ppp connections between sco linux
Hi guys, just a quick one here, I'm trying to establish a connection between a SCO box, and a linux machine. However after the chat-script connects, I get the following messages from the SCO machine :- --- Log file Snip - 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Chat script succeeded 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending LCP Configure-Request, ID 110, state Starting (1) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 ^M 1/13-18:15:38-1308 ~ 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received LCP Configure-Request, ID 110, state Req-Sent (6) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 LCP: Replying with Configure-Ack 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending LCP Configure-Ack, ID 110, state Req-Sent (6) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received LCP Configure-Ack, ID 110, state Ack-Sent (8) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending IPCP Configure-Request, ID 102, state Starting (1) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received IPCP Configure-Request, ID 102, state Req-Sent (6) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 IPCP: Replying with Configure-Ack 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending IPCP Configure-Ack, ID 102, state Req-Sent (6) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received IPCP Configure-Ack, ID 102, state Ack-Sent (8) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 PPP connected to 192.168.1.204 on du2 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Missed ALLSTATIONS, flushing frame 1/13-18:16:38-1308 LQM: Too many Echo packets lost 1/13-18:16:38-1308 Disconnected from 192.168.1.204 (LQM failure) 1/13-18:16:38-1308 Sending LCP Terminate-Request, ID 117, state Opened (9) 1/13-18:16:38-1308 Hangup --- Log file Snip - This is the response of the logfile from the SCO box, on the linux box, the messages are very similar. I have tried almost everything, but I can't seem to get the systems to connect to each other using ppp. I can get a normal call from the SCO machine to the linux machine, and I see no errors in the line (no line noise). I'm wondering if there is a setting that could be causing this on Linux? I can't remember the PPP version(s) at present. Regards Peter Ludwig BTW - Can you CC me directly, at this email address as I am not on the list from this email account.
Re: Kernel Panics
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: Does it always happen when you run iptraf? it could be a network driver problem or a network card hardware problem. Nope... The machine can just be sitting there lying idle (as idle as a linux box should get that is...) a good way to test the board/cpu/hdd and i/o subsystems that i have found is running 10x copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the same time for 24-48 hours, if the machine lasts 24 hours without a hitch then the problem is something else. also make sure the kernel your using was compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3 and not anything else(it shows you in the bootup messages, use 'dmesg' to see the last couple hundred kernel messages) At present if the machine lasts 24 hours running absolutely nothing, then I'd be happy! I plan on having this machine running as a internet server for a few people (nothing major, just about ten people when we netgame, or something...) and also make sure your using a stable well tested kernel, in my experience the 2.0.36 kernel is rock solid, and 2.2.10 is quite solid as well. All kernel versions I have been able to get my hands on (that support my hardware thast is) have been tried no luck unfortunately. I'm sure I've got a hardware fault with the system, but as I can't seem to track down what it is, I can't go and get the item warrantied (I've bought all the bits from various places...) Thanks for the help though, I will see if I can get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] package, and I'll give it a go, see what it says Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: aha1542 kernel panics
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Michael W. Shaffer wrote: I have been trying to solve this problem without success for about a year now. My hardware is: Specs removed My problem is: After the system has been up for a random length of time (usually about a week or so) it will crash in the middle of the night during a full backup to the DAT drive using cpio. The machine hangs in either an infinite loop or a kernel panic. I originally was running Debian 2.1 with a 2.0.36 kernel, and I would see the following scrolling endlessly off the screen after a crash: error messages removed I have tried: - disconnecting all devices except the tape drive hard drives - installing the highest quality cables I can find for the external devices (this machine currently has about $400 US worth of Granite Digital cables hanging off of it). - installing a Granite Digital active terminator on the end of the SCSI chain - verifying that there are no interrupt or IO port confilicts both in the device jumper configurations and from the /proc filesystem I am completely at my wits end with this. I have searched DejaNews repeatedly for any discussions of kernel panics and crashes with Adaptec cards, Linux, SCSI in general, etc., and all I can find is one thread from about a year ago mentioning the same sorts of problems but no solution. Is this a problem that anyone else has ever had with Linux and an AHA1542C in particular or SCSI in general? Can anyone recommend which part of the setup I should change or eliminate? Is it a bad card? Are Adaptec cards bad in general? Is the aha1542 scsi driver problematic? Is Linux SCSI in general problematic? I myself have an Adaptec 1542CF and I have started to receive problematic errors with the card. After seeing this message, I'm tempted to get another card from somewhere and try that out. I have looked at adaptec's website in regards to this card (about a year ago actually... hmm... perhaps the thread you saw was the one I started? I also had a faulty HDD at the time...), it seems that the card requires a bios update, and as the card is not flashable, you have to get an eeprom burner from somewhere... I was not going to spend $600 US just to reprogram the EEPROM of the scsi card... If you have access to another SCSI card, then try that for a while... I'm guessing that the 1542 series has some major problems with real operating systems grin. Regards, Peter Ludwig
Kernel Panics
Just a quick note, I'm starting to wonder about my hardware. For the last few months (since I reloaded the system back to running slink in fact), I have been receiving errors similar to the following message :- Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Oops: Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: CPU:0 Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: EIP:0010:[con_write+14/40] Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: eax: c018e670 ebx: c19cc000 ecx: c1515f3b edx: 0806596d Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: esi: c19cc000 edi: 004f ebp: c1515eec esp: c1515ec0 Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Process iptraf (pid: 2855, process nr: 61, stackpage=c1515000) Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Stack: 004f c19cc000 c0193e33 c19cc000 c1515eec 004f 004f Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel:080658f8 c19cc000 c1514000 3b345b1b 1b483535 313b305b 6d313b30 36335b1b Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel:345b1b6d 1b386d34 4733365b 5b1b3239 313b3432 5b1b4834 30313b30 335b1b6d Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Call Trace: [opost_block+343/356] [write_chan+339/564] [tty_write+442/524] [write_chan+0/564] [sys_write+211/264] [system_call+52/56] Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Code: ff 74 24 18 53 e8 28 f4 ff ff 89 c6 53 e8 f0 00 00 00 89 f0 Usually, after this happens I loose total control of the system, and the only way to get the system back under control is to do a total reboot of the system. The other fun ones are things that start as :- unable to handle kernel paging request Then the system just dies. I'm wondering if my hardware is faulty? Does anyone have any idea on what might be at fault here? The System has :- - AMD K6/2-233 - Jetway JFE-530TX Motherboard - Adaptec 1542CF SCSI Card - 2xQuantum Empire 1080S (one's with the older firmware, it's baaad!) - 1xSeagate HDD (Not sure of model, it's a full height 5.25 1.4Gig SCSI) - 32Megabytes of RAM - Kingston Network Card (I think it's the KFE-120TX, but can't remember off the top of my head, it's a 10/100 PCI card...) I have replaced the RAM once already, so I know that is not faulty (the old RAM is running perfectly in my other system). I have also replaced the CPU, that didn't help much. I am running potato now (I upgraded it all the way, just in case I had old packages that hated my system or something grin). The only things I'm left with thinking is faulty is the Motherboard, or SCSI card. I have a spare CPU around the place, but I don't have spare motherboard or SCSI card here at the moment (grin). I plan on making another machine, but that's not going to be for a little while yet. Regards, Peter Ludwig
IPMASQ and UDP Packets
I'm trying to figure out how to set the IP Masquerading rules to allow UDP packets to and from my local network. Basically, I'm trying to get a battle.net connection going from my Win98 box running, and I don't want to hook the modem up to the windows box (for some strange reason is it? my modem runs faster under linux than win98). I'm running slink (as per the current spec) on the server with kernel version 2.2.1. What do I need to do to get this running correctly? I can do all the normal stuff (ftp's, http, telnet, ping though it is slower than it should be, as well as use ICQ and other stuff like that). Just wondering what I need to modify/add to allow udp to be masqueraded from my local win98 box? Regards, Peter Ludwig
Running X-Displays of win9x
Just a quick note, has anyone know a program that can be easily setup that will allow win9x to connect to the x-windows server on a linux box? I'm trying to set this up in two places one isn't really important, just my place, but the other one is for a business, we'd like to be able to provide some of our customers with that capability (we provide accounting software that runs off the linux server, and we'd like them not to actually have physical access to the server...) All help will be appreciated, even man page references grin. Programs, etc that will be required will be organised, we just would like to be able to provide this to our customers :-) Regards, Peter Ludwig
Postscript Merging Dial-in PPP Access
I'm trying to get a couple of things running for a client here. I need the system to be able to do two things :- 1) Merge two postcript files. I'm trying to run a small script that converts the text output from another program into Postscript, and then merge that file with a previously createed postscript file. Here's the script segment that does these things :- --- Begin Script Segment -- for $source.* do cat $file | enscript -p/tmp/outfile.ps -R -B cat /u/psback.ps /tmp/outfile.ps | lpr -PHPLaser done End Script Segment --- The HP Laser is a fully postscript capable printer, I can print both files seperately, and the files are able to merge print on a SCO box, but under linux the files seem to not want to merge. psback.ps is a background image that is needed behind every page printed. source.* is a collection of single pages (organised through another section of the script, quite simple really). Comments about this will be greatly appreciated. All help useful. 2) Dial-in PPP Access. Before people start screaming at me to read the manuals, I suggest they also look in the documentation. The current documentation is not detailed enough for me to get the system to work. I can setup shell access using mgetty, but as soon as I try and setup a pppd to run, it kills the connection complaining about the lock files. Any help here needed! How-to files, please paste into your reply all relevant sections, as the online HOWTO's, and the local howto's onsite are not up to the task. BTW - I'm not on the mailing list (I don't have time to sort through heaps of mail everyday). Please post all replies direct to me. Regards, Peter Ludwig __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra
I am trying to help someone setup their Diamond Viper V770 Ultra under Linux (not sure exactly which distro they use, but I'm a debian person myself). They are having problems with X-windows (what else?) description of problem :- 1) Window appears to be four times it's correct size. 2) Unable to move the viewport to see the whole X-Windows Screen. If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated (I have got them to try all the normal possibilities, but they haven't worked for them, I am thinking that they need a X-server upgrade...) Regards, Peter Ludwig
Error Messages - How to Stop?
