Linux-Setup Digest #325, Volume #20 Tue, 2 Jan 01 03:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: upgrading to glibc-2.2-9 causes problems (David)
Re: Modem is "busy" - PCI IRQ Sharing problem (Nader)
Linux hanging while initialising hard disks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD won't play stereo (Kevin)
unable to ping www.yahoo.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
system frozen when disconnect the modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux hanging while initialising hard disks (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: upgrading to glibc-2.2-9 causes problems ("Leon Bourassa")
Re: Linux simulation program? (Kenny Pearce)
Removing Linux Partitions (Tom Haughton)
Re: Problem with suse.com (Mark Post)
Re: upgrading to glibc-2.2-9 causes problems (David)
Re: Removing Linux Partitions (David)
Re: unable to ping www.yahoo.com (David)
Installing Multiple Linux OS's in One HD (Alex)
Help with Realtek RTL8029(NE2000) card in Mandrake 7.2 ("Marcus A. Rambo")
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: upgrading to glibc-2.2-9 causes problems
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 05:33:52 GMT
Leon Bourassa wrote:
>
> Or also rpm --force <old package>
> this forces the package to be installed.
I was always curious as to if it removed the other package completely
when you were downgrading a package??
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem is "busy" - PCI IRQ Sharing problem
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:51:42 -0800
Thanks - I finally feel like I am on the right track now. However, it
is not working yet...
I downloaded serial 5.05 from sourceforge as you suggested. I included
it in the kernel and recompiled my Caldera 2.2.10.
The good news is that dmesg shows serial 5.05 being recognized. dmesg
also shows the two standard serial ports being recognized and the one
for my modem (/dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A) automatically on the correct port
(0xa800) and irq (10)! Very encouraging!!!
However, after I logged in, setserial showed that /dev/ttyS4 was not
setup yet (I thought it would be based on the kernel startup messages).
I did so manually with "setserial -v /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0xa800
irq 10 spd_normal skip_test. Then when using kppp or cu -l /dev/ttyS4,
the modem/line is considered to be busy - hence the same problem.
Is there something else in the setup of the new serial driver that I
need to do? When I ran its setup.sh, it complained during the
installation that /lib/modules/2.2.10/block/hsm.0 had unresolved
symbol(s). The installation also indicated that it put serial in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/serial as a System V feature. I thought that my serial
initialization was running from /etc/rc.d/rc.serial. Also, when I
logout of linux, the shutdown messages stated that the serial driver was
not loaded.
Any suggestions?
Julie Brandon wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 16:47:05 -0800, Nader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>
>> The story:
>>
>> I recently completed an almost successful installation of Caldera 2.3
>> (2.2.10) and KDE 1.1.1. I am amazed (and refreshed) with the ease of
>> use and the performance. I am new to Linux, but have a lot of Unix and
>> software development experience.
>
>
> At a guess...
>
> Are you using the standard kernel serial driver from v2.2.10? If so then
> the serial driver you're using doesn't properly support PCI.
>
> So, although you can spot it resources etc. and use setserial to get at
> it, and although if you do this it'll work, the driver itself won't
> cope with IRQ sharing!
>
> The solution is to use the latest version of the serial driver
> that is being developed, from serial.sourceforge.net (IIRC),
> and see how you get on with that. I'm using that (with a few hacks)
> to use a dual serial card I've got and am happily sharing it
> with other IRQs -- I had exactly the same problem as you're
> having before using this as I similarly got the same error
> (and guessed the cause.)
>
> Ta-ra,
> Julie
>
> excerpt from /proc/pci-
>
> Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
> Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 18).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable.
>Latency=128. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=40.
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf1eff000 [0xf1eff008].
> Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Unknown device (rev 1).
> Vendor id=121a. Device id=5.
> Fast devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf2000000 [0xf2000000].
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000 [0xea000008].
> I/O at 0x7800 [0x7801].
> Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
> Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 0).
> Vendor id=14db. Device id=2130.
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9.
> I/O at 0x7c50 [0x7c51].
> I/O at 0x7c58 [0x7c59].
>
> All IRQ 9 and all working perfectly with each-other. *8-) Running
> an ISDN external TA (Courier I-Modem) on /dev/ttyS5 on that
> card at 230400bps.
>
> Ta-ra,
>
--
Nader E. Abyad
@Home [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux hanging while initialising hard disks
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 05:48:38 GMT
Hello,
yesterday I installed a trial version of Mandrake 7.2. Installation went
very well, but when I try to boot Linux it hangs after initialising hda.
At that point my old Suse 6.2 seemed to have some problems as well,
trying to reset hdc, which does not exist. It went on booting after a
timeout, however. It would seem to me that Mandrake simply does not time
out, but continues to reset the non-existing disk until hell freezes
over.
If this assumtion is correct, is there a way to tell Linux not to init
this disk, and if the diagnosis is false, what might be the cause and
the cure?
Hardware is a MiTAC PWA-6133 laptop, with 400 MHz Celeron and System
Soft SM-BIOS. Harddisk is master on the first IDE channel, CD-ROM master
on the second (and I'd rather not open the computer to change that). The
system is configured for dual boot, with Win98SE on the first partition
and Mandrake on the remaining ones (/, /swap and /home) of Hda.
