Linux-Setup Digest #749, Volume #20 Sun, 4 Mar 01 13:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Windows and Screens problems (John Sage)
Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles ("Scot Mc Pherson")
Re: Netscape6 crashes like crazy under RH7 (Paul Folbrecht)
Help needed- can't update glibc on RH7 (Paul Folbrecht)
Re: modules problem ("Gene Heskett")
Re: How to Prevent Linux from Taking MBR? (John Sage)
Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles ("Blue")
Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles ("Blue")
Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: boot problem: LIL- (John Sage)
Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles ("Scot Mc Pherson")
Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles ("Scot Mc Pherson")
Re: Do daemons corrupt system security? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
file colours (harry weston)
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows and Screens problems
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 16:05:50 GMT
William B:
I've seen this, ya just have to kinda work through it..
Typically one cycle of resizing will take care of the issue for a given
application:
Drag the window (usually to the left) so you can get at the maximize
button (the middle one-of-three in the upper right) and cycle it through
one or two resizes.
Then close the app and it should be OK the next time you run it.
Sometimes you need to actually drag the left, right, top and bottom
edges of the window frame within the boundaries of what you can see, and
then cycle the maximize button.
I have no idea *what's* going on with this, but Netscape is a prime
candidate.
- John
--
John Sage
FinchHaven, Vashon Island, WA, USA
http://www.finchhaven.com/
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And remember: it's spelled l-i-n-u-x, but it's pronounced "Linux"
William B wrote:
> Hi I have this problem with my Red Hat 7 installation. When I open up
> various windows they are bigger than the screen. This is particularly true
> for Netscape. Everything is too big in Netscape and half the screen or half
> the information is to the right of the screen or to the right of the
> Netscape window. This is true inspite of the fact that the scroll bar is
> visible. I tried Xconfigurator but that didn't do it. This is true in both
> KDE and Gnome
>
> Thanks,
> William Claster
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 16:08:13 GMT
I apologize for cross posting to the four newsgoups, but I am in a quandry
here. I have a netgear fa311 which the group so very kind enough to inform
me that netgear has provided "unsupported" linux drivers. Well for the last
few days I have been repeated trying to get this nic to operate with my
linux box...I am a fairly experienced linux user for the last 4-5 years, and
I have 4 other operating linux machines tweaked to perform specific tasks,
so I believe that ordinarilyI know what I am doing.
This machine is running rh7, and the hardware is AMD Athalon 700, ASUS K7V
MB, with 128 MB ram...This is the first "Workstation/Development station"
that I have put together, the other machines either serving as
firewall/router, web/ftp servers, smtp/pop3/usenet server or samba/nfs/print
server. I want to put this machine together as my alternate solution to
Windows workstation setups...It has a 20 GB HDD which I am dual booting
because my wife isn't interested at the moment in 100% migration. Everything
works just fine except networking.
I have downloaded the drivers from the netgear website, both the v7 and v6.2
for rh. I am concerned about the drivers for two reasons...The 6.2 drivers
are named in all-caps, this is a concern for obvious reasons, the rh7
version of the drivers though do not seem to operate properly...There are
two copies of the makefile, and when makefile is run, most of the command
return "command not found" and the compiler returns many many various errors
such as file not found and other sorts of things which I cannot list right
now because I am using the Win OS to write this. If I just go ahead and try
and configure networking after the fact, I get network unreachable when I
ping.
I would just go an purchase another NIC which I already have had success
with, but I can't quite afford to buy anything new right now.
--
Scot Mc Pherson
N27� 19' 56"
W82� 30' 39"
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From: Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape6 crashes like crazy under RH7
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 16:09:45 GMT
Anthony PIRON wrote:
> Download Mozilla from www.mozilla.org. The new release seems more stable
> and quicker than netscape6.
>
> Paul Folbrecht wrote:
>
> > Anyone else have this problem? Maybe it's due to those buggy unpatched
> > glibc libs. That's what I'm hoping anyway.
