Linux-Setup Digest #57, Volume #19 Sun, 2 Jul 00 22:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Ewan Edwards)
OpenSSH on Mandrake 7.1 ("Shippy!")
Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4 (C.J.)
Re: FTP install of RH 6.2?? (C.J.)
Re: RedHat 6.1/Win98 LILO Problem (C.J.)
Re: RH 6.2 - confusing Apache 'Forbidden' messages (Tom Hoffmann)
display problem, swap space problem (maybe) (Potter Wickware)
Moved linux partition from hdb1 to hda2...can't boot ("Keyser Soze")
Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4 (skeeter)
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Cliff Pennock)
Re: Moved linux partition from hdb1 to hda2...can't boot (C.J.)
Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4 (C.J.)
Re: Moved linux partition from hdb1 to hda2...can't boot (Ewan Edwards)
SUSE 6.3 (or *.4?) --ran out of input data :-( (Ioannis Thavoris)
Re: Moved linux partition from hdb1 to hda2...can't boot ("Robert Jones")
Re: Large HD's (Lenny)
Re: 192.168.0.* vs 192.168.1.* ("John Mazza")
ISDN Help for a newbie ("Canadian UK")
Re: Install OpenGL on TNT 2 (Craig Kelley)
Newbie Modem Question (kayak50)
allow users to wvdial? (David Punsalan)
dialup connection............. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Wrong major/minor number (Equinox)
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From: Ewan Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 09:14:01 +1000
Cliff Pennock wrote:
>
> C.J. wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Pennock
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I've posted this on other newsgroups before, but nobody seems to be able
> > >to answer my question so I'll try in this newsgroup too...
> > >
> > >Hardware: Celeron500, 128 Mb Samsung 15.3Gb UDMA mode4 HDD, SiS5513 IDE
> > > controller.
> > >Kernel : 2.2.16, patched with ide-2.2.16.20000630
> > >BIOS : Detects the harddisk as PIO4 and UDMA4
> > >hdparm : 3.9-1, params: -d1 -m16 -c1 -A1 (even tried -X66)
> > > (for some reason, after installing 3.9-1 my hdparm
> > > manpages were gone)
> >
> > You might want to take a look at
> > http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html
> >
> > for some tips on other settings to try in hdparm
>
> Thanks, but I had tried anything they suggested on that page already and
> it didn't make any difference...
I don't know if this may be your problem, but one that a few people
fall into is putting their HDD on the same IDE port as their CDROM.
Having a CD drive on the same IDE port/cable can (not always) slow down
HDD data transfer considerably. It is often best to have HDD at
/dev/hda
and CD drive at /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd.
__________________________________
I'm far too young to be this old.
__________________________________
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From: "Shippy!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OpenSSH on Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:36:00 -0600
I'm running OpenSSH v2.1 on my machine and I'm getting the
following error when trying to connect to my machine:
Bad remote protocol version identification: 'sshd: no hostkeys available
-- exiting.
'
Sure enough, the /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key doesn't exist.
Is there a way to force ssh to create one for me? Or, what
is another way to get that file generated?
Sorry if this is OT in this group.
--
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| Jeff "Shippy" Shipman E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Computer Science Major ICQ: 1786493 |
| New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
| Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 23:39:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 GB HD as the master on EIDE2.
>
>decided to manually generate them. Yast2 indicated that the drive only
>had 1026 cylinders on it. I thought it was just a mistake so I
>continued. I decided to use 2 cylinders, 15+ MB, for /boot. Next I
>
> attempted to build the root partition but I was stuck with a cylinder
>limit of 1026. How come?
Try using the plain vanilla fdisk from Linux. I had basically the same
problem you are having when I used Disk Druid from RedHat v6.1 to create
partitions. When I created them manually using fdisk, I was able to assign
them and install just fine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: FTP install of RH 6.2??
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 23:42:16 GMT
In article <vEp75.13801$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "PositiveG"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What files do you need stored on an FTP server so that you can install
>RedHat 6.2 via it?
>
>I'd like to know the directories & files required.
>
>I've got a machine with RH 6.0 (no CD) and want to upgrade. I have a 2nd
>machine that I can use as a FTP server (Win98).
