Linux-Setup Digest #330, Volume #21 Tue, 29 May 01 22:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: PCI modem recommendations for Linux box - what should I buy? (Tommy Willoughby)
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! ("twamn")
Re: ntp server and client setup. (Dave Uhring)
Re: Via VT82C686 Sound Card (Dave Uhring)
tar "append" to tape problen (Kirill Sapelkin)
Re: Sensor module for via686 motherboard (K133A) (Dave Uhring)
Re: Who to install a .gz.tar file? (James Knott)
Re: telnet/sendmail problem on RH7.1, why is everybody so quiet? (Dave Uhring)
Re: print postscript file through samba (Dave Uhring)
Re: q: linux software rewiew website? (chris ciotti)
Re: problems with alsa (Dave Uhring)
Re: IDS9.21UC2/Redhat 7.1: share library libncurses.so.4 not found (Peter Schwenke)
Re: PCI modem recommendations for Linux box - what should I buy? (pete)
Re: ide-tape.o errors (Ga Mu)
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From: Tommy Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI modem recommendations for Linux box - what should I buy?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:48:44 -0700
Professor Bruno wrote:
> Tommy Willoughby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Professor Bruno wrote:
>
> : > Per the subject line. Any recommendations on what to get?
> : >
> : > Thanks!
> : >
> : U.S. Robotics makes a controller-based, true hardware, PCI modem. If I
> : were going to use an internal modem, it's the only one I'd consider.
>
> Can you provide a model number? Which one do you use?
The "performance pro modem" is USR's PCI hardware modem.
I use an external modem - a USR model 5686-02. I think the current model
number of this one is now 5686-03. No matter what the dash number is I
would recommend the USR model 5686 without hesitation.
--
mail: teeuu at uswestmail dot net
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From: "twamn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:58:21 -0500
Take it from a person who has been there before.
Next time unplug ALL drives except the one you want to install to. I went
to upgrade my PC to Win2K and overlaid the boot section to my existing OS
(ouch). Now every time I install a new OS I only have one hard drive plus
the CDrom drive connected to the mother board.
I know this is to late for you but hopefully it will help others avoid
wiping out their main OS while doing a 'simple' dual boot upgrade.
tom
"Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9f0sna$a37$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> During this Memorial weekend, I installed Redhat 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2-2)
> on my PC at home. Win98 is on IDE drive/A and Rh7.1 completely on IDE
> drive/B. I did not realize at the time that part of linux, such as /boot
> partition, had to be on drive/A to use LILO.
>
> During graphic installation,I was prompted where to put LILO i.e. in MBR
> or linux drive's boot partition. Unfortunately I decided to avoid fooling
> with MBR and opted for the later.
>
> The lilo installation ended up with failure. Everything else went fine.
> I created boot diskette. I then realized I was no longer able to boot
> Win98. Everybody in my household jumped on me!! My wife wanted to search
> webs about her stock investment, my kid wanted to play starcraft with his
> folks, ....
>
> I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
> surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes failed
> to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after reading/
> loading a few blocks.
>
> When I mounted on to /dev/hda1, I could see that all Win98 directories
> and files were still intact. I just do not know why drive/A broke when I
> tried my best < which was obviously not good enough :-( > not to disturb
> its MBR.
>
> I would appreciate any advice that can pull me out of this mess.
>
> 1) What corruptions on drive/A and how to restore it??
>
> 2) I configured lilo to boot either linux and win98 but the later never
> came up - it hang just like when I booted off diskettes. Could you
> offer me a copy of /etc/lilo.conf to compare. My copy is at home.
>
> 3) I configured printer OK but not my sound card (Turtle Beach Montogo II
> and Altec Lansing 495). sndconfig autoprobe concluded it was Altec
> ADA305 and mentioned it is not supported by Linux yet. I tried without
> probe but there were only 2 Turtle Beach choices and my Montego II was
> not ont the list. I tried both and they all ended up in errors.
>
> Does it mean I'm out of luck as far as sound card is concerned?
>
> 4) Does Linux support HP 6200C scanner?? If affirmative, how?
>
> 5) I have MSN connection which I usually use their 'MSN Internet Access'
> tool to connect. Could and how I connect to MSN from Linux??
>
> Please asnwer to my e-mail address. Thanks for kind assistance.
>
> Rgds somphong
>
>
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ntp server and client setup.
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:27:05 -0500
PHRoth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know how to setup a ntp (not xntp) server and a client on
> the same subnet.
> Exanple: My server access a router outside and get the correct clock.
