Ho to enable the gdm chooser as the greeting display
I tried this many times and never was really successful and understood how all works together, please someone give me a push in the right direction. Here is what I want to accomplish: The X server starts and displays a list of computers willing to manage a display. The user selects one, which might be the local host or another one, and gets the login screen. She logs in, logs out when the session is over and the screen with the list of willing computers is shown again. In short, I want a linux box to do the same what a usual X Terminal would do as well. The chooser should also appear eventually after the user presses Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or after the server gets killed in some other way. Nils -- __ (Muuuhh) Global Village Sau ==^..^ |/¯ (Kann Fremdsprache) ==(oo) pgp9MjGsKm2hv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ISDN
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 11:55:52AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: Since I want to get myself an ISDN connection I wonder which cards do work with Linux. Is there a list available? Look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax I recommend the 2.2.x kernel series. An AVM Fritz! PCI Card was detected and working without problems. The long list of supported card suggests that most available one are supported. Also I wonder if external equipment works. ISDN Modems connected to the serial port should work, they look like a normal serial line to the kernel. You will loose all isdnctrl features with those however, so I recommend against these. Devices that connect to the parallel port need a special driver and must be supported by HiSax. According to the README, the Teles SoBox is one of the supported devices. They usually refer to CAPI 2.0 or something like that, but does Linux know how to address this? CAPI 2.0 is relevant for Linux only on active cards (and these are expensive) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpg9wPKAVZNL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: accton: Function not implemented error
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:03:32AM -0500, Daniel wrote: When trying to run accton, I get the error message: accton: Function not implemented. And ideas on what that means? Probably that your kernel was compiled without BSD process accounting (CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT in the kernel configuration file which is in /boot/config.x.x.x for debian made kernels) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpSri8ZqOo0f.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MPX EN5038, dual nic cards
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 05:53:29AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: If I configure a machine with dual nic's do they have to be the same type, or can I just load two drivers into the kernel for say one ne2000 card, and one 3-com card? Both will work. Different cards and as modules is nicer actually because you are easyly able to control which one will become eth0 and which one eth1. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpwQq8X9xTug.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:43:51AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: I dislike Netscape more and more with each new version. I am using 4.7 with Potato and find it unstable. I consider all libc6 versions of netscape broken. It runs reasonably stable with: - the libc5 version and the old compatibility xlibs (netscape-smotif-47 revision = 14) - libXpm.so.4.6 (i.e. an older one than that usually available) don't know if it still floating around on the net. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpxVjKP57Jaw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:03:24PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: I am using A stable Debian Slink production system. Netscape version 4.71 glibc2.0 from ftp.netscape.com. okay that makes sense then. i suggest that if you like that version of netscape you don't upgrade to potato. netscapes glibc 2.1 code sucks hard. It does :-) But nothing prevents you from using the libc5 version of netscape under potato (which is what I do) I wouldn't call it rock solid, but it's useable and only crashes two or three times a week (I usually leave it open with 6 or seven windows) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpUY8Lte4t1M.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Is there any way to view MS Excel files under linux?
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:57:28AM -0500, John Foster wrote: Install StarOffice. And as a side note: since libc-2.1.2-1, StarOffice is working and even printing again. Nice to have. It segfaults on exit, but apparently not causing any harm by doing so. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpy0cxpPIOZE.pgp Description: PGP signature
how to find the next server
I remember having heard of a tool (debian packaged) that given a number of hosts tries to find the one with the best connectivity. Great for choosing among a lot of mirrors. I can´t remember the name though. Could someone help me? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpLGzrWCblnj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Automounting CD-ROMs and Samba 2.0.5a
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:21:25PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: I've got a Debian 2.2 machine running Samba 2.0.5a that I'd like to share a CD-ROM drive from. Basically I'd like to have the CD-ROM mount and unmount before and after usage. So far I can get the drive to mount automatically using the exec option in Samba, however no files are visable from Windows -- Only if I TELNET to the machine and look at the mount point. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to set the exec and postexec options so they'll actually work with a Debian system? I suggest to use autofs: Install the autofs module by including a line autofs in /etc/modules and say # modprobe autofs Now install the autofs tools with apt-get install autofs Finally Put a line like the following in /etc/auto.master: /m /etc/auto.removable -t5 and create a file in /etc with snip -- # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage cd -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/scd0 floppy -fstype=vfat,quiet,gid=25,umask=002 :/dev/fd0 zip-fstype=vfat,quiet,gid=25,umask=002 :/dev/hdc4 snap -- You need to modify the devices to suit your environment of course. Now create the mountpoint # mkdir /m and start the autmomounter with # /etc/init.d/autofs The path to your cdrom is now /m/cd, which is what you will need for the path setting in /etc/smb.conf I never could make the sambe exec option work and this has the added bonus to work for local users too and also for several users at once. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpasqJrd09gn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: IDE attach tape drive
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 08:18:02PM -0700, Private Man wrote: I was wondering if Debian Linux 2.1 and the 2.2.11 kernel will support a relatively new tape drive that HP has come out with. Its a 14GB Travan, but it is an IDE attach. insert the ide-scsi module and use it as a normal SCSI tape device. Should work. Disclaimer: I never had one of these. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpNSfrwVGWyv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: make partitions larger?
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: All you have to do is mv /tmp /tmp-old mount /new/partition /tmp cp -r /tmp-old /tmp Better yet: use cp -a rm -rf /tmp-old (Don't do this before you're happy with the new scheme!) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpjRzuA6R4pz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Any help with Realtek RTL8139 ?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 07:39:15PM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote:
What Windows NT does, that I'm sure I need, it's force both network cards to
10Mbits FullDuplex.
I'm unable to get 100Mbits - still didn't test but it seems I've an UTP cat3
cable. :-(
So, probably, Linux is not forcing each network card to 10MBits but for
autodetecting ...
autodetection sucks from all I heard.
Could someone give me the options I should use to force it to 10 MBits ?
Use the driver as a module, don't use a driver compiled directly into the
kernel (Or use lilo to pass options to the driver but I won't describe that
here) Then use the line
rtl8139 options=0x02 full_duplex=1
The 0x02 comes from the following definition:
/* Media selection options. */
enum {
IF_PORT_UNKNOWN = 0,
IF_PORT_10BASE2,
IF_PORT_10BASET,
IF_PORT_AUI,
IF_PORT_100BASET,
IF_PORT_100BASETX,
IF_PORT_100BASEFX
};
This appears not to be documented except in the source.
Nils
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To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source
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Re: Any help with Realtek RTL8139 ?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 09:10:25AM -0500, John Foster wrote: Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: I'd two machines at home and I'm unable to get them working both on linux. Which kernel do you use? You will need to build a custom 2.2 kernel. Try to build it as a module and put rtl8139 in /etc/modules Then watch what the kernel says when booting. I do not know if this will help but I have one of these cards and I had to use a DOS program to set the card id numberin its hardware registers. I doubt this is the problem. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpP0357otNRI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 09:48:05AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: The only difference between a PII and a PIII at the same clock speed that I know of are the extra `SSE' instructions that are mainly useful for 3D stuff and maybe some other floating point intensive software. IIRC, the 2nd level cache of the Pentium III is running at the same speed as the CPU, wheras the 2nd level cache of Pentium II's is running at half the CPU speed. This should give a performance difference (though not enough for me, compared to the price difference) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp5BRpo0dxVu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Formating a HD into VFAT
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:01:52AM -0700, Gregory Vandenbrouck wrote: I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat (and old fdformat) only deal with floppies. Do you know if what I am looking for exists ? Format for FAT or VFAT ist the same. It's mkdosfs and it's in the dosfstools package. apt-get install dosfstools If it's not VFAT what you are after, but FAT32 then read the manpage and use the -F 32 option. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpNEPm3aCMPj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: modem reporting a lot of errors
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:40:50AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: I am getting a lot of errors for my ppp0 interface. ifconfig shows: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:129.94.16.27 P-t-P:129.94.15.6 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:42548 errors:2233 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2233 TX packets:35110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 I only left modem on for about 4 hours. And I got 2000 errors already. Is there any way to avoid this?? In addition, should I use xon/xoff or hardware for the flow control?? hardware. What's your serial chip. If it's a 16450, you might tune the harddisk to reduce interrupt latency. 38400 baud is the absolute maximum then. Try to reduce it to 19200. Check if the modem is set up to use hardware flow control. Check your cable to see all pins are connected. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpQCzYM431GZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Solved] Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 06:44:37PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Where do I enable experimental drivers? In the first dialog of the kernel configuration Include experimental/development drivers? or the like Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpbNKvoT5upB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:04:30PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: Funny I just wrestled with this one yesterday. I've always (since it was available) built my kernels using make menuconfig, nowhere in the network device section could I find an option for RTL8139 and I spent a long time looking! Because you did not enable 'Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers' in the first section of the kernel configuration Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpZHyaRfdaUq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SCSI, IDE, and LILO, oh my!
