Linux-Setup Digest #126, Volume #20 Tue, 28 Nov 00 23:13:10 EST
Contents:
problem mounting cdrom (john connolly)
Re: Need help configuring soundcard ("yage")
RH Boot disk problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [Fwd: cannot connect to linux] (Steve Martin)
Re: why /dev/hdc ?? (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: Remove LILO (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: Kernel compilation problem with RH 7 (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: linux a hog? (Colin Watson)
Re: Newly set up RH7.0 - Firewall? (Adam Weeks)
lilo (system)
Re: Software to monitor online time (E J)
Re: problem mounting cdrom (Dances With Crows)
Installing Suse 6.3 problem ("Darren Munday")
Kernel panic with Mandrake 7.2 (x86_serial_nr=1 doesn't seem to work) (Jeffrey Veiss)
Re: RH Boot disk problems ("Philo")
Re: Copying users from old to new system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem on Sony PCGA-CD51 CD-ROM ("Simpson")
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From: john connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: problem mounting cdrom
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:27:36 GMT
I have a slackware 7.0 system which I have been running smoothly for
some time. I recently rebooted (after adding memory) and when I try to
mount my hard disk with the command:
mount /dev/hdd /cdrom -t iso9660 (/dev/hdd is where it has been mounted
in the past)
I get the error message "mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdd
as a block device"
In /var/log/messages the line: "modprobe: can't locate module
block-major-22"
Any help with this would be appreciated.
JWC
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From: "yage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help configuring soundcard
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:45:10 +0100
Jordan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
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> I have _exactly_ the same configuration and problems. I just downloaded
> Mandrake 7.2 and now I have sound. Unfortunately, it makes noise when I
> move the mouse, cursor or have any network activity - but if you play
> the music loud enough you can't hear it!!!! (I am working the noise
> issue...)
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> In alt.os.linux.mandrake Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> []"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> []>Im running Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and have a SoundBlaster Live! Value
>> soundcard.
>> []>harddrake and sndconfig find it but I cant hear anything when i do a
>> Test.
>> []>What can I do to get sound?
>>
>> []Did you check the mixer volume levels? Try kmix or aumix.
>>
>> And if your speakers have a mute button, make sure it isn't muting the
>> sound. I did that to myself, my sound works now.
>>
>> D.J.
>> --
>> Spammers and junk emailers in jail ! djim55 at the datasync dotty com
>> Disclaimer: Standard. Soon to be a mirror site for the 'Linux Gazette'
>> e-zine. 1-32 uploaded
>> http://www.crosswinds.net/~djim51/hobbies/lg/lg_frontpage.html Sept 1
>
There should be a cataloge in /usr/src called /drivers in there you should
find the emu10xxx module just do ./configure - make - make install inside
it, and you should be fine :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH Boot disk problems
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:47:03 GMT
Now I know that someone out there can help me.
I am working on installing Red Hat on a NEC Machine at school. (i have
the net admin's permission so it's on the up-and-up) we have tried to
install RH6.2 and 7 several times with no advail. The install gose
just fine until the point where we need to make the boot disk. I have
tried installing on several machines of the same make and model but
they all do the same thing. We have tried using different floppies
too. I would just skip the boot disk altogether but the admin doesn't
know Linux/Unix so he doesn't want to go to the work of partitioning
the drive. I have installed linux on my machine at home off of the
same disk using the same procedure (no partition) and it worked fine.
Has anyone else had this problem??
all for now,
VistA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [Fwd: cannot connect to linux]
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:05:39 GMT
ekk wrote:
> 4. I am using TCP/IP. If I knew how to Ping from windows, I'm assuming
> I would be able to Ping, because of my answer to #2.
Open a command prompt window and type "ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" where the
"xxx...xxx" is the IP address of the machine you're trying to ping.
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why /dev/hdc ??
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:07:03 +0000
And [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rdh) spoke thusly:
>True... I remembered that right after I hit "send".
<laughs> You're lucky. I run an offline reader, so instead of just
hitting "send," I'm kept up til 3am editing tomorrow's outgoing messages.
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Registered with the Linux Counter. ID# 177869 GNUke The Planet!
Hell, let's just reinstall Windows. That always seems to work for awhile.
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remove LILO
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:07:04 +0000
And Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
>What about "lilo -u" ?
It won't put Win2K back on the MBR. You'll prolly have to run some
kind of Win2K rescue floppy if fdisk no longer exists.
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Registered with the Linux Counter. ID# 177869 GNUke The Planet!
Hell, let's just reinstall Windows. That always seems to work for awhile.
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel compilation problem with RH 7
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:07:05 +0000
And Andreas Tretow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
>gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
<snip>
>Now, what could be the problem ?
gcc is broken in RH7. Go to RH's website and get *their* instructions
on the work-around (for safety). They should list all the steps to take.
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Registered with the Linux Counter. ID# 177869 GNUke The Planet!
Hell, let's just reinstall Windows. That always seems to work for awhile.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: linux a hog?
