Linux-Setup Digest #437, Volume #20 Wed, 17 Jan 01 00:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Help! Beginner c++ compiling problem in RH7.0 ("Innes MacKenzie")
Re: Cable Modem w/ USB in Mandrake 7.1 (E J)
Re: CDRW installed wrong?
Re: I can't resolve IP addresses (Bill Unruh)
Re: Netscape bookmarks (Zed)
Re: CDRW installed wrong? (Bill Unruh)
PPD for HP DeskJet 890c (Donald Brady)
Re: Download RH 7 (Rod Smith)
Re: Cable Modem w/ USB in Mandrake 7.1 (Rod Smith)
Re: Setting Serial Port in Mandrake 7.2 (John Scudder)
Re: Download RH 7 (Alex)
Please Help Newbie with Realtek 8029 NIC setup ("Scott Fournier")
Re: installing linux with windows 2000 (Murray Eisenberg)
HP 722C printer ("Charlie Huang")
Re: mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory? (Roger Michael Seip)
Help with 2.4 upgrade ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cable Modem w/ USB in Mandrake 7.1
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From: "Innes MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Beginner c++ compiling problem in RH7.0
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:11:12 -0000
"James Richard Tyrer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Innes MacKenzie wrote:
>
> > In RH7.0,
> >
> > When I compile this program:
> >
...
>
> A little off topic. Try:
>
> news:/linux.dev.newbie
>
> JRT
>
>
OK, thanks.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Modem w/ USB in Mandrake 7.1
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 02:30:41 GMT
Kernel 2.4 just came out with full USB Support.
Unless you want to write your own USB Fast Ethernet Adapter, or wait until
some kind person writes
the driver, I would recommend getting a PCI network card.
Ken Schutte wrote:
> Hi, I recently got Mandrake 7.1 up and running, and want to get my cable
> modem service ( AT&T @ Home ) working in Linux. The setup is working in
> Win98, but I am pretty lost in getting this thing set up in linux. The
> cable modem uses an "SMC EZ Connect USB Fast Ethernet Adapter" that
> interfaces USB connection and ethernet that plugs into the cable modem.
> From my understanding, USB has very poor support in Linux. I checked
> around on www.linux-usb.org, but most of info was a bit over my head,
> however, I found something about my particular setup which recommened
> getting an ethernet card and skipping all the USB hassle. Is this the
> way to go? Is a PCI ethernet card relatively easy to set up?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: CDRW installed wrong?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 02:38:51 -0000
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:46:21 +1300, Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Issue the command
>cdrecord -scanbus
>
>and tell us what you see,
>
>Some other things to think about include:
>
>What is /dev/cdrom pointing to
>
>Why the hell is it called /dev/cdrom (You do have a real cdrom, don't
If it's the last cdrom device that the distro set up, it's
likely linked to /dev/cdrom.
>you?), personally, ./dev/cdrw would be preferable.
I am not aware of any distros that do this.
[deletia]
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>
> ...then there's that NSA version of Linux...
This would explain the Mars polar lander problem.
Kyle Jacobs, COLA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: I can't resolve IP addresses
Date: 17 Jan 2001 02:46:08 GMT
In <940mre$tkv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]I can ping IP addresses OK, but cannot browse with Netscape. It's got
]to be something simple, but I just can't sort it out.
]The following files are:
]resolv.conf
] domain localhost
^^^^^ get rid of that line
] nameserver 192.189.54.17
] nameserver 192.189.54.33
]hostname
] localhost.localdomain
Give your machine a better name. This will cause you trouble.
]hosts
] 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
Keep that line
]host.conf
] order bind, hosts
?? Surely you want order hosts,bind (ie look in hosts first then look on
the net)
Make sure /etc/resolv.conf is readable by all .
Run
tcpdump host (yourhostnameOrIPaddress) -i ppp0
to see if resolver packets get sent out.
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From: Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape bookmarks
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:47:29 -0800
Paul Pygeon wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Someone can tell me why Netscape (4.76) can't save his bookmarks.
> Everything I load Netscape, a message box tell me: error on saving
> bookmarks or something else.
>
> Bye
>
> --
> Kernel 2.4, LM-7.2
> XFree 4.0.2, KDE2.1
Could be the permissions are hosed for that file, check it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: CDRW installed wrong?
Date: 17 Jan 2001 02:49:23 GMT
In <941ndb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) writes:
]The CDRW in a server I bought with RH6.2 does not recognize iso9660 format
]CDs. I have a professionally prepared redhat distribution that works on 3
]other workstations. When I try to mount it in your server I issue the
]following command:
] mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
What does /dev/cdrom point to? (ls -lga dev/cdrom) Is this the right
device? Did you set up the system to use ide-scsi for the cdrom to write
with cdrecord? If so does /dev/cdrom now point to a scsi device?
]and it reports:
] mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on device /dev/cdrom,
] or too many mounted file systems.