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 10:39:44AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: I've been running a system with a 400MB IDE drive and a 4GB SCSI drive. The hardware involved is as follows, from presumably least significant to most significant: ASUS P5A motherboard 128MB RAM AMD K6-II/400 NCR 53c825 Fast/Wide SCSI-II controller Ancient 400MB IDE drive (/dev/hda) IBM Ultrastar 9ES 4GB SCSI drive (SCSI ID 0, /dev/sda) To this, I have just added: Seagate ST15150N 4GB SCSI drive (ID 3, /dev/sdb) The IDE drive is a Win98 C: drive. The only Linux thing on it is LILO. The IBM drive had a 2GB FAT32 partition that was a Win98 D: drive. Now, I've added this Seagate, and put another 2GB FAT32 partition on that. I copied over all the stuff from the IBM to the Seagate, and did a quick fdisk and marked the IBM partition as type 93, Amoeba, whatever that is. I booted Windows, and it happily uses the Seagate as the D: drive and no longer sees the partition on the IBM. I run a few tests, no problems. Now we get into the meat of things. I want to yank out the IDE drive, and use the 2GB partition on the IBM as the new C: drive. After all, 400MB is just hopelessly inadequate to store an OS as great as Win98. :- (Honest, we will get to Linux-specific stuff shortly, I swear.) I copied all the stuff from the IDE disk to the IBM drive, turned it back into a FAT32 partition, and then edited my /etc/lilo.conf to boot Windows from /dev/sda4. That's a primary partition, marked bootable. (At this point, LILO itself is still installed on the IDE drive. It's just trying to boot Windows from the IBM drive instead of the old IDE drive.) I rerun /sbin/lilo, reboot, and try to boot Windows. It just says Loading win... and sits there. Did you do sys c: from a win98 boot disk? I reboot, and it boots Linux just fine. Next, I try editing LILO to install the LILO boot sector onto /dev/sda, and not /dev/hda. I then reboot, go into the BIOS and tell it to boot from SCSI and not IDE. Now, I just get an endless stream of LI's Lilo doesn't know that you changed your BIOS idea about what is supposed to be the boot (i.e. first) disk. You need to tell it: disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/sdb bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x82 Okay, finally, now my questions: 1. Why can't I boot a LILO off of my SCSI drive, even to just boot Linux? It should at least be able to do that. I made sure the IBM was ID 0, just in case it mattered. Should I try yanking the IDE drive completely from the system? lilo loads the kernel using BIOS calls to load certain sectors of the harddisk. It needs to know how the BIOS accesses a certain disk and it must do it when running under Linux i.e. when the BIOS is inaccessible. lilo assumes that IDE drives come first, SCSI second, which is what most BIOSes do by default if both are present. Pulling the IDE drive *and* running lilo again with the same config file would have cured the problem too. 2. Even booting off the IDE drive, I can boot Linux but not Windows. I can only think of two reasons: a) Windows is that stupid, and I'll need to reinstall, or Are the other primary partions of a type windows does not see? b) that paritition is above the 1024-cylinder limit, but I thought that wasn't really a problem on SCSI drives? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp14FgCewydY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeCiv
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:45:56PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: I tried several times to get freeciv working but failed each time because civclient stops with SIGSEGV. Upgrade your xpm library and file a bug report against civclient to make it need xpm = 3.4j Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpLu8wjegplE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Vaio PCG-Z505F install (fwd)
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:34:51PM +0900, Kai Martens wrote: The external floppy drive that came with the laptop is connected to a USB connector on the box via a special SONY cable... Any ideas how to cure this or how to work around it? (No more windoze anywhere on my disk :-) ... You need to make a custom kernel with support for usb floppies. As far as I know, USB floppies are not supported currently. You may boot from it because Linux doesn't yet intervene there, but after booting it looks to linux like the machine does not have a working floppy. You need an install method that uses CD-ROM or network Sorry, can't be more specific/helpful now. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpNRKvvNPobU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Unable to load interpreter
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:08:34PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: What does the message in the subject mean ? Well i know what it means but what interpreter is the system trying to load and in wich situations does this happens. Isn't that the message you get when trying to execute an a.out binary on a system where only ELF works? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpUo7HkrpH5y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2 NICs - help please
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:50:32AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: One is an Accton PnP ISA which normally runs at io=0x300. The other is a Dlink 528 PCI card. Please supply more information: Does it run if it is the only card in the system? What driver do you use for the accton (what chip is it?) Do you use isapnp? What are the PnP/PCI settings of your mainboard. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpUJtF6BOAlh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2 NICs - help please
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:26:37AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: What is isapnp? A program to configure ISA PnP devices. You will need it for most of those. Just do apt-get install isapnp I've told the BIOS that I don't have a PnP OS. Which means, the BIOS should do the configuration of the card. Which some do right, some don't. What are the other settings available in this section. I haven't tried removing a card. Are you thinking of removing the PCI, getting ISA to work, reinstalling the PCI and loading the tulip driver? Yes would like a way of getting the correct io address. with isapnp probably. It's not exactly user friendly, but it's efficient, once you get the hang of it. Why does your email come as a *.dat attachment? ?? It should have a pnp signature attached to it, but why the body is an attachment I don't know. mutt does it. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpCs1G86PgiQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New drive
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:51:50PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: At the moment I have a 810 MB harddisk in my Linux box. I'm going to replace it with a 12 GB Bigfoot. Can I just 'copy' the partitions? (Using ghost). Or do I need to reinstall Linux (hate that. When I reinstall something I always think of Windows) You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt it supports the ext2 filesystem. Instead put the new disk together with the old one in your computer, say on the secondary controller, boot from the old one, partition the new, make a few filesystems, mount them and use tar to transfer the system. Now take out the old one, move the new one to the primary controller, boot from a floppy, using the root= option pointing to the root partition on the new disk. Now run lilo again and that's it. May sound complicated, but it isn't really. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp2QDxcuGYKZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LILO: Multiple drives (SCSI and IDE) LINUX and Windows
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 06:25:39PM -0400, Philip S. Hempel wrote: Most of what I have here has come from the LILO documentation. I have a IDE drive that is booting with linux. My goal is to have lilo boot both windows and linux with it. The linux drive is IDE the other two are SCSI. I boot into windows and it will freak out for some reason and never go into windows. I do an fdisk and it shows the SCSI (which is /dev/sda under linux) to be on disk 1. The IDE drive to be on disk 2 (/dev/hda) and the second SCSI (/dev/sdb) to be the third disk. If I turn the IDE drive in the cmos and it will work fine. I do not understand precisely what is going on. You mean if you enable the IDE drive in the BIOS setup, windows works, but Linux doesn't? You shouldn't use the map-drive options but rather inform lilo about what drive is seen where by the BIOS using DISK and BIOS directives: disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/sda bios=0x81 disk=/dev/sdb bios=0x82 Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpQKHYyO5CL2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LILO: Multiple drives (SCSI and IDE) LINUX and Windows
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:19:48AM -0400, Philip S. Hempel wrote: That was supposed to be turn off the IDE drive. The ide drive is the boot drive for linux. The windows drives are the SCSI drives. If I leave the drive settings in lilo alone windows will not boot. I will type win into lilo (my config name) and I get (not quoted) starting win and nothing more. Ok, I see. I don't know whether windows is able to start at all if it's not sitting on the boot drive. As far as I know that's not possible. Correct me someone if I am wrong. Couldn't you make the system boot from SCSI, install lilo on the mbr of the SCSI drive and start Linux from there. Linux has no problems with it, you only need to correct lilo's view of the drives with the disk and bios options. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpd8TbUygLtl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:49:36AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Any suggestions for an 8MB card well-supported by XFree PCI that can do 32bit-colour at 1600x1200 and 76Hz? I wouldn't call ATI well supported but here they are the only PCI cards still available. And they work with Linux (XFree86 3.3.3.1 version probably required) and are cheap as well. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpUIfzww2KUW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Telnet/ftp unidirectional grant timing PB
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 12:23:52PM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: I'm trying to make a little network at home: PII400-486DX2/66 (as server). The problem is from the PII to the 486: if I try to make a telnet or a ftp from the PII, it takes 1min15 to the process to appear on a 'top' listing on the 486, and the whole time between typing 'telnet (or ftp) 192.168.1.1' and having the loggin on the screen from the 486 is 2min30 (stuck @ Character Escape '^]', no ctrl-c is possible). The tcpd tries a reverse lookup of the IP address and needs a timeout to fail. Add the IP address of both computers to the /etc/hosts file on the 486. (and on the other one too just to make sure) or setup a local nameserver (which is probably overkill). Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpq7aerx7osP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Pico.
