Linux-Setup Digest #876, Volume #19 Sat, 21 Oct 00 21:13:08 EDT
Contents:
automatically rebooting if new kernel fails? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie question: broken ppp ("bluster")
Why??? ("fg")
Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition? (Tony Mountifield)
Stock RH6.2 recompile buggy...Normal? (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: I've broken it !! Win 2K RedHat 6.2 boot (Carl Waring)
Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition? ("Skeldof")
Epsondrivers for suse 6.4 ("Evert Everts")
insmod problem ("Simon@rcn")
Re: Compiling kernel problem (Michael V. Ferranti)
problem printing: RH6.2(lpd) to network printer (bready2)
Re: need help solving SCSI issues (James Moe)
Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition? (James Stevenson)
Re: Which iso image to use for installation of RH7? (Martin Scerri)
Re: modem trouble (mpulliam)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: automatically rebooting if new kernel fails?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 20:58:26 GMT
I have rebuilt the kernel and want to reboot with it, but I would like
to have an automatic failsafe so that if that kernel fails for some
reason, the machine will try again with the original. According to the
Kernel-HOWTO, I can do this manually by editing /etc/lilo.conf and
interacting at the console upon failure, but I need it to happen
without interaction.
I see shutdown has a -R option which runs once, but I haven't figured
out what exactly to do with it.
The reason I want to do this is the machine is in another city, so I
would rather not have to drive there if something goes wrong. BTW, I
am fairly new to Linux. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running
RedHat 6.2 on Intel.
Thanks,
Mike
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie question: broken ppp
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:20:55 -0400
Edwin Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:48:53 -0400, "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >I use chat with a script created using linuxconf myself, but
> >wvdial uses a config file named /etc/wvdial.conf to store
> >the ISP account and dialing info. The file should look
> >something like this:
> >
> >----- begin /etc/wvdial.conf ---------
> >[Dialer Defaults]
> >Modem = /dev/ttyS2
> >Baud = 57600
> >Init = ATZ
> >Init2 = AT S11=50
> >Phone = 555-4242
> >Username = myusername
> >Password = my-password
> >
> >[Dialer phone2]
> >Phone = 555-4243
> >
> >[Dialer shh]
> >Init3 = ATM0
> >
> >[Dialer pulse]
> >Dial Command = ATDP
> >
> >----- end /etc/wvdial.conf ---------
> >
> >You can use the wvdialconf program to generate modem
> >device configuration settings for your modem, it will
> >write them to the wvdial.conf file. You will still
> >need to edit wvdial.conf to add your ISP account info.
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >Bluster
>
> Bluster,
>
> Thanks for the help, and I did foind the script:
>
> [Dialer Defaults]
> Modem = /dev/ttyS0
> Baud = 115200
> Init1 = ATZ
> Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
>
> [zipworld]
> Phone Number = 4254-6666
> Login Name = edwin
> Password = <my password>
> Init3 = ATX4
> Baud = 115200
> Stupid Mode = no
> Auto Redial = no
> New PPPD = no
> Dial Command = ATDT
> Init4 = ATM1L2
>
> The error messages remain the same!
>
> pppd[16611]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
> ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at 115200
> WvDial: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41
> WvDial: Warning: section [Dialer Modem] does not exist in wvdial.conf.
>
> WvDial: Initializing modem.
> WvDial: Sending: ATZ
> WvDial: ATZ
> WvDial: OK
> WvDial: Modem initialized.
> WvDial: Configuration does not specify a valid phone number.
> WvDial: Configuration does not specify a valid login name.
> WvDial: Configuration does not specify a valid password.
> pppd[16611]: Connect script failed
Hmm... Well the error msg indicates failure to locate
a specific section ([Dialer Modem]) in wvdial.conf, wvdial
must be set elswhere to use this modem setup section *only*,
try renaming your [zipworld] section to [Dialer Modem], or
entering it as a command line option to wvdial
(see "man wvdial" first) e.g.
[root@zephyr]# wvdial zipworld
Bluster
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From: "fg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why???
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 20:36:39 +0800
My notes computer is IBM ThinkPad T20,and it's video car is S3 Inc.
