Linux-Setup Digest #314, Volume #21 Sun, 27 May 01 14:13:11 EDT
Contents:
AD : Multichannel OD Test Cards For Sale £25 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help building cdrtools - missing files? (Ralph Mack)
sound card cmi8338 help (Norbert)
configuring the modem (Victor S. Miller)
RE: First Time Installing GNU/Linux (Tiffany)
kernel 2.4.5 on RH 6.2 (Jimbo)
Tweaking Linux and Road Runner (R J)
Re: Retrieving PPP IP Address (Michael Heiming)
Re: kernel 2.4.4 compilation ("Nikolaos Tsarmpopoulos")
RE: sound card cmi8338 help (R J)
Re: Samba Printing! (Jimbo)
eth0 and xemacs ("Casely Schandorf")
how to add harware (sisil)
Re: Using linux as secondary DNS (Mark Johnson)
Re: help ! (Topaz_Crow)
Re: sound card cmi8338 help (Norbert)
Need Scripting Help (Rand Simberg)
INTERFACE (Raymond Tsang)
RE: strange problem (Tiffany)
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Date: 27 May 2001 16:21:18 GMT
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From: Ralph Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help building cdrtools - missing files?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 16:34:07 GMT
Hello again,
I need help to build the latest version of cdrecord, etc. on Red=20
Hat Linux 7.1. I think I need to do something to make Linux=20
generate a couple of .h files that cdrtools-1.11 requires.=20
Has anyone built cdrtools-1.10 or 1.11 successfully with RedHat=20
Linux 7.1 fresh out of the box?
The Red Hat 7.1 kernel already contains out of the box all of the=20
kernel features that I should need for using the new cdrecord with
my USB-based CD-RW drive, so I didn't have to build the kernel.
However, some of the files that cdrecord uses (e.g.=20
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h) make reference to other=20
include files (e.g. linux/version-up.h) that don't exist anywhere=20
on my system. Since I have almost the "kitchen sink" installed,
and since version.h refers to /boot/kernel.h to determine that
it needs to include linux/version-up.h, I begin to suspect that
the missing files may be files generated during a kernel rebuild.=20
Is there a way to build a kernel with a feature set that is=20
identical to what is already installed without my knowing every
nuance of what is currently installed? To the point where it would=20
be safe to use the include files generated for that kernel with=20
the existing kernel?=20
Ralph
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From: Norbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound card cmi8338 help
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 00:54:40 +0800
i need advice on getting the sound card to work on RH7.1. i'm running
on a integrated sound card m/board and comes with c-media cmi8338 chip.
linux managed to detect the card but no sound output during test.
any idea what's wrong or it just a compatibility problem. anyone has
this experiece before....i am using the pcchip motherboard.
- i don't think a hardware problem as it works on my windows
.
thank you
bert.
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Subject: configuring the modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 16:48:31 GMT
I'm running RH 7.0 on a Pentium MMX 166 Mhz. I would like to use
minicom to communicate with some other computers which only have a
line at a time dial up interface. I have a modem on COM2 which works
fine when I boot into Win 98. So far I have been unsucessfull in get
anything to work with it in Linux. The drivers are loaded (see this
except from dmesg):
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
The modem should be a ttyS1. However, when I use wvdialconf to probe
for a modem, it responds:
tyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- nothing.
