Linux-Setup Digest #92, Volume #21 Sun, 22 Apr 01 19:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Kernel 2.4.3 questions... (Adam Balgach)
Re: Help needed with DHCP client setup (@home) ("David Stuart")
Re: How to find out the modue for the eth0 device and a "free" IRQ and I/O ("Mike
W�nscher")
Re: Help needed with DHCP client setup (@home) (Bit Twister)
Re: Modem trouble ("Roy Bamford")
Re: Sendmail doesnot work (David Efflandt)
Re: Help needed with DHCP client setup (@home) ("David Stuart")
HP DeskJet 990Cxi on USB-port ("Jan W.M. van Kessel")
Re: Modem trouble ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Kernel 2.4.3 questions... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: How to find out the modue for the eth0 device and a "free" IRQ
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Device Name For PS2 Mouse? (Rand Simberg)
Install problem... (Steve)
Booting Kernel Problem
Re: Device Name For PS2 Mouse? (J Hayward)
Re: Install problem... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Device Name For PS2 Mouse? (Rand Simberg)
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From: Adam Balgach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Kernel 2.4.3 questions...
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:10:08 -0500
so i just made the jump from the 2.2.16 kernel to the 2.4.3 and honestly
im having a ton of problems with it. First and most importantly for
some reason it will not load anything i build as a module... for example
i have the vfat.o module built seperatly... i do:
make menuconfig - and setup how i want everything
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules-install
this will install all of my modules in the /lib/modules/2.4.3/...
directories... example vfat.o is in
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/fs/vfat/vfat.o
and then in my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file i put in the line:
/sbin/modprobe vfat
and at boot up (or any other time, it gives me this error:
bash-2.04# modprobe vfat
modprobe: Can't locate module vfat
so i basically cant load any modules at all! which is terrible.. WHY ?
anyone have any thoughts? email me. thanks.
adam balgach.
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From: "David Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help needed with DHCP client setup (@home)
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:20:41 GMT
Ok, I thought it might be dhcpcd -h 2dstuart (my user ID).. but I'll give
this a try. Do I have to modify some start-up script somewhere to have this
work on bootup?
Also, in case this doesn't work ("netconf" didn't do the trick for me), I'd
like to ask a few more things about netconf..
In the "Basic Host information" tab, there are the following fields, I'd
like to make sure I have them set ok.
Host Name + Domain : <my full alphanumeric IP address>
Enabled [ on ]
Config Mode: Set to DHCP
Primary Name + Domain: <again, my full alphanumeric IP address, didn't I
just put this in already??>
Aliases(opt): ??
IP Address: ???? ... should I put anything in here? Does it matter?
Netmask: 255.255.254.0 ??? Should I put anything in here? Windows says that
it is 255.255.252.0 currently, but the first number is on my initial network
settings print-out from Rogers
Net Device: eth0
Kernel Module: tulip
I/O port(opt): ?? ... currently set to nothing
Irq(opt): ?? ... currently set to nothing
"DCE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9lGE6.712756$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <x2GE6.4901$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Flying Ape
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Red Hat includes a program, netconf, which should prompt you for DHCP or
> > STATIC. It is important that you sent your host name to the assigned
> > node name given to you by the @Home network provider, i.e., cx55675-b
> >
> This is very important. Call dhcp with the -h switch (dchp -h cx55675-b)
to assign
> your @home host name
>
>
>
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From: "Mike W�nscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to find out the modue for the eth0 device and a "free" IRQ and I/O
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:22:22 +0200
Hi Lutz,
I suggest, that the ethernet card is a PCI 10/100 card. In this case the
module rtl8139 should work fine. It determines the io and irq itself.
MIke
"Lutz Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3adaf7a6$0$10726$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I want to add a LinxPRO Ethernetadapter (based on a RTL8139C chip)
> to my P90 ASUS Linux box. I failed 'til now, because I don't know either
>
> - what the correct module in the kernelconfig is to setup for eth0
>
> and
>
> - how I can find out which IRQs nad I/Os are free for the network adapter
?
