Linux-Misc Digest #334, Volume #24 Mon, 1 May 00 15:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux & FreeBSD UFS (Files Invisible) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: samba does not join domain (Bob Hauck)
Re: Those distributions are stupid (Charles E. Taylor IV)
Re: Norton Anti-Virus Trashed Your MBR? ("David ..")
Re: Repartitioning an existing Linux Mandrake 6.1 system - Help needed!
(=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars=2DG=F6ran?= Andersson)
Re: Repartitioning an existing Linux Mandrake 6.1 system - Help needed! ("Peter T.
Breuer")
Re: SuSE 6.0 - 6.4 upgrade and kernel hassels (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=FCcker?=)
Re: Help/Hilfe suse 6.4 nfs install (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=FCcker?=)
K-Jofol plugin for XMMS ("Jason Stegman")
Re: Can't get 8.1.5 to install on Linux (Terry Steyaert)
mounting a mac-disk under linux (jcs)
Re: Extracting multiple tar files? (Kevin White)
Problems copying VCD .dat files to harddisk ("LiQUiDx")
Re: Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 ?? (Ken Williams)
Re: Can't get 8.1.5 to install on Linux (Paul Gehman)
ez2000 NE2000 compatible network card problems. (elwe)
Newbie Question:Linux and Win98 on different harddrive! (hhk)
Re: ez2000 NE2000 compatible network card problems. (Dances With Crows)
Re: mounting a mac-disk under linux (Dances With Crows)
Help: ttyS3 not receiving data. (input overrun) (Duane Touchet)
Re: afterstep (Tim Bækstrøm Laursen)
Re: Newbie Question:Linux and Win98 on different harddrive! ("Art S. Kagel")
Re: Help: ttyS3 not receiving data. (input overrun) (Rod Roark)
Fvwm2 and Gnome/KDE ?!? (Fabio S.)
Serial port/modem port ("Art S. Kagel")
Re: Linux woes (Compaq for one) on the horizon (Tim Bækstrøm Laursen)
Re: Sorry, need help with simple linux questions from a newbie (Marcel Pol)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux & FreeBSD UFS (Files Invisible)
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 16:02:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <8ecnlg$h3r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Why can't I see the files in a UFS (FreeBSD filesystem)
> > after mounting it. e.g.
> >
> > The linux side of the house can mount the device as
> >
> > mount -t ufs /dev/hda[n] /bsd-mount-point
> >
> > but linux cannot see ANY OF THE FILES.
> >
> > Anybody have some suggestions?
> >
> See the mount(8) manual page, in particular the description of the
ufstype
> option. I believe you need to something like
>
> mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda[b] /mount-point
>
> HTH
>
This works manually, as
# mount -t ufs /dev/hda3 -o rw,ufstype=44bsd /eng
but with a fstab file entry, it fails....
/dev/hda3 /eng ufs rw,ufstype=ufs44 0 0
# mount /eng
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,
or too many mounted file systems
# fsck /dev/hda3
Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999)
fsck: fsck.ufs: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.ufs for /dev/hda3
So what should I do next? A fsck on the file system reveals
that upon inserting an entry into fstab, mounting the file
system ...it wants to fsck, but there is no fsck.ufs!
Eric
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: samba does not join domain
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 16:10:38 GMT
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:12:52 +0200, Axel_Greiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>change_account_trust_password: failed to change password
>unable to join domain <domain>
Did you set up a machine account on the PDC? Samba 2.0.5 doesn't do that
for you, it must be done from the NT admin tools. You may also need to
use the -U parameter to smbpasswd to connect as a domain admin.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles E. Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Those distributions are stupid
Date: 1 May 2000 15:39:10 GMT
In article <KLFO4.34611$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mark Graybill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2. Linux is for "us", not "them", so decide what group you are in; "us"
> being the IT type, "them" the non-IT type (who like to blinding follow the
> hype and propaganda Bill/Steve and cronies pumps into the media.)
Out of curiousity, what is an "IT type"? I'm a chemist, myself, and I
don't have much trouble getting along in Linux.
> Linux is not for the timid, it's open source.