Port Scan<*1>: S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8
Port Scan<*1>: S9 S10 S11 S12 S13 S14 S15 S16
Port Scan<*1>: S17 S18 S19 S20 S21 S22 S23 S24
Port Scan<*1>: S25 S26 S27 S28 S29 S30 S31 S32
Port Scan<*1>: S33 S34 S35 S36 S37 S38 S39 S40
Port Scan<*1>: S41 S42 S43 S44 S45 S46 S47 S48
Port Scan<*1>: S49 S50 S51 S52 S53 S54 S55 S56
Port Scan<*1>: S57 S58 S59 S60 S61 S62 S63 S64
Port Scan<*1>: S65 S66 S67 S68 S69 S70 S71 S72
Port Scan<*1>: S73 S74 S75 S76 S77 S78 S79 S80
Port Scan<*1>: S81 S82 S83 S84 S85 S86 S87 S88
Port Scan<*1>: S89 S90 S91 S92 S93 S94 S95 S96
Port Scan<*1>: S97 S98 S99 S100 S101 S102 S103 S104
Port Scan<*1>: S105 S106 S107 S108 S109 S110 S111 S112
Port Scan<*1>: S113 S114 S115 S116 S117 S118 S119 S120
Port Scan<*1>: S121 S122 S123 S124 S125 S126 S127 S128
Port Scan<*1>: S129 S130 S131 S132 S133 S134 S135 S136
Port Scan<*1>: S137 S138 S139 S140 S141 S142 S143 S144
Port Scan<*1>: S145 S146 S147 S148 S149 S150 S151 S152
Port Scan<*1>: S153 S154 S155 S156 S157 S158 S159 S160
Port Scan<*1>: S161 S162 S163 S164 S165 S166 S167 S168
Port Scan<*1>: S169 S170 S171 S172 S173 S174 S175 S176
Port Scan<*1>: S177 S178 S179 S180 S181 S182 S183 S184
Port Scan<*1>: S185 S186 S187 S188 S189 S190 S191 SI0
Port Scan<*1>: SI1 SI2 SI3 SI4 SI5 SI6 SI7 SI8
Port Scan<*1>: SI9 SI10 SI11 SI12 SI13 SI14 SI15 SR0
Port Scan<*1>: SR1 SR2 SR3 SR4 SR5 SR6 SR7 SR8
Port Scan<*1>: SR9 SR10 SR11 SR12 SR13 SR14 SR15 SR16
Port Scan<*1>: SR17 SR18 SR19 SR20 SR21 SR22 SR23 SR24
etc...
Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with setserial?
Please read the FAQ at http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/
If you still have problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And /etc/wvdial.conf is
[Modem0]
Modem = /dev/ttyS1
Baud = 115200
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
SetVolume = 0
Dial Command = ATDT
[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyS1
Baud = 115200
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
SetVolume = 0
Dial Command = ATDT
I'm really puzzled. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get
my modem to work?
Victor
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From: Tiffany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: First Time Installing GNU/Linux
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:52:03 -0400
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashish G.) =====
<deletia>
> I am new to Linux and Linux-like OSes so I want to load Linux as a
>secondary OS, on the 4.3GB HDD and connect the HDD as a slave to the
>other HDD ( atleast till I get familiar with Linux). Please tell me
>how to go about it.
You can install the second hard disk drive and set the configuration jumpers
to 'slave mode' - assuming the disks are both [E]IDE.
Then you can boot-up the computer and using the GNU/Linux installation
diskettes or the CD-ROM begin the installation process. I would recommend
the
Debian GNU/Linux distribution or one of the distributions geared towards to
GNU/Linux beginner. RedHat is best avoided due to its bloat and frequent
tangents into their own world.
When prompted near the end of the installation process, select the option to
create a GNU/Linux root/boot disk rather than booting from the hard disk -
this is avoid any potential problems you might encounter trying to make the
system dual bootable until you gain more experience.
If you have an Internet connection, either dial-up or high-speed, I
recommend
you just fetch the installation diskette images from an ftp server
(ftp.debian.org) and then during the installation of the base system you can
select the ftp or preferable the apt method of installing the other
components
of the system. If you need any further assistance you may email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
TJB
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From: Jimbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.4.5 on RH 6.2
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 18:50:13 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'd like to install kernel 2.4.5 on RH 6.2 (upgrading from kernel
2.2.19).
After reading the documentations I upgraded some packages. There's one
I can't upgrade "util-linux".
I found the tarball but it seems quite complicated to compile this
(i'm relatively new to Linux).
Does anyone has some hints or clues how I can upgrade this util-linux
without the tarball. (i've download the latest util-linux from
rawhide, but this one needs glibc-5 and another version of
ncurses...it seems quite a major impact to get this installed).
Any help welcome
Regards,
Koen
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From: R J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tweaking Linux and Road Runner
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:08:22 -0400
Hi Folks
I just installed RoadRunner (Time Warner Cable NYC) and hooked it up to my
linux box (SuSE 7.0) however I'd like to know if anyone can tell me how to
tweak the MTU and RWin parameters to get maximum performance.
Thanks
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 19:11:33 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Retrieving PPP IP Address
"Mark D." wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I am trying to automate a packet filtering firewall by providing the IP
> address of the PPP connection upon its connection. I have Linux
> 2.2.5-15 (Redhad 6.0). Besides querying the PPP log file to get the IP
> address, is there any more direct method to finding the PPP IP address
> to put in the IPChains script.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Mark
Hello Mark,
below is a small script I wrote for something like this, you could
adopt.
