Linux-Setup Digest #926, Volume #20 Tue, 27 Mar 01 14:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: LILO vs. loadlin (Chiefy)
Re: network printing via Win98 prob (Martin Smith)
Re: Linux version of Hyperterminal? (Tom Canich)
Re: Strange problem with LILO (screen full of 01's) ("John Byers")
Linux 6.0 installation ("LexHoyA")
USB-Printer in SUSE 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16) - Setup-Probleme (Holger Schlicker)
Re: aic7xxx is broken in Slackware 7.1 (bill davidsen)
Re: Cannot change passwords after upgrade to 7.0 ("Greg Merideth")
post dual-boot setup, lilo problem ("Jeremy Paiz")
Re: Weird entries in /tmp ? (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Re: post dual-boot setup, lilo problem ("Davide Bianchi")
Re: Strange problem with LILO (screen full of 01's) (Joerg Hohn)
Network Installations ("Jayne Heger")
Re: Network Installations ("Davide Bianchi")
Sendmail reinstall problem (jason)
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) (oz1dcv)
Re: Adding disk to raid0 w/reiserfs (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Matrox G450 with Xfree 4.02 RH 7.0 probs ("Rob Somerville")
Re: uname -r gives incorrect kernel version (John Thompson)
Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y' (bill davidsen)
Re: Linux 6.0 installation ("Davide Bianchi")
Re: Linux router (bill davidsen)
Re: Strange problem with LILO (screen full of 01's) (bill davidsen)
Re: 8 Gig Instead of 10 Gig--- ??? (bill davidsen)
Re: /etc/modules.conf (bill davidsen)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LILO vs. loadlin
Date: 27 Mar 2001 17:16:48 GMT
26 Mar 2001 18:26 UTC, Chiefy did say to the dudes:
> Just wondering if the best thing to do (with loadlin), would be to copy
> your kernel to /dev/hda1 and fire up Loadlin with something like;
>
> c:\path\to\kernel compact root=/dev/hdc1 ro
Just noticed the error. Missed loadlin off the front !!!
c:\path\to\loadlin c:\path\to\kernel compact root=/dev/hdc1 ro
--
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Corduroy pillows - They're making headlines!
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Smith)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: network printing via Win98 prob
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:06:56 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:07:37 -0600, shaughn b
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snipped.....
>client: waiting for printserver to come up
>
>I don't understand this.
>
>Any ideas?
is lpd actually running? looks like it might not be
output of top...
--
Martin Smith
------------------------------
From: Tom Canich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux version of Hyperterminal?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:22:42 -0500
try minicom
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jeff Lawrence wrote:
> Newbie question: How do I use Linux to talk with a device (i.e. router, PBX,
> etc) via the PC's serial port? This has got to be so basic and fundamental
> that I can't seem to find a HOWTO or Mini-Howto on the subject. Any
> information would be appreciated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
------------------------------
From: "John Byers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Strange problem with LILO (screen full of 01's)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:34:11 GMT
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99pcrn$3sp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I'm trying to install Suse7.1, and the system works fine except that the
> > only way I can boot it is from the install CD. If I try to install LILO
> > either on the MBR or on a boot disk, when I try to boot, I just get a
> screen
> > full of looping 01 01 01 01 01 01's... I've never seen this before, and
> it
> > has me totally clueless. My system is a Duron 950 on an MSI K7T-Pro2A
> with
> > a WD 40GB HD. Any clues as to what the heck this problem is and how to
> fix
> > it would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> If you must crosspost, please to groups that exist!
> I cannot post to non-existing groups like col.help
>
> The BIOS returned an error.
> read lilo's User_Guide (/usr/doc/lilo-version/doc)
>
> Eric
>
The 4 groups I posted to do exist, if your news reader can't tell what they
are or your news service doesn't carry them, it isn't my fault! (I posted to
alt.os.linux.suse, comp.os.linux.help, comp.os.linux.questions, and
com.os.linux.setup).
------------------------------
From: "LexHoyA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux 6.0 installation
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:47:40 +0200
A (very) long time ago I bought the set of Data Becker. I received three
CD's with it. I was in the intention to install it 'out of the box'. How do
I set up a simple installation with X-Windows, network (TCP/IP, fixed IP),
ADSL connection and option to share directories for my other computers in my
(small) LAN?
If you ever tried to read the installation-guide that comes with this set, I
will not be able to install the coming year...
Can anyone give me some installation-hints...