As a non-programmer, the main benefit to me of open source is that I
can run the same application on my Sparc, my Alpha, and my Celeron.
And if it's *extremely* well-documented code, I might be able to
alter its behavior to my tastes a little. :)
--
Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
BS ChemE/Chem MS Chem - May 2000 graduate. Will work for food!
http://orangesherbert.ces.clemson.edu
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Norton Anti-Virus Trashed Your MBR?
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 11:23:45 -0500
Ted Kandell wrote:
>
> <html>
> <body>
> If Norton Anti-Virus in Windows$ trashed your Master Boot Record by
> belatedly telling you that "your master boot record has been modified"
> due to a suspected virus - indeed it has, when you installed linux - and
> all your extended linux partitions are seeming gone, you can do the
> following:
>
> In the Norton Anti-Virus configuration, under the Scanner tab:
> under What to Scan, uncheck "Master boot record" and "Boot Records".
>
> Now, to recover your partition table:
>
> Get Tom's root/boot diskette from:
>
> <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html">tomsrtbt home page</a>
>
> and run the batch file to create the diskette.
>
> Also, get gpart, which is a partition table recovery tool for Linux
> from:
>
> <a href="http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/7620/gpart">gpart - Guess
> PC-type hard disk partitions</a>
>
> This tool can find identify and find your lost partitions.
>
> Put the statically linked linux binary on a diskette.
>
> You can mount the gpart disk you have created from Tom's root/boot Linux
> by typing:
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
>
> at the command prompt after you have put in the gpart diskette.
>
> Now, type cd /mnt and run the version of gpart for Linux that you put on
> a diskette.
>
> Once gpart tells you at what blocks your Linux extended and swap
> partitions reside, you can recreate them using fdisk.
>
> Also, run lilo /mbr to put LILO (the Linux boot loader) back in your
> master boot record.
>
> It is possible to completely recover all your Linux extended partitions
> this way without any loss of data!
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Just choose Innoculate when Norton gives the warning about the MBR and
it won't warn or bother you again until you change the MBR again which
then just Innoculate it again.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars=2DG=F6ran?= Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Repartitioning an existing Linux Mandrake 6.1 system - Help needed!
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 16:36:44 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> rmdir /mnt
> mkdir /var/mnt
> ln -s /var/mnt /mnt
>
> Peter
Thank you!
Was it that easy? I havn't tested it yet.
I thought that it was necessary to keep the dir-tree intact.
Ok, I will test it as soon as possible but I still got the feeling that
I've made the '/'- partition to small and might need to resize it. Do
you know any way to do that? I suppose that it can be some hard work but
don't know where to begin.
Thanks,
Lars-Göran Andersson.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Repartitioning an existing Linux Mandrake 6.1 system - Help needed!
Date: 1 May 2000 16:41:08 GMT
Lars-Goran Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
: Ok, I will test it as soon as possible but I still got the feeling that
: I've made the '/'- partition to small and might need to resize it. Do
You can't make it too small. It should be as small as possible. I like
to keep it at about 32MB.
: you know any way to do that? I suppose that it can be some hard work but
: don't know where to begin.
Don't. If it's small, it's right.
Peter
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From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=FCcker?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.0 - 6.4 upgrade and kernel hassels
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 15:41:51 +0200
Maybe this helps,
since 2.1x kernels there is a change in adressing the com ports.
It is COM1=3D 0x03F8, irq 4
COM2=3D 0x02F8, irq 3
The standard SuSE kernels are shipped with the DOS adresses 0x3f8..
SO,
If your kernel detects the adresses for the COM Ports in >2.1 behavior
you have to change the /sbin/init.d/serial script and create the correct
devices in /dev.
If not there:
mknod c /dev/ttyS00 4 88
mknod c /dev/ttyS01 4 89
uncomment or insert
in /sbin/init.d/serial
=2E.. your UART here!!! =
run_setserial /dev/ttyS00 uart 16550A port 0x03F8 irq 4
run_setserial /dev/ttyS00 uart 16550A port 0x02F8 irq 3,
Be sure to use a consistant locking sheme:
If COM 1 or 2 used as a modem, be shure to use uucp locking.
don=B4t access the COM port=B4s somtimes via /dev/modem AND via /dev/ttyS=
0?
