Linux-Setup Digest #148, Volume #21 Wed, 2 May 01 08:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues (James Tonsager)
Re: Upgraded kernel and /boot/System.map errors ("Peter T. Breuer")
How to download and make bootable Red Hat 7.1 disks? (Dino Hsu)
Re: Cannot play audio CD's (John)
Re: How to download and make bootable Red Hat 7.1 disks? (H.Bruijn)
Re: Laptop mouse problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
primary or extended partition? ("Stoeff")
Re: primary or extended partition? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Reloading Linux Kernel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
can't read rpm database (202.101.3.202 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]])
Glibc version? ("Berdzi")
Re: 486 help??!! (Joeri Sebrechts)
Vanishing keyboard problem ("Berdzi")
Re: fyi, Promise FastTrack w/ SMP seems to work ("Andrew Powell")
Re: Modules and 2Gb of RAM (Matthias)
wrong keyboardtable (H)
Quota-command always showing : none ("Stefan Van Yper")
Linux Lexmark 3200 Printing (Nils Holland)
resolving interrupt conflicts... (Wouter De Maere)
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From: James Tonsager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux.redhat,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 08:43:27 GMT
Funny, dhcp and roadrunner work well on my machine with Mandrake 7.2.
Michael wrote:
>
> Here's some food for thought:
>
> Use a static ipaddress & free it from the dhcp server.
>
> http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dhcpfree.c
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "grooveman"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> > I am running Redhat 6.2, and I am tying to use it with Mediaone (Now
> > ATT) Road Runner service in the Detroit Metro area. My problem is that
> > my machine would not lease from the DHCP server. Of course, the
> > customer support was useless in this issue: "we don't support
> > Line-ucks".
> > I have researched this thoroughly, and have seen many people with the
> > same or similar issue, but every single one failed to document clearly
> > how they overcame this problem (if they did at all). I dropped pump all
> > together. I have the version that comes stock with RH 6.2. (0.7.8-1).
> > I downloaded the latest version of DHCPCD version 1.3.20-p10. I have
> > gotten that to work -- but it only works about 10 percent of the time.
> > 90% of the time (or so) it fails. The README for this utility is not
> > helpful at all. The howto I found was even worse. When modifying the
> > script of ifup an ifdown, it not only had the script wrong, but it said
> > to remove an "if" statement without touching the fi. I am no scripting
> > whiz, but I know you can't break conditionals like that without trashing
> > the script.
> > I modified ifup and ifdown, basically by replacing the pump commands
> > with their dhcpcd equivalents. Then, I wrote a script that loops the
> > ifup until it gets a lease. I put the script at the end of rc.local,
> > rather than having eth0 come up at init level 3. The net result is that
> > it runs through everything fine, and at the very last stage, tries to
> > bring up eth0 until it is successful. It take about 10 times plus or
> > minus.
> > (SIGH........)
> > What can I do to get this to work?
> > I really appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!
> > Chris
> >
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgraded kernel and /boot/System.map errors
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:48:19 +0200
Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> Yes, the System.map is the kernel's symbol table. You installed
>> a new kernel and the old symbol table (which was created for a
>> different kernel) obviously doesn't match. You can ignore the
>> error, or if it bothers you, then copy the System.map file from
>> the root of your kernel source after compiling to /boot/System.map.
> ** it is my understanding that there is a make ???? that will copy
> the correct System.map into /boot. Am I imagining this? Or is this
> important step just as poorly documented as so many thing in Linux are.
It's not an important step. That's what you've just been told! Please
just forget about it (I assure you that anyone who needs a System.map is
quite capable of putting it in an appropriate place using the "cp" or "ln"
command)!
And if you really want to know what make can do, look through the kernel
Makefile, since that is what you just executed. It's very readable.
Petre
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From: Dino Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to download and make bootable Red Hat 7.1 disks?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:09:10 +0800
Dear all,
I would like to download Red Had 7.1 and make bootable disks from it.
Firstly, the download part, I have tried the ftp.redhat.com and some
mirror sites, with either IE5.5 or Cuteftp 4.0. I cannot succeed yet.
