Linux-Setup Digest #690, Volume #20 Fri, 23 Feb 01 06:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: How to get LILO to see NT drive ("Masha Ku'Inanna")
Re: Setting up a Cardinal modem ("Gene Heskett")
Dual NIC Problem ("Ken Wilson")
Re: How to get LILO to see NT drive ("Eric")
Re: View booting messages after login... (Michael Heiming)
Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7 ("syco")
Re: Partition Options ("Steve Ward")
IPv6 with linux....help ("fail006")
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? ("Martin Eriksson")
Ximian upgrade on Debian/Stormix - Stuck at login (Lacky)
Installation appears to freeze!! Please help ("Wayne Howarth")
Re: A question a day#1 (Roman Fietze)
Re: Installation appears to freeze!! Please help ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
AHA-2940 + Dell/Seagate STD2401LW DAT drive? (Frederic Faure)
Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama (Walter van der Schee)
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (John Thompson)
Suse + kernel 2.4.2 + isdn ("Hanno B�ttcher")
Re: Run X on Laptop Ashton Maximate 420 W/ Piii 850mhz, 14.1"tft (rassman)
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From: "Masha Ku'Inanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get LILO to see NT drive
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 01:56:22 -0500
Reply-To: "Masha Ku'Inanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Andreas Walli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I am currently trying to setup Linux on a second sd; in the partioning
> phase Linux is able to see my NT sda but once I get to the LILO config it
> does not give me the NT image as a boot option !NT runs still on the
> master sd-could that be the reason ? or did I screw something up in
> the Partioning phase (I assigned the Linux box as a root drive and NT as
\NT)
>
> Andreas
>
Generally, on my system, with 2 IDE hard-drives, linux is on my second hard
drive (hdb)....
You'd expect NT to be seen on the first hard drive at hda, at least, or
hda1.. it isn't. It is the 2nd partition, hda2, on my system. Baffled me for
a while, but apparently, NT creates a small partition, before the main NTFS
partition.
Yours, being a SCSI setup should be the same... Try having lilo boot from
sda2 instead.
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Date: 23 Feb 2001 1:17:47 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up a Cardinal modem
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Ed Collins;
EC> Hello, there
EC> I'm trying to install a Cardinal modem into a 486 and cannot get
EC> it to work. The initialization string will not execute in
EC> minicom, and I cannot type in a AT command.
EC> The config is:
EC> serial device: /dev/ttyS3
EC> BPS/Par/Bits: 115200 8N1
EC> Hardware and software
EC> 486DX-66
EC> 20MByte of Ram
EC> Red Hat Linux (Kernel 2.2.5-15)
EC> Cardinal 28.8IV with voice.
EC> I would certainly appreciate anyone's advice.
I had a Cardinal 33.6k external several years back now, and while I was
very impressed with its less than 1 watt power consumption and its
flashability, I also found that its flashability may have been its
downfall, as in short memory life.
The first time I flashed it from 28.8 to 33.6 it ran happily for about 6
months, then started having trouble negotiating, so I reflashed it again
after checking their site for a newer upgrade file but found none. That
flash lasted about a month, the next one about a week, at which point I
bought a 56k dual mode Zoom, an early one that also needed flashed right
away, bug fixes and such.
That was 3+ years ago, and it hasn't been touched since. It will
renegotiate downward depending on the last weeks weather history,
sometimes to around 14.4, but I *know* how much water is in my phone
lines, cause I'm the one that dug them up here and there. I also hear
it on the voice pair in the same cable. ):
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 500mhz
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
<http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto>
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material,
is � 2001 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: "Ken Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual NIC Problem
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:17:32 GMT
I have installed two Linksys Ether16 LAN cards in a Packard Bell Legend
2051. I have been able to get one of the card recognized but not the
second. Both have been reconfigured to be non-PNP using the DOS setup
utility supplied with the cards and each given distinctive base IO addresses
and IRQs, 0x280 IRQ 3 and 0x380 IRQ 15. The cards are NE2000 clones.
