Linux-Setup Digest #398, Volume #20 Thu, 11 Jan 01 09:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Kernel 2.4 on RH7 (Timothy Murphy)
does this mean i have sound ? (dave frost)
Dynamic DNS updates with DHCP (Tony Smith)
Re: Ethernet card setup (Kevin Davis�)
Re: Dynamic DNS updates with DHCP (Tony Smith)
Can't install Red Hat 7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X Windows Questions (benoit mordelet)
MBR Write Protected according to DOS fdisk ("Paul Kennedy")
Kde2 does not start after XFree4.0 installation (Julien Verchere)
fritzcard driver (Stefan Kaindlstorfer)
Re: Line editor in bash ("Lee Cox")
Re: X Windows Questions (Eric)
adding linux makes system unbootable (Anna Luigi)
LILO doesn't boot ("Meul")
Re: Upgrading to KDE2 ("Richard Spandit")
Has my linux has crashed ? (Jude)
Re: 2.4 boot w/scsi issue on RH6.2 (mark kennett)
Re: LILO doesn't boot (Eric)
Kernel panic after upgrade from 2.2.16 to 2.2.18 ("wookie")
Re: Has my linux has crashed ? (Eric)
Re: Ethernet card setup ("ne...")
Re: Ethernet card setup ("Gene Heskett")
Re: does this mean i have sound ? ("Gene Heskett")
RPM/CD-ROM question (anton stayduhar)
Re: change partitioning for freeBSD install (Dave Simons)
Re: HELP! : mysterious ext2 undeletable directory ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 on RH7
Date: 11 Jan 2001 03:32:57 -0000
NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I just compiled 2.4 on RH7. Update firstly your packages (see
>Documentation/Changes).
>Use "kgcc" instead of "gcc" (see redhat.com).
As a matter of interest, is kgcc better than egcs?
I used the latter, and it seems to work OK.
[I was reluctant to use kgcc, as I didn't know what it was, exactly]
There are a couple of other things I don't understand about the world:
1. Why on earth did RH send out a distribution with kernel sources that wouldn't
ompile?
2. Why do people want to compile the RH version of the kernel, anyway?
Given that you want to compile a kernel, why not use the most recent?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: dave frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: does this mean i have sound ?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:28:26 +0000
Hi everyone,
I have just built and installed the 2.4 kernel, everything seems to work
fine. I intentionally enable sound support in the kernel, specificaly
the soundblaster libe option. This was nice since i have an sb live
card. The dmesg command reports the following.
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20000928 on minor 63
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
sb: I/O, IRQ, and DMA are mandatory
es1371: version v0.27 time 14:47:19 Jan 10 2001
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.7, 14:46:56 Jan 10 2001
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 4 model 0x20 found, IO at 0xdc00-0xdc1f, IRQ 10
This looks like it found my sound card right ?
The problem is that I have never used a sound card with slackware. The
sound HOWTO keeps mentioning the use of /dev/sndstat, but that doesnt
exist, as i didnt seem to have sound support on the initial kernel
(2.2.16 i think ).
Any help with getting this working would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Dave
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From: Tony Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dynamic DNS updates with DHCP
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:00:16 +0000
Hi,
I'm trying to get my DHCP server to update the DNS, but I'm totally
clue-free as to how I should go about setting it up.
>From my logs I can see that the DHCP server is trying to update the DNS,
but is getting "unapproved update" errors. I need to set it up so that the
updates take place in a secure fashion and from a browse of the RFC's it
would appear to be possible, but there are no guides on how to configure it.
I'm using bind 8.2 and DHCPD 3.0b2pl9 from ISC.
Any advice or references to relevant docs on the subject would be
appreciated.
TIA,
Tony
==================
tony at perforce dot com
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From: Kevin Davis� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet card setup
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:03:58 GMT
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:27:21 GMT, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>"Kevin Davis�" wrote:
>>
>> I've got a Linksys LNE100TX Ethernet card that I am trying to set up.
>> The card seems to show up in the Networking Control Panel applet as
>> eth0 but I can't seem to get it to start with dhcp. I am of the
>> understanding that the "tulip" driver needs to be associated with the
>> device but I can't figure out where to go to to set this up. Any help
>> is appreciated. I'm running Redhat 6.1
>
>Edit /etc/conf.modules and add this line to it.
>Then configure and restart the network.
>
>alias eth0 tulip
Yeah, I found these instructions on the driver disk for my network
card after I made the post, but unfortunately eth0 still failed to
initialize at reboot. When you say "configure and restart the
network" does that mean go into the network Control Panel applet and
"activate" the eth0 interface?