Thanks in advance
:-)
------------------------------
From: Holger Schlicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: USB-Printer in SUSE 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16) - Setup-Probleme
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:59:51 +0200
Hallo,
leider bin ich noch Fast-Neuling und kenne die internen Zusammenh=E4nge
noch
nicht richtig. Ich hab ein Problem mit der Einrichtung meines
USB-Druckers HP
DJ 930C. Der Drucker wird von Yast2 sauber erkannt und eingerichtet, er
druckt
auch. Nach dem n=E4chsten Neustart geht dann nichts mehr zu drucken. Imme=
r
wenn
ich dann die Yast2-Druckereinrichtung anwerfe l=E4uft er wieder (auch wen=
n
ich
die Installation sofort wieder beende und abbreche!), allerdings nur bis
zum
n=E4chsten Neustart. Nun habe ich nach dem Lesen vieler Hilfen folgenden
Zusammenhang bemerkt.
Es geht nicht mit folgender Einstellung:
holger:/home/holger # lsmod =
Module Size Used by =
=2E..
usb-ohci 12288 0 (unused)
usbcore 42760 0 [usb-ohci]
holger:/home/holger # ./printer_reset
rmmod: module printer is not loaded
mount: can't find usbdevfs in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
holger:/home/holger #
=====================================================
Inhalt von printer_reset (hab ich aus irgendeiner Hilfeseite):
fuser -k /dev/usblp0
rmmod printer
rmmod usb-ohci
umount usbdevfs
rmmod usbcore
modprobe usbcore
mount usbdevfs
modprobe usb-ohci
modprobe printer
=====================================================
Dann druckt er wieder:
holger:/home/holger # lsmod
Module Size Used by
printer 4420 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 12288 0 (unused)
usbcore 42760 0 [printer usb-ohci]
Ich denke mal da fehlt einfach das Modul "printer"?!?
Wo wird das geladen? =
Kann ich da was in der Datei /etc/modules.conf machen?
Des weiteren meldet mir xconsole gelegentlich folgendes:
Console log for holger
Mar 27 19:09:22 holger kernel: usb.c: This device is not recognized by
any installed USB driver.
So das war ganz schon viel, aber ich hoffe das jemand helfen kann.
Mein System:
Suse 7.0 auf AMD K6/II 400
Kernel 2.2.16
USB-Port l=E4uft einwandfrei unter Win"doof"s
Bitte schreibt mir nicht nur ein Posting, ich habe leider im Moment
keinen festen Newsserver, schickt bitte auch eine Mail an
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Danke
Holger
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: aic7xxx is broken in Slackware 7.1
Date: 27 Mar 2001 18:06:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Ruskai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| The aic7xxx driver shipped with Slackware 7.1 (object file dated 6-20-2000
| - 153,576 bytes) is broken, at least for the Adaptec 2842VL.
|
| It dies with a BRKADRINT error after showing the first attached device.
|
| The driver shipped with Slackware 7.0 (dated 10-21-1999 - 126,964 bytes)
| works fine.
|
| Anyone know where updates to this driver are available?
Kernel source is on www.kernel.org (or ftp.kernel.org) for all
versions. There's a new aic7xxx driver in 2.4.2 and later, which
requires the db database package to compile! Supposedly fixes bugs, runs
faster under load, etc.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
------------------------------
From: "Greg Merideth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot change passwords after upgrade to 7.0
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:08:30 GMT
wonderful. 2 hours of time wasted on the redhat site with no mention of
that bug anywhere, and that little beauty of a program did the trick.
thank you very much.
"Craig Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Greg Merideth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I upgraded my linux 5.02 configuration to the new linux 7 config
> > straight from the cdrom doing a typical workstation installation and now
> > I have this "slight" little problem.
> >
> > I cannot change any passwords.
> >
> > This is what I get when I try to change my password.
> >
> > --------------
> >
> > [root@trigger /root]# passwd
> > New UNIX password:
> > Retype new UNIX password:
> >
> > passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
> >
> > [root@trigger /root]#
> >
> > Any idea what this means?
>
> That's definately a bug.
>
> Try running 'pwconv' as the root user and try changing the password
> again.
