Linux-Setup Digest #947, Volume #20 Thu, 29 Mar 01 21:13:09 EST
Contents:
Linksys WPC 802.11b setup help ("Pete S")
? WP bit in RH 7.1 beta ? (David Kirkpatrick)
booting hdc1 flashdisk into ramdisk (Vince Skahan)
Re: ? WP bit in RH 7.1 beta ? (David Kirkpatrick)
problems updating glibc 2.2.2 (chris)
suse 7.1 network installation (Shreyas)
Re: Can't get X-Configurator Working on Install (Michael Perry)
ALS 2001 Call for Papers (Becca Sibrack)
Apache & mysql & php not working ("futurewei")
Has anyone set up a time server? (Pumpkinhead)
Re: CUPS confusion ("Nathan")
webcam ("Javier")
In haste, I deleted /dev/hdc, what now? (Me)
Re: RedHat 6.2 or 7.0 (Me)
Re: Vmware will not compile using Mandrake 2.2.17-21mdksecure stock kernel...
(lydwigvernon)
Re: In haste, I deleted /dev/hdc, what now? (H.Bruijn)
Mandrake 7.2 problem (Keith Perry)
Help! Can't boot from floppy ("Hiawatha Bray")
Re: Has anyone set up a time server? (Craig Kelley)
Re: In haste, I deleted /dev/hdc, what now? (Craig Kelley)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 problem (Craig Kelley)
Re: RedHat 6.2 or 7.0 (E J)
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From: "Pete S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linksys WPC 802.11b setup help
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:02:09 -0600
Can anyone please give instructions on how to setup the Linksys WPC11
wireless (802.11b) NIC under Caldera eDesktop 2.4 on my laptop? I've read
some about the wlan project, but I'm not sure if that's the right path to
follow or not. There's alot of documentation out there about 802.11, but I
can't tell if all of it is also applicable to 802.11b.
TIA
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ? WP bit in RH 7.1 beta ?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:52:55 GMT
Hi,
My intall of 7.1 beta is failing right off the bat on a check of the
WP bit. I'm running a 200mhz Cirix which ran fine with 5, 5.2 * 6.2.
Can anyone tell me about the WP bit? Is this something special which
Cirix chips lack? Is RH likely to fix this?
Thanks David Kirkpatrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vince Skahan)
Subject: booting hdc1 flashdisk into ramdisk
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:33:29 GMT
I'm building a mini-redhat-based distribution for internal use
and am running into problems getting it to boot off of flash
disk into ramdisk without a boot floppy. This distribution will
go onto single-board linux routers, so there's no spinning disk
in production.
Configuration:
/dev/hda = development system (EIDE, full-up rh7)
/dev/hdc = flash disk containing mini-rh distribution
I've come up with a GRUB boot floppy that works ok, but need to get it
booting directly off the ramdisk. My floppy menu.lst file that works
so far contains :
title flashdisk
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram read-only ramdisk=48000
initrd /initrd
GRUB documentation is skeletal and incomplete at best.
When I try to install GRUB to the MBR on the flash disk, the
system displays the word "GRUB" when it boots and hangs there.
Lilo isn't any better, with it either coming up with "LI" or
just "L" when it tries to boot, so I'm obviously missing something
in how I'm trying to install the boot loader to the hdc mbr.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a o/s that runs
great, just can't get the darn thing to boot unaided from
flash disk.
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----------- Vince Skahan -------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------
The DoJ has determined that Linux has established and exploited a monopoly
in the nonproprietary UNIX market by means of predatory zero pricing and
blatantly superior implementation -- Stan Kelly-Bootle
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ? WP bit in RH 7.1 beta ?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:03:31 GMT
Dug up: I think its the write protect bit in the kernel. It would seem
this bit was there as the system ran the other releases ok so possibly
this a bug - I hope.
dk
David Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Hi,
> My intall of 7.1 beta is failing right off the bat on a check of the
> WP bit. I'm running a 200mhz Cirix which ran fine with 5, 5.2 * 6.2.
> Can anyone tell me about the WP bit? Is this something special which
> Cirix chips lack? Is RH likely to fix this?
> Thanks David Kirkpatrick
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From: chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems updating glibc 2.2.2
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:08:36 GMT
Hello all -
I'm running RH 7.0 on an AMD 900 w/ 256 M of RAM and I tried to update glibc to
ver 2.2.2 with a RH RPM (using ver 4.00) and got strange errors. I tried with
both rpm -Fvh and rpm -Uvh and got:
glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12
/usr/bin/getent is needed by stunnel-3.8-4
And other variants. Any help - TIA.
chris
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From: Shreyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: suse 7.1 network installation
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:30:05 -0000
ok, i've witnessed many kudos for suse 7.1, however i can't seem to
install it. I wish to do a network installation using my LNE100TX
(linksys) card that works with the tulip.o driver. However, both the boot
disk and the module2 disk (the disk with the network modules) do not
contain the tulip.o driver. However it IS included in the suse 6.4
installation disk. What's up with that? Also, are there any SUSE 7.1 isos
for i386 out there?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Can't get X-Configurator Working on Install
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:36:42 -0000
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:25:18 -0800, Jon A. Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Guys,
>
>Okay, so I'm trying to install Red Hat Linux 7 on my second machine (a dual
>PIII 600), and I cannot figure out how to get the X-Config install working
>properly with my monitor and video card.
