Linux-Setup Digest #357, Volume #21 Sat, 2 Jun 01 21:13:12 EDT
Contents:
mount: /dev/cdrom has wrong major or minor number (mason elmore)
Re: Epson Stylus 777 (Jeff Moore)
Re: mount: /dev/cdrom has wrong major or minor number (Michael Heiming)
Re: Installation RH7.1 on Adaptec AHA-1542 ("Jörn Rink")
3com905c-TX and Telocity DSL gateway (Akop Pogosian)
Re: problem with network card (Dean Thompson)
Re: Linux Mouse question (Steve)
Re: Cable Modem Connection - Help Required (Dave Uhring)
CD Burning/SCSI emulation with RH 7.1 (root)
Re: 2GB File size limitation (Aniartia)
Re: route (Felix Miata)
Re: CD Burning/SCSI emulation with RH 7.1
Re: CD Burning/SCSI emulation with RH 7.1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mason elmore)
Subject: mount: /dev/cdrom has wrong major or minor number
Date: 2 Jun 2001 15:11:10 -0700
Ever sence i have recompiled my 2.4.4 kernel it has been saying that.
[masone@mason masone]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 20 15:28 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
and that is pointing to the right place, and i am guessing that it has something
to do with /etc/fstab, and i dont know what the major and minor numbers are. so
i just want some help with any further instructions.
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus 777
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 17:22:19 -0500
I have the 777i working well from ghostscript and over samba and netatalk.
There are a few different things to tweak. I have RH7.1 with gs5.50,
lpr, and using the uniprint
drivers stcany.upp and stp, both drivers work, but the stp supports more
resolutions.
Once you can print from linux, samba is easy.
Netatalk is much more complicated, involving many tweaks on linux and macs.
I can check to see what exactly the RH7.1 uses for these, but it works
at 360dpi to 1440dpi postscript 2.
Jeff Moore
Philip Neves wrote:
> Has anyone got the Epson Stylus 777 to print in linux. I've been trying to
> get my new printer to work but none of the ghostscript drivers that are
> advertised to work seem to work at all. If anyone has fixed this same
> problem please let me tell me how you did it. I've even gone as far as to
> recompile ghostscript with the gimp-print drivers to fix the problem and no
> dice. I'm completely stumped. I've tried to use the apsfilter on
> http://www.apsfilter.org which I've had success with other printers in the
> past. But this one doesn't seem to work.
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Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 00:30:32 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount: /dev/cdrom has wrong major or minor number
mason elmore wrote:
>
> Ever sence i have recompiled my 2.4.4 kernel it has been saying that.
> [masone@mason masone]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 20 15:28 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
>
> and that is pointing to the right place, and i am guessing that it has something
> to do with /etc/fstab, and i dont know what the major and minor numbers are. so
> i just want some help with any further instructions.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
Contains the settings, you can rm the device
and recreate it with mknod. "man mknod" for more info.
You don't need to change your fstab, again rtfm...
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Jörn Rink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Installation RH7.1 on Adaptec AHA-1542
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:39:32 +0200
There are two choices:
1.)
The update process should ask you if you have a driver disk.
Make a driver disk (IMHO it lies in the images directory on the first CD of
the new System.
You can make it while you have a floppy inserted in the floppy with
dd if=imagefile of=/dev/fd0
than reboot and insert the driver disk when the process ask you.
2.)
Is the driver not on the driver disk as a module, you have tocompile your
own kernel.
That must be the kernel from the new System (7.1)
Install the kernel source from the cd and compile it with the adaptec driver
include (not as module)
in the kernel. Make a bootdisk (boot.img) as explain above and copy the
kernel to the bootdisk.
Boot the system with the new created bootdisk and the update process should
recognize your adaptec. I do not know, if the adaptec driver needs mor
information (kernel parameters as irq and adrr).
CU
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"Huub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I want to upgrade an existing RH 6.2 system on AHA-1542 adapter.
> Different from RH 6.2, 7.1 does not ask whether or not to load a
> SCSI-driver. How can I get this driver? (I have to use it in Expert
> mode)
>
> Thanks
>
> Huub
>
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From: Akop Pogosian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: 3com905c-TX and Telocity DSL gateway
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:44:24 +0000 (UTC)
I just received my new Dell Dimension 4100 with RedHat 7.0
pre-installed, kernel version 2.2.17-8. It comes with a 3c905c-TX
NIC. I was able to connect this Dell to my older PC using a crossover
ethernet cable fine. However, this system refuses to talk to the
Telocity ADSL gateway I have at home (the gateway board itself had
some Alcatel model number on it when I opened it once). The PC
connects to the gateway using a straight ethernet cable. The IP
address is static, though, the gateway also runs a DHCP server for
easier configuration.
