Linux-Setup Digest #523, Volume #20 Sun, 28 Jan 01 17:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: pppd for non-root??? (ozetechnology)
Re: Need your suggestion on how many partition for my 30GB hd?? ("kellyboy")
Re: I made a new driver for Netgear fa311 netcard working on RedHat ("James M.
Wadkins")
Re: I made a new driver for Netgear fa311 netcard working on RedHat ("James M.
Wadkins")
Re: KPPP Problems (Bill Unruh)
Re: rpm 4 under Caldera? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: I made a new driver for Netgear fa311 netcard working on RedHat ("James M.
Wadkins")
Where to look (3Com 3C905c works sometimes) (John Jensen)
What ever happened to ALSA? ("Tobias Bengtsson")
Re: rpm 4 under Caldera? (Paul Lew)
kernel 2.4 and Modules (Florian Schroff)
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From: ozetechnology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd for non-root???
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:01:02 GMT
try
chmod +s /dev/ttyS1
In article <94v77d$ivu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This did not work for me. Any other ideas, please?
>
> --
> Meron Lavie
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> NOTE: THERE ARE NO NUMBERS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS HOST NAME: ANTI-SPAM!
>
> "Steve Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Peter Nyhlen wrote:
> > >
> > > /etc/ppp/ISP.chat: /dev/modem: Permission denied
> > > Anyone have any ideas what else I need to set to get pppd to work from
> > > non-root accounts?
> >
> > Find out which serial port your modem is on (ls -l /dev/modem)
> > and change the permissions on that port, i.e. chmod 666 /dev/ttyS1
> > (or whatever port). I put an entry in the /etc/rc.d/rc.serial
> > file to do this on bootup, never have a problem.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
>
>
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From: "kellyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need your suggestion on how many partition for my 30GB hd??
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:15:00 -0600
It will be used 'mostly' for file server to store all stuff I use on win98
since as y'all know how it is...win98 being too crashy an all
but I do use it sometime to perform some function ( that are free in linux
but expensive on Win98 like free Gimp vs. expensive Photoshop....)
I do plan to get some used part together and build another computer to
"just" as file server (because I noticed I started to use Linux more often
than expected)
Im curious...which would you use as "file server" storage space??
Under /home? or make new dir like /fileserver or something like that??
I thought about getting another HD and use that HD and mount it at
/home/(fileserverspace) (or /fileserver something like that) ...
kellyboy
"ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
..
> On Jan 27, 2001 at 16:01, kellyboy eloquently wrote:
>
> >I have this 30GB HD and I plan split into several partition for linux
> >Mandrake 7.2 set up...
> >
> >My question is:
> >how much space for each point...
> >
> >my current set up (as said in fstab) are this...
> >
> >hda1 /boot
> >hda5 /
> >hda6 swap
> >hda7 /usr
> >hda8 /var
> >hda9 /home
> >hda10 /root
> >hda11 /tmp
> You might also want to consider /opt and /usr/local as
> additional partitions.
> /boot - 25M
> / - 150M
> swap - up to 2 x RAM
> /usr - 4G
> /var - 500M
> /home - 750M <= 3 users, 250M x # users, adjust to suit.
> /root - 50M
> /tmp - 1G, especially if you compile in it.
> /opt - 4G
> /usr/local - 2G
>
> >
> >I want to split my 30GB properly... which mount point (/home /usr /root
> >/boot) need how much space in mb?
> >
> >Im trying to choose the right amount of space when I make it in fstab
under
> >Linux so I can have the biggest partition as possible under /home
> The divisions given above are only guidelines. You'll
> have to decide based on what you use your machine for.
>
> >
> >and do I really need swap space when I have 256mb RAM on this computer?
> Yes. Check out http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/latest.epl
> for the article on swap for the reasons why.
>
> --
> Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
> When in doubt, tell the truth.
> -- Mark Twain
> 9:45am up 17 days, 12:44, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
>
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From: "James M. Wadkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: I made a new driver for Netgear fa311 netcard working on RedHat
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:30:52 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just mad tthe mistak of upgrading to RedHAt 7.0 and now my Netgear
FA311 CARDS don't work. I went to the Netgear site and download the
patch they have but the instructions were so far of from anything that
would make sense, can you give me soom advice to make these cards work
again.
