eth0: Bogus packet size

[Alastair J. Gregory]

Can anyone tell me why I get the message:

eth0: bogus packet size: 4160, status = 0x21, nxpg=0x30

on my console?  Does this indicate a "packet corruption"
of some sort?

I have a WD80x3-based LAN adapter in my Debian
machine, which is running back-to-back (via a crossover
cable) to a Win95 machine with a 3Com 3C503 adapter.
Although this should be a straightforward configuration, I
haven't been able to make it work.

If I ping my Debian box from Win95, I see the RX light on the
WD card blink each time a packet is sent, and I (usually) get
one of the above complaints.

If I ping my Win95 machine from the Debian machine, I don't
see the TX light flashing as much as I would expect (i.e. it
doesn't blink once per second).  This leads me to believe that
there is a problem with my Debian setup.  ifconfig reports
nothing out of the ordinary, except that it shows the adapter's
I/O address as 0x290 rather than 0x280 as it is jumpered.  (I
see the same thing on another Debian machine, which works fine)

Any hints would be welcome!
Thanks,
Alastair



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Is there an ELM package?

[Adam Klein]

Is there a Debian package of a normal version of ELM?  I'm using
elm-me+, and it seems to have _lots_ of trouble handling MIME and PGP.
I figure I'd be better off with a mailer that doesn't know about either
of these.  Any suggestions?

Adam Klein


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hardcrack compile problems

[Paul]

Hi everybody, I am trying to compile hardcrack from sunsite.  I am running
into a little problem.  Here is the error that I am getting:

gcc   -DALT_ECB -O6 -mpentium -funroll-all-loops   -c cbc_cksm.c -o
cbc_cksm.o
cc1: Invalid option `pentium'
make: *** [cbc_cksm.o] Error 1

I have not changeed anythng in the source I put it in /usr/src/hardcrack.
The instruction say to do 'make' and I do and that is when I run into
problems.  If anybody could help me that would be great.  Need more info
email.  I am using kernel v2.0.31 and gcc2.7.something.  Any insight
would be great.
Paul


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Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

[Rick Hawkins]

 
> I suggest you sort on X-Mailing-List: rather than To:

Yes, using characters out of To: does seem kind of pointless.  THere's plenty 
of filtering software out there.

rick



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Re: diald vs ipmasquerade

[Joe Stewart]

At 09:38 AM 11/22/97 +, Chuma Agbodike wrote:
>Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ?
>Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan.
>The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3)
>on the unit that has the modem on it. And would like the other units
>to access the internet via the modem on LINUX unit.
>So I have diald running on the linux. The windows node have the
>linux unit as their gateway. But if I ping an IP diald doesn't dial.
>
>What next ?
>
As you suspect you need to recompile the kernel with ip masquerading.  You
will also want to add ipfwadm rules. 

Good luck

Joe.


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RE: 56k

[George Bonser]

There could be several reasons.  

1) There are several different 56K protocols that are incompatable with each
other, you must buy the modem with the protocol that your ISP supports. If you
switch ISP's you might find that you may need to switch brands of modem to
maintian a 56K connection. 

2) It only works if the connection at the other end is a digital connection,
you will never get a 56k analog to analog connection.  In other words, if the
modem at the other end is connected to a regular phone line, it will never
connect faster than 33.6 under any circumstances.

3) The telephone circuit over which your connection travels may have only one
analog to digital conversion.  If the signal gets converted to digital at your
telephone office and is converted back to analog anywhere in transit and again
converted back to digital before being presented to the ISP's equipment, it
will never establish a 56K connection.

4) The above holds true for dialing out through a PBX at work where your voice
channel may get converted to digital for switching inside the PBX but is
reconverted to analog for transmission to the phone company over an analog
circuit ... again, you will never get a 56K connection because of the
analog->digital->analog conversion.

On 22-Nov-97 vincent wrote:
> How come my 56k modem(sporster US Robotics) modem doesn't connect at
> 56bps?
> It connects at 28bps.
> 
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56k

[vincent]

How come my 56k modem(sporster US Robotics) modem doesn't connect at
56bps?
It connects at 28bps.


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Re: .xreset equivalent of .xsession?

[David Z. Maze]

Colin R Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CRT> Is the a file that a user can put logout commands similar to
CRT> /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset_0?

You can put things after your window manager in .xsession.  These will 
be executed after your window manager exits (user logs out) but before 
the X server resets.

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[Greg Green]

Thanks Colin and Robert.  These are not the only problems I am having, so I
decided to just re-install. This should clear up any problems!
I need the practice anyway.

Thanks,
Greg Green


Colin R. Telmer wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Greg Green wrote:
>
> > I am new to Debian Linux and I am having problems with xdm and fvwm.
> > When I used Red Hat Linux, all I had to do to get Xwindows to start at
> > login was to edit the /etc/inittab to go default to run level 4.  Now, I
> > am running Debian 1.30 and do not even see a reference to xdm in the
> > /etc/inittab.  I am obviously missing some key point, can anyone help?
>
> To get xdm going:
> 1) change /etc/X11/config to start xdm (i.e. remove the no- ). Mine looks
>like
>
> # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System.
> # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see
> # /usr/doc/X11/debian.README
> no-run-xconsole
> obey-nologin
> allow-user-resources
> allow-user-modmap
> allow-user-xsession
> allow-failsafe
> start-xdm
> xdm-start-server
>
> 2) Make sure an X server is specified in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers something
>like
> # xbase and xserver configuration scripts.
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16
>
> 3) Edit any other files that you wich to customize in /etc/X11/xdm
> 4) run /etc/init.d/xdm start
>
> I may have forgotten something, but that should work.
>
> > Also, when I startx manually, the system will not use my .fvwmrc.  I get
> > too many errors to list here, but all I did was copy the
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm to my $HOME/.fvwmrc and tried to add
> > an additional xterm at start-up, and change to setroot color to solid
> > SteelBlue.
> > I don't believe these changes made any impact because when I keep the
> > defaults in my .fvwmrc, and try and refresh fvwm, I get the same errors.
>
> I use fvwm2 but don't really know what could be wrong. Could you list the
> first 10 or 20 lines of errors? Also, is there a chance that you are using
> an old fvwm script with fvwm2? You can convert it with
> /usr/doc/fvwm2/utils/fvwmrc_convert
>
> Let me know if that helps. Cheers, Colin.
>
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Re: JAVA + AWT = ARGH!

[Jim Pick]

Mike Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there anyone who has sucessfully gotten any version of java, javac, and
> AWT libraries to work together? If so, could they give me a basic rundown
> on how they did it? 

Use Sun's JDK.  I made a package of it - it is in unstable, non-free.

If you want to use kaffe, don't use the Debian package - it is out of
date.  Instead, download a copy from www.kaffe.org and install it in
/usr/local.

And don't use the latest versions (0.9.0 - 0.9.1) if you need graphics,
because they do not support Peter Mehlitz's Biss-AWT.  He is going to
release a new version in the next few weeks that might work.

