Linux-Setup Digest #883, Volume #19 Mon, 23 Oct 00 02:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: how do I get linux to recoginize my modem (David M. Cook)
Re: starting staroffice 5.2 ("bluster")
Re: starting staroffice 5.2 ("David ....")
Re: starting staroffice 5.2 ("David ....")
Re: Please, Could anybody help me? (moonie;))
Re: printer setup question ("David ....")
Re: compiling the kernel ("David ....")
Re: how do I get linux to recoginize my modem (Monte Milanuk)
Re: 2 scsi cards ? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Help PHP4 in Apache (Kevin Breit)
Re: compiling the kernel (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Setup Storm Linux (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: easy question on Gnome ("pl")
CUPS and its insatiable thirst for online time ("Gene Heskett")
re: how do I get linux to recognize my modem ("littlel")
Random TERM setting? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how do I get linux to recognize my modem (Monte Milanuk)
Re: Best dist for 486/33? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
install help for RedHat 6.0 ("GJAVV")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: how do I get linux to recoginize my modem
Date: 23 Oct 2000 02:12:56 GMT
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:30:05 -0000, bruce staik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just instaled linus on my computer and no matter what i do it will
>not recognise that I have a modem. I have tried 5 differant modems and
>reinstaling linux three differant times and still nothing. help please. my
>main modem is a supermax 56i voice modem and is for a pci slot.
You can find a list of modems that will work with linux at:
http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Click on the "BIG LIST" link on the left.
Dave Cook
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: starting staroffice 5.2
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:27:58 -0400
Winfried Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Am Sun, 22 Oct 2000 hat James geschrieben:
> Installation has to be completed by a user. Try soffice on a commandline
:-)
> >
> >James
Sorry, I've been enlightened by David that the StarOffice v5.2 is
different than my v5.1. His info looks great, read it!
Oops,
Bluster
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From: "David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: starting staroffice 5.2
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:42:14 -0400
bluster wrote:
>
>
> Thank you very much for the link! :-) I'm afraid my teeny bandwidth
> will be clogged for a few hours now!! *GRIN* sun.com here I come!
> (whew! >nine million lines of code!)
>
> Bluster
Hey no problem! If your going to get the source you need a lot of disk
space to be able to unpack it. Something like 3 GB of free space.
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ID # 123538
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From: "David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: starting staroffice 5.2
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:45:03 -0400
bluster wrote:
>
>
> Thank you very much for the link! :-) I'm afraid my teeny bandwidth
> will be clogged for a few hours now!! *GRIN* sun.com here I come!
> (whew! >nine million lines of code!)
>
> Bluster
Hey no problem! If your going to get the source you need a lot of disk
space to be able to unpack it.
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ID # 123538
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please, Could anybody help me?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 23:05:04 -0400
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I put a message called "Software raid
>at installation time with redhat 6.2"
>but nobody answered me. I am a new
>linux and deja user, so I am not sure
>if i am doing something wrong.
>Please, any advice will be quite useful
>for me.
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Andr�s
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
Can't help you on RH, but with Mandrake you use DiskDrake during the install,
it will allow you to set up RAID arrays from the install.
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
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KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: "David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer setup question
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:58:22 -0400
Hagbard wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> i'm trying to get my linux (rh 6.1) to recognize my hp deskjet 855c.
> i was reading in a book on linux how to find out which port linux
> configures your printer for by checking in /var/log/messages.
> however, the book doesn't mention what to do when your messages file
> says this...
>
> modprobe: can't locate module parport_lowlevel
>
> there are no other references to parport in the file. i know the port
> works because i can print just fine to my deskjet 885c or my officejet
> 720 in windoze.
>
> any suggestions for a newbie?
>
> tia,
>
> hagbard
Have you tried adding this line to /etc/conf.modules?