My set up in conf.modules is as follows:
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x280,0x380 irq=3,15
Just the way the HOWTO says to. In addition I have tried append in lilo in
order to get the two cards recognized. My append string is as follows
append "ether=3,0x280,0,1,eth0 ether=15,0x380,0,1,eth1"
Hunting around in the various logs it seems that the module for these cards,
ne.c, only probes one card and never probes the second. The sad part is
that individually, these cards both work.
Current installation consists of RedHat 6.2 on a 486 w/12MB RAM.
Any help ferreting out a solution is greatly appreciated as I'd like to get
this router established before the real computer comes home from Compusmart
this weekend.
--
Ken Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get LILO to see NT drive
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:22:41 +0100
> > I am currently trying to setup Linux on a second sd; in the partioning
> > phase Linux is able to see my NT sda but once I get to the LILO config
it
> > does not give me the NT image as a boot option
Did you forget to run `/sbin/lilo -v` ?
>> !NT runs still on the
> > master sd-could that be the reason ? or did I screw something up in
> > the Partioning phase (I assigned the Linux box as a root drive and NT as
> \NT)
I don't know what you mean by this.
I doubt if it has any influence though.
> >
>
> Generally, on my system, with 2 IDE hard-drives, linux is on my second
hard
> drive (hdb)....
>
> You'd expect NT to be seen on the first hard drive at hda, at least, or
> hda1.. it isn't. It is the 2nd partition, hda2, on my system. Baffled me
for
> a while, but apparently, NT creates a small partition, before the main
NTFS
> partition.
It didn't do so at my PC
Anyway you can use `fdisk -l /dev/DEVICENAME` to find out
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:26:46 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: View booting messages after login...
Cameron Kerr wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Michael Heiming"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > julius wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I know there is a key combination to scrool up the content of the
> >> screen, after login, to look at the sequence of messages of the booting
> >> process. But my "RAM" is not "ECC", so I need a refresh. So, if you
> >> please...
> >
> > Shift+Pageup(Bild - is written on my german layout keyboard...:-))
> >
> > Michael Heiming
>
> What you probably really want is the dmesg command, and the contents of
> /var/log/messages
>
> HIH -- Cameron Kerr
If you take a look at /var/log/messages, in case of reboot the first messages
is that
syslogd was started (ie. Nov 12 09:50:43 machine syslogd 1.3-3: restart.).
If you use dmesg the first kernel messags are mostly not displayed,
you have to scroll up, of course this will not work if you have set
/etc/inittab to boot up
to graphical login...
You can take a look at /var/log/boot.msg if you want, which gets generated
every time you reboot.
So I expect that the OP wanted to know what he asked, howto scroll up his
screen.
Michael Heiming
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From: "syco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:43:09 +0100
[...]
> Yes, it works.
> using : modprobe aha1542 aha1542=0x230
> ( that is the syntax I needed, indeed )
>
> Now, I have to find an automatic way to make it when Linux start :-(
As I wrote:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt
describes howto do this...
Michael Heiming
>
>
> >man modprobe for more info
> >
> >Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt (comes with every kernel
> tarball)
> >
> >gives some info how loadable modules work/setup.
> >
[...]
I've been searching a while, but sources are not installed on my disk
because of space ), and on distrib are only archives.
Is it an existing Documentation "on line" somewhere ?
SYCO.
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From: "Steve Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Options
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:01:02 -0600
Thanks a million Duane, and I am almost there, will get back on this group
from Linux as soon as I have it up.
> And you are correct. Linux goes by letter for drive reference, so a
> standard two channel IDE system would be like this
> hda IDE0 - master
> hdb IDE0 - slave
> hdc IDE1 - master
> hdd IDE1 - slave
>
> Then partitions are numbered consecutively from there. e.g.
> hdc3 would be the third primary partition on IDE1 master.
>
> I hope that and my prior message help you out. Best of luck!
>
> --
> -Duane
> -DNAware SoftLabs
>
> In article <96htum$c63$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steve Ward"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks so much Duane, I have been looking all day for a response to this
> > one, and you came through for me. I understand the need for the swapfile
> > on a seperate IDE channel also as I use it for my pagefile with NT. I am
> > not really that familiar with you LINUXers way of identifying drives
> > though, acronyms and all....can I assume correctly that HDA is the first
> > HD on the system, HDA7 being the 7th partition ?
