Linux-Setup Digest #156, Volume #21 Thu, 3 May 01 02:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Lilo with WinNT ("blariz")
Re: Mandrake installation problem ("routerl")
Re: problem setting up printer on RedHat ("S. Park")
USB harddisk - how to get more out of it (William Wong)
Re: problem repartitioning for linux (Dave Berntson)
Re: Doing a little research regarding AMD Duron (E J)
Re: Broadband Linux ("A. S. Paragus")
Re: mkinitrd (Texstar)
Re: Networking Problem ("Brad Arant")
Re: Redhat7-1 on 2nd physical drive & SystemCommander 2000 (Paul Lew)
In linux how is the Updation?? ("v.naga srinivas")
Samba latest is giving troubles..... ("v.naga srinivas")
Re: resolving interrupt conflicts... (Nader)
Re: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it (Craig Kelley)
Re: In linux how is the Updation?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Whuuuuuuuuuuh? ("Wayne Osborn")
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From: "blariz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Lilo with WinNT
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:15:15 -0700
Hopefully, you have a Windows 2000 boot disk or rescue disk of some sort
because all of the info I have seen says if you are dual booting with NT ,
then you must NOT install LILO to the MBR or you will wipe out the OS Loader
in NT. The instructions seem to always recommend loading LILO to the /
partition and to use a Linux boot disk to initiate LILO. Maybe someone has
a solution, but you could be in for some trouble if LILO is in your MBR.
blariz
"Thomas SMETS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi Horst,
>
> I'm currently runnin (trying to run) a very similar configration to
> yours.
> I installed Win2000 then managed to ahve Linux (Distro is Mandrake). I
> worked out the fact that the linux won't work properly unless I install
> the XFree4, but I now seem to be unable to boot in Win2000.
> My disk is partition like this :
> /hda1 : 1 Gb --> Win2000 NTFS (Type 07 in cfdisk)
> /hda5 : 1.5Gb --> /usr Ext2
> /hda6 : 2 Gb --> Data Win FAT32
> /hda7 : 2 GB --> Pgrm Win Fat32
> /hda8 : 520Mb --> Swap
> /hda9 : 800Mb --> / Ext2
> /hda10 : 1.7Gb --> /opt Ext2
>
> The system boots fine in Linux but doesn't seem to be able to view the
> Win partition anymore...
> When requesting to boot up in Win it just says
> Loading Win
> And then nothing .... Here below you may find attached copy of my
> lilo.conf that I've modified a few times now without success (without
> forgetting to /sbin/lilo afterwards each time).
>
> Can you help ?
>
> Tx,
>
> Thomas,
>
>
>
>
> [tsmets@Calvin /tmp]$ cat /mnt/floppy/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=win
> keytable=/boot/be-latin1.klt
> lba32
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda9
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux-up
> root=/dev/hda9
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=failsafe
> root=/dev/hda9
> append=" failsafe"
> read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=win
> # end of /etc/lilo.conf
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thu May 3 01:19:21 CEST 2001
>
> Thomas SMETS e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Av. de la Braban�onne 133 / 3 Tel. : +32 (0)2 742. 05. 94.
> 1030 Bruxelles
> ======= Quote of the Day =========
> Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
> ========= End of Quote ===========
>
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From: "routerl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake installation problem
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 03:15:26 GMT
I only got the install disk. The file was not currupted. It was only missing
the Boot directory which is not available for non-ISO download on any of the
mirrors.
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From: "S. Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem setting up printer on RedHat
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 22:34:39 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "slok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> using RH7.0
> HP LaserJet 1100
> what's the best way to configure/setup RH7 to print to the printer.
> currently, I tried using printtool... but when I do a test print, the
> job was send to the queue and later deleted automatically. apart from
> this, I need to have this printer be accessible by win2k users.
> any advice ... thanks
>
printtool is the best. Are you sure you restarted after adding/editing
print queue? Check redhat.com's doc page for Printing Tips.
For Windoze, I made a separate print queue without filter, and configured
samba for this queue to be shared with Windoze.
Cheers.
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From: William Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:53:18 +0800
Hi all,
I am using kernel 2.4.3 and I have attached a USB-IDE harddisk to my
thinkpad 600.
