Linux-Setup Digest #233, Volume #20 Sat, 16 Dec 00 12:13:10 EST
Contents:
COM and IRQ help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kernel panic (Rolf Bachmann)
Re: General Kernel Compile Question (Michael Heiming)
Re: dhcpcd setup (Timothy Washington)
Re: Reconfigure Gnome in RedHat 7 (Noble Pepper)
Re: where to start on a home lan? (Michael Perry)
Re: COM and IRQ help ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 170 (Sebastian Kollmann)
Re: GNU C++ Compiler (Noble Pepper)
Re: GRUB Booting and Hard Drive MBR Troubles (Richard Kimber)
how diagnose hardware - Hard lockup then crc error (Stan Towianski)
Mandrake 7.2 error (new install) (Don Hinds)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: COM and IRQ help
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:35:30 GMT
OK, I have installed Radhat 6.1 on my P-120 (debian's gone because lynx
would not work on it). SO now I do appear to have some primitive X
windows stuff that comes up when I type "startx" from the root.
But I have no mouse, and that makes it very hard. I try to configure
the mouse from the command line with "/usr/sbin/mouseconfig" and the
command does work in that a window comes and ask me to choose a mouse
(I have tried a number of names, Microsoft compatible, etc) but I have
a problem with the com nunber: I don't know where any of my hardware
is, i.e., what COM number it is in, or what IRQ; same thing goes for
the modem, when I try to configure it: what COM number is it? THe
comptuer has to tell me what COM number it is, right? How do I make teh
computer tell me what COM number the mouse and modem is in?
Or do I arbitrarily choose what COM number each one gets?
That doesn't seem to be working...
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolf Bachmann)
Subject: Kernel panic
Date: 16 Dec 2000 15:55:51 +0100
Hello
I've installed Rocklinux. After I change the lilo.conf file to boot Windows
and Linux. But when I boot up linux, the boot process end with a Kernel
panic. What can I do?
Pleas help me
Rolf
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:48:42 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: General Kernel Compile Question
Hello Jose,
I ment the rebooting after recompiling a new kernel, to get it running,
you're of course right that we should only reboot if really needed....:-)
Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez wrote:
> El d�a Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:38:36 +0100,
> Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> > Hello,
> >
> > do a depmod -a 2.2.18 after compile/install if you get "unresolved
> > ...blah..blah" reboot
> > and try it again, there should be no errors then, if you've done everything
> > right....:-)
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Michael Heiming
> > Sysadmin
> >
> Maybe rebooting is too much in this situation, and as good Linux users we
> should reboot our machines only when absolutely needed. Try switching to
> single user mode (init 1) and then returning to full multiuser mode (init
> 2 or init 3, depends on your distro) to see if modules get loaded
> automatically.
>
> --
> Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez
> Linux Registered User #189436 Debian GNU/Linux Potato (P166 64 MB RAM)
>
> jdomingo EN internautas PUNTO org => � Spam ? Atente a las consecuencias
> jdomingo AT internautas DOT org => Spam at your own risk
Michael Heiming
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From: Timothy Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dhcpcd setup
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:01:23 GMT
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"ne..." wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2000 at 13:43, Timothy Washington eloquently wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to setup a dhcp client 'DHCPcd' for Linux. doing a make is
> >no problem. when i do a 'make install' it says:
> >
> >[twashing@frye dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl2]$ make install
> >make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/downloads/dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl2'
> >/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/sbin
> > /usr/bin/ginstall -c dhcpcd /usr/local/sbin/dhcpcd
> >/bin/sh: /usr/bin/ginstall: No such file or directory
> > /usr/bin/ginstall -c icmprequest /usr/local/sbin/icmprequest
> >/bin/sh: /usr/bin/ginstall: No such file or directory
> >make[1]: *** [install-sbinPROGRAMS] Error 127
> >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/downloads/dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl2'
> >make: *** [install-am] Error 2
> >
> > ... and I can see the 'configure' script installing 'ginstall' in the
> >'/usr/bin'
> >directory.
> > Problem 2 is that when I execute dhcpcd from the local directory
> >(dhcp eth0, for example), my ethernet card does not get an inet
> >address. Has anyone had a similar problem who could help me out.
