Linux-Setup Digest #39, Volume #20 Tue, 14 Nov 00 19:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: scsi pcmcia? ("Chris Ripp")
suse 7.0 installation ("niko")
Re: setting up x on a notebook (Thorsten Gutermuth)
Re: WINE, VMware, Willows TWIN, etc. vs. Dual Booting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cannot login (maher abedib)
Re: USRobotics PCI 56K Modem (5610-rev1) with COM5 in Windows (Bill Unruh)
"Invalid partition table" error message ("Min Kuan")
Re: Bizarre Network Unreachable Issue on VAIO (Oliver Corff)
Re: lpd problem in RH 6.1 (Oliver Corff)
Xconfig problem (jhecker)
Re: "No Audio CD" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
problem using modem (stang4)
Re: simple mail server Qs - Spurious "You have mail" messages ("Bill Steiner")
trouble getting 3COM 3C900B-TPO ethernet card working with Linux ("Mike Schwartz")
Re: Choice of mail engine ? (Colin Watson)
Re: ssh-keygen? (Michael Elkins)
Install Corel Linux 1.0 (Laurie Murphy)
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From: "Chris Ripp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi pcmcia?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:43:19 -0600
Doubtful if you'll be able to boot from a PCMCIA adapter, though. Maybe if
you could construct a boot floppy that could somehow load up the pcmcia
services....
"Paul Kimoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <8upon2$9n0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Wagner wrote:
> > how good is linux at
> > recognizing pcmcia scsi cards?
>
> Disclaimer: I don't use a PCMCIA SCSI card.
>
> PCMCIA support comes from David Hinds at
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/.
> See the list of supported cards at the website.
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto
> This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
> hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
> and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: "niko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: suse 7.0 installation
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:21:49 +0100
Hi,
I tried to install suse 7.0 on my HD (20GB). I made a partition of 2 GB.
YAST2 did not recognize my HD, when switching to manual mode or YAST1, it
told me, i had several SCSI -devices (each of around 50 GB) and several IDE
(together more than 500 GB). devices installed.
So, what is the problem and how can I solve it?
Thank you!
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From: Thorsten Gutermuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up x on a notebook
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:24:01 +0000
TopQuark wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:22:19 +0000, Thorsten Gutermuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I use Suse 6.3(2.2.13) on a notebook. I frist tried to setup X using
> > sax, which resulted in to red lines on my screen. Then I read the x and
> > notebook howto and ran a tool called SuperProbe, which gave me the
> > specification of my graphic card:
> > SuperProbe Version 2.21 (1999 September 9)...
> > First video: Super-VGA
> > Chipset: Trident Cyber9385 (PCI Probed)
> > Memory: 2048 Kbytes
> > RAMDAC: Trident Built-In 15/16/24-bit DAC
> > (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
> [snip]
> > (--) SVGA: videoram: 64k
>
> That's likely your problem.
Hi!
Sorry, but I don't understand. Using Win 98 I get a 800x600 resolution
and a color depth of 24bit. So you certainly are not trying to tell me
that I can't get x running at all. Do you??
Thanks Thorsten
>
> --
>
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> TopQuark Software & Serv. Contract programmer, server bum.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give up Spammers; I use procmail.
--
"Verantwortlich ist man nicht nur für das, was man tut, sondern auch für
das, was man nicht tut."
(Laotse, chin. Philosoph, 4-3 Jhd. v. Chr.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: WINE, VMware, Willows TWIN, etc. vs. Dual Booting
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:25:57 GMT
> The latest releases of Wine have been great for me. Relatively fast
> (obviously a program like Office that already takes 20 seconds to
> load,
> takes at least 25 in an emulator - but otherwise l'm very happy with
> it).
This is great news, though looking at the WineHQ.com site and review
articles they emphasise how this is still beta. While Word97 is
so "popular" (or should I say commonplace?), ti is obviously a major
target for them. However, it is a rather complicated piece. The
database of testing does indicate less than resounding success on this,
and I shall probably go dual boot and wait for the WINE to mature :-)
http://www.winehq.com/Apps/query.cgi
Learned loads from this thread and the sites.
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/967526746/index_html
Complete respect and "hats off" to all those working on these projects!