The download is difficult, because it is not downloaded as a single
compressed file, but a lot of directories and files under
/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en (ftp.redhat.com). Is there a way to download
the whole thing as a single compressed file as I do with Oracle? On
the other hand, how do we know the overall size of the download, when
it is a lot of direcotries and files?
Secondly, the bootable part, what is the correct procedure and file
layout when I make disks from what I download?
I know many people get Linux from Internet rather than from a software
store, can anyone show me how? Thanks in advance.
Dino
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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:19:59 +0100
From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot play audio CD's
As it's a SCSI CD-ROM drive, maybe the SCSI bus is being reset for some
reason immediately after you play an audio CD.
John
Michael Lindner wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> I think I have the same problem. What happens (at least in my case) is
> that the player actually plays the first fraction of a second, then
> stops playing. This happens with several different CD player apps (ccdp
> gcd cdplay cdplayer_app, etc.). The volume IS up - if I play a CD that
> has a loud sound at the very beginning, I hear the beginning of the
> first note. If I play a game, the sound is appropriately loud ;^)
>
> As for what CD drive, I haven't taken it apart to look, but the machine
> is a brand new Dell Dimension 8100, and dmesg says:
>
> Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
>
> so it presumably knows about it. In fact, I can mount and read CD-ROMs
> just fine (haven't tried writing anything yet). CDs play just fine on
> the same box under that *other* OS, but I don't want to have to boot
> that to play CDs!
>
> Any advice appreciated.
> Mike Lindner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: How to download and make bootable Red Hat 7.1 disks?
Date: 2 May 2001 09:30:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 02 May 2001 17:09:10 +0800, Dino Hsu allegedly wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I would like to download Red Had 7.1 and make bootable disks from it.
>
>Firstly, the download part, I have tried the ftp.redhat.com and some
>mirror sites, with either IE5.5 or Cuteftp 4.0. I cannot succeed yet.
>The download is difficult, because it is not downloaded as a single
>compressed file, but a lot of directories and files under
>/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en (ftp.redhat.com). Is there a way to download
>the whole thing as a single compressed file as I do with Oracle? On
>the other hand, how do we know the overall size of the download, when
>it is a lot of direcotries and files?
>
>Secondly, the bootable part, what is the correct procedure and file
>layout when I make disks from what I download?
>
>I know many people get Linux from Internet rather than from a software
>store, can anyone show me how? Thanks in advance.
Go to one of the many mirrors of RedHat.com and download the cd images
(which use the .iso extension) from the directory redhat-7.1-en/i386/iso
The cd-images contain the correct files and directories to install
RedHat. They should be virtually identical in contents to RedHat cd's
you'd purchase on the web or from your local bookstore.
Get discs 1 and 2 (650 MB each) and use Easy CD Creator or something
like that to burn cd's from the images. disc-1 should be bootable.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
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The Netherlands
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Laptop mouse problem
Date: 2 May 2001 09:00:38 GMT
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> Hello,
> I have a Compaq 1688 laptop with Red Hat 7.0
> While working with X-Window using the built-in mouse the pointer on the
> screen jumps, but if using external mouse there is no problem at all.
> I would like to make the built-in mouse work properly.
> Can someone help me with this problem?
Yes! :)
Setup GPM as repeater mode, and point the mouse device to /dev/gmpdata in
XFConfig
That's all...I suffered the same problem time ago.
> Thanks,
> David
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From: "Stoeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: primary or extended partition?
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:50:34 +0200
Hi,
is there a difference in performance, security etc., if Linux is installed
in a primary or logical partition (including swap)?
Thanks for your help
Stefan
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: primary or extended partition?
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 12:08:08 +0200
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Stoeff wrote:
> is there a difference in performance, security etc., if Linux is installed
> in a primary or logical partition (including swap)?
That should make just about no difference. The only difference is, that
you get highr partition numbers with extended partitions - and that's
only cosmetic.
Rasmus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reloading Linux Kernel
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:01:43 GMT
Hi
I had Redhat 6.2 with Linux 2.2.14 runnning on my machine.
I have now booted the machine with a kernel 2.4.0 - with nothing unchanged (except the
lilo of course)
I had a static IP address earlier. On booting, the kernel brings up only the loopback
interface.