/dev/modem is a link to /dev/ttyS01 normaly
programs create lockfiles like /var/lock/LCK_MODEM
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From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=FCcker?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help/Hilfe suse 6.4 nfs install
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 16:45:37 +0200
Assuming you have a nfs directory /nfs/SuSE/CD1 wich is exported.
The cdroms cant=B4 be mounted directly.
You first have to copy them like this:
cp /dev/scd0 /nfs/SuSE/cd1.img ... use your cdrom device here!
that gives:
ls /nfs/SuSE/
>cd1.img cd2.img cd3.img cd4.img cd5.img cd6.img
then you have to mount them on the server using the loop option like
this:
mount -t iso9660 /nfs/SuSE/cd1.img /nfs/SuSE/CD1 -o loop
ls /nfs/SuSE/CD1 should bring you the contents of the =
you will find the CD=B4s via nfs in /nfs/SuSE/CD1
Be aware of correct user and group rights!
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From: "Jason Stegman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K-Jofol plugin for XMMS
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 12:56:28 -0400
Does anyone no how to get the k-jofol plugin to work with XMMS in RH
6.2. I'm having a lot of trouble try to get it to work.
Who has it working and how did you do it? If you got it working please
email me so i can give you more detail.
thanks,
-jason
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From: Terry Steyaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: Can't get 8.1.5 to install on Linux
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 17:02:59 GMT
I assume you are following the instructions and
running /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller.sh. Rather than running that script,
go to the /mnt/cdrom/install/linux directory (I hope that's correct, it
has been a while since I did an install) and run runIns.sh instead.
That should take care of the problem.
Terry Steyaert
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From: jcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting a mac-disk under linux
Date: 1 May 2000 19:25:09 +0200
i got a problem with a mac formatted floppy disk, i want to read the ascii
file on it, but i can't mount the disk.
is there anybody, who know which filesystem a mac uses or how i can mount
the disk.
thanks
j.c.s.
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From: Kevin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Extracting multiple tar files?
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 13:31:52 -0400
To extract all files from a compressed (gzipped) tarball, use
tar -xvzf tarball-name.tar.gz
What these mean: x -- extract
v -- verbose (tells you what it's doing)
z -- use gunzip
f -- filename
Make sure the 'f' option is the last one in the group, otherwise tar
will sit forever waiting for a filename.
To extract a single file from a tarball, use
tar -zf tarball-name.tar.gz -xO <howto-filename>
Note that now the extract option 'x' comes after the tarball name. The
'O' option tells tar to send its output to stdout, which is usually the
monitor screen. To read the file, pipe the output through 'less':
tar -zf tarball-name.tar.gz -xO <howto-filename-1> | less
To print the file (assuming it's text file), pipe the output through lpr
instead of less.
tar -zf tarball-name.tar.gz -xO <howto-filename-1> | lpr
To extract more than one file from a tarball, add the additional
filenames to the end of the command for single file extraction above.
This process can be automated by writing a simple shell script. Here's
the one I wrote (note: this script doesn't check to see if a valid file
name was entered):
#! /bin/sh
# /usr/local/bin/howto
# Kevin White, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 04/00
#
# Fetches requested HOWTO file from /usr/doc/HOWTO/Linux-HOWTOs.tar.gz
#
# Usage: howto -lvp 'name' where 'name' is name of how-to file without
# '-HOWTO' suffix. Options: l-list HOWTO index to stdout, v-view named
# file on stdout, p-print named file to lpr.
#
getopts v:lp: opt
case $opt in
v) tar -zf Linux-HOWTOs.tar.gz -xO $OPTARG-HOWTO | less ;;
l) tar -tzf Linux-HOWTOs.tar.gz | less ;;
p) tar -zf Linux-HOWTOs.tar.gz -xO $OPTARG-HOWTO | print ;;
*) echo -e "\nhowto -- view, list, or print HOWTO files."