>
> --
> Anthony PIRON - Researcher
> Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Computer Science
> CP 212 - Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
> Tel. +32 2 650 50 55, Fax +32 2 650 56 09, GSM +32 478 530 022
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.ulb.ac.be/di/ssd/apiron
Mozilla is just a browser, correct? I'm mainly looking for an email
reader. What else is worth checking out? Eudora maybe?
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From: Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help needed- can't update glibc on RH7
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 16:33:55 GMT
Have installed RH7 recently and finally got to updating glibc. Since
I'm on a P3 I grabbed glibc-2.2-12.i686.rpm. When I run rpm -Uvh
OR rpm -Fvh on it, I get this error:
error: failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12
/usr/bin/getent is needed by stunnel-3.8-4
This surprised me because on Red Hat's site the only file listed as
needed for i686 was the one I grabbed. Anyway, I went back and got
glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm and tried to install it. Running rpm -ivh
or rpm iUvh gives me:
error: failed dependencies:
glibc < 2.2-12 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.12.
It seems that this is telling me that in order to install
glibc-common-2.2-12 I would need to *uninstall* the older version of
glibc present. I was about to do this, but then realized that this is
something that could possibly hose me pretty badly. So, I decided to
seek advice from this forum before proceeding. If I uninstall glibc and
am not able to replace it nothing would run (including the kernel..?).
Thanks in advance to anyone who can provide me with clear instructions
on exactly how to go about this.
-Paul
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Date: 4 Mar 2001 10:53:5 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modules problem
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Michael Heiming;
MH> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Zed ;
>>
>> > Andrew Kae wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I just compiled a new 2.4.2 kernel and I'm having some
>> >> difficulty setting up the modules correctly. For some reason my
>> >> modules.dep file in
>> >> /lib/modules/2.4.2 is empty. I've made kernels before and this
>> >> never happened before.
>> >>
>> >> The steps i did were
>> >>
>> >> => make mrproper
>> >> => make menuconfig
>> >> => make bzImage
>> >> => make modules
>> >> => make modules_install
>> >>
>> >> and the modules are in /lib/modules/2.4.2, it's just that that
>> >> modules.dep is blank. Is there a quick way to generate this
>> >> file? I tried making the modules and then installing them again
>> >> but it's still blank.
>> >>
>> >> thanks
>>
>> > depmod -a
>>
>> Which won't do a thing if he has not read the Documentaion/Changes
>> file and installed the newer set of utils that files says the 2.4
>> kernels need. modutils is among them because the tree in the
>> /lib/modules/ver directory has been modified. Including ppp,
>> there are at least 4 supporting utilities that must also be
>> updated.
>>
>> This gets pointed this out to someone at least daily.
My my, such mangling of the language I did there, the second 'this' is
obviously not needed.
MH> Thx, as it's not needed anymore to type depmod -a,
MH> make modules_install takes care of this with 2.4.x..
My 'makeit' script still does that. Thats a line I can comment out
then... Thx
Cheers, Gene
--
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material,
is � 2001 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to Prevent Linux from Taking MBR?
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:23:14 GMT
Dino:
What sort of 6.2 distro are you using?
Did you download it? Or buy it in a box?
From the RHL 6.2 "Installation Guide" to paraphrase:
"..if you do not want RHL to be installed on your master boot record do
not choose [either workstaton or server-class] installation..."
So the only way to get LILO set up the way you want seems to be with a
"custom" installation, otherwise RHL just goes ahead and does it the way
*it* wants...
- John
--
John Sage
FinchHaven, Vashon Island, WA, USA
http://www.finchhaven.com/
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And remember: it's spelled l-i-n-u-x, but it's pronounced "Linux"
Dino Hsu wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 01:18:03 -0500, David Cecere
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> The RH 7 install script gives you the option of installing LILO--which you
>> need to do in order to have a multiboot system--on either the MBR or the
>> first sector of the boot drive (or something similar). You want to choose
>> the latter option.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:45:09 +0800, Dino Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> }Dear all,
>> }
>> }I installed Linux Red Hat 7.0 on a multi-boot PC (Bootstar). Normally
>> }the multi-boot program takes the MBR (Master Boot Record) and fills
>> }the partition table with respective partition information of the
>> }profile chosen by the user.