>
> --
> It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
------------------------------
From: "Jeremy Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: post dual-boot setup, lilo problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:01:39 -0500
i just installed redhat 7 in a dual-boot with ms-winme. i performed a
custom installation and instructed lilo to install to the mbr. however, on
startup my computer still wants to boot windows. of course, with a boot
disk lilo will run and i can boot linux or windows, but without the boot
disk i don't see lilo. i checked /etc/lilo.conf, and everything looks
normal:
boot = /dev/hda
install = /boot/boot.b
...
image = /boot/vmlinuz-...
label = linux
root = /dev/hda6
read-only
other = /dev/hda1
label = windows
table = /dev/hda
my hard disk is partitioned as follows:
[ 28gb windows ][ 16mb /boot ][ 9gb / ][ 512mg <swap> ]
this is my first stab at a dual-boot, and i'm very new to linux. but, after
browsing faqs and this newsgroup it seems that nothing i have is out of the
ordinary. i was under the impression that if i installed lilo to the mbr,
that i wouldn't need a boot disk. can someone point me in the right
direction?
--
________________________________________________________________________
JEREMY M PAIZ
Software Engineer
Research & Development Division
Welding Technology Corporation
24775 Crestview Court
Farmington Hills MI 48335-1507
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.weldtechcorp.com
Phone: (248) 477-3900 x3362
Fax: (248) 477-8897
Mobile: (248) 568-1592
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Subject: Re: Weird entries in /tmp ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:03:10 -0600
On 27 Mar 2001 16:01:47 GMT, H.Bruijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:47:14 -0600, jf allegedly wrote:
>>Hello!
>>
>>Anyone know what all of these strange entries in my /tmp directory are? Can
>>I delete these?
>>
>>-rwx------ 1 root root 31 Mar 21 16:02 mcextzlxPWc
>>-rwx------ 1 root root 24 Mar 20 14:35 mcextzmbRRe
>>-rwx------ 1 root root 31 Mar 21 16:07 mcextzqosPi
>>
>>They all refer to 'gedit' and then a file I edited at some point in time.
>
>Quite a lot of editors use temporary files. Sometimes when the program
>crashes, or is killed rather then closed, those files aren't removed.
>Other programs create lock files, also in /tmp/
>And yes you delete them.
>--
>If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
>The Netherlands
These particular files are from Midnight Commander. If there are still there
when mc is not running they can be deleted.
Wyatt.
------------------------------
From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: post dual-boot setup, lilo problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:13:21 -0800
"Jeremy Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99qki6$nn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i just installed redhat 7 in a dual-boot with ms-winme. i performed a
> custom installation and instructed lilo to install to the mbr. however,
on
> startup my computer still wants to boot windows.
Maybe your system does not allow Lilo to write in the MBR of the
disk (virus protection in the bios?). Try to run lilo manually. Enter
in Linux as root and run lilo -v -v to display information.
Davide
------------------------------
From: Joerg Hohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Strange problem with LILO (screen full of 01's)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:11:55 +0200
Eric wrote:
>> I'm trying to install Suse7.1, and the system works fine except that the
>> only way I can boot it is from the install CD. If I try to install LILO
>> either on the MBR or on a boot disk, when I try to boot, I just get a
>> screen
>> full of looping 01 01 01 01 01 01's... I've never seen this before, and
>> it
>> has me totally clueless. My system is a Duron 950 on an MSI K7T-Pro2A
> with
>> a WD 40GB HD. Any clues as to what the heck this problem is and how to
>> fix
>> it would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> If you must crosspost, please to groups that exist!
> I cannot post to non-existing groups like col.help
>
> The BIOS returned an error.
> read lilo's User_Guide (/usr/doc/lilo-version/doc)
>
> Eric
>
>
>
and you should read http://learn.to/quote before you tell others what to
do!!!
------------------------------
From: "Jayne Heger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network Installations
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:22:23 +0100
Hi there,
I have 2PC's, one which has a CDROM drive, the other does not. They both
have Network cards.
I want to be able to use the one without the CDROM drive as a
Router/Firewall.
I have ammended /etc/exports to include my CDROM as an NFS drive to my other
machine
as below:-
/cdrom 192.168.10.2(rw)
When I try to install SuSE Linux on that other computer, after I have loaded
my Network Card Module and entered the NFS server IP address, when it comes
to the stage of accessing the cdrom, I get the error - NFS No permission to
access drive.
Have I missed something in the /etc/exports file???
Many thanks for your help - hopefully:)
Jayne
--
http://www.libranet.com/petition.html
------------------------------
From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Installations
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:25:16 -0800
"Jayne Heger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:TS4w6.52654$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have ammended /etc/exports to include my CDROM as an NFS drive to my
other
> machine as below:-
>
> /cdrom 192.168.10.2(rw)
If it's a CDROM you don't need to write on it. I think that the problem
could
be in your hosts.allow/hosts.deny files. See also the NFS-Howto.