>
>I have a 17-inch Nokia 447X monitor (old but in good shape) with an NVidia
>Quadro2 MXR graphics card. I've tried every combination of resolution
>settings I can think of on the install, but I keep getting the "there is a
>problem with your X configuration" message. I got Gnome and RH Linux 6
>working properly (with an older video card) a long time ago, but I can't
>figure out how to get it to work again now. (Also, I don't have the docs for
>the monitor.) Any suggestions on what settings I should use to get this
>working properly?
>
>-- Jon
>
>
Why not try with xf86config instead. Try doing a real basic setup at first.
I belive that your card uses nvidia drivers? Have you checked the card
compatibility list to see if you would benefit from going to X4.0.2? I
think you may. I would do something like run the basic xf86config
text-based setup first. Get a working XF86Config-4 file and then work on
things like trying out the newer NVidia drivers, etc.
I have not been overly successful with any graphical X setup program. I
always just use the ole-fashioned one.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Becca Sibrack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALS 2001 Call for Papers
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:40:09 -0800
5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference (ALS 2001)
November 6-10, 2001
Oakland, CA USA
http://www.linuxshowcase.org
Sponsored by USENIX and the Atlanta Linux Showcase, Inc.,
in cooperation with Linux International
Now in its fifth year, the Annual Linux Showcase & Conference
http://www.linuxshowcase.org continues its remarkable development
as the premier technical Linux conference, attracting expert talks on
everything from kernel internals to Internet services, panels
discussing the state of the Kernel, invited talks presenting
Linux in the real world, and more.
And this year, ALS breaks with tradition by moving out of
Atlanta to Oakland, CA!
The ALS 2001 Program Committee invites you to contribute your
ideas, proposals, and papers for tutorials, invited talks program,
refereed papers track, workshops, work-in-progress reports, and
symposia tracks. We welcome submissions that address any and
all issues relating to Linux and the Open Source world.
The Call for Papers with submission guidelines and suggested
topics is now available at http://www.linuxshowcase.org
Submissions are due June 5, 2001
Please join us and participate in the premier technical conference
for Linux enthusiasts and professionals! We look forward to seeing
you in the San Francisco Bay Area in November 2001!
===============================================================
5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference (ALS 2001) is
is sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems
Association, and the Atlanta Linux Showcase, in cooperation
with Linux International.
===============================================================
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From: "futurewei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache & mysql & php not working
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:39:07 -0600
Hi,
After I installed Apache, Mysql, and php, those commands like apachectl,
safe_mysqld, are not working. I got error message: "command not found"
Can anyone help me on that.
Thanks,
lee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pumpkinhead)
Subject: Has anyone set up a time server?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:48:03 GMT
Hi,
I installed ntp4 on a system and started the daemon. This cause 3
daemons to run. Fine.
Next, I install said software on an identical system and I have a
defunct process. This happened on a third machine as well, albeit a
different kind of system.
Any idea on how I can troubleshoot this?
Also, if I do get it to run, on the "time clients", do I merely need
to mention the ip address of the "time server" in their /etc/ntp.conf
file?
And if this software doesn't work, what other options do I have?
Peter
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From: "Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CUPS confusion
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:54:08 GMT
Hey,
You can do all basic setup (ie adding a new printer) from the web
interface. Now.. it sounded like you had the resolution for your printer
set low .. that would explain the pixelated output. You needed to
increase the resolution. I don't know how high the HP 690C can go.. you
will have to find that out. Now, it sounds like you are using the wrong
"printer driver" for your printer. Or you could be running LPD and CUPSD
at the same time. I can see LPD screwing things up with CUPSD running
also.. but I don't know I haven't heard of that. The stuff in
/usr/share/cups/model/HP/ are fine like that. Cups is compiled with gzip
support so that it can read those files.
Nathan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Alastair
Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an HP Deskjet 690C, which was working okay before, but graphics
> were coming out pixelated, so I decided to install CUPS and see if I
> could get an improvement.
>
> Unfortunately, Linux printing is completely foreign to me, and I'm
> having problems getting CUPS to work for me. I have gone into
> http://localhost:631/printers on my web browser and installed a printer.
> Last night, I selected "print test page" and the printer spitted out
> loads of garbage and then started feeding sheets continuously until it
> ran out of paper. This morning, I have done the same thing and the test
> page will not even appear in the list of queued jobs.
>
> I have several drivers to choose from, including: HP DeskJet 690C,
> Foomatic + pcl3
> HP DeskJet 690C, Foomatic + cdj670
> HP DeskJet 690 series, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.1.5 HP DeskJet 690C, Foomatic
> + stp-4.0 (GIMP-Print) I'm confused as to what these all do. Is
> 'Foomatic' a seperate script that I need to install? If so, where would
> I find it?
