Linux-Setup Digest #406, Volume #20 Fri, 12 Jan 01 10:13:08 EST
Contents:
Sound Blaster AWE64 PnP Install ("Kefabi")
Re: Keyboard (drumvudu)
Re: Sound Blaster AWE64 PnP Install (drumvudu)
Re: Problem getting PMagic 5.0 to apply changes for disk partition.... (Eggert Ehmke)
Re: Samba problem ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: swap formatting problem (Srihari Vijayaraghavan)
Re: HELP newbie: which distro for low-end PC? ("michael.fengler")
linux on laptop w/w98 ("John")
Redhat 6.1 Can nolonger login. ("ThndrDuk")
Re: RH7.0 & Asus A7V motherboard problems ("ne...")
Re: Upgrade of Hardware and software ("ne...")
Re: Upgrading to KDE2 ("Costas Gavardinas")
Re: hwclock always set to UTC ("FEEB")
FAT Partition write protected during boot ("Paul Kennedy")
Re: MBR Write Protected according to DOS fdisk ("Paul Kennedy")
Re: SuSE 6.4 - services not starting at boot ("Kurt R. Rahlfs")
kernel panic on first 2.4 mandrake startup ("David Bahan")
Re: Redhat 6.1 Can nolonger login. ("Gene Heskett")
Do I need NIC driver for 2.4? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP newbie: which distro for low-end PC? (Martin Gregorie)
rh 6.2 doesn't see multiple LUN's on external SCSI disk (dan)
RH7 sees 1/2 memory on K7-600 system (Greg Blair)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Kefabi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster AWE64 PnP Install
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:47:11 GMT
Please bear with me as I figure there have been tons of people having
problems with the same thing. Linux Newbie here.
Okay, here's what's up. I got Debian Potato burned on a CD and installed
on my computer. Never used linux before in my life so I was kinda proud
when I got it working. After messing with Xwindows for a while, I got that
running to. No sound though. Everything run was as root user.
Can't run sndconfig: command not found. I'm guessing this doesn't come
with debian.
I read the SoundBlaster AWE Howto at linux.com and the
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/INSTALL.awe file, and here's how far I
got.
I have a isapnp.conf file made. I've recompiled the kernel with Sound
Support as a module. I answered yes to Sound Blaster Support and AWE32
Support. The AWE32 howto mentions Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer
support, /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support, MIDI interface support, and FM
synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support as options when recompiling the kernel,
but I couldn't find them.
After reboot, I run isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf and get: Board 1 has Identity
63 1d d4 71 0a c1 00 8c 0e: CTL00c1 Serial No
500464138 [checksum 63]
CTL00c1/500464138[0]{Audio }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1
DMA5
--- Enabled OK
CTL00c1/500464138[1]{Game }: Port 0x200; --- Enabled OK
CTL00c1/500464138[2]{WaveTable }; Ports 0x630 0xA20 0xE20; --- Enabled OK
So far, so good, right? Next step according to the howto is to run
modprobe -a sound
or according to INSTALL.awe
modprob sound
Either way, I get:
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol __global_cli
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
__global_save_flags
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
__global_restore_flags
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol __global_sti
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: insmod sound failed
I'm guessing I'm having a problem with the sound module, maybe I have to
compile that somewhere? I would RTFM but I have no idea where to find it!
Anyway, I've been messing around with it the past few days. I don't have
any mission critical data or anything, so if all else fails, I can just
reinstall off the CD. I've tried to find stuff on the internet for help,
but now I'm just plain stuck! I must listen to MP3's!
Anyway, thanks for reading this, and for any help you might be able to
provide.
-Kefabi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: drumvudu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keyboard
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:53:53 GMT
Not gona happen my man..
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Menashay wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am a newbie to linux and I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.2. I use a 104
> us keyboard.
> Could anyone tell me how can I map the right hand side of the keyboard to
> use the 'home', 'end', and arrow keys? It does work with numbers (when I
> num lock) but does not work when I release the num lock.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and
plain dealing"...Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few
stupid ideas"...George Santayana
Confucious say "If you play in root,
eventually you will kill tree"...anonymous
SuSE 7.0 2.2.16
Linux: t h e c h o i c e o f a
G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
------------------------------
From: drumvudu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster AWE64 PnP Install
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:55:58 GMT
Modify /etc/modules.conf pick your card....rock & roll
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Kefabi wrote:
> Please bear with me as I figure there have been tons of people having
> problems with the same thing. Linux Newbie here.