Bootmanager is Grub.
Any advice appreciated
Engelbert Buxbaum
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: CD won't play stereo
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 06:18:45 GMT
Most applications (pmidi, jazz, playmidi via TiMidity) play
stereo sound. Before switching to ALSA from OSS/Free my CD
player would play in stereo. Now I only get one channel from
my CD player, through the speakers at any rate. I haven't
checked line-out. I'm running ALSA 0.5.10 on a Mandrake 7.02
system with a SoundBlaster 16 sound card.
How can I get both CD channels to play?
Here's what alsactl stores -- it looks to me like the CD is
setup right.
# ALSA driver configuration
# This configuration is generated with the alsactl program.
soundcard("card1") {
control {
; The type is 'byte'.
; The accepted switch range is from 0 to 2.
switch("DMA 16-bit (0=auto,1=p,2=c)", 0)
}
mixer("CTL1745") {
; The type is 'bool'.
switch("Auto Gain Control", false)
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 3
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 3
element("Input Gain",0,200,Volume1(3,3))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 3
element("PC Speaker Volume",0,200,Volume1(1))
element("MIC Input Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
element("MIC Output Switch",0,100,Switch1(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
element("MIC Volume",0,200,Volume1(3))
element("Line Input Switch",0,102,Switch3(off,off,off,off))
element("Line Output Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Line Volume",0,200,Volume1(27,27))
element("CD Input Switch",0,102,Switch3(on,on,on,on))
element("CD Output Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("CD Volume",0,200,Volume1(29,29))
element("Synth Input Switch",0,102,Switch3(off,off,off,off))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Synth Volume",0,200,Volume1(27,27))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("PCM Volume",0,200,Volume1(26,26))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 3
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 3
element("Output Gain",0,200,Volume1(3,3))
; Bass : Min 0 Max 14
; Treble : Min 0 Max 14
element("Tone Control",0,500,ToneControl1(bass=8,treble=8))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Master Volume",0,200,Volume1(22,22))
}
}
Here's the modules that are currently load:
Module Size Used by
snd-mixer-oss 4244 1 (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi 4316 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 2924 0 [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq 43764 0 [snd-seq-midi
snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-card-sb16 4568 1
snd-mpu401-uart 3132 0 [snd-card-sb16]
snd-rawmidi 11288 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3884 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq
snd-rawmidi]
snd-opl3 5224 0 [snd-card-sb16]
snd-sb16-csp 17044 0 [snd-card-sb16]
snd-sb16-dsp 17672 0 [snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-csp]
snd-mixer 29296 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-sb16-csp
snd-sb16-dsp]
snd-pcm 36664 0 [snd-sb16-dsp]
snd-timer 10464 0 [snd-seq snd-opl3 snd-pcm]
snd-hwdep 3948 0 [snd-opl3 snd-sb16-csp]
snd 44940 1 [snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq snd-card-sb16 snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-opl3 snd-sb16-csp
snd-sb16-dsp snd-mixer snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep]
soundcore 3524 4 [snd]
Thanks....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: unable to ping www.yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 06:34:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
I can ping directly by IP but not domain name. I use linuxconf to setup
the default DNS and search DNS server of my isp. but still doesn't work.
Also I can't use lynx to browse any web page with domain name. I had
done once before but after I re-install the red-hat 6.0 I couldn't get
it work any more.
I use pctel hsp56 modem with pctel_hsp.o as the driver
Here is what I do with it:
1. #insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/net/pctel_hsp.o
2. #linuxconf
3. configur the ppp connection to my ISP and set DNS,then do Connect
4. #tail -f /var/log/messages to check that everything is fine. connected
5. when ping www.yahoo.com , I got "unknown host .." or something like that.
any help are appreciated
rick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: system frozen when disconnect the modem
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 06:39:44 GMT
Hi group,
I use pctel hsp56 in-board modem.
I can make it connect. but whatever I disconnect it within linuxconf or
killall pppd that makes the system crash down.
Anyone can help?
rick
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux hanging while initialising hard disks
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:08:18 +1100
Go into BIOS setup and change the slaves on both channels to "Not installed"
instead of "Auto".
HTH
Stanislaw.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> yesterday I installed a trial version of Mandrake 7.2. Installation went
> very well, but when I try to boot Linux it hangs after initialising hda.
>
> At that point my old Suse 6.2 seemed to have some problems as well,
> trying to reset hdc, which does not exist. It went on booting after a
> timeout, however. It would seem to me that Mandrake simply does not time
> out, but continues to reset the non-existing disk until hell freezes
> over.
>
> If this assumtion is correct, is there a way to tell Linux not to init
> this disk, and if the diagnosis is false, what might be the cause and
> the cure?
>
> Hardware is a MiTAC PWA-6133 laptop, with 400 MHz Celeron and System
> Soft SM-BIOS. Harddisk is master on the first IDE channel, CD-ROM master
> on the second (and I'd rather not open the computer to change that). The
> system is configured for dual boot, with Win98SE on the first partition
> and Mandrake on the remaining ones (/, /swap and /home) of Hda.
