Linux-Setup Digest #268, Volume #20 Thu, 21 Dec 00 19:13:10 EST
Contents:
Windows ME and Linux ("bitsmart")
Re: Hard Disk and little faces! (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: HDD - Help Please!!!!! ("Adam H.")
SMC Ultra problems and network performance (john slimick)
Re: Reiserfs + lilo + booting issue (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: Winframe 1.7 through IPChains Masq Firewall ("Eric Daguet")
Re: how do i find WinME back? ("Tim Watkins")
soundcard compatibility (maher abedib)
Re: Mandrake 6.1 Help Please with Video Card & Monitor ("Dan White")
Re: at home firewall setup (Michael Perry)
Re: Does kernel 2.2.18 need to be patched for raid??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Winframe 1.7 through IPChains Masq Firewall (Chris Wood)
SCSI ADAPTER ("simplemind")
Re: how do i find WinME back? (Jixian Yao)
Middle mouse button on Digital Research Tech's mouse (James D Parker)
Re: SCSI ADAPTER (Juergen Heinzl)
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From: "bitsmart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Windows ME and Linux
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:14:43 -0500
I want to install Linux on my Windows ME machine, preferably some kind of
UMSDOS distribution on the same partition, but if I can't do that, how
should I go about doing it? What distribution should I use? Microsoft has
totally perverted the boot process, and it's nothing like it used to be.
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Disk and little faces!
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:21:55 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmmmh.... sounds funny, but can you specify the strange message?
--
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Auf der Donau 29
45139 Essen
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From: "Adam H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HDD - Help Please!!!!!
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:26:10 +1100
Hi Jorik,
Thanks for your reply. The HDD is indeed a new one, however I will try this
anyway...
Adam.
"Caljouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:91fkdd$22m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I got messages like these on my CDROM drives. I think(!), you should
disable
> automatic DMA in your kernel if possible. After that, these messages
> disappeared in my box, but this will only be a solution if your drive is
> not a DMA-one. This would mean, your drive is already quite old (4 years I
> guess at least).
>
> Jorik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john slimick)
Subject: SMC Ultra problems and network performance
Date: 21 Dec 2000 22:24:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello:
I have a very strange situation involving Linux
on three machines using SMC Ultra 10 Megabit
cards.
Machine A has RH 6.2 installed
Machine B has RH 5.1 installed
Machine C has RH 6.0 installed.
Machine A is very unpredictable when
it comes to replying via the ping command.
A and B are adjacent on thinnet. C is a router
away, on TP.
When A pings B, there are occasional delays of up to
8 seconds, with a time-to-live of 64.
When B pings A, the typical delay is about 1+
milliseconds, with a time-to-live of 255.
When C pings A, the delay is as much as 14 seconds,
with a time-to-live of 254.
When A pings C, the delay is as much as 8 seconds,
with a time-to-live of 254.
When B pings C, the delay is as about 2 ms,
with a time-to-live of 254.
So the RH 5.1 machine consistently has ping times
of about 2 ms, while the RH 6.0 and RH 6.2 machines
do very much more poorly.
All machines are similarly configured:
A: RH 6.2,AMD 266Mhz, 64 MB, SMC Ultra, Master=HD,CDROM,Slave=HD,Zip
B: RH 5.1,Cyrix 233 Mhz, 64 MB, SMC Ultra, Master=HD, Slave=CDROM,Zip
C: RH 6.0,Pentium 700+ Mhz, 64 MB, SMC Ultra, Master=HD,
Slave=CDROM,Zip
So what happened between 5.1 and 6.0? Is there anything
I can do to get good network performance, other than
switching back to RH 5.1?
Thanks in advance
john slimick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reiserfs + lilo + booting issue
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:30:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have had your problem too and found an idot-proof method (ideal for me).
I changed my /boot back to ext2 and mounted it read-only. If you make a
reset, there will be no fsck on ro-partitions.
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 ro 1 2
Hope it helps
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Auf der Donau 29
45139 Essen
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From: "Eric Daguet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.firewalls,alt.os.citrix
Subject: Re: Winframe 1.7 through IPChains Masq Firewall
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:37:32 +0100
"Robert Alberti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
91tgsl$mks$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm installing a Redhat 6.2 (16-3 kernel) IPChains firewall for a client
with
> Winframe 1.7. With the firewall in-between my WInframe client can't
> communicate with the server: the client works fine with the firewall
removed.
