Linux-Setup Digest #79, Volume #20 Mon, 20 Nov 00 18:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: /dev/modem (David Hinds)
Need help badly ("Gerrit Kelder")
Netscape 6 & Enlightenment ETerms ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RAID under RH 6.2 (John Beardmore)
Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha... (John Beardmore)
Re: Help ! More than one SCSI controler... (John Beardmore)
Re: Logging start up messages (John Beardmore)
Re: Logging start up messages (John Beardmore)
Re: numlock ("ne...")
Linux on AMD ("Noel Ferguson")
Re: network unreachable outside the domain ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Diamond Stealth III S540 video drivers for RedHat 7.0 (Rand Simberg)
Promise ULTRA100 Mandrake7.0 (Michael)
Re: Linux on AMD (Michael)
Re: Not worth the hassle..... (John Thompson)
how do you say "edit lilo.conf; lilo" in GRUB? ("Dan Jacobson")
How can I tell what grub will do on the next reboot without rebooting? ("Dan
Jacobson")
Netgear FA310-TX and linux ("Rajkumar")
sound fades out ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux (Silviu Minut)
Dual Boot 98 + Redhat 6.2 ("Tommy")
Can a USB Scanner work under Mandrake? (John O'Sullivan)
Re: Which Linux to try? ("Paul S. Wilson")
Re: How can I tell what grub will do on the next reboot without rebooting? (Colin
Watson)
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From: David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: /dev/modem
Date: 20 Nov 2000 20:48:56 GMT
In comp.os.linux.portable Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Thanks for this. I did get to smile after setting the "LINK" entry in
: serial.opts to ttyS5. It just seemed more proper to me to use the
: /dev/modem symlink. Still can't get that to stay where I want it to
: though. Must be doing something wrong. And yes, it is slackware (7.1).
Ack, no, do not set LINK to /dev/ttyS5. That will cause the serial
script to make a backup of the ttyS5 device (ttyS5.O) and then make
ttyS5 a link to the actual modem device.
The LINK field in the serial.opts script is the name of the link that
should be created when a PCMCIA modem is detected. It is not what you
want /dev/modem to be linked to.
Maybe you should say why you want to do this in the first place. What
hardware are we talking about here? Do you have a PCMCIA modem card?
Is there another modem (built-in)? Why do you want /dev/modem to
point to ttyS5? What problem are you trying to solve?
-- Dave
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From: "Gerrit Kelder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help badly
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:58:58 +0100
Hi I am A newbie with linux. I want to install Redhat 6.0
I have root errors. Is there someone from The netherlands who can help me.
Please mail me for a day of install and help on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hopefull I can try linux soon on my new machine
Gerrit
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netscape 6 & Enlightenment ETerms
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:08:09 GMT
Hello ...
Anyone out there use Enlightenment, Eterms w/ transparency and Netscape 6?
I recently noticed that whenever I load the latter program, my
transparency is all kinds of fsck'd up until I restart the X server. Grrr
:(
Any ideas?
--
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"Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID under RH 6.2
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:00:55 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cokey de Percin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>John Beardmore wrote:
>> I've got a bunch of little 2 gig drives I'd like to make into a RAID
>> array of some kind.
>>
>> My Mylex controller won't work with Linux, but I gather RH 6.2 supports
>> software RAID.
>>
>> There seem to be two varieties of this. Is there an overview anywhere ?
>>
>> One of these needs kernel patches applying. What do I need to do to see
>> if my kernel has been patched already ?
>>
>> Cheers, J/.
>> --
>> John Beardmore
>
>If you're running RH 6.2, there's nothing to do but set your raid config.
>and run.
Yes thanks ! Seems to work very well !
> The kernel and tools (if you installed them) are at the necessary
>levels. AFAIK, RAID 0,1 & 5 work just fine. You'll be suprised how fast
>software RAID is under Linux.
I've not used it heavily yet. It's only a heap of six old 2 gig drives,
but I guess they are more use in RAID five than a skip.
>What Mylex controller you have that doesn't work under Linux?
I don't remember now. Word in this news group seemed to be that it
could have its firmware upgraded for about 60 USD, probably plus postage
from the US, but I was impatient to play and I don't know if it's worth
it.
My guess is that you could pick up a modern 10 gig IDE disk for around
70 USD ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha...
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:58:33 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Beardmore
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>It turns out that the boxes we have been given are 2100 servers, type
>>A500MP. I don't know anything about them yet. Can I assume 500 MHz
>>twin CPU ?
>>
>Not knowing much about larger Alpha machines - i have no idea.
No, a mixture of 190 and 233 MHz machines. Sadly, mine are the 190 MHz.
> there is
>however a wealth of info available from Digital ( Compaq ) on their web
>sites.
>
>Other useful links:
>
>http://www.digital.com ( and FTP )
>
>Alphalinux.org has a fair bit of info available.
>Also try alpha 2100 in a yahoo search - that came up with Lodsa stuff.