Your best bet is to use kaffe 0.8.4, with the biss-awt package.  I had it
sort of working here once.  It's very tricky to get it running.  You still
needs Sun's class libraries.

And don't expect 100% compatibility with Sun's JDK - expect more like 50%.

I do want to update the kaffe package somewhat - but I'm waiting for the
"kore" package to become available - which will reduce the dependence on
Sun's non-free class library.  Compatibility will still suck though.

Cheers,

 - Jim


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Re: to find fastest debian mirror

[Bruce Perens]

Nice program.

Adding the "-s 1024" flag to ping would make the packets closer to the
size of FTP packets, and make the results more accurate.

I would suggest that the program create its own temporary directory under
/tmp and delete it when it is done, rather than insist that ~/tmp exist.
Set your umask so that others do not have write permissions on the directory
and its files _before_ you create the directory. Mkdir will fail if any of
the security problems exist.

Please do some AWK work to take the number of dropped packets into account. 
"Speed" should probably be something like:

reliability = (100 - dropped_packet_percentage) / 100
real_speed = speed * reliability

Indeed, because of the re-transmission delay for dropped packets, you
may want to increase the penalty for them above this.

Thanks

Bruce
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.xreset equivalent of .xsession?

[Colin R. Telmer]

Is the a file that a user can put logout commands similar to
/etc/X11/xdm/Xreset_0?

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Re: log rotation package?

[Robert D. Hilliard]

/usr/bin/savelog in package debianutils

Bob

> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 23:59:35 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Hi people,
> 
> Is there a .deb log rotation package?  You know what I mean, just
> something to swap out the logs in /var/.. every week and rename them
> *.1, *.2, ..  up to the number of weeks you want to keep them.  This has
> been on my mind for quite some time, because I've been thinking that
> it's just gotta be on the cd somewhere, but I've looked and searched all
> over,..  With 980 packages, maybe I missed it, though.  
> 
> I saw the remark in /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd, but I'm having a difficult
> time imagining that all debian users write their own scripts for this
> procedure.  I know I could do it, but it wouldn't be a pretty sight. 
> 
> David Stern
> 
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Re: TROUBLES WITH LINUX DEBIAN GNU 1.3.1 2CD SET

[John Scroggins]

Oscar Alvarez Paredes wrote:

> I bought this 2CD Debian Distributuion but i haven't already been able
> to instal it.
>
> I tryied to boot it from the CD but after displaying the first line it
> hangs.
> I made the seven instalation disks and i installed the base system but i
> couldn't configure my CR-ROM, so i copied the whole CD in my hard disk
> and i executed dselect but it couldn't find the /stable/binary-i386
> directory. I have selected /bo/binary-i as this directory an it lets me
> choose the packages to install but when proceeding with installation it
> aborts because of many erros.
>
> What am i doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Oscar Alvarez Paredes
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diald vs ipmasquerade

[Chuma Agbodike]

Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ?
Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan.
The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3)
on the unit that has the modem on it. And would like the other units
to access the internet via the modem on LINUX unit.
So I have diald running on the linux. The windows node have the
linux unit as their gateway. But if I ping an IP diald doesn't dial.

What next ?

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Re: to find fastest debian mirror

[Gertjan Klein]

Andrea Mennucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 >   This message is in MIME format.

  Yuk - as this was normal text, this wasn't necessary.

 > this script takes as its argument  the file README.mirrors
 >  (that can be downloaded from the debian ftp sites), extracts the list
 > of hosts and pings them all (it takes roughly 30 seconds, since
 > it parallelizes) then sorts the output by fastest time

  I had some trouble running your script, because `ulimit -u` was set at
my system to 32 (for whatever reason), and I ran it under X - so I got
lots of "fork: try again" messages.  They seemed to prevent your
script from terminating normally.  Not knowing (then) how to solve the
maximum processes problem, I tried to change your script so it would
be configurable how many pings could run in parallel.

I added

  MAX_PINGS=5

to the top, and changed:

  # we do not want to flood the net; we test 30 sites at a time
  # then we wait 8 seconds so that most of the pings will be done
  if [ `expr $n % 30 ` = 0 ] ; then sleep 8 ; fi

to:

   while [ `ps -axu | grep -v grep | grep ping | wc --lines` -gt $MAX_PINGS ]
   do
 sleep 1
   done

This seems to limit the number of pings while not waiting longer than
necessary.  (Please note that I'm not good at shell scripts; there may
be a much better way to do this - it just worked for me).

 > I think it would be fantastic if this script could be made
 > part of   dpkg-ftp , (lets say, as an option when in dselect
 >  you choose  Access and then ftp);

  It would need some additional work to make it more resistant to
problems like the ulimit -u thing, though.  E.g., there is an unknown
host (debian.med.miami.edu) in README.mirrors, and the ping error
message regarding this host should be killed, I think.  I also noticed
during testing that there is a big difference in results between
subsequent runs of the script - perhaps it would be better to make ping
run a little longer.  Lastly, it would be nice if the script FTPed the
README.mirrors file itself (from ftp.debian.org) if not present.

  Other than the above, I found your script very useful, and I'll save
it here - it may be useful to check Simtel, sunsite, etc. mirrors too
;-)

  Gertjan.

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[robert havoc pennington]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Greg Green wrote:
> When I used Red Hat Linux, all I had to do to get Xwindows to start at
> login was to edit the /etc/inittab to go default to run level 4.  Now, I
> am running Debian 1.30 and do not even see a reference to xdm in the
> /etc/inittab.  I am obviously missing some key point, can anyone help?

It's even easier. All you need to do is add the line:
start-xdm
to /etc/X11/config

See /usr/doc/X11/debian.README for a description of this.

> Also, when I startx manually, the system will not use my .fvwmrc.  I get
> too many errors to list here, but all I did was copy the
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm to my $HOME/.fvwmrc and tried to add
> an additional xterm at start-up, and change to setroot color to solid
> SteelBlue.

Hmm, I don't have fvwm installed, but probably what happens (I'm guessing)
is that system.fvwmrc is loaded, then since you copied it to your home
directory it's loaded again, and that causes some errors. Check the man
page to see if fvwm does this. In any case it's likely that system.fvwmrc
isn't designed to go in a home directory. 

You want to have your .fvwmrc modify the defaults set in system.fvwmrc,
rather than start over again from the bottom. If you email me the
system.fvwmrc I might can tell you what's wrong better. Though I'm sure
someone else will jump in who already knows. :)

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[Colin R. Telmer]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Greg Green wrote:

> I am new to Debian Linux and I am having problems with xdm and fvwm.
> When I used Red Hat Linux, all I had to do to get Xwindows to start at
> login was to edit the /etc/inittab to go default to run level 4.  Now, I
> am running Debian 1.30 and do not even see a reference to xdm in the
> /etc/inittab.  I am obviously missing some key point, can anyone help?