>
> Server inside NIC FW outside NIC client
> [192.168.1.6 ]--[192.168.1.7 192.168.0.2]---[192.168.0.69]
> [255.255.255.0] [255.255.255.0 255.255.0.0] [255.255.0.0 ]
> ipmasqadm portfw for 1494 server addr:
> 1495, 1604, 3389 TCP&UDP <==192.168.1.6
>
> There are two problems:
>
> 1) When the firewall is in the way, the client begins by sending an ARP
> request for the server address. When the ARP request fails no session is
> initiated.
>
> 2) When the firewal is not in the way and everything works ,but
communications
> take place on port 3389, not the ports 1494 and 1604 as I've seen
documented.
> However, the ARP problem (problem 1) renders this concern moot as my
client
> never even tries to talk to the server.
>
> I've got ports 1494, 1495 and 1604 open for TCP and UDP, but that's not
doing
> it. In fact what is happening is that my client never even starts trying
to
> communicate on those ports. Instead, it begins by broadcasting an ARP
request
> to the server address. If that gets no response (if the firewall is in
place)
> then I never connect.
>
> If I remove the firewall and sniff the line everything works, but I see
> communications to port 3389 on the Winframe server, not 1494 or 1604.
>
> Opening up 3389 on the firewall doesn't work -- nothing works in fact --
> because with the firewall in place the initial ARP request is never
answered.
>
> Can I get this to work without having to put static routes on all clients?
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>
> Robert Alberti
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tim Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do i find WinME back?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:25:45 -0500
Is WinME a windows or NT based OS?? I've seen some windows based programs
that will allow you to browse ext2 filesystems. You could then copy your
kernel over to your WinME partition and then use loadlin to boot off of it.
Pain in the butt, but would prevent a reinstall of Linux.
"Jixian Yao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Thanks, Keith, for the recommendation about Loadlin and WinME.
> The problem I still have is that the installation of linux did not even
ask me
> to create a boot disk (do I have to get into expert installation mode?)
> RH 6.1 (kernel 2.2.12) does not support USB, and the computer only
> has USB access to the floppy, so I guess even the linux installation
asked,
> it would not be able to find the floppy drive. So I am sort of deasd in
water,
> once I replace the MBR, I'll have to re-install linux (i am afraid it'll
wipe
> away
> all my modifications, how do I let it upgrade, not formatting the
partition,
> that's probably the only way to get both OS to work).
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jixian
>
> Keith wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:36:52 -0800, Jixian Yao
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I installed RH linux 6.1 on a Sony PCG-Z505LS notebook, in order to
make
> > > X work, I had to
> > > add a line in the lilo.conf, hence needed to re-run lilo, after that
> > > WinMe didn't boot anymore,
> > > I can still see the dos entry at LILO prompt, and it just hangs when
> > > selected. Linux boots fine.
> > > RH Linux 6.1 (kernel 2.2.12-20) does not support USB (the floppy drive
> > > is connected thru USB port).
> > >
> > > I tried to unload lilo by lilo -u, it didn't seem to work (lilo still
> > > there, and still boots fine to Linux).
> > > WinME CDs (recovery and the basic) don't boot. If I could somehow
> > > recover windows, I'll
> > > use loadlin to load linux from windows, that seems a safer way to have
> > > to OS on one disk.
> > >
> > > Could somebody help me to recover Windows without losing
(re-installing)
> > > Linux? (I can't even
> > > create a bood disk to floppy).
> > >
> >
> > In dos, you will need to use your Windows/dos Boot floppy, type:
> > fdisk /mbr
> >
> > When you installed RH 6.1 you did make a boot floppy right?
> >
> > On RH CD there is a document and a program in /images called
> > RAWRITE.*
> > you can use to create a boot floppy for linux.
> > Boot up linux and create a new lilo or create a boot floppy
> > for your system. In some systems the command mkbootdisk is
> > available. See the Boot Disk How-to for more help. I don't
> > recommend using loadlin with WinME, but if you must read the
> > loadlin docs on your CD or the Loadlin How-to.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Keith (Use Reply-to for email)
> > Where do you discover free software for Windows? Strongsignals DOT COM
is a
> > great place to start: http://Strongsignals.com "Where would
Christianity be
> > if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?" NY
> > State Senator James Donovan, speaking in support of capital punishment.
>
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From: maher abedib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: soundcard compatibility
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:46:47 +0800
Hi,
I was thinking to buy Creative Labs Sound Blaster Vibra 128.Has anyone
experience any difficulties of using this product?Any comment or
suggestion is appreciated.
thank you very much,
regards,
maher
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 6.1 Help Please with Video Card & Monitor
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:59:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Harry Broom"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Everyone
>
> I'm very much a newbie, but I'm trying to move away from the MS Windoze
> and I just got my hands a copy of the above Mandrake version.