Right now, the current status is
Upon booting up
cat /proc/scsi/sci gives the following
Attached devices:
Host : scsi0 Channel : 00 Id: 00 Lun:00
Vendor :Quantum Mdoel: Sirocco1700A
Type : Direct Access ANSI SCIS revision :02
cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0 gives
Host scsi0: usb-storage
Vendor : Anchor Chips, Inc.?Firmare Fra
Product: Firmware Frameworks....
Serial Number:None
Protoclol :8020i
Transoport: Control/Bulk
GUID :04e60001000000000....
I also do a "mount -t usbdevfs /dev/usbdevfs /mnt/usbhd"
and when I "cd" to /mnt/usbhd
I got
"001" as a directory and 2 files, "devices" and "drivers"
and under directory "001", there are 2 files "001" and "002".
so what can I do further....i have tried fdisk /dev/usbdevfs and of
course failed.
any pointer or advise are appreciated.
I am really eager to get my USB-IDE HD going...
thks a lot.
William
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From: Dave Berntson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem repartitioning for linux
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 22:02:16 -0500
On Wed, 02 May 2001 08:51:30 -0500, Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>There is a 'parted' that is actively supported - but I have not used it.
>Maybe invest a nickel and get partition magic?
It's a lot more than a nickel, IIRC. The DOS fdisk program is not the
safest way to partition, because you will lose the Windows Operating System.
Fips (First non-destructive Interactive Partition Splitting program) is the
safe way to re-partition a hard drive to maintain windows and dual boot with
linux. It is only about a half a Mbyte and a free download from the
internet (includes some instructions...never enough, though). You have to
make a floppy boot disk and add the fips program to the floppy. To use
fips, you have to boot from that DOS boot floppy and type (and enter) fips
at the command prompt. You can NOT work from a DOS prompt in Windows. For
me, using fips was a little complicated and the instructions weren't crystal
clear. The good news is that you can start fips and adjust the partition
size, and then abort the program without doing any damage. The changes
you make in fips will only be permanent on the last step, which is to
confirm the changes you made to the partition table.
Dave
>
>Dave Berntson wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 01 May 2001 03:58:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> > I have a dual win 2000/win 98. Dos Fdisk says the 98 partition is a
>> >PRI DOS and the 2000 an extended (without any logical partitions
>> >oddly). trying to format the PRI DOS partition several times I got:
>> >
>> >not ready
>> >format terminated
>> >
>> >This would be after the format got to about 30% usually.
>> >So I decided maybe the 2000 extended partition is the problem, so I
>> >decided to delete it and just have the whole HD for linux. So I used
>> >dos fdisk to try to delete the 2000 extended partition, but it would
>> >give me the error message "cannot delete extended partition with
>> >logical drives present". But there are no logical drives present in
>> >that extended partition, I know because I've tried to delete them. So
>> >I'm stuck. So my questions:
>> >
>> >Would the fdisk that comes with linux succeed where dos fdisk fails?
>> >Has anyone had a similar problem when trying to forma a partition of a
>> >hard drive? Thanks for any help in advance.
>>
>> I used fips on two installs. Worked quite well for me.
>> Dave
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Doing a little research regarding AMD Duron
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 04:18:47 GMT
I am running RH7.1 on my AMD Thunderbird .
Zhan wrote:
> Hi, I would like to hear from anyone who has successfully installed a Linux
> distro on a machine running an AMD Duron processor. In your reply, please
> include your system configuration, the related distro with version, and any
> other pertinent information. I would also like to hear from those who have
> been unable to install Linux on a Duron machine. Please, of course, include
> the info mentioned above.
>
> Thanks for your help!
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From: "A. S. Paragus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Broadband Linux
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 04:20:27 GMT
I also use @home and have had no problems with RH 6.2, 7.0 or 7.1.
I set it up as a static connection, i. e. nor DHCP. I've always inserted
the primary IP address, Gateway, etc. Also, I do not use the proxy
server as thios seems to slow it down.
My connection is stable and secure.
Darrell
In article <djKH6.126$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need some help. I'm only fairly new to linux, and don't know much
> about it, but...