To get xdm going:
1) change /etc/X11/config to start xdm (i.e. remove the no- ). Mine looks
   like

# This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System.
# For a description of the meanings of the flags, see
# /usr/doc/X11/debian.README
no-run-xconsole
obey-nologin
allow-user-resources
allow-user-modmap
allow-user-xsession
allow-failsafe
start-xdm
xdm-start-server

2) Make sure an X server is specified in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers something
   like
# xbase and xserver configuration scripts.
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16

3) Edit any other files that you wich to customize in /etc/X11/xdm
4) run /etc/init.d/xdm start

I may have forgotten something, but that should work. 

> Also, when I startx manually, the system will not use my .fvwmrc.  I get
> too many errors to list here, but all I did was copy the
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm to my $HOME/.fvwmrc and tried to add
> an additional xterm at start-up, and change to setroot color to solid
> SteelBlue.
> I don't believe these changes made any impact because when I keep the
> defaults in my .fvwmrc, and try and refresh fvwm, I get the same errors.

I use fvwm2 but don't really know what could be wrong. Could you list the
first 10 or 20 lines of errors? Also, is there a chance that you are using
an old fvwm script with fvwm2? You can convert it with
/usr/doc/fvwm2/utils/fvwmrc_convert

Let me know if that helps. Cheers, Colin.

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Re: Database advice?

[Shaleh]

At work on our BSDI boxes we use mysql.  Seems rock solid and I believe
has a GPL type license.


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Database advice?

[Brandon Mitchell]

Hi everyone,
   I was wondering if I could get some advice on what database I should
use.  I'm predicting I'll need to use a database for 3 things.  First,
personal use on my linux box.  I'd just like to get familiar with SQL,
setting up a db, etc.  I'm thinking of using this to help out the debian
testing team, so I should probably learn soon if I'm going to have it
working for the 2.0 testing.  Second, I'm planning on converting a bunch
of data from work to a db accessable from the web.  Finally, I'll probably
take a class using Oracle fall of next year.  I'd like to use the same db
at home and work.  It should give me a good start for working in Oracle.
A nice GUI would be helpful.  SOLID looks nice and received high ranks in
LJ recently.  I was also thinking of progreSQL.  Does anyone have any
advice on this?

Thanks,
Brandon


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Re: log rotation package?

[Gary L . Hennigan]

>There's a rotatelogs program in one of the web server packages, I think.
>It should be broken out into its own package.

I'd like to see a separate package for this as well. It's a pain
doing it by hand and I'm too busy/lazy to write a shell script to do
it automatically!

Gary


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Re: log rotation package?

[Brandon Mitchell]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> There's a rotatelogs program in one of the web server packages, I think.
> It should be broken out into its own package.

Is there an advantage of the rotatelogs program over the savelog script?
I like the script so much, I use it on a sun that I admin and for rotating
my own user logs (e.g. procmails log).

Brandon



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Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

[Jason Costomiris]

On Sat, Nov 22, 1997 at 11:51:43AM +0800, Marcus Lam wrote:
: May I suggest all subscribers of this Debian list use some convention in
: sending messages to the list?  I found it very difficult to
: differentiate between the messages from this Debian list and those from
: other lists.   I used to sort it by the "To" field of the message, but
: later I found out there are messages arrived at my INBOX that are not
: sent TO the official list address "debian-user@lists.debian.org".
: Sometimes these messages are TO some other Debian or Linux list
: addresses but other times they are TO a person.  This makes me feel
: puzzled.  But maybe I join the list for a short time only.  So could
: someone tell me what should I do to properly sort those messages from
: THIS Debian list?  Could we simply use a convention in the message
: "Subject" field, like what I saw someone's doing (like the one in THIS
: message)?

:0:
* ^Resent.*debian-user
$HOME/mail/debian-user

Oh, and could you stop sending M$ Rich text messages?  The 
application/x-ms-tnef attachments are annoying.


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debian-user@lists.debian.org

[Greg Green]

Hi,
I am new to Debian Linux and I am having problems with xdm and fvwm.
When I used Red Hat Linux, all I had to do to get Xwindows to start at
login was to edit the /etc/inittab to go default to run level 4.  Now, I
am running Debian 1.30 and do not even see a reference to xdm in the
/etc/inittab.  I am obviously missing some key point, can anyone help?
Also, when I startx manually, the system will not use my .fvwmrc.  I get
too many errors to list here, but all I did was copy the
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm to my $HOME/.fvwmrc and tried to add
an additional xterm at start-up, and change to setroot color to solid
SteelBlue.
I don't believe these changes made any impact because when I keep the
defaults in my .fvwmrc, and try and refresh fvwm, I get the same errors.

Has anyone had similar problems?  Please let me know if you have.

Thanks,

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Re: troubleshooting PnP modem on Linux 2.0.29 platform

[Charles Read]

The modem hangs off 0x2F8, with IRQ 3 the active
interrupt request.  'setserial -a /dev/ttyS1' verifies this
data.

But if I say (from root):

# cu -s 115200 -l /dev/ttyS1

I get a "Permission denied" error, even though
'ls -l' shows /dev/ttyS1 to be read/writable by
user&group.

If I go to kermit and say [this if from the Serial-HOWTO]:

c-kermit> set line /dev/ttyS1
c-kermit> set carrier-watch off
c-kermit> set speed 115200
c-kermit> c

the kermit-shell hangs and I do not get an OK prompt.
But, if I toggle to another Linux screen and say

# cat /proc/interrupts

interrupt 3 is shown with a 0-count.  As soon as
kermit is killed, then interrupt 3 disappears from
/proc/interrupts.

All of this, BTW, happens after I successfully dial
out from Win95, and reboot to Linux from the rescue
floppy, ie, without powering off the CPU.

-c

-- Original text 
> I run Win95 and Linux 2.0.29 off separate hard drives
> running off an AMD K6 platform.  Win95 uses a
> Plug-and-Play modem from Computer Peripherals, Inc.
> (a ViVa 56LC-SM).  Linux, however, cannot dial out
> on this device; in fact, cu/kermit cannot even connect
> to the device.
> 
> I have verified with setserial, /proc/interrupts, minicom,
> and my BIOS configuration that IRQs and other system
> parameters are reasonably set.

Once the device is configured to a known location, either by
your BIOS or by isapnptools, then it should work. What is
the problem exactly when you try to use the modem? If
the port doesn't seem to exist to Linux you might need to
uncomment some parts of /etc/rc.boot/0setserial which
from memory only enables the first two ports by default.
I had a PnP modem working here while testing it, using
isapnptools.


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Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

[Mike Miller]

> "marcus" == Marcus Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does
> not understand this format, some or all of this message may
> not be legible.

Hmmm, my MUA /does/ understand MIME.  Maybe your's just doesn't
know that.

> May I suggest all subscribers of this Debian list use some
> convention in sending messages to the list?  

I suggest you sort on X-Mailing-List: rather than To:


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Re: povray copyright

[James Troup]

Steve Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> After reading /usr/doc/povray/copyright, it seems to me that it is
> non-free,

I agree.

> even though AFAIK it is part of the main distribution, and I suppose
> that is a concern for any Debian distributors.

