AccessRunner PCI ADSL card + Sarge kernel 2.6.8
Hi, [apologies if you have recieved this twice - i think i knackered my reply-to on gmail] Anyone got any ideas how to persuade these to work properly together? I have an unbranded Conexant AccessRunner PCI card and Sarge 3.1r0a sitting here not playing nicely on kernel 2.6.8. I can't get the conexant driver to build with the kernel-source package at all. Just craps out a load of header errors. I can't send the errors unfortunately as they are on the other box and it's only network connectivity is via the non-working ADSL card. Any help or any success stories appreciated! Cheers, - Chris.
Re: SMP on Compaq 850r
Hi, On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:50:57AM +0100, Pete Clarke wrote: I'm running an HP Netserver LHPro200 and it is running the same kernel and both processors seem to be working fine. I think there was a security patch for this kernel a few weeks ago and I didn't notice any problems post upgrade. Wierd ... everything was fine before the last kernel security upgrade, since then none of the machines will use the 2nd CPU. I am going to try a clean install of debian on a spare 850 to see if it works, I'll ost my results when I find out. I've got a few of their cousins - the professional workstation 5000. The 2nd CPU isn't correctly shut down when you do a soft reboot so you have to do a hard reboot i.e power cycle to get CPU2 online. Good machines though (using one to write this email!). Cheers, - Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question requarding older HP machines
Hi, On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 01:59:30PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: I expect a kernel compile may take all night on that CPU, you need to _at least_ double the RAM, the hard drive is _way_ too small. It's pretty much fine if you don't run mozilla, kde, gnome etc on the machine. I wouldn't both compiling a kernel in this day and age - it isn't worth the time especially as you can just modprobe the stuff you need. Disk is fine. The box i'm using has about 1.2Gb on it and i'm doing a LOT with it (read 300Mb is a Postgres DB plus workstation plus mail and web server). If they're going to just act as shell logins (to teach CLI / bash / networking / etc.) they may be fine. Would I want to use Linux on those boxes now? I don't think so. Most basic X apps will work fine on something that old and slow. In fact I used to use one about that fast (with a chunk more RAM) running Oracle for 20 users as a development server. If you can dig up one other machine and load it to the gills with ram and fast disk, you could turn it all into a NIS/NFS network that might do well. This is assuming Linux runs on PA-RISC; offhand, I can't remember if it does. It does, and Debian has a PA-RISC port (hppa) :-) http://www.parisc-linux.org/ http://www.debian.org/ports/hppa/ Cheers, - Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does dselect use apt?
Hi, Does dselect use apt at all? I'm trying to build an offline system with little disk space and don't want my apt cache filling up. Cheers, - Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gimp 2.0 in sarge?
Hi, Anyone know if Gimp 2 will make it into sarge at release at all? I've just built a -testing box to play with and all is promising so far apart from that! Cheers, -- Chris http://www.scratchmonkey.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ess maestro 2 sound problem (compaq pws5000)
Hi, Anyone know how to get the ESS Maestro 2E sound card working on a compaq professional workstation 5000? None of the ess modules or maestro ones load... ALSA won't load because i'm using the 2.4.18 kernel. I'm running woody w/ kernel-2.4.18-i686-smp btw on a dual ppro 200 with 64mb of ram. Cheers, - Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW
Hi, One advantage of removable media is that if something happens to your box (e.g. it gets stolen, goes up in flames, etc.) you don't lose your backups. You are of course assuming that the house doesnt burn down when the computer goes up in flames, burning my collection of CDRWs ;-) Of course, but I think I mentioned to make those removable backups as he likes (manually, probably via a simple script) to avoid the trouble he might run into if he misses to replace that removable media. I found that using a ~/.vacation pseudo-lockfile to stop it from running when I go away should do the trick. When I forget to put the disk in I might write a file to the root of the CD containing the date and try and check this before burning a new one. Thanks for everyone's suggestions by the way - it's nice to get lots of feedback unlike half the `other' lists I've had the displeasure of being on (*choke* Fre*B*D!)... Thanks, - Chris.
Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz
Hi, Vector wrote: For multiprocessor support, intel is not as horrid as you proclaim it to be. No question, AMD rocks. But there are not many (any at all?) dual cpu boards out there and the support for more than one processor with AMD is still quite immature. For mid-range and up servers, multiple CPU's can be a big win and intell is still the best choice for that type of solution. I'm quite pleased that AMD has pulled ahead with a faster bus I anxiously await a solid dual AMD cpu solution. As soon as comes along I will no doubt convert all my multiprocessor intell systems to AMD. Tyan has released a dual Athlon motherboard. According to Pricewatch you can get the board with *two* 1.2 GHz Athlon MP CPU's for just over 1000USD. The motherboard has onboard Ultra 160 SCSI (Adaptec AIC-7899W) controller and dual onboard Ethernet controllers (3Com 3C920's). Full specs at http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk7.html I'm saving up. :) dribble Bang goes Mr Loan Seriously speaking though, I'm waiting till these have been around for at least 6 months before I even consider going near them. I dont think their SMP implementation is mature enough to be considered as proven. Good luck to them though - I'm having one if people give decent reviews. I notice that the board doesnt have a single VIA chip on it though, so it might actually work properly!!! Thats the main thing thats stopped me switching to AMD: VIA. - Chris.
