Linux-Setup Digest #367, Volume #20 Sun, 7 Jan 01 13:13:18 EST
Contents:
Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy ("lenny")
Re: fully qualified domainname ? (David)
Re: fully qualified domainname ? ("earthtirol")
Re: Say it ain't so... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy ("Tom")
Re: Install RH 6.2 over FTP (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
GeForce2 MX Driver for Linux ("Jason Ng")
How to recover partition (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Any Gotcha's Putting RedHat on a ThinkPad??? ("Andrew Carlisle")
What processor type do you pick for Celeron? ("Andrew Carlisle")
Re: Matrox AGP G450 doesn't work in Redhat .. Does the G400? ("Gary M. Letchinger")
Re: GeForce2 MX Driver for Linux (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: What processor type do you pick for Celeron?
(=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
IPFWADM and Netmeeting (Tom Jenkins)
Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy ("Ted Troccola")
Re: need help formatting w/ Partition Magic 5 Linux->FAT32 ("DenisRobidoux")
Re: netscape startup question (freedman)
is a normal modem with linux 6.1 RH system with "weeee" sound when u dial up with
a phone. ("Jennifer H Mulherins")
Mandrake 7.2 Booting (UAB Restar)
Re: Ramdisk error! (Garrett Krueger)
Re: Install RH 6.2 over FTP ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy (Leonard Evens)
Help: suck; 400 file exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling (David. E.
Goble)
help: getting modem to work (David. E. Goble)
Re: Easy question - Palm software and RH 7.0 (John Beardmore)
Re: Easy question - Palm software and RH 7.0 (John Beardmore)
Re: kernel 2.4 and modules (Hannu Maksimainen)
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From: "lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:13:09 GMT
In article <L9%56.984$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ted Troccola"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Does the lilo.conf settings have anything to do with the 'mkbootdisk'
> command? I don't see the relation, but it does boot with LILO so I
> figured I'd ask.
>
> Thanks, Ted
>
I believe that if you can boot to the new system
then edit lilo.conf
replacing root=/dev/hd??
with root=/dev/hda1 or whatever you used as your mount point for /
then run lilo
reboot
then make a boot floppy
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fully qualified domainname ?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:17:43 GMT
James wrote:
>
> I'm using a rh7 machine which is temporarily connected to the internet and
> I'm planning to set up a small LAN at my home, but I have no idea what to
> take as my fully qualified domainname/hostname? Does anybody have an idea ?
>
> Thanks, James
anything.youwant.com
Check to see that whatever you choose isn't already registered.
dig anything.youwant.com any
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
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Completed more W/U's than 98.989% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "earthtirol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fully qualified domainname ?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:17:08 +0100
Im Artikel <939m68$pqu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb "James"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm using a rh7 machine which is temporarily connected to the internet
> and I'm planning to set up a small LAN at my home, but I have no idea
> what to take as my fully qualified domainname/hostname? Does anybody
> have an idea ?
chose a name for your network
and a name for every workstation thats it
>
> Thanks, James
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Say it ain't so...
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:21:41 GMT
Ouch. I can't really see a way of getting around that... maybe some sort
of Perl or shell script could be written to do it if you had all their
information in a nice neat formatted file...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Norm" <norm@> wrote:
> Tell me it ain't so. Just got Samba running. RH 7 install. I just
had to
> add users to the samba passwd list in order to prevent getting "Can't
make
> IPC$ Connection supply password" sort of message.
>
> I got this fix off the samba docs.
>
> Someone tell me that I won't have to do this for all 700 students?!
There
> is no way to let samba see that the user name and passwd that the
Win98
> client used is the same as in the passwd file and let them in?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts on this
>
> --
> Thank you,
> Norm
>
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:53:00 GMT
In article <L9%56.984$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ted Troccola"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a RH 6.1 working system on my slave drive. I duplicated it on
> my master drive, in an effort to free up the slave drive so it could
> be used in another machine.
>
> I just finished verifying that everything works as expected. It was
> quite painless actually.
>
> However, I am having a problem making a working boot floppy for my new
> system.