]The following file systems are mounted (as reported by mount with no args):
] /dev/hda5
] /dev/hda1
] /dev/md0
What is md0?
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Subject: PPD for HP DeskJet 890c
From: Donald Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:09:08 -0800
Does anybody know where I can get a PPD for this printer? The HP site search
is useless!
Thanks
Donald
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Download RH 7
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 03:12:00 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <gi496.30631$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tommy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the best place to download RH 7? I would like to download 1 big file
> per CD if possible. The only places I have seen it thus far is with the cd
> directory structure.
http://www.linuxiso.org has links to image files for most major Linux
distributions. You can then burn the file to CD-R using a CD-R package's
"burn from image file", "create CD-R from ISO image", or similarly-named
option.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Cable Modem w/ USB in Mandrake 7.1
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 03:15:46 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ken Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I recently got Mandrake 7.1 up and running, and want to get my cable
> modem service ( AT&T @ Home ) working in Linux. The setup is working in
> Win98, but I am pretty lost in getting this thing set up in linux. The
> cable modem uses an "SMC EZ Connect USB Fast Ethernet Adapter" that
> interfaces USB connection and ethernet that plugs into the cable modem.
> From my understanding, USB has very poor support in Linux. I checked
> around on www.linux-usb.org, but most of info was a bit over my head,
> however, I found something about my particular setup which recommened
> getting an ethernet card and skipping all the USB hassle. Is this the
> way to go? Is a PCI ethernet card relatively easy to set up?
Almost all PCI Ethernet cards are supported in Linux. With Mandrake, it
shouldn't be too difficult to add support for one post-installation, but
you may have to muck around a bit with linuxconf or Drakconf or whatever
it's called in Mandrake 7.1. I believe there's also some support for at
least some USB-to-Ethernet adapters in the new 2.4.0 kernel, but I don't
recall offhand whether Mandrake 7.1 included any such support
back-ported to its 2.2.x kernel. Overall, it's probably easier to get
and install a PCI card.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting Serial Port in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:20:11 -0500
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> John Scudder wrote:
>
> > How do you reconfigure a serial port in Mandrake. I want to set ttyS3
> > to address 0xC400 and IRQ 5. In SuSE 6.3 I manually edited the
> > '/etc/rc.d/serial' file to those values. In Mandrake the
> > '/etc/init.d/serial' file has no option for manual editing.
> >
> > John
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xc400 irq 5 autoconfig
>
> Note: this sets the software, it does not change the hardware.
>
> JRT
Thank you, that worked. I didn't use the autoconfig parameter
though...I put 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 ........' into a file
'/etc/rc.config'. Maybe that is what the autoconfig does?? Anyway..it
worked
Thanks
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Download RH 7
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:51:47 -0500
Rod Smith wrote:
<snip>
> http://www.linuxiso.org has links to image files for most major Linux
> distributions. You can then burn the file to CD-R using a CD-R package's
> "burn from image file", "create CD-R from ISO image", or similarly-named
> option.
>
ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/ISO
is also a pretty good place to download iso images.
Alex
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Scott Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please Help Newbie with Realtek 8029 NIC setup
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 03:52:42 GMT
I do not believe that my RH 7.0 recognized my NIC card. I am using a
Realtek RTL8029 (AS) PCI ethernet NIC on my computer to tie into a Cable
Modem. I have my system configured to use gnome and am unsure of what I
need to do next. I am not sure how to find out if the card is being
recognized and I do not know it and I am also unsure of how to get the OS to
recognize the card if it is not found (such as building kernals etc.) In
the ethernet HOW-TO It says that the card is support under Linux, but I am
pretty confused about this point. I have only been running LINUX for two
days now and just today I got the GUI to work properly (this is a major
accomplishment for me). Any help that I may get would be greatly
appreciated.
--
Scott Fournier
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: installing linux with windows 2000
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:00:56 GMT
You want to look at the mini-HOWTO "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO".
(Although this refers to the NT Loader, the process is the same for
Win2k -- indeed, I believe the loader is the same.)
There are other options involving third-party boot loaders, but many
advise keeping the NT Loader that was installed with Windows 2000.
I recommend using Partition Magic to create the new partitions you'll
need -- and possibly to resize and/or move the existing Win2k
partition(s) you have. The current version, 6.0, can do everything
about creating the Linux partitions directly from within Win2k; for
operations on Windows partitions, it will create a script that, on
reboot, will do the work for the Windows partitions.
One piece of advice: do NOT mix both Windows and Linux logical
partitions in an extended partition. When I tried that, I kept getting
the Linux filesystem corrupted. Others locally have experienced the
same thing. It makes things tricky of course, since if you're working
with just one HD, then you need to squeeze down the Windows 2000 system
partition so that you can fit the entire Linux root partition, or at
least Linux /boot partition, below the 1024 cylinder mark.
