Linux-Setup Digest #698, Volume #20 Sat, 24 Feb 01 11:13:10 EST
Contents:
USR modem in Red Hat 7.0 ("Edward Stammer")
Problem: Access to Suse/Samba OK from win98 NOT FROM WIN-NT/2000 ("magt")
Re: Implications of kernel upgrade ? (Matt Haley)
Superblock error ("Mike")
ALSA utils + apps compile problem (with all of them!) (Jako Grobler)
Distinctive Ring ("Ken Rambler")
Re: ALSA utils + apps compile problem (with all of them!) ("Roy Batty")
Re: Distinctive Ring (Dean Thompson)
Re: install scripts RedHat (SSH2.3.0) ("RJHM van den Bergh")
Creative LiveValue Sound Driver... (root)
Re: Creative LiveValue Sound Driver... (Cornel van Mastrigt)
Re: Ximian upgrade on Debian/Stormix - Stuck at login (Leonard Stiles)
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (Rod Smith)
tty execute question ("Ray Lassiter")
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (John Thompson)
Re: IP_Aliasing in .config files missing in 2.4.x ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Looking for modelines for ViewSonic A70 ("Gene Heskett")
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From: "Edward Stammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR modem in Red Hat 7.0
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:46:07 GMT
I have an US Robotics 5610A build 0778 (hardware controlled) modem that is
not
recognized in Linux kernel 2.2.16. I understand this modem is not supposed
to work in any Linux kernel less than 2.3, however, several people have told
me they have seen them work in kernel 2.2 and lower.
When checking this modem in WINDOZE ME, it is reported to be on COM 5.
Never seen a modem that puts itself out that far. I can find the controller
for the modem in Linux, using lspci, but it does not report it as a modem.
I have tried the AUTO CONFIG in GNOME, and in KDE, but it does not find the
modem. I am willing to write, or rewrite code, but need to know what to
write, since I am not a programmer, and new to LINUX. I love the LINUX
operating system so far, but without a modem, I am stuck dual booting with
WINDOZE.
I would appreciate any advice on how to set this modem up. I have been to
several sites, and read what they have there, but nothing specific to my
problem shows up.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stuck on a WINDOZE machine.
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From: "magt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem: Access to Suse/Samba OK from win98 NOT FROM WIN-NT/2000
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:01:08 +0100
Hello
I have a linux (Suse 6.4) box running samba. i include my smb.conf below.
I have a problem accessing shares from windows NT and 2000.
I do see my server (name Apache) in the Neighboork Network but I can't
access anything.
Everything works fine when doing an access from Windows 98: Any hint on how
to solve this?
i also include the error log from samba when my NT machine wants to connect
to it.
=================== My smb.conf (created with SWAT) =========
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from dev (192.168.0.10)
# Date: 2001/02/24 11:44:49
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = AMD
server string = Apache %v Request from %m
interfaces = eth0
security = SHARE
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/smb-log.%m
nt smb support = No
nt pipe support = No
name resolve order = host lmhosts wins bcast
local master = No
hosts allow = 192.168.0.10, 192.168.0.20, 192.168.0.50
[webpages]
comment = WebPages
path = /usr/local/httpd/htdocs
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
[homes]
comment = Apache
read only = No
create mask = 0750
guest ok = Yes
[doc]
comment = Docs
path = /usr/doc
guest ok = Yes
[tmp]
comment = Temporary Files
path = /tmp
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /tmp
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
print ok = Yes
browseable = No
============== Error log when accessing from Windows NT =====
[2001/02/24 11:47:49, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(474)
read_socket_data: recv failure for 4.
Error = Connection reset by peer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Subject: Re: Implications of kernel upgrade ?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:10:34 -0000
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:23:32 +0000,
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4
>
>which I assume will be an archive of the sources I need. I've also got
>the README from www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel.
>
>Can anybody confirm that this readme is up to date ? I remember some
>recent discussion about what directory tree the kernel ought to be built
>in.