Thanks
=======================================
What could possibly go wrong?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the z's from my address)
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From: Tony Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dynamic DNS updates with DHCP
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:18:14 +0000
Tony Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get my DHCP server to update the DNS, but I'm totally
> clue-free as to how I should go about setting it up.
Ignore this for now - found some docs ( I was looking in the DHCP docs
instead of bind docs - duh! ).
If I get nowhere I'll be back, but I don't want to waste your time.
Tony.
==================
tony at perforce dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't install Red Hat 7
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:24:56 GMT
Thought I had it but on reboot get
Aiee killing interrupt handler
kernel panic attempt to kill idle task
in interrupt handler not syncing
Before that:
/ not cleanly unmounted check forced.
Then nothing.
Aarrgghhh, can anyone help, please?
Would appreciate response by email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: benoit mordelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Windows Questions
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:15:35 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have two questions as a newbie. First, I got a different monitor for my
> linux box and want to make sure that it will work. It is a KDS - model
> VS-9 17 inch monitor. What do I have to do to change from my old Acer 33D?
the main change you have to do is to update the horizontal and vertical
frequency ranges in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
> Second, on my network I have a Windows box - yeah I know - that I would
> like to run an XTerm sometimes - make things easier in a cramped space I
> call my computer room. The question is how to tranfer an XTerm session or
> bring one up on my Windows machine?
there are X clients for windows that allow you to open a remote X
session, but I don't remember their names.
> Will I be able to run a KDE or Gnome
> desktop in that session?
probably
> I'm currently on Red Hat 6.1.
> Thanks.
>
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> http://www.help.com/
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From: "Paul Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,microsoft.public.win98.setup
Subject: MBR Write Protected according to DOS fdisk
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:41:47 -0000
I have a linux/win98 dual boot system which has been experiencing
write protect errors during win98 bootup. Now it is unrecoverable,
and I can not clean install windows 98 or me.
First symptom was write failures during bootup of 98, then updates
would not work, now the whole system will not boot.
I now cannot rewrite the MBR using 98 FDISK /MBR - it says
that the fixed disk is write protected.
I have checked the BIOS for MBR protection, but it is turned off.
Also Linux lilo can write to the MBR (both -u and from lilo.conf
setups), just 98 cannot write.
Please help
Paul Kennedy
Hexel (UK) Ltd
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From: Julien Verchere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kde2 does not start after XFree4.0 installation
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:25:54 +0100
Hello,
I installed XFree4.0 on my Mandrake 7.2. Everything works well except that
now my kde does not start when I log using kdm. It just open a terminal
without windows manager and I am forced to type 'startkde' to launch kde.
But worst, in my terminal that I use in Kde, the script file
'.bash_profile' and '.bashrc' are not automaticaly executed when I log. So
I do not have my alias any more.
What did I do wrong ? Does I need to add something in .xsession ?
Thank you.
Julien
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Kaindlstorfer)
Subject: fritzcard driver
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:58:43 GMT
i ve got an AVM Fritz! X PC 2 extern, but no linux driver.
does anyone know where to get it or maybe another driver that can
handle the isdn-adapter?
thx
stefan
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From: "Lee Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Line editor in bash
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:07:23 -0000
"Eric Wertman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> All-
>
> Could anyone tell me how to make vi the default line editor in bash?
> set -o vi works great on the command line, but no matter where I put it
> (be it /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, or any of the config files in the user
> home directory .bashrc, etc.. ) I can't make it take effect
> automatically. There must be something simple that I am missing, but I
> can't figure out what. Any help greatly appreciated. thanks!
>
> Eric Wertman
>
in your ~/.bashrc
export EDITOR=/bin/vi
(assuming vi can be acessed via /bin/vi ,only new shells will be effected)
Lee
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Windows Questions
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:30:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Second, on my network I have a Windows box - yeah I know - that I would
> > like to run an XTerm sometimes - make things easier in a cramped space I
> > call my computer room. The question is how to tranfer an XTerm session or
> > bring one up on my Windows machine?
>
> there are X clients for windows that allow you to open a remote X
> session, but I don't remember their names.
You will need an X server on windows, not a client. xterm is the client.
Widely used is exceed, but that's not free. I don' recall the names of
the free
windows X servers either.
> > Will I be able to run a KDE or Gnome
> > desktop in that session?
>
> probably
>
Will depend on the server I suppose.