I'm setting up a server for some people I know for there companies. While trying to get everything going (testing, etc) I have all the error messages supposedly going to a different virtual terminal so I can leave things on screen without them being corrupted in display. This isn't working. I am still getting critical errors (or whatever you call them, I call them annoying) displaying over the top of the display. At present for instance I have the server system runnning iptraf so I can keep an eye on what's going on with the internet feed so I can attempt to hack the server remotely... the server screen however shows a garbled display because the network card in the machine is not the best (it keeps stuffing around with interrupts... causing an error message to be display onscreen) I want to stop these error messages coming up onto the current terminal. I want every error message to go to the other terminal (aside from kernel panics of course grin). Anyone got any ideas? Please email me directly. my server is playing up with this list for some reason frown. Regards, Peter Ludwig - Peter Ludwig Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN : 15513904 Unemployed Linux Sysadmin, Computer Technician, Programmer, etc. (If it's computer-related, and not sales, I'll give it a try!) Debian/GNU Linux - Because Life was meant to be Easy! -
Soundcard Installation Problem
I've done some searching and found that linux is seeing my soundcard, but the driver is not available (?). It seems that OSS/Linux has the driver available, but it is not yet available in OSS/Free (the story of my life really it seems grin, try to get a free piece of software running and I need to purchase something...). If anyone knows of a way I can get the soundcard running (even marginally, hey I would like to be able to use it in Linux, almost got everything else up to scratch to ditch windows, but games are really bad with no sound...), then here's the information I've been able to get linux to read about the soundcard. The soundcard (as far as I have been able to determine anyhow), is a PCI ESS Solo-1 (ES1938), it's built onto the motherboard, so I can't just swap it for one that works in linux (unfortunately... and I can't afford a new soundcard... yet). Here's a copy of my /proc/pci file... (I've stripped all the items relating to devices I have working, or are obviously working (eg the pci-isa bridge, and the onboard video card grin) --- Begin /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems Unknown device (rev 2). Vendor id=1039. Device id=530. Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe000]. ide controller - section snipped pci-isa bridge - section snipped Bus 0, device 1, function 1: Hot Swap Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems ACPI (rev 0). Medium devsel. agp video card - section snipped Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=125d. Device id=1969. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Late I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001]. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401]. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01]. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]. vga controller - section snipped --- End /proc/pci - Here's what I get when I run lspci :- Output of lspci --- 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0530 (rev 02) 00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 (rev d0) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev b1) 00:01.1 Class ff00: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] ACPI 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 6306 (rev a2) End of output - That just about covers everything, oh yeah, I'm running kernel version 2.2.10 and Debian Potato (since about a month after slink got the go-ahead for stable). Regards, Peter Ludwig
Soundcard Printer Hassles
I've just recently upgraded my motherboard (the new CPU I got didn't work on the old motherboard sigh), and as such I'm having a few hassles with Linux doing some things. The motherboard has a few things inbuilt (yukkie, but it was all I could afford). Namely a soundcard and a video card. The video card problem was sorted out by a short visit to xfree86.org, so I am not having any hassles there, but I've got a few hassles with linux recognising my soundcard. The onboard soundcard is a ESS style (not sure on the actual number, but it the win95/98 driver is for the ESS-SOLO1), it's PNP under Win98 but isapnptools doesn't recognise it as being there for pnp mode. I've read through the kernel documentation and it noted that for some ess cards you need to load some code before the soundcard can be activated. Is this required for my soundcard? If so, where do I get this code from? Oh, just remembered the motherboard is a jet-way J-530BF motheboard (needed it for the AMD-K62/233 chip I got the other day, nice jump from pentium 90 stage, hey grin). Any responses will be greatfully received on this matter (no flames please, I'm having enough troubles as it is without them). On a side note, I own a HP Deskjet 400, and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to print in colour under linux... anyone know how to get this to work? I didn't want to play around with printer drivers to take a guess at what one will work, I don't like guessing with computer stuff... I get enough hassles with the stuff I get without having to worry about software problems Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: Debian and StarOffice5.1
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Holger Leiser wrote: I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long time to load it. Can it be possible that there is a conflict with shared libraries ? That is a possiblity, there are a number of other things that affect the loading time of any application (not just staroffice, but staroffice might be making them apparent to you)... firstly, just a few short questions, how much ram do you have? I have 32 megabytes, and staroffice takes about a minute to load, when I had 64 megabytes (I had to sell some frown), it only took 10 seconds or so... secondly, have you got enough hdd space left for temporary files? Staroffice doesn't die when it doesn't have enough space, it just starts doing some silly things to try and get around the problem... check your drive usage (on all drives if you have more than one). The main thing I would check on your system would be the RAM... linux uses a lot more physical ram than you might think (even though it doesn't need to... it just likes to have some available for instant use it seems to me...) If you have enough physical ram (I've got to get back up to at least 64 megabytes myself... aiming for 256Megabytes actually grin), then most x-windows applications will fly along, even if you have other problems with system config. Hope this helps, Peter Ludwig
New Kernel - No Diald?
I've updated my kernel to version 2.2.10, and well, it seems that since then, diald has refused to operate. Here's a copy of the system logs which contain the information that I can see which refers to the problem :- --- From the System Logs --- Jul 15 09:06:42 midnight kernel: SLIP linefill/keepalive option. Jul 15 09:06:43 midnight diald[224]: Cannot send dump request: Connection refused Jul 15 09:06:43 midnight kernel: diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) Jul 15 09:06:43 midnight diald[224]: Cannot send dump request: Connection refused Jul 15 09:06:43 midnight diald[224]: Cannot send dump request: Connection refused --- End of System Logs - I made some changes to the kernel configuration when I upgraded (I no longer needed IP Maquerading, so I removed the stuff that enables that). Anyone have any idea what I need to turn on to get diald to operate properly again? I've read all the documentation that I can think of which might be appropriate, and none of it refers to any kernel options (ie. the diald man pages, the diald documentation, and well, the general ISP-connection HOWTO). If I've missed reading any documentation that contains what I need to have set, then a referance to it would be appreciated. BTW - Please reply to me directly, my ISP got annoyed at me for receiving all the mailing list messages, so I've unsubscribed from the list :-) Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: New Kernel - No Diald?