Thanks,
Jim W.
freenux wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I bought a Netgear netcard fa311 and installed it and its dirver on my
> RedHat Linux6.0. It worked well.
>
> After I upgraded RedHat Linux6.0 to RedHat 7.0 ( whose kernel
> is 2.2.16-22 ), it did not work. Then I upgraded the linux kernel
> from 2.2.16-22 to 2.4 , and modified the source file fa311.c that
> Netgear company provides with the netcard and made a new driver
> for the fa311 netcard working on RedHat Linux 7.0+ kernel 2.4.
>
> Does someone who needs a new driver for fa311 want to try to
> use it(free)?
>
> and
>
> Can I provide the new source files of fa311 driver with or without
> the agreement of Netgear company to public for free?
>
> Yan Deng
--
James Wadkins
VTAT, Inc.
5429 Valley Wells Way
Las Vegas, NV 89113
702-873-0480
702-873-0049 Fax
http://www.vtat.com
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "James M. Wadkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: I made a new driver for Netgear fa311 netcard working on RedHat
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:32:31 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just mad tthe mistak of upgrading to RedHAt 7.0 and now my Netgear
FA311 CARDS don't work. I went to the Netgear site and download the
patch they have but the instructions were so far of from anything that
would make sense, can you give me soom advice to make these cards work
again.
Thanks,
Jim W.
freenux wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I bought a Netgear netcard fa311 and installed it and its dirver on my
> RedHat Linux6.0. It worked well.
>
> After I upgraded RedHat Linux6.0 to RedHat 7.0 ( whose kernel
> is 2.2.16-22 ), it did not work. Then I upgraded the linux kernel
> from 2.2.16-22 to 2.4 , and modified the source file fa311.c that
> Netgear company provides with the netcard and made a new driver
> for the fa311 netcard working on RedHat Linux 7.0+ kernel 2.4.
>
> Does someone who needs a new driver for fa311 want to try to
> use it(free)?
>
> and
>
> Can I provide the new source files of fa311 driver with or without
> the agreement of Netgear company to public for free?
>
> Yan Deng
--
James Wadkins
VTAT, Inc.
5429 Valley Wells Way
Las Vegas, NV 89113
702-873-0480
702-873-0049 Fax
http://www.vtat.com
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: KPPP Problems
Date: 28 Jan 2001 21:33:51 GMT
In <94uthg$fh4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]I am a Linux/RH7 newbire, who is experiencing 2 problems with PPP:
]I can use the _Redhat Linux_ dialup tool within KDE, with no problem
]whatsoever, however with KPPP:
Well, use the redhat one.
]1) I can successfully dialup when I'm root, but from without root I'm always
]asked for the root password. Why shouldn't everyone be allowed to use the
]modem? How can I enable modem usage for all accounts?
chmod a+rx /usr/sbin/{pppd,chat}
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
chmod a+rx /dev/ttyS?
]2) After dialing and succesfully connecting, no applications can be brought
]up - clicking on their icon/menu item does nothing. On the other hand, if I
]already have a console/shell window open, I can execute commands such as
]ping, ftp, etc., so I know I have a network connection. However, being able
]to use my browser would be nice...
Give your machine a name, or uncheck the kppp box which tells it rename your
machine. It was always a stupid button to have in the first place.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm 4 under Caldera?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:45:39 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Paul Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "rpm" is redhat's "property" and not a "normal" linux package even if
> other distributions use it; a potential problem exist in that when using
> a rpm to install, one could install into a place that redhat uses and not
> the distr one is acutally using and thereby possibly creating duplicates.
None of this is true in the same sense as none of it is false.
RPM is not redhats' property, in the sense that the code is GPL, as far
as I know. You are free to use it as you like, and so is redhat. If
either of you would like to try and hijack it by any of the classical
methods, you are free to try ... the standard method is to create
a de-facto standard.