Yes it is, it's already been reported as a bug, and the new maintainer
intends it to be uploaded to non-free (IIRC); please see

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/debian/Bugs/db/14/14818.html 

[The US mirror of the bug tracking system is way out of sync at the
moment]

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Re: TROUBLES WITH LINUX DEBIAN GNU 1.3.1 2CD SET

[Colin R. Telmer]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Oscar Alvarez Paredes wrote:

> I bought this 2CD Debian Distributuion but i haven't already been able
> to instal it.
> 
> I tryied to boot it from the CD but after displaying the first line it
> hangs.
> I made the seven instalation disks and i installed the base system but i
> couldn't configure my CR-ROM, so i copied the whole CD in my hard disk
> and i executed dselect but it couldn't find the /stable/binary-i386
> directory. I have selected /bo/binary-i as this directory an it lets me
> choose the packages to install but when proceeding with installation it
> aborts because of many erros.

Hopefully some others will reply to this, becuase you should have been
able to install from CD (Ihave always done it on the net, so I can't
comment). Anyway, when you copied the entire CD to harddisk, did you
preserve all the symlinks properly? I would expect dselect to bomb if you
did not. Then it should be a matter of pointing dselect to the base
directory where you have put debian (i.e. the directory that contains
bo, hamm, etc. After that, you should be able to select stable or
unstable. Cheers.

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Which ethernet module to use.

[R Chris Ross]

I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on a machine that has an 
AMD 32 bit pcnet vesa bus card.  The card is made by Mitron.  None of 
the modules seam to load properly.  Which module is the appropriate 
one?


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Re: rvplayer installer

[Ralph Winslow]

On 17-Nov-97 Steve Kostecke wrote:
>In article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Nielsen) writes:
>[snip]
>> Is there any way to get it to work as a plugin for Netscape, short of
>> upgrading to hamm?  I understand the problem is really with bash-2.0
>> in bo.  Would downgrading to the rex version of bash work without
>[snip]

I'd like to try this too, where do you get rvplayer5.x in the first place.
It doesn't seem to beDebian package.

Also, I've put an index.html file on the homepage space on my ISPs NT (ugh)
machine. It includes a line:



and vi.gif is in the same disk area as index.html, but the image doesn't
appear (though the rest of the .html file does) when I open it with netscape
4.0. Can anyone provide a clue. TIA

BTW, if I leave netscape running overnight, it will lock my X session. Booo!

You can look at my home page skeleton at

http://www.users.nac.net/rjw
>
>I'm using RealPlayer 5.0 with bo.  It does work.  You just need to add
>
>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path.to/rvplayer5.x
>
>to your /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape script.  You also need to make sure
>that rvplayer is on your search path.  I make a symbolic link from
>/usr/bin/raplayer to my rvplayer binary.
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Re: Kernel build and install problems

[David Z. Maze]

Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BL> I had some surprising trouble building this kernel.  I (and indeed, 
BL> make) could not as86 or ld86.  I tried searching in the Packages files 
BL> and even Packages-Master.  I grepped the contents of several (likely in 
BL> my opinion) packages but could not find them in unstable.

{2} dmaze% dpkg -S /usr/bin/as86
bin86: /usr/bin/as86
{3} dmaze% dpkg -S /usr/bin/ld86
bin86: /usr/bin/ld86

dselect shows it as a Standard devel package.  Interestingly enough,
the kernel-source package generated by make-kpkg doesn't list this
anywhere; it should probably Recommend bin86 for i386 machines.

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TROUBLES WITH LINUX DEBIAN GNU 1.3.1 2CD SET

[Oscar Alvarez Paredes]

I bought this 2CD Debian Distributuion but i haven't already been able
to instal it.

I tryied to boot it from the CD but after displaying the first line it
hangs.
I made the seven instalation disks and i installed the base system but i
couldn't configure my CR-ROM, so i copied the whole CD in my hard disk
and i executed dselect but it couldn't find the /stable/binary-i386
directory. I have selected /bo/binary-i as this directory an it lets me
choose the packages to install but when proceeding with installation it
aborts because of many erros.

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks

Oscar Alvarez Paredes


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Low speed response w/ Logitech Trackball

[Pancho Horrillo]

Hi!

I use a Logitech Trackball (Marble), attached to PS/2 port, and i
cannot get it work fast enough in X, so my thumb gets really tired... Is
there any way to change the responsiveness in X ? I know how to do it w/
gpm, but it is useless in this case, even if i configure gpm to generate a
fifo where the X server reads from. I don't feel like editing the kernel
source, since i do not believe it is a good way to accomplish the
adjustment.

The driver included (for DOS) allows me to change this speed, and it works
fine, but i am trying to erradicate DOS for Debian operation. It's a bit
depressing that i have to boot w/ DOS if i am to be able to use my
peripherals (Trackball, GUS Extreme), and also a security hole at boot
time. I miss LILO :.-)

Other possible option could be attaching the trackball at a COM port, but
it is a bad one for me, because i would need an adaptor.

Please, help me to throw away DOS from my life...  :-)

Any comments about PS/2 port?

Thx

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Re: log rotation package?

[ioannis]

On Sat, Nov 22, 1997 at 12:10:00AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> There's a rotatelogs program in one of the web server packages, I think.
> It should be broken out into its own package.


  The rotatelogs  program is included in package  web/apache

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Re: log rotation package?

[Bruce Perens]

There's a rotatelogs program in one of the web server packages, I think.
It should be broken out into its own package.

Bruce
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log rotation package?

[David Stern]

Hi people,

Is there a .deb log rotation package?  You know what I mean, just
something to swap out the logs in /var/.. every week and rename them
*.1, *.2, ..  up to the number of weeks you want to keep them.  This has
been on my mind for quite some time, because I've been thinking that
it's just gotta be on the cd somewhere, but I've looked and searched all
over,..  With 980 packages, maybe I missed it, though.  

I saw the remark in /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd, but I'm having a difficult
time imagining that all debian users write their own scripts for this
procedure.  I know I could do it, but it wouldn't be a pretty sight. 

David Stern


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Re: 2.0.32 kernel: strange error

[Philippe Troin]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 07:07:05 +0100 Remco Blaakmeer 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I posted the message below to comp.os.linux.misc but I didn't get any
> answer. Does anybody know more about the problem I describe below? Or can
> anyone point me at the right newsgroup for this question?

Your friendly debian-user mailing list is always here to help you...

[snip]
> The problem is with the 3c509 driver. I have a 3COM 3c509 card and an El
> Cheapo NE2000 clone, which have always worked flawlessly. The relevant
> lines in /etc/conf.modules are:
> 
> alias eth0 3c509
> alias eth1 ne
> options 3c509 io=0x300
> options ne io=0x280
> 
> I supplied the 'io' parameters because
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt says that probing
> for these cards is unreliable.
> 
> Now, when I boot a 2.0.31 or 2.0.32 kernel, I get this error message when
> kerneld tries to load the 3c509 driver:
> 
> symbol for parameter io not found

io was removed some time ago from the driver.
The irq should be enough to detect the card and will allow to find the ioport 
magically I think.
Actually, unless your setup is really special, it should autodetect the card 
automagically. The auto-detection routine has been improved lately.