>
> I used 'mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.14-1.5.0', which happens to
> be the note I had written on the boot floppy that works for the slave
> drive.
try 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' This should prompt you to insert a
floppy, just hit <Enter> and it'll make a proper boot disk for you
using the currently running kernel.
Tom
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.general,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Install RH 6.2 over FTP
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:14:29 +0100
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Douglas M. Pervine wrote:
> I have found that the 'NE-2000' compatible cards are very old and don't have a
> MAC assigned to them.. They mostly work on the broadcast method.. Look for
> a good 3COM card.. I've been using various 3COM cards for years and love them
> a lot.. Never a problem with Linux.. I started with RH5.2 and now running
> RH6.2. Good Luck!
Hmm.. Strange... I have set up three boxes with NE2000 - and they have
different MACs. Also they worked just out of the box (but I had to specify
io and irq).
However there were two cards, which I simply gave up on - but the one I
could not get to work in Windows either (I didn't try with the two others
as they had to be linux-only boxes).
> V/R
> Douglas M. Pevine
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rasmus B�g Hansen
---
He has his own opinions
- just like the others.
-- Burnin' Red Ivanhoe
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From: "Jason Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: GeForce2 MX Driver for Linux
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 00:21:02 +0800
Hi,
I've just bought a new computer with Winfast GeForce2 MX display card and I
would like to install Linux on this machine.
But I can't find the driver for the display card. How can I get the driver
and how to install it?
Regards,
Jason
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to recover partition
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:29:04 +0100
Hi
A few days ago, I installed some new RAM. And suddenly I got a lot of
segfaults and at last a kernel oops in kreiserfsd...
When I rebooted, the kernel reported 'Unknown partition table'...
Now I luckily had a backup of the most important data - but there is still
stuff on the partition, which I wuld like to recover...
The disk was filled with only that single partition, which was formatted
with reiserfs.
Is there any way to recover the partition table (I know this means making
a new) and recover the old partition data?
With normal ext2, I coul make the partition again and recover the old one
from the backup-superblock - can anything like that be done with reiserfs?
Thx in advance from a panicky user.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
---
He has his own opinions
- just like the others.
-- Burnin' Red Ivanhoe
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From: "Andrew Carlisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any Gotcha's Putting RedHat on a ThinkPad???
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:32:18 -0500
I am going to put RedHat on my ThinkPad. Are there any known gotcha's? It
has an Intel Celeron processor in it.
Thanks,
Andy
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From: "Andrew Carlisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What processor type do you pick for Celeron?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:33:36 -0500
During the config phase of building the compiler, what processor type do you
pick? Do you simply pick 386?
Thanks,
Andy
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From: "Gary M. Letchinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Matrox AGP G450 doesn't work in Redhat .. Does the G400?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:48:56 GMT
Tom Voltaggio wrote:
> I'm bummed about not getting my Matrox G450 AGP 16 Meg Video
> card
> to work in Redhat 7. Does the G400 work with no fuss?
Works fine here. Matrox G400 MAX with Red Hat 7 straight out of the box.
Had no trouble at all with a G400 16 MB Single head with Red Hat 6.2.
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* San Diego, California
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: GeForce2 MX Driver for Linux
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:50:35 +0100
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Jason Ng wrote:
> I've just bought a new computer with Winfast GeForce2 MX display card and I
> would like to install Linux on this machine.
> But I can't find the driver for the display card. How can I get the driver
> and how to install it?
AFAIK it is supported with XFree86 4.0.2. So just choose a distro with
this version of X - or upgrade after the installation.
If you want to install it manually, you can get it at www.xfree86.org.
> Regards,
> Jason
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What processor type do you pick for Celeron?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:53:05 +0100
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Andrew Carlisle wrote:
> During the config phase of building the compiler, what processor type do you
> pick? Do you simply pick 386?
i386 should do. But you could also choose i686 - this is AFAIK the native
mode for the Celeron.
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: Tom Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPFWADM and Netmeeting
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:06:03 GMT
Can anyone help me set up my firewall script (RH linux 2.0.36) and
IPFWADM with Netmeeting 3.01?
I now that I must turn on some ports, but not sure which ones, nor how.
Help!
--Tom
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From: "Ted Troccola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:07:55 GMT
Got the boot disk to work. Don't know why it didn't work before. The
commands were supposed to do the same thing.