If you can, set your Windows FTP server to just look to the CD as it's root
ftp folder.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.1/Win98 LILO Problem
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 23:44:26 GMT
In article <8joe5v$46p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The problem resides that instead of "LILO boot:", all I get is "LI". The
>computer will not accept any input save for good old control-alt-delete.
>The problem is within the Master Boot Record, as the DOS command
>
>fdisk /mbr
>
>fixed the problem. Is this a general RedHat 6.1 problem, or did I do
>something wrong?
I've seen this before (done it myself many times) if I make any kind of
changes to the kernel or boot setups and forgot to run /sbin/lilo to reinstall
lilo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 - confusing Apache 'Forbidden' messages
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 23:51:08 GMT
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000 22:19:12 -0700, Anthony Brinton wrote:
>I have a PC with a DSL connection running RedHat 6.2. I am trying to use it
>as a web server running Apache but I'm encountering some problems. I'm still
>a novice (newbie more like it) at web/network administration - I come from a
>creative design background. I have been able to successfully install,
>configure and start Apache, but when I try to access the Apache default html
>test page by simply inputting the IP Address for the machine in a web
>browser, I get the following error messages:
>
>
> ===========================================
> ERROR MESSAGE IN BROWSER WINDOW:
> ===========================================
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access / on this server.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apache/1.3.12 Server at 64.13.120.50 Port 80
>
>
>
> ===========================================
> ERROR MESSAGE IN APACHE'S ERROR LOG FILE:
> ===========================================
>
> client denied by server configuration: /home/httpd/html
>
>
>
>I dont understand what the problem is exactly. The document root in the
>Apache config file is set to:
>
>/home/httpd/html
>
>The file system permissions for this directory are set to 0755.
All directories (not just the lowest level directory) in the path to
your html documents, and your html documents must have r+x permissions
for owner, group, and others.
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From: Potter Wickware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: display problem, swap space problem (maybe)
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:02:42 GMT
Hi all --
I've installed Linux 6.0 on an IBM 390X laptop (PIII-450, 14.1" display)
with Win 2000 in the first partition.
When I boot Linux (I use Boot Magic from Win 2000) the display comes up
as a jaggedy 8-bit display. Anyone know what's going on and how I can
fix it?
Also, when I created the partitions (I used Partition Magic) it only let
me create an 8MB swap partition. Is this enough? (Iwanted to make a 64MB
swap.)
Thanks for all help,
Potter
============================================
Potter Wickware
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Keyser Soze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Moved linux partition from hdb1 to hda2...can't boot
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:12:51 GMT
I bought a new hard drive and using partition magic, moved the redhat
partition from the only partition on the second drive to the second
partition on the first(new) drive. What command can I use upon boot to
direct attention to the correct location?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (skeeter)
Subject: Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:29:32 GMT
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 23:39:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 GB HD as the master on EIDE2.
>>
>>decided to manually generate them. Yast2 indicated that the drive only
>>had 1026 cylinders on it. I thought it was just a mistake so I
>>continued. I decided to use 2 cylinders, 15+ MB, for /boot. Next I
>>
>> attempted to build the root partition but I was stuck with a cylinder
>>limit of 1026. How come?
>
>Try using the plain vanilla fdisk from Linux. I had basically the same
>problem you are having when I used Disk Druid from RedHat v6.1 to create
>partitions. When I created them manually using fdisk, I was able to assign
>them and install just fine.
For my next dumb question, how can I do that in DOS from a Linux disk?
Since I don't have a linux to run, how do I go about it? Do I fire up
a bootable floppy? Is a DOS "runnable" fdisk found somewhere in the
SuSE 6-disk distribution?
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From: Cliff Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 02:30:52 +0200
Ewan Edwards wrote:
>
> I don't know if this may be your problem, but one that a few people
> fall into is putting their HDD on the same IDE port as their CDROM.
>
> Having a CD drive on the same IDE port/cable can (not always) slow down
> HDD data transfer considerably. It is often best to have HDD at
> /dev/hda
> and CD drive at /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd.
