Linux-Setup Digest #874, Volume #19 Sat, 21 Oct 00 13:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Extended Characters (Scott Nolde)
Re: What is SAMBA? ("Robert Hurst")
DOS program to test sound card? (Bart van Deenen)
Which iso image to use for installation of RH7? (victor)
Creative Vibra128 PCI sound card ("Mick")
Swap disk ("Mick")
Re: Netscape - RH6.2 ("Mick")
Re: IPChains and Cable Modems - Fequently loosing connectivity to the Internet
("Vinson Armstead")
Install CD, how to make (Jesper Petersen)
Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network (Jan Johansson)
Re: "Branded" machines and linux (marvin greenberg)
how to autostart a program in KDE? (Mandrake 7 User)
KDE menu corruption (Mandrake 7 User)
Re: RH7 Network Problem (A E Lawrence)
translating kppp config files to ppp config files (Mandrake 7 User)
Red Hat 5.1 Install (Canny Mannie)
help setting up RH7 - cdrom dies on install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux accessing a printer hooked to ethernet. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
default groups (Travis Hein)
Re: What is SAMBA? ("Lamar Thomas")
Re: Swap disk (Jesper Krogh)
Re: Linux problem on WINDOWS-ME? (Prabhakar)
2.4 KERNEL USB SUPPORT (Gotzon Berrojalbiz)
RH 6.2 boot fail... (Adrian)
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Extended Characters
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:10:49 GMT
There's a tool available in gnome I think, called character map.
- Scott
Horrorshow wrote:
>
> Hello...
>
> How the blazes do you type in "upper ASCII" characters either at the
> console or in X? I mean e's with umlauts, paragraph signs and all that
> other stuff above char 127? The equivalent of doing right-ALT+0001 to
> 0255 on a Windows box?
> I've read the man pages to the various keys commands, no go...
> I have my terminal and X set to use ISO 8859-1 if that's any help.
>
> TIA
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8:05am up 7:34, 1 user, load average: 1.01, 1.07, 1.05
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From: "Robert Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm,redhat.security.general
Subject: Re: What is SAMBA?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:34:28 GMT
Read the FAQ: http://www.samba.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart van Deenen)
Subject: DOS program to test sound card?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:53:39 +0200
Hi all
I'm running SuSE 7 on a DELL Optiplex GX1. Everything is fine, except
the sound.
The YAST2 sound module reports no problem whatsoever, it autodetects a
Crystal soundchip, but pressing the test button causes no sound.
dmesg reports a problem with the MPU401 whatever that is.
isapnp: Card 'CS4236B'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
snd: unable to grab IRQ 0 for CS4236+ - MPU401
snd: warning: cannot allocate IRQ for MPU401, midi port is disabled
I'd like to figure out whether the sound works at all. This computer has
never run Windows, I don't have Windows, and I don't want Windows. Is
there perhaps some little dos program or something to just test the
sound, before I start digging into irq conflicts and all that hassle?
thanks
Bart van Deenen
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From: victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which iso image to use for installation of RH7?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:07:16 +0800
Hi everyone.
I'm wondering what the following disks are for?
7.0-i386-respin-disc1.iso
7.0-i386-respin-disc2.iso
How are they different from the 7.0-i386-disc1.iso & 7.0-i386-disc2.iso?
I will greatly appreciate all advise. Thanks.
Regards,
Victor.
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From: "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Vibra128 PCI sound card
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:39:08 -0700
How do I set up my Creative sound card? I run sndconfig and all it did was
to detect Ensoniq which is not my card! But during the setup testing, I
heard test sound ok - but very soft. I rebooted and still no sound.
the file /dev/sndstat file contents are "Sound card not found!" or something
to that extent.
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From: "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Swap disk
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:47:17 -0700
How do I know if the swap partition is mounted and working properly?
I did a mount and it did not show the /dev/hda6 as mounted as swap. My
/etc/fstab contains:
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
the mount command shows:
/dev/hda5 on /
/dev/hda1 on /boot
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From: "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape - RH6.2
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:49:33 -0700
I have been using IE on win pc. What's the diff between Netscape Navigator
and Communicator? They both seem to be web browsers?
How can I disable cookies / java from running? I can do it in IE, but cannot
find anything similar.
Martin Scerri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> There's a set of fonts to install here that should help with that:
>
> http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:03:04 -0700, "Mick"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I seem to be unable to set scalable fonts using "prefererence" tab. I set
it
> >to the default indicated fonts to "scalable" and when I view some html
pages
> >which had extremely tiny text, I tried to increase the text size, but the
> >menu for text size is greyed out. How do I make Netscape able to
> >increase/decrease font sizes while viewing htmls?
> >
>
> --
> Martin Scerri
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Vinson Armstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: IPChains and Cable Modems - Fequently loosing connectivity to the Internet
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:02:25 GMT
Sorry I have been away for a while....
I described my problem at the beginning of the thread and this is what
worked for me...