>>
>>>>I want to put Linux on it to perform the following tasks:
>>>>
>>>> IP ISDN gateway to ISP, maybe firewall, maybe proxy server, maybe IP
>>>> router,
>>>>
>>>> Fax system, maybe offering network fax facilities to 95, 98, NT and
>>>> Win2k machines using either a modem or smart ISDN card.
>>>
>>
>>Need more. Do you have a URL for efax ?
>>
>Efax come on the RedHat Linux Distro. AFAIK
OK.
Cheers, J/.
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John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Help ! More than one SCSI controler...
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:05:26 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marble Head
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>If you reinstall linux with the 2940 installed, it will work.
:) Oh not it didn't !
> But you'll spend
>more time for the same result.
Just editing /etc/fstab didn't hack it, but in the end I swapped round a
bucket of hardware and go something to work without a 2940.
>I'm not familiar with mntab in other unixes.
>
>Most people don't have a /root/etc folder.
Sorry, that should have been /boot/etc !
>Besides editing /etc/fstab, you might also want to edit /etc/aboot.conf
>It probably won't make any difference.
It might have - aboot was certainly getting confused at various points.
> It depends on your srm boot-command.
>If you say something like
>>>> boot dka1 -fi vmlinuz -fl "root=/dev/sdb2"
>then your aboot.conf file won't be used.
OK...
>If you say something like
>>>>boot -fl 0
>then your aboot.conf file is critical.
OK.
>So, if you edit your fstab file, change your boot command, and edit your
>aboot.conf file, that's all you need to do. (Unless you have some strange
>hardware-dependent application.) Much easier than a re-install.
OK.
At this stage nothing on the machine is sacred and I've rebuilt the
hardware and OS quite a few times since this initial discussion !
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logging start up messages
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:07:57 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manfred Bartz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Is there a simple way to get Linux to log its start up messages to a
>> file so I can check which hardware it's detecting and configuring at
>> leisure ?
>
>Its done be default.
>
>dmesg > bootmessages.log
>man dmesg
>
>use it soon after boot (the ring-buffer eventually gets overwritten)
Ah yes, thanks. Can the ring buffer size be changed ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logging start up messages
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:13:58 +0000
In article <8tjgti$1jm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>"John Beardmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:udgjQqcVqN$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Is there a simple way to get Linux to log its start up messages to a
>> file so I can check which hardware it's detecting and configuring at
>> leisure ?
>You might also check out some files in /var/log
Thanks !
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: numlock
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:22:52 GMT
On Nov 20, 2000 at 20:46, Mathias Rodenstein eloquently wrote:
>how does one set numlock to be on at boot time. i am using debian potato
>besides that i would like to know, how one can watch tcp/ip ports under
>linux (any programs?)
>if anybody can answer any of these questions please do so...thank you in
>advance.
In rc.local, amend the following code and make sure setleds is
installed:
# Set KeyPad stuff
INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
for tty in $INITTY
do
setleds -D +num < $tty
done
In X use numlockx.
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From: "Noel Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on AMD
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:24:27 +1100
Have been unable to install Linux Red Hat 6.2 on both my AMD 700 & AMD 233
Does it run on AMD's ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: network unreachable outside the domain
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:16:45 GMT
Try pinging outside servers like yahoo.com etc. or
try pinging your isp ip. If yon can't ping most
likely is you need to configure yure network
interface. If you can ping ip but not domain like
yahoo then you have a problem with dns.
neomatrix
http://www.iamnewbie.com
Just Another Linux Community
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i've the following problem with my linux box :
i'm able to get only the
> local network, and to read only the web pages
belonging to my domain (my
> domain is elet.polimi.it, and i've no problem to
read www.polimi.it).
> When i try to get, for example, www.google.com,
i get the error message
> "network is unreachable".
> I checked the DNS and the gateway configuration,
and they seem to be
> correct.
> What can i do?
> best regards, Giorgio
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth III S540 video drivers for RedHat 7.0
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:38:42 GMT
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:26:07 GMT, in a place far, far away, nHs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way
as to indicate that:
>Can anyone help me with drivers or on how I can get RedHat 7.0 to work
>with Diamond Stealth III S540 video card?
ftp://ftp.s3.com/pub/s3/desktop/395/395_xf86_1011.tar.gz
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise ULTRA100 Mandrake7.0
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:27:14 GMT
Hello boy's and girl's.
I finally have Linux where it will see my ULTRA100 card and drive
at boot by adding this line at the prompt, while booting.
linux ide2=0xb000,0xb402 ide3=0xb800,0xbc03
Now how do I make this permanent?
How do I set up the drive so I can make use of it?
I am a complete newbie to linux so go easy on me if you can please.
Oh yes, the drive on the ultra card has win98. Linux is on the other.
Thanks Michael
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:46:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Noel Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have been unable to install Linux Red Hat 6.2 on both my AMD 700 &
AMD 233
> Does it run on AMD's ?
>
>
I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on an AMD K6-2 450 and it seems to be
working ok
Michael
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not worth the hassle.....
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:23:54 -0600
Jade Falcon wrote:
> I'm not bashing Linux, but I don't think it's worth the hassles.
> Everything has to be compiled, debugged, etc.
