Linux-Setup Digest #881, Volume #20 Wed, 21 Mar 01 12:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Telnet and vi ("Davide Bianchi")
Re: Problems with parallelport cd-writer ("Davide Bianchi")
Re: Reading and writing to a serial port (Michael Heiming)
HELP! After installing Linux7, screen is blinking... ("Brendon Hwang")
Re: Zip100/lp - no device found.
Re: Telnet and vi (Marc)
Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream> (Laura Goodwin)
Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream> (Laura Goodwin)
Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream> (Laura Goodwin)
Re: Best E-mail Client? ("Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III")
Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream> (Laura Goodwin)
kickstart / nfs problem ("Tobias")
Re: Problem with lan card (Eggert Ehmke)
Need help, how to check harddisk error? ("Ken")
Printer works, but... (The_saint)
Re: Linux sound fleble. (The_saint)
Re: Need help, how to check harddisk error? ("Davide Bianchi")
Re: how do I get a service to start automatically? (maxmutt)
Re: Telnet and vi ("Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III")
Re: Best E-mail Client? (H.Bruijn)
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From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet and vi
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:11:17 -0500
"Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> How can I get a terminal session (e.g. telnet) to my linux box and have
> utilities such as vi work well ?
What you mean with "work well" ? Check the terminal emulation of your
telnet client.
Davide
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From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with parallelport cd-writer
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:13:56 -0500
"Frank Enser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:999sod$48c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've got some problem mit my parallelport cd-writer and using cdrecord
1.9.
> (It is a HP 7200 CD-Writer connected to the parallel port). By the way,
I'm
I had the same device and was never able to use it. So I ended up installing
it inside the PC. You can do it for yourself, the thing is a simple IDE CD.
Open the box, unplug the writer and plug it into your machine, enable the
IDE-SCSI emulation and you will be fine.
Davide
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:14:52 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reading and writing to a serial port
Kenneth Stephen wrote:
>
> Michael Heiming wrote:
> >
> > Kenneth Stephen wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've got access to a Cisco switch that I can play around with, and
> > > there is a serial port output on the box which is for console output. My
> > > Linux box does have a serial port, but I havent got a clue as to what I
> > > should do to hook up the switch to my Linux box so that I can use Linux
> > > as the console for the switch. How can I solve this?
> >
> > I would check the manual of your cisco, it should explain what you can do and how
> > to connect
> > your cisco through serial, may be there is some kind of terminal waiting...
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Michael Heiming
> Michael,
>
> You've misunderstood my question. I know what to do from the
> perspective of Cisco. The manual is quite specific on the requirements
> for the serial port settings that the console port needs to be connected
> to. My question is what do I do on the linux box to see the messages
> spewed out from the switch? The Cisco box expects a "dumb terminal" at
> the end of the serial port. The Text-Terminal-HOWTO doesnt quite cover
> this scenario - and hence my confusion.
In that case I would try minicom to connect, this did mostly the job for me,
on other hw, I only needed Null-Modem-Cable and the manufactors setting, to
know what to setup in minicom.
Michael Heiming
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From: "Brendon Hwang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP! After installing Linux7, screen is blinking...
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:29:52 GMT
Hello guys,
I newly installed redhat 7 and screen is blinking 4times every 3 secs in
console screen. Currently video is not configured , so cannot run startx.
Whilst blinking, I can't type or edit anything at all.
Could anyone help me plz?
It will be appreciated, if you can mail me to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you in advance,
Brendon
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip100/lp - no device found.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:30:04 -0000
Thanks a lot for your time.
I check it out they are there. I must hvae goofed some where.
Appreciate that.
Myint
Miroslaw Kwasniak wrote:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ucrc>Any help is appreciated.
> Ucrc>
> Ucrc>I have both as mountable in kernel.
> Ucrc>commented out both in Rc.local.
> Ucrc>
> Ucrc>#lsmod:
> Ucrc>Module Size Used by
> Ucrc>sg 15832 0 (autoclean)
> Ucrc>ide-scsi 7400 0
> Ucrc>isdn 67072 0 (unused)
> Ucrc>dummy 964 0 (unused)
> Ucrc>ppp 21344 0 (unused)
> Ucrc>input 2908 0 (unused)
> Ucrc>audio 35144 0 (unused)
> Ucrc>parport_probe 3492 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> Ucrc>parport 7456 0 [parport_probe]
> [...]
