OTP
There is (otp) for generating one-time passwords. Is there a debian package for implementing OTP? Thanks. Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gcl 2.2.1-6 "truncate" broken
We recently installed gcl 2.2.1-6 on our intel machines. The "truncate" function is broken, as shown by the example below (from the gclinfo page). Should we downgrade to a version that works, or what? Thanks for any suggestions. Danny Heap gibbs.med.utoronto.ca - Below I run an example from the gcl info pages, but the resulting output doesn't resemble that in the info pages. - $ gcl GCL (GNU Common Lisp) Version(2.2.1) Fri Sep 24 14:42:27 EDT 1999 Licensed under GNU Public Library License Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter >(dolist (n '(2.6 2.5 2.4 0.7 0.3 -0.3 -0.7 -2.4 -2.5 -2.6)) (format t "~&~4,[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~2,' D ~2,' D ~2,' D ~2,' D" n (floor n) (ceiling n) (truncate n) (round n))) +2.6 0 3 0 0 +2.5 0 3 0 0 +2.4 0 3 0 0 +0.7 0 1 0 0 +0.3 0 1 0 0 -0.3 -1 0 0 0 -0.7 -1 0 0 0 -2.4 -1 -2 0 0 -2.5 -1 -2 0 0 -2.6 -1 -2 0 0 NIL > -
PPP server glitch
I'm trying to set up one of our lab machines as a PPP server. I've successfully gotten to the point where a serial connection is established and ip numbers are established. However, I am unable to ping the server host from my home machine. I suspect a routing problem, but the routing table on the client looks okay (there is a default route to ppp0). I don't know how to check what is happening to the ping packets, since they appear to be transmitted. One possible bit of complexity is that the server machine has two ethernet interfaces and does ip-masquerading for a small subnet. Also, I can't seem to remove the arp table entry for the ppp interface: --- laplace:/etc/ppp# arp -d euler.statmech SIOCDARP(pub): No such file or directory euler.statmech (192.168.1.3) at * PERM PUP on eth0 euler.statmech (192.168.1.3) at * PERM PUP on eth1 Here are some of the specifics: - I have dpkg package ppp version 2.3.5-2, and have compiled ppp support into the kernel 2.2.10 (not as a module). The ppp user runs this shell: mesg n stty -echo exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach silent modem crtscts debug\ local-ip:remote-ip --- Our ppp options are: asyncmap 0 auth crtscts lock modem netmask 255.255.255.0 kdebug 3 lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 noipx - Here's a bit of ppp.log: Apr 7 11:54:23 laplace pppd[15380]: pppd 2.3.5 started by pppclient, uid 1005 Apr 7 11:54:23 laplace pppd[15380]: Using interface ppp0 Apr 7 11:54:23 laplace pppd[15380]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 ] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 ] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x756b4adf] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x7500209d] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x756b4adf] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="pppclient" \ password=""] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 "Login ok"] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x7500209d] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <\ compress VJ 0f 01>] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 ] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 ] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 ] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: local IP address 192.168.1.1 Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: remote IP address 192.168.1.3 Apr 7 11:54:54 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x756b4adf] ------ Thanks for any help Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
big non-boot disks
I'm seeing advertisements for IDE drives with over 20 GB capacity. I realize that one of the problems with really large IDE drives has been that BIOS doesn't report the geometry properly. However, if I don't plan to install the drive with any bootable partitions (as a second slave drive, say), then won't the disk geometry be completely understood by the linux kernel, perhaps helped out by some boot parameters? Also, how do I discover the true disk geometry? Can I simply read what's printed on the drive? Some of the large drives I've seen advertised are Maxtor 20.4 GB, Seagate 28 GB, Maxtor 36 GB. And a scsi Seagate 50.1 GB. Thanks for any help Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
big drives...
We are considering a scsi tape drive for our debian alpha. Has anbody used HP T24i DAT drives? Can I assume that it understands standard scsi tape driver commands, and works with mt and tar/dump /dev/nst0 or whatever? On a related note, has anybody used the large IDE hard drives (20, 28, 36 GB?). Are there any special problems to be aware of? Thanks for any help Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
big tapes, disks
We are considering a scsi tape drive for our debian alpha. Has anbody used HP T24i DAT drives? Can I assume that it understands standard scsi tape driver commands, and works with mt and tar/dump /dev/nst0 or whatever? On a related note, has anybody used the large IDE hard drives (20, 28, 36 GB?). Are there any special problems to be aware of? Thanks for any help Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bantam backpack on Toshiba T4500C
I can now mount my Bantam Backpack cd from my Toshiba T4500C laptop. Thanks to George Sollish and www.torqe.net for their help. What worked was to load modules paride, bpck, and pcd and *then* to use the script at www.torqe.net to make the appropriate devices under /dev. It seems completely implausible that a new user would go to these lengths --- indeed RedHat 5.1 installation asks if your CD is local, then load a module it calls bpcd and attaches it to /dev/hdd. Is this hardware so non-standard that Debian doesn't expect neophytes to be installing from it? Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bantam backpack on Toshiba T4500C
Thanks a lot for your help. I'm still stuck, but (perhaps) making progress. > Install the base system from floppies. DO NOT configure the > 'paride' (parallel port) modules into the kernel. When it comes > time to install the packages, do this: Okay, I've installed from floppies, then invoked 'modconf' to remove all modules except 'psaux' and 'serial'. The only way I found to dump the pcmcia modules was 'dpkg --purge pcmcia-cs'. So, at this point, lsmod shows: Module Pages Used by serial 8 0 psaux 1 0 > make the parallel port cdrom device (pcd0 on my Datastor EP2000 cdrom, YMMV) There is a /dev/bpcd which suggests a BackPackCD, and it's a block device. What do you mean to 'make' it --- should I invoke MAKEDEV or something? > rmmod lp (if you've installed it) > insmod paride > insmod (dstr for my Datastor EP2000 cdrom) > insmod (pcd0 for my Datastor EP2000 cdrom) > mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/ /mnt No lp module running, and I do 'insmod paride; insmode bpck': paride: version 1.02 installed paride: bpck registered as protocol 0 # lsmod ... bpck4 0 paride 1 [bpck] 1 ... mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/bpcd /mnt mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/bpcd as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) Any other suggestions? I power the backpack up first and put the cd in (an amber light flashes). I then power up the laptop --- does this seem right?
