Linux-Setup Digest #89, Volume #20 Wed, 22 Nov 00 13:13:13 EST
Contents:
MPPC or LZS Stac Compression (Florian Wagner)
Re: Creating PDF (acrobat) files ? (aflinsch)
RH7.0+Win2K:Linux boot floppy doesn't (Murray Eisenberg)
Re: Kernel Compilation Errors (was Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid
pre-processing token") (Rand Simberg)
How do I install Linux from a Network? (Steve)
Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token" ("Gene Heskett")
help interpreting /var/log/messages ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
help interpreting /var/log/messages ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
debian upgrade /dev/psaux not working (h recknagel)
Re: Kernel Compilation Errors (was Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid
pre-processing token") (Rand Simberg)
Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token" (Rand Simberg)
Re: Newbie question -- easy one (Patrick Latimer)
Re: Creating PDF (acrobat) files ? (Joe MacDonald)
Re: MPPC or LZS Stac Compression (Clifford Kite)
Module Compilation Problems (Rand Simberg)
Re: fax server on linux for windows clients ("Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS")
Re: How to setup Web-front end to linux mail server? (rich)
Re: Help with Castlewood ORB and Linksys Etherfast 10/100 NIC ("Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli")
Gnome Warning Cannot find pixmap file ... Help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Florian Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: MPPC or LZS Stac Compression
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:17:36 +0100
Hello,
is it possible to do MPPC (RFC 2118) or LZS Stac (RFC 1974) compression
with Linux? If it will be possible, is this a feature of the ISDN card
driver or of the ipppd daemon?
Greetings,
F. Wagner
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Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +49 9131 85-24724
Fax: +49 9131 85-26834
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creating PDF (acrobat) files ?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:09:00 -0600
Marc Frei wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone has a trick to create PDF file with using Tex or the
> PostScript format ? From a .doc (staroffice) would be really cool !
>
> I have to create many PDF files... I need to reboot under windoze...
> bouhouhou....
>
I have not tried doing this under Linux, but have done so under
Windows using the same programs
Staroffice - print to postscript file on disk
ghostscript - print to pdf on disk, using pdfwrite filter.
This works under windows, and should do so under Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Murray Eisenberg)
Subject: RH7.0+Win2K:Linux boot floppy doesn't
Date: 22 Nov 2000 09:23:06 -0500
PROBLEM: The Linux boot floppy created during installation of RH 7.0
onto a Windows 2000 NTFS system will not boot into Linux.
DETAILS: I just installed RedHat's 7.0 from their distribution CD-ROM
onto a
system already having Windows 2000 on an NTFS partition. Using
Partition Magic, I appropriately partitioned the (IDE) hard drive,
keeping the Win2K system partition sufficiently small that I could
set up a Linux /boot partition still within the 1024 cylinder limit
(and set up Linux swap and root partitions). I used a graphical mode
installation with Custom setup -- NOT Workstation -- and when
prompted did create the Linux boot floppy. The entire RH
installation went without incident. In short, so far as I am aware,
I did everything right.
Yes, I did reset the BIOS to boot first again from floppy. During
startup, the PC does check the floppy, but it apparently ignores it
and just goes ahead and boots Windows 2000 anyway.
So of course I cannot complete the procedure described in the
"NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" of peeling the
bootsector from the Linux boot partition (and then putting it onto the
C:\ Windows 2K partition along with the usual editing of
c:/boot.ini.
Your help will be much appreciated. Please do NOT, however, describe
alternative approaches of putting Lilo onto the MBR or of inserting a
small FAT partition at the start of the hard drive with some 3rd party
loader, etc. I want to keep NT loader on the MBR, keep just the NTFS
Win2K partition for that OS, and in general take the approach as
documented in the above-mentioned mini-HOWTO.
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University of Massachusetts 413-549-1020 (H)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: Kernel Compilation Errors (was Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a
valid pre-processing token")
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:35:09 GMT
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:53:54 GMT, in a place far, far away, Bernhard
Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:
>>>>>> "Rand" == Rand Simberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Looked again--there is no "CC := anything " (i.e., I don't see a colon
>> in front of an equal sign).
>
>> There is a CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)cc -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)
>
>> But it's not obvious that this is a gcc problem, per se...
>> Is there something in this line that should be altered?
>
>Yes, this is the line that needs changing. Replace cc with kgcc and
>you should be able to compile the kernel.
>
>My mistake about the := (I was looking at the RH70 kernel source). I
>have compiled 2.2.17 myself, and I know that The line you mentioned
>needs changing.
Ummm....OK. I was grepping for "gcc." If the rule is to change an
occurence of "cc" with "kgcc" (without a preceding equal sign) then it
becomes much more difficult. Is this the only place that this occurs?
Anyway, I'll give it another shot with that change.
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I install Linux from a Network?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:35:06 GMT
I have a Mandrake 7.2 CD on a Windows 2k machine on a small home p2p
network with fixed ip values. Assuming I boot the network pcmcia image
diskette on my laptop how do I install from the CD on the Win2k
machine?
