Linux-Setup Digest #497, Volume #20 Thu, 25 Jan 01 03:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Promise IDE Controller on Dell PowerEdge 1400 (IRQ problem?) (Nader)
Grub ("Brian")
Re: x-server / vnc question (David Efflandt)
Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0 (D Karels)
help with cable modem...trying hard but nothing with @home. I pasted my ifconfig
and route info...please look (NoClue)
what me i doing wrong? ("Tina Carter")
Best modem for linx? ("Tina Carter")
Re: fetchmail for persistant connection? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phan?= Peccini)
remote printing problem (Anthony Hung)
Re: mini linux on Win3.1 ????? ("Tina Carter")
Re: menu bar missing... ("Tina Carter")
Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0 (Eric)
Re: info update Re: trouble booting win98 after installing RH7.0 (Eric)
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,hardware
Subject: Re: Promise IDE Controller on Dell PowerEdge 1400 (IRQ problem?)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:10:02 -0800
I had similar problems with my 2.2.10 kernel. I compiled the 2.2.16 kernel
with the IDE patch (HOW-TO UDMA66) to recognize my TrionesUDMA66 controller.
You might try that kernel configuration first. Once I did that, I no longer
had to pass parameters to the kernel since it found the ide drive itself and
booted accordingly.
"Eric R. Jorgensen" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Okay, so I decided to ditch the Siig card and bought a Promise Ultra 100
> controller (there already are onboard SCSI and IDE controllers). I
> connected a NS20 IDE tape drive to it.
>
> I'm running RH 6.2 and booted normally. I did a "cat /proc/pci"
> and it looked like:
>
> Bus 0, device 4, function 0:
> Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device
> (rev 2).
> Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d30.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 25. Master Capable. Latency=32.
> I/O at 0xecb8 [0xecb9].
> I/O at 0xecb0 [0xecb1].
> I/O at 0xeca0 [0xeca1].
> I/O at 0xec98 [0xec99].
> I/O at 0xec40 [0xec41].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe100000 [0xfe100000].
>
> So when I rebooted, I passed the following to lilo:
>
> linux ide2=0xecb8,0xecb2 ide3=0xeca0,0xec9a
>
> From dmesg:
>
> hdf: TRAVAN NS20, ATAPI TAPE drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide2: Disabled unable to get IRQ -10.
>
> So this led me to believe it was an IRQ problem. From a suggestion to
> my original post from a user also using a PowerEdge1400, I disabled
> the built-in USB hub to free up an IRQ. This didn't help.
>
> I should also mention that during the boot process, it prints out the
> message "Ultra100 BIOS is not installed". This (to me, at least, a
> UNIX person, not a PC hardware person) further indicates an IRQ
> problem.
>
> Also, when I go into the BIOS setup, it does show a card in slot 1
> (unknown manufacturer disk controller). I also tried it in slot 2.
>
> So can I use this with the 2.2.16 (or 2.2.18) kernel at all (i.e. not
> at ATA 100 speeds), or do I really need to go to 2.4.0? I'd really
> rather not, at this point, for reasons relating to third party
> software.
>
> Any suggestions on the IRQ issue?
>
> Could these problems be a result of the onboard IDE controller only
> having ide0 instead of also having an ide1?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Eric
>
> --
> Eric R. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> University of Colorado, Boulder http://spot.colorado.edu/~jorgy
> "A lot of people may not know this, but I'm pretty famous." -- Sam on Cheers
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Grub
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:26:37 GMT
Hi,
Just wondering if anyone knows how to set Grub up again after compiling a
new kernel?
(I know how to set Lilo up fine but I want to learn how to set Grub up
properly)
Thank you for any help... =)
Note: Please send a copy of any replies to -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks again!
- Brian -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: x-server / vnc question
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:28:46 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andreas Jilleck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>this is the first time I work with linux and I have some questions.
>I installed linux (SuSE 7) for routing and firewalling purposes, as
>file- and webserver. So after having set up network I installed vnc,
>something like pcanywhere, and configured it remotely from my PC. It
>all works fine. But still there are some things to solve.