echo "Usage: howto -vlp filename (without '-HOWTO' suffix.)"
echo -e "Options: v-view, l-list index, p-print.\n" ;;
esac
The 'print' pipe for option 'p' is another shell script that moves the
text 5 spaces to the right on the paper so nothing gets lost when
punching binder holes. The 'print' script came from the Linux Tips HOWTO
by Paul Anderson. Here it is:
#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/bin/print
# shifts text print to the left to allow hole-punching along left edge
cat $l | pr -t -o 5 -w 85 | lpr
I stored these script in /usr/local/bin, and put symbolic links to them
in /usr/bin, which is in the search path for users on my machine.
mh wrote:
>
> Is there a way to extract multiple tar files at once? I tried the -M
> option for "multiple volumes" but got an error message to the effect
> that this was not possible with compressed files, which is what I'm
> working with. I'm not sure this would be the correct option anyway.
>
> I just downloaded complete sets of HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs. Each
> collection consists of a single compressed tar file containing another
> separate compressed tar file for EACH article. I can't imagine anyone
> actually extracting these articles one at a time.
--
Kevin White
Remove anti-spam center segment from domain
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "LiQUiDx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems copying VCD .dat files to harddisk
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 03:43:47 +1000
Hi,
I've encountered a very wierd problem where I have not found any posting
of a similar problem.
I am using RedHat 6.2 using a Panasonic 40x CDROM and Panasonic CDR 4x.
Basically, the problem is that when I try to copy the .dat file from *any*
VCDs, (ie. cp blah.dat somewhereelse.dat), i get an error saying : "cp:
Input/output error"
However, if I try to copy any other other files on the same disc, there
aren't any problems. This happens on both CDROM drives. Moreover, even
using any VCD players (or MPEG players) I can't open those .dat files.
Is there anything I'm missing here? has anyone had the same problem and
solved it?
Thanks,
Al.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Re: Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 ??
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 17:41:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Is anyone using this pcmcia device?
>
>I just bought one yesterday, hoping to rid myself of dongles and
>fragile xjacks, but the modem seems to just suck. I couldn't connect
>to Earthlink in Miami, but when I put in my old Megahertz, it
>connected just fine.
>
>Is anyone having any luck with this device?
I use it fine under 98 and Linux 2.2.14. Maybe upgrade the firmware. I'm
using the cardbus version though.
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From: Paul Gehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: Can't get 8.1.5 to install on Linux
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 13:41:12 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here are a couple of sources that should help:
First: Uche Ogbuji's article "A Practical Guide to Oracle8i for Linux." Page 1
addresses the JRE issue. The URL is:
"http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-04/lw-04-oracle8i.html"
His list of resources also contains two more articles that address the JRE issue.
Second: John Salvo's installation guide, in Chapter 1/Section 1.1 at URL:
"http://www.homepages.tig.com.au/~jsalvo/linux/oracle8i.html"
Third: Steve Darlington's HOWTO, Chapter 2/Section 2.2 at URL:
"http://www.zx81.org.uk/computing/oracle/oracle-howto"
The issue seems to be that the Oracle install script has a path for the JRE executable
that is not in sync with where your JRE executable was installed. You may
want to start by asking Linux where your JRE executable was installed: whereis jre or
whereis jre116_v5, and make your symbolic links per these resources'
suggestions. Good luck.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been trying but failing to get 8.1.5 (downloaded as an ISO image
> then burnt onto cdrom) to install onto linux. I get the following error
> when I run the installer:
>
> Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Please wait...
> Error in CreateOUIProcess(): -1
> : Bad address
>
> I've done everything mentioned in the installation notes (created the dba, oinstall
>groups, set up enviroment vars etc) but i still keep getting this error.
> I'm using Slackware 7, kernel 2.2.14 with jre 1.1.6v5 and glibc 2.1.
>
> Can anyone suggest whats wrong because I'm getting rather frustrated?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> NJR
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From: elwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ez2000 NE2000 compatible network card problems.
