Linux-Setup Digest #84, Volume #21 Sat, 21 Apr 01 11:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Netgear FA311 and Slackware 7.1 ("Steven Mon")
Re: Screen Resolution How do I change it (Steve Martin)
Re: Cannot play audio CD's (Steve Martin)
Re: XFSetup config file error (Steve Martin)
Re: loading modules (Steve Martin)
Re: RedHat 6.2 Kenel compiling ? (Steve Martin)
Re: Red hat 7.1 can't detect my lan card............ (Steve Martin)
Re: Netgear FA311 and Slackware 7.1 ("James")
Installation Mandrake 7.2 /RedHat6.2 With promise ATA100 ASUS A7V ? ("Mick")
Re: slackware 7.1 hangs on install (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Move Kernel Module (Scott Peshak)
Re: XFSetup config file error (Dougie Richardson)
What's the difference??? (Scott Peshak)
Re: Instal from ios (Scott Peshak)
Re: Newbie looking to set up a Linux box Advice? (Kwan Lowe)
Re: RedHat 6.2 Kenel compiling ? (Kwan Lowe)
Packages v. Source ("Todd J. Beauchemin")
Kernel 2.4 - X Font server error (djswift)
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From: "Steven Mon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netgear FA311 and Slackware 7.1
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:21:31 GMT
I have a Netgear FA311 and a Slackware 7.1 box (that also boots to NT 4.0).
I downloaded and compiled the source code by Donald Becker (natsemi.c,
pci-scan.c and other files).
I installed the modules natsemic.o and pci-scan.o in
/lib/modules/2.2.16/net/
I added insmod lines to my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file. Ran netconfig.
Everything was working great--for one day! The very next day it stopped.
Now I cannot ping to and from my Slackware box. I can ping to itself
(192.168.0.99) if that means anything.
When I boot, I see the normal message regarding natsemi.c and eth0. No
errors.
Here's the result of ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:7A:A1:94
inet addr:192.168.0.99 Bcast:192.168.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xf000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
and route -n gives me this:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
I don't understand what could have happened from one day to the next. The
only thing I did was work on getting x-windows up--I don't think I broke
anything. Can anyone point me to what else I should be checking to see why
my networking is not working? Thanks!
Steven Mon
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Screen Resolution How do I change it
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 04:39:51 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm new at this and have windows & Linux RH 6.1 running on an older
> computer. Linux works fine at 1024x768. But I had to replace the
> monitor with an oldie that can only do 640x480. As I figured, the
> screen is unreadable. From a root prompt what can I run to set things
> to 640x480? The only way I know is to re-install, but I hate to,
> cause it runs not too bad now.
> Thanx.
You don't specify which version of XFree86 you're running, but
it looks like what you want to do is edit your XF86Config file
(or perhaps the XF86Config-4 file, if you're running XFree86
4.x).
In the pre-4.0 versions of the file, there are lines labelled
"Modeline", which entries give the server the parameters it needs
to operate the display at that resolution. Just comment out the
lines for everything except 640x480. Another way to do this
(and one that probably will be easier) is to go down to the
bottom of this file to the section labelled "Screen" that
corresponds to the driver you're using, go to the "Display"
subsections, and remove all the resolution entries except the
"640x480" entries.
Now, if you're running XFree86 4.0 or later, the file might not
even have "Modeline" entries, as the server contains built-in
resolution information for all the "standard" resolutions.
In that case, just edit the "Modes" entries for your display
and remove all except the "640x480" entries.
Hope this helps.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cannot play audio CD's
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 04:44:42 -0400
James Hall wrote:
>
> Just installed Redhat 7.1 - with great ease, I might add - however, I am
> unable to play an audio CD using KDE's CD player. The CD-ROM drive is a
> Sony DVD-ROM IDE drive. I installed 7.1 using CD install and any data CD is
> instantly mounted. The audio CD is not mounted (is that normal ?).
Yes, this is normal. Music CD's don't mount, as there is no filesystem
on them.