With exceed you can.
Eric
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:48:52 +0100
From: Anna Luigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: adding linux makes system unbootable
Hi:
I have System Commander booting Win98 and RedHat 6.4.
Win98 lives on the first harddisk, with two partitions
on hda being used by RH: one is swap, the other /boot.
On the second hard disk I have four primary partitions.
RedHat lives happily on partition three (hdb3). I have
hdb1, hdb2, and hdb4 all formatted in ext2 and ready to
take linux installations. I have tried installing Mandrake 7.2
and I have tried to install a recent debian distribution, onto
hdb1. The selection I used was don't boot from MBR, only boot
from (and install lilo to) hdb1. Yet in both instances, here is
what happened:
Installation of dist (M7.2 or deb.) proceeds normally onto hdb1.
Use installation, then shutdown. The next thing that should
happen is System Commander should appear and give a selection to
either the new linux, the old linux (RedHat), or Win98. It doesn't.
Instead I get a message saying: Hard disk failure, HDD not bootable,
no active boot partition (these aren't the exact words). The remedy
at this point is to reboot with my Win98 installation CDROM. This in
turn gives me an opportunity to boot from hard disk or CDROM. I
select hard disk and then System Commander appears. After that the
system works fine provided I don't try to boot the new linux
installation (as per above).
If anyone knows what's happening and what the fix is here, I would really
appreciate hearing about it.
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From: "Meul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO doesn't boot
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:01:38 GMT
hello,
I've installed win me on my system, and trying to install linux redhat 7.0
on top of that. I tried everything but my pc keeps booting win me. I have
already installed lilo 5 times on MBR and still there comes no lilo while
booting. Any ideas to install lilo?
thanks
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From: "Richard Spandit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Upgrading to KDE2
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:47:21 -0000
I have got KDE 2.0 up and running under SuSE 6.3. I haven't done anything to
the kernel, so I expect it is the one that is installed by default. In the
past, I have got it running by compiling everything from source, but this
time, I had the rpms off a cover disk. I first installed KDE 1.2 so it ran
by default. I then installed the KDE 2.0 rpms into a folder called
/opt/kde2.
Then I renamed /opt/kde to /opt/kdeold and renamed /opt/kde2 to /opt/kde
I created a link:
ln -s -d /opt/kde /opt/kde2
so KDE 2.0 would be able to find the files it needed.
Now it works just fine.
Let me know if you need any more help - I don't know much about Linux, but I
managed to get it going...
RS
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SuSE 6.3, KDE2.0
Finally joining the Linux bandwagon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Kevin Croxen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> Both KDE's and SuSE's site seem to indicate that your base SuSE
> system should be upgraded to 6.4 in order to utilize KDE2. You'd
> best do a proper OS upgrade first.
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From: Jude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Has my linux has crashed ?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:01:12 GMT
Hi,
Recently ,When i was working on my Red Hat Linux 6.1 .,The power went
off and when it came back,I switched on my computer During startup I
got a message saying that the filesystem had lost its consistency and i
was asked for the root password for maintainence.
It also asked me to run fsck.Once i gave the root password
Then,i ran fsck.
I got a message
parallelizing fsck version 1.15 (18-jul-1999)
I did not get any message after this i got the command Prompt again.
When i did ps . I got the following
tty
1 ? init
2 ? kflush
3 ? kupdate
4 ? kpiod
5 ? kswapd
6 ? mdrecoveryd
There is no mention of fsck process ? .why is that ?Is the fsck
process running ? and when i rebooted the system I get the same messages
(see below)again(just as before).How to get out of this problem and fix
my system.
i am not even able to copy my files to the floppy as backup.it says
cannot unlink...(something i dont understand may be because readonly
file system.) How can i take backup now ?
How do i fix my problem.I have lot of data in my partition . and i have
not taken any backup.
Atleast tell me how to take backup from this situation and is it
advisable to reinstall linux from
this situation.will i lose previous data if i reinstall.
Messages
some of the messaged i got during startup are as follows.
hda :hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5
RAMDISK compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID Arrays
autorun...
...autorun done change_root:old root has d_count=1
trying to unmound oldroot...okay
EXT2-fs warning : checktime reached , running e2fsck is recommended
...........
..........
..........
/* some other messages */
..........
..........
.........
Welcome to RedHAt Linux
Press I for enter interactive startup
..............
/* some other messages */
..........
..........
.........
..........
/dev/hda1 contains a filesystem with errors checked forced
/dev/hda1 : unattached inode 64960
......
