Linux-Setup Digest #369, Volume #20 Sun, 7 Jan 01 20:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter (Bill Unruh)
Re: Linux Installed beyond 1024 cylinders (Bill Unruh)
Re: Where exactly on disk does EZ-BIOS (et al) reside? (Jeff Moore)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 Install on Secondary IDE (Bill Unruh)
W2K and Redhat 7.0 ("Jeff D. Hamann")
LinkSys ethernet card problem (Stacy Slocum)
Lpd spool directories privileges ("H�kan")
Re: GeForce2 MX Driver for Linux (Paul Bristow)
Lucent Winmodem in 2.2.16 or later kernel? (Brett)
Re: Ramdisk error! ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Easy question - Palm software and RH 7.0 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Mail Client (bill)
Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem (Bit Twister)
Re: Debian, no cd (Cathy Gramze)
Mandrake 7.2 (Anna Luigi)
Need help - Anyone with a Toshiba 2805 laptop (Ken Miller)
Slackware 3.5.0 Intstallation trouble hdb: irq timeout Please Help! ("Sean
McClellan")
Re: Need help - Anyone with a Toshiba 2805 laptop (E J)
Do I have to change my graphic card? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?=)
modem probs: (Steven Leuty)
AMR modem ("John Hughes-Jones")
xntp3 Configuration Q. (David)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter
Date: 7 Jan 2001 21:13:17 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Parminder Lehal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]HP7200e is external
]CD burner which uses linux sg driver for scsi emulation. I use following
]modules for this
]bash-2.04# /sbin/insmod parport
]Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-17/misc/parport.o
]bash-2.04# /sbin/insmod paride
I think in that case you need to use the ide-scsi interface as well to
handle the parallel port device. cdrecord talks ONLY to scsi devices.
Thus you must get your cdrom to be a scsi device.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Linux Installed beyond 1024 cylinders
Date: 7 Jan 2001 21:16:51 GMT
In <937602$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have installed Redhat Linux in a partition beyond 1024 cylinders of a
>harddisk. Is there a way to boot linux from HD instead of floppy ?
Yes. IF your bios is sufficiently recent. The LILO uses bios to read
absolute sectors from the disk to load the bootup stuff. Bios must be
able to read the absolute sector. Old versions of the bios could not.
New versions can. For those new verseions, use a new version of lilo.
For theold versions, set up a small partition below the 1024 boundary (
2MB is enough, but make it 5 for safety) Make this your /boot partion.
Or replace your bios with one which can boot from beyond 1024 cyl
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where exactly on disk does EZ-BIOS (et al) reside?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:20:56 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Most likely this is in the master boot record.
Either way it does not matter to linux. Just do an install and linux will
rewrite the mbr and all the partitions.
You can rewrite the mbr in dos by using dos fdisk with:
fdisk /mbr
I have used these and I have never had a problem.
Jeff Moore
Trebor wrote:
> Where do programs like EZ-BIOS and MaxBlast reside on a hard disk? Is it in
> the master boot record, as part of the master boot code? Or, does it reside
> in the volume boot code of the active partition?
>
> Anybody know of a site that describes how these programs work (I've already
> visited Maxtor's customer support web site, which gives some superficial
> info .. I'm curious how these things really work, beyond the basics)
>
> In particular, I'd like to understand how I can make an old drive that uses
> EZ-BIOS as a secondary drive in linux. Am I faced with having to backup,
> re-partition, re-format and restore the disk? Or, can I get away with
> something simpler, like just replacing the MBR? (wishful thinking)
>
> Thanks,
> -Bob
> Andover, MA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 Install on Secondary IDE
Date: 7 Jan 2001 21:24:42 GMT
In <JzR56.12735$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "MagicDust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]I am a first-time *nix user. I've never used anything other than DOS and
]Win32 on a system i own. (Just thought I'd start the post with that.)
]#1) I have two hard drives. One 30gb (c:\) with WinME and a formatted 5 gig
]drive as secondary. I am downloading Mandrake 7.2(iso) right now and i plan
]to install it on the 5gig and use a dual boot setup. I want to keep my C:
]drive entirely windows based and have nothing on it that has to do with the
]other linux drive. Will Mandrake 7.2 give me the option of booting to linux
]ONLY when i have a boot disk in? I want my machine to go to windows when
]there is no disk. I looked through some of the other posts but none of the
]questions were exactly what i was looking for.
