Linux-Setup Digest #85, Volume #21 Sat, 21 Apr 01 19:13:10 EDT
Contents:
ftp problem (Guohong Cao)
Kernel version (Jagged)
Re: Cant ftp into machine (Chris)
GET RED HAT 7.1 now ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Upgrade from Rh 7.0 to 7.1 fails ("Matthias Haase")
Re: What's the difference??? (Steve O'Neill)
Ethernet Problems (Jeff Klouda)
Re: Kernel version (Steve Martin)
Re: Deb potato / AbitKT7A / AcerDVDROM (Alan)
Re: lpr broken, instant error message (Mike Knudsen)
RPM 3 to RPM4 (George Trapkov)
rp3 dialer Problem RH7.0 Kernel 2.4.2 no modules, Monolithic! ("Emu")
Re: What's the difference??? (Scott Peshak)
Re: Upgrade from Rh 7.0 to 7.1 fails (J Hayward)
Re: Ethernet Problems (J Hayward)
486 Install Problems (Rand Simberg)
Installing X with rpm (Rene Madsen)
Re: xmms quit working (Gregory Davis)
Re: Installation Mandrake 7.2 /RedHat6.2 With promise ATA100 ASUS A7V ? (E J)
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From: Guohong Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftp problem
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:35:21 -0400
My laptop runs Linux 7.0. I can use ftp when I connect to the network
through Ethernet. However, when I connect through modem, I can't "get"
large file (> 8K), especially binary files, but I can still "put" any file
correctly.
Other functions such as telnet and rlogin work fine. There is no hardware
problem since it works fine in Linux 6.1.
Seems to me, this is related to the security feature of Linux 7.0, but I
don't know how to fix it. Any idea? Thanks,
--Guohong
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jagged <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel version
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:06:41 +0200
high again,
can anyone please tell me how to determine which kernel i'm actually
running? uname -a always says:
Linux ruth 2.4.2-4GB ...
i installed the kernel 2.2.18 though... could it be uname just gives
wrong information? or isn't that about the kernel version?
kind regards,
Jagged
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cant ftp into machine
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:48:38 -0500
Oh I see. Thanks alot.
-Chris
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to log in as a regular user. And that user
>> is listed in /etc/ftpusers.
>
>
> Then he can't log in. That's what the file is for!
>
> #
> # ftpusers This file describes the names of the users that may
> # _*NOT*_ log into the system via the FTP server.
> # This usually includes "root", "uucp", "news" and the
> # like, because those users have too much power to be
> # allowed to do "just" FTP...
>
>
>
>> I dont even get a login prompt. The connection is
>> refused before a prompt is issued.
>
>
> Then start ftp without giving a user name. (ftp -n). Use the user
> command in ftp to set it to something allowed.
>
>
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GET RED HAT 7.1 now
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:18:52 -0400
hey, I have made a mirror for redhat 7.1 no dials please will be
up for the weekend(as longs as my roommate doesnt reboot my machine into
windows.)
it is just the first two iso files thou
http://stuart.myip.org/Downloads/
my website
http://stuart.myip.org send feed back!! how fast is
everyone downloading from my computer?? i am on a T1 lan.
one more thing
under the root login of my machine
DCOP cant find kdesktop
this is causing my root kde session not to have icons and a background
for the desktop.
all other logins work!!
Good luck and that for the info about kde and my website in advance!!
stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Matthias Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Upgrade from Rh 7.0 to 7.1 fails
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 19:02:23 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
as said in subject, I can not upgrade our server from RH 7.0 to 7.1 The
install/upgrade hangs on "...loading aic7xxxx". At this time, the
install-CD is always ejected - with full spin. Inside works an PCI Adaptec
UW160 (29160N) card, there are attached two SCSI UW160 IBM-HD's, and
one Jaz-Drive, one CD, one CDRW.
The SCSI Scanner hangs an sep. second SCSI-Card, but I think, this has no
effect for this hard error.
No IDE-drives inside.