FIRST (didn't work ) : 'mkbootdisk --device=/dev/fd0 2.2.14-1.5.0'
SECOND ( worked fine ) : 'mkbootdisk 2.2.14-1.5.0'
The mkbootdisk man page says that you can profide a device, or it will
default to /dev/fd0.
Strange!!!
Thanks for the replies.
"Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:wh066.15544$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <L9%56.984$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ted Troccola"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a RH 6.1 working system on my slave drive. I duplicated it on
> > my master drive, in an effort to free up the slave drive so it could
> > be used in another machine.
> >
> > I just finished verifying that everything works as expected. It was
> > quite painless actually.
> >
> > However, I am having a problem making a working boot floppy for my new
> > system.
> >
> > I used 'mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.14-1.5.0', which happens to
> > be the note I had written on the boot floppy that works for the slave
> > drive.
>
> try 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' This should prompt you to insert a
> floppy, just hit <Enter> and it'll make a proper boot disk for you
> using the currently running kernel.
>
> Tom
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From: "DenisRobidoux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need help formatting w/ Partition Magic 5 Linux->FAT32
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:25:18 GMT
hello
I used PM 3 just today to do the same as you want and it went no problem.
I put pqmagict.exe on a dos boot disk. Pm will recognize the partion, you
select it , delete it, have free space, and
you can create a new fat32 partition or you can resize your win partion c:
to the max size it will indicate you.
Luck
Denis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:939143$uh9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> I had someone set up my computer for dual boot w/
> Windows and Redhat on a partitioned hard drive.
> I would like to format the Linux side and use it
> for storage of Windows files. I have Partition
> Magic 5. Is this program ok for what I want to
> do? By the way, I had to reset my BIOS, and no
> longer have a LILO prompt, and can only go into
> Windows. I don't know much about this subject at
> all. Here's a view of Partition magic on my
> computer:
> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dal3q/part/partiti
> on.htm
>
> The hard drive is 8GB, and the guys that set it
> up said I "have 1.5GB for Linux and 6.5GB for
> Windows." Does anyone out there know how to do
> format this partition so I can use it for
> Windows? I'd be greatful for any help. Thanks.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (freedman)
Subject: Re: netscape startup question
Date: 7 Jan 2001 17:36:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 08:39:05 GMT, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>freedman wrote:
>>
>> When my netscape starts up it displays file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html in
>> the location box. How does one change what is used for the initial location?
>
>
>In "Edit/preferences/Navigator" change Home Page
>
>--
>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 98.990% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
Thanks, but the home page doesn't seem to be related to the initial display
of file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html. My home is "http//www.netscape.com"
--
Dick Freedman
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From: "Jennifer H Mulherins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.dial-up,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: is a normal modem with linux 6.1 RH system with "weeee" sound when u dial
up with a phone.
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:39:06 +0800
greeting,
I have set up a linux 6.1 with Zoom 56K modem, I can't testing at home since
I can't get someone to call in. I used a cell phone but it does not give
"weeee" sound.
I can dial out and hear somebody speaking from non-modem reception phone no
with minicom with root.
Please let me know if I am missing something.
q2. How do I share it out with normal user other than root.
Jenny.
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From: UAB Restar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 Booting
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 19:45:52 +0200
I've installed Mandrake 7.2. Everything was OK. Unfortunately when i try
to start it, it hangs and the only way i can go further <RESET>
It stops in the different places - first time trying to load X Fonts,
then remounting file system, finding dependencies, starting arconf,
running linuxconf hooks and etc.
I couldn't force him to work.
If you have any suggestions i would be grateful for your help.
I'm NOT SUBSCRIBED, PLEASE REPLY DIRECTLY: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 11:41:35 -0600
From: Garrett Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ramdisk error!
Yes, you know something you just wrote sticks in my head... the iso image IS
where I told it to go, but you may be right; the names may not have copies over
correctly; thanks! I'll look at this -- it may be the whole problem right
there.
Eric en Jolanda wrote:
> > Hehehe, you don't know what I'm talking about? I figured you knew linux
> fairly
> > well :)... there are really
> > only a couple of spots where it fails to mount during install. Here's
> what I
> > mean...