Savage/IX w/MV.
In the Linux setup,it could not be distinguished.So I installed the driver
for Linux
of it.Reboot my computer and 'startx'.But it display:
...
failed to set defaule font path
'/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/,
/usr/X11R6/lib
X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscale
d,/usr/X11R6/
lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fon
ts/75dpi/,/usr
/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not open defaule font 'fixed'
Why?????
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Mountifield)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition?
Date: 21 Oct 2000 22:26:41 +0100
Hi, this problem has be really baffled, and I wonder if anyone can shed
any light on it....
Machine is a Dell i5000 laptop with 20G HD. It came with Win98SE, and I
subsequently installed Mandrake 7.1, using the Mandrake installer to
resize the Windows partition to 7.6G, using cylinders 1-1015. I created
a backup Linux boot floppy.
I subsequently reinstalled Windows completely, and have only been using
Windows on it for quite a while (still only in the 7.6G partition, but
without having re-activated LILO).
Today I wanted to run the Linux again, so put the boot floppy in,
intending to boot Linux and run lilo, to re-install the LILO boot.
This is the fdisk layout of my HD:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1015 7673368+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1016 1018 22680 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1019 1051 249480 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 1052 2584 11589480 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 is /boot (under cyl 1024) and /dev/hda4 is /
The system started booting from floppy, but when it came to fsck, it
said that /dev/hda2 was corrupt, and allowed me to enter the root
password to drop into a single-user shell. /dev/hda4 was mounted on /
already.
/dev/hda2 looked nothing like an ext2 filesystem. I made a copy of it in
the /root directory by doing "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.image". I wondered
how it had become corrupt. If Windows thought it could use that area of
disk, I didn't want to just re-install Linux and corrupt my stuff on
Windows. Looking through the contents of hda2.image with "less" showed
up Windowsy-looking things every so often!
So to test this, I went into Windows. First I did a scandisk, which was
fine. It said the total disk space on C: was 7670423 KB, which looks OK,
when compared to the fdisk output above. I then did a defrag of C:.
Next, I retried booting Linux from the floppy, dropping to single user
mode again as above. I did "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.image2".
Now.... comparing hda2.image and hda2.image2 showed that there were
large areas in which they differed. This indicated the either:
a) Windows had altered tha area, OUTSIDE of its partition, just by my
booting Windows and defragging, or
b) Linux was actually looking at the wrong part of the disk.
The / partition on /dev/hda4 seems to be perfectly OK. (Just confirmed
by "fsck -f -n /dev/hda4")
As I said, although there is nothing precious on the Linux filesystem
yet, I don't just want to re-install Linux until I understand why
this has occurred, and can fix it. Does anyone have any ideas or
explanations for this bizarre behaviour?
Thanks in advance,
Tony
--
Tony Mountifield
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.softins.clara.co.uk
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stock RH6.2 recompile buggy...Normal?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:32:15 -0700
Hi. I just tried to recompile RH6.2, leaving all the settings stock
except for processor type and MMX support (went from a 386 kernal to a
Pentium MMX), and now I have 50 or 60 bad modules reported on bootup.
Haven't tried restoring the backups as yet, and as far as I know, I
followed the directions to the letter. I got a bunch of unused symbol
warnings during the compile. Is this kind of thing normal?
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Warning: The Surgeon General has deemed that excessive displays of warning
labels and public service announcements produce stress and shortens lives.
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From: Carl Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I've broken it !! Win 2K RedHat 6.2 boot
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:13:55 +0100
Eric
Thanks for your help, I think I've cracked it now with exception of one
problem I still have to sort out. As you mentioned I checked my bios and
alsthough I put an additional disk in the BIOS did not understand that is
was there ?? ( thought most computer bios knew when a new disk was being
added and changed the settings automatically), never mind.
Anyway, I changed the bios and set it up so that the computer now knows it
has two disks and hey presto ! the options for the two operating systems
come up with win2k automatically loading, although it doesn't quite it
stops !! or hangs through booting up ?
So, what I think I'll do is start from scratch again, modify the master
boot record with the win2k and then try to load redhat.