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 03:17:44AM -0400, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: I was wondering if anyone can tell me why I cannot find a simple editor pico on my Debian 2.1r2 packages. Thanks a lot! The pico copyright is the same as the one for pine and forbids distribution of modified binaries. Modification is however needed to make pine adhere to the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard). pine (an pico) are available as source and you may compile them yourself. You could also install joe and use the jpico as pico substitute. This is what I do. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp2SqlweC70F.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to install sources
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 01:12:55PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: i'd like to install ssh sources and compile them by myself... can I do it with dpkg somehow ? Of course i can d/l sshd and compile it but i'd like to do it more debian-like... Use debget (from potato) to download sources in apt-get manner: debget ssh and use dpkg-source -x to extract the source and the debian patches. Now (as root or with sudo or ..) run ./debian/build binary to build the .deb files Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpf3dJqGr0mO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel-Package problems
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 09:10:29PM -0400, Jayson Baird wrote: Has anyone ever encountered the trouble with Kernel-package that does not make the symbolic link in /usr/src/linux? This seems to be my trouble. I have the source tarballs in /usr/src but no /usr/src/linux. Any help I'd be greatly appreciative... thanks :) you don't need a /usr/src/linux If you think you need it because of an old README telling you you need symlinks /usr/include/linux - /usr/src/linux/include/linux etc., read /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz, especially the last lines. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgphiBkFeHl4a.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help ISDN HISAX 16.3c install
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 03:18:37PM +0200, Csejtey Gabor Zoltan wrote: I use Debian 2.1. I would like to install an ISDN HIsax 16.3c card with ISA slot into a 486 machine. I used the following command: depmod type=14 protocol=2 irq=10 io=0x580 id=teles I got this message: Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 1 Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 2 Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 3 HiSax: Card Teles 16.3c not installed ! ISDN unloaded You might want to mark IRQ 10 as Legacy/non-PNP in your BIOS setup (might need to disable Automatical configuration for this) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgphwM5kzwjt9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: system shutdown from xdm
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 07:32:38PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: If you want anybody to shutdown without password, make /sbin/shutdown a suid executable. Make shutdown a menu choice in your window manager for user friendliness. Don't do the suid thing unless *anybody* logging into your machine should be able to stop it! This includes logging in via network or possibly the internet. It is ok for an unconnected home machine though. You might create a group of trusted people (local perhaps?), change the group of /sbin/shutdown to this group and remove the x bit for 'other': chgrp local /sbin/shutdown chmod o-x /sbin/shutdown Now only user in group local may shutdown the machine. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpYnzGdJiUHO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:26:21PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32 partitions. Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues. You will need dosfstools-2.0 (potato) for making and checking Fat32 filesystems. If you don't want to switch to libc-2.1, get the source and compile it yourself. It's really easy. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpnkXxEcnxxw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux packet collisions
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:33:22PM -0700, POP3 for aphro.. wrote: I'm having some minor problems with collisions on my 2-node network. Hub Netgear FE104 100MB 4-port hub(with handy little orange collision light) I set both systems to half duplex, and that reduced the collisions some You *must* do this. For full duplex you need a switch, a hub won't be sufficient. What performance (in MB/s) are you getting? If that appears to be ok, don't worry about the collisions. What if you just connect the two computers with a crossover cable. This will even allow full duplex (I believe, correct me someone if I'm wrong) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp2IYdPgy4bk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Network card is giving trouble
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 11:34:10PM -0400, Matthew McFarlane wrote: I have one D-Link 220-P (CT) ISA-PNP Don't know what kind of chip this is? Same thing for a generic NE2000 ISA-PNP install isapnptoools and read the documentation. (in short: pnpdump isapnp.conf edit this file, removing the comments from the appropriate lines after you are satisfied move this to /etc and load ne with ne io=0xabc where abc is the io-port you configured in isapnp.conf Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpgzzvYiCo0W.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Writing CRON job to null.
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:36:59AM +0200, Per-Olof Widstrom wrote: command /dev/null 21 What does the 2 and 1 stand for, and the ? One is standard output, right? 2 means standard error means merge it with 1 (i.e. standard output) So the whole thing is: - first redirect standard output to the bit bucket - then let standard error go the same way as standard output or short: throw away any output Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpy6BpwSKsS0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Network card is giving trouble
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:14:19PM +, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: Hi! A colleague is setting up a Linux box to interface some hardware with a web interface. Everything's running smoothly: he logs some data through a serial connection, and then formats it in html. Fine. The only problem he's found is actually setting up his Linux box to connect to the network. We have the ip numbers, broadcast addresses, dns servers... Everything is fine, but if we try to ping some host apart from loopback, nothing happens, and eventually, the number of collisions reported by ifconfig grows rapidly. it looks as an IRQ conflict is lurking around. This computer has two serial ports, both of them work fine, and are on use. There doesn't seem to be any problem in the /proc infos we get. Moreover, we're pretty sure the network card has got the right IRQ and base numbers. ISA or PCI card? If it's an ISA non PnP mode card, then on many mainboards you need to ensure the card actually sees the IRQ by marking it as Legacy/non PnP What does cat /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports say? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpsP8WblDbFz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients
I recently switched our nis master server from AIX to linux. There are still a number of AIX hosts that should be run as nis clients or nis slaves. How do non shadow password clients get the password entries? How do I make it on AIX which doesn't have shadow passwords but a similar mechanism using /etc/security/passwd with a syntax linke this: root: password = mYfasd/89ßsx # this is not the right one of course lastupdate = 829567557 flag = nextuser: Next problem: The net nis master runs slink. A slink client works after shadow has been configured and + added to /etc/shadow. A client runs partly potato, and does not work, i.e. it won't accept nis passwords. NIS itself appears to work, i.e. I can see the right owners of directories, the homedirs are right, etc. Any known incompatibilities between glibc2.1 and shadow nis? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpXEJnRtee2r.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients
Again following up on my own posts, sigh: On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 03:22:58PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: Next problem: The net nis master runs slink. A slink client works after shadow has been configured and + added to /etc/shadow. A client runs partly potato, and does not work, i.e. it won't accept nis passwords. NIS itself appears to work, i.e. I can see the right owners of directories, the homedirs are right, etc. Any known incompatibilities between glibc2.1 and shadow nis? Hrmm, deinstalling nis and installing it again worked. This is getting Windows like, except that reboots are not necessary. What should I do however for clients that do not have shadow passwords? Is there a way to give them a made up password file with entries from real passwd and shadow mixed? (security reasons aside) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp46YKJiRKiD.pgp Description: PGP signature
qpopper: What does -ERR maillock: /var/spool/pop/username.pop mean
I receive these messages in my syslog when debugging is turned on, and the user don't get their mail with pop-3, with the same error message. Telnetting to pop-3 port gives the same message and the session is ended after the USER and PASS commands. I just newly installed qpopper on this machine. What could be wrong? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpQlhL1zzOhT.pgp Description: PGP signature
[SOLVED] Re: qpopper: What does -ERR maillock: /var/spool/pop/username.pop mean
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 04:58:18PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: I receive these messages in my syslog when debugging is turned on, and the user don't get their mail with pop-3, with the same error message. Telnetting to pop-3 port gives the same message and the session is ended after the USER and PASS commands. I just newly installed qpopper on this machine. What could be wrong? Hate to follow up on my own mails, but the above is solved: I carelessly used tar in /var/spool/mail and got it's permissions changed to rwxr-xr-x bin mail instead of rwxrwxr-t root mail ipopd still worked with the former settings which suggests it is running as root and not dropping privileges. TssTss. I found this using strace. Really great debugging tool. qpopper's error message is misleading however, to say the least. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpsYLFgyANzn.pgp Description: PGP signature
sendmail: why do text maps not work?
