PPP and windows CE (Help!)
Ok, an update on the PPP/CE problem, with an unfortunate sticking point. I have a Jornada 680 with Windows CE on it. I also have a machine with Debian 2.1 installed on it. The two are connected through a serial cable on /dev/ttyS1. I execute: pppd -detach crtscts lock 192.168.0.7:192.168.0.69 /dev/ttyS1 19200 debug And I see on the palmtop: Connecting to Host. It goes through four retries, then fails. The log on the linux box reads: Jan 3 09:31:25 gold pppd[403]: pppd 2.3.5 started by mike, uid 0 Jan 3 09:31:26 gold pppd[403]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 3 09:31:26 gold pppd[403]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Jan 3 09:31:26 gold pppd[403]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 auth pap magic 0x4ab91141 pcomp accomp] Jan 3 09:31:47 gold last message repeated 7 times Jan 3 09:31:48 gold pppd[403]: Modem hangup Jan 3 09:31:48 gold pppd[403]: Connection terminated. Jan 3 09:31:49 gold pppd[403]: Exit.
Sendmail thanks, now serial PPP
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that helped me with my sendmail problem. The end result is that, although all solutions were fantastic, I didn't know that I needed to run the sendmail config program after making changes. Once I was told I needed to do this, everything started working. So now I'm onto a new problem, again relating to my palmtop. I have modem connections working beautifully... However, there are times when I'm sitting at home and I don't want to tie up all the phone lines dialing into myself, so I figure I can use a serial cable and run ppp over that. Unfortunately, I've never tried such a thing, and can't even figure out where to start. The palmtop seems to thave the options to run ppp over the serial line, so that's all ready to go. Here's what I have: 192.168.0.1 - my gateway to the world, etc. 192.168.0.7 - my Linux box in my office with a serial cable. I figure I need to set up getty in some strange fashion to have it go into ppp mode instead of tty, and that I can't use mgetty like I have done for my modem connection. I also assume that I'll need to do some routing. Since the palmtop (0.0.69) can either be attached to .0.1 or .0.7, I'm guessing that I'll have to have the routing table defined on the fly. I already do this for the modem connection. Thanks for any help, Mike
Sendmail questions (almost there!) Followup
Richard A Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : 1) Make sure /etc/resolv.conf is setup correctly :if you can't do `host xxx.yyy.zzz', sendmail can't find :it either : 2) sendmail is restrictive by design - you have to tell it :that you know the blood is upon your hands ;-} : :on the black machine (your apparent gateway), make sure :this is in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: : FEATURE(relay_entire_domain)dnl Ok, black is actually the 0.69, a machine dialing in with ppp. 0.1, the relay, is white. So I made the change above on white in the file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. The file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf had no FEATURE lines in it, so I assumed that it was the wrong file. My .mc file now looks like: -- divert(-1) divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc 8.9.1a (Linux) 19981026') OSTYPE(debian)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl Cwchromatic.org FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl FEATURE(nouucp)dnl MAILER_DEFINITIONS MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG MASQUERADE_AS(chromatic.org)dnl ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) FEATURE(relay_entire_domain)dnl -- The output I'm getting in my mail.info file is now: -- Jul 15 15:53:37 white sendmail[934]: PAA00934: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=black.chromatic.org [192.168.0.69], reject=550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying denied --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. -
Sendmail questions (almost there!)