So I think, that the kernel driver aic7xxxx gives the error.
There was no problem before on RH 6.1, RH 6.2 and RH 7.0 with this
SCSI-devices - loading as external module from ramdisk-img, maked with
makeinitrd.
This is an hard error for me, what can I do? Please help.
--
regards from germany
Matthias Haase | Telefon +49-(0)3733-23713
Markt 2 | Telefax +49-(0)3733-22660
|
D-09456 Annaberg-Buchholz |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve O'Neill)
Subject: Re: What's the difference???
Date: 21 Apr 2001 17:39:14 GMT
How about insmod -f <module_name> ?
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:16:11 GMT, Scott Peshak
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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: Jeff Klouda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet Problems
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:15:05 -0500
I have a SIS630 motherboard which has all onboard cards. The LAN card
is an SiS900. I am installing Redhat 7.0.
Doing an lspci -vv I see the card at IRQ 11 and IO de00. I also see
some communications port on IRQ 11.
When I cat /proc/interrupts there is no entry for IRQ 11.
I added the following in my modules.conf
alias eth0 sis900
options sis900 io=0xde00 irq=11
When I boot I get an insmod failure trying to load the module.
modprobe fails also, but it says it doesn't know parm_io.
I have recompiled the kernel to rebuild the sis900.o to ensure I have
the latest version, but to no avail. So what do I try next?
I also tried adding a Linksys which uses tulip, but same issue with
insmod.
alias eth1 tulip
options tulip io=0xdc00 irq=9
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel version
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:16:27 -0400
Jagged wrote:
>
> high again,
>
> can anyone please tell me how to determine which kernel i'm actually
> running? uname -a always says:
>
> Linux ruth 2.4.2-4GB ...
>
> i installed the kernel 2.2.18 though... could it be uname just gives
> wrong information? or isn't that about the kernel version?
If uname says you're running 2.4.2, then that's what you're running.
When you say you "installed" 2.2.18, exactly what were the steps
you took to do this? Is this the kernel you installed with the
Linux distribution? Have you upgraded at any time? What are
the contents of /etc/lilo.conf? Have you modified that file lately,
and perhaps forgotten to re-run LILO to register the changes?
Sorry for the rapid-fire questions... I'm just trying to throw some
possibilities out there for consideration.
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From: Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deb potato / AbitKT7A / AcerDVDROM
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 19:18:42 GMT
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:04:22 GMT, Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Debian potato on a new system.
> > All is fine until it gets to the point of installing the base system (base2_2.tgz)
> > Then it fails with the following error:
>
> > "File error!
> > There was a problem extracting the Base System from
>/instmnt/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz"
>
> On older DVD drives I've had problems reading CD-Recordable media. Don't know if
> this is the case with you...
>
Hi, Kwan. Trouble is, it's a _new_ DVD drive.
I have since been able to install my very old RedHat6.0. But of course I want all the
new stuff that's on the Debian disks.
I'm a newbie to installing Linux -- can anyone tell me how to install the new Debian
over the old RedHat
given that I can mount the Debian CD under RedHat (and on console2 when trying to
install Debian)?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Knudsen)
Date: 21 Apr 2001 19:18:29 GMT
Subject: Re: lpr broken, instant error message
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Well, I already had 127.0.0.1 localhost -- do I need that additional line?
>That's not an entry for your machine. That's the entry for the loopback
>interface, which exists on ALL machines.
OK, useful to know. Would be nice if my stack of Linux books would have said
so. Unforch, they come at this from the standpoint of networking several
machines, not just trying to print out the parallel cable in the back of the
PC.
> If it's only on the net part time,
>then use the "dummy0" interface (ifconfig dummy0 123.456.100.1) and
>make up a hostname for yourself (hostname me.mine.net) and add the
>appropriate entry to /etc/hosts, along the lines of the model above.
Would "part time" include wanting this only to make lpr work with the printer?
That is, no real networking in any physical sense? I'd think so...