Running sendmailconfig, and answering yes to the Mailertable question creates and entry like this: FEATURE(mailertable, `text /etc/mail/mailertable')dnl which doesn't work. FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable')dnl however does work, if the maps are there and made with makemap. Adding an -o in the text case does not help. Are text maps not supported? Is this a bug? Is the format of text maps different? Mine looks like this (whitespace is tab) snip-- tabaluga.ipe.uni-stuttgart.de smtp:[tabaluga.ipe.uni-stuttgart.de] ipesun.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.de smtp:[ipesun.ipe.uni-stuttgart.de] ipesun.ipe.uni-stuttgart.de smtp:[ipesun.ipe.uni-stuttgart.de] snip-- btw: What are the different map types, and where are they all documented? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpoQaDwBgPms.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: No network,please help!!!! Dear Debian profs!
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:20:03PM +0200, Gallai Janos wrote: I'm a beginner of using Debian,and my problem is: At the Debian installation process,the system has detected that I have a network.I have two Windows 95 and a Debian Linux system machine.So after the installation of the op.sys. cannot find the netcard,anyway it is not able to connect my W95-network.I have the TCP/IP protokoll installed on the other two machines.While I used WfW311 the net was operating completely I don't know what to do.Please help me. My card type is:NE2000 compatible ISA-bus,IRQ:9,IO-adress:0x0280h Processor type Cyrix 486 DX50 You should have a line ne io=0x280 in /etc/modules Also, what is the contents of /etc/init.d/network? Are the bootmessages telling that your card is detected? What does dmesg give as output? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpAC7dy15kwF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Online Metafont graphics?
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:25:22AM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote: What is your TERM variable set to xterm This is hardcoded in the mf binary (do a string -a on it) DISPLAY needs to be set tool Here, MFTERM is not set. DISPLAY is :0.0 I think using setenv in tcsh automatically exports a variable. And yes, I use bash. You will get a HUGE window that you can't miss. The dot is of a reasonable size, about 20 pixel thick. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpHqbo0WHNFG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: vmware and kernel header mismatches...
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:01:46PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: it appears that i've got some default debian headers which aren't updated when i compile my kernel. what is the approved way for me to fix this so i won't break anything? use -I/path/to/kernel/you/wish/to/compile/for as one of the CFLAGS when compiling the module The problem is that the kernel headers in /usr/lib/linux are still the 2.0.36 headers. I linked /usr/lib/linux to /usr/src/linux/lib/linux. You shouldn't. That could mysteriously break a few compiles you are making in subtle ways. If you need to compile something that want's a specific kernel version, do like above. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpqilgYxmqYn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Online Metafont graphics?
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:10:57PM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote: I first tried it with tetex-bin 0.9.981113-2 (the slink/stable version), then got tetex-bin 0.9.990406-1 (from potato/unstable): no difference. /home/stefan echo $DISPLAY $TERM $MFTERM :0.0 rxvt rxvt I?m focussing now on trying to make it run in a plain xterm, with the unnecessary MFTERM (and COLORTERM, just to be paranoid) unset: /home/stefan echo $TERM $DISPLAY xterm :0.0 /home/stefan mf This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3) **\relax *drawdot (20,20); *showit; mf: Window support for X was not compiled into this binary. mf: To do so, rerun configure --with-x, recompile, and reinstall. mf: (Or perhaps you just failed to specify the mode.) ^^ This clearly shows, mf is not compiled with X support in. And in fact, 0.9.980706-1 appears to be the single version where X is compiled in. After an upgrade to the current one in potato I get the same message. You will need to ask the package maintainer or compile a mf for yourself. Given the debian packaging it's not too difficult, but will require a fair amount of disk space and patience, depending on your hardware. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpjAQM3rKZP2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Current kernel configuration?
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:16:14AM -0400, William R Pentney wrote: I have not compiled my kernel yet, but I want to, and I want to see how it is currently configured. Is there any easy way to do this? If you installed the kernel from a debian package (likely) you will have a file named /boot/config-2.x.y where x and y are the version numbers of your kernel. This is the config file. If you copy it to .config in your kernel source tree, you will get the same configuration as your current kernel as the default. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpMOFY6KJjTi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie)
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 08:38:41AM -0700, Harte, Tiemen wrote: I can get the login screen but I can't log in with the ROOT account or a other account created with adduser. Because the pseudo ttys that telnetd uses are not in /etc/securetty You have a few options: a) add /dev/ttyp0 and a few others to /etc/securetty Bad. This allows people to guess the root password. Otherwise they need to guess a username, the corresponding password and the root password to get root access to your machine, which is much more difficult. b) login as a normal user and use the su to become root. c) login as a normal user and use sudo. d) Install Teraterm Pro, a free program available from http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html and ttssh from http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html also free. Then use ssh that allows secure direct root login. As an added bonus you get a decent terminal emulation. The standard windows telnet isn't. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpD1wvdDD8Mi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Online Metafont graphics?
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 10:47:23PM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to teach myself Metafont (using Debian 2.1, tetex from unstable; same problem with stable tetex, though). According to the documentation, mf can do online graphics when compiled --with-x; I checked the debian/rules in the source package, and it is indeed compiled this way. $TERM and $MFTERM are set to rxvt (no difference when using xterm). Now I run mf interactively as follows: /home/stefan mf This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3beta6) **\relax *drawdot (50,50); showit; end. Transcript written on mfput.log. /home/stefan That should draw a dot at position (50,50) (wherever that is), but I don't get any on-screen output. Any ideas anyone what's going wrong? I tried the same. It worked, once the TERM variable is exported. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpzLzqXO5mIE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sending mail on a dialup connection
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:27:06AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: Of course, I maybe looking in the wrong place - maybe MTA's are what I should be looking at? True. For sendmail its sendmail -q to be run by root. (/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ might be good place for a script with this command if you connect by ppp) Your sendmail daemon should be run without the -q10m argument. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpmqqfKFi0fe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Fwd: Network driver problem]
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 05:25:25PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Right I was not using root, but when I used root I got the following
error message:
ne.c: No PCI Cards found. Use io=0xNNN Value(s) of ISA cards
/lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: init_modules
Device or resource busy
You need the ne module for ISA cards. And you need to provide an IO
value. I usually probe with
for i in 20 22 24 26 28 2a 2c 2e 30 32 34 36 38; do \
modprobe ne io=0x${i}0; done
(Beware!! This could hang your machine. It works here with a variety of
old machines in 98% but your mileage may vary)
Nils
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Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:07:58AM -0800, Jeff Katcher wrote: Q2 My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i have the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a 15 gb hardrive? A2 No Yes. It's a pure BIOS limit, and as soon as Linux is booted, this limit disappears. You are right in that your root (actually /boot suffices, you could make it a separate partition) partition needs to be in the 8.4 GB limit. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpFz4vDvg31A.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: grrr, No response from modem
ioports and interrupts look ok. What about the cable? Does it work on another computer? Wiring could be wierd. Does the serial port work at all? Sometimes when I assemble a computer I put the little plug on the mainboard on only half of the pins, or in the wrong orientation,... It is an external modem, isn't it? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpC1izvFmmKA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: grrr, No response from modem
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:48:39AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: Never on tried using a modem on this debain box. First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. What does cat /proc/interrupts and cat /proc/ioports say? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpibpuEKAOQY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: setting network for DHCP
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:06:12PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: Is it possible to setup a laptop to use DHCP on a network rather than a static IP address? If so, how is that done? Install dhcp-client. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpcNNbgUulQf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Keyboard locked up under X [was System trashed]
There appears to be a long outstanding bug in the S3 X servers that completely locks up the keyboard, although the system still runs fine, mouse can be moved, starting programs by mouse and menu works, even cut and paste some text into an xterm works. But the keyboard appears like it's plugged off. This happens: Either at startup time: xdm is started at boottime, and gives you the login screen. Keyboard still works here, so login with username and password. Then your Xsession starts an BM, keyboard is off. No Ctrl-Alt-F1, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, nothing. Or when changin runlevels: Just say init 4 (where 4 is just another runlevel, that differs only say in a single getty entry completely unrelated to X. Same effect as above. If you happen to have the characters s, h, u, t, d, o, w, n, ' ' '-', 'r' available somewhere, you may reboot cleanly by cut and paste them into an xterm. (Card is an Elsa Winner 1000 (PCI, 2MB) if that matters) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpbrmwCqQcGy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NT causes continual dialup.