Stupid question time... there *is* an audio cable from the back of the
DVD drive going to the sound card, right? Playing audio CD's is not
done with raw data, the drive feeds audio out the back and it's up to
you to make the physical connection to the sound card input.
If that's done, run kmix and make sure the level is turned up on the
appropriate input.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFSetup config file error
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 05:02:40 -0400
JD Elliott wrote:
>
> I tried to run XF86Setup tonight and was asked:
>
> "Would you like to use the existing XF86Config file for defaults?"
>
> I said yes. Then I was greeted with:
>
> "Error encountered reading existing configuration file."
You didn't specify which version of XFree86 you're running, or
if perhaps you've upgraded or made some other changes recently.
If by chance you happen to be running a version of XFree86
that's older (or newer) than before, perhaps the format of the
XF86Config file isn't appropriate. They did make some changes
to that file when they came out with XFree86 4.0.
> OK. I'm running Slackware 7.0. I tried to run the XF86Config file itself. I
> got all kinds of "command not found" errors.
Yes, that won't work. The XF86Config file just contains parameter
settings for the server, not any executable statements.
> Anyone run into this? Help would be gratefully received. Meanwhile, it's
> off to more man pages to see what I can find. My first impression is that
> something is wrong with my XF86Config file(s).
I agree, there's probably something in the one you're using that
XF86Setup chokes on.
> I found 3 on my machine.
> One in /etc/ and 2 more in the X lib directory. (Where the man page said
> they would be.)
You can tell which one your server is actually using by looking at the
log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log (I've heard that this only began with
XFree86 4.0, so you might not have one of these... if so, perhaps
someone
else could advise??). The latter-day convention is to put the config
file
in the /etc/X11 directory. I haven't used Slackware for years, so I
couldn't
tell you what they're doing these days. Sorry.
> So now I'm going to start learning the syntax and checking
> them out.
Atta boy.
P.S. Open note to Peter Breuer: quit being so damned arrogant and try
being helpful. Remember that you weren't always an expert.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: loading modules
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 05:06:57 -0400
ThomasWalz wrote:
>
> While trying to load modules for instance
> insmod loop
> i got the error message
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/block/loop.o unresolved symbol kernelflag
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/block/loop.o unresolved symbol waitqueue_lock
>
> What does this error message means exactly?
It means (if I'm not mistaken) that the loop.o module expects to
see a symbol called "kernelflag" and another called "waitqueue_lock"
in some other module, and it's not seeing those. It appears that
you might have recompiled your kernel, making something built-in
that used to be a module or vice-versa.
> In the past i solved such problems by recomiling the kernel
> ( make bzlilo ) and all modules ( make modules modules_install ). But
> this
> time i doesn't work.
I ran into something similar once, and solved it by first removing
all the contents of the /lib/modules directory, then re-running
"make modules_install". This cleaned out some stale modules and
config info.
> I am using RH Linux 6.4 Kernel 2.2.16-22.
Shows how out-of-touch I am... I thought the last 6.x distro
was 6.2.
Hope this helps.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 Kenel compiling ?
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 05:08:02 -0400
Bo wrote:
>
> I try to compiling kernel on RedHat linux 6.2 but with no success.
> I did everything by the book and still nothing happen.
> Can anyone help me with this?
I'm sure someone will try, but we need a little more information.
Exactly what happens when you try? What error messages do you
get? How are you trying to compile the kernel?
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Red hat 7.1 can't detect my lan card............
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 05:09:45 -0400
James wrote:
>
> linux initializes afaik only one ethernet card during installation. you have
> to do the rest more or less by hand i guess.
There are some pretty good instructions on how to run multiple
Ethernet cards in the Ethernet-HOWTO, at www.linuxdoc.org.
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From: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 and Slackware 7.1
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:05:05 +0200
I don't think I can tell you what's actually wrong with your config, but I'm
using the same nic and never had trouble with it under rh7.0 using the
module (I think it's fa311.o )from netgear's website following the
installation instructions. Hope this helps.
James
"Steven Mon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:%2eE6.28959$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Netgear FA311 and a Slackware 7.1 box (that also boots to NT
4.0).
