Linux-Misc Digest #543, Volume #24 Sun, 21 May 00 12:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: /dev/ttyp1: Read-only file system ("Peter T. Breuer")
Problems with Phatlinux (Thomas Karijord)
Dial up failure (wing)
can't run fdisk after resizing partitions (Bob Koss)
AppleTalk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: printing to various deskjets from Linux ? (Rod Smith)
Re: Hard Drive Light Always On (Hal Burgiss)
Re: AppleTalk (Rod Smith)
Re: serial mice & cheap motherboards ? (Robert Heller)
Re: Problem establishing PPP connection ("Peter T. Breuer")
How do you install Redhat Linux 6.0 in a 486 computer. (onasis)
Re: sound over network ("Ian Wilkinson")
More problems with internal modem (Vadim)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/ttyp1: Read-only file system
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:43:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I have trouble with my linux system as I keep getting the message
: /dev/ttyp1: Read-only file system when i log in.
: I cannot sent emails or ftp, neither can I delete any files as I get an
: error message saying that this is a read only file.
filesystem?
: Does anyone have any ideas.
Run fsck on it and then remount it read-write?
Depends what the error message was EXACTLY.
Peter
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From: Thomas Karijord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Phatlinux
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:30:04 GMT
I've been trying several times to run PhatLinux on my computer, but all I
get is the Dos screen, messages that tell me that Linux is beeing loaded,
and my computer reeboots into Windows again. Can anyone help me.
I have a:
HP pavilion
Intel Celeron
400 mhz
64 Mb RAM
6.2 GB FAT32 HDD
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From: wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dial up failure
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:30:05 GMT
I have used GNOME RH dialer to performane the dial up PPP.
I have setup the DNS IP as advised by my ISP. The status of my dial up
show connected. However, when I use Netscape to surf www.netscape.com,
there is error 'Server name www.netscape.com' not found.
This makes me confused as 1. the interface stauts is connected and 2. the
DNS IP is configured.
Please advise. Thanks
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Subject: can't run fdisk after resizing partitions
From: Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:51:32 GMT
I used Partition Magic to resize my Win98 and Linux partitions. This
worked fine.
I booted off of a floppy, reran lilo, and now I can boot off the hard
disk again.
Everything is working fine except that I can't run fdisk. It quits
with a "Unable to read /dev/hda" error.
Ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AppleTalk
Date: 21 May 2000 13:09:41 GMT
When I last compiled my kernel, I seem to recall an AppleTalk option. Can
someone confirm that 2.2.14 can use this protocol? If so, do I need a
special card to connect to my IIsi? Also, since the IIsi is a 20mz machine,
would ethernet significantly outperform AppleTalk?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: printing to various deskjets from Linux ?
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:25:31 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> And this issue about "variable mileage" is what frightens me. Some basic
> tests will produce reasonable output, but sometime in the future, one of
> those secretaries of staff members will want to produce a more complex
> page, on which the Ghostscript drive might succomb.
As a general rule, if Ghostscript produces output on even a simple page
(using color, if the printer supports color), then it won't have problems
with more complex pages. Certainly there's nothing *PRINTER-SPECIFIC*
about this; Ghostscript converts PostScript to a bitmap, so complex input
is rendered into the same sort of bitmap as is simple input. The only
issue with increasingly complexity of a document is that if there's a bug
in Ghostscript's handling of PostScript, it might become an issue for ALL
printers. As a general rule, such bugs are rare. Also, most Linux programs
generate fairly simple PostScript, and of course it's well-tested with
Ghostscript, since Ghostscript is very popular on Linux.
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Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Light Always On
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:35:11 GMT
On 21 May 2000 12:27:03 GMT, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 21 May 2000 06:29:47 GMT, Kevin Brown wrote:
>>When running RedHat Linux 6.2, my hard drive LED is always on, even
>>though the hard drive is inactive. This also occurs in win2000 and
>>winNT, but the light works fine in win98, only coming on when its
>>supposed to. I have a Tekram P6B40-A4X motherboard with an on-board
>>dual udma 33 disk controller. I have a western digital 20 gig drive
>>as master and an IBM 6.4 gig as slave on the primary chain. I have a
>>creative 52x reader as master and a creative 4x2x24 writer as slave on
>>the secondary. I've moved the config of the drives all around, and
>>that doesn't seem to have any effect.