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 18:41:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have redhat 6.1 on my machine (and 6.2 waiting to be written to CD and
installed) it doesn't seem to detect my ez2000 ISA network card as being
NE2000 compatible and thus install a driver. Is there any way I can
force it to treat the card as NE2000 compatible or otherwise get it
working?
Thanks
--
Tim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Newbie Question:Linux and Win98 on different harddrive!
From: hhk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 11:09:56 -0700
Hi all,
I need to configure a system dual boot with linux and win98.I
have already a win 98 installed in the system and I intend to
install linux in a new hard disk. so how do I go about it? Do I
need a third party OS loader like partition magic?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ez2000 NE2000 compatible network card problems.
Date: 01 May 2000 14:13:50 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 01 May 2000 18:41:04 +0100, elwe
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have redhat 6.1 on my machine (and 6.2 waiting to be written to CD and
>installed) it doesn't seem to detect my ez2000 ISA network card as being
>NE2000 compatible and thus install a driver. Is there any way I can
>force it to treat the card as NE2000 compatible or otherwise get it
>working?
Always. Do you, by any chance, know the IRQ, and I/O settings the
card uses under DOS/Lose9x? If so, there's a good chance you can get
things working by executing the following command:
# modprobe ne irq=X io=Y
You can replace X and/or Y with 0s to try an autoprobe, but that's not
reccommended. Once the module is loaded, you should be able to ifconfig
it up and ping whatever you're connected to. If you do get it working,
insert these lines into /etc/conf.modules :
alias eth0 ne
options ne irq=X io=Y
That should get you going. Also read the Ethernet HOWTO:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: mounting a mac-disk under linux
Date: 01 May 2000 14:19:55 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1 May 2000 19:25:09 +0200, jcs
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>i got a problem with a mac formatted floppy disk, i want to read the ascii
>file on it, but i can't mount the disk.
>is there anybody, who know which filesystem a mac uses or how i can mount
>the disk.
Macs use the Hierarchical File System, HFS for short. 1.4M Mac floppies
can be read in PC-compatible disk drives, but the 800K disks used a
special encoding scheme and can't be read. Compile the HFS driver as a
module, and then just
# mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html if you need help with the
business of compiling something as a module.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Duane Touchet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: ttyS3 not receiving data. (input overrun)
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 13:15:58 -0500
Hello,
I had a DOS PC hooked up to our PBX to grab data through a serial
port. I convinced the boss to replace it with a Linux box. Now I can't
get any data from the PBX system. We used to use ProcommPlus for DOS
with 1200,7E1 to grab the input. Now, in Linux, I found out that it's
on ttyS3. When I do "cat < /dev/ttyS3", whenever the PBX sends a signal
(I can tell because I can here the audible switch).
I get a message like "ttyS3: 1 byte input overrun". Any ideas? When I
try to
use MiniCom I get no response at all. I need to get the data from the
serial port and direct it to a file.
Here's some info which may help:
[root@phonelog phone]# setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
/dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
/dev/ttyS2, UART: 16450, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS3, UART: 16450, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
[root@phonelog phone]# setserial -a /dev/ttyS3
/dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16450, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flags: spd_normal
Thanks for the help,
Duane.
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From: Tim Bækstrøm Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: afterstep
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 20:36:19 +0200
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Andrew Wong wrote:
>I'm using xwindows in RH 6.0, I'm trying to install afterstep, so far
>unsuccessful. Any ideas??
Nope! No ideas. It would help immensely if you supplied us with some
information about what goes wrong.
- Tim -
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 14:33:19 -0400
From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie Question:Linux and Win98 on different harddrive!
You can install Lilo, Linux's boot loader, on the primary drive and tell it
where to find the Win98 partition and the Linux root partition. Most
intallation scripts will permit this and many even walk you through it.
Art S. Kagel
hhk wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I need to configure a system dual boot with linux and win98.I
> have already a win 98 installed in the system and I intend to
> install linux in a new hard disk. so how do I go about it? Do I
> need a third party OS loader like partition magic?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Roark)
Subject: Re: Help: ttyS3 not receiving data. (input overrun)
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 18:35:27 GMT
You need to assign the port its own interrupt, for example irq5, by
setting its switches or jumpers appropriately. Then you need to do:
setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 5
which can go into rc.local.