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:16:34PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: I've updated my kernel to version 2.2.10, and well, it seems that since then, diald has refused to operate. You need diald 0.9x (in potato) for 2.2 kernels. I should have mentioned that... I have version 0.98.2-0.1 of diald... BTW - Please reply to me directly, my ISP got annoyed at me for receiving all the mailing list messages, so I've unsubscribed from the list :-) An ISP having problems with this list? Are they very small? No, just got annoyed with me because once I wasn't able to collect the mail for a week :-) They didn't like the idea of having 2000 messages waiting for ONE user :-) Regards, Peter
Exim Problem (I think....)
I'm running slink (upgraded to potato), and I seem to be having a minor problem with exim. I cannot receive any email using the system under linux. I am running exim fetchmail Exim version 3.0-2, fetchmail () Before I upgraded exim, everything worked really well, now (since 3.0-1 actually) it's not working. For added information here's the error message reported by exim when it attempts to load :- Socket Creation Failed: Invalid Arguement I've been having some problems with my system otherwise at the moment (mainly the fact that the kernel is refusing to compile at present... not sure what's going on there, but I need to recompile the silly thing... I'm running kernel 2.2.9 BTW)... If anyone has any ideas on this matter, please email me directly as I'm not on the mailing list anymore (my ISP got very annoyed with me for filling my email box with mailing list messages...) Regards, Peter Ludwig - Peter Ludwig Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN : 15513904 Unemployed Linux Sysadmin, Computer Technician, Programmer, etc. Debian/GNU Linux - Because Life was meant to be Easy! -
[THANKS} Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?
I would like to thank everyone for their help here... I've been trying to find this file for a while (as I do not have a permanent internet connection and would have to download the file before I ran the installer). The URL given by AG has been very helpful, and I've finally got the file. I would recommend that instead of people sending emails to those of us who cannot find these things which go along the idea of just install the installer, it'll tell you! that they actually bother to just say thr URL. This would have stopped this thread (possibly) a long time ago, instead of wasting bandwidth. For those who missed the URL the first time (mailing lists can be a little slow sometimes filtering through to people...), it's listed below, along with a little warning (hey, no-one bothered to mention to me before this person that r-player g2 was alpha!). Again, thanx for the information, Peter Ludwig BTW - I can RTFM as some people have suggested... why do you think I asked for extra information? On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: On 21 Jun 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: I've read a couple of posts in the list about the RPlayer G2 for Linux. However, the Real's website doesn't list it among available downloads (neither free, nor Plus). Is it really available from somewhere, or is this a mass confusion? Technically, it's only an alpha version, which is probably why it isn't announced on the public site anywhere i can find. As has been mentioned, when you try to install the realplayer package it will tell you to go to the following URL to download the proper file: http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html
Re: startx
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Chris Flipse wrote: Is there a way to set up startx so that it will open on a specified tty (say, tty 13) instead of the next available one? I know it can be done with the various x login apps, but I've had some bad experiences with xdm and wdm locking up my box, and I prefer not to take that chance. :) Okay, I've got xdm/startx (depending upon whether I want to have xdm chewing up cycles or not) running off vt9... I've gone and looked for the configuration file for doing just that... and well... I cannot find it! I'll email you again if I can find it... :-(
Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?
Sorry, just butting in... On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: It's there, I got it, It works... You should get the RedHat RPM version, put it in /tmp and the let the debian installation script at it. WHERE? I got given a URL a little while back for a possible site for the linux version of Realplayer g2... the documentation was in spanish, so I had no idea on why it just segfaulted on me... but anyhow, that url didn't work. And realplayers site lists the FREE version of realplayer (for unix-likesystems, INCLUDING Redhat) as being only available in 5.0. What are us people doing wrong at www.real-audio.com? I've tried refreshing the page recently (unless it was locked in the proxy server) to no avail... If your version works, could you just email it to me then? I can't for the life of me figure out why I cannot see it if a lot of people can see it at real-audio, but some of us cannot... On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:26:22 Arcady Genkin wrote: | Hi all: | | I've read a couple of posts in the list about the RPlayer G2 for | Linux. However, the Real's website doesn't list it among available | downloads (neither free, nor Plus). | | Is it really available from somewhere, or is this a mass confusion? | | Thanks! | --
xacc reports
I was just wondering if anyone would be able to tell me why X-Accountant will not produce reports? I've currently got version 1.0.18-2 of xacc installed, and I remember when I was running hamm that I could view the menu (but was unable to do anything with it because I made a lot of mistakes with other things), but now xacc refuses to even show me the sub-menu! Anyone have any ideas? I would check the website that's the home of xacc, but for some reason at the moment, my ISP's proxy (which he redirects all out-going http requests through) is refusing to allow me to connect to it... :( Regards, Peter Ludwig
[OFF-TOPIC] Realplayer G2
I've been looking for Realplayer G2 all over the place (including at Real-Audio's website), and I cannot seem to find it for any unix-like operating systems... Is there a particular place where it's at, or am I missing soemthing here? I'd like to be able to run it on the linux box, so then I'd only have to figure out a way to get linux to run a windows 95 plugin for netscape and I'd be able to almost remove windows... Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: CMI8338 sound card on board under Linux
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, Hi! I have a CMI8338 sound card on board under Linux. It's a PCI Sound Pro. PCIUtils in potato detected it. Anyone has got this card to work in Linux? I happen to have the earlier model of this card (the CMI8330), you'll need to recompile your kernel to get this to work properly, and make all the sound files available as modules. If you have a look in your /usr/src/kernel-version/Documentation/sound directory, you'll see a file called CMI8330. Follw the instructions in there, and see how it goes. As far as I know, the CMI8338 is just a PCI version of the CMI8330, though I could be wrong here... (I don't know I've never had one grin). If the above doesn't work, try just using the MSS driver, as the CMI range of sound cards is supposed to be Windows Sound Source Compatible (you won't get all the snazzy features of the card, but at least you'll have sound!). Hope This Helps, Peter Ludwig
Re: LILO: Multiple drives (SCSI and IDE) LINUX and Windows
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Philip S. Hempel wrote: Nils Rennebarth wrote: 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 Now I had already though of that but the way the bios implementations are setup if you do tell it to boot off the SCSI as the boot device than you end up not being abe to boot of of the floppy disks.. The reason for this concern was I told my father that things would not be any different for him but to just have to type linux (that part I have yet to get to) to get into linux. Other than that he just hast to let lilo start windows. And if he decides to boot of a floppy (which he does regularly) he can just do that. Thanks. again Pardon me for butting in here :) I had the same basic problem a little while ago. (THe one that you couldn't boot off the floppy if you told the BIOS to boot of the SCSI hd's). Have you tried looking for an updated BIOS patch? I have a SiS M571 motherboard (unfortunately.. I can hear the groans already smile), and I was unable to do a lot of things, I also had problems accessing the floppy drive, and other such annoying problems... well, luckily there was a patch available for the BIOS (seems a lot of people have had the same problem as I did), and well, everything seems to be running okay now... (Now if I could just find a program to patch the VGA bios... ... ... ) HTH, Peter Ludwig BTW - If you have the same motherboard as I do (shudder), or perhaps with any other motherboard.., then you'll have a little trouble with Win95 anyway. Try placing the linux drive on the secondary controller. Seems Windows has a little problem with having a drive in-front of itself... And some bios's ALWAYS place IDE drives first in line... seems a bit weird, but then again, the manufacturers are like this sometimes...
Exim - run from inetd?