> >
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From: "fail006" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPv6 with linux....help
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:57:03 +1300
Hi,
I would like to know how do i go about implementing IPv6 on my linux PCs.
I have too PCs that have Rehat 7.0 running. Is there a tool that i can use
to watch IPv6 Packets, such as TCP dump...
Thanks allot
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From: "Martin Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:42:13 +0100
I guess you mean "to run Linux on a pre-installed Unix system such as SGI or
Sun". If you mean that, yes it is possible.
"Mun Sing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Linux.... and I am wondering if it is possible Linux on a
> Unix System??
> I know it does not make much of a scene... but this question just pop
> into my head...
> If anyone has tried it or have some knowledge of it.
>
> Thanx,
> Mun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lacky)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Ximian upgrade on Debian/Stormix - Stuck at login
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:30:04 GMT
So I just finished a fresh install of Hail and figured I would get
Helix/Ximian Gnome up-to-date. So, after consulting the Ximian web
site (www.ximian.org) for instructions on how to update Debian based
systems, I typed the following as su:
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
Everything seemed to work just fine until I tried to reboot. I am now
stuck in an endless cycle of login screens. If I try to login as
either root or my personal account, the screen goes blank for a second
as if the monitor was turned off and then I am simply returned to the
login page to do it all over again. I simply cannot get past the login
page.
Anyone know what I did wrong to bring this upon myself?
Next, anyone know how I can fix it?
Thanks in Advance!
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From: "Wayne Howarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Installation appears to freeze!! Please help
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:45:40 -0000
Please help. I have been trying to install the Red Hat 7 distribution for
most of the afternoon however I am finding that about 20% through the
installation the computer just hangs. The installation screen is still
visible and the mouse seems to respond by moving around the screen.
Wayne.
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From: Roman Fietze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A question a day#1
Date: 23 Feb 2001 08:09:10 +0100
"res072bx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...
> "There is no link between /var/x11r6/bin/x to /usr/x11r6/bin/xf86_xxxx which
> is the binary of the instaled x server. Am aborting now."
> ...
With SuSE 7.0 you have to have either XFree 86 3.x or XFree 86 4.x
installed. Now you have to call sax for Xfree 86 3.x to configure this
version or sax2 to configure XFree 4.x. sax and sax2 create links in
/var/X11R6/bin to the appropriate server binary in /usr/X11R6/bin. The
link /usr/X11R6/bin/X points to the link in /var/X11R6/bin, so you
have "constant" files seperated from "variable" files.
When you want to switch between Xfree 3.x and 4.x you just call sax or
sax2 and reuse the old config.
Just my 2 Cents (yes, we Europeans also have Cents very soon, 1 Euro =
100 Cent).
Roman
--
Roman Fietze (Mail Code 6) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Heidelberg Digital Finishing GmbH, Germany DDF-T SWEC ESW
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Reply-To: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Installation appears to freeze!! Please help
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:47:59 +0100
"Wayne Howarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:97580v$8eh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Please help. I have been trying to install the Red Hat 7 distribution for
> most of the afternoon however I am finding that about 20% through the
> installation the computer just hangs. The installation screen is still
> visible and the mouse seems to respond by moving around the screen.
try the text installation modus..
also look in the terminals for output messages if you can, press CTRL+ALT +
F1 to F7
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: AHA-2940 + Dell/Seagate STD2401LW DAT drive?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:48:29 GMT
Hi,
This is a brand-new 20/40GB DAT drive that I took out of a
Dell PowerEdge 6300.
The 2940 adapter and the DAT drive are detected by the BIOS, but Linux
won't see the drive.
I've tried a different 2940, along with a SCSI cable with a
terminator, to no avail.
No luck on Dell's support section, and I see that others are having
problems with that DAT drive.
I've tried different 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels with the required SCSI
drivers (put all the Adaptec drivers as modules to be safe).
Any idea?
Thx
FF.
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From: Walter van der Schee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:52:17 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Nelson wrote:
>
> Hello: This weekend I finally got a working config file for using 2
> monitors on a g400 max.