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
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ID # 123538
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From: "David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compiling the kernel
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:00:05 -0400
no user wrote:
>
> I have been using redhat for two years now and never had problems
> compiling the kernel but I have decide to change for Debian. So I
> installed Debian 2.2 but I can't compile the kernel 2.17 I do a make
> bzImage it goes fine for a while but then it stops whit an error message
> that folows:
>
> make[1]: as86: Command not found
> make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
>
> I think I'm missing a library but I don't know what to do.
> anyone can help? --thanks--
You need to install the "dev86" package.
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ID # 123538
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I get linux to recoginize my modem
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:16:50 -0600
bruce staik wrote:
> I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.0 and a sound blaster 16 sound card. The other
> modems were a rockwell 33.6 plug and play and three differt modem blaster
> modles. I also have a ati 264 vts vido card. i don't even want to get into
> the problems I'm haveing with that.
>
> thank you for your help.
>
Ok. Just so you don't expect _too_ much, keep in mind that I don't currently
have Mandrake installed on any of my boxes.
1) Do you know for a fact which COM port this modem should be found on?
i.e. in Windows, what COM port does it show up as? *Note* I have had
problems where I had a perfectly good USR Sportster 56k that I had to
physically re-do the jumpers to disable PnP and set the COM port & IRQ.
2) If you are trying to just get on the internet w/ this machine, and not
anything fancy like masquerading (i.e. you don't have a LAN behind you), I'd
try kppp. Sometimes kppp can 'find' the modem while the setup can't. Go to
(kde)Start->Internet->Kppp and go thru the setup.
3) If you are trying to set up a gateway and the whole nine yards w/
firewalling, dial-on-demand, etc., then someone else is going to have to jump
in here, 'cuz I'm still in the middle of figuring that out myself ;)
Monte
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Subject: Re: 2 scsi cards ?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Oct 2000 23:25:27 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (GBNSCHBACH) writes:
> Dear ALL,
> If you have RedHat 6.1 or 6.2, and you want to have
> the boot disk on one card, and a tape drive and a second
> disk on a second scsi card.... Will the system recognize
> both scsi cards, or will I have to live with one card ?
> Also, lets say you own an Adaptec 1542, and your second
> card is an Avansys..... is mixing brands a bad thing ?
Disclaimer: I work on GCC and not the Linux operating system, and the following
is my opinion, and not that of my employer.
In the past, Red Hat Linux has had a problem with multiple scsi controllers,
particularly if you want to have disks on each controller. In particular, they
would pick scsi controllers in one order, and then the BIOS and kernel would
pick a different order to initialize things. This is particularly true if you
build your own kernels, and build both drivers into the kernel.
I have 3 controllers in this system (builtin Adaptec 7890 on motherboard with
the ultra2 disks, TekRam DC390F with the ultra disks, and Adaptec 2930U with
the scanner), and my previous system had a TekRam 390F and 390U controllers (1
for the disks, 1 for tape/cd) and an Adaptec 2940UW (for a scsi disk in a
removable carrying case). For the previous system, I would unmount the disk
and unload the adaptec driver, and then reload the adaptec driver when I put
the disk back in, so it would be scanned properly.
I don't remember when the multiple scsi support went in (ie, it may not be in
6.1, but it is in 6.2). To deal with multiple scsi controllers you you select
'expert' mode when configuring the system, you can specify the order the 2 scsi
controllers are specified. Be sure to pick the controller that your BIOS will
boot off of as your first scsi controller (possibly by going into the other
scsi controller BIOS and disabling BIOS support, which is impossible for the
TekRam's since they don't have such a feature).
Another way to deal with it (and the only way for earlier revisions of Red Hat)
is to remove the second scsi controller, and add it later. Particularly with
Kudzu, it should auto detect the controller, and modify the config files. If
you build your own kernels, it is most useful to compile into the kernel
directly the scsi controller that your root file system is on, and compile as
modules any other scsi controller. This way there is not question as to what
is the main scsi controller, particularly as the 2.4 kernel gets rolled out,
which seems to have a different order on selecting devices than 2.2 did.
