Linux-Setup Digest #512, Volume #20 Fri, 26 Jan 01 22:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm (Chris Ahlstrom)
How to build a USB rescue floppy disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ethernet config problem (David)
ignore test ("Ed Aihua Wu")
Re: How to Install XWIN in RedHat (Steve Ackman)
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm (David)
How to return to Gnome GUI ("NG_lurker")
Re: Question on LILO and recompiling your Kernel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to return to Gnome GUI (David)
Re: A Linux disaster! (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: fetchmail procmail (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Hey! Dial Up Question! ("HOLY SHIT!")
Re: networking in 2.4 (Paul Lew)
Re: 2.4.0 & modules "not found" (Paul Lew)
Re: How to return to Gnome GUI (David)
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From: Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:10:00 GMT
Steve Withers wrote:
>
> I recompile my kernels and leave out all the stuff I have no need
> for....like NFS. I use samba because I have a hybrid Linux / Windows
> network. Thats all I need.
That sounds like a weak point, too, though. Be careful.
>
> I also used to turn off virtually everything in inetd....except now
> RH7.0 hax xinetd and it doesn't work.
Run /sbin/linuxconf --text as root, select the Control/Control service
activity entry, and disable there. A good alternative until you
get control of xinetd.d
> I have tried to use the "bind" and "only_from" parameters and they
> simply don't work....I get syntax errors even when the statements are
> eyeball identical to the docs.....very frustrating. How hard would it be
> to put a GUI front-end on that xinetd config....with a wee bit of help
> attached? Even if it was just to turn a function of or on.....Maybe that
> hsould be my first Linux prgramming effort....write an X utility that
> handles the /etc/xinetd.conf file and the /etc/xinetd.d/<whatever>
> files.
Again, use linuxconf.
> xinetd looks like a great idea....but the implementation in RH 7.0 sucks
> rotten bananas.
Blech!
Chris
--
Flipping the Bozo bit at 400 MHz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to build a USB rescue floppy disk
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:06:03 GMT
Hello,
Has anybody able to build a usb rescue floppy disk yet.
I have a bios support that support booting from usb floppy (ie, it can
boot DOS). I have a linux rescue floppy (that boot off regular floppy).
But when I put the rescue floppy into the USB, the system fail to boot.
Just wondering, if there are any special step that I need to do to
build
a usb floppy?
Here is the error message that I got:
Loading ....
Uncompressing Linux
ran out of input data
-- System halt
I know kernel 2.4 support usb but when I look into the code I could not
find anything specific to USB floppy.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ethernet config problem
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:30:26 -0800
I had a fairly successful installation of turbolinux
workstation 6.1.(linux kernel-2.2.16). Everything seems
to be working satisfactory so far, except for the ethernet/DSL
network card. It is a Linksys fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100.
It is mounted on the PCI bus and is supposed to be compatible
with the tulip.o driver. When reading the documentation for
the network card it states that it is not possible to set the
IRQ for the card directly and that you must use the bios or OS
software to do this at bootup or when the OS takes over.
My pci bus has 4 slots, of which only two are currently being used.
PCI slot 1 has the ethernet card and PCI slot 3 has the video card.
The video card is being acknowledged by Linux but not the network card.
I am running a dual boot system with boot magic. On the first part of
the first hard drive is win95 and on the second part of the first hard
drive is Linux.
My bios is Award bios XXX with XXX plug and play extension. So far, I
have
left everything the same in the bios, where it states the OS is a Pnp OS
and that mapping of the IRQ should be done by the OS. From what I have
recently read this should work with this version of the kernel.
I think my problem is in one or two areas. Either the tulip.o driver
in the 2.2.16 kernel does not support this card. Or I am having IRQ
conflicts?
I noticed in the /proc/pci that both the USB controller and the ethernet
controller are using IRQ 11?
Any help anyone could offer is very much appreciated, thanks!
David Edelstein
Please email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or respond to this posting, thanks again!
Here is the boot messages: (It's not finding eth0 at all?)