>
>I need a tool or command that requests a web page via http and pipes
>it to another command like grep. Any idea?
I guess it depends upon what you are doing with it once you get it and
what scripting language you are most familar with. For shell scripts you
might want to take a look at 'man wget' (or if you don't find that,
install wget package).
Perl has several modules to do it from LWP to IO::Socket (webget
example in 'perldoc perlipc') to the plain Socket module in increasing
order of difficulty in use. IO::Socket and Socket modules come with
Perl. Installing everything from scratch to use LWP can be daunting, but
you may have a package for that on your Linux CD (maybe libwww package
of Perl modules).
>then I need a x-server to install on win 98 and nt 4.
>I fell in love with the Klicki and the Bunti of kde2
>and kde2 does not run with vnc. (Yes, I like buttons in 3D ;-)
>It does run locally, I connected monitor and keyboard to prove that.
>Now I need a working x-server and hope I get a free one.
vncserver can run the old KDE. Not sure why it would not also run KDE2
unless there is something radically changed in its protocols. Maybe you
just don't know what to put in $HOME/.vnc/xstartup. For the old KDE I
simply used 'startkde &' in place of 'twm &'.
>and if I have a real x-server then, what about audio? I want to stream
>audiofiles to the terminals. Each session with its own sound/video.
>Possible? If, how?
That is one problem with vncserver, sounds come out of the server box
rather than the vncviewer. I am not even sure how to pipe sounds from
Linux to Linux, but one thought is some sort of streaming audio on a
webserver.
Not sure about Linux video, but I know that a vncviewer in Linux cannot
see video on my Win98 laptop, probably because video is written directly
to hardware without going through Windows system calls, not to mention not
knowing when to update the remote display for it.
>So If you have answers, tell me.
>I am reading, so "man command" would be helpful like a download
>address or something else that shows me the way. This is my first
>deeper contact with linux and every new command is like a password to
>a newbie even if it is common for experienced users.
>
>Thank you for any hint,
>
>Andreas
>
>
>You dont know what klickibunti is?
>http://www.klickibunti.org/buntibunti.html
>Now you know.
>
>
>
>
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: D Karels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:30:49 +0100
Thanks all for your advice.
Though I already managed to install RedHat Linux 6.2 on the fourth + fifth
partition of my secondairy harddisk. It just seems that DiskDruid does not allow
the creation of a NATIVE partition in the situation I'm having (BUG??), but
fdisk has no problem with it what so ever. Also, instead of the 'KDE'
installation method I used the previous times, this time I used the custom
installation method, because I did not want LILO to install on the MBR, but on
the partition I'm installing LINUX to.
Now Linux is working fine. The only problem I now have, is that I can only boot
into linux using a floppy disk. I did copy the LILO bootsector and added it to
windows 2000 boot loader, but all that will happen is the letters 'LI' appear in
the up left corner of the screen and that's it.
I do know the solution to this problem, but that solution is another problem.
This problem is caused by the fact that I'm using NTFS on all my non-linux
partitions (including the active boot partition). This can be fixed by changing
the 'lineair' option to 'lba32' in the lilo.conf file. But when I start LILO
now, I get the error that /dev/hdb6 is not on the primairy disk and that the
sector number is over 1023. Does anybody know if this can be fixed by installing
lilo to another partition? Say the second partition on the primairy hard disk??
Dennis.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NoClue)
Subject: help with cable modem...trying hard but nothing with @home. I pasted my
ifconfig and route info...please look
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:06:26 GMT
Ok here is what I get when I type route and then isconfig not in that
order. and at the bottom is some errors that come up when starting.
also when booting up it hangs at system log setup: for about 4 min
then is hangs at a blank screen where the gui login should be for
about 5 min.
I'm running Mandrake 7.1, nic is a Diamond HomePNA
using att @home for the cable service.
Please someone help this sux...
thanks
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:00:08:3E:BA
inet addr:24.183.16.97 Bcast:24.183.16.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:128 errors:108 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:108
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x1040
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
c985833-a.chmpg * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
0 eth0
24.183.16.0 24.183.16.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0
0 eth0
24.183.16.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0
0 lo
default 24.183.16.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
0 eth0
modprobe: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep
httpd: httpd: cannot determine local host name.
httpd: Use the ServerName directive to set it manually.
httpd startup failed
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what me i doing wrong?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:12:00 -0500
Hi Everyone.