>
> Thanks for your help !
>
> Lutz
> ---
> Lutz Marten, Wuerzburg, Germany, Europe, 49�47,61' N 9�55,55' E @
earth.org
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help needed with DHCP client setup (@home)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:33:42 GMT
Try adding
DHCP_HOSTNAME="cr443791-a" to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and set
ONBOOT="yes"
Then
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart to test change
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 18:57:36 GMT, David Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Because of @home's constant re-configurations of their networks, I've been
>forced to switch from a manually configured IP address to using DHCP..
>
>I've been able to get this to work under windows, but I have not been
>successful under Linux. All I get is "dhcpcd timed out"... and my eth0
>interface refuses to come up.
>
>I've read the mini DHCP client HOW-TO, but this is impossible to understand.
>I'm still relatively new to all of the DHCP terminology (what the heck is
>bootp, and this thing called pump???). I don't want to setup a DHCP server,
>most of the documentation I've found so far seems to centre around this.
>
>If anyone could help me out by letting me know what exactly needs to be done
>(step-by-step, explain as you would an idiot).. or could point me to
>somewhere where this information could be found, I would be eternally
>grateful! I don't want to become a DHCP expert, I just want to setup my
>machine's connectivity..
>
>I would especially be interested in speaking with someone who's successfully
>got everything running with the rogers@home service in Ontario (but in a
>pinch, anyone with knowledge will do)!
>
>I'm currently running RedHat 7.0 / ix86 architecture..
>
>Win98 was easy to setup for this, I don't see why Linux is proving to be
>such a dog in this area...??
>
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Reply-To: "Roy Bamford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Roy Bamford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:40:59 +0100
Peter,
Err no.
The ISA bus is either 8 bits or 16 bits wide - never 32 bits.
The clock speed is 8MHz as you say, but transfers take either 2 clocks with
no wait states or 3 clocks with one wait state, which is more normal.
The data rate for a controllerless modem is much higher than 56k bits, as
the CPU is acting as a Digital Signal Processor to generate all of the
required tones.
Niquist sampling dictates that the highest frequency requires more than two
samples. However, this is very simplistic as good phase relationships must
be preserved (and detected) so many more samples are required. We left
signalling at one bit per baud behind a long time ago. Essentially, the
analogue signal is being digitised by the half a modem (of a software modem)
and the digital representation is being sent over the bus, for both
transmitted and received tones, and ISA is just not up to it. To keep the
line alive, the Tx and Rx tones are required regardless of the data content.
In a real modem, only the detected data is passed back and forth on the bus
and 56k baud is approx 5.6kb/sec. Even with the advertised 4x compression in
the modem, which is not achieved in reality, it's only about 20kb/sec. ISA
is well up to that.
Regards,
Roy Bamford
--
There are two classes of computer users,
those who do backups and
those who have never had a hard drive fail.
Anon.
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.help Roy Bamford
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think you are being a bit harsh on Krstanovics' modem. As its ISA,
it's
> > unlikely to be a winmodem - you would really struggle to get the
bandwidth
> > down the ISA bus. I go along with the 'upgrade' instructions for
winmodems
>
> Saying that loses you all credibility. The isa bus is 8MHz. At 32 bits
> that would be 240M baud. It should be able to cope with a 56K baud
> modem by running at about 0.02% of capacity, no?
>
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Sendmail doesnot work
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:37:14 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:32:51 GMT, Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [root@e89108 mail]# telnet 192.168.0.1 25
> Trying 192.168.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> [root@e89108 mail]# telnet 127.0.0.1 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 e89108.upc-e.chello.nl ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.2/8.11.2; Sat, 21 Apr 2001
> 17:33:11 GMT
>
> As you see, I try to run a smtp-server, but the sendmail deamon only accept
> connections from localhost. Perhaps I need to modify a conf-file. I thought
> I adjusted everything ok.... My firewall is configured well, it accept
> connections from eveywhere on port 25. Nevertheless is does not work.