Bantam backpack on Toshiba T4500C
My brother-in-law loaned me his aging 486 Toshiba laptop since he had failed to install RedHat on it. It seems that the minimum install for RedHat far exceeds the 120Mb disk it has. I decided to try a minimal installation of Debian Slink. This machine has a 120Mb HD and 12 MB RAM, so this is a bit of an experiment to see whether something "interesting" (in this case "interesting" == X + graphical browser + (some of) WordPerfect + ppp). The first snag: the Bantam backpack cdrom drive (attached to the parallel port) doesn't appear to be recognized by the installation kernel. I tried: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hd[bcdefg] /mnt ... where [bcdefg] represents several attempts, and was told this wasn't recognized as a block device. I then went to the modules portion of the installation menu, and tried installing modules for parallel ports. No luck. Any suggestions? Also (anticipating future challenges...) any ideas on what video card/chipset, hsync and vsync I'll need to indicate for configurring X? Thanks in advance Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
java and netscape
I've installed netscape 3.01 using the debian package "netscape" 3.01-4. There's a note in /usr/doc/netscape about crashes with java that suggests a work-around using an old version of libc (5.0.9). Where would I fetch the old library from? Also, suggested is an old version of libXext.so.6.0. TIA Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
install disk with aic7xxx patch
I want to install debian 1.1 on a pentium with an adaptec 2940 UW scsi controller. Unfortunately, my installation seems to be stymied by the aic7xxx driver that comes with kernels 2.0.0 through 2.0.6, resulting in completely corrupted filesystems once I've gotten to the point of installing the base system and rebooting. On another machine I have compiled kernel 2.0.7 plus the aic7xxx patch (Jul22/96) that seems to fix this problem (for an older VLB with aha2842). What I would like to do is use this patched kernel on my "boot" installation disk. As far as I can tell, none of the current boot disks incorporate this patch. How do I either modify an existing boot installation disk, or make my own, to incorporate this patch? Failing that, does anybody have any ideas on how to work-around the driver problem? I tried installing debian 0.93R6, but it doesn't recognize this (rather new) controller at all. Thanks for any ideas ---- Danny Heap, UCSF, California St., Room 102, SF CA, 94122 [EMAIL PROTECTED], voice: (415) 476-8910, fax: (415) 476-1508
aic7xxx corrupts superblock?
+++ Aug 3 14:56:05 riel syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. Aug 3 14:56:05 riel kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Cannot find map file. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Console: colour EGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 33.55 BogoMips Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Serial driver version 4.11 with no serial options enabled Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: aha274x: extended translation disabled Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: AHA284X AT SLOT 1: Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: irq 11 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: bus release time 40 bclks Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: data fifo threshold 100% Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: SCSI CHANNEL A: Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: scsi id 7 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: scsi bus parity check enabled Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: scsi selection timeout 256 ms Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: scsi bus reset at power-on enabled Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x (EISA/VL-bus -> Fast SCSI) 1.28/1.11/1.29 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: scsi : 1 host. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: aha274x: target 0 now synchronous at 4.0Mb/s Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3501TA Rev: 3384 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, id 0, lun 0 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: aha274x: target 3 now synchronous at 5.0Mb/s Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Vendor: HPModel: HP35470A Rev: T503 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, id 3, lun 0 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: aha274x: target 6 now synchronous at 10.0Mb/s Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Vendor: CONNERModel: CFP1080S Rev: 3939 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, id 6, lun 0 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: SCSI Hardware sector size is 512 bytes on device sda Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Memory: 15072k/16384k available (604k kernel code, 384k reserved, 324k data) Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.019 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.019 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Linux version 1.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.6.3) #2 Thu Jul 11 20:26:36 PDT 1996 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Partition check: Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 > sda4 Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: Adding Swap: 32764k swap-space Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Aug 3 14:56:06 riel kernel: lp1 at 0x0378, using polling driver Aug 3 15:00:15 riel syslogd: exiting on signal 15 +++++ Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance. Danny Heap, UCSF, California St., Room 102, SF CA, 94122 [EMAIL PROTECTED], voice: (415) 476-8910, fax: (415) 476-1508