I've been trying to install modem but "forget about it". I will just buy
external modem. Right now my concern are about sound card. How do I use
Modconf, or put it more accurately how do I configure my sound card using
modconf.
I did following thing and getting, and it saying "invalid parameter irq"
why?
1. Open a console window by clicking on the console button on the
taskbar.
2. At the prompt, type modconf and press enter.
3. Maximize the window by clicking once on the small square in the
upper-right corner.
4. Using the keyboard arrow keys, scroll down, select misc and press
enter.
5. Locate the sound card in the list and press enter.
6. On the next screen, select Install the module in the kernel.
7. Now supply the necessary IO address and IRQ. Type "irq=5 io=0x220
dma=1"
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best modem for linx?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:13:29 -0500
Anyone can give me name of good linux modem ? "external ones" and do they
come with documents as well?
Thanks.....
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phan?= Peccini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail for persistant connection?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:15:22 GMT
Michael West a �crit le Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:29:54 GMT :
> I am planning to set up a standard
> fetchmail/sendmail/procmail/client mail system.
>
> I have not done this before.
>
> When reading about fetchmail I see that it is for
> dial-up connections. Is it inappropriate to use
> it for persistant connections? Is there another
> tool I should use?
>
> Thanks,
> quagly
>
>
I have a local network at home connected 24 hours a day.
I have a firewall to protect it : it is configured to allow incoming
connections only if my network has established the connection.
I have a sendmail server (sendmail + imap) for my local network and I can
read my mail with an imap client from my two PCs. I also use Amavis and
Antivir to check virus.
As my network has to establish the connection with my mail provider, I use
fetchmail to collect all the mails and dispatch them in our mailboxes.
I don't know if there is another way, but this one works fine for me.
If you want more information (configuration files for example), feel free
to ask me, I will be pleased to help you.
--
Cordialement
Stephan
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From: Anthony Hung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: remote printing problem
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:21:54 GMT
Hi all, I can't seem to get remote printing to work.
I do the following, I setup the printcap file with remote access..
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=yosemite.home.com:\
:rp=lp:\
:lpd_bounce=true:
.
The spool directories all seem to be there......
I setup the /etc/hosts.lpd file to allow the remote machine access but
when i print I get the following message:
Jan 24 22:36:46 lapdog (Worker - Remote)[1054]: lp: Remote_job: fstatb
failed - Bad file descriptor
Jan 24 22:36:46 lapdog (Worker - Remote)[1054]: lp: Remote_job: close(4)
failed - Bad file descriptor
Jan 24 22:36:56 lapdog (Worker - Remote)[1055]: lp: Remote_job: fstatb
failed - Bad file descriptor
Jan 24 22:36:56 lapdog (Worker - Remote)[1055]: lp: Remote_job: close(5)
failed - Bad file descriptor
Jan 24 22:37:16 lapdog (Worker - Remote)[1058]: lp: Remote_job: fstatb
failed - Bad file descriptor
Jan 24 22:37:16 lapdog (Worker - Remote)[1058]: lp: Remote_job: close(5)
failed - Bad file descriptor
Jan 24
I am using RH7, thanks in advance
--
Anthony
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mini linux on Win3.1 ?????
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:28:38 -0500
I have 486 computer and installed it DIDN't work. But I was veerry new too.
And even in this celeron computer I had to have over 32 mg rams to install
Linux works fine here but I neeeeed to fix my sound card modem :(
brrrrrrrrrrrr sooooo much stuffffff
"Ralf Quint" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:22:53 GMT, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >John wrote:
> >>
> >> Is it possible to put one of those small (mini) linux distros on an old
> >> laptop 386/486 small HD? I just want to learn a bit about linux and
> >> perl....can't use my desktop....
> >
> >
> >Yes, linux will run on a 386/486 though 16 MB of memory is needed for
> >the newer distro's.