> Two things:
>
> 1 - configure does not install anything. It checks to make
> sure stuff is installed.
You are right about configure not installing anything. configure does
check for ginstall though and does not give an error
message telling me that it is missing:
..
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/ginstall -c
..
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
.
... Do you know where I can get a copy of ginstall for a Mandrake 7.0
system?
>
> 2 - make install should be done as root. Normal users do
> not normally have permission to write to /usr.
> 3 - /bin/sh: /usr/bin/ginstall: No such file or directory means
> it never found the file.
>
> --
> Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
> Shhh... be vewy, vewy, quiet! I'm hunting wabbits...
> 1:14pm up 3 days, 16:13, 10 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
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"ne..." wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Dec 15, 2000 at 13:43, Timothy Washington eloquently
wrote:
<p>>I'm trying to setup a dhcp client 'DHCPcd' for Linux. doing a make
is
<br>>no problem. when i do a 'make install' it says:
<br>>
<br>>[twashing@frye dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl2]$ make install
<br>>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/downloads/dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl2'
<br>>/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/sbin
<br>> /usr/bin/ginstall -c dhcpcd /usr/local/sbin/dhcpcd
<br>>/bin/sh: /usr/bin/ginstall: No such file or directory
<br>> /usr/bin/ginstall -c icmprequest /usr/local/sbin/icmprequest
<br>>/bin/sh: /usr/bin/ginstall: No such file or directory
<br>>make[1]: *** [install-sbinPROGRAMS] Error 127
<br>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/downloads/dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl2'
<br>>make: *** [install-am] Error 2
<br>>
<br>> ... and I can see the 'configure' script installing 'ginstall'
in the
<br>>'/usr/bin'
<br>>directory.
<br>> Problem 2 is that when I execute dhcpcd from the local directory
<br>>(dhcp eth0, for example), my ethernet card does not get an inet
<br>>address. Has anyone had a similar problem who could help me out.
<br>Two things:
<p>1 - configure does not install anything. It checks to make
<br> sure stuff is installed.</blockquote>
You are right about configure not installing anything.
configure does check for <b>ginstall</b> though and does not give an error
<br>message telling me that it is missing:
<p>..
<br>checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/ginstall
-c
<br>..
<br>checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
<br>.
<br>... Do you know where I can get a copy of <b>ginstall</b> for a Mandrake
7.0 system?
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>
<br>2 - make install should be done as root. Normal users do
<br> not normally have permission to write to /usr.
<br>3 - /bin/sh: /usr/bin/ginstall: No such file or directory means
<br> it never found the file.
<p>--
<br>Registered Linux User # 125653 (<a
href="http://counter.li.org">http://counter.li.org</a>)
<br>Shhh... be vewy, vewy, quiet! I'm hunting wabbits...
<br> 1:14pm up 3 days, 16:13, 10 users, load average:
0.03, 0.03, 0.00</blockquote>
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reconfigure Gnome in RedHat 7
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:04:02 -0600
Doug Holtz wrote:
> Howdy;
>
> My video is not good. I installed RedHat 7 with Gnome and the Sawfish
> interface. My "windows" are too large for my screen.
>
> How do I reconfigure Gnome/Sawfish so the "window" is within the confines
> of my screen?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Doug Holtz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
This sounds like a X problem, does it do this in other desktops (KDE,
enlightenment)? Does <ctrl> <alt> + or <ctrl> <alt> - make things more to
your liking.
If so, when you do your X setup (Xconfigurator?) try to select only one
resolution (640x480, 800x600 etc). If you can't do that, then you can edit
/etc/XF86Config by hand, set it so that there is only one mode in the
Screen section that you system is using. The section is probably at the
very end of the file. Here is how mine is set up, you can see where I had
more than one attempt to get it to my liking. The # at the beginning of a
line comments it out.
# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64)
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "Rage LT"
Monitor "VeiwSonic A90"
# Subsection "Display"
# Depth 16
# Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "800x600"
# ViewPort 0 0
# EndSubsection
# ? Subsection "Display"
# ? Depth 24
# ? Modes "1280x1024"
# ? ViewPort 0 0
# ? EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: where to start on a home lan?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 07:22:37 -0800
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:43:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>here is the set-up I am away to err... set up.