Ok, after a few modifications I'm now getting some semblance of useful logging. So I attempted to email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The first time I did it, I got this: Jul 13 15:15:43 white sendmail[16713]: PAA16713: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=test@ 207.141.63.120, relay=black.chroamtic.org [192.168.0.69], reject=501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 141.63.120... Sender domain must exist After reading the sendmail.org website, I figured out that it wasn't finding col.hp.com, so I put an entry in /etc/hosts for it. Then I did it again, and got the following message: Jul 13 16:03:15 white sendmail[1427]: QAA01427: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] ol.hp.com, relay=black.chromatic.org [192.168.0.69], reject=550 [EMAIL PROTECTED] m... Relaying denied And I have NO clue how I'd go about fixing this on a Debian system. So I really have two questions: 1) How do I get sendmail to recognize names without evetering every place I want to email into the /etc/hosts file? (On all my other machines, as a side note, emailing seems to work fine) 2) Why the heck is relaying being denied to an address that is obviously in my domain? Lastly, I've seen a lot of talk about exim... Would it be easier to maintain than sendmail for what I consider to be a very simple setup? --Mike
Help - Mail: Qpopper and Outlook
I hate to say I'm using a Microsoft product-- but I am. Pocket Outlook for my HP680 Jornada. I have an slink debian system with qpopper on a local net at 192.168.0.1. It has a modem on it, which I connect to wih my Palmtop using PPP. The palmtop is assigned 192.168.0.69, and can do network stuff without a problem. I can get my mail just fine using outlook, but I have problems when I try to send mail. It gives me the (useful) error: Unexpected SMTP error. I use netscape messenger mailbox from my win95 boxes located at 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 without problem. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. --Mike
ppp Routing problem
I'm almost there, thanks to various people's help. The last problem I have has the symptoms of a routing problem, but ifconfig and route say differently. Here are the outputs. any clues? # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.69* 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 localnet* 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 10 eth0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 06 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 05 lo default net2-cust119.co 0.0.0.0 UG1 0 25 eth0 # ifconfig inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:1 Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1400 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:207.141.63.120 P-t-P:192.168.0.69 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Memory:2f4b038-2f4bc04 # ping 192.168.0.69 PING 192.168.0.69 (192.168.0.69): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.0.69 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.0.69 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.0.69 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.0.69 64 chars, ret=-1 --- 192.168.0.69 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
Problems: setserial, mgetty
Howdy! First: I'm trying to get my Palmtop (HP680- Jornada) to dial into my system. My system is a Debian 2.1 machine with an internal Zoom modem jumpered for com3. Although the system has com1/com2 configured, there are no devices on them. There are two problems. First, I seem to have problems getting /dev/ttyS3 to recognize the modem in the first place. I use the following command to set up the port: /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0x03e8 irq 4 Seems simple enough, but a review of /proc/ioports shows nothing: # more ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0378-037f : lp 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR 1000-101f : eth0 1400-147f : eth1 This isn't always true. sometimes, after dinking around with various port settings, it'll show up, but it is unreproducable. I double-checked my settings, comparing them to the jumpers on the card, and they are the same. (The fact that I sometiems get it working with these values is proof) --- Second problem. When I do get the modem working, the WinCE palmtop connects, tried to negotiate password, then disconnects without a reason. There is no useful information in the mgetty docs. I followed the win95 documentation that was provided with mgetty. Any ideas would be appreciated, since I'm going on a trip in two days, and it would be nice to be able to check email. Also, if responses could be CCed to my email, it'd be appreciated, since I don't know yet if I'm successfully reading the mailing list. --Mike
Modem Speed