>
> Okay, here's what's up. I got Debian Potato burned on a CD and installed
> on my computer. Never used linux before in my life so I was kinda proud
> when I got it working. After messing with Xwindows for a while, I got that
> running to. No sound though. Everything run was as root user.
>
> Can't run sndconfig: command not found. I'm guessing this doesn't come
> with debian.
>
> I read the SoundBlaster AWE Howto at linux.com and the
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/INSTALL.awe file, and here's how far I
> got.
>
> I have a isapnp.conf file made. I've recompiled the kernel with Sound
> Support as a module. I answered yes to Sound Blaster Support and AWE32
> Support. The AWE32 howto mentions Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer
> support, /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support, MIDI interface support, and FM
> synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support as options when recompiling the kernel,
> but I couldn't find them.
>
> After reboot, I run isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf and get: Board 1 has Identity
> 63 1d d4 71 0a c1 00 8c 0e: CTL00c1 Serial No
> 500464138 [checksum 63]
> CTL00c1/500464138[0]{Audio }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1
>DMA5
> --- Enabled OK
> CTL00c1/500464138[1]{Game }: Port 0x200; --- Enabled OK
> CTL00c1/500464138[2]{WaveTable }; Ports 0x630 0xA20 0xE20; --- Enabled OK
>
> So far, so good, right? Next step according to the howto is to run
>
> modprobe -a sound
>
> or according to INSTALL.awe
>
> modprob sound
>
> Either way, I get:
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol __global_cli
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
> __global_save_flags
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
> __global_restore_flags
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol __global_sti
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/sound.o: insmod sound failed
>
> I'm guessing I'm having a problem with the sound module, maybe I have to
> compile that somewhere? I would RTFM but I have no idea where to find it!
>
> Anyway, I've been messing around with it the past few days. I don't have
> any mission critical data or anything, so if all else fails, I can just
> reinstall off the CD. I've tried to find stuff on the internet for help,
> but now I'm just plain stuck! I must listen to MP3's!
>
> Anyway, thanks for reading this, and for any help you might be able to
> provide.
>
> -Kefabi
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and
plain dealing"...Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few
stupid ideas"...George Santayana
Confucious say "If you play in root,
eventually you will kill tree"...anonymous
SuSE 7.0 2.2.16
Linux: t h e c h o i c e o f a
G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
------------------------------
From: Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem getting PMagic 5.0 to apply changes for disk partition....
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:12:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:18:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Trying to get a 30GB disk partitioned (already has win 98) using
>PartitionMagic 5.0 but when I try to apply changes and the machine
>boots into DOS mode to do the work - it shows it starting the tasks
>but crashes after about 30 seconds - doesn't do any harm just asks
>whether I want to stay in DOS or return to Windows - returning to
>Windows works fine ....
>
>Tried re-installing PMagic 5.0 and various combos of re-sizing to see
>if it would take but same every time.....crash after 30 secs.....
There are two floppy disk images on the PM CD, somewhere in dos_utils. There
is also an installation script. Generate the floppies, boot from the first
and run PM from the second. Worked fine for me.
Eggert
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Samba problem ?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:21:45 GMT
In article <K6z76.4526$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Marco Rantanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I have RedHat 6.2 my samba works so that I see my Windows
computers but
> nothing else.
>
> But now I install RH7 and I can't configure samba can anyone hellp my.
>
> I'm not good when using configure Linux so I need simple instructios
how to
> do configurations.
>
> Marco Rantanen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
edit in /etc/smb.conf
you will see samba's document at samba.org
> ***-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-***
>
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: swap formatting problem
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:35:11 +1100
Nicolas Rinaudo wrote:
> Hey guys. I have a very annoying problem while installing my linux: the
> kernel crashes in the middle of
> swap formatting. I think it comes from the fact that I recently upgraded
> to a more modern configuration:
> AOpen k33 and Thunderbird 1Ghz. Do any of you guys have any experience
> with running linux on that kind of
> hardware? Am I doomed to being a Windows user?
> Thanx!
> Kueller
>
>
Hello,
You can try installing without Swap. (If that is what stopping you from
installing linux) Once Linux is installed you can try to create swap.
--
Thank you,
Hari.
------------------------------
From: "michael.fengler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP newbie: which distro for low-end PC?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:19:37 +0100
Reply-To: Michael Fengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Alessandro Magni wrote:
>I want to set up a minimal Linux PC (low-end Pentium), to use as a
>backup server.
>No fancy stuff, no X, just network and some backup util (rsync maybe).