Cable Modem
|
|
_______Switch __________
|
|
RH 7.0 Linux Eth0
RH 7.0 Linux Eth1
|
|
_______Switch _________
| | | |
WS1 WS2 WS3 SRV1
I to started with the CM connected directly to my RH server and had
connectivity issues. I connected everything to my first switch and all
worked fine but I ran out of ports. I tried to use a 10MB HUB (cheaper than
a switch) to connect the CM and my RH server and I still experienced
intermittent connectivity issues (would die every 5 to 15 mins). I then
bought a second 10/100 switch and that worked!
I have been able to download all the RH 7.0 ISO (2 to 3 GB) files as well as
others from the net without loosing connection.
I have not had to reset my CM for over a week and I did not use any of my
systems (not Internet access) for five days. (At least in my area) It does
not seem @home monitors the usage of my connection and then "turn it off" if
I do not use it on a regular basis.
Best of luck
"time traveller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:sHLG5.7784$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Well, I have similar problem. My Setup.....
>
> Cable Modem
> |
> |
> RH 5.1 Linux Eth1
> RH 5.1 piLinux Eth0
> |
> |
> Hub___________________
> | |
> Win98 Box Win95 Box
>
> My problem is the Linux box seems to lose the connection. And it just
seems
> to happen while it's just sitting there. But when it goes, all the
> connections on both interfaces die. Right now, I can't seem to resolve
DNS
> from the Win95 box, but I can from the Win98 box.
>
> I'm sure someone has some idea what's going on here?
>
> len ralph
>
>
>
>
> Vinson Armstead wrote in message ...
> >I am almost embarrassed to say I am a SR Net ENG for a large
International
> >organization. I have been working with Ethernet since 90'..in this case I
> >know what works I just don't understand why???
>
>
> Gads, what hope do the rest of us have....
>
>
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From: Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install CD, how to make
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:12:36 GMT
Hi All
I just got the file hail-i386-Storm-Linux-2000-open-2.0.iso, can anybody tell me how
to make a CD,
wich I can use to install Storm Linux, out of it?
I'm using Nero Burning ROM 5.0.2.4
Thanks
Jesper
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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: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:16:51 GMT
>A caching nameserver that allows access only from localhost
>would be perfectly acceptable in any network, and a good way
>to both reduce network traffic and speed up name resolution for
>the workstation user.
>
>You would definitely not want to be working for the pointy haired
>boss that had a problem with that!
If it only had accepted calls from localhost, it wouldnt have been
detected by the IT/IS staff, so that aparently wasnt the case.
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From: marvin greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Branded" machines and linux
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:20:07 -0400
Steve Withers wrote:
> marvin greenberg wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking about getting an HP, IBM or Compaq desktop to put linux on,
> > because these boxes tend to be quieter (for a music server in the living
> > room.) Does anyone have any experience putting linux onto these? Any
> > issues with their (typically) strange propietary bioses or onboard video, etc.?
> >
> > Anyone with real concrete experience?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I wouldn't do it.
>
> Ask your local PC parts guy for a quiet case and a quiet hard disk....oh and it all
> has to work with Linux.
>
> You put Linux on your "branded" system and you'll get zero support out of the
> vendor....but it was built into the price....along with the Microsoft tax for
> Windows - whether you got it or not.
>
>
Yeah, but I'm buying an oooold compaq,ibm,hp... Actually, I have my bid in on ebay
even now...
You're certainly right that it would never make sense to buy a new branded box to put
linux on.
> Regards,
>
> Steve Withers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: how to autostart a program in KDE?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:58:56 GMT
Mhere do I place (links to) programs so that they start automatically
after logging in (KDE desktop)? E.g. ppp or kppp. I tried the
"Autostart" folder but that does not seem to work. I can put those in
the startup scripts for a shell (.bashrc and the like) but then those
programs get run multiple times when I have more than one xterm open.
Also, I tried /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but that does not seem to work
properly either
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From: Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: KDE menu corruption
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:04:15 GMT
Somehow the KDE conf files are messed up for one of my users and that
user can no longer access the menu (he can click on it, but nothing
happens) or anything elso on the taskbar. Also, all desktop icons are
gone. How doeos he reset the settings to the initial state? Which
files need to be copied into the account, and from where?
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From: A E Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 Network Problem
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:10:32 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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.
What does chkconfig --list say?
Is network active? Have you compiled support for your network card into
the kernel, or do you have a module? Does /etc/conf.modules have an
alias for eth0.?
ael
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From: Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: translating kppp config files to ppp config files
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:10:31 GMT
Is there a tool to convert the kppp config files to ppp config files, so
that I can run ppp before X is up? If not, can anyone tell me how to
setup ppp from console?
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From: Canny Mannie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 5.1 Install
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:30:03 -0000
I'm a newbie to Linux but want to gain some experience with it.
I am trying to install it on an old 8MB RAM 486/66 (Tandon) which has IDE
(basic!) and and Adaptec 1640B (EISA) interfaces.
Due to lack of CD support I had made the install floppies Boot and
Supplemental and put the other install distribution files onto a DOS
partitioned IDE desk on another machine on which I created 2 partitions.
Having transferred this HD to the 486, the intention was to format the
second partition with Linux and install onto that.