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2.0.32 kernel: strange error

[Remco Blaakmeer]

Hi,

I posted the message below to comp.os.linux.misc but I didn't get any
answer. Does anybody know more about the problem I describe below? Or can
anyone point me at the right newsgroup for this question?

Remco

 begin of message 
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 04:25:10 +0100
From: Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: 2.0.32 kernel: strange error

Hi,

I just compiled and succesfully booted the new 2.0.32 kernel. But I am
getting a strange error message which I also got with 2.0.31 and not with
any lower 2.0.x kernel.

I am using modules for most drivers. Only drivers that are needed at boot
time, like ide and ext2fs, are compiled-in. I use kerneld to load the
modules automatically. I have been doing that succesfully for a long time.

The problem is with the 3c509 driver. I have a 3COM 3c509 card and an El
Cheapo NE2000 clone, which have always worked flawlessly. The relevant
lines in /etc/conf.modules are:

alias eth0 3c509
alias eth1 ne
options 3c509 io=0x300
options ne io=0x280

I supplied the 'io' parameters because
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt says that probing
for these cards is unreliable.

Now, when I boot a 2.0.31 or 2.0.32 kernel, I get this error message when
kerneld tries to load the 3c509 driver:

symbol for parameter io not found

and in the syslog there is a line:

Nov 20 04:17:40 blaakmeer insmod: /lib/modules/2.0.32/net/3c509.o: symbol for 
parameter io not found

I have discovered that removing the 'options' line for the 3c509 solves
the problem, but I can't find any documentation describing this change in
behaviour. Does anybody know what's wrong?

Remco

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Re: Druid

[Ben Pfaff]

"butch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have heard that there is a new package for partitioning a disk drive
> called druid. it does much of the things that fips claims to do in an even
> more dynamic and flexible manner.

Very cool.  Do you have a URL?
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Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

[Ben Pfaff]

> > May I suggest all subscribers of this Debian list use some convention in
> > sending messages to the list?  I found it very difficult to
> > differentiate between the messages from this Debian list and those from
> > other lists.   I used to sort it by the "To" field of the message, but
> > later I found out there are messages arrived at my INBOX that are not
> > sent TO the official list address "debian-user@lists.debian.org".
> > Sometimes these messages are TO some other Debian or Linux list
> > addresses but other times they are TO a person.  This makes me feel
> > puzzled.  But maybe I join the list for a short time only.  So could
> > someone tell me what should I do to properly sort those messages from
> > THIS Debian list?  Could we simply use a convention in the message
> > "Subject" field, like what I saw someone's doing (like the one in THIS
> > message)?
> > 
> 
> It would be stupid to enforce restrictions like that on the
> messages. Your sorting problems should be solved in another way. I
> suggest you sort by the resent field. All messages in this list
> contain the header: "Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org"

You can also sort on the X-Mailing-List: header.
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Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

[Tommy Lakofski]

You might like to try using procmail to filter your messages.

TL

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Marcus Lam wrote:

> From: Marcus Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'debian-user@lists.debian.org'" 
> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:51:43 +0800
> Subject: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list
> 
> May I suggest all subscribers of this Debian list use some convention in
> sending messages to the list?  I found it very difficult to
> differentiate between the messages from this Debian list and those from
> other lists.   I used to sort it by the "To" field of the message, but
> later I found out there are messages arrived at my INBOX that are not
> sent TO the official list address "debian-user@lists.debian.org".
> Sometimes these messages are TO some other Debian or Linux list
> addresses but other times they are TO a person.  This makes me feel
> puzzled.  But maybe I join the list for a short time only.  So could
> someone tell me what should I do to properly sort those messages from
> THIS Debian list?  Could we simply use a convention in the message
> "Subject" field, like what I saw someone's doing (like the one in THIS
> message)?


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libc 5.4.38 debian package?

[Paul Miller]

Is there a package available with libc 5.4.38?  I only saw 33-7 in
dselect.. 

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Re: Where is /etc/hosts in Debian?

[Dale Scheetz]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:

> 
> That's strange.  It didn't exist on my friend's machine until it was
> manually created.  Does this suggest that it wasn't configured properly?
> 
> Does anyone know what creates the /etc/hosts file?
> 
This file is created by the installation software when you "configure the
network". This is why dpkg doesn't know about it. If no network
configuration is made, or you answer no to the first question, the file is
never created. The solution is your favorite editor.

Luck,

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Re: crash at partition check during boot

[Joel N. Weber II]

   Remove hdb.  Remove hda and move hdb to hda.  Swap hda and hdb.  Try hda in
   another machine.

   Boot dos(ick!), run FDISK, then run FDISK /MBR.

I tried removinnng hdb, and it did not help.  Given that, swapping the
drives did not seem likely to be helpful.  I had also done fdisk /mbr,
and  it does not seem to have helped.

I did end up putting the incooperative drive is another computer, since I
had three drives for two computers.  (I could get some additional 80 MB
drives, but it doesn't seem that installing them is worth the effort.)

In the slower computer, the incooperative drive works fine, althought
Linux did complain about an invalid partition table until I repartioned
the disk under linux.  (The error was something that mentioned a `sun
disklabel' and a bad magic number of .  Windows 95 seemed happy
using the drive in the original machine.)

I'm inclined to believe that there is some sort of wierd timing problem,
but I do not know.

In any case, I don't have the opporrtunity to experiment futhur, because
that hard drive (and the slower of the two machines) is soon going to
be a critical router at my school.




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Druid

[butch]

Hi,

I have heard that there is a new package for partitioning a disk drive
called druid. it does much of the things that fips claims to do in an even
more dynamic and flexible manner.

regards,

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Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

[Sten Anderson]

Marcus Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> May I suggest all subscribers of this Debian list use some convention in
> sending messages to the list?  I found it very difficult to
> differentiate between the messages from this Debian list and those from
> other lists.   I used to sort it by the "To" field of the message, but
> later I found out there are messages arrived at my INBOX that are not
> sent TO the official list address "debian-user@lists.debian.org".
> Sometimes these messages are TO some other Debian or Linux list
> addresses but other times they are TO a person.  This makes me feel
> puzzled.  But maybe I join the list for a short time only.  So could
> someone tell me what should I do to properly sort those messages from
> THIS Debian list?  Could we simply use a convention in the message
> "Subject" field, like what I saw someone's doing (like the one in THIS
> message)?
> 

It would be stupid to enforce restrictions like that on the
messages. Your sorting problems should be solved in another way. I
suggest you sort by the resent field. All messages in this list
contain the header: "Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org"

- Sten Anderson


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RE: local net problems

[George Bonser]

I think I had this same problem.  Let me have a look at your
/etc/init.d/network.

I thought it was something that I scewed up during the install but it looks
like it might be a bug. It sets the local interface as the default route rather
than setting it to what is supposed to be the gateway. (looks like the local
interface somehow gets plugged into $GATEWAY).