....
/dev/hda1 :UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY ; RUN fsck MANUALLY
(ie , Without -O or -p options )
***An error occured during the file system check.
***Dropping you to a shell ; the system will reboot
***when you leave the shell give the root password for maintainance
In between these message i get several other messages during linux
startup just like when you startup
the linux without any errors.
Pl. Advice.
Thanks,
Ram
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From: mark kennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4 boot w/scsi issue on RH6.2
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:15:57 GMT
David wrote:
> mark kennett wrote:
> >
> > [root@home1 /boot]# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.0.img 2.4.0
> > /sbin/mkinitrd: [: /lib/modules/2.4.0/./kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.o:
> > binary operator expected
> > error: -d option is not supported on Linux
> > error: -d option is not supported on Linux
> > Error creating temporaries. Try again
> >
> > Yes I have made and installed the modules. Any one have an idea what is
> > going on? If I compile the low-level scsi support for my card into the
> > kernel will it remove my problem? My compressed kernel file
> > "vmlinuz-2.4.0" be getting to large, isn't the limit like 1 meg? Thanks
> >
> > Mark
>
> I haven't upgraded to the 2.4 kernel yet but I always compile the
> aic7xxx module and a few of the other modules into the 2.2.xx kernels
> without any problems.
>
> Did you try "cd"ing into the /boot directory and then try "mkinitrd"?
>
> --
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> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
> Completed more W/U's than 98.992% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
Yes I did execute mkinitrd in the /boot dir. I have not compiled the aic7xxx
module into the kernel. Is there anything special that you have to do like a
file where you identify your scsi card, besides "modules.conf" that is. Or
do you just check off the yes box, compile and when it boots it finds the
card and supports it! I don't mind recompiling to get the card working if
that is what it takes. Thanks
mark
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO doesn't boot
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:21:26 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Meul wrote:
>
> hello,
> I've installed win me on my system, and trying to install linux redhat 7.0
> on top of that. I tried everything but my pc keeps booting win me. I have
> already installed lilo 5 times on MBR and still there comes no lilo while
> booting. Any ideas to install lilo?
Then you did NOT install LILO in the MBR
try `/sbin/lilo -v -v`
Eric
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From: "wookie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel panic after upgrade from 2.2.16 to 2.2.18
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:27:00 +0800
Hello All,
I have installed SuSE Linux 7.0 into my IBM ThinkPad 600 (2645-41A), the
stock kernel is 2.2.16. I downloaded the 2.2.18 and compiled the kernel
source successfully. I edited my lilo.conf and added the new section for
the new kernel.
Before reboot, I ran lilo once.
After the machine rebooted, it showed kernel panic as below:
.
.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
Invalid session number of type of track
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
I have formatted my / and /home as Reiserfs and /boot as ext2.
I appreciated if anybody could see what's wrong with my set up? It is
something to do with APM??
Best Regards,
Andy
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Has my linux has crashed ?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:30:13 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Then,i ran fsck.
> I got a message
> parallelizing fsck version 1.15 (18-jul-1999)
>
> I did not get any message after this i got the command Prompt again.
>
fsck takes an argument: the fs/partition to check
try `fsck /dev/hda1`
Eric
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet card setup
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:31:50 GMT
On Jan 11, 2001 at 11:03, Kevin Davis� eloquently wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:27:21 GMT, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>"Kevin Davis�" wrote:
>>>
>>> I've got a Linksys LNE100TX Ethernet card that I am trying to set up.
>>> The card seems to show up in the Networking Control Panel applet as
>>> eth0 but I can't seem to get it to start with dhcp. I am of the
>>> understanding that the "tulip" driver needs to be associated with the
>>> device but I can't figure out where to go to to set this up. Any help
>>> is appreciated. I'm running Redhat 6.1
>>
>>Edit /etc/conf.modules and add this line to it.
>>Then configure and restart the network.
>>
>>alias eth0 tulip
>
>Yeah, I found these instructions on the driver disk for my network
>card after I made the post, but unfortunately eth0 still failed to
>initialize at reboot. When you say "configure and restart the
>network" does that mean go into the network Control Panel applet and
>"activate" the eth0 interface?
So now you need to visit Donald Becker's site.
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html is a good
place to start.