> Ucrc>lp: no devices found
> Ucrc>
> Ucrc>#insmod ppa:
> Ucrc>Device or resource busy.
>
> It's missing parport_pc module :)
> Try first:
>
> insmod parport_pc
>
> and then add a line to /etc/modules.conf:
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>
> Mirek
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet and vi
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:50:39 -0500
Hello Davide,
By "work well" I mean that no matter which emulation I try with my telnet
client editing commands do
no work well. As as example, I'll use vi. When I start vi and I put it in
insert mode
I lose the ablility to move about the file to edit it. I would like a way to
do this and have it work
as if I were at the machine console, if possible.
Thanks,
Marc
Davide Bianchi wrote:
> "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > How can I get a terminal session (e.g. telnet) to my linux box and have
> > utilities such as vi work well ?
>
> What you mean with "work well" ? Check the terminal emulation of your
> telnet client.
>
> Davide
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From: Laura Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:56:09 -0500
Eric wrote:
> RTFM RTFM RTFM :-p
:::thunk upside yo' haid:::
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From: Laura Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:58:01 -0500
Thumper wrote:
>
> Well you need to read......just kidding..:)
That was close. You almost got a thunk upside yo' haid.
> Actually here are 2 things you can try...
> http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html
> 2. Upgrade to XFree86 4.0.2 at http://www.xfree86.org/
> specific coverage for your chipset is here
> http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status22.html#22
OK, thank you.
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From: Laura Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:08:06 -0500
Steve Bradley wrote:
>
> Ok,
> I have a GeForce card in my box, and it's running great. What driver are
> you selecting for it when you do the installation? What version of X is
> Mandrake installing?
I didn't get that far. During install I was asked what kind of monitor
and I chose the same as I chose before (SVGA 800x600 70hz) and then this
mess.
I can boot to Linux and get a basic command-line login. That's where
I'm at. I guess you want me to find out what version of X I've got and
what my setup is. I'm a newbie to Linux, but I've got TFM, and can
figure out that much. Would you be good enough to tell me about your
setup?
It's a relief to know your vid is working. Was it hard to get it to
work? Can you give me some idea about what it took in your case?
Laura Goodwin
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From: "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:04:39 -0500
Reply-To: mvjap3 at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Steve Withers wrote:
> Manfred Bartz wrote:
> >
> > Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I have been using Netscape for mail on Linux for a long time because it
> > > supports HTML and Javascript and graphics.
> >
> > > they all lack HTML, javascript and graphics.
> >
> > Well, do you need all that stuff? For email???
>
> Yes. I receive several e-mails that have the best and richest content
> when I can display HTML. Otherwide they are almost unreadable.
>
Yes I could understand the need to be able to read the format that some
idiots think they should send e-mail to you in... At least html.
Which pine can do with filters... though I'll admit that at home, on my old
Slackware 3.5 installation where I won't install x, I can't get it to do
the html for me. Which doesn't bother me cause I can either pipe it's raw
form to a pager like less, or save it to a file and sic lynx on it...
As far as graphics go, if you have a viewer for them, you can specify it
in the pine set-ups and then be able to view attached pictures from
inside pine, Slack came with something called seejpeg which also does a
few other formats besides .jpg including both .bmp and .gif...
> I want the widest possible range of compatibility. The function set
> being built into mail these days is moving away from plain text....but
> at least following a universal standard (html/java). If the mail client
> can't do these things, in the near future it will make mail difficult
> from commercial sources and from come government agencies who are
> adopting html and java for function-rich information delivery.
>
But as far as the so called universal standard of sending java by E-mail
that expects me to let my pc ever run a program that someone else sent me
to access something on the web... instead of just including the text of
what they wanted to tell me in the e-mail itself, Well they can just go to
the same place as all those ms-office idiots who think everyone should buy
into the latest word and or powerpoint software just to read whatever they
sent... <snort> delete... delete... delete... If they want ME to read it
then they can stop trying to take control of MY computer, and just plain old
e-mail me the text and or graphic files...
Pardon me for ranting at you... but I find the concept of restandardizeing
what should be a text thing into even html to be annoying... I don't mind
that much if they include a pretty html attachment that restates what they
had in the message body... But if they think that it should be a standard
thing to send use java to control e-mail... Yeash, why do they think every
week Network Associates has to send out new updates to catch nasty little
pieces of code that wouldn't even get a foot in the door if people didn't
let their e-mail software execute them. <sigh>
The main reason the standard for e-mail should be text is because a text
based email program that is unable to execute some piece of code hiding in
an attachment, makes even windows computers less vulnerable.