However the Boot floppy prompts for the Supplemental floppy then just
grinds away endlessly searching the hardware config. There seem to be no
way to get back to a $ prompt to get the disk formatted.
The QUE "Using Linux" tome which supplied this distribution says "at the
LILO prompt....". Not much help if you can't get to it!
I used this distribution because it promised to run quite happily on a low-
spec machine like this (Hey, it was state-of-the-art - in 1994!).
Can some kind soul steer me step-by-step into formatting the disk and
getting it installed.
TIA.
I must be mi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help setting up RH7 - cdrom dies on install
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:41:52 GMT
HELP!!!
Linux newbie - pc experienced
Setting up RH7. Install boots fine from floppy image created from cd
set downloaded. It appears to detect an ATAPI CD on hdc when it starts
up (at least on the kernel boot info it says something to that
effect). I have run the "forced hdc" from boot: prompt as well as
letting it try and detect the CD drive - same outcome. I begin the
install and it goes fine until it calls for source of RPM's. When I
select CD - the program freezes and my cd rom won't respond to even
pushing the eject button. The CD works fine on Win95...
Hardware:
Digital Starion P75 16 ram ide
cd rom is master on secondary ide channel (hdc)
adTHANKSvance
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.printers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux accessing a printer hooked to ethernet.
Date: 21 Oct 2000 09:07:07 -0700
Hugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Jordan wrote:
>
> > Hugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo a todos por la internet:
>
> >>If you know how the printer filter driver works within Linux,
> >>you will understand what I am talking about here.
> >>
> >>I want to use, from a Linux host, a laser printer which is hooked
> >>directly to the ethernet. A printer can have an IP number.
> However,
> >>if you use it that way, the Linux lpd simply sends a raw request
> >>to the host, i.e., the printer. In this case, unlike a Linux or
> >>MSWindows
> >>host, the printer does not have any printer filter software, i.e.,
> the
> >>ghostscript software in the case of a Linux.
> >>So, basically, printing will fail.
...<snip>...
I only saw Hugh's followup, not the original post, and snipped Hugh's
reply. My printcap has a line something like this:
lp|lpl:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:sh:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/lp0360:
The 'if=' refers to 'input filter'. lp0360 is a script in the directory
/var/spool/lpd/lp (it could be anywhere). That script detects if the
input looks like postscript and if it is, invokes ghostscript. You
could try something like that. Since my printer is an epson Stylus Color 600,
the script looks something like this:
#!/bin/sh
# ps_or_text_filter.sh
# This is a "magic filter" based on one in the Linux Printing-HOWTO.
# Checks the incoming file for Postscript or text and handles accordingly
read first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\)'`
if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ] ; then # Looks like PostScript
/usr/local/bin/gs -q @stc600pl.upp -sOutputFile=- - -c quit
else # It's plain text
echo $first_line # the stuff we grabbed before
cat # ... and the rest
echo -ne \\f # ... and a formfeed
fi
It's based on something somebody provided for me when I asked about
printing postscript on usenet years and years ago.
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From: Travis Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: default groups
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:21:51 +0500
How do i change existing users settings so any files they create are not
created under a group with their name, rather a group called "users"
also, I wish to have the file mask set to be read write for the user and
the group "users"
i am quite new to this thing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Travis
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From: "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm,redhat.security.general
Subject: Re: What is SAMBA?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:19:39 GMT
Is it free, and where do I get it?
Regards
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"Robert Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:o3gI5.32391$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Read the FAQ: http://www.samba.org
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesper Krogh)
Subject: Re: Swap disk
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 18:15:30 +0200
> I did a mount and it did not show the /dev/hda6 as mounted as swap. My
> /etc/fstab contains:
> /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> the mount command shows:
> /dev/hda5 on /
> /dev/hda1 on /boot
With 'top' you can see all the available swap memory.
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This means that your PC should run linux too.
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From: Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux problem on WINDOWS-ME?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:30:02 -0000
I have installed as dual boot redhat 7.0 on my dell dimension 4100 which
was shipped with windows ME only ... I first installed the redhat 6.9.5 (
beta version of 7.0) and about a month or so back upgraded to official 7.0
version.. not a single problem as yet...
there should be no problem (or atleast that I can foresee) in installing
Mandrake 7.1 dual boot.. BEST of LUCK...
-Prabhakar
Mark Stankus wrote:
>
>
> I am considering installing linux (Linux Mandrake 7.1) dual boot on
> a windows-me PC. Are people having problems doing this?
>
> Mark
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From: Gotzon Berrojalbiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: 2.4 KERNEL USB SUPPORT
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:51:30 GMT
Does anybody know if the 2.4 kernel will give us the opporunity of
scanning with any USB scaner, or shall we keep on finding on supported
hardware lists ?
THANKS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian)
Subject: RH 6.2 boot fail...
Date: 21 Oct 2000 18:59:00 +0200
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Hi, I have just upgraded hardware to Duron 600 on a gigabyte ga-7ixe4, =
NT runs okay but RH 6.2 crashes as follows :-=20
Disabling CPUID Serial number...general protection fault: 0000
Then follows a register dump, then finally.. =20
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
... And that's as far as we get..
Any ideas please ?
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