> Bootmanager is Grub.
>
> Any advice appreciated
>
> Engelbert Buxbaum
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Leon Bourassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: upgrading to glibc-2.2-9 causes problems
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:00:34 GMT
I never really bothered to check, I guess I always assumed it would.
I suppose a person could simply do an
rpm -ev --force <installed rpm>
and then do a
rpm -ivh <downgraded rpm>
Any thoughts?
Leon Bourassa
Network Administrator
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Leon Bourassa wrote:
> >
> > Or also rpm --force <old package>
> > this forces the package to be installed.
>
> I was always curious as to if it removed the other package completely
> when you were downgrading a package??
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
> Completed more W/U's than 98.973% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Kenny Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.news.groups,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux simulation program?
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:26:47 -0800
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If yo'r just looking to practice text commands, why not try to find a free telnet
account? Several servers allow free telnet accounts to linux,
but I couldn't name them right off. You should be able to find several with any search
engine.
--
Kenny Pearce
Quantum Web Programming
(http://quantum.kennypearce.net)
"Hell - Proud to be powered by Windows NT"
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<pre>--
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Quantum Web Programming
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From: Tom Haughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Removing Linux Partitions
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 23:02:48 -0800
I need to remove my linux partitions (Red Hat 6.0) so I can install a
FAT32 Partition on entire hard drive. FDisk will not get rid of all of
the partions. I went to reinstall Linux (Red Hat 7) just to get to Disk
Druid and apparently that does not allow me to complete partition
changes unless if it is compatible to complete the installation
process. Is there a version of disk druid that could be ran from dos or
some other application that will clean the harddrive of partitions?
Tom Haughton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem with suse.com
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:12:19 GMT
On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:55:20 -0500, Joseph Zieniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Has anyone in this newsgroup tried to access www.suse.com?
>They have a list server "suse-linux-e" which is an English
>server that is part of suse.com and I cannot get.
>I can access the German site "www.suse.de" and the UK
>site with no problems. Is suse.com down?
www.suse.com works fine for me.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: upgrading to glibc-2.2-9 causes problems
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:14:31 GMT
Leon Bourassa wrote:
>
> I never really bothered to check, I guess I always assumed it would.
>
> I suppose a person could simply do an
> rpm -ev --force <installed rpm>
> and then do a
> rpm -ivh <downgraded rpm>
>
> Any thoughts?
I don't think you can or would even want to force an
rpm -e package
Wouldn't that tend to break dependencies else where possibly causing
problems in other places? I always thought using the "--nodeps" switch
would be safer.
I could be wrong though, it wouldn't be the first time.
--
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Removing Linux Partitions
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:18:57 GMT
Tom Haughton wrote:
>
> I need to remove my linux partitions (Red Hat 6.0) so I can install a
> FAT32 Partition on entire hard drive. FDisk will not get rid of all of
> the partions. I went to reinstall Linux (Red Hat 7) just to get to Disk
> Druid and apparently that does not allow me to complete partition
> changes unless if it is compatible to complete the installation
> process. Is there a version of disk druid that could be ran from dos or
> some other application that will clean the harddrive of partitions?
>
> Tom Haughton
Use the installation boot disk to boot the system and follow through
the install up to the partitioning section. Delete all linux partitions
and then choose the "Back" button and save the changes when asked. Then
reboot the system with a windows boot disk and do a:
fdisk /MBR
You will have to format the disk backto the DOS format.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unable to ping www.yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:22:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi
> I can ping directly by IP but not domain name. I use linuxconf to setup
> the default DNS and search DNS server of my isp. but still doesn't work.
> Also I can't use lynx to browse any web page with domain name. I had
> done once before but after I re-install the red-hat 6.0 I couldn't get
> it work any more.
> I use pctel hsp56 modem with pctel_hsp.o as the driver
> Here is what I do with it:
> 1. #insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/net/pctel_hsp.o
> 2. #linuxconf
> 3. configur the ppp connection to my ISP and set DNS,then do Connect
> 4. #tail -f /var/log/messages to check that everything is fine. connected
> 5. when ping www.yahoo.com , I got "unknown host .." or something like that.
Check to see that /etc/resolv.conf has the nameservers in it.
search yoursystemdomaim.com
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # primary DNS
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # secondary DNS
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Multiple Linux OS's in One HD
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:30:04 -0000
Linux is new to me and I am trying out a few distribution.
I have my RH7 installed in the first 10GB partition of a 45GB HD. What
should I do if I want to install other Linux like Mandrake and Suse in the
unallocated space of the HD.
Thanks.
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From: "Marcus A. Rambo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Realtek RTL8029(NE2000) card in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:52:05 GMT
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and everything works great except
my Realtek RTL8029 in the bundled NE2000 network adapter is not
initializing right. Linux found my card and set it up as a NE2000
driver. However when I boot, during the confirmation/hardware
initialization I get an error:" bringing up interface :eth0 insmod eth0
failed."
Can anybody help?
Marcus
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