Hi there. A friend of mine and I both recently got Zoom 56k Modems to allow my friend to hook into my system. Unfortunately, my friend can only connect at 26400 BPS, but we aren't sure why. # setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte Flags: spd_vhi skip_test Any ideas? I would think that even with minor line noise, we'd be able to connect at 33.6. If the diagnosis is line noise, is there a way we can test this? Also, my friend is connecting with a Mac (one of the new G3s) is there any settings they should be looking at? --Mike Patterson
IPX (ipxripd) and ppp
I've installed the ipxripd package, and I've been looking around to try to find out how to set up ipx networking between the ppp line coming in, and the LAN I already have set up. I have a few questions: 1) Some sites talk about tools like ipx_route and ipxping. None of these came with the ipxripd package. Are these nessecary? 2) I've been given the impression by other sites that the ability for ipx routing was built into the kernel, but given little more information than the compile options to select. 3) Still others name it as a function of the ppp daemon, so I went out and got the source for 1.2g, and looked around for any mention of IPX. I found none. These pages would talk about options like: +ipx-protocol ipx-network 0xBB05 ipx-node 2:0 ipx-accept-remoteA None of which work (although all are mentioned in the pppd man pages) Any help would be appreciated. --Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Strange problem with ppp server --MKP
I'm running a PPP server on my debian 1.3 box for one of my friends on a win95 machine to connect to. He dials in, and pap is authenticated. Great! First problem, though, is that no entries get created via route and ifconfig, so he gets stuck. So I manually put entires in right after he logs in like so: ifconfig ppp0 192.168.0.23 netmask 255.255.255.255 up route add 192.168.0.23 ppp0 The strangest thing is when I try telnetting to his machine, it connects to the server! (I.E. the server is 192.168.0.1. telnet 192.168.0.23 just loops back to it) So I guess my question(s) are: why aren't entries being created for the ppp0 device? (I assume I'm just missing an option somewhere) (Oh, I'm using the mgetty that came with 1.3) Any help appreciated. ---Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange problem with ppp server --MKP
Mike Patterson writes: He dials in, and pap is authenticated. Great! First problem, though, is that no entries get created via route and ifconfig, so he gets stuck. You need to give pppd local and remote ip numbers, like this: 192.168.0.1:192.168.0.23 I did that in my last attempt. I put it in /etc/ppp/options. So I manually put entires in right after he logs in like so: ifconfig ppp0 192.168.0.23 netmask 255.255.255.255 up route add 192.168.0.23 ppp0 The strangest thing is when I try telnetting to his machine, it connects to the server! (I.E. the server is 192.168.0.1. telnet 192.168.0.23 just loops back to it) Well, sure. pppd has already assigned 192.168.0.1 to the server end of the link; now you are assigning 192.168.0.23 to it. Once up, a ppp link looks to the kernel just like a two-host ethernet. ppp0 is the server's interface to this two-host network. ifconfig operates on it, not the other end. You can't ifconfig another host's interface. I figured this out eventually, but I still haven't figured out what it should be... And I assume pppd should be doing it for me. /etc/ppp/options: asyncmap 0 proxyarp lock crtscts modem defaultroute 192.168.0.1:192.168.0.23 dns-addr 192.168.0.1 /etc/mgetty/login.config: /AutoPPP/ - ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login modem crtscts lock -vj proxyarp /etc/mgetty/mgetty.config: port ttyS2 data-only y init-chat atc1d2 OK speed 38400 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deskpro 590
I just came into ownership of an old Compaq Deskpro 590 (Pentium 90) that I'm using to replace my old 486 fileserver. I was hoping to be able to throw a couple of PCI Ethernet cards into the system (SN3200CTs, NE2100 compatibles), but I ran into a sticking point. It seems that whenever I put one of those cards in with another card (or making them both SN3200s) one of the cards can't be detected. I've tried all sorts of combinations of compilations, lilo options, etc with no avail. (The cards were at io=0x1000 and 0x1020 and sharing IRQ11. The configuration utility that comes with the cards won't let me move IRQs to see if that is a problem) Plugging in the Two ISA (NE2000 compatibles) cards that I was using on my 486 works fine. (one at 0x300 IRQ5, the other at 0x360 IRQ9) Any Ideas? As a side note, anyone know where a copy of the configuration disk for the BIOS of this system could be found? Searching the Compaq site has done me no good. ---Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail problems