It's asking for NFS shares and domains and such?
What numbers do I plug into the setup program.
Thank you in advance.
steve
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Date: 22 Nov 2000 8:55:52 -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 20:28:39 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Gene
RS> Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my
RS> monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>> RS> Are you saying that I can't just get the tarball from
>> kernel.org?
>>
>>They may be there now, but the last time I looked, they weren't.
>>They are on the RH site. 2.2.16-3 I think is the current version.
RS> OK, I'm out to sea now. I only know to follow the instructions
RS> for building a new kernel by downloading from kernel.org. If I
RS> had the RH headers, what would I do with them?
I believe, but please do check with a higher power than me, that these
should probably over-write the older versions now in /usr/include. If
you unpack them, and a tree on the unpack looks virtually identical to a
tree on /usr/include, then I'd say thats where they go.
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help interpreting /var/log/messages
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:41:37 GMT
Hi everyone.
I am trying to setup my printer. I have managed to tell LInux to detect
the port at IRQ5, but my printer still won't print. It appears that as
soon as I try to print anything, it gets deleted from the queue. So I've
been trying to figure out what's going on and I finally looked at my
/var/log/messages and discovered the following lines about the parallel
port:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [SPP,PS2]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt driven)
lpd: startup succeeded
So, I am wondering about the IEEE part, could it be that my parallel
port is somehow not compatible with Linux, even if it detects it?
Any help will be appreciated - The system is RedHat 7.0, the computer is
Compaq Presario, the processor AMD-K6 at 500Mhz, 256 Mb of RAM, the
printer is Epson Stylus 440 (fully supported under Linux).
P.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help interpreting /var/log/messages
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:43:55 GMT
Hi everyone.
I am trying to setup my printer. I have managed to tell LInux to detect
the port at IRQ5, but my printer still won't print. It appears that as
soon as I try to print anything, it gets deleted from the queue. So I've
been trying to figure out what's going on and I finally looked at my
/var/log/messages and discovered the following lines about the parallel
port:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [SPP,PS2]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt driven)
lpd: startup succeeded
So, I am wondering about the IEEE part, could it be that my parallel
port is somehow not compatible with Linux, even if it detects it?
Any help will be appreciated - The system is RedHat 7.0, the computer is
Compaq Presario, the processor AMD-K6 at 500Mhz, 256 Mb of RAM, the
printer is Epson Stylus 440 (fully supported under Linux).
P.
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From: h recknagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: debian upgrade /dev/psaux not working
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:55:51 +0100
While upgrading the old debian slink distribution, installed by
Corellinux 1.0 everything seems to work fine.
>From console-mode I use apt-get as proposed in the debian
upgrade release notes for release potato.
Ive tried 2 times but the same happens.
After reboot /dev/psaux is unusable. The mouse doesnt work
in X and not in GPM.
This is the first time I have found a methode to install Debian, is
there
something I can do to get it working.
Installing with 'dselect' ??? No thats the worst install prog
Ive seen, Slackware 1994 install is really hot compared with
the weird 'dselect'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: Kernel Compilation Errors (was Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a
valid pre-processing token")
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:13:22 GMT
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:53:54 GMT, in a place far, far away, Bernhard
Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:
>>>>>> "Rand" == Rand Simberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Looked again--there is no "CC := anything " (i.e., I don't see a colon
>> in front of an equal sign).
>
>> There is a CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)cc -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)
>
>> But it's not obvious that this is a gcc problem, per se...
>> Is there something in this line that should be altered?
>
>Yes, this is the line that needs changing. Replace cc with kgcc and
>you should be able to compile the kernel.
OK, that did it. Thanks much.
Now to see if it will boot...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token"
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:14:25 GMT
On 22 Nov 2000 8:55:52 -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, I'm out to sea now. I only know to follow the instructions
> RS> for building a new kernel by downloading from kernel.org. If I
> RS> had the RH headers, what would I do with them?
>
>I believe, but please do check with a higher power than me, that these
>should probably over-write the older versions now in /usr/include. If
>you unpack them, and a tree on the unpack looks virtually identical to a
>tree on /usr/include, then I'd say thats where they go.
Well, I finally got it to work by hacking the Makefiles (changing
"gcc" to "kgcc"). Thanks for the help anyway.
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interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org
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From: Patrick Latimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie question -- easy one
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:15:48 GMT
At the shell Type Xconfigurator, this will let you resize the screen resolution
Patrick
Joe Henley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just gotten RH 6.1 up and going now. And I installed the new Gnome
> from the Helix site. I'm looking to find a replacement for OS/2 as its
> future appears bleak.
>
> Anyway, I have a question for which I cannot find an answer so far. How
> do I change the font size for the text under the icons on the desktop?
> It's too damn small! ... OK, I'm gonna get new glasses soon. But in
> the interim, can someone tell me where to make the changes? TIA.
>
> Joe Henley
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From: Joe MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creating PDF (acrobat) files ?