> To be correct, you should mention that the newer "standard"
> distributions nowadays always require a Pentium+ class CPU and you
> have to download or order a 486 class distribution separately, at
> least for distros like RedHat, SuSe or Mandrake.
> I'm not sure if one of those "Linux on a floppy" distros have lower
> CPU requirements, otherwise you have at least not much of a chance to
> get a 386 running with Linux these days. At least i doubt that you get
> a 2.4 kernel running on these....
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: menu bar missing...
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:30:39 -0500
There should be small arrow to bring it back. OR REINSTALL IT....
I installed Linux (corel linux) and had lots of problem when reinstalled it
works like charammmm
"Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:94hjm1$nqh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> When I attempt to use GNOME under RH7 (installed on the dell 5000e laptop)
> the menu/application bar (don't knwo what the appropriate term is here)
> flickers as if it's trying to get drawn and then never actually appears on
> the desktop. is there something incorrect in my setup (the rest of the
> desktop display and functions just fine) or is something bad with the
> release?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
>
>
> ----------------------------------
> 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]
> http://ucs.orst.edu/~hamannj
>
> 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: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:33:22 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Though I already managed to install RedHat Linux 6.2 on the fourth + fifth
> partition of my secondairy harddisk. It just seems that DiskDruid does not allow
> the creation of a NATIVE partition in the situation I'm having (BUG??), but
> fdisk has no problem with it what so ever. Also, instead of the 'KDE'
> installation method I used the previous times, this time I used the custom
> installation method, because I did not want LILO to install on the MBR, but on
> the partition I'm installing LINUX to.
> Now Linux is working fine. The only problem I now have, is that I can only boot
> into linux using a floppy disk. I did copy the LILO bootsector and added it to
> windows 2000 boot loader, but all that will happen is the letters 'LI' appear in
> the up left corner of the screen and that's it.
> I do know the solution to this problem, but that solution is another problem.
> This problem is caused by the fact that I'm using NTFS on all my non-linux
> partitions (including the active boot partition). This can be fixed by changing
> the 'lineair' option to 'lba32' in the lilo.conf file. But when I start LILO
> now, I get the error that /dev/hdb6 is not on the primairy disk and that the
> sector number is over 1023. Does anybody know if this can be fixed by installing
> lilo to another partition? Say the second partition on the primairy hard disk??
>
Read my previous posting better.
NTFS has nothing to do with it.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: info update Re: trouble booting win98 after installing RH7.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:42:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C. Jarvis wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Eric wrote:
>
> > > I just installed RH7.0 and it boots and runs just fine. However,
> > > I can no longer boot win98 from my harddisk. LILO gives me the option,
> > > but when I select it, it says 'loading win' and hangs.
> >
> > Same disk or what?
> I've got 2 hdd, but only one of them partitioned. Both win98 and linux
> are on the primary master, which is a maxtor 15GB drive. win98 uses a 8gb
> partition, then there is a 16MB /boot partition for linux, then / uses 3.5
> GB, /home uses 3GB, then linux swap uses 256MB.
>
> There are also 2 CDROMs.
>
> the disks are connected like this
> Primary Master: Maxtor HDD
> Primary slave: Memorex CDRW/DVD
> Secondary Master: Fujitsu HDD
> Secondary slave: CD-ROM
>
> When all disks are recognized by BIOS, no windows boot disks work, and
> selecting to boot win/dos from LILO hangs as well. Specifically, the
> floppy drive is spun (no normal 'reading sounds' though) and the access
> light comes on. The the hard drive light comes on, the floppy light goes
> off, and the system hangs with the hdd light on.
>
> However, when I remove the Maxtor HDD from the BIOS (ie select 'none'
> instead of 'HDD') the windows boot disks all work. (of course I can't
> access the maxtor to restore the MBR).
>
> Also, when I try to boot from the win98 CD, same thing happens. CD spins,
> hdd light comes on, cd spins down, and system hangs...
>
Sounds like you got the master/slave/single jumpers wrong.
Check this first.
LILO can still boot linux?
If so please show the output of
`fdisk -l /dev/hd[ac]`
and
`cat /etc/lilo.conf`
Eric
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