I've started getting this error when trying to send mail, and I can't recieve mail: What now? send post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone I'm guessing that ithappened while I was updating packages, but I can't for the life of me figure out what happened where. I'm running 1.3, updating frequently to stable bits on ftp.debian.org --Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Urgent mail problem
If anyone can give speedy advice, it'd be greatly appreciated. Days without mail on my linux box are disasterous for many reasons... Basically, mail doesn't work anymore. If I try sending mail from the debian box, I get the folloring error: What now? send post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone People sending mail to the system complain that the mail gets bounced back, but apparently not immediately, since my email sent there hasn't returned yet (nor did the account on the box recieve it). /var/log/ doesn't give any useful information. The following files are empty, as well as their zipped predecessors: mail.err mail.info mail.log mail.warn This problem appears to have started when using dselect to update from ftp.debian.org. I'm running 1.3 on this system. Any help would be appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dual eth card, floppy boot
I boot a system from floppy into Debian 1.3.1. How do I set it up to recognize my second NE2100 card? In my other system, I boot off the hard drive, so I put the following line in my lilo.conf: append=ether=5,0x320,eth0 ether=9,0x300,eth1 But since I'm booting off floppy on this system, there is no LILO. Help! --Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FTP and Hamm (again)
I've gotten to the point where I have selected files I want to install, but then when I select install, I get the following message: Can't locate DirHandle.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/ 5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/File/Path.pm line 101 And the install process exits with a status of 2. Any ideas? (using 3-29 set of base/rescue disks) --Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FTP installing (Hamm)
Background: Massive failures caused by some badly-done gunking around with my 1.3 system made me re-install my system, so I decided to go ahead and try to update to hamm using install floppies and FTP. The Setup: Some Floppies, A computer that had a modem for a PPP connection to work, and a BNC ethernet connection (using a NE-2000 compatible net card at 0x6100). Either one could be used to access the world (although the Ethernet goes through a gateway located at 192.168.0.1) The attempt: Installing the base disks was a breeze, although I constantly get IDE reset messages. I select modules for both ppp and ne-2000 (which is sucessfully detected), assuming that I should be able to install via FTP using one mthod or the other. The Problem: Once I get into the actual system, it seems to have ignored my network settings (ifconfig and route both return just loopback settings) and /proc/devices doesn't have an eth device listed. So I try to run pppd-- apparently my old scripts won't work as it doesn't recognize the command +ua anymore. Any help or suggestions? --Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP Masq + CU-SEEME
I have a setup where I have multiple win95 boxes hiding behing a linux box with IP Masquerading. I've been trying to get CU-SEEME to work on any one of the win95 boxes. I found a document (http://www.waste.com/vc/ipmcus.htm) that gave me the following instructions: ipautofw -A -r udp 7648 7649 -c udp 7648 -u modprobe ip_masq_cuseeme Both commands executed fine, but my win95 box can't connect to any reflectors. It keeps informing me that the connection has failed. Unfortunately, I haven't found any way of debugging the problem other than checking to make sure the module was loaded. it was. Any ideas on how to debug this problem would be appreciated. ---Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Remote Mounting
I'm trying to mount the directory /hoem/mike on /home/mike/t on a local system. I set the files below, then ran /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap on the server, and mount -a on the local system. I get the following error message: mike-ras# mount -a mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered Any Ideas? - /etc/exports on server: # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /home/mike 192.186.0.2(rw) fstab on client machine: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda2 / ext2defaults0 1 /dev/hda3 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /dosmsdos defaults0 1 192.168.0.1:/home/mike /home/mike/tnfs proc/proc procdefaults0 0 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
2 questions...
Ok, actually, I lied. Three. The first is: I haven't been getting any traffic
from the list lately.. has something happened? For that reason, I'd appreciate
a cc of any responses...