Linux version 2.2.16-3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Fri Aug 18 14:51:29
JST 2000
relocating initrd image:
initrd_start:0xc0faf000 initrd_end:0xc0fff9a8
mem_start:0xc0285000 mem_end:0xc8000000
initrd_size:0x000509a8 dest:0xc7faf000
Detected 200457 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 399.77 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127492k/131072k available (1116k kernel code, 412k reserved,
1656k data, 72k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfaff0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
IPVS: Connection hash table configured (size=4096, memory=32Kbytes)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: WDC AC29100D, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, ATA DISK drive
hdd: , ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC29100D, 8693MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=1108/255/63
hdb: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, 2503MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=5086/16/63
hdd: ATAPI 17X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 295.656 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 351.282 MB/sec
8regs : 213.741 MB/sec
32regs : 159.258 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (351.282 MB/sec)
Loading I2O Core - (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
I2O configuration manager v 0.04
(C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
hdb: hdb1
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Adding Swap: 1004020k swap-space (priority -1)
When displaying turbonetcfg Select Network Interface:
[ ]eth0: 0.0.0.0
[*]lo : 127.0.0.1
When running turbonetcfg network diagnosis
FQDN of This System: localhost
Physical Interfaces Available: Failed: eth0
Gateway Device : (none)
Gateway Device Available : N/A
Gateway Device Active : N/A
Default Route Activated : Yes
Gateway is Reachable : No
Primary DNS is Reachable : N/A
Secondary DNS is Reachable : N/A
Tertiary DNS is Reachable : N/A
Hostname Lookup Works : No
/etc/modules.conf file looks like this
keep
path[usb]=/lib/modules/'uname -r'
path[extra]=/lib/modules/'uname -r'
path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/'uname -r'
alias net-pf-5 appletalk
alias eth0 tulip.o
# This file is created by PCI device probing routine.
# You might need to add another alias or options.
/proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
f000-f007 : ide0
f008-f00f : ide1
/proc/pci looks like this
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Integ 82439TX (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capbale. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus ), device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-toback capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001].
Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
USB Controller: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-toback capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0x6400 [0x6401].
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX$ ACPI (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE (rev 6).
Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max
Lat=255.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000000].
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=32. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0x6500 [0x6501].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe40000000 [0xe40000000].
/proc/interrupts looks like this
CPU0
0: 225847 XT-PIC timer
1: 6868 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 23845 XT-PIC serial
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 158158 XT-PIC ide0
15: 6 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
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From: "Ed Aihua Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ignore test
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:09:58 -0800
ignore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Ackman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: How to Install XWIN in RedHat
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:31:14 -0500
On 26 Jan 2001 14:18:40 -0600, Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill wrote:
>>Dear All,
>>
>>I just installed RedHat 7.0 with Server mode selected. However, it can't run
>>the Xwin and looks missing the required program (I tried XF86Config).
>>
>>Can anyone help me to install Xwin for further configuration?
The easiest way at this point is simply to boot from
your CD and pick the Upgrade option.
--
Steve Ackman
http://twovoyagers.com
Registered Linux User #79430
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:37:53 GMT
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
> Again, use linuxconf.
linuxconf?? I can't find that on my system anywhere!!
Oh! Wait a minute I remember killing that bug a long time ago.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.018% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "NG_lurker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to return to Gnome GUI
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 04:39:24 +0300
How can i return to Gnome GUI? After configuring xf86config in console (to
fix display corruption) i rebooted and all of a sudden im staring at the
login: prompt. Ctrl+Alt+(F1-F6) dont work, even Alt+F7. How can i check if
my Gnome display is fine now?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question on LILO and recompiling your Kernel
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:35:21 GMT
> > (2) I don't know what the initrd line is and it isn't mentioned in
the
> > Kernel-HOWTO or the LILO mini-HOWTO.
> The initrd is for modules. You can now compile several options in the
> kernel to modular to reduce the size and complexity of the kernel
> itself. But some of those modules may be required before the kernel
> has booted far enough to have mounted your file system. Therefore you
> create a RAM disk, copy the required modules to the RAM disk (your
> img file), and access them from there during kernel load/bootup.
Ok, so how do I do this? I read the manpage on mkinitrd and it says
that (ignoring optional args), the syntax is: mkinitrd image kernel-
version
What goes in the kernel-version slot, and do I need to be in a
particular directory when I call this command?