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:52:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just added an NT 4.0 server machine onto my linux network so I can work on learning it. Anyway, since I've added it, my dial up connection has been going on continually. It appears to be dns look ups since it is connecting on port 53. Does anyone know how to stop this in NT? Switch off Use DNS for windows name resolution It will look for a lot of names continually that won't exist. You could try to install a caching only nameserver (this is easy with debian, just install bind) point the NT Box at your linux server as the only nameserver, then log the queries by sending the nameserver a SIGWINCH. This way you know what names the silly NT box is trying to relove via DNS. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpGCmE3Dar6k.pgp Description: PGP signature
printcap entry to use smbclient with lprng
I looked in the samba and lprng docs for a while (only superficially the latter one), but it may be easier if someone had already solved this: Could you send me a sample lprng printcap entry that accesses a Windows network printer via smbclient and also uses magicfilter. Thanks a lot, Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpD68zmBeHEU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Keyboard locked up under X [was System trashed]
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 06:21:43AM -0600, Stephen Pitts wrote: FWIW, I've had the same thing happen with my i740 XBF server and kde several times. That was One of the reasons I stopped using KDE. No KDE here. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp3ThsOjeukt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to mount ZIP drive without prior root modprobeing or insmoding?
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:44:24PM +0100, Conrado Badenas wrote: but when I type mount /mnt/zip with user conrado I get this error message: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) It works for /cdrom but doesn't for /mnt/zip. Why? You will need the ide-floppy module. I don't know how to tell this to kerneld. inserting it in /etc/modules will work however Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpJBa3YTgfhU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem Connecting to ISP
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 08:29:26PM -, Shawn Nguyen wrote: I am having an extremely difficult time trying to connect to the Prodiy ISP. Mar 4 19:58:32 shawn chat[477]: ATD7913790^M Mar 4 19:58:32 shawn chat[477]: CONNECT Mar 4 19:58:32 shawn chat[477]: -- got it ok so far Mar 4 19:58:33 shawn pppd[476]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS3 Mar 4 19:59:03 shawn pppd[476]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests This means, the other site hasn't yet switched to a PPP connection. Login to their site with minicom and see what appears on the screen. Maybe they present a menu where PPP must be selected, maybe they wait for a simple Return,... Might be helpful to see their instruction how to setup an internet connection under windows, they'll surely provide those. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpmIHkEVBQSF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Caldera dist finds net card, Debian doesn't
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 10:52:28AM +, Paul Hardiman wrote: I have a 3c905B net card. As the subject indicates, the Caldera dist finds it fine, but the Hamm distribution doesn't. lsmod (Caldera) shows 3c59x and that object module exists in the /lib/modules dir of each installation. Hamm won't find it automatically, it will ask you in the configure device driver for net devices. You select it, don't provide any parameters and it gets inserted. Or did I misunderstand you? If it's not at installation time insert 3c59x in /etc/modules Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpqSZoEEWUkJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Need help with new cable modem
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 02:40:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Find a driver for the plug-n-pray PCI ethernet controller they installed. (Realtek RTL8029 - a really really generic card, the box doesn't even have the manufacturers name on it) ne2k-pci (as had already been mentioned I suppose) does it. 2) Configure a DHCP client. Also, in relation to this, I may need to change my hostname to that beastly thing they assigned me... ugh This isn't any more difficult than installing dhcpcd package. Changing the hostname isn't really important. Save this for much later. Read the ISDN-HOWTO That won't help. ISDN is a completely different beast. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp67oi5aKDWR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: lilo problems
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 02:06:50PM -0500, Christopher Fury wrote: I've had debian 2.0 running on my machine for a while now, but I finally decided it was time to load up windows so I could play some games. :) I went out and bought a new hard drive, and I want to boot windows off of it. Windows can't boot from a secondary hard disk. Linux can, so just swap the two, use LILO on the mbr of the primary hd (the windows one) and use the following lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=40 root=/dev/hdb1 image=/zImage append=ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=4,0x240,eth1 mem=128M label=Linux.custom read-only image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win table=/dev/hda Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp9puXw0xwbA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [debian] 3Com Megahertz 10 Mbps LAN PC Card (PCMCIA) supported?
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: I need to buy a new PCMCIA network but unfortunately the type I normaly buy (3COM 3C589D-TP) is not available anymore. I never had problems with cheap NE-2000 compatible clones. And the performance is the same (1000+ kByte/s on an otherwise unloaded network). And cheap means 1/3 of the price. Noone had yet been able to tell me what could possible justify this difference. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpEa1O4mTGCL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how change IP address?
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 09:32:50PM -, Shaleh wrote: On 10-Feb-99 Eliezer Figueroa wrote: how can I change the IP address? Is there any menu I can use like the one in the install process? Edit /etc/init.d/network And don't forget to change it in /etc/hosts too Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpN0CZUAyWIH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Telnet Server?
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 05:16:26AM -0800, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: Any recomendations about a good telnet server. Expecialy if is an Debian Pack. ??? what about the telnetd package? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpPL8c5ztxo6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel 2.2.1 and Samba
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:27:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smbmount //bodiam/courses /mnt/bodiam/courses -U ahus1 -f 700 -d 700 -u 1003 but that doesn't seem to work any more. What can I do? Install smbfsx, Kernel 2.2 needs a completely different smbmount with a different syntax as well Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpUd3ew85mbx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: workman and sound
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 11:29:31AM -0500, Richard Hall wrote: Do I need to log out and log back in to get the change to take? Somehow the setgroups call must be executed and only the superuser is allowed to do this, so this needs to be done by a program running as root, i.e. login or a suid program. You could avoid to logout by exec su - your username and type in your password again. This will only affect this shell however. If you use X and xdm, only processes started from this shell will have the group list updated. Is there a command that will update my shell without a logout? What is the problem with logging out? Connected over a modem? Then the above will work. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpG6SoaNXufa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Loading 2 LinuxOS with LILO
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:00:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to boot two Linux OS's with lilo, but with no success so far. Should really be easy. A primary master IDE HDD of ~1.2GB partitioned as follows: Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 620 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda111 305 614848+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda2 * 306 306 588 570528 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 589 589 62064512 82 Linux swap A secondary master UDMA HDD of ~4.3GB as follows: Disk /dev/hdc: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8894 cylinders Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc111 6936 3277228+ 5 Extended /dev/hdc2 6144 6937 7214 131355 82 Linux swap /dev/hdc5 *11 10951439+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc6 110 110 1193 512158+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc7 1024 1194 1627 205033+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc8 1024 1628 2278 307566 83 Linux native /dev/hdc9 2048 2279 3362 512158+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc103072 3363 5530 1024348+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc115120 5531 6614 512158+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc126144 6615 6936 152113+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 is where the Debian 2.0 root partition is installed, as well as lilo; /dev/hdc5 is where Slackware 3.5 root partition is installed. The other Linux native partitions are directories both SOs are sharing (/home, /usr/local, /tmp, ...) or will be sharing (/usr/doc). ok. The only successful attempt for a /etc/lilo.conf file has been: boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=debian read-only image=/vmlinuz label=slack root=/dev/hdc5 other=/dev/hda1 label=win table=/dev/hda `LILO: slack' starts the Slackware OS but loads the Debian kernel image. Note that whereas /vmlinuz in Debian is a symlink to /boot/vmlinuz-2.x.x, in Slackware /vmlinuz is the kernel image itself. Lilo won't take the kernel image from the device but from a filesystem. You need to do (running debian) mkdir /slack mount -o ro /slack /dev/hdc5 and replace the corresponding section above by image=/slack/vmlinuz label=slack root=/dev/hdc5 Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgp7M9pSvmFpi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Parallel printer no longer found
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 08:59:49PM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote: The problem is _no_ device on any port is found, so no device works--not /dev/lp0, lp1, lp2, or lp3. So adjusting the printcap won't help. Is lp a module or compiled in? What do the startup message say then? Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpAjhBCSZeMw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how do I use UID setting?