On 22-Nov-97 Bill Leach wrote:
> 
> The kernel routing table just after booting:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination  Gateway  Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.0.2  0.0.0.0  255.255.255.255 UH1  0 0 sl0
> 127.0.0.00.0.0.0  255.0.0.0   U 0  0 3 lo
> 0.0.0.0  0.0.0.0  0.0.0.0 U 1  0 0 sl0
> 
> The other problem is trying to figure out where route is 
> getting the first entry:
> Destination  ...
> 192.168.0.2  0.0.0.0 
> 
> I have looked all over to try to find out where route
> is getting this IP address.
> 
> Also, I looked about everywhere that I could think of yesterday
> and last night for some sort of net configuration utility(ies) in
> Debian.  I am quite used to editing the files by hand as the SVR5 
> machines that I have administered had a pretty unreliable set of 
> admin scripts but I don't want to do that with debian if there are 
> tools available.
> 
> 
> best,
> -bill
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Kernel build and install problems

[Bill Leach]

I just used make-kpkg to build a new kernel for the unstable 
installation on this machine.  I built the new kernel primarily because 
I was (and am) having trouble getting the ethernet module to load at 
boot.

I had some surprising trouble building this kernel.  I (and indeed, 
make) could not as86 or ld86.  I tried searching in the Packages files 
and even Packages-Master.  I grepped the contents of several (likely in 
my opinion) packages but could not find them in unstable.

Ultimately, I just mounted the stable systems usr partition on a 
directory in /mnt/ and linked the stables versions to unstable.  I was 
pleasently surprised by the fact that this seemed to work -- at least 
the kernel compiled and the machine boots the new kernel.

Are these two rather important programs not in unstable?  I guess that I 
am more than just a little mystified as to why they are not present on 
my machine?


best,
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local net problems

[Bill Leach]

I have installed debian hamm (on an EIDE Pentium about a week ago).
Kernel 2.0.29 (since configured, compiled, and installed a 2.0.30 
kernel).

There are two weird problems that I am experiencing...

The first problem is that the ethernet module is not loading.
But typing "insmod /lib/modules/2.0.30/net/3c509.o" loads
the module without error.

An "ifconfig eth0 199.79.129.32 up" works without error.

"route add -net 199.79.129.0" correctly sets up the
route.

After the above, ping, telnet, and rlogin all work
on the local network.

I recompiled the kernel yesterday.  The 3c509 
module still did not load (I also added the 
"options addr=0x300 irq=10" line that exists
in the conf.modules file for the stable 
release machine -- still no help).

I noticed that there is mention that kerneld might
not work if /usr is not mounted and that if this is
the case that a work around is to copy a librry to
/lib (which I did and created the link).  I really 
did not expect this "fix" to work as all other modules 
seem to load ok.

The kernel routing table just after booting:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination  Gateway  Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.2  0.0.0.0  255.255.255.255 UH1  0 0 sl0
127.0.0.00.0.0.0  255.0.0.0   U 0  0 3 lo
0.0.0.0  0.0.0.0  0.0.0.0 U 1  0 0 sl0

The ifconfig output just after booting:
loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
  RX packets:154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

sl0   Link encap:Serial Line IP  
  inet addr:192.168.0.1  P-t-P:192.168.0.2  Mask:0.0.0.0
  UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

Cat /proc/modules just after booting:
serial 80
dummy  10
ppp50
slip   21
slhc   2[ppp slip]  1
psaux  11
lp 20
ipx30
ftape 430
rarp   10
hpfs   30
nfs   124
binfmt_java10

The other problem is trying to figure out where route is 
getting the first entry:
Destination  ...
192.168.0.2  0.0.0.0 

I have looked all over to try to find out where route
is getting this IP address.

Also, I looked about everywhere that I could think of yesterday
and last night for some sort of net configuration utility(ies) in
Debian.  I am quite used to editing the files by hand as the SVR5 
machines that I have administered had a pretty unreliable set of 
admin scripts but I don't want to do that with debian if there are 
tools available.


best,
-bill


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parallel zip and scsi-kontroller conflict

[Joerg Plate]

Hello-hello,

a scsi-controller and a harddisk are recognized as "/dev/sda".
If I try to use the zip-drive "insmod ppa" fails (maybe
because it wants to be "/dev/sda", too). Reading the sources
wasn't very helpful. How can both be used together?

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[DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

[Marcus Lam]

May I suggest all subscribers of this Debian list use some convention in
sending messages to the list?  I found it very difficult to
differentiate between the messages from this Debian list and those from
other lists.   I used to sort it by the "To" field of the message, but
later I found out there are messages arrived at my INBOX that are not
sent TO the official list address "debian-user@lists.debian.org".
Sometimes these messages are TO some other Debian or Linux list
addresses but other times they are TO a person.  This makes me feel
puzzled.  But maybe I join the list for a short time only.  So could
someone tell me what should I do to properly sort those messages from
THIS Debian list?  Could we simply use a convention in the message
"Subject" field, like what I saw someone's doing (like the one in THIS
message)?





Best Regards

Marcus Lam ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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RE: Debian <-> NT interaction

[George Bonser]

Sure it is possible. Assuming that your configuration is NT-Workstations in one
or more workgroups, the linux box can exists just fine. You are going to need
some software that I do not think has made it to Debian yet.  Look around on
sunsite.unc.edu for ksmbfs and rumba.  Rumba is the opposite of samba, it lets
a linux machine use SMB resources as if they were native linux.


On 22-Nov-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My office runs NT in a peer to peer configuration.  We use foxpro alot. 
> Is there anyway that I could run Debian on my machine at work, so I can
> use what I am already comfortable with, but maintain a connectivity with
> the rest of the network?  That is can I stick a debian machine into an NT
> network, access and work with the foxpro database, and communicate with
> the rest of the network?  I am afraid I already know the answer to this
> question, but hope springs eternal.  I don't really have the technical
> expertise to convert the network over to linux, so I can't really sugest
> that.   
> The office network is not yet setup to allow access from home. When it is
> should I request anything specific in the configuration to make access
> through debian easier?  
> Thank you for any help,
> 
> Tom Malloy
> 
> Technical Recruiter
> 
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Re: XDM and color depth

[Paul Miller]

If your using XFree86, you can add something like 'DefaultColorDepth 16'
in the 'Screen' section of your XF86Config file.  Of course this effects
xinit, startx, etc. also.  Check the XF86Config manual pages for details.

-Paul

On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote:

> Could someone please point me (or tell me) to the HOWTO or FAQ that
> explains how to tell xdm to use 16 bpp instead of 8?
> 
> Thanks.