The eth0 interface and consequently. networking is disabled.
If I boot with 2.2.14 - networking is again enabled
Is there a way out of this? Do I have reconfigure networking parameters again?
Thanks
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From: 202.101.3.202 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Subject: can't read rpm database
Date: 2 May 2001 09:20:45 GMT
after I update my rpm to rpm4.0.2,I can't install any packages,
it say can not read database in /var/lib/rpm.
who can I do?
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From: "Berdzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Glibc version?
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 12:15:00 +0200
Hi
How to check what version of Glibc (and generally other libraries) I have?
Thanx
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486 help??!!
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:27:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:32:08 GMT, webgiant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>Or any friends who have a cdrom.
> >
> >I see. "Since trying to load anything onto a computer without a CDROM
> >is such a pointless activity, get dependent on a CDROM *now* rather
> >than learning alternative methods later.
> >
> >Back when I didn't have a CDROM for my 486 and didn't have the
> >disposable income for a $40 CDROM drive, my friends who lived closest
> >to me didn't have computers. The one who did lived about a one hour
> >drive from me and used his CDROM almost constantly running an
> >old-fashioned single-line BBS on it.
> >
> >So no, your "advice" doesn't work for everyone.
> >
> >There are people who are DIFFERENT FROM YOU living in this world,
> >fella!
> >
>
> sheesh. cry me a river. it's like whining and bitching about not having a
> floppy drive.
>
> You might as well bitch about not having a cpu. I can't afford one. cry cry
> cry.
>
> Stick to DOS if you can't manage the logistics of having a CD drive during
> install time.
So according to you linux should only be run on PC's with a CD-ROM drive
then?
What about that whole "linux runs on older material" thing that people
always chant as being one of the most powerful aspects regarding linux
vs Windows. Should we throw that out the Window then?
Well guess what, older PC's often don't have CD-ROM's, and often it's
not an option to buy a new one and install it. My laptop is a 486/100
with 20 megs ram. It runs linux, and X11, fine (although not the beasts
which bear the numbers KDE and GNOME), and it has provided me with a lot
of use, even though I have an Athlon 700 on my desk. But it doesn't have
a CD-ROM, and I can't find the specific model of CD-ROM that was sold
for it. So I'm stuck without one. A network PCMCIA-card, or a floppy
based install solves it, but you would have me basically screwed then.
I think it's a very dangerous movement when you leave behind hardware
which is very capable of running linux just because it's a nuisance. A
friend of mine runs a 386 router, but he had to try several distro's
which refused to even install on hardware so "slow" before he found
Debian, which did what it was supposed to, route the internet. And
although it doesn't give you 300k/sec, it does work as it's supposed to.
My point is that not all linux machines run Netscape and StarOffice.
have a nice day,
Joeri Sebrechts
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From: "Berdzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vanishing keyboard problem
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 12:17:59 +0200
After installing Red Hat 7.0 , I reboot the system and can't login because
the keyboard doesn't resrpond at all
Help, thanx
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From: "Andrew Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fyi, Promise FastTrack w/ SMP seems to work
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:55:15 +1000
But don't try and use any other kernel than 2.2.16smp, and do not put one
drive on each controller, the promise driver locks the machine up hard on my
box.
AP.
MSI 694D PRO AR
"John Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9cnct7$aho$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> As we rejoin the saga, I continue to build my new PC. I bought a
> SuperMicro P6DBE motherboard a few months ago as they approached
> obsolesence, and pair of 800 MHz PIIIs with 100MHz FSB. I put 512M ECC
> memory in the box, but stayed with my existing ATA/33 HD(!).
>
> Well, the guys at The Duke of URL(1) said that the Promise ATA/100 RAID
> controller worked under Linux (red hat 7) now, so I figured it was time to
> balance out my system. I bought two 30G Maxtor 7200RPM drives ($125 ea)
> and the Promise controller ($129 at fry's. $99 elsewere, but out of
> stock).
>
> I had a scary moment when the kernel paniced on the driver Duke pointed
> to, but luckily someone had put a pointer to the SMP version in the Duke
> message boards ... and I'm up and typing through it now.