Date: 29 Nov 2000 02:04:10 GMT
Jason Novotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a laptop with 128MB RAM running kernel 2.4 and RH 7.0- when I
>startup and do a "free -t -s 5" I see that my used memory is around 90
>MB- and when I start X it jumps up to 120 MB leaving me with a couple of
>MB left- am I looking at this result incorrectly?
Have you a lot of memory used in the buffers/cache line? Linux tends to
aggressively cache as much as it can so that future accesses will be
faster. When you actually need the memory, it will then go off and purge
some stuff from the cache.
High memory usage is good if it's used for caching.
>A "top" gives me nothing major until I start X which takes up 20 MB.
Pressing Shift-M in 'top' will sort by memory usage, in case you didn't
know that already. If that doesn't show anything interesting then don't
worry about it.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"And finally, the most important part of any GUI, the command-line
interface." - Branden Robinson, Debian XFree86 maintainer
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From: Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newly set up RH7.0 - Firewall?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:22:04 GMT
There is a firewall with RH7. It should be accessible directly from the
GNOME menus. I played with several, and as far as package includes go,
check out "gfcc." You may need to GnoRPM it with RH7.
It seems a lot of the bigger Linux firewall packages don't technically
support RH7 yet - you'll find that with a lot of third party apps.
I recommend playing with the ipchains, and go ahead and download
(update) to ipchains x.x.10.
I'm still trying to find one-to-one NAT support with a firewall!
Stan wrote:
> I have just set up RH7.0 on my computer. I have a Static DSL line
> connection connected to an Ethernet card (which has been detected, and I can
> connect to the internet).
>
> My concern is Security. I am concerned that anyone can come into my
> computer until I set some sort of security up.
>
> Is there a firewall program to use? FYI: I bought the server installation
> box of RH7.0, so is there a program on there? The books don't say so.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Steve
>
>
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From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo
Date: 29 Nov 2000 10:27:26 +0800
When I boot my lilo, it display
1)linux
2)linux-up
3)dos.
Any idea why there is two linux, being display.
When I chose linux-up it works, and not linux.
And how can I get ride of the option 1)
Could this due to my harddisk, me using a 8G harddisk for my linux.
--
Paul Wong
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Software to monitor online time
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:26:58 GMT
If you are using kppp, edit your ISP setting on kppp and enable accounting.
Philip Jones wrote:
> I now have a limited number of hours online before i have to pay extra, is
> there any software I can use to keep a running total of my online time.
>
> Phil Jones
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: problem mounting cdrom
Date: 29 Nov 2000 02:40:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:27:36 GMT, john connolly wrote:
>I have a slackware 7.0 system which I have been running smoothly for
>some time. I recently rebooted (after adding memory) and when I try to
>mount my hard disk with the command:
^^^^^^^^^
>mount /dev/hdd /cdrom -t iso9660 (/dev/hdd is where it has been mounted
>in the past)
Hard disks don't use the ISO9660 filesystem, usually :-)
>I get the error message "mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdd
>as a block device"
>In /var/log/messages the line: "modprobe: can't locate module
>block-major-22"
The block-major-22 device is the 2nd IDE interface, which should
normally Just Work. Check /etc/conf.modules and make sure that the line
alias block-major-22 off
is in there. Except for special cases (certain older IDE chipsets) the
2nd IDE interface works just like the first one, and no module is needed
to make it work. If you do have an older IDE chipset, then in some
cases you must boot the system with a special kernel command-line
(append "ide0=ali14xx" for instance) for the 2nd interface to be
activated. HTH,
--
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: "Darren Munday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Suse 6.3 problem
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:22:13 -0000
Hi,
I was intending to install Suse 6.3 yesterday to have a play with but had a
problem. I basically have 2 partitions, both are FAT32. I moved everything
across to my win98 partition so that I could use the second partition for
Linux.
All was going well through the setup screens, however when I got to the
final confirmation screen and clicked "Next>" it tries confugure my hard
disk before installing but the screen immediately flips back to the final
confirmation screen. Each time I press next it tries to start the
installtion phase but keeps on flicking back to that darn final confirmation
screen again.
Any ideas?
Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if u know how to get around this.
Darren
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From: Jeffrey Veiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Kernel panic with Mandrake 7.2 (x86_serial_nr=1 doesn't seem to work)
Date: 28 Nov 2000 21:46:28 -0500
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Any assistance is appreciated!
I've recently put together a new system, freshly installed Windows 98,
but can't seem to get Mandrake 7.2 linux to boot. It keeps crashing
(hard...I have to power cycle the machine) with:
Memory: 256000k/261120k available (1136k kernel code, 420k reserved, 3016k data,
128k init, 0k bigmem)
general protection fault: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c0121c37>]
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: 0000009f ebx: cfeff0d8 ecx: c0233480 edx: c0233480
esi: 00000028 edi: ffffffff ebp: cfefffe0 esp: c024dec8
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c024d000)
Stack: <removed...too many numbers!>
Call Trace: [<c0106000>] [< . . .