>You should be using something in the 192.168.X.Y block, as that safely
>doesn't route, and is fine for a machine that doesn't have an official
>DNS entry.
OK, as long as lpr doesn't demand something "official." I guess since I'm not
connected to the Internet or a LAN I can make up almost anything?
>> OK, and see if telnet even exists on my system. ifconfig and route do not.
>You need to install them.
Yes, but good luck on this old Slackware CD set. No packages, no binaries,
just source.tgz. I can compile anything, though.
>Char is the driver group. Major-10 is the major number of the
>device involved. 135 is the device minor.
OK, good to know how to interpret that. Not something one can lern from books
or online files.
> Modprobe is complaining that
>somebody is trying to use a device with those characteristics, and
>is knows of no driver that it should load for it.
I've played with modprobe and dynamic loading, and gotten them to like my sound
card, though it still doesn't work (probably wrong buss address, another
posting later).
>It appears to be the realtime clock.
OK. My RTC seems to work OK -- time of day, sleep() call work great in my
programs. So it isn't really needed.
> cr--r--r-- 1 root root 10, 135 May 30 1996 /dev/rtc
Did you get this line from "ls -l /dev", or something more subtle? Maybe cat
/procs?
Thanks for your patience. Don't know if we have enough between us to get the
TCP/IP stuff working for lpr, but I'll try the steps you've outlined. Will
have to compile some modules -- or maybe just reinstall the whole system with
the right options?
Thanks, Mike K.
Life is a game. Play to enjoy!
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From: George Trapkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM 3 to RPM4
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:50:34 -0400
I am using Mandrake and trying to upgrade from RPM3 to RPM4 and I do not
know how I can do it. Mandrake has rpm4 but is rpm4 version and the
older version can not open it. Any suggestions.
George
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From: "Emu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rp3 dialer Problem RH7.0 Kernel 2.4.2 no modules, Monolithic!
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:46:34 -0500
I am having a problem with the ph3 dialer. I have an external modem Us
Robotics that I know is working fine in Red hat 7.0 with kernel 2.4.2. I
have debugged it in Dial up configuration and minicom. No Problems with
modem and making connection to IP. But for some reason the dialer will not
make connections with the modem? Is rp3 dialer broken in Red Hat 7.0?
I have trued to update it to and that doesn't seem to help.
What other ways can I make connections to my IP, other than rp3 and what can
I do to fix this? is it a parameter issue?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Peshak)
Subject: Re: What's the difference???
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:37:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Will that work? I was worryed about breaking something with that.
Scott Peshak
Life would be easier if we could look at the source code.
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade from Rh 7.0 to 7.1 fails
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:47:58 -0700
Hi,
This is a reported problem with 7.1. It affects some adaptec controllers in
certain configurations. You can look at the bug reports at:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
You can read what other users are saying about this issue on the seawolf
mailing list at:
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
As far as I know there isn't a workaround or fix for this yet.
Regards,
Jim H
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Problems
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:00:06 -0700
Hi Jeff,
You can't send io or irq parameters to PCI cards. remove your option lines
and try again.
Regards,
JIm H
Jeff Klouda wrote:
> I have a SIS630 motherboard which has all onboard cards. The LAN card
> is an SiS900. I am installing Redhat 7.0.
>
> Doing an lspci -vv I see the card at IRQ 11 and IO de00. I also see
> some communications port on IRQ 11.
>
> When I cat /proc/interrupts there is no entry for IRQ 11.
>
> I added the following in my modules.conf
> alias eth0 sis900
> options sis900 io=0xde00 irq=11
>
> When I boot I get an insmod failure trying to load the module.
>
> modprobe fails also, but it says it doesn't know parm_io.
>
> I have recompiled the kernel to rebuild the sis900.o to ensure I have
> the latest version, but to no avail. So what do I try next?
>
> I also tried adding a Linksys which uses tulip, but same issue with
> insmod.