Does anyone think this will be a hinderance to Linux, i.e. why develop
for Linux if there are Windows emulators? I do not, but it was a point
in one of the articles . . .
I am now looking at the Linux Products that will best DIRECTLY read my
Word'97 files (including equations and Vector Graphics). Am afraid
this is a lost cause and will revert to a dual-boot.
http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/
http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/
http://linux.corel.com/products/wpo2000_linux/
The Star Office certainly sounds like it has the most confidence about
converting the Word Doc. What if I convert them to Word 6.0 first
will that help? The graphics & footnotes save correctly. I do think a
full Windows Emulator is over-kill for just one application.
Hmmm. IF only I could convert the Word docs to LaTeX . .. all my
problems would be solved . . .
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Before you buy.
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From: maher abedib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot login
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 05:50:57 +0800
Thanks Robert,
I really appreciated!
Btw, I would like to know,how do I determine the /lib/libpam* are
install correctly? and you're second answer is adding the "ldd
/bin/login"..How do I do that.If posibble,can you explain a little bit
furthur to this little newbie :)
thank you again,
regards,
maher adib
Robert Kiesling wrote:
>
> It is indeed. Somehow the pluggable authentication modules library
> wasn't installed correctly, or so it would seem from the errors.
> There are several ways to fix this: 1) Re-install from scratch;
> or 2) Try typing init=/bin/sh at the Boot: prompt, and if that
> works, determine if /lib/libpam* are installed correctly. Also
> try "ldd /bin/login" to determine what other libraries might be
> missing. The first option is, I would think, preferable, and
> then, if the prob recurs, you might need to look into why exactly
> it failed...
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> Robert Kiesling
> Linux FAQ Maintainer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.mainmatter.com/linux-faq/toc.html http://www.mainmatter.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: USRobotics PCI 56K Modem (5610-rev1) with COM5 in Windows
Date: 14 Nov 2000 22:06:37 GMT
In <pkhQ5.6385$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jon Tilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
]Forgive me for jumping on this thread but I have a similar problem with a
]Hayes ISA bus modem which is on /dev/ttyS2 or COM3....It too takes ages to
]respond to commands and pppd/chat times out before the ISP connection
]finishes. Took me a while to realise what was happening til I tried cat <
]/dev/ttyS2 in one term and cat > /devttyS2 in another...the out window takes
]ages to reflect what goes in the in one!
]I'm running mandrake with kernel 2.2.15. Is this a known problem with bus
]modems we have here?
]Reply via email if this is off thread.....
Sounds like the modem is either sharing an interrupt or you have not
told Linux which interrupt your modem is actually using ( setserial)
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From: "Min Kuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "Invalid partition table" error message
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:06:06 -0800
Hi, guys/gals:
I think I've a problem in my hand - I received a "Invalid partition table"
error message after I installed and rebotted my machine. I hope someone can
help me (pls...). :)
Here the configurations of my machine:
=======================================
- 2 hard drives: 30G and 6G hard drives
- I partitioned my 30G into 3 partitions when I installed Win2K in it.
The partition with Win2K is NTFS, and the rest of the two (~10G each) are
unformatted.
- 128Mb RAM
Here's how I did my CLOS installation:
========================================
- Rebooted from boot disk provided with CLOS Deluxe.
- It took me to the screen where it asked if it should "Take over the
disk (something like that)", or "Editing partition table (something like
that)". The install in free disk feature was not highlight (don't know why).
So, I decided to choose the edit partition table radio button.
- Under "hda" director (indicating ~>29000Mb, assumed it was my 30G hd),
I create a root partition (allocating 2000Mb to it), and a sway partition
(allocating 128Mb to it).
- Then, click next, and checked "check for bad sector", and click next
to install.
- It was showing messages likes: partitioning, installing base system,
and installing packages.. as a progress bar moved on.
- After the installation, I had to click a button to reboot the system.
- When it rebooted, I got the error message. :(
Please... somone helps me. :)
Min.
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From: Oliver Corff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bizarre Network Unreachable Issue on VAIO
Date: 14 Nov 2000 22:39:23 GMT
Oliver Corff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Dear Readers,
: Now a me too: Network unreachable!
: What happened:
[An obscure network error]
I found the answer in one of the articles written in the Linux Laptop
pages on the Sony VAIOs. The /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file must contain
the line
exclude irq 5
so that the sound system does not interfere with the card services.