Code: 89 07 8b 3f 83 ee 01 73 c4 c7 07 00 00 00 00 fa c7 45 08 2b
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing
There are two HD's in the system: one SCSI which is all Linux and the
other IDE which is all windows.
I can boot from a Slackware 7.1 SCSI boot floppy with root=/dev/sda5
and it boots fine.
LILO is still installed on the IDE drive and I've tried adding:
x86_serial_nr=1 ide2=0x6800,0x6402 ide3=0x6000,0x5802
which I got from the /proc/pci file when I booted from the slackware
floppy. This was added to both the default 2.2.17 kernel and the
2.4 kernel I installed when I installed Mandrake.
Also, I tried booting off the Slackware floppy with the above options
so I could see the HD on the ATA100 bus (as /dev/hde). I modified
lilo.conf to point to hde instead of hda and added the above lilo
options, re-ran lilo, and got a LI message upon reboot.
Here's the specs on the new system:
Asus A7V, 1GHz T-bird, 128M PC133:
AGP: ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 32M
slot 1: empty
slot 2: 3com 3C905-TX 10/100 ethernet
slot 3: Creative Labs SB Live! 5.1
slot 4: Adaptec 3940UW SCSI
slot 5: Empty
ATA100:
Primary: Western Digital WD307AA 30M UDMA/66
Secondary: None
Adaptec 3940 channel A:
0 Seagate Cheetah ST19101W
Adaptec 3940 channel B:
1 Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD-304
4 Plextor 12/10/32S CDRW
IRQ's (IRQ sharing is annoying):
9 SB Live!
10 3com ethernet
10 ATA100
11 ATI All-In-Wonder
15 Adaptec 3940UW
11 Adaptec 3940UW
Primary and secondary IDE disabled (free's 14 & 15)
Parallel port disabled (free's 7)
USB disabled
The Western Digital IDE drive has only FAT32 partitions with
the first loaded with Windows 98SE
The Seagate SCSI has Mandrake 7.2 installed when the whole
SCSI chain was in my previous PC *exactly* the same. In other
words, all the SCSI devices are connected in the same places
with the same cables with the same SCSI id's as in my previous
PC and it worked fine.
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance!
-Jeff
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH Boot disk problems
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:52:52 -0600
your post was not entirely clear...but it seems like you are trying to
install an image file
of linux on a windows partition.
i just tried doing it this evening as an experiemnt...
i did not use a boot disk...i just put the files on my C: drive, then booted
from there...
however...
i do run linux , the "proper" way...on ext2 partitions and would suggest you
do the same.
the "image" method worked...
but very poorly...i would not waste the time...
i suggest you pick up a used harddrive somewhere and experiment with it
until you get it all figured out...
hey...if i could figure it out...i assure you that you can too :)
--
Philo
website: www.plazaearth.com/philo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Copying users from old to new system
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 03:36:13 GMT
In article <9011ul$9nc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ...
> However, whenever I try to email someone (such as myself
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) on that system, it bounces.
> Is there something I'm likely to have missed?
For example, here is the rejection:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to sensus-communis.com.:
> > > RCPT To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
< < < 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Relaying
denied. IP name lookup failed [209.132.220.34]
550 [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail3.bigmailbox.com
Arrival-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:46:44 -0800
Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; sensus-communis.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...
Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed [209.132.220.34]
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:46:49 -0800
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Does the problem have to do with the way I copied over the users
(e.g. 'User unknown')? I can log in as this user. Or does it really
have something to to with 'IP name lookup failed' -- and what does that
mean if I can successfully lookup IP addresses and such from that
machine (i.e. my nameserver settings appear to be correct)?
Thanks again!
- John Emmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] won't work, but either
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] will
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem on Sony PCGA-CD51 CD-ROM
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:00:26 +0800
I have installed TurboLinux 6.0 in my notebook (Sony PCG-N505SF) from
the CD-ROM drive PCGA-CD51 with a PCMCIA adapter card to the notebook.
After successfully installed and boot up, I tested the CD-ROM drive by
plugging it into the notebook and following messages displayed display :
[root@localhose /root]# cardmgr[209]: initializing socket 0
cardmgr[209] : socket 0 : Ninja ATA
cardmgr[209] : executing : 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15 -
3smp/pcmcia/ide_cs.o'
hde : TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide2 at 0x180-0x187, 0x386 on irq5
hde : lost interrupt
hde : ATAPI 16 x CD-ROM drive, 128 kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
ide_cs : hde: Vcc=5.0 , Vpp=0.0
cardmgr[209] : executing : './ide start hde'
and then a series of lines of message : 'hde : lost interrupt' without
stopping until I issue
umount /mnt/cddrom
with 'notfound' response from the system.
The OS recognised my CD-ROM drive but it seemed the irq no. is wrongly
assigned.
How can I fix the problem ?
Furthermore, I tried to check the system configuration with 'make config' in
the text window or
'make xconfig' in the graphic window even under the /usr/src/linux directory
but following message displayed:
bash: make: command not found
Did I miss something to install ?
I cannot mount the CD-ROM now.
What happened ? Can someone help me.
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