>I DONT want to download a huge 5-CD-set with useless stuff:
>which distro you think is OK?
Search freshmeat.net for tomsrtbt - one floppy disk.
- mike
------------------------------
From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux on laptop w/w98
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:23:50 GMT
I have a compaq p133, 80mb ram 3.1g hd and am using windoze 98...would like
to put a unix os on the system as well.... appreciate any suggestions....
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks.
------------------------------
From: "ThndrDuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.1 Can nolonger login.
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:30:47 -0400
I have a Redhat 6.1 box and starting a few today I can't login. I can still
ping the system, web works, firewall works and ftp works on it. I have tried
giving the box the Death Grip (alt+ctrl+del) for a clean restart and I still
can't telnet or login on the actual terminal for any user.
error is
"Login incorrect"
Any ideas.
Thanks for your time.
Jeff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.0 & Asus A7V motherboard problems
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:19:17 GMT
On Jan 11, 2001 at 21:00, Roy Park eloquently wrote:
>My current setup is this:
>
>Asus A7V motherboard with the Promise Ultra ATA 100 on board PCI Controller.
>I have two hard disks, a Maxtor(Windows) on the primary slot on the Ultra
>ATA 100 controller and a Fujitsu(Linux) on the secondary. I have my HP CDRW
>on the ordinary PCI contoller on the secondary slot.
>
>1) When I boot w/ LILO, it halts after LI is printed on screen. Any help?
LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the
second boot loader, but has failed to execute it.
This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch
or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the
map installer.
>2) I installed RH 7.0 on the second(Fujitsu) HD and after modifying the
>lilo.conf file to recognize the Promise PCI controller, it still can't boot
>unless I specifically type:
> LILO BOOT: linux ide2=0x8400, 0x8402 ide3=0x7800, 0x8402.
>after booting with the emergency boot disk. Any suggestions?
Are these options in /etc/lilo.conf as an append line and
did you run /sbin/lilo after changing it??
>3) I have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN(model #: LNE 100TX) card installed
>and RH7.0 can't detect it. I followed all the instructions and set it up on
>the linuxconf and still I can't get it to detect it. Tulip is the module I'm
>supposed to use. Any help?
Welcome to the club. Check out http://www.scyld.com for
details on the tulip driver.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
A stitch in time saves nine.
8:16am up 1 day, 11:14, 9 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
------------------------------
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade of Hardware and software
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:25:35 GMT
On Jan 11, 2001 at 16:40, Randy Johnson eloquently wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I need some setup advice. I had previously been running RH 5.2
>(kernel 2.0.36) on a machine with a 6 GB hd (hda) and a 1 gb
>drive (hdb). For reasons that I'd like to forget, I cannot go
>back to that setup. As I write this, I am installing RH 7.0, and
>have removed the hdb drive and added a 20 gb hd (hdb).
>
>I have partitioned hdb into one large partition and gave it the
>mount point </workgroup>. I kept all of the existing partitions
>on hda. I didn't modify the partition table on hda for fear that
>I'd lose the data on </home>. I formatted both harddrives except
>for the </home> partition on hda. The object of this exercise is
>that I want to give my users access to more diskspace without
>losing existing files on </home>. I want the members of one group
>to be able to access the </workgroup> partition as if it were
>their individual directories under </home>.
>
>Is there a way that I can make a seamless link between the files
>on /home and /workgroup? Could I have modified /home to make it
>larger without losing the files already there?
You could have moved /home to the new drive. All
you needed to do was format hdb as /home and use
tar to move the files across. I am guessing you
backed up /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow etc so that
gids and uids do not change....
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
I'd rather push my Harley than ride a rice burner.
8:22am up 1 day, 11:20, 9 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
------------------------------
From: "Costas Gavardinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Upgrading to KDE2
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:52:18 +0200
I downloaded the binary rpms from kde.org and I used YaST to install them. I
haven't been able to start it, so I don't know if it is properly installed.
If I run Startkde from within X-Windows, I get "another WindowManager is
already running". If I change my .xinitrc setting from twm to startkde I
still get kde1. Also if I run startkde from the command line, I get some
errors about libjpg.so.62.... Any clues as to what is the problem?? Any
library I need to update?? THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR YOUR INTEREST AND
SUPPORT!!!
------------------------------
From: "FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hwclock always set to UTC
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:54:40 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: "FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:31:48 GMT, David wrote:
>FEEB wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I do
>> 'hwclock --debug'
>> on any of my 30 RedHat systems in both Canada and Europe,
>> I get the UTC epoch time, with the EDT or any other time stamp.