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 01:19:22PM -, Chris Evans wrote: documentation. So I edited suexec.h and ran cc suexec.c -o suexec and I got: www:/usr/doc/apache-ssl# gcc suexec.c -o suexec suexec.c:72: sys/param.h: No such file or directory suexec.c:73: stdlib.h: No such file or directory suexec.c:74: unistd.h: No such file or directory suexec.c:75: sys/types.h: No such file or directory suexec.c:76: stdio.h: No such file or directory suexec.c:78: string.h: No such file or directory suexec.c:79: pwd.h: No such file or directory suexec.c:80: grp.h: No such file or directory suexec.c:81: time.h: No such file or directory suexec.c:82: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory Install libc6-dev It's needed for all compiles that use the C Library (are there any that don't?). You will need apache-dev too probably. Can you or anyone else point me to the right location to raid for this headers using ftp? Please use the debian packages. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpFumCT7Ccdu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: please help! recovery from e2fsck
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:24:25AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If computers get viruses, this seems to be leprosy. typing mc for midnight commander in x windows brought the system crashing down to an automatic reboot; Lilo did reboot this time but in the last 24hrs has given: error loading linux error 0x01 #and also later: crc error Is this a hard drive cable error? typing elm brought: State Panic in State.c:159: in_state_fsck Bad Magic Number segmentation fault now from tty1 I'm unable to M-f2 change to tty2: Unable to change tty /dev/tty2: Read-only file system I'm contemplating a complete reinstall. This could be everything from a bad cache to CPU, RAM or a faulty harddrive. I suspect RAM or cache though. If the system has worked flawlessly for a while until now (a month or more) maybe the processor cooler failed, the CPU is getting to hot and get random failures, so check the fan. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpRIr1w7NeFw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SAMBA question
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:39:12PM -0600, Kent West wrote: At 11:02 PM 2/3/1999 +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Hi. I would like to create one public and one password-protected samba share on my computer. I managed to create a public one with: But how do I create the private share? Where do I set the password? Samba doesn't really know the Windows security scheme very well, where there is a password for every service instead of password for every user as it is common in Unix. There are several possibilities: a) set security=user Now every Windows user has to log into the network using a valid unix username and the corresponding password. This is good if the windows people use few and sensible names to log into their machines. This way, their windows login serves as login for the Samba accounts too and they are never asked for a password again. Note that for encrypt passwords = yes (needed for Windows NT SR 3+ and Windows 98) you will need to set the passwords not with the system passwd but with the samba supplied smbpasswd. Both authentcations schemes use incompatible hashes. You will still need a valid Unix user for every Windows user. b) set security=share This tries to map the windows security model (one password per service, independent of the user using the service) to the unix security model, i.e. it will try to validate the given password against a certain (or several) unix password, i.e. you have to set the password with the unix passwd command. (Or with smbasswd if you use encrypt password = yes) Against which one? You may specify it with the USER option, so your share could be created with: security = share [Private] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/samba/private public = no user = private and you need a unix user private whose password is the password of the share. Sounds complicated but it has a lot of advantages. Remember Unix is multiuser. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgp3D9fAyFUOw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SAMBA question
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:49:43PM +1100, Andrew Loughhead wrote: Actually I'm not sure if that option changes who the user is authenticated as, it may just change who their actions are done as. The latter one. In any case, without doing strange things, you cannot get the parrallel of the Windows system whereby all users of a share use the same password to access it. I do not see anything strange in setting up a UNIX user for each share. Although I prefer the UNIX way of things. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpjgFkePSN7h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to mount remote file system?
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 09:25:29AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...). ssh is much better :-) You want it. I'd like to mount part of it's filesystem on the linux box at my desk, so I can update the web pages. On the server: install nfs-server, put /path/to/the/webroot your.linux.box (rw) in /etc/exports and read the exports(5) manpage. On your Linux box: put your.web.server:/path/to/the/webroot /mount/point nosuid,nodev 0 0 in /etc/fstab. Note the uid's and gid's of are preserved when copying files, so you better have the same uid on both machines. root is mapped to nobody, so make your web server pages writeable by someone else than root. read the mount(8) manpage, especially the nfs options for more hints. Of course you will need the NFS filesystem in your linux box. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpWeygMyk1Gs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: installation using parallel port cd-drive
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 08:25:11PM +0100, pizzinini wrote: I want to install debian linux 2.0 on my computer. I have an HP omnibook 600c and a Microsolutions backpack cd-rom 16770. The cd-rom is connected to the omnibook over the parallel port. I also have -bootdisk (resc1440.bin) -cd rom debian linux 2.0 -floppy drive for the omnibook I can boot from the bootdisk and start partitioning my harddrive. But when I come to the point where I want to install files from the cd-rom, the backpack cd-rom is not recognized and I cannot load anything from cd-rom. Do I have to set special boot options? Any other ideas? You need a special kernel with a driver for this cd-rom. You could compile your own kernel and put this one on the bootdisks (and the corresponding modules on the driver disks) You will need a patch for the 2.0.36 kernel or an official 2.2 kernel. Look at http://www.torque.net/parport/ for the former. You might need to create a new device manually after booting with the new floppy. Thanks, Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpX0gb0m4XBu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get update failing
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 11:26:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an slink machine trying to do an apt-get update via an autofs-mounted nfs directory mirror of ftp.us.debian.org on a remote machine. (Got that ? :) I'm getting the following error ... fsmail:~# apt-get update Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US Packages Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/contrib Packages Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/main Packages Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/non-free Packages Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ project/experimental/ Packages Fetched 600k in 0s (1640k/s) Updating package file cache... E: Line 3 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa ges is too long.(2) fsmail:~# I just got the same error. Upgrading you apt version might help. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgptQZCX1yxpj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: this guy talks to ff01a8c0 from loopback
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:08:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did see some SIO. type error whiz by during boot. I had the /etc/init.d/network script in verbose mode and it occured after the 'route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo' line. Thanks for taking a peek at this. route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 The SIO.. message comes from this one. The route is set up with ifconfig automatically. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpXMOXV0fYnz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help!!! Can't connect to my ISP using pon
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:17:32PM -0500, Michelle Coelho wrote: The problem? Well, I can't connect to my ISP, though my modem is dialing out..I can here it do so, and I can hear the screeching sound. I ran pon 4 times. The first time plog gave me this: chat: expect (CONNECT) chat: ^M chat: ATDT2785619^M chat:CONNECT chat:--got it chat:send (\d) pppd: Serial Connection Established pppd:Using interface ppp0 pppd:Connect ppp0--/dev/ttyS0 pppd: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x024f pcompacomp] last message repeated 9 times This means, the other side does not yet speak PPP, allthough a connection is established. Try to dial the site manually using minicom and see what it is waiting for. Maybe it's a terminal server that waits for a certain key or command to enter PPP mode. If your friends are able to login without a Windows 95 script whatsoever, the above should work however, and I'm out of ideas. pppd: Hangup (SIGHUP) pppd: Modem hangup pppd: Connection terminated pppd: Exit I think you'd be interested in knowing that I got the following messages at boot time: Configuring serial portsfailed Trying to load serial module manually Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled. tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16450 tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16450 Success...retrying configuration..done /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16450 /dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16450 This all is ok. I made a symbolic link called '/dev/modem' to '/dev/ttyS0'. On doing a setserial -a /dev/ttyS0, I got: /dev/ttyS0, line 0, UART: 16450, Port 0x3f8, IRQ: 4, Baud_base:115200, close_delay:50, divisor :0 closing_wait:3000, closing_wait2 :infinite Flags:spd_normal skip_test session_lockout Then, I did a setserial /dev/ttyS0 spd_hi, but the problem persists. This is not the problem. Your serial line and your modem do understand each other well. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpDsuGWRjhZ7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mailsorting with mutt
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 08:19:13AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day to all, could someone help this slow newbie to sort my mailing lists i'm using mutt and sifting through my mail manually is now quite a chore i would like to sort them ie: deb-user'luv'etc into there own mailbox when fetching mail perhaps a copy of a .muttrc might be helpfull for the commands?? anyhow any help would be greatfully appreciated i uuse smail and fetchmail is the command i use to retrieve mail Thanks for your time:-) Please restrict your postings to 80 chars/line. And use procmail for sorting. I attached a copy of my .procmailrc to get you started. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * MAILDIR=$HOME/mail :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail D 16384 msgid.cache :0: * ^TOlws.* lws :0: * Received: from .*nus.de.* bynus :0: * ^TOautofs.* autofs :0: * ^TOuni-netadmins.* rus :0: * ^TOdcedfs.* dcedfs :0: * ^TO(.*security|win-sec).* security :0: * ^TOlinux-tulip.* linux-tulip :0: * ^TOdebian-user.* debian-user :0: * ^TOdebian-devel.* debian-devel :0: * ^TOdebian-private.* debian-private :0: * ^TO(debian-testing|boot-floppies|debian-boot).* debian-testing :0: * ^TOdebian-bugs.* debian-bugs :0: * ^TOisdn4linux.* isdn4linux :0: * ^TOlinux-kernel.* linux-kernel :0: * ^TO(root|[Ff]ax).* system # # Now care for SPAM # :0: * ^TO([EMAIL PROTECTED])|(free4u2.com) spam :0: E * ^FROM([0-9]+@)|(@widexs.com)|([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spam :0: E * (^X-Advertisement:)|(^X-[0-9]: ) spam :0: E * ^received:.*(cyber\-bomber|CLOAKED|from unverified source) spam # impossible ip address in Received: line - one of cyberpromo's tricks. :0: E * ^Received.*\[[0-9\.]*([03-9][0-9][0-9]|2[6-9][0-9]|25[6-9]) spam pgpid5KWupn1b.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.2.0 kernel needs isapnp?