Re: LS120 and Amiga
Hi, I just purchased a LS120 superdrive and it works correct for ordinary pc formatted floppy's. But when I insert a 880KB Amiga formatted floppy, the drive complains: hda: The drive reports both 737280 and 0 bytes as its capacity Is there a way to tweak the drive? I am told that with this drive it is possible to read amiga formatted disks on pc. Did you mount it with the correct options?:- mount -t affs /dev/fd0 /media/floppy ?? You need the affs module loaded I think. I havent done this for years, but if I remember, the issue was actually with the floppy controller and amiga formatted disks, not the drives. If that doesnt work or you did that then I cannot help :p HtH, - Chris.
Abit VP6 - any good?
Hi, Has anyone tried an ABit VP6 motherboard and can they comment on it's stability / compatibility at all. I think a new workstation is on it's way for me ;) It'd be running Debian hack (TM) - a combo of 2.2r3 and 2.4 kernel... you get the picture Thanks, - Chris.
Re: MPG / AVI player
Hi, I'm also interested in where you found futurama videos... Hint: There *could* be loads on GNUtella and Usenet alt.binaries groups...but I didnt tell you that... ;) - Chris.
Re: Ripping MP3s
Hi, Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was nothing obvious, only players it seemed. cdparanoia to extract the audio from the cd. LAMEend to encode to mp3. You will need to get this from the web. Head to google for locations. Encode at at least 192k VBR or it sounds like poo over anything other than computer speakers. There are some wrapper perl scripts floating around to do this all automagically too (including getting track names from cddb if you want). Search on google. I think theres a gnome app called grip too? For bonus points you might also like to recommend a sound card, as I'm not sure that mine (Yamaha WF192XG) works too well (or at all) using GPL-type software. Have you tried Alsa? If yes, and it didnt work, then good working, tested cards are as follows:- a) reasonable: Sound Blaster Live Value (cheap) b) proper: M-Audio Delta Audiophile (expensive) I have b as it uses twin RCA jacks straight into the back of my amp, but most people dont need that. It's worked floorlessly though and doesnt downsample like emu chips do! The Delta card has a 103dB SNR ratio so it doesnt hiss like the SBlives. Gary, soon getting some RF headphones and wants to turn his computer into a jukebox :-D Heh - good idea ;) ;) HtH, - Chris.
Re: memory
Hi, a) I read that sometimes linu doesn't see all the ram you have installed on your machine. How can I verify hao much ram does my debian sees? And how can I correct the situation in case there's something wrong? This is a problem with some BIOSes AFAIK. Type:- # cat /proc/meminfo for memory information. If you have more memory than it says, at the boot: prompt type:- boot: linux mem=128M for example. To make this permanent, add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf:- append=mem=128M and then type lilo. When you reboot it should pick up all the memory. Replace 128M with your memory size too! b) how can I know how much space on my disk is free and how much is not free? Which is the utility? Type df and it will tell you. My mail config just worked so I couldnt help you with that! :p Hope this helps, - Chris.
opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW
Hi, I've been thinking about something over the last few days and was wondering if it classifies as sane - opinions please! I have about 500Mb of variable data (theres only 4 console only users and we arent mp3 freaks!) and a CDRW. Would it be worth setting up a script+cron job to do the following nightly:- 1/ tar+gzip /home AND /etc AND /var/mail AND /root/scripts 1.a/ make sure it'll fit on a CD 2/ make an iso file to fit files w/ mkisofs 3/ mount image using loopback 4/ put archives from (1) in image 5/ erase CDRW w/ cdrecord 6/ write image to cdrw w/ cdrecord 7/ clean up. Do this nightly on a 7 disk cycle manually via changing the disk before I go to bed and let it do it at 2am (TM) methodology ;) If I left the disk in and/or forgot, it'd still backup the disk. I'd do a manual archive CD-R copy once a week too (this is what I'm doing at the moment). I (unfortunately) dont know the life cycle of average CDRW media (Sony to be precise), so I dont know if this is practical. It's a bog standard 2.2r3 box btw running kernel 2.2.something (I forget which!) Any suggestions/comments/flames etc? Cheers, - Chris.
Intel 815 chipset + Hedrick IDE patches + Reiser
Hi, Does anyone know which patches I need to get ATA100 working on 2.2.18 with this chipset (ICH2)? According to http://www.linux-ide.org/ they have a 2.4 backport to this kernel, and the patches support the chipset but they don't say to what level. It's supported - go suck, basically. They don't tell you which transfer modes (DMA 1-2-3-4-5). Also, I hear that hdparm brings back some incorrect values on ATA100 channels. Is this true? If it doesn't work, I'm going back to BSD as they have ATA100 RAID support via HPT370s, 815s and anything!! Linux really needs to keep up with them a bit more :P Also, is there any way to hack ReiserFS into Debian 2.2r2 on install? Cheers, - Chris.
Unreal Tournament + debian 2.2 ??