The problems of placement are due to the contents of the RPM, not to
the RPM format in itself. The same problem arises with ANY (ANY ANY
ANY) packaging format. If your computer doesn't match the environment
it is designed for, it may be bad news for you. RPM contains various
platform and dependency checks that may well save you from that situation.
Peter
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From: "James M. Wadkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: I made a new driver for Netgear fa311 netcard working on RedHat
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:49:47 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I forgot, since my nic cards don't work I can't receive emails on the
server. So I can be reached at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you again,
Jim W.
"James M. Wadkins" wrote:
>
> I just mad tthe mistak of upgrading to RedHAt 7.0 and now my Netgear
> FA311 CARDS don't work. I went to the Netgear site and download the
> patch they have but the instructions were so far of from anything that
> would make sense, can you give me soom advice to make these cards work
> again.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim W.
>
> freenux wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I bought a Netgear netcard fa311 and installed it and its dirver on my
> > RedHat Linux6.0. It worked well.
> >
> > After I upgraded RedHat Linux6.0 to RedHat 7.0 ( whose kernel
> > is 2.2.16-22 ), it did not work. Then I upgraded the linux kernel
> > from 2.2.16-22 to 2.4 , and modified the source file fa311.c that
> > Netgear company provides with the netcard and made a new driver
> > for the fa311 netcard working on RedHat Linux 7.0+ kernel 2.4.
> >
> > Does someone who needs a new driver for fa311 want to try to
> > use it(free)?
> >
> > and
> >
> > Can I provide the new source files of fa311 driver with or without
> > the agreement of Netgear company to public for free?
> >
> > Yan Deng
>
> --
> James Wadkins
> VTAT, Inc.
> 5429 Valley Wells Way
> Las Vegas, NV 89113
> 702-873-0480
> 702-873-0049 Fax
> http://www.vtat.com
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
James Wadkins
VTAT, Inc.
5429 Valley Wells Way
Las Vegas, NV 89113
702-873-0480
702-873-0049 Fax
http://www.vtat.com
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Where to look (3Com 3C905c works sometimes)
Date: 28 Jan 2001 22:14:52 GMT
I've got a new computer going. It is based upon a SuperMicro P6DBE
motherboard and has two PIII 800E's. My network card is a 3Com 3C905c.
The proc/pci info is:
Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com Unknown device (rev 120).
Vendor id=10b7. Device id=9200.
Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64.
Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebfff80
I've got Red Hat 7 plus current security patches. I'm hooked to a LinkSys
cable / DSL router. I'm using DHCP.
The thing is, it workes sometimes. Appologies for the long clip from
"messages", but it seems that when things fail, "pumpd" goes away for a
while (and initialization continues with other task):
Jan 28 13:22:26 jjens3 network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Jan 28 13:22:27 jjens3 ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
Jan 28 13:22:27 jjens3 network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded
Jan 28 13:22:27 jjens3 ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
Jan 28 13:22:27 jjens3 pumpd[275]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:00:26)
Sun Jan 28 13:22:27 2001
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 nfslock: rpc.lockd startup succeeded
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX
checksum routines
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: pII_mmx : 1797.939 MB/sec
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: p5_mmx : 1877.568 MB/sec
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: 8regs : 1378.458 MB/sec
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: 32regs : 810.006 MB/sec
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: using fastest function: p5_mmx (1877.568
MB/sec)
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: scsi : detected total.
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: Partition check:
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: autodetecting RAID arrays
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: autorun ...
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: ... autorun DONE.
Jan 28 13:22:33 jjens3 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.
Jan 28 13:22:34 jjens3 kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed
Jan 28 13:22:34 jjens3 kernel: Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority
-1)
Jan 28 13:22:34 jjens3 kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff
Hartmann
Jan 28 13:22:34 jjens3 kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp
memory: 440M
Jan 28 13:22:34 jjens3 kernel: agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
Jan 28 13:22:31 jjens3 pumpd[275]: configured interface eth0 <27>Jan 28
13:22:31 pumpd[275]: failed to set default route: Network is unreachable
Jan 28 13:22:31 jjens3 ifup: done.