>
> The install seems to have gone OK after a couple of problems but the
> lats re-installation seems to have gone OK. I just want to get X Windows
> going now. However I have a problem.
>
> I have a VideoLogic Grafixstar 670 with the S3 Savage4 3D video chipset
> on a PCI card and a Taxan ErgoVision 730 TCO95-S Monitor.
The recent release of XFree86 4.0.2 mentions that it has added for
"A driver (savage) for S3 Savage chipsets". See
http://www.xfree86.org
- Dan White
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To:
comp.security.firewalls,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,austin.internet,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: at home firewall setup
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:58:48 -0800
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:51:31 GMT, Not Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 03:13:50 GMT, "Conspirator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>And where else would someone get a 486 unless they're 35 and living in their
>>mothers house and still a virgin?
>>
>Perhaps they picked up a pile of them a couple of years ago when their
>employer was cleaning out the closet. You cna never tell when an
>obsolete computer will come in handy!
You can find old computers a lot of the time on ebay. I bought two nice and
old IBM Value Point 166 systems which I use for firewall services and a as a
regular house file and print server. IT also does wireless for me quite
well. My total cost for the first one was 55.00 or so. The second one I
got for about 60. They work great with debian linux.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Does kernel 2.2.18 need to be patched for raid???
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:22:38 GMT
i'm still waiting for mingo to come up with a 2.2.19[pre] patch. i want
to use raid across all four ide channels of an abit vp6, which has the
hpt370 controller (and hedrick's ide patch *still* isn't included in the
mainline kernel!) in addition to the via 694 chipset.
the two patches tend to stomp on each other unless you are *very*
careful about which versions you start with. whoever at mandrake managed
to combine them in their 2.2.1[6-7] kernel for mdk7.2 deserves applause.
i'm hoping the next raid patch happens soon - i'm seeing weird behavior
that could be the 694 chipset, or the drive, or a mobile rack .. and i'm
real curious to see how the latest world works.
(or perhaps it's just time to go with the flow and jump to 2.4?)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Godfrey Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes you need to apply mingo's patch to 2.2.18 to get raid to work.
>
> Unfortunately the patch does not apply cleanly it is not hard to fix but
> if you have problems email me and I will send you a repackaged patch
> that does apply cleanly.
>
> Godfrey Livingstone
>
> Ps There is no need to post to so many news groups
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Does mingo's raid patch raid-2.2.18-A2 get applied to kernel 2.2.18?
>
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Wood)
Crossposted-To: comp.security.firewalls,alt.os.citrix
Subject: Re: Winframe 1.7 through IPChains Masq Firewall
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:38:32 GMT
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:30:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Alberti)
wrote:
>Can I get this to work without having to put static routes on all clients?
I'm not that familiar with citrix and firewalls, but you could install
a linux VPN between the client and the firewall. Probably more
hassle than it's worth though if you have other options.
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From: "simplemind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SCSI ADAPTER
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:32:04 +0100
I use a SCSI card only for my scaner. It's a Linux supported ADAPTEC
AVA-1505 and Adaptec AHA-152x compatible. When I was trying to build a new
kernel to make it work I read in one of the SCSI LOW LEVEL help items that I
had to change IRQ and some other values.
Does anybody know how to do this ?
I would alos thank any other help about these card. I found nothing in
LINUXDOC.
THANKS.
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From: Jixian Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do i find WinME back?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:49:48 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank Tim,
I saw the warning for Loadlin in WinME, because WinME does not support real DOS
mode which is required by loadlin. Have you tested loadlin in WinME? Does it
work?
If it DOES work, it's a definely a better way.
Jixian
Tim Watkins wrote:
> Is WinME a windows or NT based OS?? I've seen some windows based programs
> that will allow you to browse ext2 filesystems. You could then copy your
> kernel over to your WinME partition and then use loadlin to boot off of it.
> Pain in the butt, but would prevent a reinstall of Linux.
>
> "Jixian Yao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Thanks, Keith, for the recommendation about Loadlin and WinME.
> > The problem I still have is that the installation of linux did not even
> ask me
> > to create a boot disk (do I have to get into expert installation mode?)
> > RH 6.1 (kernel 2.2.12) does not support USB, and the computer only
> > has USB access to the floppy, so I guess even the linux installation
> asked,
> > it would not be able to find the floppy drive. So I am sort of deasd in
> water,
> > once I replace the MBR, I'll have to re-install linux (i am afraid it'll
> wipe
> > away
> > all my modifications, how do I let it upgrade, not formatting the
> partition,
> > that's probably the only way to get both OS to work).