I had a problem back when I was running HAMM, and as such I had to load exim as a daemon... now I've since found out what the problem is, and as such I want to switch exim back to running from inetd... How do I go about this? I'd experiment, but I don't want to lose any mail (that was the reason I changed it from running in inetd... oh well I needed to run fetchmail, and I didn't bother to check configurations... oh well, my mistake :) ). Thanx in Advance, Peter Ludwig
a little [OFF-TOPIC] Exim .forward files
This message is a little off-topic, but I was wondering if any of the exim .forward guru's would be willing to answer a question for me. I'm trying to split my email with a .forward file, now this has been working great, but just recently I started to notice a few of my supposedly forwarded emails popping up in my normal inbox. I've since found that this was caused by a confusion between header fields, no biggy, add the extra fields as extra .forward styles... hey it worked... umm... sorta. It's been forwarding all mail which includes debian-user (including debian-user-digest) into my debian-user mailbox, but I set the debian-user-digest filter first... why is this happening? Also, how can I shrink down the three or four email filters which all do the same thing (search the header for debian-user@lists.debian.org, and transfer the email to my debian-user mailbox), into the one filter? Is this even possible? Basically I'm in a few debian mailing lists and want to make sure that everything goes where it is supposed to go (meaning that if a message is for debian-cd debian-user, then I want it in debian-cd), and so I would like to make sure that I'm doing everything the easiest method :) I don't want to waste too much time on it, so I'm throwing it up in the air... Here's my .forward file :- - # Exim filter if $header_Resent-From: contains debian-isp then save $home/mail/debian-isp endif if $header_Resent-From: contains debian-cd then save $home/mail/debian-cd endif if $header_To: contains debian-user-digest then save $home/mail/debian-digest endif if $header_Resent-From: contains debian-user@lists.debian.org then save $home/mail/debian-user endif if $header_Resent-To: contains debian-user@lists.debian.org then save $home/mail/debian-user endif if $header_To: contains debian-user@lists.debian.org then save $home/mail/debian-user endif finish - Thanx in advance, Peter Ludwig
Re: Fetchmail problems
On Sat, 22 May 1999, XRDLAB wrote: Hi, I upgraded my hamm system to slink. Everything went well. The old configurations generated by ppconfig run equally well under the new system also. But I am having some trouble with regard to getting the mail from my isp. This has happened after upgrading to slink. When I do a fetchmail, I get the following error message: mysxrd-in-haralu:~$ fetchmail 1 message for mysxrd at giasbg01.vsnl.net.in (1241 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (1241 octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to mysxrd! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from giasbg01.vsnl.net.in fetchmail: Query status=10 With this I am not able to download the messages from the isp to my machine. Can anyone suggest some remedy for this? This occurs because of a minor change in the initial setup scripts with exim (The new default email server). To fix this problem, edit your /etc/exim.conf file and change the following line :- local_domains = yourbasedomainname to local_domains = yourbasedomainname : localhost This should fix the problem you are having. If you don't use exim, then unfortunately I don't have a clue as to what is happening :) HTH, Peter Ludwig
pppconfig/pon/poff problem
My provider has decided to change their login prompts, and as such this has caused me a little confusion. My problem seems to be related to the pppconfig/pon/poff commands. Here goes :- I have two pppconfig setups for my current provider, because sometimes when logging in I get a username/password combination, and other times a login/password combination. As I could'nt seem to find a way to tell pppconfig that my provider sometimes uses one, and other times the other I have both available. However the second script (the one for the login/password combination) does not run correctly, what happens is that I get the exact same script running as if I run the first (and primary) script, eg the provider script. Has anyone else had the same problem with the pppconfig scripts? Any information at all about this would be very handy as I don't like the extra phone bill expense of having to ring in four or five times just to get a usable prompt sequence. I can handle ringing twice (if the first time does not work), but I do not wish to ring in anymore than that. Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: Wierd PPP Problems
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: On 13 May 1999, John Hasler wrote: Snip out sections not of interest to my mail Of course, I have no way of knowing if Mr. Hoover did this, but asking on this list about ISP connection difficulties without consulting the ISP first is probably not the best way to go. I'm sure that this is not true of your company, but almost all ISP's would tell Mr. Hoover We do not support Linux and refuse to listen to his problem. You misunderstand. I'm not telling you or Mr. Hoover to ask the ISP what the problem is, only what a disconnect code (or however it's done on their system) is. Since that is independent of the operating system you use, it doesn't matter what you're running. You should NEVER expect telephone technical support to solve your problems, you should only expect them to provide the information you need to solve your own problems. (If they happen to be able to tell you what the problem is, that should be viewed as a happy windfall.) For a little side-note here, in Oz (that's australia) we have set of government regulations governing what steps are the best to take if we have problems with our telecommunications company(s) (even ISP's fall under this category). However, I would most certainly agree with Mr Hasler about the fact that most ISP's will say sorry no-do-linux and that's it. I myself was connected with one of the big ISP's here in Oz, and well, they decided that not supporting linux was going to be a big thing for them. You obviously run an ISP, so... how's this one, would you answer this question if it was asked of you? When I'm connecting to the server my ppp connection requires the remote-ip address. What is the remote IP address for your system for dial-up accounts? They decided that they could not provide me with that information... How's a guy supposed to connect ANYTHING other than win95/98 to their system? BTW - It was dynamic IP addressing, with the remote end not providing it's IP address for the connection, so pppd would not work properly... regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: Linux Kernel Version?
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Dave Evanson wrote: Hello, Just reading your FAQ's and cna't find out what Linux Kernel version that Slink uses...I have downloaded Slink, and I want to use Linux drivers for my Token Ring NIC, the only problem is that the manufacturer only lists compatibility by Linux version, not by any particular distribution... As far as I understand, Slink is kernel version 2.0.36 straight out of the box, but you can use almost any kernel version with debian. I'm currently working at PC-IT 99 (in Brisbane, Australia), and one of the companies there sells UPS systems, and they also have a software package to deal with thier UPS system, it runs under Linux kernel 2.x.x.. which is why I'm probably going to purchase from them, at least then I won't have to have a Windows system on the UPS to monitor/set or otherwise deal with the Ups.. Hope this helps, Peter Ludwig
Re: Apps For Debian?
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: As I am a new user of Debian I have a couiple of Questions as to what apps to get . I am not a couplete newbie but am still very new ( I know how to use gzip and tar and can do most basic functions of a *nix system) Here is my dilema after searching though several different dists I have come to the conclusion that debian wins. I always suggest it to people who are looking at installing linux. I myself have tried Debian, Slackware, and RedHat, and well, Debian Wins hands down for me. Now I have a minimally configured box running WindowMaker and I need to find Replacement apps for my windows junk. Specificaly a Word Replacement ( I tried WordPerfect but the install blew up at the end) There doesn't seen to be a .deb package available for it for some reason in spike of the aliance between debian and corel (same is true for KDE but i like WindowMaker better anyway). Any Ideas? There are a number of different Word Proccessing Packages out there, seeing as you've tried Word Perfect, I'll skip that one (grin). If you just want to use basic word Processing, I would suggest Emacs (you have to install it for a few packages, so why not get some use out of it? BTW - I myself don't like Emacs, so here's another option. You could try (if you've the HDD space), Staroffice. It's pretty good, and it'll read a large variety of formats, only problem - it's 120+ Megabytes of harddrive space used... Not as much of a problem as it might seem, but it is VERY big in reference to most Linux Software. There are many others, but I haven't tried them.. I myself decided to switch from Windows, and Star Office suited my right down to the ground... Also need something that will make .gifs (Gimp doesn't seem to do this) Haven't found one yet myself... I wouldn't mind a decent package... I'll probably just wait until Wine gets better and run Paint Shop Pro... I need a good HTML code editor for debian (Been thinking I may just program macros in emacs but I don't realy want to) Umm... Ditto for me... I've tried all the Linux-Native HTML editors I could find, and I think at present I'll stick with multi-booting this system and running my http design software under windows... You might be interested in waiting a little yourself, at least until Gnome gets fully off the ground, those packages are beginning to look VERY good. On a side note I will be needing a Database to connect a website to fairly soon. Any suggestions (I am leaning towards mySQL but I would like a GUI interface to work in if possiable) Someone is ahead of you here, I do believe... There is a GUI interface for it, but it's very cumbersome, and might be best handled at present from the command line... I'm not sure if there is a Database package written for Linux which has a decent GUI interface... though if you don't mind buying commercial software, there is at least one... can't quite remember it's name now (I'm a big help, aren't I?) P.S on a happy note I got Netscape to work Finaly! and TinTin++ rocks (please include it in a furture debian release. They are working on it again finally and I would love to be able to apt-get it as they improve it. Version 2 coming soom:) Thats good to know... btw - what's TinTin++ Hope this helps, Peter Ludwig
Re: Apps For Debian?