>486 running smoothwall
>586 running redhat
>686 running Mandrake & Windows98 (booo)
>i have all the computers connected through a small 100 base hub
>what i want to know is where can I find a good web-site/documentation
>to tell me how to set-up my system. i really need some-one to talk me
>through it as I have only got to grips with the basics of networking,
>and even that stretched the old grey matter beyond it's limits.
>What I was wanting was a 486 server called sun
>my 586 called mars
>and my 686 called earth
>all running on a domain called solarsystem.
>how easy is it?
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
Lets imagine that you want to network all three together in some fashion and
that one box will be your firewall/NAT box to the outside world (perhaps
cable, dsl, ppp; whatever). You want to have the internal boxes all talking
to each other and you want them to talk to the box that will do the
ipmasquerading to the outside. YOu also want your 98 system to be able to
see the linux boxes, share files, perhaps printers, etc. I won't explain
the intricacies of IPchains because there are good howto's on the web. All
that is really needed is to assign static IP addresses to each box. Imagine
this layout:
*Box 1, firewall/NAT box, 192.168.0.1 on one ethernet interface; netmask
255.255.255.0, external IP to the cloud on the other. YOu will enter the
default route (gateway) and other information for the external interface
based on what your ISP tells you.
*Box 2, redhat, 192.168.0.2, netmask 255.255.255.0, default route
192.168.0.1. With this, outbound traffic can be shared to your dsl box.
*Box 3, manduck/win98, 192.168.0.3, netmask 255.255.255.0, default route
192.168.0.1 on both OS'es.
So now, you should be able to ping the "other box". Lets say you are on Box
2, and want to reach Box 3. Try pinging 192.168.0.3 from 192.168.0.2. Now
if you have one linux box with a printer on it, you can install samba
services on that box, and your 98 system can reach the printer. Samba may
require a bit of reading; but thats okay! Read up on it at samba.org.
Ipchains may also but you have time, right? :)
Now you don't want to refer to each box by their IP addresses so you can
edit /etc/hosts to include IP/hostname pairings for each. As an example, if
you call 192.168.0.2 myredhat.net, simply follow the protocol for editing
/etc/hosts and enter it. You can enter the other systems and then you can
ping them by typing "ping myredhat.net" from another box like the manduck
one. Finally, you want to tell each system where the dns information is out
there on the wilde and woolye web. Edit the /etc/resolv.conf file and
include information to the ISPs dns entries. You can make this network
behavior default by editing your particular system's network scripts. I
don't use redhat or manduck, but I believe you could start your search at
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
No rebooting required on any of this; except for 98.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: COM and IRQ help
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:14:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK, I have installed Radhat 6.1 on my P-120 (debian's gone because lynx
> would not work on it). SO now I do appear to have some primitive X
lynx works fine. If you have a problem, file a bug report and talk to
the maintainer.
lm005:/usr/oboe/ptb% dpkg -l lynx
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii lynx 2.8.2-2 Text-mode WWW Browser
lm005:/usr/oboe/ptb%
or
doc005:/usr/oboe/ptb% dpkg -l lynx
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii lynx 2.8.3-1 Text-mode WWW Browser
Peter
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From: Sebastian Kollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 170
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:06:42 +0100
Cokey de Percin schrieb:
>
>
> Correct. RH 7.0 should have it; RH 6.2 does as I'm running it and I have
> a AcceleRAID 250. Note that the driver is a 'block' driver, not a SCSI
> driver. The normal install should find it if the hardware setup is correct.
>
> Note that if you're using it for a RAID level, then you need to set up the
> raid configuration BEFORE you try to install your OS. I used the onboard
> configuration to set up my RAID 5 and then installed Linux on it.
Sorry, but the installation supports only the old Mylex controllers with
U2W/SCSI and not U160/SCSI controllers. So I'll need to create a RedHat 7 Setup
or Driver Disk with a new patched kernel that I have build before, but I don't
have any idea how to do that. I need any specs for RedHat Driver Disks and how
to create them.