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Jixian
> >
> > Keith wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:36:52 -0800, Jixian Yao
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I installed RH linux 6.1 on a Sony PCG-Z505LS notebook, in order to
> make
> > > > X work, I had to
> > > > add a line in the lilo.conf, hence needed to re-run lilo, after that
> > > > WinMe didn't boot anymore,
> > > > I can still see the dos entry at LILO prompt, and it just hangs when
> > > > selected. Linux boots fine.
> > > > RH Linux 6.1 (kernel 2.2.12-20) does not support USB (the floppy drive
> > > > is connected thru USB port).
> > > >
> > > > I tried to unload lilo by lilo -u, it didn't seem to work (lilo still
> > > > there, and still boots fine to Linux).
> > > > WinME CDs (recovery and the basic) don't boot. If I could somehow
> > > > recover windows, I'll
> > > > use loadlin to load linux from windows, that seems a safer way to have
> > > > to OS on one disk.
> > > >
> > > > Could somebody help me to recover Windows without losing
> (re-installing)
> > > > Linux? (I can't even
> > > > create a bood disk to floppy).
> > > >
> > >
> > > In dos, you will need to use your Windows/dos Boot floppy, type:
> > > fdisk /mbr
> > >
> > > When you installed RH 6.1 you did make a boot floppy right?
> > >
> > > On RH CD there is a document and a program in /images called
> > > RAWRITE.*
> > > you can use to create a boot floppy for linux.
> > > Boot up linux and create a new lilo or create a boot floppy
> > > for your system. In some systems the command mkbootdisk is
> > > available. See the Boot Disk How-to for more help. I don't
> > > recommend using loadlin with WinME, but if you must read the
> > > loadlin docs on your CD or the Loadlin How-to.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > >
> > > Keith (Use Reply-to for email)
> > > Where do you discover free software for Windows? Strongsignals DOT COM
> is a
> > > great place to start: http://Strongsignals.com "Where would
> Christianity be
> > > if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?" NY
> > > State Senator James Donovan, speaking in support of capital punishment.
> >
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From: James D Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Middle mouse button on Digital Research Tech's mouse
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:01:17 -0500
I have just installed Red Hat Linux 6.1. So far everything looks good
except that the middle mouse button isn't working. I have a Digital
Research Technology Universal 3-Button Serial-PS/2 Mouse. It is
connected through com2. It is working OK except that I've had to resort
to middle mouse button emulation to do things that require middle mouse
clicks.
During the install, the mouse was detected as a generic 2-button mouse
and I overrode that to a generic 3-button mouse. I was using a graphical
install and the mouse worked fine during the install until it came to
the point where it created the LILO disk. At that point the mouse no
longer worked. I was able to navigate using the keyboard to get it to
complete that. When I first booted Linux after the install it detected
new hardware, the mouse. At that point I took what it offered as far as
settings.
These are the contents of the config files that I can find that seem
appropriate:
/etc/sysconfig:
FULLNAME="Generic - 3 Button Mouse (serial)"
MOUSETYPE="Microsoft"
XEMU3="no"
XMOUSETYPE="Microsoft"
and the pointer section of /etc/X11/XF86Config:
# **********************************************************************
# Pointer section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
Device "/dev/mouse"
# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.
# Protocol "Xqueue"
# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice
# BaudRate 9600
# SampleRate 150
# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
Emulate3Buttons
Emulate3Timeout 100
# Buttons 3 Tried this, didn't work
# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
# ChordMiddle
EndSection
How can I get the middle mouse button to act like a middle mouse button?
Thanks
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI ADAPTER
Date: 22 Dec 2000 00:08:54 GMT
In article <91u3r8$lob$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, simplemind wrote:
>I use a SCSI card only for my scaner. It's a Linux supported ADAPTEC
>AVA-1505 and Adaptec AHA-152x compatible. When I was trying to build a new
>kernel to make it work I read in one of the SCSI LOW LEVEL help items that I
>had to change IRQ and some other values.
>Does anybody know how to do this ?
>I would alos thank any other help about these card. I found nothing in
>LINUXDOC.
[-]
Have a look at the driver's source, read .c, file as there are
all possible arguments which can be passed via lilo or at the
kernel's boot prompt if required (e.g. when booting from a kernel
floppy).
Cheers,
Juergen
--
\ Real name : J�rgen Heinzl \ no flames /
\ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
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