> The client ask the server for setting its clock.
> I've looked some infos about server and peer seting in /etc/ntp.conf but I
> don't know how to setup. something else?
>
> Could anyone send me some light?
> ...and examples...
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
/etc/ntp.conf on my server:
server 128.252.135.4
server 128.206.12.230
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
Note that you probably don't want to use those servers, they are in
Missouri.
/etc/ntp.conf on a client
server 192.168.0.5
driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
Mox nix whether you are using xntpd or ntpd, same conf files.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Via VT82C686 Sound Card
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:48:07 -0500
" wrote:
> I have a Via VT82C686 Sound Card, and Its not working in Linux. Redhat 7.0
> detects it, but after it detects it, it completly freezes the system. I
> don't know what to do. Do I need to change anything in the BIOS like the
> IRQ's or DMA channel?
>
>
> Thanks
You can get that sound chip to work with a little effort. First be sure
that PnP OS = NO in your BIOS.
Next, after reboot, execute
# lsmod
and see if via82cxxx_audio module is loaded. If not, then
# modprobe via82cxxx_audio
Now, does the sound work? It should. Perhaps execute
# aumix -v100 -w100 or bring up a graphical mixer and increase the
level of your sound and pcm.
If the sound quality is good, you're fine. If sound quality sucks then you
will want to install the ALSA drivers http://www.alsa-project.org and that
takes too much typing to give you the entire procedure. Read the NOWTO.
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From: Kirill Sapelkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tar "append" to tape problen
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 00:50:08 GMT
Hello !
Am not able to append to an archive on tape. Using the command:
tar cvf /dev/st0 file1
writes the file1 to the tape. It can be seen using the command:
tar tvf /dev/st0
Using the command:
tar rvf /dev/st0 file2
seems to do something, file2 pops up on screen but
tar tvf /dev/st0
shows that only file1 is on the tape.
file2 does not seem to be written on /dev/st0
Thanks for any help.
--
Kirill Sapelkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Sensor module for via686 motherboard (K133A)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:00:45 -0500
Michael Heiming wrote:
> Wayne Osborn wrote:
>>
>> > I did the same for an 8KTA3 mobo and various versions of the 2.4.*
>> > kernels, except that i2c is built in to 2.4, so I only had to fetch
>> > lm_sensors. IIRC, I just removed the lm_sensors RPM before installing
>> > the kit that I downloaded from the site that you mentioned.
>> >
>>
>> Yeh, I removed the RPM lm_sensors too!
>>
>> > Wayne, I'm curious about your expericenes with that mobo, though. I and
>> > a number of other people on linux-kernel have had nothing but trouble
>> > with it, and Alan Cox has all but given up on getting it fixed without
>> > a hint from VIA about what the problem is.
>>
>> Look, to be honest, I built the system Friday and only installed Linux
>> saturday.
>>
>> Initially, the system was loaded with Windows 95 (GRRRR) so as to play
>> with overclocking!!! Windows is good for some things! The machine would
>> not boot Windows reliably over 1.2Ghz, sometimes at 1.3Ghz, but rarely.
>>
>> In desperation, I gave up overclocking and went on the Load Linux etc.
>> This was never intended to be a Windows box.
>>
>> Anyway, it is now running at 1.5Ghz (10x150) running genome@home the CPU
>> is around 39c.
>>
>> As of yet I can;t say I have experienced any problems under Linux, ONLY
>> WONDOZE, and thats gone now :)
>>
>> Funny, only today did I find kernel notes regarding the VIA / 2.4
>> problems. Are the problems real? SHould I stay with the 2.2.16 kernel?
>> >
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm running Epox 8KTA3 (750 MHz Athlon) and only had problems so far,
> I bought the some good RAM (256 MB 133MHz).
>
> Running SuSE Linux 7.0, I can't boot from SuSE 7.1 inst CD with kernel
> 2.4...:-(
>
> OK, I thought who really needs this shinny new distro, but I couldn't
> even compile modutils/binutils the machine just locks up and reboots,
> nothing gets logged to give any hint...:-(
>
> The machine hasn't reached any more uptime then 10 d, that's absolutely
> not
> what I'm used to with Linux. It just reboots randomly.
>
> Sadly, I bought the parts online, half was broken, and it took them
> over a month to deliver working parts...
>
> I'll buy a new mobo as soon as I can, anyone some hints what to get, it
> should have 1xAGP, >= 5 PCI slots and min. 1 ISA slot.