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: Also need something that will make .gifs (Gimp doesn't seem to do this) Haven't found one yet myself... I wouldn't mind a decent package... I'll probably just wait until Wine gets better and run Paint Shop Pro... Gimp will support GIFs. The capability is just in a separate package for patent reasons. Install the gimp-nonfree package to get GIF and TIFF support. I actually remembered this after I'd sent the message off, actually the main reason I don't use gimp is because when I tried it I couldn't seem to do the fine detail work I wanted to do, and also I couldn't place text into the image (major lack there as far as web development is concerned!) Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: OPL3-SAx sound CLIPPING/SKIPPING under HDD+MOUSE activity
Okay, I've read through your whole message so here's a nice response for
you :) You'll love it...
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Rune Linding Raun wrote:
Hi HELP!
I got a laptop(K6-23D 333+64Mb RAM S3 virge mg/mx) with a OPL3-SAx(yamaha 719)
sound chipset. It works perfectly under win98, but i dont use 98. The problem
is that sound through dsp device is clipped/disturbed by HDD+MOUSE activity in
X and X-free sessions! Iam using kernel 2.2.x and compiling with modular
OPL3-SAx support and initializing the card with isapnp since its a PnP
chipset.
I havent been able to figure out the obvious I/O conflict but iam not a HEX
master so I have pasted in some of my /proc/ files from a
system where i can get sound(mp3 eg) but clipping and skipping of the output
then i move the mouse or there is harddisk activity( it dosent seem to be a
CPU
dependent prob).
Not exactly sure here, but it might be related to the stuff below ...
please help I need sound on my mobile-LinuxBOX :)!!!
/var/proc/ioports:
-001f : dma1
.. Stuff cut out ...
Okay here's where we get to the interesting bit...
/var/proc/pci:
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems 5597/5598 Host (rev 4).
This is the same motherboard as mine apparantly, so I can give you almost
detailed information on how to get it working...
The actual sound board used, is the CMI8330 (commonly refered to as the
soundpro). And yes, the OPL3-SAx driver does appear to work, however,
there is a much better method of getting it to work.
I have attached the two sound files that may interest you...
And yes, I'm using the new kernel (2.2.4, I'm waiting to see how much gets
modified with 2.2.5)..
If the attached files don't help too much, then try checking your
isapnp.conf file and making sure you have everything set the way you think
it should be :)
Hope this helps,
Peter Ludwig
How to enable CMI 8330 soundchip on Linux
--
Stefan Laudat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello folks,
The CMI8330 soundchip is a very small chip found on many recent
motherboards. In order to use it you just have to use a proper
isapnp.conf and a little bit of patience.
Of course you will have to compile kernel sound support as module,
as shown below:
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401=m
# Just for fun :)
CONFIG_SOUND_MSS=m
The /etc/isapnp.conf file will be:
snip below
(READPORT 0x0203)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
(VERIFYLD N)
# WSS
(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 0
(IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0530))
(IO 1 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0388))
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
(NAME CMI0001/16777472[0]{CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter})
(ACT Y)
))
# Control device ?
(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 1
(IO 0 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
(NAME CMI0001/16777472[1]{CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter})
(ACT Y)
))
# Joystick
(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 2
(IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0200))
(NAME CMI0001/16777472[2]{CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter})
(ACT Y)
))
# SB...
(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 3
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
(INT 0 (IRQ 7 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
(NAME CMI0001/16777472[3]{CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter})
(ACT Y)
))
(WAITFORKEY)
end of snip
The module sequence is trivial:
/sbin/modprobe sound
# You need to load the ad1848 module first. That matters, otherwise the
# chip falls into soundblaster compatibility and you won't get it back out
/sbin/insmod ad1848 io=0x530 dma=0 irq=5 soundpro=1
/sbin/insmod uart401
/sbin/insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1
/sbin/insmod mpu401 io=0x330
/sbin/insmod opl3 io=0x388
The soundchip is now fully initialized. Enjoy it.
To configure the Crystal CS423x sound chip and activate its DSP functions,
modules may be loaded in this order:
modprobe sound
insmod ad1848
insmod uart401
insmod cs4232 io=* irq=* dma=* dma2=*
This is the meaning of the parameters:
io--I/O address of the Windows Sound System (normally 0x534)
irq--IRQ of this device
dma and dma2--DMA channels (DMA2 may be 0)
On some cards, the board attempts to do non-PnP setup, and fails. If you
have problems, use Linux' PnP facilities.
To get MIDI facilities add
insmod opl3 io=*
where io is the I/O address of the OPL3 synthesizer. This will be shown
in /proc/sys/pnp and is normally 0x388.
Re: Installation problems
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Nic Cottrell wrote: Hi everyone, Hello there... This is my first time installing Linux. I've got the Debian packages on CD, but was forced to install the base systems on floppy disks because the CD drive was playing up (it's a sbpcd). At reboot it was detected successfully, but when I got to install the packages from the CD I'm asked for the block device name for the cd drive. I have no idea what it may be. Is there a way I can find out. When you are installing debian if you press alt-f2 then you should see a screen with just a short line up the top of the screen, this is another virtual terminal, and if you press enter (I believe that's the thing, it's been a while since I installed debian on a system), then you will be at a command prompt. Have a look (dir works if you know dos, but it's better to get used to linux straight up and just type ls) in the /dev directory their should be a file called sbpcd, and a couple more called sbpcdx (where x is 1-4). As such the device name for the cdrom drive should be /dev/sbpcd, or if that does not work try /dev/sbpcd0, /dev/sbpcd1..etc... This is only an educated guess, as you may need to have a module loaded to access your cd-rom and if you have not loaded it, then you won't be able to access it anyway... (During install you should have had to insert a drivers disk, or something similiar, after that it should have given you a big listing of things, these are the modules available in the base distribution (you make others yourself, ie the ones for your soundcard). If you haven't loaded the module, try changing to another virtual terminal (there are 6 normally installed in the base setup, where alt-f1 take you too the first vt), and then running modconf, you'll then be shown the same program which you should have loaded the module for the cd in the first time. Also, the ^C key does not work where I am and so the only thing I can do is type in the correct block name or reboot the system.. Try using ctrl-x during initial install ctrl-c is disabled (at least it was on my machine, don't know if it is supposed to be or not, but it prevents accidents grin). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. That's okay, all I have is ideas, I don't actually own a sbpcd cdrom drive :) but I did have a phillips lms-205MS (don't ask, and thier isn't a driver that works for that particular model frown phillips being stuck-up again...). Hope this helps, Peter Ludwig
Mouse problems in X-Windows
I've just recently purchased a new mouse, and it is supposed to be a three-button mouse (software configurable), but two problems, 1) they forgot to include the software, and 2) it does not respond to the normal three button mouse reset codes. Now, my main problem (I'll be satisfied using it as a two button mouse), is that quite often when I'm on the internet I've got both an X-session going, and am doing things on virtual terminals. Occassionally (it doesn't happen all the time), when I switch back to X-Windows the mouse decides to die, it seems to be repetitively pressing the right mouse button. Does anyone have any ideas??? The main IC in the mouse is a EM8370BP if this helps... It's very generic, and was a cheapie... Regards, Peter Ludwig
Email Sorting
I'm trying to arrange for my email to be sorted into different mail folders. I've tried using procmail but it just killed all the inbound mail (I hope none of it was important, it didn't even back the mail up like I thought it was going to... So, anyhow, does anyone have any ideas on how I could go about sorting the inbound mail? I run Pine as my email reader and would like to be able to continue using it if at all possible. Regards, Peter Ludwig
ISP Connection
Hello peoples, I've just transfered over to a new ISP, and I'm having some problems with my connection to the ISP. I've managed to manouver myself into a position where I can get online, but it does not seem to be online fully... it's a little hard to describe, sort of a funny feeling I've gotten :- i.e. not everything is connecting correctly, ftp has to be in PASSIVE mode, etc... I also have the occassional hassle that the connection does not happen... oh, it dials in and everything but then just sort of stops and hangs up.. really weird... anyhow my new ISP does not support Linux (though I think the guys who I talked to on the phone about it might be changing their own systems soon grin).. but anyhow, as the ISP doesn't officially support linux I'm in a bit of a bind here. To connect under Windows here's all I have to do :- setup the internet connection (dial-up networking, dns entries, etc.) dial the ISP enter username and password in box that appears onscreen (yep, a little box comes up and asks me for my username and password). To have it connect under Linux I've done the following :- setup the internet connection (dns entries, pppconfig, etc.) modified the PAP secrets file (this took a little bit of figuring out but I finally figured it out). dial the ISP it connects... but with the problems I mentioned above.. I've since looked back at my win95 connection settings and it has the box log onto remote network checked... I tried connecting that way, and yep no funny box opening up... If anyone has any clues on to what I can do to help configure the linux setup so I can do it that way it would be prefered... I hate slow links, that's why I bought a 56K modem for :) Catch ya's l8r, Peter Ludwig