Date: 22 Nov 2000 15:21:01 GMT
Marc Frei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> Does anyone has a trick to create PDF file with using Tex or the
> PostScript format ? From a .doc (staroffice) would be really cool !
> I have to create many PDF files... I need to reboot under windoze...
> bouhouhou....
Slackware has come with ps2pdf for quite a while now. Yeah, it's an
intermediate step, but one of my co-workers used it for his masters thesis and
it looked fine.
--
Thanks.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Joe MacDonald (x35193) |
| ATM Software Designer - MED Passport ATM Core |
| 9Q13 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Nortel Networks |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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From: Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: MPPC or LZS Stac Compression
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:28:47 -0600
Florian Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is it possible to do MPPC (RFC 2118) or LZS Stac (RFC 1974)
> compression with Linux? If it will be possible, is this a feature
> of the ISDN card driver or of the ipppd daemon?
It's not very likely, not in the U.S. anyway. Here's a quote
from an outstanding PPP implementator extracted from a post on
comp.protocols.ppp:
MPPC is patented. You need a license from Hi/fn to even write code
that's *compatible* with it.
Any Linux compatible PPP implementation that includes MPPC without
that license is illegal, at least in the United States.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Module Compilation Problems
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:35:18 GMT
OK, for those who've been following the saga, I finally built the
2.2.17 kernel on my RH7.0 upgrade and successfully rebooted. However,
my Unicom NIC needs a driver module named "winbond-840.o". The last
time I compiled it, it was for 2.2.13. When I try to insmod it, I get
the message that it's compiled for the wrong kernel version, and needs
to be recompiled. When I recompile using the compiler directive at
the end of the code (which worked last time), I get the message:
In file included from winbond-840.c:67:
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1 #error Modules should never use
kernel-headers system headers,
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2: #error but headers from an
appropriate kernel-source.
What's the problem?
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From: "Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.samba
Subject: Re: fax server on linux for windows clients
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:36:30 -0600
Look at http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-06/lw-06-hylafax.html
This may answer your questions.
"Darren and Marla Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:MABR5.259400$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I need a fax server package that I can run on my Linux firewall/server
that
> allows windows clients to access faxes and send faxes. I looked at
HylaFAX,
> but it is a Linux server and requires an additional package for windows
> clients to interact with it. What has anyone used in the past to
accomplish
> this, or is this a nightmare?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rich)
Subject: Re: How to setup Web-front end to linux mail server?
Date: 22 Nov 2000 17:45:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>I need to be able to have an outside sales person get on the internet
>(ie windows98) and connect up to a web page that allows them to
>retrieve their mail.
www.atdot.org
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From: "Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help with Castlewood ORB and Linksys Etherfast 10/100 NIC
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:55:20 -0500
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [NGs trimmed]
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:01:46 -0500, Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli wrote:
> >I am building a 600 MHz Duron machine and I have purchased an IDE
Castlewood
> >ORB drive. Does anyone know how to get it working in Linux?
>
> Hook it up to somewhere (/dev/hdd, maybe?), insert a formatted ORB disk,
> and do
What do you mean by hook it up? Do you mean physically connect the drive to
the IDE cable or something else?
> mkdir /mnt/orb (only do this once!)
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /mnt/orb
> then you should be able to access the thing via /mnt/orb. You must
> umount the disk before ejecting it. If it won't work, modprobe
> ide-floppy. If that doesn't work, you'll have to boot the system with
> hdd=ide-scsi as a boot parameter, load the ide-scsi, scsi_mod, and
> sd_mod modules, then mount /dev/sda . Basically, it should work just
> like a ZIP or JAZ disk.
>
> >In addition, I have an old PC that I want to convert to Linux, but it
> >wont recognize the Linksys Etherfast 10/100 NIC that I have installed.
> >I have tried to initialize it with the tulip driver but it fails
> >everytime. I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.2.
>
> If you could post the results of "cat /proc/pci" that directly concern
> your network card, I think someone could help you. Or search Deja for
> info on "linksys" and see what you come up with?
>
> BTW, don't crosspost to so many bloody groups! It's bad nettiquette.
Sorry about that, won't happen again
Thanks
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Gnome Warning Cannot find pixmap file ... Help!
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:45:10 GMT
Hi,
Can someone tell me how gnome finds png files it requires?
Gnome on my machine has just decided to forget where they are but they
are still there.
I do not get an icon where the Gnome footprint used to be, just small
letters saying start and all the icons on the left of the text on the
pop-up start menu have gone too.
I have also lost the task manager bit showing all my open apps and any
applets on the task bar such as the clock and modem monitor tool. I'm
guessing its a path gone missing in a config file somewhere. What
config files specify paths?
When I shut down my X session I get messages such as:
Warning Cannot find pixmap file gnome-logo-icon-transparent.png and a
load of other gnome-*.png files
Also one about /home/user/.gnome/gmc-imp8Cx could not be deleted or
something similar.
Any help gratefully received!
Tony C
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