After you unpack the kernel check out the file linux/Documentation/Changes.
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Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mandrake 7.2 / RedHat 6.1 / Windows 98 SE / FreeBSD 4.2 / Windows NT 4
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Superblock error
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:28:40 +0100
Hi there,
When booting the system RH7.0 goes through its filesystem checks. After
checking the swap partition halts with an error message stating that the
superblock maybe corrupted and to use e2fsck -b 8193 (I think) <device>.
I have done it with no avail.
Are there some tricks I could use before reinstalling the OS?
TIA
Emilio
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From: Jako Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALSA utils + apps compile problem (with all of them!)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 08:59:58 -0500
Hi!
I have Mandrake 7.2 running on my machine. The sound card is a SB Live!
Platinum. I could not get any sound from the Live Drive when using the OSS
drivers, so decided to try out ALSA instead.
- The install of ALSA 0.9 beta 1 drivers went fine.
- The install of ALSA 0.9 beta 1 lib went fine.
- NONE of the utils or apps will compile!
Running ./configure for any of the utils/apps gives this:
<snip!>
checking for ALSA LDFLAGS... -lasound
checking for libasound headers version >= 0.1.3... found
checking for snd_cards in -lasound... no
configure: error: No linkable libasound was found.
- All of my X-Windows OSS based apps seem to work ok with the ALSA
driver.
What am I doing wrong, or not doing at all?
Regards,
Jako Grobler
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From: "Ken Rambler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat,de.alt.comm.mgetty,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Distinctive Ring
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:01:54 GMT
US Robotics 56K Sportster Modem, Model 5686
This modem is reported to support distinctive ring mode. Had anyone had
success using this feature with mgetty to answer on a normal ring only and
NOT on a distinctive ring type call?
For those that might not have distinctive ring service in their area, this
feature is provided by the local telephone company to alter the ring style
on two phone numbers connected to one line. A long ring (normal) designates
a call on one number (say a fax or data call) and two short rings on a
different number (same line) for voice calls.
Thanks!
Ken
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From: "Roy Batty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ALSA utils + apps compile problem (with all of them!)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:10:19 +0100
It looks like you have to tell configure where the
ALSA library resides that you installed before.
There should be an option available for this.
Run
./configure -help
and look for a switch --with-alsa-lib or similar.
- Roy
"Jako Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi!
>
> I have Mandrake 7.2 running on my machine. The sound card is a SB Live!
> Platinum. I could not get any sound from the Live Drive when using the OSS
> drivers, so decided to try out ALSA instead.
>
> - The install of ALSA 0.9 beta 1 drivers went fine.
> - The install of ALSA 0.9 beta 1 lib went fine.
> - NONE of the utils or apps will compile!
> Running ./configure for any of the utils/apps gives this:
>
> <snip!>
> checking for ALSA LDFLAGS... -lasound
> checking for libasound headers version >= 0.1.3... found
> checking for snd_cards in -lasound... no
> configure: error: No linkable libasound was found.
>
> - All of my X-Windows OSS based apps seem to work ok with the ALSA
> driver.
>
> What am I doing wrong, or not doing at all?
>
> Regards,
> Jako Grobler
>
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat,de.alt.comm.mgetty,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Re: Distinctive Ring
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 01:12:30 +1100
Hi Ken,
> This modem is reported to support distinctive ring mode. Had anyone had
> success using this feature with mgetty to answer on a normal ring only and
> NOT on a distinctive ring type call?
I think this is going to boil down to the fact that the modem may not actually
know how to respond to the second ring other than to give the standard Hayes
response of RING. Do you know whether or not your modem can differentiate
between the rings in its hardware because from memory I think mgetty works off
the basis of looking for a "RING" singal to be sent to the computer from the
modem.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: "RJHM van den Bergh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: install scripts RedHat (SSH2.3.0)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:26:57 +0100
The problem is that my server is an old RedHat 5.2
There are no ssh2 rpms available for this release.
I can find openssh and ssh2 rpm for redhat 6.x and 7.x but not for 5.2.