Sendmail running as a daemon is not controlled by tcpwrappers, so any
settings in /etc/hosts.allow or hosts.deny would not be an issue. So that
leaves your firewall, which you say is not blocking port 25, but how did
you test that? What does a scan of that port from another box tell you
(nmap or whatever)?
--
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From: "David Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed with DHCP client setup (@home)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:54:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bit Twister"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try adding
> DHCP_HOSTNAME="cr443791-a" to
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and set
> ONBOOT="yes"
>
> Then
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart to test change
AHH, thank you!!
That's the magic lines that I've been looking for. As you can (perhaps)
see, I've got it working (at least if I type it by hand). I'll try this
for the auto-booting. Thanks again,
Dave
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 18:57:36 GMT, David Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Because of @home's constant re-configurations of their networks, I've
>>been forced to switch from a manually configured IP address to using
>>DHCP..
>>
>>I've been able to get this to work under windows, but I have not been
>>successful under Linux. All I get is "dhcpcd timed out"... and my eth0
>>interface refuses to come up.
>>
>>I've read the mini DHCP client HOW-TO, but this is impossible to
>>understand. I'm still relatively new to all of the DHCP terminology
>>(what the heck is bootp, and this thing called pump???). I don't want to
>>setup a DHCP server, most of the documentation I've found so far seems
>>to centre around this.
>>
>>If anyone could help me out by letting me know what exactly needs to be
>>done (step-by-step, explain as you would an idiot).. or could point me
>>to somewhere where this information could be found, I would be eternally
>>grateful! I don't want to become a DHCP expert, I just want to setup my
>>machine's connectivity..
>>
>>I would especially be interested in speaking with someone who's
>>successfully got everything running with the rogers@home service in
>>Ontario (but in a pinch, anyone with knowledge will do)!
>>
>>I'm currently running RedHat 7.0 / ix86 architecture..
>>
>>Win98 was easy to setup for this, I don't see why Linux is proving to be
>>such a dog in this area...??
>>
--
By the yard, life is hard.
By the inch, it's a cinch.
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From: "Jan W.M. van Kessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP DeskJet 990Cxi on USB-port
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:07:32 GMT
Dear Readers,
do you know if there are drivers for (Redhat) Linux 7.0 for a HP DeskJet
990Cxi connected to the USB port? If so where I can find information to
get it working.
Thanks,
Jan W.M. van Kessel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:56:09 +0200
In comp.os.linux.hardware Roy Bamford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Peter,
> The ISA bus is either 8 bits or 16 bits wide - never 32 bits.
Yes, I remembered that afterwards (too used to pci!). I didn't bother
correcting it because ...
> The clock speed is 8MHz as you say, but transfers take either 2 clocks with
> no wait states or 3 clocks with one wait state, which is more normal.
.. that only changes the calculated bandwidth by 6 or 12 times, which
"increases" the bandwicth occupied by a 56K modem to 0.12% or 0.24%
(from my calculation of 0.02%).
> The data rate for a controllerless modem is much higher than 56k bits, as
Of course. That's (partly) why nobody should use one.
> the CPU is acting as a Digital Signal Processor to generate all of the
I would hope not! I don't know of any DSP-less device that runs on the
ISA bus. But thankfully, I don't know much about DSPless devices at
all. Of course they need to sample at at least twice the top audio
frequency (i.e. about 8KHz), but ...
> required tones.
> Niquist sampling dictates that the highest frequency requires more than two
> samples. However, this is very simplistic as good phase relationships must
> be preserved (and detected) so many more samples are required. We left
.. yes. But ten times more samples than the Nyquist rate should be fine.
> signalling at one bit per baud behind a long time ago. Essentially, the
> analogue signal is being digitised by the half a modem (of a software modem)
> and the digital representation is being sent over the bus, for both
> transmitted and received tones, and ISA is just not up to it. To keep the
At 8MHz (or 4MHz) there is not the slightest chance that it "can't keep up
with it". 56Kbit/s of info really does require at most 10 times that sample
rate! And that's less than 10% of the busrate.