Re: IP Masq
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Ahem - this way you block portmap from the outside but let everything else in. That's bad! And, of course - portmap alone will not buy you anything, you will need to enable rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd to the inside too. I understand that, after reading through all the documentation that I've got here, but please explain one thing to me. That hosts.deny file you saw was DIRECT from the default installation, if it's so bad to have it set that way, why didn't they TELL people? Besides, that file is actually irrelevant to me, as I'm running IP Masquerading and a few other things that attack the incoming connection first... mainly I deny access from outside to everything. The hosts.deny file is just used (by myself anyway as far as I can tell) by my internal network, and I _WANT_ all of the ports in the internal network to work. These files are VERY important, without them setup correctly, no matter what I did I couldn't do anything. With your setup you could do nearly everything. Really? Then why couldn't I? For your information portmap refers to the gateway/hosts DNS server, and the above files should be on the gateway/host. portmap is not a dns server. The dns is called named. portmap is a program to I was attempting to simplify my explanation, sorry if it has offended you slightly, or put your back up. A better wording would be :- For your information portmap refers to the system you are calling your gateway/host, and the above files should be similar to those you have on your gateway/host. enable remote procedure calls (rpc) so you can use services like network information system (nis) or network file system (nfs). You do not want to open these to the outside! But the problem he was experiencing (and so was I until I changed my files to the above settings) was that if you came in from outside you _COULD_ access everything, but coming in from the local network - nothing at all. My system runs very well now, I've got a secondary machine that I occassionally have linux running on it, but more often has OS/2 or Win95 running on it (for web page design more than anything else). BTW - I believe that I already have had one person (at least) attempt to get into my system from outside, it was pretty slack the way he tried so it was only half-hearted, but as I expected - bounce... grin Regards, Peter Ludwig
Quake 2 - not a perl script?
I've just gotten Quake 2, and the startup script in /usr/games returns the following error message :- Not a perl script at /usr/games/quake2 line 1. Anyone know what's going on here? I've just upgraded most of my sytsem to slink, and I waited to install Quake 2 until after I did the upgrade... I really would like to run the linux version as the Windows version is too slow on my machine (all those graphics under a GUI with no 3D accelerator card frown). Regards, Peter Ludwig
RE: lprng and slink
You are absolutely wright! I just downgrade to hamm for the same problem. I could print in text mode only, but I think the problem was not due to permission mistakes. Anyway I will stop the upgrade to slink to total defrozen. The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I just upgraded from hamm to slink. I have found one problem with the upgrade in the lprng package. I downgraded to the hamm version until such time as it gets fixed. Basically after installing the new version, I could not print due to some time of permissions error. I have the standard lpd.conf and lpd.perms files as defined by Debian. Just a question for both parties concerned here, did you remember to change your printer setup over to the new lp* format? Slink has removed lp0 and replaced it with lp1 (I believe that's the way it is), anyway I first off could not print under slink until I had a look at the new config file, and realised it had hosed my configuration for my printer, and also changed the printer port... but it's working great now that I've changed the printer port to the new settings. Actually I've just remembered, the new kernel version (2.2.1 is what I'm running) is the thing that changed the lp port... geez, have to remember these things else I'll be considered a fool... (though that isn't hard for people who have actually met me) grin. Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: Problem loading sound driver in user accounts
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I have installed support for my Soundblaster card and it works fine (kernel module). That's good, so far so good. I like to install the driver on the different user accounts through the X init files. The command is: modprobe -a sound. This works fine when I am root. And also on user accounts if I change the permission for the sound driver file (sound.o) as root, but only until I reboot. After I have rebooted and try to load the driver after having logged in as a normal user I get the message that I do not have permission to load the module sound.o . I have to go the way though root to get it loaded after a reboot. Interesting, I'm not exactly sure what's going on here, perhaps someone who knows more about Linux would be able to help you with why this is happening... I would really like to be able to load the driver for users that want sound through their X initialization, but I am not able to figure out how. I would recommend placing the module in /etc/modules. It's pretty easy to do this manually, however. If (as root) you run the program 'modconf' you'll be able to set it up to install the sound modules with a snazzy front-end program :) I use it myself after I modify my kernel (just to check to make sure that I have all my modules still there, and other things like that :) ). Hope this helps, Peter Ludwig
Re: a howto of samba for beginers?
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I want a easy to undertand howto of samba. I plan to connect 25 win95 to debian-samba but I am new using linux and samba. PLESE HELP!!! Well, have you installed the HOWTO's in html format? when I was planning on hooking up a couple of Win95 clients to Linux I found it almost impossible to understand until I read the html version. If you have any specific problems, email me directly, I'll be happy to answer any particular questions you might have. Regards, Peter Ludwig
[off-topic] User Account Information
I would like to write a cgi script to display to the user a listing of their usage on my system. I have the acct package installed so I can get the information from the command line, but how do I display this information to the users? Regards, Peter Ludwig
Compiling Problem Lists
Well, I've been reading through all the messages here for the last 2-3 weeks, and I've decided that perhaps we would be better off adding into the basic Debian documentation a listing of normal errors and their fixes. I'm willing to get in and compile all of these if people want to help me out with this (unless it has already been done, and if so where is it?). I've so far got around a list of 30-40 questions (which are fully answered their's another list of 10-20 which are not fully answered, but I might be able to fill in the blanks). I would like to compile a basic FAQ file for the Debian Linux Newbie-Intermediate questions. We would then be able to point all the basic questions to the FAQ file, and say It's ALL there just to make it easier. If anyone wishes to contribute to the listing I've started, please email me directly (and if you have a list of questions, or Question/Answer pairs), please send them as a file attachment, as I might just be able to answer the questions straight away, and the question/answer pairs can go straight into the list). Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: Quake No longer running for users
Well I finally go the answer to my question (after exim rejected 42 messages I think I lost a _LOT_ of important mail about questions I had... On 2 Mar 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: Svgalib needs suid root permissions. To give the executable the proper permissions, execute `chmod u+s /usr/games/squake.real` The executable in the .deb is not like this for security reasons. Make sure you check out the following link if you're going to set your Quake2 binary suid root (or run it as root.) I've set my firewall up to deal with the Quake2 exploit found here: http://www.insecure.org/sploits_remote.html Will do so, when I get Quake 2 :) Am Running Quake 1 :) Catch ya
Quake No longer running for users
Well, I did the funny thing today, I started upgrading my machine to slink, after a few glitches (i.e. exmim returning 40-50 messages saying that it wouldn't accept mail for @localhost) I seem to have everything going smoothly (fingers crossed, haven't yet tried the network settings, I'm moving soon and have the other machine packed already). Well to cut a long story short, I got the basic problems fixed, but now for some reason Quake (thats Quake 1) refuses to run as a user. I've checked all the settings I changed last time to get it to work but the update kept them intact. The exact error message I get is :- svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions. Now, what has changed with the permissions on I/O between Hamm and slink that would account for this problem, and how can I fix it so I can run Quake again? Oh, before I forget I am running S-Quake, not X-Quake (for those who can't figure it out), and I don't really have the resources to run X-Quake properly, I use quake to do something while my machine is downloading lots of megabytes of the internet/compiling a kernel whatever, and I would rather _NOT_ run it as root. Thanx in advance, Peter Ludwig BTW - If anyone responded to my earlier message about proxying and such forth, could you email me your response direct, as I said I lost a few emails this morning grin.