First real question: I want to mount a directory on another system. How
do I do this? I thought it would be in the mount man pages, but I guess I'm
wrong. I assume that there must be something else out there I'm missing
(I assume dealing with NFS)
Second: As some of you know, I'm working on a control-a1 controller. I was
searching through some old documents, and came up with this line:
X \major{87}{}{char }{Sony Control-A1 stereo control bus}
With some hunting, I found that it was part of patch-2.1.54... Can anyone give
me any information on where to go from here? (I can't seemt to find any
refrences to it... docs, people, etc, would be most helpful)
Thanks,
Mike
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Controlling a Parallel Port Device
The short version: I've been given a schematic for a device that I've been told I can hook up to a Bi-Directional parallel port. It uses one pin for information in, and one for information out. I need to figure out what pins to hook it to, and find a way to make a driver for this device. The driver needs to be able to send information down as well as cause an interrupt when it gets information. (Information can arrive at any time, and must be dealt with in the software.) The long version: I'm trying to control an Audio device using Sony's Control-A1 port (S-Link). I want to be able to control the device with a low-cost system that runs Linux so that I can use its netwroking capabilities (As well as low system requirements). The control-A1 is a pair of simple non-clocked lines, one used as input, and one as output. I can provide the schematic that I was given. The communication is technically a low speed packeted system, holding the line for a long period as a delimiter between packets. bits are defined by holding the line for shorter periods of time (a 1 is twice as long as a 0, and the delimiter is around 4 times as long as a 1) I really appreciate any help I can get on this, including pointers to documents. --Michael Patterson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question on Sony CD-Player
Stange, Strange question that I'm curious if anyone out there knows the answer to... I have a Sony CDP-CX151 100 disc CD changer. Although a wonderful product, it lacks any really fine control over the selections. In the back of this device there are what looks like two 1/8 inch female ports labeled Controller A. I was wondering if anyone had any luck making a device that would plug into these ports and a PC and allow the PC to control the CD-Player. Any ideas, or am I even understanding the idea behind these ports? All help appreciated, Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
JAVA + AWT = ARGH!
Ok, I give up. I've been bothering everyone I possibly could on both the DEBIAN and JAVA mail lists, and I've finally gone nuts. Is there anyone who has sucessfully gotten any version of java, javac, and AWT libraries to work together? If so, could they give me a basic rundown on how they did it? (In my current situation, I'm using kaffe, and can't find the AWT classes, no matter how obvious I make the path!) Thanks, Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Frustration with JAVA/AWT
Ok, I installed kaffe java. Good enough. Then I found I needed to grab biss for AWT... simple enough, right? Problem is, it still can't find awt. Here's the setup: echo $CLASSPATH /usr/lib/jdk/classes.zip:.:/home/src/biss/lib/biss/awt ls -l /home/src/biss/lib/biss/awt/Awt.class -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8705 Mar 9 1997 /home/src/biss/lib/biss/awt/Awt.class ./Client.class java/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError: no awt in shared library path at java/lang/Throwable.init(0x80d9a61) at java/lang/Error.init(0x80d99d7) at java/lang/LinkageError.init(0x80d996f) at java/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError.init(0x80d9907) at java/lang/Runtime.loadLibrary(0x80d81c8) at java/lang/System.loadLibrary(0x80d698c) at sun/awt/motif/MToolkit.clinit(0x80d6883) Anyone see something obvious I'm missing? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Strange network