Yep, had tried that too and still no difference whatsoever...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: Moved linux partition from hdb1 to hda2...can't boot
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:34:26 GMT
I'm assuming you bought a nice big drive. Is your 2nd (linux) partition on
the new drive past the 1024th cylindar? (About 8Gb if your BIOS correctly
supports large drives or 512Mb if not.) If so, you will probably not be able
to boot with this partition layout. (You can make a separate /boot partition
of about 16Mb below the 1024 cylinder limit.)
If that isn't the problem, what are you using to boot your system? LILO?
something else?
In article <7UQ75.6023$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Keyser Soze"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I bought a new hard drive and using partition magic, moved the redhat
>partition from the only partition on the second drive to the second
>partition on the first(new) drive. What command can I use upon boot to
>direct attention to the correct location?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:39:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (skeeter)
wrote:
>>Try using the plain vanilla fdisk from Linux. I had basically the same
>>problem you are having when I used Disk Druid from RedHat v6.1 to create
>>partitions. When I created them manually using fdisk, I was able to assign
>>them and install just fine.
>
>
>For my next dumb question, how can I do that in DOS from a Linux disk?
>Since I don't have a linux to run, how do I go about it? Do I fire up
>a bootable floppy? Is a DOS "runnable" fdisk found somewhere in the
>SuSE 6-disk distribution?
You may be able to access it while booting from one of the Install CDs or
there may be diskette images you can use in your distribution. When you boot
from CD, see if you can use Alt+F2 (or F3,etc) to switch to a terminal window
at any point and run fdisk from the command prompt there. If not, and you
aren't sure where to get the bootable images or how to make the disks, post
again and let me know and I'll send you URLs for everything you need and some
directions for doing what you are after.
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From: Ewan Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moved linux partition from hdb1 to hda2...can't boot
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:55:48 +1000
Keyser Soze wrote:
>
> I bought a new hard drive and using partition magic, moved the redhat
> partition from the only partition on the second drive to the second
> partition on the first(new) drive. What command can I use upon boot to
> direct attention to the correct location?
>
> Thanks.
Don't know of any boot parameters, if any, you can use to solve this.
Smarter people than I might - there are plenty of them about.
What I do know is that you need(ed) to make some modifications to
/etc/lilo.conf and then run lilo so that Lilo will know where to find
the kernel to boot.
I suggest that some mods to /etc/fstab are probably also in order so
that the kernel will know where to find the the file systems it will
want to mount.
If you can, have a read of the man pages for both lilo.conf and fstab.
They should shed a bit more light on your problem than I.
Good luck!
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From: Ioannis Thavoris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SUSE 6.3 (or *.4?) --ran out of input data :-(
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 20:03:11 -0500
I was trying to install my sound card (sb awe 64) and the appropriate
module (snd-card-sbawe.o) was missing since I hadn't installed it at the
first instalation. I decided to search the suse ftp site and I found the
module to be part of the k_deflt.rpm, k_eide, ... etc packages in the
directory ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/images/ .
So, what I did, I downloaded the k_deflt.rpm package and I ran it as
root (using the kpackage) and just "upgrate" it !!!!!! ;-( .
(Notice that k_deflt.rpm is from the 6.4 distribution while I have 6.3).
Still I couldn't install the card with yast2: the module was missing.
Then I though this maybe is due to the version incompatibility and I
found the same module in the alsa.rpm package at
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.3/suse/snd1/ , ran it again as root
and I "succeeded " !!!
... or I though I did, because when I rebooted my PC I was faced
with the message
ran out of input data
-- system halded
That wasn't a plain kernel panic; that was worse than a dissaster. I
believe it should be easy? to recover my system but I have no certain
and safe idea how. Since I haven't made a backup for two months now, I
cannot take the risk to experiment again (Why I didn't think this
before ????????).
Let me know what I can do
Regards
-Io
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From: "Robert Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moved linux partition from hdb1 to hda2...can't boot
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 20:19:11 -0600
On Sunday, July 2, 2000 7:12 PM, "Keyser Soze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed
in article <7UQ75.6023$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I bought a new hard drive and using partition magic, moved the redhat
> partition from the only partition on the second drive to the second
> partition on the first(new) drive. What command can I use upon boot to
> direct attention to the correct location?