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:05:26AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Does the plug'n'play support of the new 2.2.0 linux kernel negate the need for isapnp? No. As the help file states PnP only refers to devices plugged in the parallel port. isapnp in kernel will (if ever) only come in 2.3.x Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpKLbZJ1Uc1m.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: vfat32 support
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:03:57AM +, Pere Camps wrote: Does anybody know if there's a patch for being able to access vfat32 formated partitions? the patch-2.0.36.gz will do:-) Seriously: The official 2.0.36 and 2.2.0 kernel will support fat32. This means that the normal msdos fs there dos support fat32 too, automagically. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpB3MlSTknUL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LILO Problems...
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:03:40PM -0600, Harrison, Shawn wrote: ext /dev/sda1 == New SCSI Disk, Linux filesystem, bootable /dev/hda1 == Old 9GB Disk, hda1 currently holds old copy of filesystem. /dev/hda2 == Windoze partition on old disk, bootable. I included my lilo.conf below. I'm sure that I'm either doing something dumb, or just not considering an obvious fact. Any help would be appreciated. /ext What is the device, the BIOS boots from? Is Lilo on the MBR of this device? You need to tell lilo how the BIOS numbers the drives: disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80# if BIOS boots from IDE disk=/dev/sda bios=0x81# Or disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80# if BIOS boots from SCSI disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81# See /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz, Section Specifying the geometry for details Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpoofqQQPsNY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can't load libc5.so.m when starting XFree 86 (3.3.2)(matrox G200 card)
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:09:35PM +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: Configuration: XFree 86 3.3.2 and Matrox G200 video card I downloaded xmatrox-2.2-0.i386.rpm from XSuSE, converted it to debian package with alien and unpacked xsuseconfig. Then I ran xf86config but it dies wirh can't load libc5.so.m (same with startx). SuSE is still libc5 based. Either get the glibc binaries from ftp.xfree86.org (besser solution) or install libc5 (faster solution) I don't know anything about compatibilty (libc5 -- libc6). Please point me in the wright direction. Please e-mail. Thanks. No problem to have both of them installed. I even have libc4 for some really old binaries where the source does not compile anymore. The binary works flawlessly though. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpcASNXnU8IR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:12:46PM +, Mamoun Alissali wrote: Nils Rennebarth wrote: When you know what the BIOS recognizes as the first, second, ... drive you can tell that LILO by the disk section: DISK=/dev/sda bios=0x80 DISK=/dev/sdb bios=0x81 This is to correct LILO's guess that may well be different from the BIOS's one (which could be the reason for a not-working LILO. I used the Adaptec setup to set my boot disk to 1 and I added the disk options to lilo.conf, but it still doesn't work. I only gave an example assuming you would read the lilo doc :-) Anyway, bios=0x80 means the bios thinks this is the first disk, so DISK=/dev/sda bios=0x81 DISK=/dev/sdb bios=0x80 should work better. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgp4nq3IaSj1M.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:29:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BIOS doesn't show any information about master/slave disks. I played around with the setup but with no result. I've got an ASUSTEK P2B-S mothercard with Ultra-2 SCSI contoller (SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7890). (in some postings I saw a formatted description of the hardware configuration, is that obtained by a command or from some file?) Here are relevant parts of files in my /proc directory: /proc/pci Bus 0, device 6, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7890/1 (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=3 2. Min Gnt=39.Max Lat=25. I/O at 0xb000. Non-prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xe180. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX AGP (rev 2). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=136. Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX Host (rev 2). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe400. /proc/scsi/scsi Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D Rev: DC1B Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D Rev: DC1B Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Does that explain anything? It explains that your disks are scsi disks, where there is no master/slave distinction. It ist not clear however what the BIOS thinks about the order of the devices. The adaptec also has a setup program to specify what should be the boot device. When you know what the BIOS recognizes as the first, second, ... drive you can tell that LILO by the disk section: DISK=/dev/sda bios=0x80 DISK=/dev/sdb bios=0x81 This is to correct LILO's guess that may well be different from the BIOS's one (which could be the reason for a not-working LILO. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpNcn4NpfyIW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X -indirect, xdm and chooser
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 10:03:15AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using default /etc/X11/Xaccess configuration My /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers has the X server line commented I start xdm, ok I start X -indirect localhost I get the chooser with a list of all available hosts willing to manage my X server, that's fine If I choose localhost works fine, If I choose another host It resets and I get my chooser another time or It keeps the Xserver with no window at all (as if you exec X standalone, eg: without startx) I dont' know why and even don't know if it's a bug, but as a workaround, say X -indirect `hostname` Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpLctL2eqM0s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How do I set up process on login?
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:55:11AM +, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have a script file that I want to run whenever someone logs in. It reads an anniversaru file and lists any anniversarys for the month. If I put 'exec anniversary' in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file the script will run but then the login process stops and goes back to login: . How do I set this up so that this program runs everytime someone logs in. Just omit the 'exec ' Also, how could I set this up in 'anacrontab' so that it prints the results of this script file to the screen of all users, including root, instead of mailing the results out? Print it to the screen when they are working there? It's a bit rude but try wall Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpUrLklR7Z7r.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Interaction btw. Mylex Flashpoint LW and 3c509 ??