>>
>>This isn't exactly a life-threatening problem, but it does get annoying
>>sometimes.
>>
>>If someone could help me out I'd really appreciate it.
>
>My HD light stays on if I play a CD and let it run right to the end,
>after that the led for the HD is on untill I reboot, this exact same
>problem used to occur in Win95, but I'm used to it now. It doesn't
>happen if I stop the CD before it finishes playing the last track but
>does happen if I just play the last track and let it run to the end.
I had a similar situation and found that my desktop applet for the CDROM
was constantly accessing the CDROM. I guess to see if it was ready, or
whether music/data. I just keep it closed now, until I need it. Don't
know windows, but I think most of the Linux applets tend to do this.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: AppleTalk
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:37:01 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8g8n6l$7vs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> When I last compiled my kernel, I seem to recall an AppleTalk option. Can
> someone confirm that 2.2.14 can use this protocol? If so, do I need a
> special card to connect to my IIsi? Also, since the IIsi is a 20mz machine,
> would ethernet significantly outperform AppleTalk?
There are two issues here:
1) AppleTalk
2) LocalTalk
AppleTalk is a network stack, comparable in broad strokes to TCP/IP.
AppleTalk can be used over a variety of network hardware.
LocalTalk is network hardware used by Apple in its older Macintoshes.
LocalTalk normally carries AppleTalk packets, but of course can carry
other protocols as well.
Linux supports AppleTalk in two ways:
1) A kernel option for AppleTalk DDP support. This provides many of
the low-level services of the AppleTalk stack.
2) AppleTalk protocol stacks. Netatalk
(http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/ or
http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/) is the most popular of these.
The combination of these two items lets you use a Linux computer as an
AppleTalk file and print server, using whatever network hardware your
computer supports.
As to LocalTalk support, you need one of a very small number of supported
boards. These are listed in the Linux kernel configuration area. I have no
idea if any of them are still available. Alternatively, you can get a
LocalTalk/Ethernet converter and use that to bridge an Ethernet network
and a LocalTalk network. This is probably an easier solution, particularly
since I know such bridges are available today. (Asante makes one, if I'm
not mistaken, and there may be others, as well.)
It sounds to me as if you're asking about LocalTalk, not AppleTalk,
although you may need AppleTalk support, as well.
As to relative performance, AppleTalk is capable of 2Mbps speeds, IIRC.
This is 1/5 the speed of old 10Mbps Ethernet, and 1/50 the speed of
current 100Mbps Ethernet, so the short answer is that Ethernet blows
LocalTalk out of the water in terms of speed. I don't know how capable a
Mac IIsi would be of attaining the faster Ethernet speeds, though, if
equipped with an Ethernet board.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: serial mice & cheap motherboards ?
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:53:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Keiser),
In a message on 20 May 2000 23:42:57 GMT, wrote :
MK> >First, what serial port are you connecting it to (assuming
MK> >your motherboard is equipped with 2 of them). I assume the
MK> >"first" one, which would be COM1 under DOS or Windoze.
MK>
MK> yes, the "first" one.
MK>
MK> >When Linux boots, watch for a message about ttyS00 that gives
MK> >IRQ and I/O address, etc. Or check /var/log/messages for a
MK> >similar message. This would indicate whether Linux saw the
MK> >serial port when it booted. If it did, then it's a
MK> >configuration issue.
MK>
MK> root:~> cat /var/log/messages.1 | grep tty
MK> May 7 23:17:38 [snip] kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a
MK> 16550A
MK> May 7 23:17:38 [snip] kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a
MK> 16550A
MK>
MK> >To configure, login as 'root' or boot into single-user mode
MK> >and run 'mouseconfig'. Here's the fun part: if you have a
MK> >generic no-name mouse you have to know what it's personality
MK> >is. Chances are, it's a Microsoft serial mouse, 2-button, so
MK> >try that first. If that's not it, maybe it's emulating a
MK> >Logitech.