Re: IP Masq
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option. To get the IP Forwarding option you need to enable some weird options, I believe it's multicast something or other under 2.0.X or well, you can just select IP Masquarding under 2.2.1... Also, I don't know what to do about ifconfig: I tried this: eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255. What am I doing wrong here? I think I need to change the ip number after 'eth0' to something else and add an entry to /etc/hosts. Is this so? I'm not sure why you need all those values, all I have mine setup to (and it works) is: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 I added the gateway into the route of the machines that connect to this box to internet :) Works fine for me :)
Re: IP Masq
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I your address 191.168.1.1 also the address you gave your gateway? Yes. My Linux box serves the other machine I have here. (It used to serve a win95 machine, but they person who owned the machine got a little bit silly and kept turning off the network settings which I had setup for it). Just wondering if my host and gateway are the same computer, whether I just need 192.168.1.1 or another as well? Well, it works for me. If your main problem is that the other machine does not seem to be able to receive packets from the internet (i.e. it's a linux box or some such beastie), try setting up ip-forwarding. I installed dotfile-ipfwadm and after I'd setup my system, boy did things run great. I had a little problem originally with everything not being setup 100%, i.e. from the secondary machine (the one behind the linux box) I was able to request web pages, or ftp sites, but I couldn't receive them. Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: IP Masq
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: When you say 'set up ip forwarding,' do you mean on the gateway/host or the linux client? On the client. Depending on how your Internet Connection is established (I use pon/poff myself) it may or may not setup a default route on the gateway.host machine. I've followed the mini howto very closely, and feel quit close. My machines ping each other no problem. But my linux client will not reach the outside world. I'm running 2.2.2 on both machines. I think I need to add a route on my linux client that says my gateway is 192.168.1.1, but route add doesn't work, but the howto is RH specific and I don't have the file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Yeah, I had a problem with understanding how the ipforwarding worked when reading the howto's myself.. that's why I use dotfile-ipfwadm I can then just point and click grin (I hope that's a microsoft trademark, because if it is...). Anyhow, after allowing IP Masquerading I used dotfile-ipfwadm and well, the system worked fine. The Client machine needs to have it's default gateway set as your gateway/host machine. Oops... forgot an important detail before, you'll need to allow the IP number for your client machine as part of the allowed systems in your hosts.allow file for portmap: Example from my system :- start of file # /etc/hosts.allow: list of hosts that are allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # # Example:ALL: LOCAL @some_netgroup # ALL: .foobar.edu EXCEPT terminalserver.foobar.edu # # If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name portmap for the # daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword ALL and IP # addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper. See portmap(8) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz for further information. # portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0 end of file Also make sure (for security purposes, you don't want somebody playing with your system from outside, i.e. the internet) that you have the hosts.deny set similar to the file below start of file # /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # # Example:ALL: some.host.name, .some.domain # ALL EXCEPT in.fingerd: other.host.name, .other.domain # # If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name portmap for the # daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword ALL and IP # addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper. See portmap(8) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz for further information. # # The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not match its # address. portmap: ALL end of file These files are VERY important, without them setup correctly, no matter what I did I couldn't do anything. For your information portmap refers to the gateway/hosts DNS server, and the above files should be on the gateway/host. Hope this helps, Peter Ludwig
Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28-Feb-99, Mark Brown took time to write : 3) No documentation on how to load/use the original programs that loaded when installing. That is, can I load again the program that allowed me to Hmm... This problem seems to apply to all the distributions I've tried. They have a nice menu in the installer, but not once you've installed. You could try looking at the boot-floppies package source to see if you can figure out where it comes from. You could also try asking the maintainer. the program used during the installation to deal with modules is called modconf and is available after installation in /usr/sbin Thanx, now I know about it I'll go and modularize a _LOT_ of my kernel, I only use some of the thing irregularly and I'd rather not have a 820k kernel if I could help it :) Hope this helps. It has. Thanks.
Proxying and such forth
Well, here goes nothing :) I'm a little intrigued by some settings relating to dselect, basically how would I set dselect to use the proxy which I use under netscape? Or even better use the one I have setup on my machine because it is set completely to handle all proxy modes that my ISP uses. I ask this because I don't feel like spending fifteen hours online downloading slink (I'm only getting 15-25kps off my 56k modem without proxying). If I can't setup dselect to access via proxy what would I need to make it send it's ftp requests to the proxy (I believe it's called transparent proxy or some such, I don't know where to start with that). Thanks in advance, Peter Ludwig
Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
I've just gotten my mail down, so sorry for the lateness of this :) A Short Linux History (by me) In 1992/3 I was looking at getting myself a new operating system, well after chatting to a couple of friends, I heard about debian linux, now I hadn't heard of linux before so when I found it was a free operating system, I was wrapt! Anyhow, I went out and bought the Infomagic CD-set (I didn't have internet access then), and well, lo and behold, there was a number of different distributions on the CD! Well, I recognised debian, so I attempted to install it *BAM* problems. First thing I created the install disks like the documentation suggested, and booted up, well, it installed the base system, then said something about not being able to find the debian cdrom. Well, here's the fun bit, it seems that due to the fact that I own (yep still own it) a cm205(MS) cdrom drive I would be unable to get the cdrom usable under linux (something to do with the driver code not being released for people to program a driver for it under linux)... hmm.. so I put the cd's on the shelf for a few years... 1997 I got myself an IDE cdrom drive (notice the delay, yep, I'm always broke!). So I dusted off the infomagic CDroms and tried installing debian again, well, infomagic hadn't provided all the BASE packages for debian, so I was pretty stuck here, I had a half-installed system... hmm... (couldn't even get on the internet). So I deleted and tried to install redhat, well it installed perfectly... I sense a kick-back here... so on a whim I tried slackware off the cd's... again they forgot to include all the packages for slackware... anyhow I ran redhat for a while, but got tired of it (not enough options, little availability of word proccessing software, etc..) so I left off on linux for a while.. January 1999 have net account will download! At the beginning of the year I'd gotten very bored with everything and decided to attempt to download and install debian off the net. This time things went great. To summarize the good points I have found with debian :- 1) Package list is very large, and so provides a large amount of options for its users. 2) Software is free. This is good for me who is broke. 3) dselect. Yep, I think dselect is very good. requires a little fine tuning to me (like search facility, faster loading of package lists, etc), but pretty decent job. 4) availability of support, I've been able to get almost all of my questions answered via this mailing list. Now, I have a few problems with it. 1) No IDE for the compiler. 2) Still no support for my old CDROM drive (I have a new computer/cdrom/etc. but I still have the old machine, and would like to use the old cd in the old system). 3) No documentation on how to load/use the original programs that loaded when installing. That is, can I load again the program that allowed me to setup the modules??? If so where is it? Those programs are very helpful for initial installation, but sometimes (as in my case) you might change your mind later on and want to use that program to go over something again. Basically of all the distributions of Linux, I prefer Debian over the others for installation and use, mainly because it is (to me anyway) easy to use, and decent installation of the packages. I aplaud the developers of Debian, but I really would like to see an IDE (Integrated Development Environment for those who don't know what I mean) for the compiler. I'd do what I could to fix any problems I had with installation, etc if I had one. I never liked (even under DOS) doing the code-compile-run-fix_code-compile-run cycle manually. Sure once I've gotten into the swing of how it works I'd be happy to ditch the IDE but until then, I guess I'll have to do all my coding under DOS/WIN98 (other partition)... This is Linux's main failing to me (all distributions, not just debian you'll notice). Regards, Peter Ludwig.
