Linux-Setup Digest #285, Volume #20 Tue, 26 Dec 00 01:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: No LILO on bootup ("NA")
mitch555@x (removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4, test7)
Re: How to set PATH? (mitch555@x)
Re: How to set PATH? (mitch555@x)
Re: web-based email-reader (Dan Birchall)
Permissions xcdroast and cdwriter (gary green)
Re: removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4 (Robert Redelmeier)
BJC 6100 prints on USB port but font tiny. How to WYSIWIG in linux? ("Peter S.")
HELP with 2.4.0-test12 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Modem problems in Mandrake 7.2 ("John McCubbin")
Re: Modem problems in Mandrake 7.2 ("harshal")
Re: booting new kernels: lilo/grub problem (Srihari Vijayaraghavan)
Mandrake Floppy Woes? ("snoopy")
Making the Peanut CD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: reboot when idle?? noooooooo!!! (David Efflandt)
Re: No LILO on bootup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Redhat 7.0 -- Printing will not work parallel or USB ("Jess Jackson")
PPP question (Gabriel James)
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From: "NA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No LILO on bootup
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 01:16:28 GMT
"E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> When you made linux the default boot, did you make the linux boot
partition
> active?
> Is linux boot below 1024 cylinders?
> I made 16M /boot partition and made it active and it is the first
partition and
> applied lilo to the /boot partition
> instead of the windows partition.
>
>
> # just a guess what to do with /etc/lilo.conf
> # start of lilo.conf example
> boot=/dev/hda3
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> linear
> default=dos
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
> label=linux
> read-only
> append="ide2=xxx,xxx ide3=xxx,xxx"
> root=/dev/hda4
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=dos
> #end of lilo.conf example
>
> NA wrote:
>
> > I have finally installed RedHat 7 on a disk connected to a Promise IDE
> > controller card. (I needed to type linux ide2=xxx,xxx ide3=xxx,xxx and
it
> > finally installed on the drive). I chose not to install Lilo on the MBR
but
> > on start of the install disk (hdg). I created a boot disk and everything
> > works. However I cannot boot linux. I had linux chosen as the default
boot
> > and though that when I put the boot disk in it would boot from hdg.
However
> > the boot disk makes it boot into Win98.
> >
> > I get absolutely nothing coming up at startup, not even a LILO prompt.
Apart
> > from the extra boot parameters at install time everything else is
standard.
> > Any ideas what I can do to boot this thing. I had thought of modifying
> > lilo.conf to but the ide2 and ide3 options in but I cannot edit get
access
> > to anything. Anyone give me any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Chris Carr
>
What do you mean by making the linux boot partition active? Ill give a bit
more info to make things a bit clearer. (I know this can be done I just cant
do it).
I have Win98 installed onto a disk on the Motherboard IDE which boots fine.
I installed RedHat onto a seperate disk, dedicated to Linux attached to the
Promise Controller card. LILO was told to install onto the Linux disk only.
The Win98 disk was never touched.
I cannot even see the contents of the boot disks /etc/lilo.conf. as I cannot
boot Linux at all. Event the RedHat install with Alt-F2 does not let me read
the floppy drive. (unless I have not mounted something correct).
With regard to making the Linux partition active, what do I have to do to it
to make it active?
The /boot partition is 16Mb, swap is 500Mb and about 5Gb for /.
Thanks for the help
Chris
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From: removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4, test7
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: mitch555@x
Date: 25 Dec 2000 16:27:12 -0800
Hello,
linux 2.4.0-test7 #3 SMP
I found out that, if I remove the cable of the mouse from the
back of the PC, linux hangs. had to reboot. this happens everytime.
this can't be normal. right?
All I had to do is pull the mouse cable, and that is it. putting the
cable back has no effect. system dead. can't kill X, no response to
keyboard, nothing. dead as stone. only thing to do is reboot.
wonder if this is a known bug? others had the same problem?
thanks,
mitch
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From: mitch555@x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to set PATH?
Date: 25 Dec 2000 16:28:06 -0800
In article <928n1q$k2h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "tszeto" says...
>
>I'm trying to set my path to recognize the jdk1.3 I just installed.
>
>I open /etc/profile and change the path to this:
>PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin"
>
add
export PATH
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From: mitch555@x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to set PATH?
Date: 25 Dec 2000 16:29:07 -0800
In article <928n1q$k2h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "tszeto" says...
>
>I'm trying to set my path to recognize the jdk1.3 I just installed.