~^~ ~^~
<0> <0> Joe (the*VERY*Wordy) Philbrook
^
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From: Laura Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:11:06 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Find a driver (i.e. X server) with support and drop it in. Shrug.
You make it sound so easy. This is one reason why some people say Linux
sucks, Peter: because they have been led to believe that they will be
able to used the OS if they simply install it and start using it, and
it's not really that easy, Peter.
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From: "Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kickstart / nfs problem
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:31:05 +0100
Hello
I try to build a kickstart installation for our company. I put the ks.cfg
(see below) on the boot floppy, which I created from the boot.img image from
the RedHat 6.2 CDROM. Booting works and kickstart seems to find the
configuration file. In the log file on the nfs server I see that the client
can access the exported directory, which contains all the Red Hat source
files.
But then the kickstart displays the following:
"install exited abnormally -- received signal 9"
My configuration file looks as follows:
lang en_us
network --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.136 --netmask
255.255.255.0 --gatway192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.11
nfs --server neptune.mydomain.com --dir /tmp/rh62
keyboard us
device ethernet smc-ultra --opts "io=0x240, irg=5"
zerombr yes
clearpart --all
part /boot --size 16
part swap --size 128
part / --size 400
mouse none
timezone --utc Europe/Zurich
rootpw apassword
auth --enablemd5
lilo --location mbr
reboot
packages
.......
Has anyone an idea what the problem could be?
Thank you.
Tobias
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From: Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with lan card
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:42:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:00:26 +0100, "Andrzej Szczepanik"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have problem with instalation of my network lan card. It is called Genius
>GE2000II. I don't know how to make it works. I have redhat distribution and
>there is driver ne2000 (my card is consistent with it) but it doesn't work.
>Please, help me to find appropriate driver (in .rpm form). Kernel has been
>changed and compiled.
Try this: compile ne2000 support as a module. Put this in your modules.conf:
alias eth0 8390
alias eth0 ne
option eth0 io=0x300 irq=3
If the GE2000 is a PNP card, you might need isapnp. Just run pnpdump as a
test. If it shows any output related to the nic, do
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
edit the isapnp.conf and uncomment the parts related to the card. Using this
procedure, I got several ne2000 nic's to run.
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Need help, how to check harddisk error?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:41:57 +0800
Igot a redhat linux in my company, but the hardware seems unreliable.
the server cannot properly work now, stop at check hardware /var
Is there any check disk command or any suggestion.
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From: The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer works, but...
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:51:05 +0800
Hi NG,
Is there a config for my Canon BJC 80?
I got to chose the BJ 600, but it lack some option, like cartridge
detection an other command to the printer.
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From: The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux sound fleble.
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:50:55 +0800
In article <Pine.SV4.4.10.10103191350210.22717-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> is this a dual boot machine
>
Yes it is.
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From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help, how to check harddisk error?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:55:13 -0500
"Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Igot a redhat linux in my company, but the hardware seems unreliable.
> the server cannot properly work now, stop at check hardware /var
> Is there any check disk command or any suggestion.
fschk is used to check the various partition.
man fschk for more info.
Davide
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From: maxmutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: how do I get a service to start automatically?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:56:33 -0700
Anthony wrote:
>
> There's autoexec in dos & windows. Does linux (mandrake 7.2) have a
> similar file?
OK you got some advice, lets clear some things up.
First you can use The suggestion to create symbolic links (running the
"ln" command), it can work, but it's not the best idea.
Better is to use the chkconfig command. To see a list of all daemon's /
services that are on the system run, type in "chkconfig --list" and see
what's there.
To set a what run levels a daemon is started on type this, "chkconfig
--levels <levelnumbers> <daemon> on|off.
For a description of the specific run levels look at the description in
the inittab file. Basically, 1 is single user/maintanace mode, 3 is
multiusermode, 5 is X login. the actual number are meaningless, thet
don't denote rank, they are simply was to tell the difference between
run levels.
On the rc.local v .bash_login discussion; .bash_profile is for user
specific programs. That a specific user wants to run. This is not for
System based deamons or services, for those you use rc.local.
THis is all system adminstration stuff. Although the other advice given
will work for a machine booted in runlevel 5 and only being used by one
person, it's bad pracice and habits. Why? When you get the system to the
point of running always on and allowing remote access or multiuser
access you will find that things begin to fail or not work properly when
someone isn't logged in.