Re: Data Storage
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen Lavelle wrote: We are soon going to be installing a Linux Box on our Win98 network as a file server - You'll notice a vast difference :) Plug here for Linux sponsored by no-one. and i want to know of a good back up media supported by debian and easy to configure: something like - zip or jazz drives. Well, I run an LS-120 (from Imation, external) drive on my machine here at home, I've updated the kernel to 2.2.1, but if you just run the internel version, it works fine with earlier kernel versions (i.e. 2.0.34 the base kernel that comes with hamm recognised it and allowed me to use it okay internally, but I wanted it external so I upgraded grin). The external (i.e. parrallel) versions of both the jazz and zip drives are also supported by kernel 2.2.1, also I believe that you might be able to use any number of external Tape drives. The number one rule of buying hardware for linux is simply this :- Do not buy any hardware for a machine that is to run Linux permanently that has or is called Windows-Specific/Wininsert-name-here. This sort of hardware is unable to run under the linux operating system (normally) as the required information for writing the driver is not always released public domain, as such, it cannot be distributed, ergo no linux driver. If you are looking for a particular style of hardware, try looking at the hardware supported list at either www.debian.org, or more importantly (as you can always update the kernel if you need to) www.kernel.org, or www.linux.org. I noticed that you are from Australia (as I am), if you are in Brisbane, if you want I can go give you a list of people who have good priced hardware (which runs very well under linux) for sale. Catch ya l8r, Peter Ludwig
Multi-Modem Cards for Debian
Okay, not really on-topic for the debian user list, but because I'm running debian I wanted some input. I live in Australia and I'm looking at perhaps starting an ISP sometime within the next six to twelve months. At present I am unable to purchase a multi-modem card in Brisbane (where I live), but this is sort of irrelevant. I am wondering which multi-modem cards are people suggest (I am hesistant about buying 50+ modems for the machine as I have spare slots in the computer, but only 1 serial port, okay I could add more, but why?). The multi-modem card(s) would have to be Austel approved (problem there), but other than that, I will look at anything which would suit. Also I'm not looking at paying anymore than AU$100/modem port (it only costs me around AU$100 a modem, so why go for the more expensive one?). I would definately prefer to buy a card that comes with drivers for linux (i.e. a Linux-Supporting manufacturer). Thanks in advance, Peter Ludwig
Re: ip-up question
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: My /etc/ppp/ip-up does not appear to be working. Am I correct in assuming that in Debian, ip-up won't work unless it is placed in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ? I want to start fetchmail when I go online and I believe that is where my script needs to be placed. What I did to get fetchmail to run when I connected (I'm also using SLRN so I've got one for it as well, same theory applies). I put a script into the ip-up.d directory called fetchmail (giving it read and execute access for all users) which contained a command line to run fetchmail (I set it up as a deamon). Here's the script I use :- #!/bin/sh # # Fetchmail Start Up Script # su -l -c fetchmail -d 300 khan # # End of Script # That's basically all I had to do to get it running properly, now all I've got to do to connect is run 'pon' as root (I suppose I could run 'pon' as a user, but I would have to go in and change a lot of permissions, so I run it as root, it's just as easy). Catch ya l8r, Peter Ludwig
Re: Soundpro Under 2.2.1
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under 2.0.34 I setup my soundcard as a sound blaster, but with the new version, it refuses to detect the sound Card (it's a Soundpro or for the Techies, a CMI8330 PCI (onboard) sound card). I have the sound adapter card on my motherboard. How did you setup the system to use sound? Did you go through isapnptools and then compile the soundblaster module in the kernel with the options you configured under isapnptools? Well, I compiled the soundblaster stuff into the kernel. Sure, it holds at the sound init for about 30-40 seconds but then it continues on without hassles... I really would like to know if there is a native or free driver for the Sound Card, as I noticed that the Open Sound Drivers have the card in them, but the Open Sound Free do not seem to have it available. I cannot find out about the latest versions because I cannot seem to find a site that has it on it. Catch ya l8r, Peter Ludwig
Soundpro Under 2.2.1
Well, I've gotten Kernel 2.2.1 running on the machine, it has everything I need (at present), but I seem to have a little problem. Under 2.0.34 I setup my soundcard as a sound blaster, but with the new version, it refuses to detect the sound Card (it's a Soundpro or for the Techies, a CMI8330 PCI (onboard) sound card). With 2.0.34 I had to wait for it to correctly intigate the soundcard, but well, now it just refuses and tells me the card ain't there, anyone have the same soundcard and got it working? Or anyone got a way around this? HEEELLLPPP I need my sound.. well okay, Quake runs better with sound, so... I guess that means I need it... Also I do not have DOS installed anymore so I can't boot up that way and chop over (it didn't work under 2.0.34 anyway so I guess it won't for 2.2.1)... Thanx in Advance, Peter Ludwig
[FIXED] Re: Network Not Working!
On 11 Feb 1999, Carey Evans wrote: Peter Ludwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is the response I get from SMBCLIENT : Added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /etc/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory This is generally harmless, and you can ignore it for now. Umm... why? What IS the /etc/lmhosts file? And if samba wants it, why is it not referred to in the Samba Documentation (the only thing I haven't done is grep the files to find it, perhaps I should...)? error connecting to 192.168.0.11:139 (No route to host) Trying to use 192.168.0.xxx is asking for trouble, in my opinion. Try setting Linux and Windows to 192.168.1.something. The files to modify are /etc/init.d/network, /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts. The hosts file could look something like: All those files where correct, but I'll fill you in on what I've done (because I seem to have fixed the problem here). I checked all the settings on the Win95 Machine (They where set correctly) I then went and checked over the whole config here, everything appeared like it should be working. I then went in and tried to look at the IPX routing table - oooh.. problem here... Output from route :- IPX: this needs to be written As I was trying to setup the network to run as an IPX network (due to various reasons, namely wanting the win95 machine to able to dial the internet as well as be conencted to the linux box, and win95 does not handle multiple TCP-IP links very cleanly), I gathered that it would be best to try the network WITHOUT the IPX backbone, and hey - it worked! I wonder if anyone else has had the same problem with setting up an IPX network... Thanks for all the info people, it has been very helpful. Peter Ludwig
Network Not Working!
I'm having fun here :) I've got the system setup to handle my ISP almost perfectly (still am having a problem with fetchmail not responding to all requests properly), now I've got a problem with the network at home. I installed Debian telling it that I was on a network (the home network, two machines, nothing fancy), and yet I seem to be unable to talk to the other machine. This is the response I get from SMBCLIENT : Added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /etc/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory error connecting to 192.168.0.11:139 (No route to host) Now I've tried looking for a reference to /etc/lmhosts in the Samba documentation, and no help there - nothing in reference documentation about that file. I get a response from the Win95 machine (when trying to telnet to the linux box) of Host not found or some such nonsense. The Win95 Machine is setup to connect to it correctly (at least as far as I am able to determine it is). Thanks in Advance, Peter Ludwig
Inbound Mail Error!
I've got a little problem with my Debian/Fetchmail/Exim Setup. When I am attempting to download my email off of the server I connect to I receive the following wonderful messages (from fetchmail) :- SMTP error 501 : (@mail.one.net.au) colon expected after domain SMTP error 501 : (khan) unqualified sender This happened about 1/3 of the way through downloading my mail and stopped me from getting anymore (until I told fetchmail that error 501 is actually caused by the anti-spam section of my mail host, I have not got any anti-spam capabilities setup at this end, and my host does not use any anti-spam stuff themselves, they'd need to know what to do to set something like that up grin). If anyone has any ideas what is going wrong, I can email them a copy of any cofig files they request (minus passwords of course). Thanks in advance, Peter Ludwig
Networking Debian and Win 95
I am trying to setup IPX networking on my main system at home, and I have run into a few major problems. 1) While my network card is detected and setup by ifconfig, it's address is not being used as the address for network traffic (i.e. squake seems to like 127.0.0.1 and I can't force it to use another IP address). 2) The secondary machine (a compaq running win95A) is unable to find my computer on the network even though SAMBA is setup (and apparantly running, i.e. it reports no error messages), I am also unable to even get a glimpse (over the network that is) of the Win 95 Machine. I have recompiled the kernal so many times (enabling different options which appear to be the correct ones), that I'm worried about the Hard disk surface in for the usr/src/linux tree :) 3) squake is refusing to believe I have IPX, even though I am running everything as specified in the IPX documentation (all docs relating to ipx, man pages, howto's, etc). I mainly wish to be able to run squake against my flatmate (who is running the compaq), we can get a quake game going if I run any other OS, so the network hardware is fine... whine mode on I just can't seem to setup the network under linux whine mode off. I have setup Internet access from the linux box big grin So I'm hoping I can get things setup locally :) Regards, Peter Ludwig