>
> A couple of spots, but a million of reason
>
> > I have a 10 gig hard drive that I'm installing RH7 on. Right after
> selecting
> > the installation
> > source (i.e. CDROM or Hard Drive -- I'm installing off ot the hard drive),
> I
> > point it to /dev/hda1
> > which is where the source files are, give it the proper path, it mounts
> the
> > drive and then it
> > attempts to mount the RAM disk after which it returns saying, "Error
> loading
> > RAMdisk"
> > followed by, "/dev/hda1 doesn't appear to contain in installation tree" --
> which
> > is incorrect.
>
> Appearantly not so incorrect, as it fails on this
> Sounds to me like it cannot find a root FS.
>
> > Since the FAT16 partition (hda1) is 2 gigs and the redhat install files on
> FAT16
> > are less than
> > 650 megs, there's plenty of space on the drive for the mount, but I don't
> > install RH often
> > enough to remember the workaround.
> >
> > The option to disable the RAMdisk usage feature during install is what I'm
> > looking for, but I
> > can't remember the syntax or where it is entered -- it's something
> ..._Ramdisk=0
> > or ...load_Ramdisk=0 or something. Any chance either of you know it or
>
> I'd say fix the problem. I don't know if you even can disable this, but I
> wouldn't try. In this RAM disk, the root FS is to be mounted. Disable it and
> you will have a very nice non-working system.
>
> What *is* on hda1? Is it what the installer expects to find? Is the
> installation tree present? Or did you put the iso image on hda1 and point to
> that?
> I'd check that out, instead of trying to disable the RAMdisk.
>
> Eric
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.general,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Install RH 6.2 over FTP
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 18:55:22 +0100
1. This NE2000 compatible card is new (I got it to replace a BNC-card; now that's
old..)
2. It works ok as I said in the 1st msg.
3. How do I find out the MAC?
Huub
Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Douglas M. Pervine wrote:
>
> > I have found that the 'NE-2000' compatible cards are very old and don't have a
> > MAC assigned to them.. They mostly work on the broadcast method.. Look for
> > a good 3COM card.. I've been using various 3COM cards for years and love them
> > a lot.. Never a problem with Linux.. I started with RH5.2 and now running
> > RH6.2. Good Luck!
>
> Hmm.. Strange... I have set up three boxes with NE2000 - and they have
> different MACs. Also they worked just out of the box (but I had to specify
> io and irq).
>
> However there were two cards, which I simply gave up on - but the one I
> could not get to work in Windows either (I didn't try with the two others
> as they had to be linux-only boxes).
>
> > V/R
> > Douglas M. Pevine
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Rasmus B�g Hansen
>
> ---
> He has his own opinions
> - just like the others.
> -- Burnin' Red Ivanhoe
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 11:41:26 -0600
Ted Troccola wrote:
>
> Got the boot disk to work. Don't know why it didn't work before. The
> commands were supposed to do the same thing.
>
> FIRST (didn't work ) : 'mkbootdisk --device=/dev/fd0 2.2.14-1.5.0'
You seem to be a bit inconsistent about what you did the first time.
According to the man page for mkbootdisk in my RH6.2 system, there
shouldn't be an '=' in specifying the device.
>
> SECOND ( worked fine ) : 'mkbootdisk 2.2.14-1.5.0'
>
> The mkbootdisk man page says that you can profide a device, or it will
> default to /dev/fd0.
>
> Strange!!!
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:wh066.15544$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <L9%56.984$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ted Troccola"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a RH 6.1 working system on my slave drive. I duplicated it on
> > > my master drive, in an effort to free up the slave drive so it could
> > > be used in another machine.
> > >
> > > I just finished verifying that everything works as expected. It was
> > > quite painless actually.
> > >
> > > However, I am having a problem making a working boot floppy for my new
> > > system.
> > >
> > > I used 'mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.14-1.5.0', which happens to
> > > be the note I had written on the boot floppy that works for the slave
> > > drive.
> >
> > try 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' This should prompt you to insert a
> > floppy, just hit <Enter> and it'll make a proper boot disk for you
> > using the currently running kernel.