Hi, Does anyone know if Unreal Tournament works without too much 'frigging' like I had to do with SuSE? I'm totally fed up with SuSE changing everything I do to it, so I'm switching to Debian (now we have a 2.2.x kernel!). I've already searched the archives btw. I'm running potato and a Voodoo3 3k AGP with the intention to use Glide. I've installed potato on the test box and it's as solid as a rock, and about 10x less bloated compared to SuSE. Nice job :-) Soon I may convert my other 3 systems to it! Cheers, Chris Smith IS Dept, Raytheon Systems Limited +44 (0) 1729 407 103 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )
That isn't going to work. The Windows 95 boot manager doesn't exist. I don't know what URL you are referring to, but I am willing to bet that it talks about the windows nt boot manager, which will boot linux. 95 will only boot itself and a previous DOS operating system, and the latter only if you previously had windows 3.1 installed and chose to install 95 from the upgrade package in a separate windows directory. It's a bit too limited to boot linux from. Chris Smith OU On 22 Jan 1998, Stephen Zander wrote: I'd suggest adding Linux to the standard Win95 boot manager. There's a URL (which escapes me) that goes into this for Win95/WinNT dual-boot with Linux. Search the list archives. -- Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: shell program menu
I don't see any indication that this is being done for security reasons. Menus not only restrict user options, but they also provide a nicer interface to new users who may not be familiar with UNIX commands. So, to A. M. Varon, to answer your original question, there is a package called adbbs, which may or may not do what you want. Take a look at it. You would have to set the program as the user's shell to get it to start when they telnet into the system. If you were looking at this for security reasons, though, then you can heed Mr. Blaakmeer's warning. Good luck, Chris Smith OU On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: Hi, [ Sorry if this is not debian specific.] Hi, I would like to implement a shell program (preferebly in C programming.) where our users if they telnet to us, they would be given a menu instead of a shell. They just press 1 they get pine. They press 2 they get the vi editor, and so on and so forth. Is there a package for debian or anyone could point me to the right direction where I could get the script or whatever. Are you aware of the fact that any vi clone can give you a shell? Just type :!sh in command mode and you'll get the prompt of whatever is called 'sh' on the system. This is not only a problem with vi, but with many other programs as well. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )
Faulty! Make the following changes and re-run LILO. That should fix you up! I would fix him up if the Win95 boot sector hadn't already been overwritten. As is, that will just keep the problem from happening again. This guy has got to sys c: from Win95 as well, to restore the old 95 boot sector. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )
I think the problem is different here. You see, what is happening in the lilo.conf shown (at least to the best of my understanding, and I am no expert) is that LILO is installed on /dev/hda1 -- that is, the first partition. The stanza you show would just boot from the first partition, effectively causing the same thing... booting LILO again. I'm not sure exactly what the best solution is, but the problem could be solved by either... - Changing the first line to boot=/dev/hda, thus installing an MBR, and then restoring the Windows boot sector on /dev/hda1 (which may be stored somewhere in /boot -- or in this case /kernel/boot -- or may need to be restored by booting from a Windows 95 boot disk and typing SYS C:), and then rerunning LILO with the stanza that Steve suggested. - Again restoring the Windows boot sector as described, installing LILO on /dev/hda2, and setting it active, and using that stanza. - Using some options I don't know about because I'm not an expert here. This looks like what you were trying to do with chain.b. I have no idea what chain.b does, and so I can't help you there. C'ya, Chris Smith OU On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Steve Hsieh wrote: For win95 I use: other=/dev/hda1 label=Win table=/dev/hda boot=/dev/hda1 install=/kernel/boot/boot.b map=/kernel/boot/map delay=50 timeout=70 compact prompt default=Win95 image=/kernel/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 label=Linux vga=normal other=Win95 label=Win95 loader=/kernel/boot/chain.b And my partitions: /dev/hda1 -- Win95 /dev/hda2 -- Linux partition mounted in /kernel ( about 10 MBytes big at the end of hda ) /dev/hdb -- Linux mounted in / I really appreciate any help. ** Ivan Rojas Liikkuva Systems Intl. RD Engineer/Sys. Admin. http://www.liikkuva.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
1FA: prompt at boot
Ran the installation program from the official CD but when I try to boot from the hard drive I get a 1FA: prompt. What does this mean? More importantly where can I find a list of such messages and there meanings? Thanks. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
md5sum failure update
Thanks to those who wrote. The suggestion was that I had ftp set to ascii mode but was not the case. My ftp program is fairly reliable in auto mode and the files were all the correct size. What I have since done is add the -b (binary mode) switch in running md5sum.exe instead of blindly following the instructions with only the -cv switches set. With -b set I receive an OK for all 85 files. Now once I figure out how to concatenate these files with whatever is in my NT box, and write a CD, I may be on my way to more wonderful Linux thrills. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
md5sum failure
Recently downloaded the Debion Official CD 1.3.1. When I ran the md5sum program against it, I received a failure in all 85 files. Since I haven't experienced any other corruption problems I am at a loss to explain this. Newbie at Linux, used NT4 to download and ran the posted DOS md5sum (md5sum.exe -cv md5sums) against the download. Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
