. other ) ::
cd /usr/src
chown -R user.other linux
Several users but same group ::
cd /usr/src
find linux -type d -exec chmod 0775 {} \; -exec chgrp other {} \;
find linux ! -type d -exec chmod 0664 {} \; -exec chgrp other {} \;
umask had better be 002 for those users though as else files are
going to be created as 0644, say writeable only by the user.
Of course in both cases several people can't work at once, but I'm not
sure whether this applies.
Ta',
Juergen
>
>-Zhihui
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with 2 NICs - strange problems
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:18:02 GMT
I have an old P100 running redhat 6.1 with 2 network cards:
(1) A PCI Dlink card that auto-detected and is eth0. I run a script
to connect to my ADSL provider and it works.
(2) An intel/10+ pro ISA card that I am not able to configure. The
kernel module for this card is eepro i think (From the redhat
website). I chose the I/O to be 0x210 and IRQ 11.
Here's what I did:
pnpdump > isapnp.conf
then I modified isapnp.conf by uncommenting these lines:
(CONFIGURE INT1031/337338473 (LD O
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x210) (CHECK))
(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE+E)))
(NAME "INT1031/337338473[0] {Intel PRO/10+ or compatible adapter}")
(ACT Y)
))
then I modified linuxconf and entered in for the second card:
IP address 192.168.0.1
Net Mask 255.0.0.0
Net Device eth1
Kernel Module eepro
irq(opt) 11
after I accept->Act/Changes->Activate the changes
it brings up a "too long" tab:
The command /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/s10network reload is taking longer to
complete. Please take action.
In linuxconf, the first card only has Net Device=eth1 and Kernel
Module=tulip.
The odd thing is that even if I leave all the basic configuration
stuff for eth1 blank and deactivate the card, I still get the same
error. Is this related to my first card???
When I type "dmesg" i get a screen full of this: "VFS: Disk change
detected on device ide O(3,64)"
On bootup eth0 fails and eth1 is OK
I tried to ping the second card from another computer via a
cross-over cable but I can't get a response. Is this a problem with
6.1? Should I try to find a pci card instead?
thanks for your help....this is frustrating as I am confused newbie
Jon
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From: "Hung P. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: lilo and minimize linux
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:35:54 GMT
I am trying to fit linux onto a 60 MB harddrive. Obviously, the
drive is too small for a standard linux installation.
My first question is how to install lilo on the drive and make it
boot linux. I tried to partition the drive using: fdisk /dev/hdc (the
drive is connected as secondary IDE master). I just assign
a single partition #1 (hdc1). Then I make the file system using mkfs, and
then mount the harddrive as /mnt/d. Then I copy a few file from
my original RedHat 6.1 over. Here is an output from "ls -l /mnt/d"
total 927
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 17 14:33 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 285018 Oct 17 16:19 initrd.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 250 Oct 17 17:17 lilo.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Oct 17 14:30 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 13312 Oct 17 16:21 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622784 Oct 17 16:18 vmlinuz
The new modified lilo.config is as followed:
boot=/dev/hdc
map=/mnt/d/map
install=/mnt/d/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/mnt/d/vmlinuz
label=linux
initrd=/mnt/d/initrd.img
read-only
root=/dev/hdc1
I then run: /sbin/lilo -C /mnt/d/lilo.conf
I then reboot the system and configure the BIOS to boot from the
secondary master IDE (it can boot up fine from a secondary master IDE
with DOS). However, I only get a bunch of 01 01 01 ... on the screen.
What did I do wrong ? What am I missing ?
I apologize for the long email. Any advice is appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
hung
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: modem trouble
Date: 19 Oct 2000 21:53:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The usual way in gnome is:
gnome menus-another level-networking-Usernet.
Try doing ps ax from command line, note the
number of pppd, and do kill xxx.
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:51:06 -0400, 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.
>
>
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|<de in RH6
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: Serial Port/ Modem Question
Date: 19 Oct 2000 22:16:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:30:03 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Mark/John
>
>I was very happy to see Mark's question because I have experienced the
>EXACT problem that Mark describes. The only difference between Mark's
>description and mine is that I have Linux installed on its own removable
>hard drive. I'm using an external US Robotics 56K FaxModem with a Gateway
>Solo 2500 notebook. I'm now using Linux 7.0 but have had the
>same problem under 6.0 and 6.2.
>
>I ran 'dmesg | more', as you suggested for Mark. Although I'm not positive
>about everything that was displayed, the 'cs: IO port probe' lines indicate
>that everything is 'clean'. Does the following mean anything?
>
>'Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled'
>
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This is the standard driver. What you are looking for in dmesg is:
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16450 , for example.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tristan Wallis)
Subject: i810
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:47:28 GMT
You could try using Mandrake 7.1, this supports the i810 chipset
(at least the one in my computer) straight out of the box, no
annoying kernel recompiles needed.
Tristan
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