Thanks for you help.
cw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> Sorry that I wasn't more clear in my first post, but you should post
> the result of fdisk -l /dev/hda and fdisk -l /dev/hbd (Notice the
> absence of partition numbers) Otherwise you will indeed get a cannot
> find valid partitiontable respons.
>
> No in you lilo.conf I don't see what could be wrong, but are you
> booting from /dev/hda? or did you in your BIOS enable booting from the
> second disc? What I mean is actually, are you sure this is the
> lilo.conf that is executed by lilo? What happens if you issue
> `/sbin/lilo -v` (IIRC it's -v, check the manpage, you want the verbose
> switch)
>
> I'm not sure if it's needed, but I always put it in, the other parts
> has no line "table = /dev/hda" (without the quotes) try putting it in.
>
> Eric
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Carl Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well here we go then this is what came up from fdisk -l /dev/hdb1
> (which is
> > my boot partition), the last line metioning a valid partition table
> came back
> > at the prompt and not within the output file.
> >
> > Disk /dev/hdb1: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19885 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Disk /dev/hdb1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
> >
> > And this is my /etc/lilo.conf file:
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > linear
> > default=win
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-6.1.1
> > label=linux
> > read-only
> > root=/dev/hdb8
> >
> > other=/dev/hda1
> > label=win
> >
> > I might add here that I can no longer boot into anything unless I use
> my
> > RedHat boot floppy !!
> > I've decided to scrap my Windows 2000 disk and re-format it, I'm
> going to
> > install 2000 once I've
> > figured this problem out.
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Skeldof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 22:21:27 +0100
DiskDrak has a history of not being fantastic with its re-sizing ability. As
for fixing the problem, either re-so the install of Linux, and run expert
mode and go through the partitioning carefully, or buy Partition Magic or
something similar and handle it that way
Another more drastic measure is to re-do the installer, delete all the linux
partitions, and quit. Open fdisk (at the DOS prompt) and delete the Windows
partition, re-create it at the right size, and format, install Windows. Then
install Linux again.
If any one thinks of something not so installer based, you could try that
"Tony Mountifield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8st1mh$1rg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, this problem has be really baffled, and I wonder if anyone can shed
> any light on it....
>
> Machine is a Dell i5000 laptop with 20G HD. It came with Win98SE, and I
> subsequently installed Mandrake 7.1, using the Mandrake installer to
> resize the Windows partition to 7.6G, using cylinders 1-1015. I created
> a backup Linux boot floppy.
>
> I subsequently reinstalled Windows completely, and have only been using
> Windows on it for quite a while (still only in the 7.6G partition, but
> without having re-activated LILO).
>
> Today I wanted to run the Linux again, so put the boot floppy in,
> intending to boot Linux and run lilo, to re-install the LILO boot.
>
> This is the fdisk layout of my HD:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1015 7673368+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2 1016 1018 22680 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 1019 1051 249480 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda4 1052 2584 11589480 83 Linux
>
> /dev/hda2 is /boot (under cyl 1024) and /dev/hda4 is /
>
> The system started booting from floppy, but when it came to fsck, it
> said that /dev/hda2 was corrupt, and allowed me to enter the root
> password to drop into a single-user shell. /dev/hda4 was mounted on /
> already.
>
> /dev/hda2 looked nothing like an ext2 filesystem. I made a copy of it in
> the /root directory by doing "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.image". I wondered
> how it had become corrupt. If Windows thought it could use that area of
> disk, I didn't want to just re-install Linux and corrupt my stuff on
> Windows. Looking through the contents of hda2.image with "less" showed
> up Windowsy-looking things every so often!
>
> So to test this, I went into Windows. First I did a scandisk, which was
> fine. It said the total disk space on C: was 7670423 KB, which looks OK,
> when compared to the fdisk output above. I then did a defrag of C:.
>
> Next, I retried booting Linux from the floppy, dropping to single user
> mode again as above. I did "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.image2".