Problem: I try to telnet to my system, and after typing the first two or three characters of my username, my connection hangs. The system on the other end is apparently ok. System: Hooked In through an ISP called WantWeb, the system is connected to a Hybrid modem acting as a gateway to the net. The Hybrid modem takes outgoing signals and pushes them through a standard modem, and recieves signals beck from a microwave antenna. Notes: The Linux box is running debian 1.3 from CheaapBytes. It uses IP masquerading to service the other systems in my house, but this should be irrelevant. This is the machine I am telnetting to. Since I'm on essentially a dial-on-demand system, When someone (like me in this situation) tries to connect to my box, it might take a second or two to dial me, but then transmission should be fine. This was the case until recently. Recent changes: Added web site, a couple of external accounts, etc. Does anyone have a way that I can, say, test the load on a line (using a text window-- the linux system isn't running X currently)? This would solve one of my suspicions-- That someone could be bogging down the net (not likely, since This happens when noone is logged in and the web site isn't being accessed). Otherwise, any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Java: AWT
Ok, I've been dinking around with JAVA text applications, and I finally decided to make the break into graphics. Everything works fine until I try to run a program that uses the awt library, and then I get: java/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError: no awt in shared library path at java/lang/Throwable.init(0x80d9a21) at java/lang/Error.init(0x80d9997) at java/lang/LinkageError.init(0x80d992f) at java/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError.init(0x80d98c7) at java/lang/Runtime.loadLibrary(0x80d8188) at java/lang/System.loadLibrary(0x80d694c) at sun/awt/motif/MToolkit.clinit(0x80d6843) The awt library doesn't seem to be obviously located... Can anyone tell me where I can find it? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Java executables
When trying to execute compiled JAVA code I get the following: shadowglen [mike]Test.class /usr/bin/java: /usr/bin/java: No such file or directory shadowglen [mike] I assume I'm missing a package somewhere, but I can't for the life of me tell which one...? --Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
A quickie on telnet
Very simply, I'm trying to telnet to a site and get some data from a script. In HPUX, I would do this: echo Alinetobesent | telnet an.address.com 1234 And it would happily telnet to the machine and echo the command, getting me the results I wanted. This doesn't seem to work under any of the shells I could find installed in DEBIAN, or any odd variation I could come up with. Any ideas, or do I have to re-write in C using sockets (bleah)? --Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Network frustration
Ok, to start with, my network was working beautifully until this afternoon. Then, without (explainable) reason, two of the computers on the network had their network cards die. One was on the fileserver. I replaced the cards, and now all of the machines can ping each other again... however, nothing else is working like it used to. When a win95 station tries to connect to it, it gets a Network is busy error (Samba is running on the server). (as a sidenote: smbclient -l server gives the correct response) When trying to connect to the server via telnet, it takes a horrendous time (in the order of minutes) between where it says Escape character is '^]' and Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 shadowglen.ml.org The fileserver is also acting as a router to the rest of the internet, and I can't connect to anything outside the net either (two ethernet cards, one for external net, one for internal) I know this is somewhat vague, but I'm not even sure where to begin. I'm guessing (randomly, really) that the internal network is getting flooded with packets from somewhere, but I haven't started running anything unusual. I know my information is a bit vague, but I really don't even know where to begin. All help would be appreciated. ---Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Multiple ethernets
I added the line: append = ether=0,320,eth1 to my /etc/lilo.conf, but it didn't do any good. it still only detects the first etehrnet card, located at 300. Both cards are NE2000 clones. one is at 300, the other at 320. Also, is there a netconfig script in debian? I can't find such a beast. ---Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Multiple network cards. ARGH!
Ok, let's see if I can describe my problem in a little more detail. I have a debian 1.3.1 system with two ethernet cards on it. Booting up into DOS, the two cards are: 1) IRQ 9, IO 300, BNC 2) IRQ 5, IO 320, 10bT They are both NE2000 cards. Trying to define these using ifconfig I get errors like: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFADDR: No such device I'm really getting lost and confused-- I have NE network cards compiled into the kernel (not in a module). I have append = ether=0,0,eth1 in the /etc/lilo.conf, like in the multiple ethernet mini-howto. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ---Michael Patterson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Multiple network cards. Thanks!