>
> "Bonnie" is a simple disk benchmark(2), results for my old K6-233, 64M,
> and ATA/33 were:
>
> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
> 100 1469 98.7 5728 92.4 2487 85.3 1523 98.5 5559 92.8 116.3 20.5
>
> My Dual PIII, 512M, and ATA/33
>
> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
> 100 7057 99.3 7787 7.8 3398 19.7 6463 99.0 220327 96.8 18945.1 198.9
>
> And now the Dual PIII, 512M, and the Promise at RAID-0
>
> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
> 100 10251 99.2 44209 37.1 24080 80.7 9580 97.5 433391 97.3 18535.5 199.3
>
> I don't know if I'm getting everything out of it that I should ... but
> it does seem to go faster.
>
> John
>
> 1 - http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/promisehowto/
> 2 - http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/
> --
> 33� 47' 37N 117� 54' 53W
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From: Matthias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modules and 2Gb of RAM
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 13:08:04 +0200
Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to install linux(SuSE 7.0) on a box with 2Gb, SMP and DPT I2O
> (3200S). I've downloaded the
> precompiled modules from suse and followed the instructions. Every thing
> went fine, until I compiled
> my kernel with support for 2Gb. My modules don't work anymore and my
> initrd stoped working too.
>
> Question(1) : do I need to issue make modules when I compile my kernel
> for 2Gb (like I need to do when
> I compile it for SMP).
> Question(2) : if yes, how could solve the problem of dpt_i2o.o modules ?
>
> Question(3) : What could be happening to my initrd
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Why did you recompile it? SuSE kernels (and standard kernels, too) have
builtin support for "low" RAM (up to 2GB).
If you compile it yourself with "module versioning" on, most modules won't
work if compiled for a different kernel version.
make modules is generally a good idea.
Ciao, Matthias
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From: H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: wrong keyboardtable
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:31:50 +0200
Hi,
I have upgraded my Gnome to 2.x, but now I've the wrong
keyboard-language. I want US (according to my keyboard layout) but can't
change from UK. How can I solve this? Running RH 6.2 now.
Thanks,
Huub
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From: "Stefan Van Yper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Quota-command always showing : none
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 13:53:09 +0200
Hi all,
I am trying to install a diskquota system.
I changed the fstab-file
I created and updated the quota.user - file using the quotacheck & edquota
commands
I turned the quota system on with the quotaon command.
The system is working correctly, but users can 't see their quota because
the quota-command is not functioning
(it doesn't even works logged in as root)
quota -stefan simply displays: "Disk quotas for user stefan (uid 2041): none
Logged in as root I can use the repquota-command!
I am running slackware version 6 (kernel 2.2.13) and the file system is
ext2
Does somebody has an idea what might be the problem?
Thx in advance,
Van Yper Stefan
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Lexmark 3200 Printing
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 13:40:22 +0200
Hi folks,
I've been trying to get a Lexmark 3200 to work under SuSE Linux 7.1 without
success. I know that someone has developed a driver for that GDI-printer,
however, SuSE Linux since version 7.0 also includes a Lexmark 3200 driver
(probably even the same?), so I thought I'd use that one.
So far, so good. I set everything up to use the lex3200 driver included
with SuSE 7.1, and when I try to print right now, I get - well - nothing.
The printer doesn't even move!
Connecting a different printer while still using the lex3200 driver worked
so far that the other printer printed garbage. That means that at least the
computer sends the print data, the Lexmark printer just doesn't seem to
react to it.
So, if anybody's ever used the lex3200 driver included in SuSE Linux, I'd
be happy to hear about some sucess stories. Additionally, if someone is
successfully using the lxm3200 driver that can be downloaded from the
Internet, I'd also like to hear about it.
Thanks in advance,
Nils
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From: Wouter De Maere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: resolving interrupt conflicts...
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:47:40 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Does anybody know how to resolve interrupt conflicts, caused
by interrupt sharing of 2 PCI devices ?
My soundcard and my SCSI card try to share IRQ-11.
This doesn't seem to be working with linux (RH7.1).
(surprise: Win2K manages to do this -:))
Wouter.
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