>
> Thanks.
You might want to read very carefully the write-up in the
Hard-Disk-Upgrade mini how-to. It's at
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade on my RH6.0 machine. YMMV.
While this probably won't apply *exactly* to your situation, there are a
number of pointers that would apply universally.
If you can't find the document, let me know and I'll email it to you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lenny)
Subject: Re: Large HD's
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 01:29:23 GMT
"Scott Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just installed a 20gig Maxtor HD, but ended up with 8 and a half gig of
>space. I see that the cylinders, sectors, heads settings add up to 8.5 gig.
>How do I get the remaining 12gig? Thanks, --sw
You should have recieved a Max Blast diskette with your new hard
drive. If you didn't you can download it at..
http://www.maxtor.com/maxblast/
This can used if your bios doesn't support large drives.
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From: "John Mazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 192.168.0.* vs 192.168.1.*
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 01:30:24 GMT
There's no problem with using "0" for the thrid octet in a class C network
address. The rule with using "0" or "255" in TCP/IP is that you can't have
either a host address or network number resolve to all "0" or all "1" in
binary. I'll explain in a bit more detail below:
An IP address is a 32-bit unsigned long integer. Since human beings do not
like to think in binary, we express this 32-bit number as four digital (base
10) numbers separated by dots. (ie: 192.168.0.1). This is strictly for
convenience and ease of use. BTW - 192.168.0.1 is C0A80001 in Hexadecimal,
or 11000000 10101000 00000000 00000001 in binary (spaces between bytes of
address for clarity).
The IP address is only part of the picture. It must be combined with a
subnet mask before it has any relevance. The subnet mask is a number that
is boolean AND-ed with the IP address to tell what portion of the IP address
is the network number and what portion is the node address. The network
number identifies the unique network, and the node address indentifies which
machine in that network we are attempting to contact. Just like an IP
address, a subnet mask is usually given in dotted decimal notation. For
example, it is standard practice to give a Class C address a subnet mask of
255.255.255.0 (FF.FF.FF.00 in hex, or 11111111 11111111 11111111 0000000 in
binary). When we logically AND 192.168.0.1 with a mask of 255.255.255.0 we
get:
11000000 10101000 00000000 00000001 (192.168.0.1)
11111111 11111111 11111111 00000000 (255.255.255.0)
===============================================================
11000000 10101000 00000000 00000000 (192.168.0.0)
Logically AND-ing 192.168.0.1 with the inverse of the subnet mask gives us
the node number:
11000000 10101000 00000000 00000001 (192.168.0.1)
00000000 00000000 00000000 11111111 (0.0.0.255)
=============================================================
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 (0.0.0.1)
Now, we can see from the above that 192.168.0.1 is an okay address, as
neither the network number (192.168.0.0) nor the node number (0.0.0.1) is
all binary 0 or binary 1.
Where we can get into trouble is when we do non-standard subnet masks, such
as 255.255.255.128 and forget to watch out for the unusable node numbers.
For example, let's use an address of 192.168.1.127 and a mask of
255.255.255.128. Converting these to binary shows that our network number
is:
|----------- Net No -------------| | Node |
11000000 10101000 00000001 0 1111111 (192.168.1.127)
11111111 11111111 11111111 1 0000000 (255.255.255.128)
==================================================================
11000000 10101000 00000001 0 0000000 (192.168.1.0)
And our node number is:
10000000 10101000 00000001 0 1111111 (192.168.1.127)
00000000 00000000 00000000 0 1111111 (0.0.0.127)
===============================================================
00000000 00000000 00000000 0 1111111 (0.0.0.127)
UH OH! We have a node number that is all "1's". We also can't use
192.168.1.128, as it is all "0" in the subnet of 192.168.1.128.
Oh - above I mentioned Class C addresses. Address classes are an old
Internet convention and are determined by the first octet of the address:
1-126 Class A Mask 255.0.0.0 (Originally intended for huge networks)
127 Loopback
128-191 Class B Mask 255.255.0.0 (For medium sized networks)
192-223 Class C Mask 255.255.255.0 (Smaller networks).