Jan 28 13:22:31 jjens3 network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
And here is one that worked:
Jan 28 13:29:10 jjens3 network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Jan 28 13:29:10 jjens3 ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
Jan 28 13:29:10 jjens3 network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded
Jan 28 13:29:11 jjens3 ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
Jan 28 13:29:11 jjens3 pumpd[294]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:01:40)
Sun Jan 28 13:29:11 2001
Jan 28 13:29:22 jjens3 random: Initializing random number generator:
succeeded
Jan 28 13:29:20 jjens3 ifup: done.
Jan 28 13:29:20 jjens3 network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
Where to look for the problem?
John
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From: "Tobias Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What ever happened to ALSA?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:51:29 +0100
Hi!
Up until recently, I was running the 2.2r0 Potato release. The day
before yesterday, I upgraded to one of the Woody releases and since then
the system hasn't been the same. I'm thinking that this can be a problem
generated by the fact that I didn't download the Woody upgrades
directly, but I used some packages that I had on a few cd's here. At any
rate, ever since the upgrade my soundcard has refused to have anything
to do with anyone except root.
Since I've got a Soundblaster PCI128, I decided to use the ALSA drivers
to get it up and running. No problems there, I downloaded the alsa
packages (driver, libs, utils) and compiled just fine. Then I installed
and off i went, everything was working great until I upgraded to Woody.
Now the ALSA drivers simply won't be available to the ordinary user,
when I try to do "amixer" with my usual account I get the following;
tjolle@willow:~$ amixer The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this
system.
Although, I do the same thing just after running su;
tjolle@willow:~$ su Password: willow:/home/tjolle# amixer Group 'Input
Gain',0
Capabilities: volume mute jointly-mute Channels: Front-Left
Front-Right
[..snip..]
Also, I though I would include what it looks like when I try to run
"gamix";
tjolle@willow:~$ gamix probe.c 31: No ALSA device. main.c 29: Can not
make mixer.
Now, all I want to know is; what gives? I mean, why the heck are my ALSA
drivers hiding from everyone except root? Could I mistakenly have
installed the ALSA debs when I upgraded the system? I had problems with
the included ALSA debs earlier, that's why I decided to compile them on
my own.
Thanks in advance,
Tobias Bengtsson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: rpm 4 under Caldera?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:01:31 GMT
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:45:39 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.setup Paul Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "rpm" is redhat's "property" and not a "normal" linux package even if
>> other distributions use it; a potential problem exist in that when using
>> a rpm to install, one could install into a place that redhat uses and not
>> the distr one is acutally using and thereby possibly creating duplicates.
>
>None of this is true in the same sense as none of it is false.
>
>RPM is not redhats' property, in the sense that the code is GPL, as far
>as I know. You are free to use it as you like, and so is redhat. If
>either of you would like to try and hijack it by any of the classical
>methods, you are free to try ... the standard method is to create
>a de-facto standard.
>
>The problems of placement are due to the contents of the RPM, not to
>the RPM format in itself. The same problem arises with ANY (ANY ANY
>ANY) packaging format. If your computer doesn't match the environment
>it is designed for, it may be bad news for you. RPM contains various
>platform and dependency checks that may well save you from that situation.
>
>
My wording is incorrect, but I thought that redhat did the "original"
code for their environment; but now who is actually doing the
"maintenance/updates/developments" on rpm??? And what environment is a rpm
package created for since there is no "environment" info on the rpm. It
is like the "how-to" that appeared to be slackware specific as the
references to the various files coincide with the slackware environment;
I'm beginning to see docs/how-tos that appear to coincide with the
redhat distr now tho but without specific statements that it is for
redhat only.
Someone claimed to me that all distr do their "own docs" but that is
something I don't believe as someone would have to go thru the info and
change full-path filename to be the same as one's distribution.
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From: Florian Schroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.4 and Modules
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:24:32 +0100
I cant compile kernel 2.4 with kmod enabled. I cant install it as
described in kmod.txt.
can someone help me???????
thx ciao flo
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