I tried doing "mkinitrd initrd-2.4.0.img vmlinuz-2.4.0" but it tells me
that "/lib/modules/vmlinuz-2.4.0 is not a directory."
Dave
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to return to Gnome GUI
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:51:58 GMT
NG_lurker wrote:
>
> How can i return to Gnome GUI? After configuring xf86config in console (to
> fix display corruption) i rebooted and all of a sudden im staring at the
> login: prompt. Ctrl+Alt+(F1-F6) dont work, even Alt+F7. How can i check if
> my Gnome display is fine now?
Login and try "startx".
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.018% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: A Linux disaster!
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:58:44 GMT
95459906 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, all!
>
>I've a disaster on linux! The super-block of one of my linux partitions
>was found to be corrupted and don't know how to recover it! The partiion
>here is /dev/hda6. I tried to install another linux partition on
>/dev/hda7 and wanted to use e2fsck to fix that partition (e2fsck
>/dev/hda6 or e2fsck -b (8193...16385...24577) /dev/hda6) but failed to
>do this. Anyone can offer a help to me? Below is the message displayed
>when I tried to fix the /dev/hda6 using fsck command on the linux
>partition /dev/hda7!
>
>[root@localhost /root]# fsck /dev/hda6
>Parallelizing fsck version 1.15 (18-Jul-1999)
>e2fsck 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
>Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
>fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
>/dev/hda6
>
>The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
>filesystem. If
>the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not
>swap or ufs or something
>else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck
>with an alternate
>superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
>
>regards,
>
>Laurence
The partition tables might be different from what you expect. If you
want to examine this, you can download Findpart at
http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
do
findpart all fp.txt
and insert (not attach) the content from fp.txt in a follow-up to this
message.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail procmail
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:06:25 +0100
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,RH6.0
> I am trying to download emails from yahoo.com.
> I have already figured the most part of the .fetchmail.rc file.
Ok. Sao lets say, you've configured ~/.fetchmailrc and it can download
your mail.
> 1)How do i tell the .fetchmail rc to start the procmail for
> mail retireval?.
You don't. You tell sendmail (or whatever mail system you use) to invoke
.procmail by creating a ~/.procmailrc.
> 2)how do i configure the procmail to download the emails
> into a particualar folder?.
Probably by setting some rules - based on the recipient line perhaps?
Look at procmailrc(5) and procmailex(5)
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: "HOLY SHIT!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.2600.hackerz,alt.hackers.groups,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Hey! Dial Up Question!
Date: 27 Jan 2001 02:52:03 GMT
Sorry to cross post on this very post, but oh well....
I was wondering if anyone know where or of a web site I can get a list of
error message, and number (e.g. Error 680: There is no dial tone...). This
is for dial up.
TIA
P.S. Don't Flame!
Oh, for everyone from alt.2600.hackerz, I m still at home, but I dont check
the newsgroup, I wont be for a week left.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: networking in 2.4
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 02:52:49 GMT
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Timothy Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I'm trying to get networking to work in the new 2.4 kernel. I
>> was want to know if anyone was sucessfull with the 2.4 install. I've
>> compiled and installed the 2.4 kernel. Everything seemd to be working
>> fine; except that I'm having trouble, getting network devices to
>> work. It is difficult to describe because I do not know exactly where
>> the problem is. I configured in network interfaces and cards as
>> modules. I have two 10/100 fast ethernet cards. when I do a netstat,
>> unix domain sockets seem to work fine, but if I try to ping, I'll get:
>>
>> ping: wrote hal 64 chars, ret=-1
>> ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
>>
>> Looking in "/var/logs", at the "boot.log" file, the only indication
>> that the network devices are not working properly are these
>> messages:
>>
>> Jan 26 00:39:24 frye network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded
>> Jan 26 00:39:24 frye ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization.
>> Jan 26 00:39:24 frye network: Bringing up interface eth0 failed
>> Jan 26 00:39:24 frye ifup: Delaying eth1 initialization.