>
> Now.... comparing hda2.image and hda2.image2 showed that there were
> large areas in which they differed. This indicated the either:
>
> a) Windows had altered tha area, OUTSIDE of its partition, just by my
> booting Windows and defragging, or
>
> b) Linux was actually looking at the wrong part of the disk.
>
> The / partition on /dev/hda4 seems to be perfectly OK. (Just confirmed
> by "fsck -f -n /dev/hda4")
>
> As I said, although there is nothing precious on the Linux filesystem
> yet, I don't just want to re-install Linux until I understand why
> this has occurred, and can fix it. Does anyone have any ideas or
> explanations for this bizarre behaviour?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tony
>
> --
> Tony Mountifield
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web: http://www.softins.clara.co.uk
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From: "Evert Everts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epsondrivers for suse 6.4
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:21:16 +0200
HI,
Please can anyone tell me where I, can find the printerdrivers for my Epson
Stylus color 670, it is unable to print at this moment from any Linux
programm.
Working with SuSE 6.4 and Staroffice 5.1.
Thanks,
Evert Everts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Simon@rcn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: insmod problem
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 18:26:40 +0100
OK, I jsut compiled up a driver for my new NIC and when I load it it, I get
the message that it was compiled for the PRIOR version???
Any ideas??
Thanks,
Simon
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling kernel problem
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:49:08 -0700
Here I was, minding my own business, and wouldn't you know it?
Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just had to go and say:
>If you use a RedHat provided kernel, then don't patch. They are not the
>official kernels.
So, if I dump RH for Debian and try to recompile the stock kernal,
making no changes whatsoever in the config, it should compile w/o errors?
I'm having the same problems, only wanting to recompile the kernal for my
particular CPU and leaving everything else unchanged (to prepare for a bttv
upgrade).
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Warning: The Surgeon General has deemed that excessive displays of warning
labels and public service announcements produce stress and shortens lives.
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From: bready2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem printing: RH6.2(lpd) to network printer
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:28:39 GMT
I am a student and research assistant at a university. My workstation
is using RedHat 6.2 (with lpd printing subsystem) and I am trying to
print to an HP Laserjet 4M Plus networked printer (i.e., the printer has
a NIC and has its own ip address).
The problem is, print jobs on my workstation queue up normally, but the
printer does nothing. I get no errors from lpq/lpr/lpd, except the
following warning:
Warning: unable to get official name for local machine et-crg-pc4
I suspect that this has something to do with our network. Recently, all
hosts on our campus network were switched to DHCP. In other words, my
workstation's ip address is dynamically assigned, and I have no stable
hostname. et-crg-pc4 is the name that my server says it is, but that is
not valid by the DNS.
The only problem with this line of reasoning is that an NT machine in
my lab has the same ip/hostname issues, and it prints to this printer
fine.
Any suggestions as to what might be wrong would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Before you buy.
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From: James Moe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need help solving SCSI issues
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:56:21 GMT
Travis Hein wrote:
>
> [...]
> Every now and then, usually after heavy disk activity, i get the
> following
> messages, to the effect of, repeated on the console (outside of X) and
> from here I can not do anything, as the system is unresponsive.
>
> SCSI Host 0 abort (pid # xxxx) timed out - resetting
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
> SCSI host 0 reset (pid # xxxx) timed out again
> Probably an unrecoverable SCSI bus or device hang
>
> [...]
>
Have you considered that drive id 0 might be defective? Or
overheating?
Does it make any difference if the 9GB drive has the termination
(with appropriate re-cabling)?
--
sma at rtd dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Stevenson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition?
Date: 22 Oct 2000 01:15:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
i dont know about anyone else but i have found windows 98 to
play with partion tables and shift delete and resize them at anytime !
and also i know 1 reson for windows corrupting disks is it cannot
tell the difference from LBA and normal in the bios it will corrupt its
own partitions as well :) i have also found the windows fdisk to blame
on a few different times. and the biggest problem i have with a dual boot
system with windows is everytime you go to emty the recycle bin it asks
if i want to format my linux partion (i know i will hit yes sometime)
On 21 Oct 2000 22:26:41 +0100, Tony Mountifield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, this problem has be really baffled, and I wonder if anyone can shed
>any light on it....