I can't speak for the compatibility between an Adaptec 1542 and an Avansys, but
I would hope you are not running performance critical things on an ISA scsi
controller like the Adaptec 1542.
--
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From: Kevin Breit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help PHP4 in Apache
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:42:15 -0500
findo wrote:
> I can successful open the web server but I can see the phpinfo.php file?
> In addition, when I restart the web server, it shutdown fail but start
> success .!!!
What errors does it give you?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: compiling the kernel
Date: 22 Oct 2000 23:49:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David .... wrote:
>> I have been using redhat for two years now and never had problems
>> compiling the kernel but I have decide to change for Debian. So I
>> installed Debian 2.2 but I can't compile the kernel 2.17 I do a make
>> bzImage it goes fine for a while but then it stops whit an error message
>> that folows:
>>
>> make[1]: as86: Command not found
> You need to install the "dev86" package.
That's the newfangled name. Debian hasn't changed it:
$ dpkg -S as86
bin86: /usr/share/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap
bin86: /usr/bin/as86
bin86: /usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz
So the required packaged is "bin86".
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup Storm Linux
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:50:17 -0700
Here I was, minding my own business, and wouldn't you know it?
Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just had to go and say:
>I'll take your advices and read a lot about Linux before I try to set it up
>again.
I'd still keep it around. The GUI is mainly just an interface to the
command prompt, much like Win3.x was. You should still have full-function
access to the text-based ftp, email, telnet, usenet, and web clients,
networking, SQL, and tons of other stuff that's well-worth looking into.
You'll be using most of it anyway, or their GUI versions/front-ends, even
after you get the GUI up and running. <grins>
-- 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: "pl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: easy question on Gnome
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 04:08:08 GMT
> KDE has an Autostart folder...is there an equivalent in Gnome??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Allen
I don't use KDE so I'm not 100% sure on what the autostart folder is capable
of, but I'd imagine that the session-management feature is what you are
interested in?
In gnome, you can configure it in the control-center->Session->Startup Programs
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Date: 23 Oct 2000 0:26:20 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CUPS and its insatiable thirst for online time
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all;
CUPS-1.1.4 *looks* like it might work, it sure prints pretty test pages.
Unforch, thats the end of the success story.
1. I use a demand dial setup so all machines on my home net can have
net access. With the cups scheduler in /etc/rc.d/init.d running, I
can't take it offline for more than 30 seconds before its dialing again.
This is not toleratable, and won't be by anyone who has to pay for their
online time by the minute/whatever.
2. Absolutely nothing else but cups seems to be able to use the printer.
I've been reading messages here and there that indicate this is going to
be the default printer manager for the next Mandrake release. At this
point, I'm not terribly impressed. There isn't in the readme's, any
mention of the web based configuration tools, I re-read them several
times. There isn't a 'man cups' that points you at it either. It was
an hours search thru the assorted man page directories before I spotted
a name that might have been cups related, did a man on it, and found the
advisory about the web page tools.
>From that I was able to generate 3 configs using the various density
abilities of my elderly Epson Stylus Pro, and test them. They worked
very well.
But netscape, gimp-print 4.0b3 and lpr can't find any usable printer
rather effectively shutting down the rest of the machines printing needs.
This also is not toleratable.
With those two problems alleviated, cups will be a nice addition to our
arsenal of tools. It may be that decent docs (pay less attention to cvs
maintainance rules and more on how to make it work) and time to decipher
what needs to be done might make it work, but I've now spent several
days on a sporadic schedule covering a month and 2 versions trying to
make it work with zilch success other than the test pages.
Has anyone else had any better luck than I?
Has anyone managed to configure *any* of the print tools available such
that *all* printing jobs requested actually get *to* the printer?
If you have, a tutorial please, said rather plaintively.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "littlel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: re: how do I get linux to recognize my modem
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 00:41:22 -0500
I decided to try linux because several people told me it was better than
windows especially since you could leave it running without it going nuts on
you.