Yes. Just make sure you install lilo to /dev/fd0 when it talks about
installing he bootloader in the end of the installation of Mandrake.
That will install it only your floppy disk in your floppy drive.
Note that you can tell lilo to make windows the default in lilo.
So you could install lilo onto /dev/hda, have it include both Win and
Linux as options, and make windows the default. Or you can put this on
/dev/fd0, play with it a while to make sure it does exactly what you
want it to do, and then change the line
boot=/dev/fd0
in /etc/lilo.conf to
boot=/dev/hda
and rerun lilo. It will now put it onto your hard disk, and you are sure
it will do what you want it to.
]#2) if i were to install mandrake7.2 on a system that had only a single hard
]drive that was blank (nothing on the system) how would i go abut setting up
]my system to recognize my CD Drive? Would I simply use the same drivers as i
]would if i were installing windows?
No. The installation CD/floppy ( which ever you are using) has drivers
for CD drives on it, just asthe Win installation disk does.
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From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: W2K and Redhat 7.0
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:24:26 -0800
I've just purchased a new Dell 5000e and would like to have a dual boot
system with Linux and WIndows2000. I've been running with Windows2000
(suprising hapily) and have a partition for linux (redhat 7.0) ready to go.
Where are the best instructions for installing a dual boot system with
Windows2000 and linux?
Thanks,
Jeff.
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Jeff D. Hamann
280 Peavy Hall
Department of Forest Resources
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-8566 USA
541-740-5988
541-737-2375
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is the song that never ends
It goes on and on my friends
Somebody started singing it
Not knowing what it was
Now everybody's singing it
And it goes on and on because
This is the song that never ends...
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From: Stacy Slocum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: LinkSys ethernet card problem
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:40:13 -0800
I have just installed Redhat 7.0 and it will not recognize my Linksys
Ethernet card. lspci -v shows that it is there but I can't get insmod
to load tulip.
Any ideas?
TIA,
Stacy
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From: "H�kan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lpd spool directories privileges
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:47:37 +0100
Hi List
I using RH 6.1 and trying to get my printers working together with Samba.
My windows clients sees the printers but can not print to them. It seems
that the samba users are not allowed to write to the spool directories. I
guess it is some privilege problem.
Who should be the owner of the directorys and the files and what groupes
should the directorys/files "belongs" to??
TIA
--
/H�kan
My email address is not valid use
h DOT kan AT home DOT se
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From: Paul Bristow <[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 23:26:16 +0100
I have one of these cards and it worked with Mandrake 7.2 out of the box.
It wasn't difficult to even make the NVIDIA drivers work for OpenGL support
too.
Jason Ng wrote:
> 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
>
>
--
Regards,
Paul Bristow
ICQ #11965223
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From: Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,linux.dev.kernel,linux.sources.kernel,muc.lists.linux-kernel,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Lucent Winmodem in 2.2.16 or later kernel?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:36:01 -0500
Has anyone had success using the linux winmodem drivers with kernel
2.2.16 or later? I can dial my isp but my system locks up shortly after
"Connect ppp0 <--> /dev/ttys14" in the log. Works fine with kernel
2.2.14 otherwise.
Brett
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ramdisk error!
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 22:45:05 GMT
Garrett Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, i've been through all of the FAQ's and how to's that I've been able to find --
Do what I say instead of sounding off!
> teach this stuff at a technical college, but that doesn't mean I remember everything
> 24 hours a day for all of time.
This is about as convincing as "I teach arithmetic but I don't remember
all the digits all the time".
>> I doubt it. If you installed it on a dos partitiion without due care,
>> all the filenames will be wrong.
And what are you doing about it?
>> You know, because YOU have read the BootPrompt HOWTO, haven't you? But
>> why would disabling a ramdisk help? Look at RedHat's instructions! You
>> seem curiously loathe to read.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Easy question - Palm software and RH 7.0
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 22:55:05 GMT
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 ?
>>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.
So what? So you get to guess from the names and the sectio titles.
> 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.
Why would you care about making sense of it or not? All you do is make
a second pass when you see the nonsense you made of it.
>>better yet, just guess blindly and change your mind afterwards.