>
>Machine is a Dell i5000 laptop with 20G HD. It came with Win98SE, and I
>subsequently installed Mandrake 7.1, using the Mandrake installer to
>resize the Windows partition to 7.6G, using cylinders 1-1015. I created
>a backup Linux boot floppy.
>
>I subsequently reinstalled Windows completely, and have only been using
>Windows on it for quite a while (still only in the 7.6G partition, but
>without having re-activated LILO).
>
>Today I wanted to run the Linux again, so put the boot floppy in,
>intending to boot Linux and run lilo, to re-install the LILO boot.
>
>This is the fdisk layout of my HD:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 1015 7673368+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>/dev/hda2 1016 1018 22680 83 Linux
>/dev/hda3 1019 1051 249480 82 Linux swap
>/dev/hda4 1052 2584 11589480 83 Linux
>
>/dev/hda2 is /boot (under cyl 1024) and /dev/hda4 is /
>
>The system started booting from floppy, but when it came to fsck, it
>said that /dev/hda2 was corrupt, and allowed me to enter the root
>password to drop into a single-user shell. /dev/hda4 was mounted on /
>already.
>
>/dev/hda2 looked nothing like an ext2 filesystem. I made a copy of it in
>the /root directory by doing "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.image". I wondered
>how it had become corrupt. If Windows thought it could use that area of
>disk, I didn't want to just re-install Linux and corrupt my stuff on
>Windows. Looking through the contents of hda2.image with "less" showed
>up Windowsy-looking things every so often!
>
>So to test this, I went into Windows. First I did a scandisk, which was
>fine. It said the total disk space on C: was 7670423 KB, which looks OK,
>when compared to the fdisk output above. I then did a defrag of C:.
>
>Next, I retried booting Linux from the floppy, dropping to single user
>mode again as above. I did "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.image2".
>
>Now.... comparing hda2.image and hda2.image2 showed that there were
>large areas in which they differed. This indicated the either:
>
>a) Windows had altered tha area, OUTSIDE of its partition, just by my
>booting Windows and defragging, or
>
>b) Linux was actually looking at the wrong part of the disk.
>
>The / partition on /dev/hda4 seems to be perfectly OK. (Just confirmed
>by "fsck -f -n /dev/hda4")
>
>As I said, although there is nothing precious on the Linux filesystem
>yet, I don't just want to re-install Linux until I understand why
>this has occurred, and can fix it. Does anyone have any ideas or
>explanations for this bizarre behaviour?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Tony
>
>--
>Tony Mountifield
>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Web: http://www.softins.clara.co.uk
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From: Martin Scerri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which iso image to use for installation of RH7?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:50:37 GMT
The "respin" ones are a revised version. Presumably they fix problems
that existed in the original 7.0 release.
Use the respin ones.
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:07:16 +0800, victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: modem trouble
Date: 22 Oct 2000 01:07:41 GMT
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:51:06 -0400,
Greg Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>.... 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 also noticed when i
>boot back up into win95 i also cant
access my modem and i got one blue crash
>screen.
Sometimes if you don't close your connection
right the lock file does not get removed.
The lock file
keeps other processes from using the modem
while you are on line. My lock file right now
is called /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1
(exactly like that, dots and all).
After I hang up that file will vanish.
See if you have such a file present when you
are not connected, and if so just delete the
file /LCK.ttyS1 while you are in the working
directory /var/lock.
This would not explain why Windows can't use
the modem though, I don't think . . .
Well, if that doesn't get you back on line,
maybe the modem needs to be sent a reset
command. If so the correct command should be
in your documentation. Mine is AT&F1. To do
this you can use the minicom program, which
is part of Red Hat distributions. To use
minicom you type minicom at a command prompt.
Read the directions by typing man minicom
at a command prompt. In order to set up
minicom the first time you may need to read
those instructions and to be root.
There is also a place in your pppd configuration
in Gnome, I believe, where you can enter a
reset command, but I have always done
it outside of X Windows so I'm not sure where it
is. You may be able to locate it by rummaging.
HTH
Mary P.
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