>
>I open /etc/profile and change the path to this:
>PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin"
>
>But when I echo $PATH, the jdk path that I added doesn't appear.
and you do not need "" around the text.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Birchall)
Subject: Re: web-based email-reader
Date: 26 Dec 2000 01:35:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any good email-client that can read and post html email.
For Linux? If your definition of "good email-client" is so
lenient as to include sending HTML mail (egad!), Netscape's
mail client would probably suffice.
-Dan
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From: gary green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Permissions xcdroast and cdwriter
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 19:48:26 -0600
My setup: Caldera eDesktop 2.4, KDE 2.0.1, IDE CDWriter and IDE CDROM.
Everything works just fine. I can burn CD's as Root from both my harddrive
mnt pts and from the secondary slave CDROM. I'm a novice at Linux and am
wondering if there is a way to set permissions so I can use this setup as a
trusted user instead of root?
Or do most folks just use Root as thier login for your home workstations
and alias things as a user?
TIA,
Gary G
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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 20:05:13 -0600
From: Robert Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4
> linux 2.4.0-test7 #3 SMP
>
> I found out that, if I remove the cable of the mouse from the
> back of the PC, linux hangs. had to reboot. this happens everytime.
PS/2 or serial mouse? PS/2 is not hot [un]pluggable and I'd
expect a hang if not hardware damage from hot unplugging.
AFAIK, RS232 serial ports are designed for hot-plugging and
shouldn't suffer.
-- Robert
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From: "Peter S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BJC 6100 prints on USB port but font tiny. How to WYSIWIG in linux?
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 02:17:44 GMT
Hello all,
My printer is properly detected on the USB port by Mandrake 7.2 as BJC 6100
(by Canon) and I can print with "lpr filename" in consol or the print
command in Netscape or in Abit. But how do I control the printed font size?
It is so tiny, barely visible. What you see is surely not what you get. I
set the resolution to 100dpi, I increase the font size in Abit and to no
avail. The output on the printer remains the same. Tiny. I would appreciate
finding out how to influence point size that printer will accept. This is of
course no problem when I use the printer with its Canon driver in Windows.
There it is truly WYSIWIG. Surely there must be a way in linux.
Thanks for your help,
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP with 2.4.0-test12
Date: 26 Dec 2000 03:15:11 GMT
I have 2.4.0-test12 running. My problem is when I try to compile
iptables-1.1.2. I get the following error message:
ld -shared -o extensions/libipt_MIRROR.so extensions/libipt_MIRROR_sh.o
cc -O2 -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wunused -Iinclude/ -I/usr/src/linux/include
-DNETFILTER_VERSION=\"1.1.2\" -fPIC -o extensions/libip6t_tcp_sh.o -c
extensions/libip6t_tcp.c
In file included from include/libiptc/libip6tc.h:6,
from include/ip6tables.h:5,
from extensions/libip6t_tcp.c:7:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h:33: field `src' has
incomplete type
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h:33: field `dst' has
incomplete type
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h:35: field `smsk' has
incomplete type
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h:35: field `dmsk' has
incomplete type
make: *** [extensions/libip6t_tcp_sh.o] Error 1
Has anyone else had this problem???
Thanks
--
=========================================================================
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Customer Support, TELOS Systems, Cleveland, Ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chief Engineer, WYLI 910kHz Marietta, OH.
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From: "John McCubbin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem problems in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 21:32:21 -0600
If it's a PCI modem, it's probably a winmodem and I stuck to ISA modems for
that reason. I was warned that the PCI (usually "soft modems") don't work
the overwhelming majority of the time. You can get a really good ISA non
PnP modem for under $50. I'd get one of those set it for COM3 IRQ 4 and
you'll have no problem.
--
John McCubbin
CCD/Astrophotograpny Website
http://www.usit.com/mccubbin/astronomy.html
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From: "harshal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem problems in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 20:36:52 +0530
Does your modem really get ditected? 'cause i have same modem but don't know
how to configure it. If you ever be able to configure & run that modem under
linux please don't forget to post here.
"Rutger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:l5u16.3112$iB1.71617@zonnet-reader-1...
> Look here:
>
>
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO.p
> hp3
>
> Good luck, please mail me if you succeeded, becuase i have exactly the
same
> modem and the same problem....
>
> Rutger
>
> "Michele Neylon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
> news:FAo16.10866$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I just installed Mandrake 7.2 It has detected the modem, but seems
unable
> > to configure it. The modem is a Diamond SupraExpress 56i V PRO
> >
> > If anybody has any idea how I can configure it please let me know -
> > Thanks
> > Michele
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: booting new kernels: lilo/grub problem
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 15:28:35 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running mandrake and a fairly recent version of lilo/grub.