#!/bin/sh
# notice dynamically changed IP from ISP Dial up
# mail new values
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 2001-01-24
DEVICE="ippp0"
MAILTO="you@yourdomain"
IFCONFIG="/sbin/ifconfig"
. IP_w
nip=`$IFCONFIG $DEVICE |grep inet |awk -F: '{ print $2 " " $3 }' |awk '{
print $1 " " $3}'`
if [ "$nip" != "$MyIP" ]; then
echo MyIP=\""$nip\"" > IP_w
mail -s "$HOSTNAME IP has changed!" $MAILTO << EOF
New Data `date +%H:%I:%S` date: `date -I`
`cat IP_w`
EOF
else
echo "Nothing happend" > /dev/null
fi
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Nikolaos Tsarmpopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.4 compilation
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 20:11:26 +0300
Check the SUSE Linux 7.1 HANDBOOK, page 452. I was searching for something
else, but I also found something that may relate to your problem.
It says that after recompiling the kernel, if you have the driver built into
the kernel and the previous kernel had it configured (during installation)
as a module, then the kernel will still try to load the module of the same
driver and this leads to the system blocking.
A solution to this is given in page 453.
I hope this helps.
Nikolaos
"chao cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:xIVP6.1488$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> After I compiled kernel 2.4.4 on my dual pentium pro.200 with SuSE 7.1, my
> computer just freezes after the following lines:
>
> SCSi subsystem driver revision 1.00
> i9lu: PCI base = 0xfc00, irq=17, bios=oxc8000,scsi id = 7
> i9lu: reset scsi bus
> scsi0: initio INI-9x00 u.uw scsi device driver; revision1.03g
> vendor: seagate model st15230w sun4.3g rev:0738
> type:direct access ansi:scs revision:02
> ini9100u: 13 0
> scsi channel0: resetting for second half of retries.
> scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
> scsi host0 channel 0 reset (pid0) timeout -tryharder
> scsi is being reset for host 0 channel 0
>
> I did select the initio 9100 scsi driver during the compilation process.
> Does anyone know hwo to get it to work? thanks!
>
> Btw, it works fine with kernel 2.2.18!!! thanks!!
>
>
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From: R J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: sound card cmi8338 help
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:14:15 -0400
I've used RH with the CMI8338 even CMI8738 on those PC Chips motherboards
with
no problems at all. Even got the winmodem to work (8738AM).
Did you run sndconfig after you set up the system or are you relying on the
detection during setup?
try using sndconfig.
Only problem I had is that occasionally the sound card would hang but i
guess
this has been fixed now.
>===== Original Message From Norbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>i need advice on getting the sound card to work on RH7.1. i'm running
>on a integrated sound card m/board and comes with c-media cmi8338 chip.
>linux managed to detect the card but no sound output during test.
>
>any idea what's wrong or it just a compatibility problem. anyone has
>this experiece before....i am using the pcchip motherboard.
>
>- i don't think a hardware problem as it works on my windows
>.
>thank you
>
>bert.
>
>
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From: Jimbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Printing!
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 19:09:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had problems with printing to a Brother HL660 connected o Win98. It
worked for the test-pages but KWord for example refused to work. I
installed the latest samba-packages and all problems were solved
On Fri, 25 May 2001 13:45:39 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Rod Smith) wrote:
>> When I use lpr to print a file. It seems that no response to the Printer but
>> had no errors.
>> Do I need mount the Windows Printer first ? How to mount it ? Would you
>> please to teach me ?
>
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From: "Casely Schandorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eth0 and xemacs
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:19:42 -0400
Quick questions:
1) Anyone have a reason why bringing up interface eth0 on startup is so
slow. It takes a while on my linux desktop but on my Sony Vaio laptop
PGC-FX120, it takes a much longer time. I have it configured to use dhcp to
obtain ip address on my home network.
2) More importantly, can anyone tell me why xemacs will not start up if my
network isn't running but emacs will? Seems kinda strange that xemacs will
expect the network to be up before it will start when all I'm trying to do
is edit a file.
Note: My current distribution is Redhat 7.1 running kde on my laptop.
Any light on this matter will be truly appreciated.