>> }
>> }However, when Linux Red Hat 7.0 is installed, it takes control of the
>> }MBR, so I have to re-install Bootstar, the multi-boot program. But
>> }after this, Linux cannot be started any more, with the following
>> }message:
>> }Error while loading operating system! <Key>
>> }
>> }My question is: how to prevent Linux from taking MBR?
>> }
>> }Thanks in advance.
>> }
>> }Regards,
>> }Dino
>>
>> _____________________________________________________________________________
>> "Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts
>> throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that."--Herman Melville
>>
>> My resume and etc.: http://4.34.161.50/
>> My patent: http://4.34.161.50/widget/
>
>
> I found the option of installing LILO in MBR or first sector of the
> boot partition now for Red Had 7.0. However, I don't see the same
> option in Red Had 6.2, it just takes the MBR, I re-installed Bootstar,
> and the message shows up again:
> Error while loading operating system! <Key>
>
> 1.Where exactly is the LILO option in Red Hat 6.2?
> 2.How do I re-install only LILO? (I don't want to re-install the whole
> Linux system) - of course on the first sector of the boot partition.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Dino
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From: "Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:24:32 GMT
Scot,
Here's how I got the drivers to work in my system, maybe it will work for
you too...
Download the Redhat 6.x drivers from the NetGear website.
Put all of the files in the same directory (doesnt matter which)
Compile the fa311.c file with the following command:
"
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O -m486 -c -I/usr/src/l
inux/include fa311.c "
That should compile into a new fa311.o file.
Move that file (fa311.o) into /lib/modules/2.x.xx-xx/net/
insmod fa311
It should work after you do this. You should do these steps as root. Let me
know how this works out...
Remove 'NOSPAM!' to reply
Michael Repper
http://www.RepperTackle.com
"Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:NLto6.232839$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I apologize for cross posting to the four newsgoups, but I am in a quandry
> here. I have a netgear fa311 which the group so very kind enough to inform
> me that netgear has provided "unsupported" linux drivers. Well for the
last
> few days I have been repeated trying to get this nic to operate with my
> linux box...I am a fairly experienced linux user for the last 4-5 years,
and
> I have 4 other operating linux machines tweaked to perform specific tasks,
> so I believe that ordinarilyI know what I am doing.
>
> This machine is running rh7, and the hardware is AMD Athalon 700, ASUS K7V
> MB, with 128 MB ram...This is the first "Workstation/Development station"
> that I have put together, the other machines either serving as
> firewall/router, web/ftp servers, smtp/pop3/usenet server or
samba/nfs/print
> server. I want to put this machine together as my alternate solution to
> Windows workstation setups...It has a 20 GB HDD which I am dual booting
> because my wife isn't interested at the moment in 100% migration.
Everything
> works just fine except networking.
>
> I have downloaded the drivers from the netgear website, both the v7 and
v6.2
> for rh. I am concerned about the drivers for two reasons...The 6.2 drivers
> are named in all-caps, this is a concern for obvious reasons, the rh7
> version of the drivers though do not seem to operate properly...There are
> two copies of the makefile, and when makefile is run, most of the command
> return "command not found" and the compiler returns many many various
errors
> such as file not found and other sorts of things which I cannot list right
> now because I am using the Win OS to write this. If I just go ahead and
try
> and configure networking after the fact, I get network unreachable when I
> ping.
>
> I would just go an purchase another NIC which I already have had success
> with, but I can't quite afford to buy anything new right now.
>
> --
> Scot Mc Pherson
> N27� 19' 56"
> W82� 30' 39"
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:25:49 GMT
I forgot to mention that if you have problems compiling it, try using 'kgcc'
instead of 'gcc'
Remove 'NOSPAM!' to reply
Michael Repper
http://www.RepperTackle.com
"Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:kTuo6.232906$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Scot,
>
> Here's how I got the drivers to work in my system, maybe it will work for
> you too...
>
> Download the Redhat 6.x drivers from the NetGear website.
>
> Put all of the files in the same directory (doesnt matter which)
>
> Compile the fa311.c file with the following command:
>
> "
>
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O -m486 -c -I/usr/src/l
> inux/include fa311.c "
>
> That should compile into a new fa311.o file.