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Re: troubleshooting PnP modem on Linux 2.0.29 platform

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 09:28:33PM -0600, Charles Read wrote:
> I run Win95 and Linux 2.0.29 off separate hard drives
> running off an AMD K6 platform.  Win95 uses a
> Plug-and-Play modem from Computer Peripherals, Inc.
> (a ViVa 56LC-SM).  Linux, however, cannot dial out
> on this device; in fact, cu/kermit cannot even connect
> to the device.
> 
> I have verified with setserial, /proc/interrupts, minicom,
> and my BIOS configuration that IRQs and other system
> parameters are reasonably set.

Once the device is configured to a known location, either by
your BIOS or by isapnptools, then it should work. What is
the problem exactly when you try to use the modem? If
the port doesn't seem to exist to Linux you might need to
uncomment some parts of /etc/rc.boot/0setserial which
from memory only enables the first two ports by default.
I had a PnP modem working here while testing it, using
isapnptools.


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RAID controllers?

[Debian List]

Hi,

Does anyone have experience with RAID controllers such as Mylex DAC960 or
DPT2144UWR ??

I assume they're supported under linux, right?

Question, do any of these support automatic recovery? I heard the DPT
needs to be booted up into DOS in order to perform a rebuild... Is that
true? What about the Mylex?

Although an interactive rebuild is fine, auto recovery would be wonderful.

thanks
Ricardo


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Re: XFree86 insecurity (fwd)

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 09:02:11PM -0500, Tommy Lakofski wrote:
> Anyone know if debian is vulnerable to this, given that the setuid
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a wrapper for the XFree86 server?
> 
> I'd like to know before I chmod u-s /usr/X11R6/bin/X...

Just try it. I tried it here, and found it did not work.

[2:38pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> X -config /etc/shadow

Fatal server error:
Can't open option file /etc/shadow


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages


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the appropriate people by sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too.


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troubleshooting PnP modem on Linux 2.0.29 platform

[Charles Read]

I run Win95 and Linux 2.0.29 off separate hard drives
running off an AMD K6 platform.  Win95 uses a
Plug-and-Play modem from Computer Peripherals, Inc.
(a ViVa 56LC-SM).  Linux, however, cannot dial out
on this device; in fact, cu/kermit cannot even connect
to the device.

I have verified with setserial, /proc/interrupts, minicom,
and my BIOS configuration that IRQs and other system
parameters are reasonably set.

The Serial-HOWTO indicates that PnP modems are
*not* recommended, but that people are known to
have got them working.

If so, how?  I have David Howell's pnp module/driver
software, but I'm reluctant to install and use it.  Does
anyone have hard evidence that a ViVa 56LC-SM will
work under Linux?

Regards,
Charles


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Re: Wild interrupt detection, and ATI bus mouse

[David Gaudine]

On 21 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > - I compiled the kernel with ati bus mouse support
> 
> Did you compile it as a module?  If so then you'll need `insmod
> atixlmouse' or just add it to /etc/modules.

I didn't compile it as a module.  I compiled support for auto loading
of modules, but didn't compile anything as modules.

> If that's not the problem, then check whether the kernel detects it;
> does it say "ATI Inport Bus mouse detected and installed." at boot
> time?

No.

I'm afraid that my question about wild interrupt detection was probably
misleading.  COM1 and COM2 were disabled for some reason, and when I
enabled them the warning about wild interrupt:5 disappeared.  Or, if
I left them disabled and removed the modem (COM 4 IRQ 3) the message also
disappeared.  This doesn't make sense to me, but it probably means
simply that there's an unknown device using IRQ 5 and this was detected
during initialization of the serial ports.

For what it's worth, here's a snip from /usr/src/linux/.config

CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE=y
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_PSMOUSE is not set


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Re: Problems compiling kernel with modules

[Ben Pfaff]

Robert Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just recently downloaded kernel 2.0.30 and have been having problems with 
> modules.  I've run make config and answered yes to ne2000 support, ppp and 
> parallel printer.   then I compiled it and installed on a floppy without a 
> hitch.  then I ran make modules and then make modules_install and that 
> seemed to go ok too as it created a directory called 
> /usr/lib/modules/2.0.30 with a few modules in it.  only problem is it's 
> missing ppp.o, lp.o, ne.o, slip.o and the kernel gives errors indicating 
> that when it tries to load them.  when I look in /usr/lib/modules/2.0.0 
> they are still in there but if I copy them to the same place in 2.0.30 it 
> gives me errors saying that those modules are for the wrong kernel.  how do 
> I get the ones I need where they are supposed to be?

Firstly, did you compile ne2000 etc. as modules?  If you just answer
`yes' then they aren't modules, they're compiled into the kernel
itself.

Second, you probably want to install the Debian package
`kernel-package'.  It lets you make a Debian package of your kernel
and automates installation of it with LILO and onto floppy disks.
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Problems compiling kernel with modules

[Robert Goodwin]

hi there,

I just recently downloaded kernel 2.0.30 and have been having problems with 
modules.  I've run make config and answered yes to ne2000 support, ppp and 
parallel printer.   then I compiled it and installed on a floppy without a 
hitch.  then I ran make modules and then make modules_install and that 
seemed to go ok too as it created a directory called 
/usr/lib/modules/2.0.30 with a few modules in it.  only problem is it's 
missing ppp.o, lp.o, ne.o, slip.o and the kernel gives errors indicating 
that when it tries to load them.  when I look in /usr/lib/modules/2.0.0 
they are still in there but if I copy them to the same place in 2.0.30 it 
gives me errors saying that those modules are for the wrong kernel.  how do 
I get the ones I need where they are supposed to be?

thanks,

rob


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povray copyright

[Steve Cheng]

After reading /usr/doc/povray/copyright, it seems to me that it is non-free,
even though AFAIK it is part of the main distribution, and I suppose that is
a concern for any Debian distributors. Can someone more knowledgeable look
into this?

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Re: Wild interrupt detection, and ATI bus mouse

[Ben Pfaff]

David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - I compiled the kernel with ati bus mouse support

Did you compile it as a module?  If so then you'll need `insmod
atixlmouse' or just add it to /etc/modules.

If that's not the problem, then check whether the kernel detects it;
does it say "ATI Inport Bus mouse detected and installed." at boot
time?
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Wild interrupt detection, and ATI bus mouse

[David Gaudine]

My ATI bus mouse doesn't work, with either GPM or X.  But first, what does
"Wild interrupt detection" mean?  While booting I get the message
   Wild interrupts found: 5
The message is generated by setserial, in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial.
It's interesting that IRQ5 is the interrupt of the non-working mouse.
I can't find any conflicting device, and the mouse works fine with
Windows 95 and ATI's test program.

Because of the above message, I imagine that my problems begin before gpm
is even started.  However, I'll mention a few details;
- I compiled the kernel with ati bus mouse support
- /dev/mouse points to /dev/atibm which looks like
  crw---   1 root sys   10,   3 Oct 12 14:38 atibm
- I run "gpm -t bm" or "gpm -t bm -m /dev/atibm
- The message returned by gpm is
   /dev/mouse: no such device   (or /dev/atibm: no such device)



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XFree86 insecurity (fwd)

[Tommy Lakofski]

Anyone know if debian is vulnerable to this, given that the setuid
/usr/X11R6/bin/X is a wrapper for the XFree86 server?