There are two drivers for this card AFAIK. 3c90x and 3c59x. I tried
to bring up the network connection using DHCP with a command "ifup
eth0" (the system was setup to use dhcp by default). When using 3c59x
driver, I see absolutely no response from the gateway. When using
3c90x, I see response and the system configured it's networking using
this information but -very- unreliably. It works maybe one out of four
times. And I still can't even ping the gateway. Once the system
completely locked and rebooted at the moment when I was running
RedHat's dhcp client and tcpdump simultaneously.
Then I tried configuring the system with a static IP. Once the network
interface is brought up and the routing is setup, I can't ping the DSL
gateway or anything outside of it. I also tried pinging my PC from the
outside with no luck at all.
Thinking that the RedHat 7.0 drivers were too old or something, I
tried booting the system using the RedHat 7.1 bootnet.img to do the
network install of 7.1. The system fails to configure via DHCP again.
I thought that maybe this NIC couldn't negotiate correctly the mode of
operation so I tried forcing full-duplex as well as half-duplex mode
and 10BaseT speed with no luck at all.
I'd paste tcpdump output right now if I had it with me right now. It
seems to me that the PC is unable to contact the gateway for some
reason. Any ideas what could go wrong here? As far as hardware
concerned, the cable and the Telocity gateway seem to work fine when I
connect my old PC. The 3com905c NIC seems to work fine in the PC as
well when I connect it directly to my old PC. I could just put my old
3com900 card in the new PC, though, I hope to be able to use the
3c905c eventually so that I could play with its wake on LAN features.
-akop
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: problem with network card
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 08:50:22 +1000
Hi Stefaan,
> >Run "ifconfig". You should see eth0 with its assigned private IP
> >address. Run "route" to also see an entry for eth0. Another diagnostic
> >is netstat -i and -t. If either one of these does not include eth0 then
> >you need to double check those configuration files. If you are postive
> >you have the card configured properly, then I would begin troubleshooting
> >the hardware such as the card itself and/or the cables.
> >
>
> I have checked my config and everything works fine.
> The eth0 is there, it has the correct IP address, the IO & IRQ are
> fine, I have used the correct driver ...
> I can ping the local machine but I can't reach any other machine.
> Any other suggestions ....
Check your routing table with /sbin/route -n and ensure that you have got a
default route specified and that you can ping the gateway which is specified
in your routing table. Additionally, check to make sure that you have no
firewalls (even hidden ones that the OS put in during the install) which are
blocking your incoming traffic.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Mouse question
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:26:28 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, star@my-
deja.com says...
> I just installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop. My laptop has one
> of those pointer sticks for mouse control. However, I also sometimes
> use an external PS/2 mouse. Linux will only let me use one of the
> them at a time. If no mouse is plugged in, the stick works. If the
> external mouse is plugged in then the stick doesn't work. Is there a
> way I can make both of them work simultaneously?
>
> Note: I believe, though I'm not sure, that the pointer stick is
> detected as a PS/2 mouse. Can both of these mice occupy the same
> port?
>
Most laptops use PS/2 mice, and since PS/2 mice all want IRQ 12, I doubt
if it is possible for it to recognize both at once. At least you can get
it to recognize ONE of them - I'm having severe problems getting Mandrake
8.0 to recognize the mouse on my laptop (actually, it recognizes it just
fine, early in the boot sequence - but by the time I'm done booting, the
mouse is no longer functional).
What kind of laptop are you installing on? Did the mouse wind up on IRQ
12 (see /proc/interrupts)?
-- Steve
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Cable Modem Connection - Help Required
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:30:58 -0500
Shankar Radhakrishnan wrote:
> I don't have any clue to solve this. Can some one help me out on this.
> Thanks.
>
> "Shankar Radhakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8kiQ6.40455$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> hello,
>>
>> I've a Windows 2000 and Linux Mandrake 7.2 on my machine. As of now I've
> my
>> AT&T @home connection to access Internet thro' Windows2000. I would like
> to
>> use my @home modem[ 3Com Modem ], while I'm in Linux. Modem is connected
> externaly in my USB port.
>>
>> Can someone help me to establish this connectivity. I'm new to Linux and
>> please be in detail in your replies.