>
> Move that file (fa311.o) into /lib/modules/2.x.xx-xx/net/
>
> insmod fa311
>
> It should work after you do this. You should do these steps as root. Let
me
> know how this works out...
>
>
> Remove 'NOSPAM!' to reply
> Michael Repper
> http://www.RepperTackle.com
>
>
> "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:NLto6.232839$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I apologize for cross posting to the four newsgoups, but I am in a
quandry
> > here. I have a netgear fa311 which the group so very kind enough to
inform
> > me that netgear has provided "unsupported" linux drivers. Well for the
> last
> > few days I have been repeated trying to get this nic to operate with my
> > linux box...I am a fairly experienced linux user for the last 4-5 years,
> and
> > I have 4 other operating linux machines tweaked to perform specific
tasks,
> > so I believe that ordinarilyI know what I am doing.
> >
> > This machine is running rh7, and the hardware is AMD Athalon 700, ASUS
K7V
> > MB, with 128 MB ram...This is the first "Workstation/Development
station"
> > that I have put together, the other machines either serving as
> > firewall/router, web/ftp servers, smtp/pop3/usenet server or
> samba/nfs/print
> > server. I want to put this machine together as my alternate solution to
> > Windows workstation setups...It has a 20 GB HDD which I am dual booting
> > because my wife isn't interested at the moment in 100% migration.
> Everything
> > works just fine except networking.
> >
> > I have downloaded the drivers from the netgear website, both the v7 and
> v6.2
> > for rh. I am concerned about the drivers for two reasons...The 6.2
drivers
> > are named in all-caps, this is a concern for obvious reasons, the rh7
> > version of the drivers though do not seem to operate properly...There
are
> > two copies of the makefile, and when makefile is run, most of the
command
> > return "command not found" and the compiler returns many many various
> errors
> > such as file not found and other sorts of things which I cannot list
right
> > now because I am using the Win OS to write this. If I just go ahead and
> try
> > and configure networking after the fact, I get network unreachable when
I
> > ping.
> >
> > I would just go an purchase another NIC which I already have had success
> > with, but I can't quite afford to buy anything new right now.
> >
> > --
> > Scot Mc Pherson
> > N27� 19' 56"
> > W82� 30' 39"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 18:13:15 +0100
In comp.os.linux.help Scot Mc Pherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> here. I have a netgear fa311 which the group so very kind enough to inform
> This machine is running rh7, and the hardware is AMD Athalon 700, ASUS K7V
Running RH 7 is bad enough news in itself. You need to change the
compiler to gcc 2.91.66 (or 2.8.1 or 2.7.2) to compile kernels.
> I have downloaded the drivers from the netgear website, both the v7 and v6.2
> for rh. I am concerned about the drivers for two reasons...The 6.2 drivers
> are named in all-caps, this is a concern for obvious reasons, the rh7
Could you make yourself clear? What do you mean by "are named in"? Are
you talking about the filename on disk? The documentation? The tarfile?
Why should you care? (I don't!).
> version of the drivers though do not seem to operate properly...There are
What do you mean by "rhX version of ..". Drivers depend on a kernel,
not on a distribution! Which kernel is which driver aimed at, and
which kernel source are you using? Please be clear. It is likely that
your problem is some confusion in this area. Be aware that rh7 provides
fake kernel headers in /usr/include/{linux,asm} that you might do well
to get rid of, since they are for kernel 2.2.X (for X=14 or 15 or 17 -
I forget which).
> two copies of the makefile, and when makefile is run, most of the command
What do you mean? A file can only exist in one instantiation! Do you
mean that there are two Makefiles, in different places? So what?
You don't "run" a makefile, so I presume you mean "when I run make".
> return "command not found" and the compiler returns many many various errors
> such as file not found and other sorts of things which I cannot list right
> now because I am using the Win OS to write this. If I just go ahead and try
Then you won't get any help. You have to list them because we are not
mind readers. It sounds as though you have some missing files or
commands.
> and configure networking after the fact, I get network unreachable when I
Eh? What are you talking about?