>
> I could spend more time messing around with Linux than I
> would getting some work done.
>
> It runs nice, rarely crashes, and can run on a small amount of
> ram.
>
> But it is a big pain in the arse, to get it to work.
>
> It's just not worth it.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I hope you recognize that
others may disagree.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,gnu.utils.help
Subject: how do you say "edit lilo.conf; lilo" in GRUB?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 05:28:53 +0800
In lilo I remember it was as easy as
# edit lilo.conf
# lilo
# reboot
to readjust it. In grub, the man page nor the info pages are upfront
about what is the equivalent to lilo.conf. I surmise it is something like
/boot/grub/menu1st, [I could double check exact spelling
easier once my problems are fixed.]
OK, now what is the equivalent to
# lilo ?
You see the Mandrake 7.2 installation put "hdc=ide-scsi ide1=autotune
ide0=autotune"
into my grub startup sequence and I wish to take it out to avoid stalls,
and I don't want to go into the grub editor every time I reboot.
And sorry, DrakConf->BootDrake doesn't get rid of that line.
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,gnu.utils.help
Subject: How can I tell what grub will do on the next reboot without rebooting?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 05:33:16 +0800
How can I tell what grub will do on the next reboot without rebooting?
Looking at a configuration file might not reflect the true state of grub's
next reboot plan.
Yes I tried to read the documentation.
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From: "Rajkumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netgear FA310-TX and linux
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:11:44 GMT
hey all..
I have a netgear fa310-tx ethernet adapter. Does it already have a linux
driver. When i run netconf I am not sure which kernel module to pick?
Does anyone have any idea ?
thanks
raj
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sound fades out
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:14:48 GMT
My RedHat 7.0 sound setup has developed a weird
problem recently. Whenever I play an audio cd,
mp3, realaudio clip the volume is very low.
However, if I go into, say, xmixer and tweak the
main volume control the sound plays at the correct
volume for about two seconds then slowly fades
back to a barely audible level.
Any suggestions as to what this might be?
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:26:54 -0500
It's trivial under RedHat, I assume it's not difficult for other
distributions either.
All the information you need is on the installation copy of the service
(the yellow sheet). If you're running RedHat, as open linuxconf (as root)
>linuxconf
Under networking, you enter the following info.
1) IP address and net mask: Basic Host Info -> Adaptor 1. The net device
is eth0. You can also specify the driver for your ethernet card, but I
think it'll figure it out anyway.
2) gateway
3) DNS servers
If you're running another distribution you should figure out the name of
the network configuration utility.
This link and the hotwos help a lot.
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/Network-Config-Tips/Network-Config-Tips.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would like to know how to get my @home working with Netscape in Linux
> and how to set it up. It works fine in windoze, but would like to use
> @home in Linux. I am very new at Linux but like what I see, so any help
> would be great. Thanks Dan
>
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From: "Tommy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual Boot 98 + Redhat 6.2
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:24:50 -0600
I want to add another drive to my 98 machine and install 6.2 on it. I have
done this before and am not too worried about that.
The question is; if I take the linux drive out can it do an FDISK /MBR on my
98 machine to remove the lilo stuff and get right back to where I was or
will I have to reinstall 98 again?
--
Tommy Martin
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From: John O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Can a USB Scanner work under Mandrake?
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:27:42 GMT
Hi,
I have a HP6200C USB flatbed scanner.
Is it possible to get it to work on my Pentium PC running
Linux Mandrake 7.1? Anybody done this?
(This is one of the few remaining reasons why I still need to
keep Windows on my system).
Thanks
John
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From: "Paul S. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Which Linux to try?
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:04:14 -0500
Hi Jim,
I just started using Linux a few months ago...Red Hat 6.1. Installation
of
the basic operating system was straightforward and went smoothly, but I
have
had some trouble getting my peripherals to work (sound, zip - probably
due
to my "newbie" status). I've read that Corel Linux has a highly
user-friendly installation interface. CNet.com did a review of all the
major
Linux distributions earlier this year, and Corel got the highest marks
on
ease of installation. You might want to check that review out before you
make your decision. Also check out the hardware compatibility lists of
each
distribution and make sure that your hardware (esp. your video chipset)
is
compatible.
Good Luck,
Paul
Jim Cleary wrote:
> I am planning to try out Linux and have a partition available to install
> it into.
> I have copies of Corel Linux
> Red Hat 6.2
> and Caldera Open Linux 1.3.
> I would welcome suggestions of which of these three would be the best to
> go for. I have a fair amount of computer experience but none with Linux
> [or Unix].
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jim.
>
> --
> Mr. Jim Cleary, Physics Department, University of Newcastle, N. S. W.
> 2308, Australia.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,gnu.utils.help
Subject: Re: How can I tell what grub will do on the next reboot without rebooting?
Date: 20 Nov 2000 22:48:33 GMT
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I tell what grub will do on the next reboot without rebooting?
>Looking at a configuration file might not reflect the true state of grub's
>next reboot plan.
Install it onto a floppy disk and boot from that, without changing your
current setup?
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