>
> Michael Heiming
>
You are probably SOL WRT the ISA slot on a good MB. After reading
anandtech's review of KT133 MB's, I bought the only one which they couldn't
crash, the Microstar (MSI) K7T Pro 2A and have been extremely pleased with
it. Absolutely stable.
I run Solaris and FreeBSD on this system, too, and the MB is stable with
them also. Since I follow FreeBSD-STABLE, about every 2 weeks I make world
which involves compiling about 300MB of code in one session. Have yet to
see a 'make buildworld' fail with signal 11 on this system.
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From: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Who to install a .gz.tar file?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 01:03:31 GMT
Fred K Ollinger wrote:
>
> Scsi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Yeah ... why should I be penalized through levied taxes and taxation because
> : someone else downloads copyrighted materials? Too much government = slavery.
> : Down here in the US the government = big business and we have all become
> : robots and slaves to a group of captialist and greedy folks. Uh ... not all
> : of us but 90% perhaps. So blind.
>
> : Scsi2
>
> : "James Knott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> : news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> : > Mladen Gogala wrote:
> : > >
> : > > Voila! Mkisofs is installed into /usr/local/bin.
> : > > Make sure that you do not burn copyrighted music to your CDs as it is
> : > > bad for your soul and for the recording industry profits.
> : >
> : > FWIW, Canadians can now legally copy copyrighted music, for their own
> : > use. The copyright owners get reimbersed through a levy the government
> : > slapped on blank CDs, audio cassettes etc.
>
> Do the taxes apply to hard drives? You can always go over border and buy
> blank cds.
No, just stuff blank CDs and tapes.
--
Replies sent via e-mail to this address will be promptly ignored.
To reply, replace everything to the left of "@" with "james.knott".
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: telnet/sendmail problem on RH7.1, why is everybody so quiet?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:04:54 -0500
Sasan Iman wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> In release 7.x, Redhat moved to a default secure networking mode. This
> changed how telnet/sendmail, etc. operate. More specifically,
> telnet/sendmail no longer work out of the box and more handling is
> required.
>
>
> I am sure for expert users this change was just fine as they immediately
> added the few lines of code that will get everything back in working
> order. However for us novice users, this change proved to be a major
> headache. I am in no way down-playing the significance of having a
> secure workstation. My problem is that no matter where I search, I can't
> find a decent document (preferably released by RedHat for the benefit of
> novice users in the community) that explains how to make this transition
> happen.
> Right now, I have a Redhat 7.1 with broken sendmail/telnet. I keep
> searching the net and I read about xinetd/telnet (none on my machine),
> ssh, etc. etc. But no clear step by step instruction on how to get this
> to work.
>
> In summary, I would like to bring this problem to the attention of any
> RedHat people, and beg for any of you experts to post a step by step
> instruction on how to get passed this issue.
>
> Any replies is appreciated in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> SI
>
If you want a telnet server on your machine then install it. CD 1, telnet
and telnet-server. It is not installed by default because it is a security
nightmare when the machine is connected directly to the internet.
Learn how to use SSH and forget about telnet and ftp.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: print postscript file through samba
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:08:46 -0500
Eric Chow wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use smbclient to connect to a Windows Printer in Linux. I can print any
> text file through Samba Client, but I I can print a PostScript file ?
>
> The following is how I print Text File through SmabaClient :
>
> % smbclient \\\\192.168.0.22\\HPLJ6L mypassword -U eric -P
> smb: \> print test.txt
> smb: \>
>
> As the above commands, I can print a text file to a Windows Shared Printer
> in Linux through Samba CLient.
> But how I can print a PostScript(.ps) file in the Samba Prompr "smb: \>" ?
>
> Would you please to teach me ?
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
>
>
Execute konqueror /usr/share/swat/using_samba/index.html
Then read chapter 7.
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From: chris ciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: q: linux software rewiew website?
Date: 30 May 2001 01:11:49 GMT
Reply-To: chris ciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You should also check out www.fsf.org - download and use GNU software (you
could also volunteer too :-)
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Farrell Farahbod wrote:
*>Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:37:15 -0700
*>From: Farrell Farahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*>Newsgroups: alt.os.linux, comp.os.linux.setup
*>Subject: q: linux software rewiew website?
*>
*>does anyone know of where a good linux software review web site. can
*>anyone reccomend one. i know of linuxapps.com but they dont do reviews-i
*>think.