> I downloaded and compiled the source code by Donald Becker (natsemi.c,
> pci-scan.c and other files).
>
> I installed the modules natsemic.o and pci-scan.o in
> /lib/modules/2.2.16/net/
>
> I added insmod lines to my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file. Ran netconfig.
> Everything was working great--for one day! The very next day it stopped.
> Now I cannot ping to and from my Slackware box. I can ping to itself
> (192.168.0.99) if that means anything.
>
> When I boot, I see the normal message regarding natsemi.c and eth0. No
> errors.
>
> Here's the result of ifconfig:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:7A:A1:94
> inet addr:192.168.0.99 Bcast:192.168.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xf000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> and route -n gives me this:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
>
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
>
> I don't understand what could have happened from one day to the next. The
> only thing I did was work on getting x-windows up--I don't think I broke
> anything. Can anyone point me to what else I should be checking to see
why
> my networking is not working? Thanks!
>
> Steven Mon
>
>
>
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From: "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installation Mandrake 7.2 /RedHat6.2 With promise ATA100 ASUS A7V ?
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:42:18 +0200
Reply-To: "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have a problem with my motherboard ASUS A7V....
I boot my installation with linux ide2=0xa000, 0x9802 (the parameter with
lspci -v) but linux don't recognize my controller Promise ATA100
RedHat 6.2
Kernel Panic :VFS Unable to mount root fs on 08:34
Mandrake 7.2
Nothing error..... but the installation stop...
Help me
Thanks
Mick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slackware 7.1 hangs on install
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:03:22 +1000
James wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I'm trying to install slackware 7.1 on an old 386 with 8mb ram. I can boot
> with the bare.i bootdisk, but I can't log in using the color.gz rootdisk.
> The text.gz rootdisk lets me log in as root, but when I then execute a
> command such as fdisk nothing happens. I don't get a prompt any more for
> hours and no activity is noticeable. The machine does not have a cdrom
> drive, so I have to install over ftp. I tried to follow the instructions in
> the 4-mb-laptop-howto and wanted to copy the unzipped rootdisk contents on
> the hard drive (210 mb), but I had trouble with mulinux and mkfs.ext2 and
> "unsupported filesystems" on the floppies I created with the mke2fs of RH
> 7.0.
>
> Will slackware 7.1 install at all with 8 mb on this machine? Any other ideas
> of how to get it installed?
Borrow the CD from normal box and install like grown-up.
(It is only 6 screws the cover, 4 screws and 2 plugs the CD, with a cup of
coffee maximuuuum 5 minutes)
Have Slack 7.1 on 486/8M ram 254 M hard disk. Only a; ap; n series.
No GUI.
Works.
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
>
> Any help appreciated!
>
> James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Peshak)
Subject: Re: Move Kernel Module
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:34:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What i planned on doing was: I have 2 servers one is the "live"
server that is very vital and the other is just a "sandbox" for our
developers to play with. Both have redhat installed on them so the
kernel was installed with RPMS. what i want to do is install the
AppleTalk module on the live server after compling it on the sandbox.
The only problem is that they are fairly different machines. The live
server is a dual P3 with 2 SCSI hd's setup in a RAID mirror set.
while the sandbox is a P2 with 1 IDE disk.
Scott Peshak
Life would be easier if we could look at the source code.
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From: Dougie Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFSetup config file error
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:07:21 +0100
Steve Martin wrote:
> > I found 3 on my machine.
> > One in /etc/ and 2 more in the X lib directory. (Where the man page
> > said they would be.)
>
> You can tell which one your server is actually using by looking at the
> log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log (I've heard that this only began with
> XFree86 4.0, so you might not have one of these... if so, perhaps
> someone
> else could advise??). The latter-day convention is to put the config
> file
> in the /etc/X11 directory. I haven't used Slackware for years, so I
> couldn't
> tell you what they're doing these days. Sorry.
According to the man pages for XF86Config the file in /etc is read before
those in the /usr/X11R6/lib folder.
This is perhaps an untidy solution but I'd rename all XF86Config files
except the /etc/X11 one and work on that.
