Linux-Setup Digest #84, Volume #20 Tue, 21 Nov 00 15:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token" (Rand Simberg)
Re: Installing on laptop without cdrom? (Neal Rhodes)
Re: Installing on laptop without cdrom? (DeAnn)
Re: help - printer won't work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lilo Error ("ne...")
Re: Sound Support ("Zayin Krige")
Install Linux on a Olivetti Modulo M4 (Wouter Coppens)
does anyone know how to set php4 to link with mysql? (Lemon)
does anyone know how to set php4 to link with mysql? (Lemon)
pickup mail in DNZ ("Prygiel P.M.")
Re: Missing operating system? ("Eric")
Linux with an Intel Pentium 4 processor ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
ssh and X windows remote ("Darren Welson")
Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token" ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Sound Support (David)
Install Linux from Network? (Steve)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 : Screen's resolution (javarela)
Help on firewall ruleset for routing X (Exceed) thru the Linux firewall (Praveen
Shenoy)
Re: /dev/modem (Harry)
Re: /dev/modem (Harry)
Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token" (Rand Simberg)
Re: ISDN TA and linux - anyone? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token"
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:24:58 GMT
On 21 Nov 2000 9:49:54 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Gene Heskett"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:
>IN the shell you are doing the make from:
>
>export CC=kgcc
>make dep
>make clean
>make bzImage
>make modules
>
>etc
OK, did that. Still getting exactly the same errors. I'm tempted to
do a download and try 2.2.16 instead, just to see if there's a problem
with my kernel source.
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:28:37 -0500
From: Neal Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing on laptop without cdrom?
Pull out the disk drive, get one of those little IDE adapters, stick
it in a desktop, install it, and then put it back?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install RH6.2 on a laptop without ide cdrom.
> i tried to connect a backpack cdrom (to a parallel port) but
> install doesn't have any drivers for pp cdroms.
> Anyone tried such install before?
>
> There is an option for cdrom module setup, but i'm not
> sure about irq to use, and this laptop is absolutely awfull
> when it comes to looking at the hardware. Any suggestions ?
> (beside getting a new one ;-)
>
> Thanks, Alex
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Installing on laptop without cdrom?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:29:51 GMT
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:36:57 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm trying to install RH6.2 on a laptop without ide cdrom.
>i tried to connect a backpack cdrom (to a parallel port) but
>install doesn't have any drivers for pp cdroms.
>Anyone tried such install before?
>
>There is an option for cdrom module setup, but i'm not
>sure about irq to use, and this laptop is absolutely awfull
>when it comes to looking at the hardware. Any suggestions ?
>(beside getting a new one ;-)
>
>
You can install a base system in Debian and Slackware from
floppies. (Both contain floppy images on cdrom distributions, so you
can use another computer to write the floppies.) Debian also supports
NFS via PPP (but I have not done this).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help - printer won't work
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:05:13 GMT
In article <8ve0jc$gii$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > > what does # lpc status
> > > show happening?
> >
> > I'm at work now, as soon as I get home, I will check and post it.
> > Thanx
> > P.
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> >
>
> Plus (I forgot in my first post) can you send text direct to the printer
> e.g. #cat somefile.txt > /dev/lp0
> obviously your printer may be lp1 or lp2 etc. This will check that the
> hardware is functioning. Hope this catches you before you leave work.
>
> Huw
>
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>
Still at work. A whole lot of time left to be here, too. I haven't tried
to print directly. I know it works under windows. I will try tonite and
post the result.
P.
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Before you buy.
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo Error
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:42:21 GMT
On Nov 21, 2000 at 14:42, The Guy eloquently wrote:
>I recompiled my kernel (2.2.12-20) to incorporate support for an
>embedded NIC on my motherboard, and the compile completed successfully.
>After amending /etc/lilo.conf to point to the new kernel, I ran lilo,
>and received an error message indicating that the new kernel was too
>big.
>
>Any suggestions? The compiled size of the kernel was about 1.6M. The
>machine is a PC clone - PIII-550 with 132MB ram. Redhat 6.2 is
>installed in a standard server configuration.
Does lilo point to a copy of /usr/src/linux/vmlinux
or /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/[bz|z]Image? If the
latter, you need to make some stuff modules. If the
former, change it to the latter.
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From: "Zayin Krige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Support
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:22 +0200
is "Loadable Module Support" is enabled and the sound module has been
compiled, just "insmod" it with the correct parameters.
You'll need sound support either as a module or compiled into the kernel
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"Tommy Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:siwS5.30638$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What is the easiest way to get sound support turned on in RedHat 6.2
without
> re-compiling the kernel?