> I just installed Red Hat Linux 7, but to get my broadband connection to
> work i have to use the pump command (I'm using @home). Now is there any
> way to get my computer to run this command at startup (and how do you do
> it)? Also, broadband seems to run very slow (no more than 10kbp/s), and
> netscape is always saying that it has stalled. Is there linux equivilent
> to windows' tcp/ip recieve window setting some where, and how to you
> change it. Thanks in advance
> chris
>
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From: Texstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mkinitrd
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 04:07:44 GMT
Kastor wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Mandrake 8 and I have compiled my own kernel 2.4.4, but I
> have a problem with mkinitrd.
> Because my root is on a reiserfs partition, I have compiled reiserfs in
> the kernel (not as module), but now mkinitrd complains that it can't
> find the module for reiserfs! I can run mkinitrd successfully if I
> compile reiserfs as module, but then my system won't boot! Can I do
> without initrd???
> Any help would be very appreciated.
>
> --
Build your kernel with reiserfs in the kernel not as a module then in your
etc/lilo.conf , remove the entry initrd=/boot/initrd.img
This is how mine looks:
image=/boot/bzImage
label=2.4.4
root=/dev/hda7
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
Cheers,
Texstar
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From: "Brad Arant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Networking Problem
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:54:28 -0700
"Kevin from Hamilton" <ac.ocitapmys@kytrehod> wrote in message
news:6GXH6.684772$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Unfortunately I will not be able to paste all the info, into this message.
>
> I am running Debian potato. My ISP is with Sympatico HSE.
>
> I have read through many How-to's and I am still stuck... a little nudge
in
> the right direction would be perfect.
>
> I had a DSL router before and everything was perfect.. my linux machine
was
> on the net in seconds flat. Since then I have got rid of the router
because
> I want my linux machine to be the gateway to the internet.
>
> I have been editing way too many files and I am sure I have screwed things
> up. Unfortunately I can not get that machine back on the internet to do a
> re-install so I have to work with what I have. A bunch of floppies and do
a
> re-install.. or work with what I have and just fix it up some. I vote for
> the later solution.
>
> The desired outcome would be.
>
> Internal network (Localhost gives out DHCP address's)
> -------------------------------------------------------
> localhost 192.168.1.1
> range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.20
> broadcast 192.168.1.255
> subnetmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.1.1
>
> Sympatico's network is (PPPoE)
> ---------------------------------
> DNS1 = 204.101.251.1
> DNS2 = 204.101.251.2
>
> Sympatico IP's look like
> -------------------------
> 64.x.x.x
>
> I also want to be able to have a local domain called... (HOME)
> and I want to be able to connect to my machine from outside, using
> something
> like (CJB.NET)
>
> If I type 'netstat -r' or 'route -n' I get nothing, by that I mean, I
just
> get the title line.
> If I type 'ifconfig -a' I get back eth0, eth1, lo, ppp0, and tunl0.
>
> Like I said, I am not sure what I am doing wrong but at this point I
can't
> even get my linux machine to network internally or on the internet. Can
> someone please help me. I already followed the How-to for PPPoE for
debian.
>
> What I am looking for is what should my route tables look for and
> specifically which files should I be editing. Thanks in advance to all
who
> respond.
>
>
What you did is remove you DSL line interface which is also a router. What
you need to do is put the box back in and place it in "bridge mode". This is
what I did with mine and it now just passes everything through.
Brad Arant
BARANT Technologies
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: Redhat7-1 on 2nd physical drive & SystemCommander 2000
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 05:12:44 GMT
On Thu, 3 May 2001 10:29:49 +1000, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After another long night of re-installing, the situation is now baffling me
> more than ever.
>
> as RH7-1 install program recommended, I have now created a small primary
> linux partition at the start of the 1st physical drive (7.8Meg). On
> completion of the install, I get the following messages
>
> "device 0X0302 exceeds 1024 cyclinder limit"
> - but I made deliberate attempt to create the partition at the start of the
> drive, so this should not happen ?
>
> "Fatal: sector 45431820 too large for linear mode (try 'lba32' instead)"
> - but I deliberately unchecked the linear format during the lilo
> configuration screen. ??
>
> FYI, I used partition magic 6, to resize existing Win2K partition so that
> the /boot partition resides in front of that.
> The current partition setup looks like this... which is also how partition
> magic graphically shows it.