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> 'Thu Jan 11 21:03:07 EST 2001'
>>
>> So, the stamp conforms to the local time (EST), but the time value is
>> always UDT, contrary to what the stamp says.
>>
>> What should I do to change the time to actually be EST?
>
>To check to see if this could be the problem:
>
> cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
>
>This will show you the clock file. If this could be causing the problem
>it will probably look like the one shown.
>
> ZONE="US/Central"
> UTC=true
> ARC=false
>
>It should look similar to this with the correct country and timezone in
>the first line. The second line tells Linux to assume the BIOS clock is
>set to the UTC or GMT timezone. If this is what yours looks like then
>you should change the UTC line to correct it as shown below.
>
> vi /etc/sysconfig/clock
>
> UTC=false
That's the first thing I checked.
My '/etc/sysconfig/clock' looks like this (in Toronto, ON):
ZONE="US/Eastern"
UTC=false
ARC=false
Yet, 'hwclock --debug' returns epoch time in UTC.
What gives?
Frank Bures, <grandial at softex.cz>
------------------------------
From: "Paul Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,microsoft.public.win98.setup
Subject: FAT Partition write protected during boot
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:01:06 -0000
I have a linux/win98 dual boot system which can not write to
the FAT32 partition when booting 98, nor when clean booted
by a floppy disk.
However, when the FAT32 partition is mounted on linux, I can
read and write it.
Previously, Win98 produced write protect errors during bootup, but once the
boot was complete, it had no problems writing to the partition.
Now Win98 will not boot up correctly, and I can not clean install,
as the install can not write to the hard drive.
As a further symptom, DOS cannot modify the MBR, but linux can
Please help
TIA
Paul Kennedy
------------------------------
From: "Paul Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,microsoft.public.win98.setup
Subject: Re: MBR Write Protected according to DOS fdisk
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:05:53 -0000
Thanks for the reply.
I can restore the pre-linux mbr by booting to linux and using
lilo -u (installs previous saved mbr). However, when I run
in DOS mode (clean boot disk, virus checked) the whole
c drive is write protected, and nothing seems to deal with
this.
I would suspect a virus (but none found) or the hard drive
(but it works fine under linux, and was writeable under Win98
once fully booted, just not during bootup).
Paul Kennedy
"Bill Watt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:41:47 -0000, "Paul Kennedy"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >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
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> If you are using the correct Fdisk and Format programs for that
> OS and if Fdisk /mbr doesn't help then download Mbrwork.zip
> from www.terabyteunlimited.com read the text file. If it's not
> available there for some reason I have it hidden on my web site for
> a download. The download zip is 15k.
>
> Here's part of the Mbrwork text file:
> __________________________________________________
>
> It can perform the following:
>
> 1 - Backup the first track on a hard drive.
> 2 - Restore the backup file.
> 3 - Reset the EMBR area to all zeros.
> 4 - Reset the MBR area to all zeros.
> 5 - Install standard MBR Code
> 6 - Set a partition active (avail on the command line too)
> 7 - Work with multiple hard drives.
> 8 - Remove EZ-Drive (You must boot directly to a diskette (by
> passing ez-drive) for this option to show)
> 9 - Capability Check - Currently the only check is how the system
> handles unaligned partitions. This is useful for users of BootIt.
>
> A - If no partitions exist in the MBR and no EMBR exists then this
> option will allow you to recover lost FAT, HPFS, NTFS, and Extended
> partitions.
> ____________________________________________
>
> What #8 means is that *IF* there is a drive overlay loaded and if
> you boot without a floppy you should get an option to boot with a
> boot diskette. It will tell you when to put in the Startup disk.
> This will disable EZ Drive before you boot with the diskette which
> you must do. Don't remove EZ Drive just disable it, you can
> enable/remove it later if needed. If you don't get this message when
> booting then boot with the startup disk normally.
>
> Put Mbrwork.exe on the Startup disk first.
>
> What I've done successfully is backup the first track first then
> zero it then install the standard MBR. After the drives were back to
> normal I ran Fdisk /mbr, which you may not want to do.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Watt
> Computer Help and Tips http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/
> Remove NO in From Address to reply.
>
------------------------------
From: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.4 - services not starting at boot
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:15:11 -0600
Blackberry wrote:
> On 3 Jan 2001 03:55:28 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >SuSE 6.4 uses YAST as it's configuration utility. Are you using YAST to
> >configure your machine?
>
> I've checked YAST and YAST2. Where do you set up the things that will start on
> system boot? I couldn't find it anywhere.