MK>
MK> the mouse I'd like to use for it is actually a 3-button switched
MK> mouse - needless to say, I've tried both settings (mousesytems
MK> and microsoft), and neither work. mouseconfig doesn't help,
MK> unfortunately - does that only affect x anyway? the closest
MK> I've come to getting it working was by using one of the builtin
MK> mouse-config utilities to scan each port and try to help you set
MK> up the mouse - and that thing just plain crashed linux.
MK>
MK> - mike keiser
MK>
One *interesting* weirdness we had with some Gateway 2Ks (P133's). For
some reason the PS/2 port interfered with COM1 (/dev/ttyS0). So we put
the serial 3-button mice in COM2 (/dev/ttyS1). These machines are in a
LAN and don't have modems (internal or external).
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem establishing PPP connection
Date: 21 May 2000 15:25:20 GMT
Atika Mustafa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: May 21 17:29:58 jupiter pppd[703]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
: May 21 17:29:59 jupiter chat[704]: send (ATD13111111^M)
: May 21 17:29:59 jupiter chat[704]: expect (CONNECT)
: May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: ATD13111111^M
: May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: CONNECT
: May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: -- got it
: May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: send (^M)
: May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: expect (ogin:)
: May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: 38400^M^M
: May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: login:
: May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: -- got it
: May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: send (user^M)
: May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: expect (assword)
: May 21 17:31:18 jupiter chat[704]: ser^M
: May 21 17:31:18 jupiter chat[704]: Password
: May 21 17:31:18 jupiter chat[704]: -- got it
: May 21 17:31:18 jupiter chat[704]: send (pass^M)
: May 21 17:31:18 jupiter pppd[703]: Serial connection established.
OK. You logged in. But now apparantly you have to do something to start
ppp at the other end, because ...
: May 21 17:31:28 jupiter pppd[703]: Using interface ppp0
: May 21 17:31:28 jupiter pppd[703]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
: May 21 17:31:29 jupiter pppd[703]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
: 0x0> <magic 0x64ac9223> <pcomp> <accomp>]
: May 21 17:31:56 jupiter last message repeated 9 times
... We started it here and never got a response!
This looks to me like an ISP who offers two interfaces. One is a login
shell and the other is ppp. Try NOT logging in. Then using PAP to
authenticate.
Peter
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From: onasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do you install Redhat Linux 6.0 in a 486 computer.
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 15:30:02 GMT
Hi. I am having a problem with install linux in my computer. I want to
know how do make a bootdisk for linux.can you please help me.. I also want
to know what I have to do before I install linux.
Please help me
take care
onasis
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From: "Ian Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound over network
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:32:59 +0100
BR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:XnLV4.448$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root) wrote:
> <snip snip>
>
> So basically you want this.
> Audio data flowing L to R
> Server (with soundcard)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Client (With no soundcard)
> Playing audio source Receiving audio
source.
(Snip - Snip :)
No, he wants it the other way...
Audio data flowing L to R
Client (With no soundcard)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Server (with soundcard)
Playing audio source Receiving audio
source.
Ian
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From: Vadim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: More problems with internal modem
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 15:43:01 GMT
I finally fixed some problems with my modem. It is a Supra Express 336i
V+ Intl. I tried to configure pnp and it didn't work at all. After
deleting /etc/isapnp.conf, everything is better now. But now I have
another problem:
It works, but very slowly. It is a 33.6K modem, and it seems to be much
slower. I started minicom and called my ISP, and some text has began to
appear. It shows six or seven characters, and then stops for three or
four seconds, then shows the next six or seven characters and stops
again. I got the same results with commands as ATI10, for an example. I
though that there is some problem with flow control, so I set it to
9600. It was even worse. I got almost the same results with kppp. The
query modem commands sometimes works and sometimes fails with "modem
timeout". If it works, it shows an empty list. Can anyone tell me
what's happening? And is it possible that it is a winmodem?
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