Anyhting that should always be avaialble to all users or on the system
should be started through rc.local or the sysV init scripts. so the
proper use and management of these tols is important.
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From: "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet and vi
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:03:27 -0500
Reply-To: mvjap3 at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Marc wrote:
> Hello Davide,
>
> By "work well" I mean that no matter which emulation I try with my telnet
> client editing commands do
> no work well. As as example, I'll use vi. When I start vi and I put it in
> insert mode
> I lose the ablility to move about the file to edit it. I would like a way to
> do this and have it work
> as if I were at the machine console, if possible.
>
I'm not a telnet expert. But I'm fond of vi, and absolutely love vim...
As far as I know, classic vi doesn't let you move the cursor around with
the cursor control keys while in insert mode. vim will if it's properly
configured. Do you perchance have a vi-clone such as vim aliased as vi so
that you expect vi to act like vim??? could that be part of the problem?
-^- -^-
<?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: 21 Mar 2001 17:09:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:43:13 +0000, John Beardmore allegedly wrote:
>>>What's this ps2pdf thing ? A sort of copyleft Distiller ?
>>
>>It is a tool which converts postscript files/documents to pdf. It is
>
>OK. Sounds handy.
>
>>The disadvantage of postscript is that it is quite large, and it never
>>made it in the Microsoft world (where incompatible word formats and
>>bitmap images rule the day).
>
>Well, M$ probably didn't want to base their GDI on an Adobe technology.
>
>They could, and most certainly did, make a far bigger balls of it
>themselves !
The thing is they don't have any standards they adhere to. Files create
with newer version of MS-Word can't be opened in _any_ previous version
of MS-Word. I can understand that new times may require extension in
technology, but the error message attitude " This file was created with
a newer version of MS-Word, please fork over more money and upgrade!"
doesn't make me happy. It doesn't even try, even when it is just plain
text, and I can't believe that each new version of Word is complete
rewrite and the file-format used is completely incompatible with any
other version, without special conversion routines. It is good
for generating revenue from upgrades though.
I prefer the attitude found in webbrowsers: Hey, that's new! I haven't
seen that before! Should we contact headquarters and see if they have a
plug-in for us to deal with that new technology, or do we just skip it
and continue with what we do understand?
>> PDF files are generally smaller, and are
>>now quite accepted on windows platforms.
>
>Well yes and no. Quite a few people have never downloaded a 6 or 8 meg
>PDF viewer, and far fewer still have forked out money Distiller !
Granted. But one of the advantages of PDF is that what you get on your
display, is exactly what it will/would look like printed. Unlike html,
which is displayed depending on your browser, size of the window etc.
Unlike MS-Word where the default setting is that of editor, not a viewer
of how things will look like when printed. PDF shows your documents how
you intended them to be seen. The other is that it is much more platform
independant then other formats. Viewers exist for nearly all platforms I
know. And it depends on the audience. In physics, mathematics and other
sciences, where a lot of equations are used, people loathe to use words
equation editor, aside from that fact that it renders rather ugly, it
just takes for ever to type any equation more involved than the adding,
substracting and multiplying you learned as a child.
Using groff, tex, and nowadays mostly latex, typing equations is fairly
easy, and using postscript to render them has beautifull results, except
that windows doesn't like postscript much. PDF documents though, simply
converted with ps2pdf, can now easily be read on windows thanks to the
free pdf viewers. The best know equation of Einstein, often abbreviated
to E=mc^2, is properly formatted something like the ASCII art below
m c^2
E = -----------------------
sqrt( 1 - (v^2 / c^2))
In MS-Word that would require clicking nearly 20 different boxes, in tex
format the same equation is the admittedly cryptic, but strictly ascii:
E = \frac{ mc^2 }{ \sqrt{1 - \frac{ v^2 }{ c^2 }}} which would result
in the slides at http://www.hermanbruijn.com/Docs/einstein.pdf (18k)
I used the extra features PDF documents allow so please admire the
thumbnail images and the clickable link at the bottom (generated from
latex with pdflatex).
>PDF is further loathed as many documents are authored with printing
>turned off which makes it hard to read a PDF file in the bath or on the
>bus !
Well if you can display it, you can print it. It is that it just won't
print with adobe acrobat...
But then why would you lock them? The whole reason for using pdf for me is
that it is diplayed on my screen just as would look when printed, unlike
HTML, the latex source code and such.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
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The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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