Casely
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From: sisil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to add harware
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 17:30:05 -0000
i insatlled red hat linux 6.2, problem is i can't configure my sound card
and modem...
can u help me.. with this...
i have Creative AWE 64 Sound card
Cirrus logic 33.6 K modem
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Subject: Re: Using linux as secondary DNS
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Johnson)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 17:17:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Uhring) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Steve Martin wrote:
>
>> Dave Uhring wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> > I would like to setup my Linux box as a secondary DNS in addition
>>> > to the
>>> > primary corporate DNS at our office. What I would like to do is
>>> > set it up so that I can type http://voodoo or telnet foobar from my
>>> > windows machine
>>> > and it will resolve to the linux box. I know that I could easily
>>> > do this by editing my local etc/hosts file on my windows machine
>>> > but i don't want to do it this way becuase there are about 10 of us
>>> > in our little cube pod
>>> > at work that need this type of resovling. I don't want to bother
>>> > out IT group about updating the DNS everytime we are screwing
>>> > around with this type of thing.
>>
>>> Adding another DNS server is very likely to upset your network
>>> administrator. Create a /etc/hosts file on 1 machine and ftp it to
>>> the rest.
>>
>> An alternative you might consider is asking the IT guys to allow you
>> to administer your own zone. Then you could set your Linux box up
>> to be authoritative just for those ten or so machines, and have it
>> refer all other queries to the corporate DNS machines. They might not
>> want to do this, but it's better than simply hanging another DNS
>> machine on the network without permission.
>>
>
>Maintaining DNS zone files is considerably more difficult and time
>consuming than editing one /etc/hosts file and distributing it with FTP
>or SCP. Not to mention the probable difficulty in getting permission to
>set up a separate zone. It's usually best to let sleeping dogs lie when
>it comes to running Linux in a Microsoft network, which I assume is
>present here.
>
>
Well, we can't just create one etc/hosts file and ftp it to everyone's
machines cos everyone's etc/hosts files ar unique.
Also, I do have permission from the IT group to do this if it makes sense
to do....if that helps...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Topaz_Crow)
Subject: Re: help !
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 17:25:43 GMT
On 27 May 2001 09:05:00 -0700, Ashish G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi !
>I have two hard disks, one has 20GB storage space and the other has
>4.3GB sotrage space. Both the HDDs have 3 partitions. I have loaded
>Win98SE and all my software on the 20GB HDD while the 4.3GB HDD is
>blank and not connected to my PC.
> I am new to Linux and Linux-like OSes so I want to load Linux as a
>secondary OS, on the 4.3GB HDD and connect the HDD as a slave to the
>other HDD ( atleast till I get familiar with Linux). Please tell me
>how to go about it.
>
Plug the second HD in as the primary slave and start the install.
Make sure you point the install to hdb and *not* hda. When you
install lilo, it should be installed in the mbr of hda.
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From: Norbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card cmi8338 help
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 02:00:54 +0800
i did run sndconfig. it just says cmi8338 detected and when it comes to
test..i hear no sound...i just wonder why ???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Need Scripting Help
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 18:01:57 GMT
I'm writing a simple Bourne shell script (running in bash). The
ultimate purpose is to check for shares on other network machines, and
automatically samba mount them, but I'm getting stuck on a seemingly
trivial problem.
When redirecting a file from a read command, isn't each read supposed
to read the *next* line of the file?
I have a file called mainshares whose contents are:
\tNEW FOLDER Disk
\tPRINTER$ Disk
\tVENTURES Disk
(It's generated by a grep on "Disk" of an smbclient -L command)
My current script is:
:
while read inshare < mainshares
do
echo $inshare
done
When I run this, it goes into an infinite loop, repeatedly printing
the first line of the file, and never advancing to the next one.
What's going on?
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From: Raymond Tsang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: INTERFACE
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:47:04 +0800
Hello folks,can RedHat 7.1 install chinese interface ? if yes ,how to
do?
Thanks
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From: Tiffany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: strange problem
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 14:06:46 -0400
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (omry) =====
>Hi all
>
>I have w2k and win98 installed. After installing red-hat 7.1, I found
>out that I could only boot linux with a boot floppy.
<deletia>
>...I always get the NTLDR and can boot Linux
>only with floppy disk.
Read the HOW-TO for dual-booting GNU/Linux and MS Windows NT. I have
successfully achieved dual-boot capability following that HOW-TO. I think
you
need to copy a file to the the boot-up partition on MS Windows NT and point
to
it in the boot.ini file.
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