> I would just go an purchase another NIC which I already have had success
> with, but I can't quite afford to buy anything new right now.
Came down, put your head back on your shoulders, and post some data.
Use "script".
Peter
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot problem: LIL-
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:32:09 GMT
Bloody Viking wrote:
> Nader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> : I just had the same problem and had to boot with my rescue floppy. I don't
> : know of anything dramatic I did (e.g., haven't changed lilo.conf or boot
> : record) recently to cause this. It's been working fine for a few months
> : now, including last night. Off to the internet for some research...
>
> I've been saying this for YEARS, but the LILO concept is inherently flawed.
> Yes, it works on most machines but not ALL machines, while DOS does. I've been
> using Linux since 1994 but I never use LILO to light off my box. I light my
> box off with Loadlin, in which case I'm a hardcore Slackware fan.
> Yes, it works on most machines but not ALL machines, while DOS does.
DOS?
What's that?
- John
--
John Sage
FinchHaven, Vashon Island, WA, USA
http://www.finchhaven.com/
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And remember: it's spelled l-i-n-u-x, but it's pronounced "Linux"
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From: "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:48:51 GMT
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.help Scot Mc Pherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > here. I have a netgear fa311 which the group so very kind enough to
inform
>
> > This machine is running rh7, and the hardware is AMD Athalon 700, ASUS
K7V
>
> Running RH 7 is bad enough news in itself. You need to change the
> compiler to gcc 2.91.66 (or 2.8.1 or 2.7.2) to compile kernels.
I am aware of the beta-ness of the current supplied compiler in rh7, been
there done that with the 2.4.2 kernel on another machine.
> > I have downloaded the drivers from the netgear website, both the v7 and
v6.2
> > for rh. I am concerned about the drivers for two reasons...The 6.2
drivers
> > are named in all-caps, this is a concern for obvious reasons, the rh7
>
> Could you make yourself clear? What do you mean by "are named in"? Are
> you talking about the filename on disk? The documentation? The tarfile?
> Why should you care? (I don't!).
Yes the files are named in all-caps...i.e. FA311.O as opposed to
fa311.o...if this isn't an obvious problem, then I fear for you too.
> > version of the drivers though do not seem to operate properly...There
are
>
> What do you mean by "rhX version of ..". Drivers depend on a kernel,
> not on a distribution! Which kernel is which driver aimed at, and
> which kernel source are you using? Please be clear. It is likely that
> your problem is some confusion in this area. Be aware that rh7 provides
> fake kernel headers in /usr/include/{linux,asm} that you might do well
> to get rid of, since they are for kernel 2.2.X (for X=14 or 15 or 17 -
> I forget which).
>
I mean rh7 version because that is how the drivers are listed on the
website...I would suggest you keep your sarcasm in check until at least you
are clear the other person is unclear...
> > two copies of the makefile, and when makefile is run, most of the
command
>
> What do you mean? A file can only exist in one instantiation! Do you
> mean that there are two Makefiles, in different places? So what?
> You don't "run" a makefile, so I presume you mean "when I run make".
No, I mean there is a file called makefile and makefile.dat when I extract
the files from the archive I get makefile.dat and makefile(1).dat with
exactly the same contents. You presume too much.
> > return "command not found" and the compiler returns many many various
errors
> > such as file not found and other sorts of things which I cannot list
right
> > now because I am using the Win OS to write this. If I just go ahead and
try
>
> Then you won't get any help. You have to list them because we are not
> mind readers. It sounds as though you have some missing files or
> commands.
>
> > and configure networking after the fact, I get network unreachable when
I
>
> Eh? What are you talking about?
I am talking about pretending the drivers install correctly regardless of
the error messages and attempt to get the network working.
>
> > I would just go an purchase another NIC which I already have had success
> > with, but I can't quite afford to buy anything new right now.
>
> Came down, put your head back on your shoulders, and post some data.
> Use "script".
>
> Peter
All in all peter I would suggest you loose your master point of view, and
return to a more beginner's perspective...If you know everything, there is
nothing left to learn....Shame isn't it.