So far I have found, 1:it's hard to install. took four tries just to get it
to run the first time. 2: to get on the internet or get anything but the
minimum color depth I have to get new expensive hardware. Yes this is so
much better than windows, not!
I would like to think Monty Milanuk and David M. Cook for all there help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Random TERM setting?
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 05:38:05 GMT
I'm having problems with the TERM environment variable not getting set
correctly.
I have two machines, both with a standard install of RedHat 7. Only
difference is that I'm using the standard 2.2.17 kernel instead of the
RedHat 2.2.16 one provided in the distro.
Until tonight, when I telnet'd into both machines from a Win98 telnet
client, I got TERM=vt100. One of the machines crashed really hard for
an unknown reason tonight. I reset it and after fsck it was back in
action. But now when I telnet into it, I get TERM=ansi. At first, I
thought something had been corrupted, so I did "rpm -V telnet telnet-
server termcap". Nope, everything's ok.
Nothing has changed on the Win98 machine, and the Linux machine that
didn't crash is still setting TERM=vt100.
This is *VERY* frustrating, because I don't have any idea where to
start looking to find the problem. I can't just hardcode TERM=vt100
in .bashrc (or something equally simple) because I can connect to these
machines from several terminal types (but I only have access to the
Win98 machines right now). I really don't want to manually type in
TERM= everytime I log into this one machine, either.
Any suggestions on what might have happened and where I should look to
find the problem? Right now I don't have a clue where to begin.
- John
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I get linux to recognize my modem
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 23:54:49 -0600
littlel wrote:
> I decided to try linux because several people told me it was better than
> windows especially since you could leave it running without it going nuts on
> you.
>
> So far I have found, 1:it's hard to install. took four tries just to get it
> to run the first time. 2: to get on the internet or get anything but the
> minimum color depth I have to get new expensive hardware. Yes this is so
> much better than windows, not!
>
> I would like to think Monty Milanuk and David M. Cook for all there help.
Hmm... With the newer setup & configuration schemes in the current distro's
this is becoming more & more rare, percentage-wise. I'll admit to sometimes
going back thru an install, just because it may be faster for me (non-guru)
than messing around w/ a system that I made the wrong choices during install
on, even if it isn't strictly necessary. About the only way you should need a
new modem to get on the internet, is if you bought a winmodem previously (shame
on you ;) ). XFree86 not being able to work on a video card is pretty rare.
In my experience, if the hardware is a huge pain in the butt (or impossible) to
set up in linux, it probably was questionable in the first place, even if it
did work in Windoze (w/ special proprietary drivers).
Keep trying. If you don't have a win-modem, you should be able to get on.
Even then, there are some projects out there designed to make certain winmodems
work w/ linux (yuck!) Not sure how good they are, but it's possible. As far
as X, I had a bunch of old 486's and one P60 last summer, a random bunch
purchase off of E-Bay (Dell, Nec, Compaq) -- X ran on all of them. It wasn't
real pretty, or fast, and definitely no KDE or GNOME, but they worked. Usually
the problem w/ video cards and X not getting along is the other way around...
the really new stuff isn't supported yet, cause a developer hasn't had a chance
to play w/ one yet.
I'm trying to remember the name of the site, but w/ no success. There is a
site on the Internet, that takes old donated hardware, and will _give_ it to
you, and all you have to do is pay shipping & handling. If anyone knows of the
place, let me (and littel) know, it might be the ticket for your situation.
Get some new(er) hardware, and donate your old stuff to someone who may be able
to use it.
Monte
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Best dist for 486/33?
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 05:46:48 GMT
Where does linux keep device drivers? I'm planning to put Peanut on
a Compaq prolinea 486, which I doubt is pnp. Are the drivers part of
the distro or do I have to get them off the internet, and if so where?
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From: "GJAVV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install help for RedHat 6.0
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 07:58:14 +0200
A full install help for RedHat 6.0 can be found @
http://home.planet.nl/~gert-jan/
In English and Dutch
Read all about partitioning, configuring and commands. Just the most basic
things to know!
Greetz Gert-Jan
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