>
> I seem to remember seeing a sound config utility on my system at one point
> but cannot locate it.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --
>
> Tommy Martin
>
>
>
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From: Wouter Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install Linux on a Olivetti Modulo M4
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:52:34 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to install Redhat Linux on a Olivetti Modulo M4. After
booting with the boot floppy, it starts with loading the ramdisk. And
it goes wrong from there. The screen shuts itself down and I think the
computer hangs. I'm not sure because I can't see anything.
Moving the mouse and tapping the keyboard doesn't help.
Is there anybody who have had the same problem and found a solution?
The computer is a pentium 75 and has an AMIBIOS. Is it the bios that
gives the problem?
Thnx
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From: Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: does anyone know how to set php4 to link with mysql?
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:33:20 +0800
Hello,
I want to ask does anyone know how to set php4 to link with mysql? I
already install the mod_php4.rpm, php4.rpm, php4-mysql.rpm to my linux
machine. However, it still said that without mysql. does anyone know how
to configure the rpm version of php4 to link to mysql? Thank you.
Regards,
Richard
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From: Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: does anyone know how to set php4 to link with mysql?
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:34:50 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I want to ask does anyone know how to set php4 to link with mysql? I
already install the mod_php4.rpm, php4.rpm, php4-mysql.rpm to my linux
machine. However, it still said that without mysql. does anyone know how
to configure the rpm version of php4 to link to mysql? Thank you.
Regards,
Richard
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From: "Prygiel P.M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pickup mail in DNZ
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:07:36 +0100
Hello,
I have a qmail server on my lan and I would like to fetch SMTP queue
with ETRN on a SMTP relay which is on my DNZ (because i don't want
nonone to establish connection on my lan).
No connection can be established from DNZ.
Do you know a way to get the queue ? i don't think ETRN will be a good
idea because i read that it's the mailserver on Internet which establish
connection after receiving trigger ?
Thanks for your help
PMP
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Missing operating system?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:20:03 -0500
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ve4vd$2nh6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have installed RH 6.2. I asked used Disk Druid during setup, and
> allocated 16 MB to /boot (it actually allocated 22 MB, I'm not sure why),
> and the remaining free space to /. I also have a WinME partition. I
> installed LILO on the first sector of the /boot partition. I was hoping
> that if I set the /boot partition as active using fdisk from my dos
startup
> disk, I could get it to run lilo and boot (since I don't want to install
> LILO on on MBR, due to paranoia). But this doesn't work. All I get is
> "Missing Operating System" on the screen. Booting linux from a boot
> diskette works fine, and setting my primary DOS partition as active
results
> in successful boot into WinME.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Eric
For my next trick, I will now answer my own question:
It turns out that LILO was never loaded. I remember now that I got an error
at the end of configuration in lilo.conf. It seemed to be related to the
name I gave the Linux system ("RH Linux 6.2"). Maybe no spaces allowed or
too long? When I renamed it to just "Linux" and reran /sbin/lilo, lilo
executed without errors, and I can now dual boot.
I hope this may be helpful to someone in the future. Sorry to post a
question I could have answered myself.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Subject: Linux with an Intel Pentium 4 processor
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 00 18:27:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I should be grateful for some advice on how best to configure the Linux kernel
for a PC fitted with an Intel Pentium 4 processor?
Many thanks in advance,
--
Robin Cosby
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From: "Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: ssh and X windows remote
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:11:13 -0800
I have a router machine that is not running X, and has a piss-poor video
card that I wouldn't dare running X on. I have SSHD running so I can login
remotely. If I install the packages for X, can I remotely run X or will it
drag worthlessly?
darren
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Date: 21 Nov 2000 12:43:40 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token"
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Rand Simberg;
RS> On 21 Nov 2000 9:49:54 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Gene
RS> Heskett"
RS> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
RS> such a way as to indicate that:
>>IN the shell you are doing the make from:
>>
>>export CC=kgcc
>>make dep
>>make clean
>>make bzImage
>>make modules
>>
>>etc
RS> OK, did that. Still getting exactly the same errors. I'm
RS> tempted to do a download and try 2.2.16 instead, just to see if
RS> there's a problem with my kernel source.
Odd... What do you get when you type:
kgcc --version
?
Make sure you have the kernel headers for at least 2.2.16, available
from the RH site of course.
Cheers, Gene
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Support
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:47:57 -0600
Tommy Martin wrote:
>
> What is the easiest way to get sound support turned on in RedHat 6.2 without
> re-compiling the kernel?