> The problem is any new test kernel (eg 2.4.0test......) does not seem
> to boot at all, either using grub or lilo. 2.4.0test5 certainly works
> ok. Someone told me to upgrade to the latest version of lilo, not
> really sure if this would work as grub can't boot it either. Compiling
> lilo doesn't seem to work anyway :)
> By "doesn't boot" i mean it gets to "Uncompressing Linux.. OK" and
> then just stops there. No more kernel booting after that. I must be
> doing something really stupid.. i am a newbie.
> The subject line says "lilo/grub prob.." but probably isn't a lilo or
> grub problem :)
>
> Could anyone help? Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> Duncan
Hello Duncan,
Did you have the following section enabled while compiling your 2.4.0-test*
kernel?
"Character devices - Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support) - 3dfx
Banshee/Voodoo3+"
If the above mentioned was TRUE, then try the following:
1. Select "No" to "Character devices - Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86
DRI support) - 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+"
2. You might want to enable Frame Buffer support OR pass on "vga=normal" to
the kernel. This is limited to Mandrake distribution and got nothing to do
with kernel. Because the default Mandrake Lilo configuration might pass on
"vga=788" which requires Frame Buffer support.
3. Compile and install the new kernel, and see if it happens again.
Hope this helps, and All the best.
--
Thank you,
Hari.
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From: "snoopy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake Floppy Woes?
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 22:26:39 -0600
I wonder if anyone else has encountered problems with LS-120's under
Mandrake 7.2. I can read both 1.4 and 120mb floppies just fine, but when it
comes to formatting , creating "boot" or "rescue" disks, or writing to
either disk capacity...IT WON'T WORK!
Have I missed something in documentation? Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Making the Peanut CD
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 04:42:00 GMT
Okay, I've made 4 coasters trying to get this right. I can't find
any documentation on how to properly make the Peanut Linux CD, the
mainpage doesn't have an image and when I make it the way I think I
should I get tons of errors like Block XXX is marked free or wrong free
inodes. Here's an example "EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1))
ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong Free Blocks Count Four Group 2, stored
= 3907, counted = 4667" Using HP CD creator on a win98 machine btw.
I'm taking the 50 meg peanut file and putting it on an ISO cd with
ISO filenames under the directory peanut. When booting with the
floppies and mounting the cd-rom (mount /dev/hdb /DOS) and then cdrom -
install, everything seems fine. Well except I get 'partitioning table
on hdb is bad' or somesuch. hdb is the cdrom. It does a check to see
if the file is corrupt and that's when I get the error messages.
Can someone please tell me how to make the peanut CD properly or do I
have to buy it? I've never installed linux before so please reply in
newbie speak, thanks.
Roper
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: reboot when idle?? noooooooo!!!
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 05:04:53 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 01:06:51 GMT, steveFarris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all, i've got suse 7.0 installed on an AMD K6 chip and if i stay
>logged in and remain idle the thing reboots on its own. Obviously this will
>not work. This can't possibly be a feature can it?? I doubt it. Anybody got
>any ideas why this is happening. i know there is a little problem with some
>AMD chips with over 32mb ram on Linux but not like this. This is really
>starting to suck.
There isn't any problem with the K6 in general that I know of. I am
running a K6-2/400 (Evergreen Spectra400 cpu upgrade) with 96 MB RAM,
although, I am running Mandrake 7.0 with a 2.2.17 kernel. I did have a
slight problem at first in that the default memory speed setting in the
BIOS that came with the upgrade defaulted to 55 ns RAM and I have 60 ns
RAM. But the only result was core dumps when attempting to run large
programs (netscape or kernel compile) and that cleared up when I fixed
the memory speed setting.
Since your problem seems to happen when idle, I would check to make sure
that an power saving CMOS settings are disabled and make sure that you do
not have APM enabled (don't run apmd).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No LILO on bootup
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 05:30:08 GMT
NA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Try downloading and installing BootIt (look around for the URL). It is a
shareware bootloader that might be able to boot your linux.
> I have finally installed RedHat 7 on a disk connected to a Promise IDE
> controller card. (I needed to type linux ide2=xxx,xxx ide3=xxx,xxx and it
> finally installed on the drive). I chose not to install Lilo on the MBR but
> on start of the install disk (hdg). I created a boot disk and everything
> works. However I cannot boot linux. I had linux chosen as the default boot
> and though that when I put the boot disk in it would boot from hdg. However
> the boot disk makes it boot into Win98.