> [/boot(7.8Meg)] [/SWAP(150Meg)] [Win2K (20G)primary] [WinME(25G)primary]
> [/ linux root (5Gig) primary] [FAT32 logical (1G)]
>
> during the install process, Druid displays the followig
> hda0 to 3 .... contains the various win OSes.
> hda4 ..... which I mounted as /boot
> hda5 .... mounted as the swap drive
>
> hdb1 ..... mounted as "/" (note this is classified as a primary partition
> on 2nd physical drive).
> hdb7 .... existing FAT32 partition at the end of the 2nd physical drive ...
> a data partition.
>
> How do I clarify or check the "/boot" partition is within the 1024 cyclinder
> restriction. If not what corrective action can I take without a complete
> overhaul of the partitions that I currently have in place ??
>
> And to answer your question Paul ... please look below.
>
> Paul Lew wrote in message ...
>>On Wed, 2 May 2001 11:37:46 +1000, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Foremost,
>>> thank you Anna and Paul Lew for your previous feedback.
>>>
>>> After consulting the various help /doc files within SC2000, and all other
>>> relevant docs, none seem to relate to my unique set up. Most documents
>>> give me instruction on loading linux as a second OS on the first PHYSICAL
>>> Hard disk drive.
>>> I need to hear back from someone who has been using system commander with
>>> linux on a primary second physical HDD.
>>
>>Do you need linux as the "Primary" driver on the *secondary* ide
> controller?
>>My setup has linux on the 2nd physical drive as the *slave* on the ide
>>controller; dos & win98se is on the 1st physical drive and lilo is *not*
>>in the mbr.
> ***** Something I thought about as well. I did convert my previous setup to
> a logical partition and installed as per normal, allowing the lilo config to
> look at the first partition on the 2nd physical drive. It too came back
> with my earlier message that said something about the partition error not
> being on the 1st physical drive.
> Please tell me, your logical partition on the 2nd physical drive is running
> off as an extended partition from a "parent" FAT32 structure or a native
> linux primary partition.
I think it is the interpretation of the msg as I also get a "warning" that
the boot partition is not on the 1st drive; this happens when I compile
the kernel and after lilo is installed in my /boot directory of the "/"
(root) partition. My fdisk for my winnt4 & linux box shows the following:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 9 72261 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb2 10 264 2048287+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 265 1412 9221310 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 1413 1970 4482135 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 1413 1795 3076416 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 1796 1970 1405656 83 Linux
/dev/hda is all win nt4.
The partitions are swap, /, /usr, /usr/local, /home; the "extended
partition" was created for /usr/local & /home because one cannot create
more than 4 primary partitions and the swap, / & /usr are primary partitions
and the partitioning is all done with fdisk (no idea why linux would
label the "extended" partition as win95 format.
The other machine with dos, win98se & linux and system commander would
show nearly the same with fdisk but the partitions sizes would be
much smaller (smaller drives).
>
>
>>> My setup is as follow : (SC2000 detects the new linux partition on
> startup,
>>> but will not boot to linux ?)
>>>
>>> first IDE channel (45GB HDD): hda0 (NTFS:W2K:primary) ; hda1 (FAT32:
>>> WinME:primary)
>>> second IDE channel (6GB HDD): Primary Linux = hda0(/boot) ; hda1(/SWAP)
> ;
>>> hda2(/) ; hda5(FAT32:extended logical)
>>>
>>> The combined two primary partitions : W2K and Fat32 is working perfectly
>>> with system commander 2000. So I wish not to change or add any partitions
> to
>>> the first physical drive if possible.
>>> My research have shown that LILO must be installed in order to boot from
> the
>>> hard drive (as far as RH7-1 is concerned).
>>> So, bearing that in mind the install process reported an error that /boot
> is
>>> not residing on the first 1024 "section" of the 1st physical drive. What
>>> this means is that I now have to resize the W2K to accommodate a small
>>> "/boot" partition for linux to startup.
>>
>>The "later" lilo (2.6+) is supposed to handle the gt 1024 cyl problem if
>>the bios is capable of lba (or auto, sometimes).
> ***** Red Hat 7.1 which I am using must have the latest version of Lilo.
> Can you elaborate on the bios "factor" ?
> My machine is only 1 month old, so it must have the latest bios with the P4
> intel architecture.