--
Dougie Richardson //================================
//
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================// http://www.incarnate.uklinux.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Peshak)
Subject: What's the difference???
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:16:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a machine with kernel 2.2.16-22smp (installed with RedHat 7.0)
and now i want to add a module to the kernel. so i went to kernel.org
and downloaded the source for 2.2.16 and did a make modules to compile
the modules. Then i tried insmod to install the module and it said
the module was compiled for 2.2.16 and i have 2.2.16-22smp. I know
that the smp allows more that one processor in the system (which i do)
but all i'm installing is the AppleTalk module which i don't think
that it would be that big of a deal. Can i just force the install?
or is it something higherlevel than that?
Thanks
Scott Peshak
Life would be easier if we could look at the source code.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Peshak)
Subject: Re: Instal from ios
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:19:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if you have an older machine (or if it is disabled in the BIOS) you
can't boot from the CD-ROM. This means that you will have to make a
boot floppy to start the machine. (this is like a dos disk) to do
that read the documentation. I know in RedHat there is a program in
the dosutils director called rawrite.exe which you run and give it the
path to the boot disk image in the images directory.
Good luck
Scott Peshak
Life would be easier if we could look at the source code.
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie looking to set up a Linux box Advice?
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:25:20 GMT
Zaphod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> My question is, whice version to use and how to goabout installing it. I
> have Red Hat 6 small business editon, TurboLinux server 6.0 and workstation
> 6.0, Open Linux Eserver 2.3.
I've had success with RedHat and Caldera. From a setup point of view, Caldera
was probably the easiest. For an internal network for a single purpose it was
simple to setup and configure. However, adding new software was not so easy.
Adding packages sometimes gave weird dependency errors or just wouldn't work
quite right. Straight from the box you can configure web, dhcp, named, nfs,
and samba. I added Netatalk for Apple filesharing. This said, it's happily
serving files and web pages and doing automated backups without any further
maintenance.
RedHat also installed easily. I'm using it primarily as a samba/nfs server and
this was simple to configure (worked right out of the box). With the exception
of the onboard sound, everything was detected and configured properly by the
installer.
> My target hardware is, a Duron 750mhz, 256mb's pc-133 Spectec, Amptron
> 810lmr Mainboard (I know I know but hey there cheap and I have around 20 of
> them) o/b sound/video/lan/modem. I am not to worried about getting the o/b
> lam and modem to work with it, as I can put in a 3com Nic and a USR modem.
> The last time I tried to set up red hat, It would not let me partition and
> use the drive, It was a fresh 6.4 gig wd, No matter what I tried to do, it
> would not let me past that stage of the install. So any help at all in
> picking on and setting it up would be greatly apprecated.
> Thanks in Advance
> Dennis
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 Kenel compiling ?
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:26:28 GMT
Bo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I try to compiling kernel on RedHat linux 6.2 but with no success.
> I did everything by the book and still nothing happen.
> Can anyone help me with this?
Hmmm... Try this site: :)
http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/kernel.html
What errors are you having?
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From: "Todd J. Beauchemin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Packages v. Source
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:49:18 -0400
I have 3 RedHat systems one running 6.1 one with 6.2 and one with 7.0. I am
thinking or reinstalling the machine that has 7.0. I have been debating
whether or not to download the source code for the server programs, such as
apache, mysql, etc. or sticking with the RedHat packages. I was wondering
if anyone had any opinions or comments on whether or not to compile and
install programs from source or to use packages to install programs.
~Todd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (djswift)
Subject: Kernel 2.4 - X Font server error
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:03:05 GMT
This is my first recompile and I think I finally got a 2.4 kernel
thats gonna work but it gets to the "Loading X Font" part and I get
"LSR system check engaged" and then nothing... It just stops and all I
can do is ctrl-alt-delete to unmount everything. Whats going on?
--
DJ Swift... djswift (at) nfx.net
AOL Instant Messanger... DJSwift14
Registered Linux User #203855
"I can't deny its killing me, no one loses on TV."
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