--
Scot Mc Pherson
http://www.behomet.net
N27� 19' 56"
W82� 30' 39"
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From: "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please HELP: Netgear FA311 troubles
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:49:10 GMT
Blue,
Thank you very much for the help..I will try it immediately.
--
Scot Mc Pherson
http://www.behomet.net
N27� 19' 56"
W82� 30' 39"
Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:kTuo6.232906$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Scot,
>
> Here's how I got the drivers to work in my system, maybe it will work for
> you too...
>
> Download the Redhat 6.x drivers from the NetGear website.
>
> Put all of the files in the same directory (doesnt matter which)
>
> Compile the fa311.c file with the following command:
>
> "
>
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O -m486 -c -I/usr/src/l
> inux/include fa311.c "
>
> That should compile into a new fa311.o file.
>
> Move that file (fa311.o) into /lib/modules/2.x.xx-xx/net/
>
> insmod fa311
>
> It should work after you do this. You should do these steps as root. Let
me
> know how this works out...
>
>
> Remove 'NOSPAM!' to reply
> Michael Repper
> http://www.RepperTackle.com
>
>
> "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:NLto6.232839$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I apologize for cross posting to the four newsgoups, but I am in a
quandry
> > here. I have a netgear fa311 which the group so very kind enough to
inform
> > me that netgear has provided "unsupported" linux drivers. Well for the
> last
> > few days I have been repeated trying to get this nic to operate with my
> > linux box...I am a fairly experienced linux user for the last 4-5 years,
> and
> > I have 4 other operating linux machines tweaked to perform specific
tasks,
> > so I believe that ordinarilyI know what I am doing.
> >
> > This machine is running rh7, and the hardware is AMD Athalon 700, ASUS
K7V
> > MB, with 128 MB ram...This is the first "Workstation/Development
station"
> > that I have put together, the other machines either serving as
> > firewall/router, web/ftp servers, smtp/pop3/usenet server or
> samba/nfs/print
> > server. I want to put this machine together as my alternate solution to
> > Windows workstation setups...It has a 20 GB HDD which I am dual booting
> > because my wife isn't interested at the moment in 100% migration.
> Everything
> > works just fine except networking.
> >
> > I have downloaded the drivers from the netgear website, both the v7 and
> v6.2
> > for rh. I am concerned about the drivers for two reasons...The 6.2
drivers
> > are named in all-caps, this is a concern for obvious reasons, the rh7
> > version of the drivers though do not seem to operate properly...There
are
> > two copies of the makefile, and when makefile is run, most of the
command
> > return "command not found" and the compiler returns many many various
> errors
> > such as file not found and other sorts of things which I cannot list
right
> > now because I am using the Win OS to write this. If I just go ahead and
> try
> > and configure networking after the fact, I get network unreachable when
I
> > ping.
> >
> > I would just go an purchase another NIC which I already have had success
> > with, but I can't quite afford to buy anything new right now.
> >
> > --
> > Scot Mc Pherson
> > N27� 19' 56"
> > W82� 30' 39"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Do daemons corrupt system security?
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 18:57:20 +0100
Thank you all (Glen, John, Juergen) for your helpful answers.
There are still a few loose ends left for me, which I retrieve from your
postings:
As for user 'nobody'
[From Glen Treviso's reply]
> In the case of httpd (Apache) you should only run
> the parent process as root and the children (the only processes
> actually accepting connections) as user 'nobody'.
[From Juergen Heinzl's posting]
> If it can be run and even started up as someone else, then do so. You
> may even add a user account for which their is no shell and no login
> possible etc.
I think this is for me the way to go.
On my system there already exists a user 'nobody' and a user 'daemon'. I
suspect that these accounts have been created for the purpose that you
indicate. Could I latch on to any of these accounts?
If not, I'll have to create an account with few priviliges myself. In
that case, I'd appreciate some direction as to a way how to ensure that
self created accounts have no login and shell facilities.
I hope you care to reply once more,
Thanks in advance,
Erik Leunissen (from someone else's e-mail account).
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From: harry weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: file colours
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:55:52 +0000
RTFM but can't find. Please can someone tell me the significance of the file and
sub.dir colours in red hat 7. using console. Thank you.
--
harry.
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