I tried to compile the openssh on the server.
For that I had to compile and install openSSL and zlib.
But the openssh still didn't compile.
So I dowloaded and installed a source rpm of ssh2.3.0 and compiled and
installe the thing manually.
Seems to work.
Also found its possible to rebuild to an binairy rpm.
I think that should work also because I manually could compile it.
Just rebuilding the source rpm for RedHat 7.0 to one for RedHat 5.2.
Thanks for the advice.
Rob,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Chris Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:h_wl6.1839$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Rob,
> This is not a direct answer, but you could DL OpenSSH
(http://www.openssh.com)
> in a RH .rpm file. When you install it, it sets up everything perfectly,
> including copying the start,stop script into /etc/rc.d/init.d and
> creating all the start,stop links (/etc/rc.d/rc#.d/[SK]##...).
> Then you can reboot or simply start the server daemon manually:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start
>
>
> "RJHM van den Bergh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > I've an old RedHat 5.2 and managed to install the ssh2.3.0
> > I had to use the source rpm to get it going.
> > Compiled the thing by hand
> >
> > I found the source rpm also contains a install script to be used with
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d
> > No I'm not sure what to do next.
> > I want to place symbolic links at the rc directories.
> > So when next time the system boots ssh2 is also started.
> >
> > But is that save to do.
> > Does a failure cause the server not to reboot ?
> >
> > Now I do start the ssh2 deamon with rc.local.
> >
> > Or was there another way to do it.
> > rpm rebuild or something.
> >
> > Thanks for any advice
> > Rob,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:36:52 +0800
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative LiveValue Sound Driver...
Hi all,
Finally I got connect to the isp....thanks!
Another question!!!
Is there any generic sound card driver for the Creative Sound
Blaster Live Value card???
Urgent! Please help!!
Thanks!
sixoneo
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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:51:55 +0100
From: Cornel van Mastrigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative LiveValue Sound Driver...
root wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Finally I got connect to the isp....thanks!
>
> Another question!!!
>
> Is there any generic sound card driver for the Creative Sound
> Blaster Live Value card???
>
> Urgent! Please help!!
>
> Thanks!
>
> sixoneo
--
Download it at http://opensource.creative.com/
Good luck,
Cornel
Linux 2.2.18 i686
3:51pm up 3 days, 14:56, 5 users, load average: 1.10, 1.18, 1.21
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://cornel.penguinpowered.com
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Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Ximian upgrade on Debian/Stormix - Stuck at login
From: Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:09:12 GMT
"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd lean away from that, as a PAM failure should result in a failed
> authorisation situation coming back to gdm, which does something very
> noticeable in such a situation - the gdm window shakes itself "NO" in
> response. If that isn't happening, authentication is passing, meaning
> PAM is okay, and more likely X is failing to kick in beyond the nominal
> requirements for gdm to run.
FYI, the original poster mailed me saying my guess was right and his
problem is fixed.
What you are referring to is when PAM operates correctly (performs
authentication according to the relevant configuration file for the utility)
but that the user is denied access based on the credentials
(e.g. username/password) he supplies. In this case, the PAM
configuration file for GDM was missing and hence authentication could
not be done at all.
--
Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:29:52 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Windgassen wrote:
>>
>>That's not the whole truth (in my opinion:-): these are environments within
>>Linux and OS/2 that allow you to run Windows executables, i.e. _individual_
>>programs. This is pretty different from running a whole operating system, e.g.
>>including task, memory and filesystem management.
>
> You're right about the Windows on Linux.
> Windows 3.11 on OS/2 though... hard to tell, you may be right there too.
> I ran OS/2 Warp when it first came out and I could run several program managers
> at once, or pop over to an entire full screen Windows, all while OS/2 was running.
> Sure does a great job fooling the user into believing Windows is really
> running there.