>>
>> Thanks a lot, in advance for your help.
>>
>> - Shankar.
>> [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Evidently Linux, at least Red Hat, doesn't do this as simply as Solaris or
the BSD's. You were given a client ID number by @home.com looking
something like c-512346-xx. I'm going to use that here. From your xterm
or whatever, execute this:
# dhcpcd -H -D -I c-512346-xx eth0
If it works, append the command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 19:41:44 -0500
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: CD Burning/SCSI emulation with RH 7.1
Hello,
I used to have RH 7.0 running the 2.2 kernel, and then I upgraded to 7.1
with the 2.4 kernel. Both of my CD drives (IDEs) were working under
/dev/scd0 (the reader 0,0,0) and /dev/scd1 (the burner 0,1,0). After
the upgrade, kudzu found my CD-ROM drive for some reason and added it to
/etc/hosts even though it was already set under /dev/scd0. It is no
longer recognized as being SCSI. My CD burner was left at /dev/scd1 and
is still recognized as a SCSI device, but is now at 0,0,0. cdrecord's
scanbus option no longer can detect my reader so I can't make disc
copies as easily as I could before. What should I do?
Adios,
Pablo
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From: Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: 2GB File size limitation
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 01:25:45 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wow--impressive! Do you do that with Linux? Using what sort of software?
Fileserver, client, a few intresting drivers & a piece of software that can
play back the 'w64' & 'dms' files*. On the desk linux is also at the core
of the UI & comm's side of things. I'd be guessing at what the exact
tranfer system is but it's something like NFS over SCSI.
* file discriptions:
'w64' is the audio data (like a 64 channel wav file)
'dms' hold the desks state (were the sliders are, what the eq is etc.. )
Ani
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From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: route
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 20:47:49 -0400
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> >> Felix Miata wrote:
> >> > Kernel IP routing table
> >> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> >> > st21s.atlantic. * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
> >> > localhost.local * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 lo
> >> > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> >> > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> >> > default 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
> >> > default 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
> >> use route -n. You have an incomplete hosts or networks table, or a bad DNS,
> > networks table?
> Yes. (/etc/networks).
/etc/network* doesn't exist. It's missing from my book's index too.
> >> as not all addresses are being translated. In particular you do not
> >> have a hosts or dns entry for your gateway!
> > I still don't fully understand the gateway concept. ST21S is Linux
> > intended to ppp the ISP and provide NAT internet access for the other
> > three machines as well as itself. Methinks ST21S should be the gateway,
> You shouldn't care about other machiens for the moment. But if you
> think that st215 should be your gateway to the rest of the internet,
> then why are you passing default routes through 192.168.0.254? This
> must be a mistake. I can understand 0.254 being a gateway to the rest
> of 192.168. So you probably want
I am not making anything 192.168.0.254. Some kind of default or missing
config entry must be doing it.
> route add default gw st21s
> route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.0.254
What's with this .254 thing? Where does it come from? Why does it exist?
I've modified /etc/rc.d/rc.local to include:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.54 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up
/sbin/route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo
/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.0.54
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.254
Now, route -n displays:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.0.54 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
lo
192.168.0.0 192.168.0.254 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.54 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0
eth0
> > but this is still a blur.
> > FQDN means what?
> You need to read the NET-3or4-HOWTO.
I got partway through. Haven't got to that part yet. Section 5.2
includes in part:
Distrib | Network configuration program
-----------------------------------------
RedHat | /sbin/netcfg
I looked and found no /sbin/netcfg. I executed netcfg from mc and got
half a screen of stuff that means nothing to me:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/netcfg.py", line 24, in ?
from rhtkinter import *
File "/usr/lib/rhs/python/rhtkinter.py", line 52, in ?
e = Entry()
File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1288, in __init__
Widget.__init__(self, master, 'entry', cnf, kw)
File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1042, in __init__
BaseWidget._setup(self, master, cnf)
File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1017, in _setup
_default_root = Tk()
File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 844, in __init__
self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
TclError: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
I installed this distro Jan 2000. Never used it much before now. Maybe I
didn't install a full networking component set? StartX gets me a dialer
and Netscape that work.
> > The DNS entry is for my ISP. Until the local net works as desired, my
> > ISP's nameserver is unavailable.
> Well that explains the timeout. Use "route -n" instead.
Done.