Mike Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, let's see if I can describe my problem in a little more detail. I have a debian 1.3.1 system with two ethernet cards on it. Booting up into DOS, the two cards are: 1) IRQ 9, IO 300, BNC 2) IRQ 5, IO 320, 10bT They are both NE2000 cards. Trying to define these using ifconfig I get errors like: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFADDR: No such device I'm really getting lost and confused-- I have NE network cards compiled into the kernel (not in a module). I have append = ether=0,0,eth1 in the /etc/lilo.conf, like in the multiple ethernet mini-howto. Any help would be greatly appreciated. append=ether=9,0x300,eth0 ether=5,0x320,eth1 This line worked, where the other ones didn't. I guess order matters. It's showing up in /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports now. However, ifconfig still gives me a no such device error. You didn't tell us if Linux actually found your cards. Try this: # dmesg|grep ^eth eth0: NE2000 found at 0x320, using IRQ 10. eth1: 3c509 at 0x220 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 20 af 59 c8 1b, IRQ 12. eth2: 3c509 at 0x210 tag 2, BNC port, address 00 20 af 59 cc af, IRQ 5. eth3: 3c509 at 0x230 tag 3, BNC port, address 00 a0 24 b7 0e 77, IRQ 11. After the change above, I do indeed see both show up: #dmesg |grep ^eth eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9 eth1: NE2000 found at 0x320, using IRQ 5 ifconfig finally allows me to execute the following commands: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig eth1 207.141.63.120 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 route add -net 207.141.63.119 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth1 route add default gw 207.141.63.119 (I have an internal BNC network running off eth0, and the rest of the internet on eth1 going through a gateway located at 207.141.63.119. ) And it looks like I'm off and running. Thanks everyone!! ---Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Many questions (mostly Network)
1) I have a rather strange setup, and I'm confused on how to implement it. It looks something like this: |---| ~~~| Gateway ||---[A Machine] |---|| | |---[A Machine] |---|| | Fileserv ||---[A Machine] |---|| | |---[A Machine] The gateway is given to me by my ISP, and it has a 10baseT connection that I can hook to one machine. So, the plan is that I'm going to hook it to my fileserver, and use it as a gateway to the gateway. This way I can use IP masquerading to allow all of the machiens (with varying OSs) to access the net. The machines are all hooked in with the Fileserver using Thin BNC. The Fileserver is running Linux. My idea is to have two network cards in Fileserv, one using Thin BNC and the other using 10baseT. I've noticed that the driver for NE-2000 compatible cards only looks for cards that have io addresses that I mention. So my questions are: * Can I have two ne-2000 compatible cards in the same system? * assuming the gateway can pump data extremely fast, will I be losing a ton of permformance by going from 10baseT to thin BNC? In other words, should I switch my whole system to 10BaseT instead? (Downloads are VIA satellite... That can be fast.) * Are there any serious flaws in this plan I'm not seeing? -- 2) I'm running SAMBA on my fileserver (same setup as above). On it, I have a public directory (both in SAMBA terms and UNIX). However, when someone attempts to write a file, sometimes it doesn't allow it. Can someone tell me what has to be done to make a share completely public, so that I can step through and see where my permissions are bad? Generally, my solution is to do a chmod a+rw --recursive on the directory occsaionally. It sometimes fixes it. -- 3) Ok, now let's say one of the A Machines is a Linux box that uses PPP to hook into a secure site (behind a firewall). Let's say (oh, for example) that everything behind the firewall is 15.19.*.*, and the machine is assigned an address for PPP that is in th 15.19 domain. What this machine would want to do is communicate with the PPP line for everything behind the firewall, and communicate with the fileserver/gateway for everything else-- I assume requiring it to look like a diffrent IP number for each (remember, the Server/Gateway will be using masquerading). So the question is, how can I do this and ensure that people on other machines in the network can't get to the 15.19 domain? Assume that I'm the only one that can log onto the Linux System I just described... (whew!) --- 4) I can't for the life of me figure out what the startup files are defined as or where they are defined (say, .login and .startup.x11 from my old dec days) --- Well, that should do it for now. Thanks for reading this far, and even more thanks for any answers I get. ---Mike Patterson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
IP Masquerading