> That's fine if you know up front how flexible RPM etc are.
It's fine anyway. Lose your fear of messing up.
>>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 ?
Yep. With PILOTPORT env var or -p on the commandline, or by linking
/dev/pilot to wherever you prefer.
>></exasperated>
> The exasperation of the experienced users is as much of a problem for
> the novice as their considerable generosity is a benefit.
You possibly clipped my explanation of what setserila did?
> 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
It's not linux, it's redhat. And no, redhat is always broken. That's
the idea as far as I can make out; they go for the toy appeal market.
Use a sensible distro if you don't like bugs.
> than 6.2 !
Peter
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Subject: Re: Mail Client
From: bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 22:37:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards) writes:
> Paul Lemelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> + Can anyone recommend a mail client for Linux to access an Exchange
> + server? I do not need all of the features of Outlook, I just need
> + something that I can access my email.
>
> Exchanges servers can have a flag set which says "only allow Outlook
> clients to connect."
>
> If your Exchange admins have set that flag, you're screwed.
>
> If they have not, then any POP3 client will work just fine.
>
>
> Phil
Of course IMAP clients will also work... I've used Netscape Mail IMAP
support to access Exchange in the past.
bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 23:08:23 GMT
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:40:13 -0800, Stacy Slocum
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just installed Redhat 7.0 and it will not recognize my Linksys
>Ethernet card. lspci -v shows that it is there but I can't get insmod
>to load tulip.
>
Have you set the module in linuxconf?
linuxconf
Config
Networking
Client tasks
Basic host information cxxxx-x if + then cxxxx-x.city.state.home.com
Adapter set Enabled
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Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: Cathy Gramze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian, no cd
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 23:41:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham Wilson <graham01~[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Check out autofs and related docs for the cd devices. I'm finding that
> I can access the cd for data but not music, but I'll get there.
I'm still working on this one. I did a HD/ftp install, no cdrom used, so I truly might
have neglected to have the proper drivers put into the kernel/module. I can do a
kernel recompile in my sleep. (From installing the earliest SBLive drivers)
> Did you put yourself into group audio? That's the group for /dev/dsp,
> which is connected to your soundcard.
Thanks! I finally read (man group) about /etc/groups, and after that it was a snap.
Now I'd have user access to my cdrom, too...if the system thought I had one...
> I had great luck with apsfilter - check for it through dselect. It's a
> pretty user-friendly configuration tool.
I'll definitely be trying this. Is there an easy way to find a specific package in
dselect? I hate searching through it all. apt-get -install apsfilter ought to work
just fine, right?
cathyy
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From: Anna Luigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.2
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:50:11 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed Mandrake 7.2 onto hdb1 of a multi-OS intel-based
PC. RedHat 6.2 and Win98 are already working fine on this
computer, with both OS's bootable via System Commander. Now
that I've got Mandrake 7.2 on hdb1 there are a couple of
problems:
1) After booting into Mandrake and then shutting down again,
the computer is not bootable, giving a message that there's
no active partition, hard disk failure, etc. So then I have to
boot from CDROM or floppy and go through System Commander again
and all is well provided I don't boot Mandrake (in which case
the above sequence of events repeats). I've tried fiddling with
linux.conf (I've got boot=/dev/hdb1) and even typing lilo -u to
uninstall lilo, but to no avail. How can I stop the Mandrake
installation from doing whatever it does that makes the system
unbootable after I shutdown from Mandrake?
2) The resolution in Mandrake (X-Windows actually) is set at 800x600,
which is fine but it maps to an area larger then the physical screen!
In RedHat 6.2, the resolution is 640x480 or something like that, which
fits fine but the font is too large. How can I get a decent resolution
in X-windows and have it fit on the screen?
Thanks in advance for any ideas/suggestions.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Miller)
Subject: Need help - Anyone with a Toshiba 2805 laptop
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:18:49 GMT
I have a new Toshiba Satellite 2805-S201 that comes with Win ME and I
really want to switch it over to Linux.
Can anyone tell me if they have done it successfully and which
distribution they used. I need to be able to use the USB, LAN
connection, modem and the DVD player.
Also this might be a stupid question, but you can watch DVD movies
under Linux, correct?