>> Jan 26 00:39:24 frye network: Bringing up interface eth1 failed
>>
>> The same errors come up in the "messages" log. OK, I got that, but
>> why are the devices not working properly. This message is js
>> just a fact finding one to see how other people compiled thier kernels
>> and got networking to work. Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>>
>Did you select the correct modules for your cards?
>Did you do 'make modules' and 'make modules_install'?
>
>If so, do 'modprobe -a /*' (no quotes)
>
>Then lsmod and see if the modules are there.
>If they are,great, now use linuxconf, netcfg, or netconfig to configure
>the card. If not, recheck and make sure you selected the proper module
>when you configured your kernel.
>
The other problem is, as pointed out to me, the need to look at the
"Changes" file and see what needs to be updated. My problem was that
none of the modules were "installed" correctly as I had to update my
"modutils", "util-linux" and I thought mkinitrd. Except for the mkinitrd
which was in rpm 4.0 mode, the other 2 "utils" were installed and updated
and my 2.4.0 worked with net, printer & the other good stuff.
Go thru the "Changes" and check your util versions and/or get the needed
versions or later; I seldom read the changes/changelog but have learned
my lesson.....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: 2.4.0 & modules "not found"
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:03:40 GMT
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew) wrote:
>> On 26 Jan 2001 07:12:07 GMT, H.Bruijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> >On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:02:26 GMT, Paul Lew allegedly wrote:
>> >>I was able to compile and get 2.4.0 "running" BUT it is unable to
>find
>> >>and load the modules like the tulip, vfat, fat, msdos and some other
>> >>modules. Now, I did notice that when I did "make modules", I did
>notice
>> >>some "nothing to do for modules" and the "make modules_install" did
>not
>> >>return errors.
>> >>
>> >>Looking at the /lib/modules/ I only see the pcima and I think the
>usb
>> >>directories and a "build" directory as a link to the
>/usr/src/linux-2.4.0.
>> >>Something went wrong somewhere....
>> >>
>> >>Any hints on how to get the modules made and installed? The kernel
>is
>> >>working but no etho, no network and no "dos, vfat filesystems"..no
>> >>nothing...
>> >
>> >You did do the required upgrades as mentioned in
>> >../src/linux-2.4.0/Changes file? Notably
>> >o binutils 2.9.1.0.25 # ld -v
>> >o util-linux 2.10o # fdformat
>--version
>> >o modutils 2.4.0 # insmod -V
>>
>> OOPS....
>>
>> >
>> >You did select stuff as modules, did you not? Simply do a
>> >"grep \=m ../src/linux-2.4.0/.config" to make sure. And you selected
>> >support for modules? CONFIG_MODULES=y?
>> >
>>
>> Yup, I believe so.
>>
>> In fact looking at it again, it looks like the modules were
>"installed",
>> but in /lib/modules/kernel/drivers and /lib/modules/kernel/fs....
>>
>> Well now to check the ChangeLog...
>> thanks.
>>
>
>--
>Paul, are you familiar with the modprobe and depmod commands and the
>options? Take a look at the man pages on them. They can give you some
>info and power to find and correct the modules and dependency problems.
>
Both modprobe and depmod didn't do anything; it just ran with no display
msgs. BUT getting newer versions of the modutils and util-linux did the
trick; "reconfigured", make, make bzlilo, make modules, make modules_install
and everything worked now. My versions "weren't that far off"...!!??
The only thing is getting the latest Mkinitrd which seems to be only in
the rpm 4.0 mode; got the tar for 4.0 rpm but it won't compile.
I've learned my lesson on checking the changelogs from now on as it seems
that it could really be "release notes" as well; had believed that the
changes/changelog was just a version history.....
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to return to Gnome GUI
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:09:17 GMT
NG_lurker wrote:
>
> How can i return to Gnome GUI? After configuring xf86config in console (to
> fix display corruption) i rebooted and all of a sudden im staring at the
> login: prompt. Ctrl+Alt+(F1-F6) dont work, even Alt+F7. How can i check if
> my Gnome display is fine now?
If you want it to start X at boot time then change the line in
/etc/inittab to point to the runlevel X uses on you system. redhat uses
runlevel 5 for X.
/etc/inittab
id:5:initdefault:
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