Davide
------------------------------
From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail reinstall problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:21:24 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all,
After recently trying out a mail server demo, I have managed to royally
hose up my sendmail. I still receive the "You have mail" message at
login, but when I type "mail" it simply hangs there, indefinitely. My
configuration is as follows:
Red Hat 7.0
Kernel 2.2.16-22
Sendmail 8.11
Well, I would be happy to just reinstall Sendmail, but I can't. Every
time I attempt to do so, it informs me that the application is already
installed, then boots me out. I've killed all the processes linked with
Sendmail, so I don't believe any portion of it is running. Is there a
way to force a reinstall? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason
------------------------------
From: oz1dcv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:30:51 +0200
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:12:33 +1200, Matthew Gardiner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Whats wrong with paying for SuSE Linux? Geeze, what are you? a cheap skate?
>no wonder investers are werry about investing in Linux business with lusers
>like you too tight to part with $US50.
>
>Also, there is a lot of proprietry software included with SuSE Linux's
>Distro, for example, the configuration tool (Yast2 and Yast1) are not open
>source, also, there is some other packages that can't be freely distributed.
>So, before you open your big gob, survey the situation first.
And don't forget the books you get with the SuSE package. After all
information on paper is very valuable for more thorough reading
(starting using linux!). You don't get much litterature for 50$.
And yes I know about the man, HOWTO and other sources of electronic
information.
But you'll have to have at least one system running to read them!
--
Yours
Hans Erik Busk
Registered Linux user #104633
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Adding disk to raid0 w/reiserfs
Date: 27 Mar 2001 18:37:02 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Hi.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Basically, I have a RAID0 md0 device on my system now with 2 disks. I want
> to add a 3rd disk to it and probably a 4th, 5th and 6th later on down the
> road. I can't figure out how to get Linux to add the disk without
> destroying the data that's currently in the MD0. Also, I'm using reiserfs,
> not ext2.
> The problem I'm running into now is I've partitioned the new drive and added
> it to /etc/raidtab. When the system boots, it's telling me that there is an
> invalid suberblock for the new disk, obviously because I haven't run mkraid
> on it as I fear the destruction of the current md0.
And you are right to. I don't have too much experience with software
RAID, but, straight from the mkraid man page:
Note that initializing RAID devices destroys all of the
data on the consituent devices.
> Incase anyone asks, no, it's not possible for me to move the data from the
> md0 elsewhere while I nuke and recreate the md0 :)
You mean, you don't have *anywhere* to put this data temporarily? You were
going to try this *very* risky operation (even if it could be done) without
backing up your data? That is a seriously bad idea.
Remember, even if you could expand the RAID device itself, you would also
need to expand the filesystem. While this *can* be done, again, I would
never do it without backing up the data.
Is there any particular reason you need all those drives to be one
raid device (and RAID0, for that matter, providing no true "redundancy")?
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
------------------------------
From: "Rob Somerville" <******[EMAIL PROTECTED]*****>
Subject: Matrox G450 with Xfree 4.02 RH 7.0 probs
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:40:59 +0100
I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me with this one.
Have installed the latest mga_driver.o & mga_hal_driver.o as in the Matrox
readme file, xserver starts but I have a black screen. Can kill it with
Ctrl Alt BKspace OK.
Matrox will not support this as it is a beta driver. The source will not
compile, gets about 2/3rd way through then locks the terminal up.
No other mods etc, RH 7.0 clean out the box.
Xserver complains about the server session being killed, but nothing else
obvious.
Running on a twin PIII 1Gb with an Iiyama vision master pro 451. The
xf86config-4 file seems ok, display res set to 1024x768 x 24, although I
could get 1152*864*32 on my Matrox Productiva.
Has anyone managed to get this working, and if so , how ?
Thanks in advance.
------------------------------
From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uname -r gives incorrect kernel version
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:17:43 -0600
Mike Ruskai wrote:
> Thank you for an actual explanation. I never would have guessed that LILO
> ignores the file system. Not exactly a good design.
How would it work otherwise? When your PC boots, it runs the
BIOS out of ROM and the BIOS looks to the MBR on the first
bootable drive. It finds lilo and runs it. Lilo runs and needs
to find your kernel. At this point there is only direct,
real-mode access to the HD device. Filesystem support can only
come later, after the kernel is found and loaded and in turn
recognizes your filesystems and mounts them. But until the
kernel is loaded there is no way for your system to recognize,
let alone use your filesystems.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y'
Date: 27 Mar 2001 18:49:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| Tony> "Character Devices", about 3/4 of the way down.
|
|
| Thanks, I plowed ahead and did it manually in .config but I'll
| remember this one for next time.
|
| Incidentally, my system did not freeze on the NMI Watchdog after this
| change.