> alias eth1 tulip
> options tulip io=0xdc00 irq=9
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: 486 Install Problems
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:03:44 GMT
I'm trying to bring up my old 486 as a firewall. It has no PCI bus,
and it has 8 MB of RAM. It has dual EIDE, but it isn't native to the
board--I'm using a Promise ISA card.
I tried installing Slackware from floppies but it kept dying in the
process of loading the "A" series--it wouldn't even take the first one
(diska1), and said that the file system was wrong type or that too
many filesystems were mounted. So I gave up and tried installing RH
6.2 from CD-ROM, after booting with a Win98 rescue disk. It would get
to the point of asking me for my NIC (3Com Ether III), then it would
die with a signal 9.
So I tried a RH 7.0 disk instead (I wanted to avoid this because I
feel a little more secure with a 6.2, rather than a 7.0 server, and
didn't want to hassle with hacking makefiles for new kernels). The
7.0 got a little farther, and told me that it was loading Anaconda,
but after a few minutes, it too dies with a signal 15.
Any clues as to what's going on? I'm guessing that it's choking on a
PCI probe, or it's freaked out by the Promise card. If either is the
case, is there anything I can do, or should I just give up and use a
newer machine?
--
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From: Rene Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing X with rpm
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup;comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:33:16 GMT
I've just installed RH 7.1 on a fresh HD. As I wanted to install LVM=20=
(Logical Volume Manager) I wanted the initial installation to be as smal=
l=20
as possible and passed on stuff like Xwindows etc.=20
After having recompiled the kernel and installed LVM I've installed the =
rest of the server things (such as SMB, NFS, httpd, squid, qmail, mysql =
etc etc...) with no problem.=20
Xwindows not. XFree-86 Depends on Mesa-something which in turns depends =
right back on XFree-86. Besides there are a ton of libs and tools that=20=
needs to be installed individually.=20
I'm a server-kinda-guy, I don't have time or interest in fiddling with=20=
this stuff. I just want Xwindows with all the stuff to be there,=20
installed. But how?=20
I am not really concerned about KDE or Gnome, I can install both if=20
necessary. Nor am I very concerned if I have the latest hi-chrome driver=
=20
for my graphics card. I've installed RH 7.1 on other systems and had no =
trouble -- when the X-stuff is installed during the boot/install.=20
Redhat/base/comps on the CD/1 seems to be a list of things required for =
an Xwindows installation -- but it doesn't list the RPM packages=20
necessary. What I look for is a list of which packages to install and =
in which order. Flags such as --nodeps where necessary to tweak it to=20=
install.=20
It must be possible to make a no-nonsense installation of X without=20
having to be a rocket scientist.
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From: Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xmms quit working
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:56:55 -0400
John Scudder wrote:
> My distribution is Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.1.1. Originally I had
> used the RPM installation of KDE but after hearing of increased
> performance of compiled KDE, I reinstalled from tarballs.
>
> So now xmms doesn't work, it did before with the RPM installation.
> Everything else works soundwise, it is just xmms that refuses to make
> noise...
>
> * I don't get any error messages to guide me.
> * I tried the arts plugin, nothing.
> * It doesn't matter if I run as root or user.
> * I tried changing soundservers in KDE and changing the I/O preferences
> in xmms, still nothing.
> * I reinstalled first the RPM and then the tarball versions of xmms,
> still nada.
>
> What have I missed?
>
> John
>
What is the output plugin set to? What ever sound system you use, it has
to be oss compatible for xmms to use it. Also, check the mixer settings.
I have two PCM channels after compiling KDE: I don't know what the
criteria is for using one or the other. Try doing xmms from source; that
builds the output plugins and may solve a discrepency there.
Greg
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation Mandrake 7.2 /RedHat6.2 With promise ATA100 ASUS A7V ?
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:07:16 GMT
Redhat 7.1 had no problems with my Promise ATA 100 controller on my ASUS
A7V. It assigned /dev/hde to the my hard drive.
I think Mandrake 8.0 will also be as painless too.
Mick wrote:
> 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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