> line alive, the Tx and Rx tones are required regardless of the data content.
> In a real modem, only the detected data is passed back and forth on the bus
> and 56k baud is approx 5.6kb/sec. Even with the advertised 4x compression in
> the modem, which is not achieved in reality, it's only about 20kb/sec. ISA
> is well up to that.
True.
Peter
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.3 questions...
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:21:38 +0200
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Adam Balgach wrote:
> so i just made the jump from the 2.2.16 kernel to the 2.4.3 and honestly
> im having a ton of problems with it. First and most importantly for
> some reason it will not load anything i build as a module... for example
> i have the vfat.o module built seperatly... i do:
Read Changes and find out, that you need to upgrade your modutils.
Rasmus
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to find out the modue for the eth0 device and a "free" IRQ
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:23:43 +0200
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Mike W�nscher wrote:
> I suggest, that the ethernet card is a PCI 10/100 card. In this case the
> module rtl8139 should work fine. It determines the io and irq itself.
If you run 2.2.18 or newer, use 8139too instead as it has some
workarounds for some critical RTL8139 errors.
Rasmus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Device Name For PS2 Mouse?
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:46:00 GMT
What is it called? (I just switched from serial to PS2, and need to
change the pointer in /dev). And where would I look something like
that up, so I don't have to bother the newsgroup with it?
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install problem...
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:10:13 +0100
Hi,
I'm having trouble installing Slack 7.0. When I run cfdisk to create my
partitions I get the folling error message:
FATAL ERROR:Bad Primary partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk
My systems is configured as follows:
C:\ (40Gb) running Win98SE split into 3 partitions
D:\ (15Gb) running Win2000 slit into 2 partitions
A third bare 4Gb disk on which I wish to install slacky
All partitioning was done with Partition Magic 6. It's the same whether I
boot from floppies or the CD. I've tried creating partitions on C and D for
linux but the same happens.
Is it something to do with the fact that Win2K has grabbed the MBR by the
balls?
--
Steve.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Booting Kernel Problem
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:30:09 -0000
I installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 with the new 2.4 kernel. When the kernel
boots and gets to INIT 2.7.8 it freezes. Email me if you can help.
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Device Name For PS2 Mouse?
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:29:00 -0700
Hi,
I didn't know you were bothering the newsgroup. Thats what it is for to ask
questions.
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
will create the symlink you want.
Regards,
Jim H
Rand Simberg wrote:
> What is it called? (I just switched from serial to PS2, and need to
> change the pointer in /dev). And where would I look something like
> that up, so I don't have to bother the newsgroup with it?
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install problem...
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:33:51 +0200
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble installing Slack 7.0. When I run cfdisk to create my
Don't use cfdisk. Use fdisk. (I don't care what the author says about
bugs - cfdisk is plain incomprehensible).
> partitions I get the folling error message:
> FATAL ERROR:Bad Primary partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk
apparently your kernel does not support disks over 32GB. Use a
different kernel. Slack 7.1 and 7.2 are out, aren't they? I believe you
need at least 2.2.18 kernels for large disk support.
> My systems is configured as follows:
> C:\ (40Gb) running Win98SE split into 3 partitions
You mean C: D: and E:.
> D:\ (15Gb) running Win2000 slit into 2 partitions
You mean F: and G:
> A third bare 4Gb disk on which I wish to install slacky
> All partitioning was done with Partition Magic 6. It's the same whether I
Well, don't.
> boot from floppies or the CD. I've tried creating partitions on C and D for
> linux but the same happens.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: Device Name For PS2 Mouse?
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:53:57 GMT
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:29:00 -0700, in a place far, far away, J
Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>I didn't know you were bothering the newsgroup. Thats what it is for to ask
>questions.
Yes, perhaps "bothering the group" was the wrong phraseology. What I
really meant was, where could I look this up so that I can know in
real time, instead of posting to the newsgroup and hoping that
somebody responds sometime? ;-)
I view the group as a source of wisdom that cannot be found by
RTFMing...
>ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
>
>will create the symlink you want.
Thanks.
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