Gklad you got it going. I generally use menuconfig for kernels.
Question for guru attention: why is this an option? Is there any time
when you don't want enhanced real time clock? I've been saying yes for
ages out of habit (I have many SMP systems), but even on decades-old
386SX16 systems it works fine. I assume there's a reason to "not want"
the feature.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
------------------------------
From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.0 installation
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:49:41 -0800
"LexHoyA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ac0d227$0$152$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If you ever tried to read the installation-guide that comes with this set,
I
> will not be able to install the coming year...
> Can anyone give me some installation-hints...
I think that you have to put the CD into the machine and then boot from
that CD, if the CD is not bootable, you must create a bootable floppy
from the CD using rawrite and one of the images into the images
directory in the Cd. For the ADSL I think you will have to upgrade
something (6.0 is quite old). BTW, I don't understand why you have
problems in the installation instruction, to me, they seems easy enough.
See also the various faqs and instruction on the RedHat website.
Davide
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux router
Date: 27 Mar 2001 18:55:46 GMT
In article <eE9t6.13113$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ellen migdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I am about to set up an old PC as a router - using either linux or freseco.
| My problem is prior to this - I need 2 NIC cards - one coming in from ISP,
| one going out to hub. I put in 2 Linksys cards fine - but - how do tell
| which card is which as far as the IRQ addresses are concerned. The router
| software needs to know, and I need to know,the IRQ of the "top" NIC card and
| the IRQ of the "bottom" card.
|
| Also, the Linsys people strongly suggested that I NOT put 2 NIC cards, of
| their ,or other makes, into the same chassis. Is there anything to this??
There can be problems with some drivers if you have multiple cards. I
haven't done it with a 2.2 kernel in a while, but the 2.4 kernel will
allow it. It even shares irq between cards in some cases.
I'm not sure why you care about irq, but you can get it from ifconfig
output. Normally the router setup will just use the interface name, so
you're doing something new to me.
Loading as modules you can put in modules.conf something like:
alias eth0 eepro100
alias eth1 eepro100
options eepro100 io=0x2400,0x2000
That should give you what you want for config, or at least a start on
it.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Strange problem with LILO (screen full of 01's)
Date: 27 Mar 2001 18:57:07 GMT
In article <1yRv6.158189$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I'm trying to install Suse7.1, and the system works fine except that the
| only way I can boot it is from the install CD. If I try to install LILO
| either on the MBR or on a boot disk, when I try to boot, I just get a screen
| full of looping 01 01 01 01 01 01's... I've never seen this before, and it
| has me totally clueless. My system is a Duron 950 on an MSI K7T-Pro2A with
| a WD 40GB HD. Any clues as to what the heck this problem is and how to fix
| it would be greatly appreciated!!
Try adding "linear" to your append string in lilo.conf.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Subject: Re: 8 Gig Instead of 10 Gig--- ???
Date: 27 Mar 2001 19:00:26 GMT
In article <99peqq$djb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jawahir Koul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I added two SCSI 10.1 gig drives to my red hat7. And when I
| formatted the drives and mounted on file systems they are showing
| only 8 gig each. Why???
|
| Would appreciate any info.
Probably wrong BIOS mode. Some of the modes only allow up to 8GB (LBA?
NORMAL?) and you need to use another. I believe you want NORMAL mode.
You will need to recreate the partitions and filesystems.
Before you do that, do fire up fdisk and capture the output and post
it. But I bet that's the problem.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Subject: Re: /etc/modules.conf
Date: 27 Mar 2001 19:04:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stephen E. Canell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Installed / built 2.4.2 kernel.... modules.conf
| still points to 2.4.0, plus depmod complaining
| about unresolved symbols!
|
| Any ideas how to get it all in sync????
Not sure what you have in your modules.conf which is version dependent,
it sure isn't anything I use! Did you make modules and moduels_install
as well? If this is a redhat system, did you copy the kernel and
System.map to /boot, edit /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and look at the
output before you rebooted?
If you use modules at boot time, did you create a new initrd file and
install that?
Those are just my first thouts, things commonly left undone.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list by posting to comp.os.linux.setup.
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Setup Digest
******************************