Now everything works as it should!
Oliver.
--
Dr. Oliver Corff e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Oliver Corff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lpd problem in RH 6.1
Date: 14 Nov 2000 22:42:13 GMT
Clifton Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: /etc/conf.modules. Using Printtool, I configured the printer (lp0 was
: auto-detected) and I was able to print no problem. Then I came back a
: few days later and tried to print all I got was the error '...no daemon
: present'.
Dear Clifton,
I cannot figure out *why* this happens now and then; but simply try
modprobe lp
and suddenly everything should be working.
Even insmod lp which occasionally brings the message "there is a module
named lp" will then trigger this to function correctly.
At least, this is what worked on my machine.
Oliver.
--
Dr. Oliver Corff e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: jhecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xconfig problem
Date: 14 Nov 2000 17:49:19 -0500
Hello -
I am trying to set up X under Mandrake 7.2
I am running an S3 (Virge) video controller driving an HP FX70 LCD
monitor.
Xconfigurator keeps erroring out. Apparently XF86Setup no longer is part
of their distribution, so I can't cobble up an XConfig file (which I did
under 7.1).
If anyone has these (or someone has a database of them), I would
appreciate hearing about it!
TIA -
Regards,
jh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "No Audio CD"
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:36:06 GMT
> Do you have sound working in general (can you play sounds in
> general)?
Yes, sounds work OK.
> Have you checked your mixer settings to see if volume is down for
> CD?
Yes, they are set to almost maximum volume
> Do you have permission to access /dev/cdrom (might need to set up a
> group for normal users to access it)? Make sure that you umount'd
> any data CD that was in the drive and do not try to 'mount' a music
> CD.
Yes, the permissions are set ok, so normal users belong to the
group "disk". Any user is able to mount and access any data CD or DVD.
> CD music is usually one of the easiest sounds to get working since
> the CPU is not involve in playing the sound (hardwired to soundcard),
> it just controls the starting and stopping or tracks. In fact you
> can close some CD players and the CD will continue to play.
>
I agree, and that's the reason it seems so extrange to me. While using
any CD player, the software recognizes the music CD and the number of
tracks. It acts as playing the CD, but no sound comes out. I have no
idea where can it be the problem, and the only thing that comes to my
mind is the fact that i have a DVD. Can it be that playing music CD's
on a DVD is ill suported in the kernel 2.2.16?
Any other ideas...
Luis
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Before you buy.
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From: stang4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem using modem
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:46:58 -0500
hi there,
i just installed winlinux 2000. it took me more than 10 hours.
it can detect my 56.6k modem. however, when i try to
dial up using the dial-up icon on the desktop, it always tells
me the modem is busy while actually is free.
i notice it supports ppp and slip. my dial-up is to ppp.
so there's no problem. i'm just wondering if i need to do some
configuration so that i can use the modem and dial-up.
by the way, i enter as root. if i enter as an user, when i dial-up,
it tells me that it doesnt support ppp. where can i configure this?
thanks,
patrick
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From: "Bill Steiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: simple mail server Qs - Spurious "You have mail" messages
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:12:36 -0800
I began experiencing the same problem after clean installs of RedHat 7.0.
However, it only occurs on my box that has Sendmail installed. My other box
without sendmail doesn't give spurious "You have mail" messages. I checked
both boxes and confirmed that only the one with Sendmail has username files
in /var/spool/mail/. So, it sounds like John is onto something. However,
what's puzzeling me is that I don't recall getting spurious "You have mail"
messages a few weeks back when I was still running RedHat 6.2 with the same
version of Sendmail (8.11.0). With RedHat 6.2, I only got the "You have
mail" message when I really had mail in the spool. This leads me to wonder
whether it's caused by a setting in my current Sendmail setup, or could it
be something else new in the Redhat 7.0 distribution.
I'm with you, Diesel. This is annoying.
Bill
"John Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I think if the file /var/spool/mail/username exists,
> "you have mail" will be reported.
>
>
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 05:04:28 GMT, Diesel
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Whenever I log into my box it says I have new mail, but even if I check
pine
> >it says I have no mail, if I check elm, it says I have 1 message that is
> >from Mail System Intern. that I should not delete, because it will be
> >recreated. Anyway, that message is really annoying when It is not
> >right, where can I change it to check the Right directory to check for
new
> >mail ?