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8:29am up 11:27, 9 users, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.02
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Date: 11 Jan 2001 7:21:25 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet card setup
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Kevin Davis�;
KD> I've got a Linksys LNE100TX Ethernet card that I am trying to set
KD> up. The card seems to show up in the Networking Control Panel
KD> applet as eth0 but I can't seem to get it to start with dhcp. I
KD> am of the understanding that the "tulip" driver needs to be
KD> associated with the device but I can't figure out where to go to
KD> to set this up. Any help is appreciated. I'm running Redhat 6.1
KD> Thanks
KD> ---------------------------------------
KD> What could possibly go wrong?
KD> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the z's from my address)
That card is being a PITA, and so is linksys, they stick all those linux
stickers on the friggin box, so you pay your money. On opening it, you
find a disclaimer that there is absolutely NO linux support offered by
them. IMNSHO, thats false advertizing worthy of a suit.
That said, it appears that Donald Becker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], may have a
fix that I haven't had a chance to try yet, and the message from him
advising me what to do it 30 miles away on my office machine. But
basicly, you get the latest netdrivers src rpm from
ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/ IIRC, and build that. The resultant drivers
apparently can handle both the linksys and netgear fa311's according to
what preliminary reading I've done, but my memory could be faulty too.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: 11 Jan 2001 7:29:17 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: does this mean i have sound ?
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to dave frost;
df> Hi everyone,
df> I have just built and installed the 2.4 kernel, everything seems
df> to work fine. I intentionally enable sound support in the
df> kernel, specificaly the soundblaster libe option. This was nice
df> since i have an sb live card. The dmesg command reports the
df> following.
df> [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20000928 on minor 63
df> Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen
df> 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... sb:
df> I/O, IRQ, and DMA are mandatory es1371: version v0.27 time
df> 14:47:19 Jan 10 2001 Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version
df> 0.7, 14:46:56 Jan 10 2001 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 4 model 0x20
df> found, IO at 0xdc00-0xdc1f, IRQ 10
df> This looks like it found my sound card right ?
df> The problem is that I have never used a sound card with
df> slackware. The sound HOWTO keeps mentioning the use of
df> /dev/sndstat, but that doesnt exist, as i didnt seem to have
df> sound support on the initial kernel
df> (2.2.16 i think ).
df> Any help with getting this working would be much appreciated.
Did you hear a slight click in the speakers as it booted? If so, then
fire up x, followed by xmms, point xmms at a dir full of mp3's and play
some music! Its been found, and should be 100% functional. You may
also have to fire up aumix to get some of the controls initialized that
xmms doesn't normally access, but thats a relatively minor detail.
Cheers, Gene
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From: anton stayduhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM/CD-ROM question
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:33:25 +0000
I successfully installed Mandrake 7.2 several days ago.....well nearly.
When I try installing any package using the RPMdrake manager, I am
prompted to
load the appropriate disk in the tray, the tray automatically opens, and
I am then
invariably (with each and every different package attempt) that "sorry,
it can't be loaded".
What am I missing here?.The same CDROM device that allowed me to install
Mandrake doesn't seem
to be communicating. Yes, it's an IDE/ATAPI.
Completely new to this-
Anton Stayduhar
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: change partitioning for freeBSD install
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Simons)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:41:57 GMT
We've tracked down the source of the following rumour to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (drumvudu) on Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:02:18
GMT :
>you'll have no problem repartitioning without deleting you
>Fat32 partitions. Create a new partition on the drive, then
>install to that partition. Install Lilo in the mbr and setup
>for dual boot :)
>
... er ... that seems to be a Linux solution and I'm not sure
you'll get much success using it for FreeBSD. (There you go:
that's what you get for cross-posting. ;^)
In your place what I'd probably do is
* defragment the small disk
* slice around 100 megs off the end of the it (with fips)
* make that my "/" partition
* install the FreeBSD bootloader in the MBR of that disk
* put the whole of the rest of FreeBSD wherever suits me
If you want to go up market, buy System Commander deLuxe, which
lets you do the whole repartitioning business graphically and
gives you a multi-boot tool with a nice interface in which your
FreeBSD installation will be automatically included.
Cheers,
Dave.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP! : mysterious ext2 undeletable directory
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:34:51 +0000
Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> I had this problem, which I decided was due to junkbuster's
> logrotate being wonky. I filed a bug report at the junkbuster
> site, which was never answered.
> When I looked inside the directory (not easy!) I found that it
> was a jungle logrotate .gz's, like:
> junkbuster.1.gz.3.gz.1.gz...
This looks like a job for debugfs...
With this you can force delete files by unlinking their inodes and clearing
them manually. Even if the file exhibits corrupted attribute bits.
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