>
> My problem however is that right now my etc/inittab file has me going to
> only run level 3. if I change this value to 5, the systems takes me to a
> graphical logon..but with only one monitor. My guess is that the system
> is still strying to run startx as opposed to startx -- +xinerama. Where
> do I need to make a change so this can be automoated? Any advice is
> # Screen "Screen 1"
> Screen "Screen 1" LeftOf "Screen 2" Screen "Screen 2"
>
> # Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
> # optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
> # used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
> # "SendCoreEvents".
>
> InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
>
> EndSection
The solution I found was simpler than any of the others I've seen
until now.
In your XF86Config file in the ServerLayout section put the layout like
this:
Section "ServerLayout"
Indentifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1" LeftOf "Screen 2"
Screen "Screen 2"
Option "Xinerama"
EndSection
This should start X by default in Xinerama mode, regardless.
As for kdm starting instead of gdm, you can ofcourse
edit inittab to start kdm at runlevel 5, instead of gdm/xdm.
Walter
--
ing. Walter van der Schee
TrienniuM B.V.
System Engineer
UNIX/TIBCO Support for KBC Brussels
====================================
"Go go gadget linux." Zoomm!
====================================
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:37:34 -0600
Mun Sing wrote:
> I am new to Linux.... and I am wondering if it is possible Linux on a
> Unix System??
> I know it does not make much of a scene... but this question just pop
> into my head...
> If anyone has tried it or have some knowledge of it.
There was an article on freshmeat recently about SCO Unixware
being used to run linux apps on Unix to allow linux apps to take
advantage of Unix scalabilty. Is this what you're thinking of?
Try a search on http://www.freshmeat.net for "Unixware."
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Hanno B�ttcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suse + kernel 2.4.2 + isdn
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:19:01 -0000
Hi all!
I have a linux router with originaly Suse Linux 6.3 installed. First I
upgraded per Yast -> System update to the current Version (7.0) and then I
downloaded the Kernel Sources of 2.4.2 (form ftp.kernel.org). I compiled the
new kernel and installed it, all is working fine except ISDN. He tells me
that the IO is not given. Any ideas where to config that? At the menuconfig
there's no possibility to do that.......
Are there any other things I have to know for using ISDN and a pure Kernel
(with pure I mean a kernel which is not packed and patched from Suse).
Is there a rpm of a 2.4.2 Kernel from Suse???? Where can I get it?
Thx in advance,
Hanno
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From: rassman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Run X on Laptop Ashton Maximate 420 W/ Piii 850mhz, 14.1"tft
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:46:19 +0000
Shangyou Zhang
Oh dear, when I saw your 'sis630' I was nearly set to tears again
because its too like sis620 for my liking (over dramatic or what).
sis620 is about the worst of all graphics cards to get drivers or
internal info for, because its built into the motherboard and the
designer has an amount of flexibility which means that the actual
drivers you get for your machine are basically written for that one
single model/motherboard. Or, there kindly give you a chopped down basic
driver that will run your card as a vga, then you use the pc
manufacturers drivers to add the better video classes.
I did get a Mach64 working with it, but that was a while ago and I can't
say off my head how its done exactly, except to say that I got a list of
all the devices capabilities etc and fitted them into a Mach.
SIS have grown up a bit, I hope, and if you go to www.driverguide.com
(sign up, its free and its very useful for other things) you will find
that you can get detals of the drivers/chips which you can then match
from the list in the video setup of linux. Linux is actually much
better at this stuff than MS Windows is, if you lost your setup discs
for your machine I bet my left arm Windows would force you to vga 16
colours and tell you to sod off if you wanted better.
wrote:
> Run X on Laptop Ashton Maximate 420 W/ Piii 850mhz, 14.1"tft
>
> Anyone tried this? Any one can help?
>
> It says the video card is sis 630.
> I tried many modes for monitor/X setting. Mostly What I got are about
> 1/4
> (left-upper) corner of screen. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. Please also reply to me via email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> just in case I miss your post on news group.
>
> By the way, I use netscape to read newsgroup. Is there any
> way I can search contents of all posts? Or about searching
> the subject line? It seems to me the search function is on the
> message displayed.
>
> Scott
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