For
Robby Pond wrote:
>
> Does anybody know where I can find a faq or help for installing Linux
> (Redhat 6.2) onto a PC with Windows 2k already installed?
>
> Thanks
--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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From: "Charlie Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 722C printer
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:39:33 -0800
Could anyone help me, How can I install and setup my HP Deskjet 722C printer
on my Redhat 7.0 machine?
Thanks
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From: Roger Michael Seip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:37:48 GMT
In article <942a39$99g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roger Michael Seip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:16:46 GMT, Roger Michael Seip
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >I am receiving the following error message in my /var/log/messages:
> > >
> > >mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
> > >
> > >This occurs when entering midnight commander both in console mode
and
> > >within a terminal under X.
> > >
> > >What adjustment do I need to make in order to activate mouse
support
> > >for midnight commander? My mouse works fine under X.
> >
> > Start the GPM process. GPM ("General Purpose Mouse") provides
> > text-console based mouse support, and manages the /dev/gpmctl file.
> >
> > Lew Pitcher
> > Information Technology Consultant
> > Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
> >
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> > (Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
> >
> I started the gpm process, and then my mouse behaved erratically under
> console-mc. I ran my mouseconfig to be certain that the appropriate
> options were selected (PS/2 mouse, emulate 3-buttons), but the mouse
> continues to be uncontrollable when running console-mc. In order to
> use console-mc I must PF10 in order to stop the mouse acting this way.
>
> Is there another to determine mouse properties/behavior on the
> console? Perhaps a config file to tweak or something?
>
> Thanks,
> Roger Seip
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
>
OK, I got the mouse working alright when logged in as root. Problem is,
when logged in as user I receive the following error when trying to
start gpm:
oops() invoked from gpn.c(236) you're not root, can you write to
/var/run?: Permission denied
I checked my /var/run permissions, and indeed I do not have write
authority as a user. But even if I chmod and try to run gpm, it says
that it must run as root.
What next?
Thanks,
Roger Seip
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with 2.4 upgrade
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:39:52 GMT
Hi I downloaded the new linux-2.4.0.tar.gz and am trying to upgrade.
My specific problem is with trying to configure binutils.
>From the linux/Documentation/Changes file, which the README says to
read,
it says I need atleast the revision numbers specified for certain
software.
my binutils was
$ ld -v
GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1.0.23)
and the specified one is 2.9.1.0.25 so I decided to upgrade binutils.
The latest one I got was binutils-2.10.1.0.4
I have gcc --version 2.91.66 (as recommended)
Gnu Make 3.77 (as recommended)
however when I try to do a ./configure in the binutils directory
I get the following error message:
Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnu host.
Created "Makefile" in /usr/home/mbil/kernels/binutils-2.10.1.0.4 using
"mt-frag"
collect2: ld returned 33 exit status
*** The command '/usr/bin/gcc -o conftest -g conftest.c' failed.
*** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.
and when I echo $CC it says /usr/bin/gcc
and as far as I know it is a working compiler.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Cable Modem w/ USB in Mandrake 7.1
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 05:00:27 -0000
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 03:15:46 GMT, Rod Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ken Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Hi, I recently got Mandrake 7.1 up and running, and want to get my cable
>> modem service ( AT&T @ Home ) working in Linux. The setup is working in
>> Win98, but I am pretty lost in getting this thing set up in linux. The
>> cable modem uses an "SMC EZ Connect USB Fast Ethernet Adapter" that
>> interfaces USB connection and ethernet that plugs into the cable modem.
>> From my understanding, USB has very poor support in Linux. I checked
>> around on www.linux-usb.org, but most of info was a bit over my head,
>> however, I found something about my particular setup which recommened
>> getting an ethernet card and skipping all the USB hassle. Is this the
>> way to go? Is a PCI ethernet card relatively easy to set up?
>
>Almost all PCI Ethernet cards are supported in Linux. With Mandrake, it
>shouldn't be too difficult to add support for one post-installation, but
HELL, it should be plain automatic.
However, there is a gotcha: some NIC vendors like to rev
their hardware in slight but incompatible ways. Depending
on the age of the card, the age of the distro, and the
Linux support practices of the vendor: you may or may not
have some difficulty.
For example: linksys ships linux driver source on their
driver disks. HOWEVER, they don't ship even the most
rudimentary makefile with it. So instead of a simple
"make install", you have to figure out how to build it
manually.
>you may have to muck around a bit with linuxconf or Drakconf or whatever
>it's called in Mandrake 7.1. I believe there's also some support for at
>least some USB-to-Ethernet adapters in the new 2.4.0 kernel, but I don't
>recall offhand whether Mandrake 7.1 included any such support
>back-ported to its 2.2.x kernel. Overall, it's probably easier to get
>and install a PCI card.
You'd have MUCH better luck with PCI.
Also go with one of the latest distros.
Mandrake 7.2 seems good enough.
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