>
>>>
>>> It appears that it is "impossible" to boot up an OS from a second
> physical
>>> drive not containing the MBR ????
>>
>>I didn't change the mbr of my slave 2nd physical drive.
> ** my understanding is that the MBR on the 2nd physical drive has no impact
> what so ever on the system, because with two IDE HDD, only the 1st physical
> drive's MBR is looked into by the bios. Correct me if I'm wrong ?
>
>
>>> Is this a bios limitation ? Does anyone have a work around, such that I
> do
>>> not have to put the "/boot" on the 1st hard drive?
>>
>>The only time I had to place a "boot" on the 1st hardrive was when using
>>solaris 7 as solaris would not configure its boot/root stuff on the 2nd
>>drive.
>>
>>> I'm now entertaining the idea of making the linux partitons, logical
> instead
>>> of primary ... will this lead to my desired boot-up from SC2000 (can I
> make
>>> a logical partition on the second physical drive? ) ??
>>>
>>> I'd like to hear back from someone who has taken this path before. i.e.
>>> installing RH7 on a primary partition located on the second IDE channel,
> so
>>> that I can plan my next action plan.
>>> Thanks all.
>>>
>
>>As a guest, your problem may be due to using the 2nd drive on the
>>2nd ide channel....
> I agree Paul, but I cannot see any logical conclusion to why I am getting
> the various error messages keeping in mind some basic understanding .... 4
> primary partitions is allowed on the system ... Linux is suppose to be
> bootable from any logical/primary partition on any physical HDD .... the
> "mutually exclusive" primary partitions of Win2K and WinMe which works
> seamlessly together, can't see why Linux cannot be the 3rd active primary
> partition.
>
> Can anyone else see a fundamental concept that I am overlooking ? (Please
> look in detail on my system setup).
>
> Thanks to all the generous linux users ... for sharing your thoughts and ide
> as !
>
>
Still think the problem is having the 2nd drive on the 2nd ide channel.
Did you or can you also tell sc that the drive is on the 2nd ide channel
as part of the parameters; e.g. with scsi, if one has 2 scsi adapters
and each containing 1 harddrive, one needs to tell whatever that the
2nd harddrive is residing on the 2nd scsi adapter since both drives have
an address id of "0". The 1st adapter would be identified as "0" and the
2nd adapter identified as "1".
The 2 ide channels are like having 2 ide adapters as each channel has its
own IRQ (usually "14" for the primary and "15" for the secondary). Without
telling system commander to switch the IRQ from 14 to 15 to look for the
2nd drive, I don't think SC would ever find the 2nd "boot" partition or
something like that.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: In linux how is the Updation??
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 05:32:36 +0000 (UTC)
Hi ,
In windows while installing there is an option,
updating the windows, if you select this it will not disturb the current
configuration and the software applications already loaded........
Likewise is there any option while reinstalling the linux ( i am using
SuSE 6.3) only updating the linux without disturbing the current configuration
and the software already installed....
Could any one please help me..
thanks,
srinivas.
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Madhapur,Hi-Tec City,
Hyderabad-500033
Andhra Pradesh State,
INDIA.
Phone : 091-040-3110200 ( off)
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YVL Software Consultancy,
B4,Q1,6th floor,CyberTowers,
Madhapur,Hi-Tec City,
Hyderabad-500033
Andhra Pradesh State,
INDIA.
Phone : 091-040-3110200 ( off)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: Samba latest is giving troubles.....
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 05:35:42 +0000 (UTC)
Hi
I am using SuSE 6.3 linux.
I have installed samba-latest.tar.gz.
After starting the samba,
i done ps -ef | grep mbd
i found that the smbd and nmbd deamons started.
But i could't able to see in the windows machine of my machine(linux box).
sometimes i saw my linux box in the network neighbour hood ( when i enter the
login and password) simply rejecting...............
The other day it worked fine............and like this happened before also
and i completely removed the samba and installed it again...
COuld any one tell me where exactly i am not maintaining the things..........
because its giving pain for me in the middle of software development............
thanks in advance,
Could any one help me out.......
thanks,
srinivas.