I'd like to know before I chmod u-s /usr/X11R6/bin/X...

TIA,

Thomas.

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From: shegget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:35:36 +
Subject: XFree86 insecurity

  plaguez security advisory n.10

XFree86 insecurity




Program:   XF86_*, the XFree86 servers (XF86_SVGA, XF86_VGA16, ...)

Version:   Tested on XFree86 3.3.1 (current), 3.2.9 and 3.1.2.
   Other versions as well.

OS:All

Impact:The XFree86 servers let you specify an alternate configuration
   file and do not check whether you have rights to read it.
   Any user can read files with root permissions.




hello,
just a short one to tell you about this "feature" I found in all default
XFree86 servers...


Here it is:

Script started on Sat Aug 23 15:32:36 1997
Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/fr-latin1.map
[EMAIL PROTECTED] plaguez]$ uname -a
Linux plaguez 2.0.31 #10 Wed Aug 20 04:24:38 MET DST 1997 i586
[EMAIL PROTECTED] plaguez]$ ls -al /etc/shadow
-rw---   1 root bin  1039 Aug 21 20:12  /etc/shadow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ id
uid=502(plaguez) gid=500(users) groups=500(users)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] plaguez]$ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ./XF86_SVGA -config /etc/shadow
Unrecognized option: root:qEXaUxSeQ45ls:10171:-1:-1:-1:-1:-1:-1
use: X [:] [option]
-a #   mouse acceleration (pixels)
-acdisable access control restrictions
-audit int set audit trail level
-auth file select authorization file
bc enable bug compatibility
-bsdisable any backing store support
-c turns off key-click

... and so on.  HINT: look at the first XF86_SVGA output line.





Patch:
--

If you run xdm, you should consider removing the setuid bit of the
servers.

If not, well, wait for the XFree86 Project to bring you a patch, since I'm
too lazy to find and fix it.





later,

-plaguez
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hamm install and x...

[Alexander Koch]

Any ideas on that?
xinit won't load that lib. And the package should be installed though
all those many libraries missing are strange.

Thanks in advance,
Alexander Koch

[note - if you Cc me that'd be nice. thank you.]

desire ~ $ startx
xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6'

Preparing to replace xlib6g 3.3.1-1 (using .../x11/xlib6g_3.3.1-1.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement xlib6g ...
Setting up xlib6g (3.3.1-1) ...
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.81 (No such
file or directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (No such
file or directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (No such file
or directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libslang.so.0 (No
such file
or directory), skipping

Setting up xlib6g-dev (3.3.1-1) ...
~ # dpkg -S libXmu.so.6
xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0
xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6


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Re: My neverending unstable xlib6 / xcontrib saga

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 02:32:19PM -0600, Alex Romosan wrote:
> >(the latest of which being 3.3.1-2), and even though Motif apps work
> >fine with the newer ones, pretty much every xcontrib client can't find
> >its app-defaults file and thus looks really bizarre and is mostly or
> >totally non-functional. I can sort of solve the problem by copying the
> >
> you need to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ to
> /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11/app-defaults . imho, the omission of this
> link is a bug in the xlibg package.

This fixed Netscape's bus errors here too.


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Re: crash at partition check during boot

[Adam Heath]

-Original Message-
From: Joel N. Weber II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Date: Friday, November 21, 1997 2:37 PM
Subject: crash at partition check during boot


>I am attempting to get a debian rescue disk to boot.  The disk seems to boot
>fine when tried on another machine.  I've also tried writing the same image
>to a different floppy, and that does not change the error.
>
>The machine crashes when after saying `partition check' and then `hda:'.
>If I specify `hda=noprobe', the machine boots fine but does not see the
>first hard drive. (It does seem to see hdb.)
>
>hda has been repartitioned in DOS fdisk and OS fdisk and then low-level
>formatted; none of these things seem to prevent linux from crashing.
>
>This is the standard boot disk image downloaded a few weeks ago; the kernel
>version is 2.0.29-7.
>
>I suppose I could continue using hda=noprobe, but I'd hate to lose the 500 MB
>had and have to use only the 300 MB hdb.
>
>Do you have any suggestions as to what I could try to fix this problem?
>
>

Remove hdb.  Remove hda and move hdb to hda.  Swap hda and hdb.  Try hda in
another machine.

Boot dos(ick!), run FDISK, then run FDISK /MBR.

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Re: Debian <-> NT interaction

[Tommy Lakofski]

Try looking at samba and/or ksmbfs. samba lets you appear to be a SMB
server, and ksmbfs lets you mount SMB volumes (if the appropriate option
is in your kernel or available as a module).

TL

On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:08:36 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: Debian <-> NT interaction
> 
> My office runs NT in a peer to peer configuration.  We use foxpro alot. 
> Is there anyway that I could run Debian on my machine at work, so I can
> use what I am already comfortable with, but maintain a connectivity with
> the rest of the network?  That is can I stick a debian machine into an NT
> network, access and work with the foxpro database, and communicate with
> the rest of the network?  I am afraid I already know the answer to this
> question, but hope springs eternal.  I don't really have the technical
> expertise to convert the network over to linux, so I can't really sugest
> that.   
> The office network is not yet setup to allow access from home. When it is
> should I request anything specific in the configuration to make access
> through debian easier?  
> Thank you for any help,
> 
> Tom Malloy
> 
> Technical Recruiter
> 


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ownership and permissions

[David Stern]

Hi,

If root initiates pon (pppd is owned by root, group dip), how can I 
setup /etc/ppp/ip-up so that it runs /home/user/.checkformail as user 
(not root)?
I know several ways root can get the job without being user, `here' 
`there' in fetchmailrc is one, and I know I can change permissions on 
pppd to run pon as user, though I've never been able to get that to 
work, but I'd like it to run as user regardless of who initiates pon.  
I didn't find much in man su.

Speaking of su, I have a root window (rxvt -e su --) in a user X-window 
session, and I seem to not be able to run X apps from the root window 
due to the DISPLAY env variable, but it is identical to user's (0:0), 
and running xhost complains about an invalid magic cookie, unable to 
open display.  What do I need to do to get X apps to run from a root 
window in a user's X-window session?

This is my first (non-test) message from exmh, so I hope it looks ok.

David Stern


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Debian <-> NT interaction

[tmalloy]

My office runs NT in a peer to peer configuration.  We use foxpro alot. 
Is there anyway that I could run Debian on my machine at work, so I can
use what I am already comfortable with, but maintain a connectivity with
the rest of the network?  That is can I stick a debian machine into an NT
network, access and work with the foxpro database, and communicate with
the rest of the network?  I am afraid I already know the answer to this
question, but hope springs eternal.  I don't really have the technical
expertise to convert the network over to linux, so I can't really sugest
that.   
The office network is not yet setup to allow access from home. When it is
should I request anything specific in the configuration to make access
through debian easier?  
Thank you for any help,

Tom Malloy

Technical Recruiter


 



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