>
> --------------------
> "It's enough to make you wonder sometimes if you're on the right planet."
> -- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
> Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- remove "NOSPAM"
The init processes uses the scripts in /sbin/init.d "at boot." These scripts are
executed when you change run levels. The links int rc0.d thru rcS.d control which
scripts are executed. The links beginning with S are used at start up, "boot", or
when increasing run the run level. The links beginning with K are used to kill
processes when shutting down or decreasing the run level.
------------------------------
From: "David Bahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel panic on first 2.4 mandrake startup
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:37:50 +0000
I get the message along the lines of "cant stat /dev/hda5: no such file
or directory". ditto /dev/hda1 and it whinges about being unable to read
the superblock.
I have ext2 support compiled into the kernel I made&installed all the
libraries etc etc and I can boot a 2.2.17 kernel fine so it isnt my disk.
anyone got any ideas?
------------------------------
Date: 12 Jan 2001 9:5:15 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Can nolonger login.
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to ThndrDuk ;
> I have a Redhat 6.1 box and starting a few today I can't login. I
> can still
> ping the system, web works, firewall works and ftp works on it. I
> have tried giving the box the Death Grip (alt+ctrl+del) for a clean
> restart and I still can't telnet or login on the actual terminal for
> any user. error is "Login incorrect"
> Any ideas.
> Thanks for your time.
> Jeff
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds like its been rootkitted. Probably thru the old bind that came
with 6.1. They'll change everything so the user can't see what they're
doing. Take it offline and then see if you can login by giving it
'linux single' at the lilo prompt. If that fails, get a later version
and do a fresh install from the floppy boot.
Then go to that vendors site, download *all* the security/bugfixes and
install them.
Then goto www.psionic.com, get, compile, and install 'portsentry'.
If the newer version has a firewall utility, set it up too. So far,
portsentry has been working fairly well for me. My /etc/hosts.deny is
beginning to look like the LA phone book, but the machine is still
standing after a year on a T1.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 600mhz
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
# <http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto> #
ISP's please take note: My spam control policy is explicit!
#Any Class C address# involved in spamming me is added to my killfile
never to be seen again. Message will be automaticly deleted without dl.
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material,
is � 2000 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
--
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Do I need NIC driver for 2.4?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:28:01 GMT
I had a fresh install of RH6.2 which I updated with the recommended
changes.txt file and then with kernel2.4 While doing the xconfig I
didn't see a choice for my 3COM PCCard. It was using 3C575 module with
RH6.2. Can I just copy the 575 modules out of my 6.2 modules dir? Or
does it come with 2.4 and I've just over looked it? If so what do I do
with it?
I did get the 2.4 to compile and it works great. Except for network
support.
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: HELP newbie: which distro for low-end PC?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:52:14 GMT
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:56:22 +0100, Alessandro Magni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I want to set up a minimal Linux PC (low-end Pentium), to use as a
>backup server.
>No fancy stuff, no X, just network and some backup util (rsync maybe).
>I DONT want to download a huge 5-CD-set with useless stuff:
>which distro you think is OK?
>
RedHat 6.2 standard installed as 'server'.
PC is P133, 128 MB, PINE SVGA card, IDE disk 3C509b NIC
works fine for me (i.e seems to be about 2 - 3 times faster than my
Win 95 K6/300 PC at equivalent cpu-unintensive tasks.
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
------------------------------
From: dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rh 6.2 doesn't see multiple LUN's on external SCSI disk
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:49:13 -0600
when i had rh 6.1 installed, the system would see multiple LUN's at a
given SCSI id
i have a large external disk that is mapped to a single scsi id (8) with
8 different LUN's (0-7)
how do i get rh 6.2 to see all 8, it only sees the first one
thanks for any help,
dan
------------------------------
From: Greg Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: RH7 sees 1/2 memory on K7-600 system
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:04:04 GMT
Hello,
I have installed RH7 on an IBM Aptiva model 2174-595.
The system uses an AMD athlon 600 MHz K7 processor and has 128 MB of
memory
The bios see all 128 MB of mem, and if I boot WIN98, it sees all the
memory.
When I boot RH7 (kernel 2.2.0-12), it only sees 64 MB.
I have recompiled the kernel checking off the 4 MB support. It did not
make any difference (as expected)
Anyone have any suggestions?
Also, anyone know how to make the wheel mouse wheel and the keyboard
volume control buttons work???
Cheers, Greg
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list by posting to comp.os.linux.setup.
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Setup Digest
******************************