>
> I had it suggested to me that I could set up a printer by typing
> 'lpadmin -p foo1 -m DeskJet_690C-cdj670.ppd -v parallel:/dev/lp0'.
> However, on doing so, I am told that 'lpadmin: add-printer failed: The
> requested resource was not found on this server'. I have a directory on
> my system at /usr/share/cups/model/HP/ which contains a whole lot of
> gzipped drivers. Should these be decompressed before I attempt to set up
> a printer?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>
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From: "Javier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: webcam
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:47:13 -0500
How can you add live video to a webpage? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me)
Subject: In haste, I deleted /dev/hdc, what now?
Date: 30 Mar 2001 00:22:25 GMT
I have a redhat 6.2 OS with 2 disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. /dev/hda is the
boot and primary drive. /dev/hdc is a removable disk. I have lost no data
from my removable disk, I have just removed the file /dev/hdc. Is there a way
to recover it?
Thanks,
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me)
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 or 7.0
Date: 30 Mar 2001 00:28:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>If I was doing software development I would pick Redhat 6.2.
>For server applications, I would pick Redhat 7.0
Would you be willing to elaborate on why?
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From: lydwigvernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Vmware will not compile using Mandrake 2.2.17-21mdksecure stock kernel...
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 04:14:07 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is a known problem, you can't overcome it, not without the source code.
--
"If geiger counter does not click,
the coffe, she is just not thick"
-Pitr Dubovich(Illiad)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: In haste, I deleted /dev/hdc, what now?
Date: 30 Mar 2001 01:16:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 Mar 2001 00:22:25 GMT, Me allegedly wrote:
>I have a redhat 6.2 OS with 2 disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. /dev/hda is the
>boot and primary drive. /dev/hdc is a removable disk. I have lost no data
>from my removable disk, I have just removed the file /dev/hdc. Is there a way
>to recover it?
The /dev/ entries are not regualar files, but special files. They are
created with either the MAKEDEV script (often found at the top of the
directory /dev/, otherwise in /sbin/) or with mknod.
Usage /sbin/mknod name type Major_number Minor_number [Options]
name is obviously the name of the device.
The major and minor numbers can be found in the file
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt or at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/
For you it will be:
/sin/mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 --mode=660
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: Keith Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 problem
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 01:30:05 -0000
I can get Mandrake 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 to install with no complaints from
software. BUT when the system reboots and Mandrake starts up I don't
get a window to login to I get a command line and I just don't know
what to enter after I login in..
I can login as root or as user but that is where I get stuck..
Any tips or advise would be of great help getting me on the road to
being a Linux user..
Keith
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From: "Hiawatha Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Help! Can't boot from floppy
Date: 30 Mar 2001 01:31:11 GMT
I have copied a Linux boot image to floppy, but my computer refuses to
boot from it. It starts running initrd.img and then says "boot failed." I
tried two different boot disks, with the same result. Anybody know why?
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Has anyone set up a time server?
Date: 29 Mar 2001 18:44:15 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pumpkinhead) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I installed ntp4 on a system and started the daemon. This cause 3
> daemons to run. Fine.
>
> Next, I install said software on an identical system and I have a
> defunct process. This happened on a third machine as well, albeit a
> different kind of system.
>
> Any idea on how I can troubleshoot this?
>
> Also, if I do get it to run, on the "time clients", do I merely need
> to mention the ip address of the "time server" in their /etc/ntp.conf
> file?
>
> And if this software doesn't work, what other options do I have?
NTP is fairly complicated. It should only run one daemon (other than
ntpdate, which should run once and then exit).
Grab a cup of coffee and read up:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html/index.htm
(I use ntpd on all my core machines, and just use ntpdate on all the
workstations at bootup)
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: In haste, I deleted /dev/hdc, what now?
Date: 29 Mar 2001 18:46:48 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) writes:
> I have a redhat 6.2 OS with 2 disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. /dev/hda is the
> boot and primary drive. /dev/hdc is a removable disk. I have lost no data
> from my removable disk, I have just removed the file /dev/hdc. Is there a way
> to recover it?
mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
`man mknod` for more information and see devices.txt in the kernel
"Documentation" directory for specific ID numbers.
(the entire /dev tree should be going away in the near future [and
good riddance if you ask me])
--
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
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 problem
Date: 29 Mar 2001 18:47:32 -0700
Keith Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can get Mandrake 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 to install with no complaints from
> software. BUT when the system reboots and Mandrake starts up I don't
> get a window to login to I get a command line and I just don't know
> what to enter after I login in..
> I can login as root or as user but that is where I get stuck..
> Any tips or advise would be of great help getting me on the road to
> being a Linux user..
startx
--
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
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 or 7.0
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 01:38:41 GMT
Check out http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20001229S0005 on the reason for
picking Redhat 6.2 or Redhat 7.0
Me wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >
> >If I was doing software development I would pick Redhat 6.2.
> >For server applications, I would pick Redhat 7.0
>
> Would you be willing to elaborate on why?
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