There are only 125 Class A networks possible, with millions of nodes each.
There are 65000 or so Class B networks, with roughly 65,000 nodes each, and
millions of Class C networks, with million of nodes each.
As IP network numbers become a more and more scarce resource, subnetting
into the third octet and using technologies such as NAT to allow an entire
network to access the global Internet through a single IP address will
continue to gain popularity. Once IPv6 becomes widespread, this will cease
to be an issue, as its 128-bit addresses will provide plenty of address
space for the forseeable future.
I hope this primer helps in understanding how to plan an IP addressing
scheme. Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance in this
subject.
moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, David wrote:
> >Are there any complications or things that can't be done by using a 0
> >as the 3rd part of an IP address as opposed to 1-255?
> >
> >It's just supposed to use the netmask to determine what part of the IP
> >address is actually the host-part wildcard right?
>
> Not that I know of, I use 192.168.0.2 for my linux box (Win98SE ICS
connected
> to I-net, don't ask) and I have SAMBA, APACHE, FTP, and a Half-Life
Dedicated
> Server, as well as all of my normal net services running just fine
(netmask:
> 255.255.255.0)
>
> moonie ;)
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From: "Canadian UK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN Help for a newbie
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 02:33:18 +0100
I just installed Suse Linux 6.4
This is my first attempt at running a linux box
would like to know if there is a way to get my isdn card to use dual bonding
to get 128K connections
I have checked the how to's but can't seem to find anything on this subject.
If this is not the right group then my appologies
And please remember i'm a newbie be gentle :-)))
--
Canadian UK
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
07718600253
ICQ pager www.icq.com/62489509
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Subject: Re: Install OpenGL on TNT 2
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 Jul 2000 19:31:39 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Easy) writes:
> I am having many problems installing The OpenGL drivers for a TNT 2
> card. I downloaded the drivers from the NVidia web site and it
> refuses to install them saying XFree86 must have a version >= 4.0. I
> am pretty sure that I have installed XFree86 4.0 so what the hell is
> wrong?
Did you install XFree86 via RPM?
You probably should, unless you want to dissect the NVIDIA rpm files
and place them by hand (not too difficult -- perhaps even easier than
finding a good RPM for XFree86 4...)
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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Subject: Newbie Modem Question
From: kayak50 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 18:36:07 -0700
I've successfully installed SuSE 6.4; all's well, as far as it
goes. I have a Winmodem on my Celeron 333 computer and thus am
unable to connect to the 'net. How, exactly, do I proceed to
uninstall and reinstall a modem able to connect under Linux? Will
I need to reinstall SuSE once I add a new modem? Also, any
recommendations for a good Linux modem? I've been looking at the
ActionTec 56k Call-Waiting model, internal. Any advantage to
going for an external model? TIA!
===========================================================
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: allow users to wvdial?
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 20:51:42 -0500
Hi,
How do I allow all users use wvdial (i.e. dial into my ISP)? Right now -
only root can.
Thanks in advance ...
David
UT Austin - Department of Chemical Engineering
Tel: (512) 471-4789 Fax: (413) 215-9854
Office: CPE 3.428
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dialup connection.............
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 01:57:51 GMT
running red hat 6.1, linux refuses to recognize my modem. (56k)
i have worn out the red hat linux bible, and nothing works!!
any ideas?
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Equinox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Wrong major/minor number
Date: 3 Jul 2000 02:05:12 GMT
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 14:06:01 -0500, Steve Emmett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when I execute
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> i received the error
>
> mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number.
>
> I'm assuming I've munged the floppy device and have to use MAKEDEV to
> reconstruct it. The question is how do I go about doing just that?
That would be the obvious conclusion. Though, I've also seen this
error when the drivers for the floppy drive and/or filesystem are
compiled as modules, and are not loaded. Try this:
modprobe floppy.o
modprobe <your-filesystem-here>.o
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
where <your-filesystem-here> would probably be one of:
ext2
minix
vfat
umsdos
msdos
Messy, I know, but it might get things working for now. You can make
pretty later.
--Russell
========================
email (spam-disabled):
rdh *at* dibbs *dot* net
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