If someone out there has any idea, please don't wait to tell me!!!!! I need
that computer as soon as possible.
Greetings, Sebastian.
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNU C++ Compiler
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:14:39 -0600
cuma wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> is the GNU C++ Compiler integrated
> in the Red Hat 6.2 Release??
>
> Don't think so.
>
> 1.Where can I get it?
> 2.Which components are to be downloaded?
> 3.How can I install them??
>
> Thanx in advance
>
I believe it is, all the "differerent" compilers are just GCC with
different frontends.
See www.gnu.org for more details and a new compiler if you need/want it.
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From: Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GRUB Booting and Hard Drive MBR Troubles
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:54:00 +0000
I too have had problems with Mandrake 7.2
After re-seizing my partitions on my first disk, using Partition Magic in
win95, I should have
sda3 (vfat)
sda4 (hpfs: OS/2a)
sda5 (hpfs: OS/2b)
sda6 (linux swap)
my root is on sdb5 and linux seems to recognise the second disk OK.
Partition Magic doesn't show any errors.
However, linux complains that /dev/sda4 isn't a valid block device, and it
mounts OS2a as /dev/sda5 and doesn't mount the two other partitions. It
seems to want to recognise the swap as /dev/sda7. I.e. sda4 seems just to
have "disappeared". It looks OK in /dev
Also if I run parted <device> info
it says all my devices are neither SCSI nor IDE
If I run Harddrake the clock cursor just stays on
Everything else seems to work OK :-)
Any suggestions gratefully received.
- Richard.
> Alright, I installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 on my slave hard drive the other
> day, and let the install put on GRUB as the boot loader. Needless to
> say, the install ran smoothly, UNTIL I rebooted. Then I was greeted by
> the GRUB command line. From what I understand, I'm supposed to see a
> menu. So, I did a little research. (hd0) is the Windows drive, and
> (hd1) is the Linux drive; (hd0,0) is supposed to be the Windows boot
> drive, and (hd1,0) the Linux boot drive. Upon issuing a "geometry
> (hd0)" or "geometry (hd1)" command inside the GRUB interpreter (?), it
> informs me it doesn't know what filesystem is on either of those
> partitions. This is not a problem with those partitions, since both are
> accessible when booting from floppy to the appropriate OS.
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From: Stan Towianski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: how diagnose hardware - Hard lockup then crc error
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:17:49 GMT
Hi,
My system; AMD-K6 233Mhz 64mb ram has been locking hard at pretty
frequently
lately. It seems to be getting worse. I did not know if it is with
each
Mandrake upgrade ..,7,7.1, now 7.2 or what. I wonder if the new KDE 2.0
is buggy.
But I am questioning hardware and I don't know how to figure that out.
I found memtest and ran that. It blew out once. Then I decided to boot
from cd and mount my / with usr on it to run the memtest binary I
created.
Twice it blew out at the apparently last test.
test16: Walking zeroes: setting ...XSegmentation fault.
Anyone know if memtest works?
Also, after a hard lockup I have to reset or turn it off and on.
Usually
it does not come back up. I usually get a 'CRC Error....' and have to
reset a few times or turn the system off and wait a few minutes (it
won't
work right away). Then it will run again.
The last time I got this error on rebooting:
.
.
.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
RamDisk: compressed image found at block 0
crc error<6>autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Cannot open boot device 08:06
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:06
I usually think of CRC errors with floppies. Could this be a hard drive
error? or memory? or what?
What programs are there for linux to find hardware problems??
Stan Towianski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 error (new install)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Hinds)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:01:49 GMT
I just installed Mandrake 7.2 and it went smoothly. But when I boo (Kde) t I get
8 vertical bars, eqach showing the left edge of a full screen.
If I try to boot any other way i get this error sequence
Aiee, killing inerrupt handler
Kernel panic .....
In swapper - not syncing
and it stops booting right there.
Any ideas? Compaq 7470, Trident Blade 3D (video), AMD K6-3D 533, 20G (5G
allocated to Linux), 64M
thanks
Don
--
Don Hinds
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/eritrea/117/
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