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 07:38:44PM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I've just installed a SCSI host adapter Mylex Flashpoint LW (BT-950) into my computer. Everything seemed ok until I realized that the Ethernet card, 3COM 3c509, ISA, _not_ plug and play, has stopped working. The network card is recognized by the kernel but no data goes over it. I can't see any obvious IRQ od I/O conflict: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc # cat interrupts CPU0 0: 320416 XT-PIC timer 1: 4486 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 7673 XT-PIC serial 4: 1678 XT-PIC serial 8: 0 XT-PIC rtc 10: 0 XT-PIC 3c509 11:144 XT-PIC BusLogic BT-950 12: 25284 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 10354 XT-PIC ide0 15: 7 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 Looks like the 3c509 does not see the interrupts. Could you look at the BIOS PnP/PCI settings. IRQ 10 must be marked as legacy/old/non-PnP ... Depends on what configurational choice your BIOS offers to you. An auto setting will probably come out wrong. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpKsNHJ3dbYx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: graphic card again
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:32:52PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: I gave my Hercules card back and got a Matrox Millenium G200 instead. Good choice. Does anyone run a machine with this card to give me some info or configuartions? What do you want to know? I use it with the XFCom_Matrox server from SuSE and a ViewSonic17PS 86KHz monitor. I attach my XF86Config and Xserver. For more information ask per private mail. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * # XF86Config auto-generated by XF86Setup # # Copyright (c) 1996 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the # XFree86 Project. # # See 'man XF86Config' for info on the format of this file Section Files RgbPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb # FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled # FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled # FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Keyboard ProtocolStandard XkbRulesxfree86 XkbModelpc104 XkbLayout de XkbVariant nodeadkeys EndSection Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/psaux BaudRate1200 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Primary Monitor VendorName Unknown ModelName Unknown HorizSync 30.0-86.0 VertRefresh 50-160 Modeline 1440x1080 172.00 1440 1540 1600 2004 1080 1090 1100 1132 Modeline 1280x1024 154.80 1280 1367 1460 1800 1024 1028 1032 1066 # Modeline 1280x1024 135.00 1280 1312 1416 1664 1024 1027 1030 1064 Modeline 1152x864 135.00 1152 1464 1592 1776 864 864 876 908 Modeline 1152x864 95.00 1152 1188 1348 1448 864 865 875 896 # Modeline 1152x864 95.00 1152 1248 1408 1520 864 865 875 900 # Modeline 1152x864 92.00 1152 1208 1368 1474 864 865 875 895 Modeline 1024x768 115.50 1024 1056 1248 1440 768 771 781 802 -hsync -vsync Modeline 1024x768 85.00 1024 1064 1184 1288 768 784 787 823 # Modeline 1024x768 85.00 1024 1032 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 Modeline 800x60069.65 800 864 928 1088 600 604 610 640 -hsync -vsync Modeline 640x48045.80 640 672 768 864 480 488 494 530 -hsync -vsync Modeline 640x40031.50 640 672 736 832 400 401 404 445 -hsync +vsync Modeline 512x38422.00 512 528 592 640 384 385 388 404 -hsync -vsync Modeline 480x30029.95 480 504 584 624 300 319 322 333 doublescan Modeline 400x30025.00 400 424 488 520 300 319 322 333 doublescan Modeline 320x24015.75 320 336 384 400 240 244 246 262 doublescan Modeline 320x20012.59 320 336 384 400 200 204 205 225 doublescan EndSection Section Device Identifier Primary Card VendorName Unknown BoardName S3 Trio64V+ (generic) # Use Option nolinear if the server doesn't start up correctly # (this avoids the linear framebuffer probe). If that fails try # option nomemaccess. # # Refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/README.S3, and the XF86_S3 man page. EndSection Section Screen Driver Accel Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor SubSection Display Depth8 Modes
Re: todos/fromdos
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 03:27:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if there are todos/fromdos packages for Linux/Debian? I've searched the Packages files and did a dpkg -S for it, but to no avail. That will only show you the package if you already have todos installed on your system. You need to grep Contents-i386.gz. To answer your question, I do have it installed: $ dpkg -S todos sysutils: /usr/man/man1/todos.1 sysutils: /usr/bin/todos Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgppvsmGj3wwg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: calculating bandwidth requirements
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 11:53:43PM +0100, Ben Bucksch wrote: Can't one force the users to use theproxy at port 80/8080? Yes, by using a custom kernel with the TRANSPARENT_PROXY option enabled. Install the transproxy package and read the enclosed documentation. It's not difficult. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpOXDzLD3ffW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to use a ramdisk?
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 05:34:08PM -0800, Eric House wrote: So there's no point in using ramdisks at all for non-boot tasks? You could use it to build a diskless client, e.g. make an X-terminal out of an old 486 with enough memory and a decent graphics card. To use a ramdisk on a running system: mke2fs /dev/ram1 number_of_512_bytes_blocks mount /dev/ram1 /your_mountpoint I've read elsewhere that loading a compiler's include files, or frequently referenced documentation, or an emulators's file system, into a ramdisk would significantly improve performance. That's not true? Not under linux. It will keep the right things in RAM automatically. Thanks, BTW, (to you and others) for the quick responses. --Eric House PS /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt does not talk about using ramdisks in any context other than for creating boot floppies. I guess that's because they're pretty much useless otherwise? Probably. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpQl9FUZS4xy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: R:Installation on IBM ThinkPad 380XD
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:28:01AM +0100, Gualtiero Dellarole wrote: I have not yet found a solution. I can only say that sometimes the system is able to boot and other times not (the most!). I continue to wait if someone else has found a solution. Did you try the tecra floppies? Did you try to give the floppy=thinkpad option when booting? Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpifWN0ET18E.pgp Description: PGP signature
how to decode quoted printable?
I was looking for a program/filter ... for an apparently simple task: convert a message from quoted-printable to 8bit (iso latin1 encoding) I didn't find any in the debian packages. All that I tried were unable to do the above thing (althoug I didn't try hard) The packages I looked at were: mpack, emil, mimedecode, recode, mime-support. I *must* have overlooked something. Suggestions? Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpDqscs7oZ6v.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ISDN Sedlbauer speed card
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 11:13:19AM +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote: Does anyone know if the isdn support in either hamm or slink supports this beast ? No, you will need a patch for pcmcia-cs to support the card. Unfortunately, I couldn't made mine to work even with this patch. The author couldn't tell me why and I didn't have time to investigate it further. The ELSA card worked (but a patch is needed also. No PCMCIA ISDN card is supported out-of-the-box) Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpsPvDXChSsn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2 ether, problems routing
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:37:11AM +, Pere Camps wrote: First question: can I make an eth behave as a point-to-point if there are only two eth cards in the network? I don't know. Never tried. But it won't help you much. You'll need the proxy arp anyway. Example: Assume Adresses 147.83.61.192-207 are still free (the start IP must be divisible by 16) ifconfig eth1 147.83.61.193 netmask 255.255.255.240 broadcast 147.83.61.207 route add -net 147.83.61.192 dev eth1 arp -s 147.83.61.192 '00:A0:24:52:32:41' netmask 255.255.255.240 pub # Note that this is the hardware address of your first network card, # providing eth0 Not working. I can access eth0 (.17) from the w95 machine but I can not access any other part of the eth0 network. Try to ping the win95 box from some host on your eth0 network and watch with tcpdump on eth0 and eth1 what packets are sent. Sent me the output if you can't interpret it. If I have understood correctly subnetting with the netmask of 240 divides the network into 16 subnets... as my primary net has a netmask of 255.255.255.0 then the machine addresses are 0.0.0.* which is incompatible with puting a netmask of .240 on the eth1. No, your 147.83.61.* still remains a net with netmask 255.255.255.0 A 4 bit subnet is then cut from this and routed elsewhere. TCP/IP will obey the most specific rule, i.e. if an address fits two routing rules, it will obey the one with the smallest subnet. Every PC on eth0 except your linux box will think, the win95 box is directly on it's wire. To send a packet there, it will make a broadcast, asking for the hardware address. Your linux box answers with it's own hardware address and gets the packet. This is the part the arp command is for. No the linux box has a packet from e.g. 147.83.61.7 to 147.83.61.194, i.e. not for itself. So it should route the packet. Where to? It fits the 255.255.255.0 netmask on eth0 and the 255.255.255.240 netmaks on eth1, so the smallest subnet is chosen, i.e. eth1. The rule for eth1 says, it should be accessible directly, so your linux box will broadcast on eth1 asking for the hardware address of 147.83.61.194. The win95 box should answer and get the packet. Now backwards: win95 sends out a packet with target 147.83.61.7. This is not on it's wire (netmask to small), so it is sent to the default gateway, the linux box. The linux box forwards it on eth0 because it's the only interface that fits. So much for the theory. tcpdump should reveal why it is not working. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgp3rwyLrBxnq.pgp Description: PGP signature