> I get absolutely nothing coming up at startup, not even a LILO prompt. Apart
> from the extra boot parameters at install time everything else is standard.
> Any ideas what I can do to boot this thing. I had thought of modifying
> lilo.conf to but the ide2 and ide3 options in but I cannot edit get access
> to anything. Anyone give me any ideas?
> Thanks
> Chris Carr
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From: "Jess Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 7.0 -- Printing will not work parallel or USB
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 05:48:45 GMT
I am still not able to get any kind of printer configuration to work in Red
Hat Linux 7.0. I have a dual boot (Linux and Windows 98) Dell P-II, 400MHz
with 20 GB hard drive. I have and Epson Stylus 740 printer that works fine
under Windows either USB or parallel.
I had it connected in Redhat 6.2 via parallel. I upgraded to Redhat 7.0 and
now cannot print either USB or parallel. A number of people on both this
list and a couple of others have given various suggestions, none of which
have worked to this point.
Have a lot of free room on the hard drive, I decided just to set up a couple
of new ext2 partitions and do a fresh, clean install of Red Hat 7.0. That
went fine. I now can boot either the old or new version or Windows 98.
BUT -- I still cannot print. All that follows relates to the new install
The new install found both my onboard parallel port and USB hardware. I have
a two-port USB connection on the motherboard and a seven-port hub off one of
them (an Entrega 4U-2S-1P -- though I don't care about the non-usb parts
under Linux). Here are some selected lines from the boot process...
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.232 $ time 16:53:56 Aug 22 2000
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: Intel USB controller: setting latency timer to 0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1020, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 7 ports detected
usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 3
usb.c: This device is not recognized by any installed USB driver.
usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 4
usb.c: This device is not recognized by any installed USB driver.
usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 5
usb.c: This device is not recognized by any installed USB driver.
... (snip)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
parport_probe: succeeded
parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 740
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
It appears that while it is loading the USB Hub, it is NOT installing the
USB printer driver. So, I entered...
modprobe printer
to which, dmesg gave me the following response...
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0
printer.c: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 1
Just to see what I had running and on suggestion from a previous message, I
did...
cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers
which resulted in...
0- 15: usblp
hub
usbdevfs
This all looked promising. So, I opened "printtool" and attempted to connect
to the USB printer. It appears that the base version of LPRng with Redhat
7.0 does not have lprngtool.
As I attempted to add the printer, it showed "lp0" detected as I would
expect. But printtool showed two other devices detected which I would have
thought would have looked like /dev/usblp0 or /dev/usblp0. Instead, it
showed two entries it identified as /dev/dev/lp0 and /dev/dev/lp1. That did
not look right.
Nevertheless, I tried installing the Epson on /dev/usblp0 and later to
/dev/dev/lp0. I could not get any output even with "print directly to port"
in either configuration. Both cases said they printed something when I tried
all three choices -- "print directly to port," "print ASCII test page," and
"print Postscript test page."
I checked in /dev and there was no entries for /dev/usblp0 or /dev/dev/lp0.
Based on a response on my earlier posts, I attempted to create the
/dev/usblp0 entry as follows...
mknod -m 660 /dev/usblp0 c 180 0
Even with that, no success at all, even with "print directly to port" via
USB connection.
It appears that I am OK at the raw hardware level. I have tried unplugging
and reconnecting the USB cable. The system appears to "see" the printer come
and go as reflected in this section from dmesg...
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0
printer.c: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 1
...
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 3
usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 3
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0
I have also tried "ls >/dev/usblp0" to see if I can at least get output at
this level.
(One question -- I am pretty new at Linux... Does exercising the printer,
either parallel or USB, with the commands "ls >/dev/usblp0" or "ls
>/dev/lp0" operate at the pure hardware level, not needing the lpd daemon?)
If true, I cannot figure why this does not produce some kind of output.
__________________
While USB is my preferred method, I would settle for getting the parallel
port to work instead. After a reboot and reconnection from USB to parallel,
I went through all the above including "print directly to port" from
printtool and "ls >/dev/lp0" none of which produced any output.
Again, the printer works great under Windows 98 either via parallel or USB.
Something as apparently as simple as basic printing ought not to be this
complicated. I have more than ten hours in this heretofore fruitless effort.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
Jess
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From: Gabriel James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP question
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 05:41:20 GMT
I have a long PPP question, here it is: When I connect to my isp, the
modem hangs up and I get the following messages:
LCP: timeout sending config-requests
Connection-terminated
Recieve serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Anyone know how to fix this?
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