> > My "Mastering Linux" book that RedHat 5.1 came with provided no example
> > of use of local host in the /etc/hosts file. The book's discussion of
> > hosts makes no mention of loghost. The OS/2 network configuration
> > program results in the following localhost syntax:
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> This is almost right. Note that the primary key is "localhost" (no
> domain) as it should be, and the localhost.localdomain nonsense is only
> an alias, so it does no harm. RH seem to the nonsensical
> localhost.localdomain as the primary key, which creates havoc when
> these machines get out on the internet. Some programs (yppasswd???
> rpc.mountd??) figure out what their domain is by checking out the
> machines interfaces and choosing the first that looks sensible.
Now it is 127.0.0.1 localhost loghost. I can't tell that it
has changed anything.
> >> > 192.168.0.54 st21s.atlantic.net ST21S
> >> > 192.168.0.51 ka13a.atlantic.net KA13A
> >> > 192.168.0.52 ax5t3.atlantic.net AX5T3
> >> > 192.168.0.53 td91w.atlantic.net TD91W
> >> Missing entry for 192.168.9.254. And don't use caps. Which is your machine?
> > Don't know any reason why there should be a *.9.254? RHL 5.1 is ST21S.
> Because it's your gateway. I meant 0.254, obviously.
How did it get to be 254? Why not 54 or 255?
> > What's wrong with CAPS for nicks?
> Everything. Fortunately for you most lookups will fold the case,
> but one day you'll be bit by this.
I was just trying to make them (they are just nicks) the same as windoze
and OS/2 display them.
> >> Your /etc/networks file was also missing a few entries.
> >> > /etc/resolve.conf
> resolv.conf, not resolve.conf !!
Typo.
> >> > domain atlantic.net
> >> > nameserver 209.208.25.18
> >> > nameserver 209.208.42.132
> >> Apparently they don't know about your intranet. Where's the DNS for the
> >> 192.168 domain? Well, you could do it on this machine.
> > This local net shouldn't need DNS to find itself and the other three
> Why not? There is no magic. They'll either need DNS or some other map.
> A long list in /etc/hosts, perhaps?
Until net enabled, there are only the four 192.168 machines for it to
find.
> >> > search atlantic.net
> > The OS is tacking this on. I didn't put it there.
> OS's don't do that. I see no reason for it, since the domain is always
> searched.
Then it must be a remnant of something I tried a while back and forgot
about. I thought it was something like the /etc/resolv file that gets
changed while a ppp connection is active.
> Peter
Thanks Peter.
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A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under
control. Proverbs 29:11 NKJV
Team OS/2
Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: CD Burning/SCSI emulation with RH 7.1
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 00:53:48 GMT
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 19:41:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I used to have RH 7.0 running the 2.2 kernel, and then I upgraded to 7.1
>with the 2.4 kernel. Both of my CD drives (IDEs) were working under
>/dev/scd0 (the reader 0,0,0) and /dev/scd1 (the burner 0,1,0). After
>the upgrade, kudzu found my CD-ROM drive for some reason and added it to
>/etc/hosts even though it was already set under /dev/scd0. It is no
>longer recognized as being SCSI. My CD burner was left at /dev/scd1 and
>is still recognized as a SCSI device, but is now at 0,0,0. cdrecord's
>scanbus option no longer can detect my reader so I can't make disc
>copies as easily as I could before. What should I do?
>
rebuild the kernel with:
scsi cdrom support
generic scsi support
ide-scsi driver
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: CD Burning/SCSI emulation with RH 7.1
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 00:56:07 GMT
On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 00:53:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 19:41:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I used to have RH 7.0 running the 2.2 kernel, and then I upgraded to 7.1
>>with the 2.4 kernel. Both of my CD drives (IDEs) were working under
>>/dev/scd0 (the reader 0,0,0) and /dev/scd1 (the burner 0,1,0). After
>>the upgrade, kudzu found my CD-ROM drive for some reason and added it to
>>/etc/hosts even though it was already set under /dev/scd0. It is no
>>longer recognized as being SCSI. My CD burner was left at /dev/scd1 and
>>is still recognized as a SCSI device, but is now at 0,0,0. cdrecord's
>>scanbus option no longer can detect my reader so I can't make disc
>>copies as easily as I could before. What should I do?
>>
>
>rebuild the kernel with:
>scsi cdrom support
>generic scsi support
>ide-scsi driver
and of course, put 'append="hd<x>=ide-scsi"' in lilo.conf where /dev/hd<x>
is your ide drive letter for the cdrom.
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