> >
> > Tom
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Help: suck; 400 file exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 18:01:50 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
Hi all;
I am running redhat 6.2. I have a problem with suck.
>From </home/degoble/> I run;
suck news.adelaide.on.net -bp -hl gtech -A -c
and it all seems to work, but when I go to read the newsgroups it
gives the error;
Reason: 400 File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
Can anyone help me, please...
Articles are left in </home/degoble/Msgs/>
and <suck.post> is left in <home/degoble>
Why does this error happen and how can I get suck to work?
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: help: getting modem to work
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 18:01:51 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
Hi All;
I found what was wrong. The modems irq is 5. Needed to setserial
/dev/ttyS2 irq 5
>Iam running RedHat 6.2. Iam trying to follow the how-to to connect to the internet.
>My modem is on com3 (/dev/ttyS2), but it seems not to work.
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Easy question - Palm software and RH 7.0
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:31:49 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, K. Bruner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:24:25 +0000, John Beardmore said something like:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Rose
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and am trying to get my Palm IIIxe to talk to
>linux. It talks to Windows on the PC just fine. I've installed
>pilot-link and just can't get it to recognize the Palm cradle. I've
>tried setting the uart for the port by hand. I haven't tried recompiling
>the kernel yet, but I checked the serial settings and they seem pretty
>open. There certainly isn't anything that's clearly Palm-specific,
>though.
>
>One thing that confuses me a little is this: I have an internal PCI
>modem which shows up as COM5 under Windows 98 but works as /dev/ttyS0
>under linux on the same machine. I only know enough about Windows to
>get things like my scanner and Fallout 2 to work. The Palm cradle shows
>up as COM1 under Windows. As I understood it, COM1 usually corresponds
>to ttyS0, COM2 to ttyS1, etc. Could that be part of the problem?
I can't help much, but quite a few OSs seem to be quite flexible, or
even stupid about how they allocate port names to physical port
resources.
What's Fallout 2 ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Easy question - Palm software and RH 7.0
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:52:39 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>K. Bruner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:24:25 +0000, John Beardmore said something like:
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Rose
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>> This is all very well oh wise one, but how is the utter novice to know
>>> what modules to install ?
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>> Or even someone like me who has a little more experience.
>
>What's your difficulty? Read the package description if you wonder.
When I was installing Linux, I don't think I had access to any package
descriptions even though I'd purchased boxed RH 6.2 for Alpha.
When I got the OS loaded, Netscape didn't work well which stopped me
looking at some HTML docs.
Apart from that, making sense of package descriptions and any
documentation requires knowledge a newbie simply may not have, even if
they have prior Unix experience.
> Or
>better yet, just guess blindly and change your mind afterwards.
That's fine if you know up front how flexible RPM etc are.
>> I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and am trying to get my Palm IIIxe to talk to
>
>Use jpilot. Install the palm utils stuff first. All staed in the
>README.
...
>> linux. It talks to Windows on the PC just fine. I've installed
>> pilot-link and just can't get it to recognize the Palm cradle. I've
>
>Ther's nothing to recognize. It just talks to the serial port on which
>your palm is hooked. Either your serial port works or it doesn't.
I assume the way you tell it which serial port to use is described in
the readme ?
>No. You are. You will stop being part of the problem when you unconfuse
>yourself, possibly by readuing the Serial HOWTO!
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></exasperated>
The exasperation of the experienced users is as much of a problem for
the novice as their considerable generosity is a benefit.
Linux still has many problems that are not dealt with by a simple RTFM,
FAQ or README.
Personally I'll stick with it because the open source idea is so great
and my first install so promising, but I hope Linux 7 proves less broken
than 6.2 !
Cheers, J/.
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John Beardmore
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From: Hannu Maksimainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4 and modules
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 20:07:03 +0200
"John E." wrote:
> I tried playing around with /etc/conf.modules to get it right but couldn't
> work it through.
>
"ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATION FILE
For historical reasons, if /etc/modules.conf does not
exist, modutils will read /etc/conf.modules instead.
However the use of this historical name is deprecated and
it should be replaced with /etc/modules.conf. This
version of modutils issues a warning message if
/etc/conf.modules exists, later versions will give an
error message and refuse to load modules."
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