That's because Windows 3.1/3.11 wasn't an OS; it was a GUI environment
with some OS-like features. It didn't include filesystems, for instance;
that was provided by the underlying OS (usually DOS, but in an OS/2
environment, OS/2).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Ray Lassiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: tty execute question
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 10:33:59 -0500
I just upgraded my Mandrake 7.2 distro to kernel 2.4.2. Everything appears
to be fine except on login or su I get line that says:
bash: /usr/bin/tty: cannot execute binary file
I looked at the file, it is there, but it looks terrible like it is corrupt.
Can anyone clarify this error? How can i get a new tty script. Not even sure
what it does. No noticable functionality problems.
Thanks,
Ray
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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: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 07:15:27 -0600
Rob Windgassen wrote:
> That's not the whole truth (in my opinion:-): these are environments within
> Linux and OS/2 that allow you to run Windows executables, i.e. _individual_
> programs. This is pretty different from running a whole operating system, e.g.
> including task, memory and filesystem management.
Actually, OS/2 can run any real-mode x86 operating system in a
virtual machine. I have an OS/2 machine with DR-DOS, MS-DOS
v2.11, MS-DOS v3.1 and MS-DOS v6.2 running is spearate virtual
machines. This does carry a peformance penalty, however, and by
default OS/2 will use it's emulated DOS environment to run DOS
programs.
IIRC, linux' DOSEMU environment similarly provides a virtual
real-mode x86 machine for a DOS operating system. VMware does a
similar thing in providing a protected-mode 80x86 virtual
environment.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Date: 24 Feb 2001 9:15:9 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP_Aliasing in .config files missing in 2.4.x
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to phil-news-nospam ;
> In comp.os.linux.development.system Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>| The subject line pretty much says it. That option has disappeared from
>| the make xconfig screens of the 2.4.x kernels.
>|
>| Without that option being enabled, BRU2000-PE won't run, asking instead for
>| a seriel number. Turn it on, recompile a 2.2.18 kernel, and it works once
>| again.
>|
>| Since its the PE edition from the old RH5.1 disk set, we don't hardly
>| got some more of those 'seriel number' thingies. :-)
>|
>| Has it been renamed or something, or is it permanently turned on in the
>| later kernels?
> I guess permanently on. It's no longer a hack. Just configure a
> alias interface and see if it works.
I did that when I got home to my own 2.4.2 box, and it (eth0:1) worked
just fine. Unforch, I'd wiped bru for some reason, and don't have a
copy here to try. Note that this is NOT the same bru-pe you can
download, the x interface at least is slightly different. About a
version earlier I think.
> Why does BRU need an IP alias? Does it demand its own set of IP
> addresses?
Thats a question it will take more astute people to answer. Do we have
a sniffer that would show that data?
I'd also like to know how to make it use a compressor like bzip2,
changing tapes for the last 100 megs on my work machine is a pita.
Then, from the looks of it, the second tape didn't take, it errored out
without verifying the backup. By then it was go home time and I didn't
feel like restarting it on the second TR4 tape. Bummer.
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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Date: 24 Feb 2001 9:35:37 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for modelines for ViewSonic A70
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.help
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to James Richard;
JRT> Joe Mason wrote:
>> (II) NV(0): 1152x870@75Hz
>>
>> (WW) NV(0): Mode "1152x870" deleted (no mode of this name)
JRT> This is interesting, I thought that it was 1152x864?
Duh! 8-{ And I bit which is even more embarrassing. Of course you are
correct. I simply didn't do the math.
Now, please note that this is not impossible to do with some video
chips! The one on this card for instance can be diddled a line at a
time for vertical, and I think 1 pixel at a time horizontally, As can
the sync and blanking timeings, we have tool software that can do this
on the fly here, but not without the occasional clash between the chip
and what the driver is telling it to do. But if the screen upchucks,
just hit the escape key and the previous mode is restored. :-)
Its an old CL-5226, on a Picasso-IIa in this amiga.
But *most* of the modelines are built so the divisors and results are
integer, and the pixel is square, with emphasis on square pixels
usually. This puts a bit more of an artistic constraint on what some
people consider to be a usable modeline.
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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