>
> I seem to remember seeing a sound config utility on my system at one point
> but cannot locate it.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --
>
> Tommy Martin
If you are running X then Login as root.
enter "init 3" or boot into "linux 3"
at the prompt enter "setup"
choose "sound configuration"
when done if you want to get back to X enter "init 5"
If you are using Gnome then you still need to turn on sound in the Gnone
configuration tool.
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install Linux from Network?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:01:13 GMT
If I have a Win2k machine on a small p2p network can I install Linux
onto my Thinkpad Laptop from it?
Essentially what I want to do is put the Linux CD in the CDROM on the
Win2k machine (CD is shared) and boot the laptop with the network
module diskette and install.
I tried this and Mandrake is asking for Domains and NFS shares and so
forth and I have no idea what to enter into those prompts. My Win2k
machine is running Windows 2000 Professional and has a fixed ip
address.
Any advice would be welcome!
Steve
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From: javarela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 : Screen's resolution
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:13:26 GMT
Hung Le wrote:
> change the screen's resolution? Someone said that I should go into Drakconf
> icon and adjust the setting in it, however I don't see Drakconf on my
> desktop. Can anyone show me how to use something like in command line (MS
> Dos)
In KDE, open a terminal session. Enter DrakConf (note capitalization!)
and when asked, your root password. In the DrakConf window click on
"Change X resolution".
--
John Varela
McLean, VA USA
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From: Praveen Shenoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Help on firewall ruleset for routing X (Exceed) thru the Linux firewall
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:21:28 -0800
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: /dev/modem
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:39:23 +0000
On 20 Nov 2000 20:48:56 GMT, David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>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.
Well that answers my question about where "modem.O" came from.
>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
A Twinhead GX laptop (P98) with a Xircom CEM56-100 in socket one. I
got the ethernet working a treat by editing network.opts, but the
serial side seems a bit more fiddly. I'm fairly new to linux _and_
laptops, and so went for the easy ride(?) by configuring things the
way w98 did. The windows hyperterminal can't see past Com1-4, none of
which worked, so the only way I could talk to the modem in windows was
to use Xircom's utility and point to Com5. I don't know why this is.
The machine has an empty bay for an optional Twinhead modem and the
bios entry for assigning an I/O for Com2 is greyed out.
The bios reads thus:
Com2 Port(modem) N/A
Com1 Port 3F8h
Com3 Port(IR) 2F8h
IR Mode IrDA
IR DMA Channel 3
Anyway, the only way I can get minicom to talk to the modem is by
setting its "Serial Device" entry to the same as the "LINK" entry in
serial.opts, which in turn must ultimately point to ttyS5.
I'm sure I don't have an understanding of what's going on here, but I
will, with some reading.... (your contribution to the linux effort
has to be one of the most impressive, but your documentation certainly
doesn't pander to Luddites like me =O)
Thanks for your time,
Harry
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: /dev/modem
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:44:25 +0000
On 20 Nov 2000 22:41:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd) wrote:
> See if you have modemtool
>
>
>
Doesn't look like it comes with slackware, and I don't know what it
is or does, but I'll have a look for it on the net. Thanks.
Harry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token"
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:17 GMT
On 21 Nov 2000 12:43:40 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Gene
Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:
> RS> OK, did that. Still getting exactly the same errors. I'm
> RS> tempted to do a download and try 2.2.16 instead, just to see if
> RS> there's a problem with my kernel source.
>
>Odd... What do you get when you type:
>kgcc --version
egcs-2.91.66
BTW, I tried the same thing with 2.2.16, and got similar results, so
it wasn't a kernel source problem.
>Make sure you have the kernel headers for at least 2.2.16, available
>from the RH site of course.
??
Are you saying that I can't just get the tarball from kernel.org?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ISDN TA and linux - anyone?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:37:57 GMT
I just got B1 running today, still trying to get
B2 to turn on. Using a 3com TA with diald on
Mandrake 6.2.
I could connect to a standard dial up number, but
when I tried to hook to an ISDN number I would
not get any packets returned. pppd was setting
local ip to 192.168.0.2 (my ethernet card)after
connecting. I put "noipdefault"
in /etc/ppp/options and now I can connect at
about 8Kbit/sec. Anyone have any ideas on why
the second channel never turns on, even during
heavy downloads ?
In article <8tk5ip$ljm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone got an ISDN TA (not an ISDN card)
working on linux. I can't
> use any of the ISDN utils because they all
require an ISDN card not a
> TA, and using the TA as a modem connects OK at
128K, but the fastest
> transfer I get is 1K/s and after a minute or
so, even that slows down!!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
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>
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