*>
*>thanx,
*>
*>farrell
*>
*>
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with alsa
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:22:31 -0500
Greg Berchin wrote:
>
> "Patrick Brennan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:X3QQ6.13670$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Many thanks for reply - here is the sequence of events:
>>
>> 1. Copied alsa-driver-0.5.10b.tar.bz2 to /usr/src
>> 2. Extracted with tar -Ixvf - no apparent problems
>> 3. Entered directory alsa-driver-0.5.10b
>> 4. Ran ./configure - no apparent problems, however config.log threw up
> these
>> lines:
>> configure 1441:51: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file
> or
>> directory
>> configure 1478:51: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file
> or
>> directory
>> configure 1618:51: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file
> or
>> directory
>> configure 1726:51: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file
> or
>> directory
>
> I am at a similar point under RedHat 7.1, and have seen that same error.
> I have so far traced it to the fact that "configure" has provision for
> command line parameter indicating the location of the "include" directory,
> but
> doesn't seem to use it. Under my RH 7.1 configuration (assuming 7.0 is
> similar), the "include" files are NOT in '/usr/src/linux/include/linux',
> they are in '/usr/src/include' (IIRC). I am currently trying to hack
> "configure" source to actually use the command line input for the
> "include"
> directory location. You might try this, too.
>
> GB
>
>
>
As far as building alsa-drivers using the RedHat kernel is concerned,
forget about it. The kernel has been modified so much that the drivers
will not build.
Download the 2.4.4 kernel (not 2.4.5), build and install it. Configure
/etc/lilo.conf, /sbin/lilo and reboot. Now build the alsa-drivers and you
will succeed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Schwenke)
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.informix
Subject: Re: IDS9.21UC2/Redhat 7.1: share library libncurses.so.4 not found
Date: 29 May 2001 18:24:16 -0700
Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Huy Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm trying IDS2000 9.21.UC2 on Redhat 7.1 today.
> > After successful to initialize the engine with oninit -iv, I realize
> > onspaces and onmonitor not working even though onstat and oninit working.
>
> Scuttlebutt last week was that IDS9's oninit would die attempting to
> load a shared library on RHL7.1... How are you special? Are you on a
> stock system?
I wonder if IDS2000 9.21 UC2 runs and IDS2000 9.2 UC 1 doesn't. The version
which wouldn't work for me and some others was 9.2UC1
... Peter
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From: pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI modem recommendations for Linux box - what should I buy?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:51:05 +1000
Tommy Willoughby wrote:
> Professor Bruno wrote:
>
>> Tommy Willoughby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> : Professor Bruno wrote:
>>
>> : > Per the subject line. Any recommendations on what to get?
>> : >
>> : > Thanks!
>> : >
>> : U.S. Robotics makes a controller-based, true hardware, PCI modem. If I
>> : were going to use an internal modem, it's the only one I'd consider.
>>
I use an IBM PCI modem - model number 33L4618. I've had it for nearly two
years and never had a problem.
I think there's a lot of nonsense talked about PCI modems. There are quite
a few real modems out there and they have the noce advantage that they are
out of sight, out of mind, and don't add another brick to your power board.
pete
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From: Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ide-tape.o errors
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 01:55:51 GMT
Ga Mu wrote:
> HELP!
>
> I have an HP/Colorado 4/8 GB Travan-3 tape drive in a newly constructed
> RedHat Linux 7.1 system. The tape drive is currently configured as
> /dev/hdd and I have /dev/tape linked to /dev/ht0. (Or is that /dev/ht0
> linked to /dev/tape...) I am trying to restore files from a backup made
> on another system. That system had no problem writing to the same drive
> (it was moved from the old system to the new). mt commands appear to
> work fine. E.g., I can retension the tape with 'mt retension'.
> However, tar can't read from the drive. I get the following error
> messages when I try:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> [root@c1125351-a backup]# tar -xzf /dev/tape
> tar (child): /dev/tape: Cannot read: Input/output error
> <...snip...>
> [root@c1125351-a backup]#
> -------------------------------------------
>
> If I look in /var/log/messages, I see this:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> May 29 11:01:26 c1125351-a kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
>
> May 29 11:01:26 c1125351-a kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8,
> key = 5, asc = 2c, ascq = 0
> -------------------------------------------
>
> I remember having the same problem with the same error/log messages when
> I initially got the drive going in the original system. Unfortunately,
> I can't for the life of me remember what I did to resolve the problem
> the first time. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Greg
I remembered what I did to fix it last time! I moved it from the system
with the motherboard that is in the current system it doesn't work in - an
ABIT BP6 - to a system with an ASUS P2L97. I don't know what IDE chipsets
these use, buy I'm betting they use different ones. I guess I'm screwed as
far as getting it to work on the BP6...
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