Cheers,
-- Rod
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http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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On Mon, 01 May 2000 13:15:58 -0500, Duane Touchet
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I had a DOS PC hooked up to our PBX to grab data through a serial
>port. I convinced the boss to replace it with a Linux box. Now I can't
>
>get any data from the PBX system. We used to use ProcommPlus for DOS
>with 1200,7E1 to grab the input. Now, in Linux, I found out that it's
>on ttyS3. When I do "cat < /dev/ttyS3", whenever the PBX sends a signal
>
>(I can tell because I can here the audible switch).
>I get a message like "ttyS3: 1 byte input overrun". Any ideas? When I
>try to
>use MiniCom I get no response at all. I need to get the data from the
>serial port and direct it to a file.
>
>Here's some info which may help:
>
>[root@phonelog phone]# setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
>/dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
>/dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
>/dev/ttyS2, UART: 16450, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
>/dev/ttyS3, UART: 16450, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
>
>[root@phonelog phone]# setserial -a /dev/ttyS3
>/dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16450, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
> Flags: spd_normal
>
>
>Thanks for the help,
>Duane.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fabio S.)
Subject: Fvwm2 and Gnome/KDE ?!?
Date: 1 May 2000 18:47:55 GMT
Does anybody know if fvwm2 (my favourite wm...;-) is Gnome and/or KDE
compliant?
If not, will it?
Thanks
Fabio
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 14:49:03 -0400
From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Serial port/modem port
I recently installed RH6.2 over RH5.2 and cannot access the internal modem
on the box. It used to be /dev/cua2 (COM3 in DOS/WinDoze) now the OS wants
to link /dev/modem to one of the new S devices but none of them work nor do
the old cua devices. I will call RH when and if I get some time but thought
I am as likely to get help from someone here. Please save me from having to
boot to Win98 to get my email at home. Any takers?
Art S. Kagel
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From: Tim Bækstrøm Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux woes (Compaq for one) on the horizon
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 20:45:43 +0200
On Mon, 01 May 2000, Yanglong Zhu wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I wake up to a horrific reality that some computer manufacturers may be
>trying to suppress and uproot Linux and all other free Operating
>Systems. How? They make computers that do not read nor write those free
>OS bootdisks in drive A. It is a very bad trick upon us free OS users.
>We must wake up and get together to fight this war.
>
>I bought a Compaq Presario 5834 two weeks ago. I bought this computer
>with Linux in mind. But after days of trying and calling support service
>reps, I'm left stranded with a computer not at all of any use to me. At
>this moment, I don't know how widespread this phenomenon is. But I urge
>everybody who loves these free OS and free softeware in general do a bit
>investigation to monitor this computer industry's new move.
>
>I suspect that this kind of restriction of Linux and other free OSes are
>implemented through BIOS and/or Hardware, therefore it could defeat the
>Free Software Movement if we don't get together to fight it. Or are we
>ready to devise FREE BIOS and FREE OS COMPATIBLE HARDWARE???
>
>This may be an over reaction. But it does pose the threatening
>potential.
Another conspiracy theorist I see...
Considering Compaq's statements about Linux I find it hard to believe that they
deliberately tries to make life more difficult for non MS users. However they do
stuff their PC with custom hardware for witch you often need the standard
Compaq drivers for, but that is mostly a problem with their portable PC's. Not
being able to boot a Linux floppy sounds a bit strange to me. Have you tried
the disc in another (non Compaq) machine? It could be that something is wrong
with the disc, or (highly unlikely I know) that you did something wrong with it.
- Tim -
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From: Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Sorry, need help with simple linux questions from a newbie
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 21:01:09 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2) How to use DOSEMU to copy files from Linux to a DOS formatted
> floppy disk.
I wonder why you would want to use DOSEMU for this.
Linux itself can do this also.
You should mount your floppy, and then you can just copy.
(You should have loaded the kernelmodule msdos, or have it built in the
kernel)
It complains about permissions, but you can just ignore that, dos just
can't handle partitions.
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