> >
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Diesel
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> _____________________
> The lap of Linuxury
> |<de in RH6
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From: "Mike Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: trouble getting 3COM 3C900B-TPO ethernet card working with Linux
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:29:20 -0000
Hi,
I am having trouble getting Linux to work with my 3COM 3C900B-TPO network
interface card. FYI this is the card that US West sends you when you sign
up for their DSL service. This card definitely works, as I have been using
it under Win95 for a year now. I am trying to build a dual-boot
Win95/Linux
config for my desktop PC.
I have tried getting two different Linux distributions to work with this
network card:
- RedHat 4.2
- WinLinux 2000
FYI, the latter is a Linux distribution that uses the Win9x file system
instead of the usual Ext2 file system, allowing me to avoid partitioning
and also letting me backup my dual-boot Windows/Linux system as a single
backup. It works fine with the PCMCIA ethernet card on my laptop.
Contrary to how the name sounds, this really is Linux (not a
Windows-based emulator); it just shares the Windows file system.
I am mostly focused on using WinLinux with this machine, so I'll just
talk about it from here on. Its kernel version is 2.2.13.
I first tried using the ethernet driver that came compiled into the
kernel (3c59x). When this didn't work I went to the 3COM website and
downloaded the 3c90x driver (version 1.0.0d), which claims to support
the 3C900B-TPO card. I followed the instructions it gave, and when I
wasn't able to get it to work I tried sending mail to the support
address they listed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), but it bounced.
I tried installing first as a module:
- compiled the driver
- copied the .o file into /lib/modules/2.2.13/net/
- added the the needed alias in /etc/modules.conf
- edited the WinLinux /etc/rc.d/ init script that loads the needed
module
After rebooting, 'lsmod' showed that the module was loaded but "unused".
Moreover, when I tried "ifconfig eth0" it did not have an IP address
assigned, and when I tried to assign one and "up" the interface, it
complained "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device". I looked in
/var/log/messages and saw the error message "ds: no socket drivers
loaded!", followed by a number of DHCP failures. It sounds like the
driver failed to recognize my card.
I then tried rebuilding the kernel with this driver compiled-in. It
compiled and booted ok, but it again didn't work -- same error message
about "ds: no socket drivers loaded!".
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Please email to me below, as I don't read netnews regularly.
Thanks,
- Mike Schwartz
schwartz-at-CodeOnTheRoad.com
(Remember to fix the -at- above, which I use to fight automated spam
feeders)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Choice of mail engine ?
Date: 14 Nov 2000 23:50:54 GMT
ne... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Nov 14, 2000 at 09:14, Colin Watson eloquently wrote:
>>John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[sendmail, fetchmail, exim, postfix]
>>>Thanks. Are all these available free and with source code ?
>>
>>Yes, indeed; in particular, they're all in Debian's main distribution,
>>which means that they're compliant with the Debian Free Software
>>Guidelines (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines).
>
>Colin olde chap, Mr Beardmore uses RH6.2 and not Debian.
I know - I wasn't pointing him at Debian as a place where he could get
the code, I was saying that if it meets Debian's definition of free then
it probably meets most people's definition of free.
>Nice plug tho.
Well, I liked it. ;)
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"She's always been touchy about her age - even though it's not
the first time she's turned 40." - Frasier Crane on Maris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Elkins)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: ssh-keygen?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:03:03 GMT
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:02:03 -0500, Raymond Chui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I install sshd in my Redhat 6.2 Linux. After I issued ssh-keygen command
>in my ~/.ssh/ directory I only got identity and identity.pub files,
>according
>to ssh-keygen man page, it should also have id_dsa and id_dsa.pub files.
At least with OpenSSH, you have to use the -d option with ssh-keygen to
create a DSA key. By default it will generate a RSA key.
me at sigpipe dot org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurie Murphy)
Subject: Install Corel Linux 1.0
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:02:02 GMT
I have Corel Linux on CD and would like to install it. Will it wipe
out my data and windows 98? Can I have linux and windows on the same
drive?
I've been looking at the posts on dejanews for the last couple of
hours but have not found the answer.
Thanks and sorry for the very 'newbie' question.
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