I know you can hotsync Palm Pilots, but what about the possibility of
linking a Casio Q3000EX digital camera, RIO 500 MP3 player and Sony
miidisc player/recorder :)
Thanks for any help.
Ken
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From: "Sean McClellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Slackware 3.5.0 Intstallation trouble hdb: irq timeout Please Help!
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:24:54 GMT
Hello Group,
I.m trying to do my first Linux installation and am hanging up when I
try to run setup. The boot seems to detect all my drives hda (IDE HD), hdb
(Pioneer DR-11 24x CD-ROM) and sda(SCSI HD with NCR controller). But it
goes into a timeout error loop with the following errors repeating
continuously.
hdb: irq timeout: status=0x51
hdb: irq timeout: status=0x20
then it will occasionally throw in a
hdb: ATAPI reset complete
and ocasionally a
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40, sector 0
all the while repeating the first two errors.
These drives were working in conjunction with each other under W95 so I
don't think it's the hardware.
I've looked through the HOWTO-CDROM and can not devine an answer. I'm not
quite sure how to proceed or what to read.
The company that sold this CD-ROM (newcominc) is out of business so no
solution there.
Any help or enlightenment would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Sean
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help - Anyone with a Toshiba 2805 laptop
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:44:18 GMT
Ken Miller wrote:
> I have a new Toshiba Satellite 2805-S201 that comes with Win ME and I
> really want to switch it over to Linux.
>
> Can anyone tell me if they have done it successfully and which
> distribution they used. I need to be able to use the USB, LAN
> connection, modem and the DVD player.
Full support for USB with the newly released kernel 2.4.0, it will be
showing up in all of the distro in a few months.
Most LAN card are supported.
Modems are supported as long as they are real modems and not winmodems.
Winmodems with PCTel or Lucent chipsets are supported. Other winmodems
are worthless under linux unless
the chip manufactures releases programming specs.
Do you like programming? Combine the DVD player code with the DeCSS code
(determined illegal so far, but
I hope it will be declared legal)
>
>
> Also this might be a stupid question, but you can watch DVD movies
> under Linux, correct?
>
Yes, hopeful the legal system will see it our way and make the DeCSS
code legal so we can watch DVD movies on
our Linux Box.
>
> I know you can hotsync Palm Pilots, but what about the possibility of
> linking a Casio Q3000EX digital camera, RIO 500 MP3 player and Sony
> miidisc player/recorder :)
>
It is possible.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Ken
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Do I have to change my graphic card?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:56:41 +0100
I don't have a linux driver for my Jazz Multimedia 3dfx card, this
company doesn't seem to exist on internet, any help ?
--
Lex legis
Organisation pour un monde plus optionnel
En ce moment
Orph=E9e - Johanne
http://www.491.org/projets/mmm/rphee-jo
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From: Steven Leuty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: modem probs:
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 18:51:08 -0600
I've just installed RH 7.0. I bought a new modem (US Robotics
Performance Pro 56K) It says that it supports Linux but only kernel
version 2.4. How can I get my blasted modem to run when it can't be
detected. btw: my modem is listed as com 5 in win me.
thanks.
steverl
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From: "John Hughes-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMR modem
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 20:03:21 -0400
Is an AMR modem considered to be a Winmodem and if not does Redhat support
it?
I am running linux and its swap file on two logical partitions, it does not
like the swap file, says that I am trying to mount an extended partition
instead of a logical drive on an extended partition.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xntp3 Configuration Q.
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:05:54 GMT
Ok I have installed and am trying to configure xntp3 to maintain system
clock. Somewhere my config must be wrong. Everytime I start it I get a
message in my logs saying:
Jan 7 18:53:05 myhostname xntpd: xntpd startup succeeded
Jan 7 18:53:05 myhostname xntpd[21525]: precision = 6 usec
Jan 7 18:53:05 myhostname xntpd[21525]: read drift of 0 from
/etc/ntp/drift
Jan 7 18:53:05 myhostname xntpd[21525]: bind() fd 13, family 2, port
123, addr e0000101, in_classd=1 flags=0 fails: Address already in use
Jan 7 18:53:05 myhostname xntpd[21525]: ...multicast address 224.0.1.1
using wildcard socket
But if you notice in the 4th line (maybe 5th line due to email) it says
"fails: Address already in use"
Any idea's on what I'm missing or doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance.
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