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v.naga srinivas
YVL Software Consultancy,
B4,Q1,6th floor,CyberTowers,
Madhapur,Hi-Tec City,
Hyderabad-500033
Andhra Pradesh State,
INDIA.
Phone : 091-040-3110200 ( off)
visitme: http://www.geocities.com/cheluvi
=======================================================
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v.naga srinivas
YVL Software Consultancy,
B4,Q1,6th floor,CyberTowers,
Madhapur,Hi-Tec City,
Hyderabad-500033
Andhra Pradesh State,
INDIA.
Phone : 091-040-3110200 ( off)
visitme: http://www.geocities.com/cheluvi
=======================================================
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v.naga srinivas
YVL Software Consultancy,
B4,Q1,6th floor,CyberTowers,
Madhapur,Hi-Tec City,
Hyderabad-500033
Andhra Pradesh State,
INDIA.
Phone : 091-040-3110200 ( off)
visitme: http://www.geocities.com/cheluvi
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: resolving interrupt conflicts...
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 22:38:17 -0700
One way is to upgrade your kernel.
I had a modem and HD controller conflict using 2.2.10. I didn't want to
move hardware since it all worked well under Windows.
I upgraded the kernel to 2.4 and it solved the problem by recognizing
IRQ sharing and providing a better serial driver.
Give it a try!
Wouter De Maere wrote:
> 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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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it
Date: 02 May 2001 23:53:26 -0600
William Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using kernel 2.4.3 and I have attached a USB-IDE harddisk to my
> thinkpad 600.
> Right now, the current status is
> Upon booting up
> cat /proc/scsi/sci gives the following
> Attached devices:
> Host : scsi0 Channel : 00 Id: 00 Lun:00
> Vendor :Quantum Mdoel: Sirocco1700A
> Type : Direct Access ANSI SCIS revision :02
> cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0 gives
> Host scsi0: usb-storage
> Vendor : Anchor Chips, Inc.?Firmare Fra
> Product: Firmware Frameworks....
> Serial Number:None
> Protoclol :8020i
> Transoport: Control/Bulk
> GUID :04e60001000000000....
>
> I also do a "mount -t usbdevfs /dev/usbdevfs /mnt/usbhd"
> and when I "cd" to /mnt/usbhd
> I got
> "001" as a directory and 2 files, "devices" and "drivers"
> and under directory "001", there are 2 files "001" and "002".
>
>
> so what can I do further....i have tried fdisk /dev/usbdevfs and of
> course failed.
My USB CF reader presents itself as a SCSI drive. Check
/var/log/messages after doing a
insmod usb-storage
You should see something like this:
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host
= 0, driver = 08
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc : extended sense code = 2
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc : block size assumed to be 512
bytes, disk size 1GB.
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: unable to read partition table
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
May 2 23:53:47 c705613-a kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver
usb-storage
May 2 23:53:47 c705613-a kernel: scsi : 2 hosts left.
(I don't have a card inserted, which is why the reads failed --
but it works just fine when I have a card in)
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: In linux how is the Updation??
Date: 3 May 2001 05:55:13 GMT
"v.naga srinivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Likewise is there any option while reinstalling the linux
> (i am using SuSE 6.3) only updating the linux without disturbing
> the current configuration and the software already installed....
Well, one: why you want to 'reinstall' Linux? You can upgrade each
single application/part of the system without reinstalling the
whole. Two: usually if you upgrade some part, there is no modification
in the configuration or in the programs already installed (unless you
screw up the libraries or remove the configuration files in /etc).
Three: if you backup/restore your configuration files into /etc you
can restore them and have the same configuration as before (unless
you change completely distribution). But first reply the (one)
question... why are you reinstalling linux?
Davide
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Whuuuuuuuuuuh?
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 13:58:21 +0800
In article <QTZH6.15884$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bumpy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just installed mandrake on a twin boot with win98 and when I goto
> login and password it says incorrect? I know they're ok though, can
> anyone suggest how to get round it?
>
> total newbie.
>
> --
> Whaur's yer wully Shakespeare noo?
>
>
User names and passwords are case sensitive, maybe you created then in
uppercase without knowing? or maybe your trying to enter in uppercase ???
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
1:50pm up 2 days, 16:35, 1 user, load average: 1.14, 1.31, 1.82
...You are in the hall of the mountain king.
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