Well, thanks for the info on eth0 I'm curious why the change, and feel a little silly, but oh, well. Now I'm working on IP Masquerading (finally!) and in the HOWTO, there is a command called ipfwadm. I can't figure out what package it is under (and it curently doesn't exist on my system) ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Quick eth question
Just a quickie question I can't find anywhere I have an ne2000 card that worked in 1.2.1... And I just moved to 1.3.1. in /var/log/messages I see the line: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9 but there is no /dev/eth0, and executing the command: MAKEDEV eth0 gives me: MAKEDEV: unknown device or group eth0 Help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading
Howdy all! Just wanted to get some information from those of you out there that might have some... I recently purchased a house, and I would like to get some sort of internet hookup that my friends and I could use. There are 5 computers, each either running Linux or Win95 all connected to a common fileserver (saves diskspace) What I'd like to do is have the server on-line 24/7. Other machines would drop off and on as they were being used. The other machines could be accessing WWW, email/news (from server), playing internet games (like using battle.net), or using a communications program like speakfreely. I've been told that by using the miracles of IP masquerading, I can do this by purchasing a single connection for the server, and letting the remainder of the machines leach off it in some way. Finally, one of the methods of connecting that looked interesting was something called WantWEB. The idea is that the downloads are VIA satellite, and very fast, but uploads had to go through a normal phone line and were limited to the 56K modems. Has anyone tried using this on a Linux box? if so, how successful were you? was the cable-modem device difficult to find drivers for? Thanks, Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CD Question
Whew... I've been asking a ton of questions lately. But still-- Here's another. I have a number of win95 systems using a linux box (with Samba) as a file server. What I'd like to do is install a CD-Rom on my linux box and use it from my various win95 systems. Although I can mount the CD-Rom as a read-only filesystem, I can't mount it as a CD-Rom drive. (Do remote CD-Roms exist in Win95?) So if a program checks to make sure that it's reading off a CD-Rom, it fails. (Presumably some sort of copy-protection scheme to make sure people don't copy it to their hard drive) And I'm not even going to guess if I can do this with multi-session disks Any ideas? --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CD-Writing again
Ok, my 4020i is working swimmingly in Linux, but now the big question: Does anyone know of any software that reads/writes Multisession CDs? (Thanks for everyone's time and patience) --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
New Problem with 4020i
I moved my 4020i (CD-R) from my secondary machine back to my primary so that I could attempt to do some writing from Linux, but when I boot I get the following error: scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 2, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lua 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 00 00 and the boot is halted. Sometimes the pid is 3, and sometmes the Inquiry is 00 00 00 ff 00. My first thought was termination, but the jumper on the 4020 is set to terminate. Any thoughts? I'm using debian version 1.2.5. --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HP 4020i and Linux
Does anyone know of a program that makes disk images from CDs, and can write them to another disk? Preferably a byte-for-byte copy. Thanks! --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Compiling IRC][/SOCKS
I'm trying to compile the source from /home/mike/ircII.firewall.tar using socks4b... I get the following error... I figured there was an include I needed to throw in, but I can't find such a beast. bash# make cc -g -DSOCKS -DIRCLIB=\/root/IRC/\ -DIRCPATH=\.:~/.irc:/root/IRC/script\ -c irc.c cc -g -DSOCKS -o irc alias.o crypt.o ctcp.o dcc.o edit.o exec.o flood.o funny.o help.o history.o hold.o hook.o if.o ignore.o input.o irc.o ircaux.o keys.o lastlog.o list.o log.o mail.o menu.o names.o newio.o notice.o notify.o numbers.o output.o parse.o reg.o scandir.o screen.o server.o status.o term.o translat.o vars.o whois.o window.o /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 /lib/libsocks.a irc.o: In function `main': /home/src/irc/source/irc.c:950: undefined reference to `SOCKSinit' server.o: In function `connect_to_unix': /home/src/irc/source/server.c:1475: undefined reference to `Rconnect' make: *** [irc] Error 1 --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kahnd
Hi there-- My latest excursion has been into the realm of Kahn, a variation on Kali. Of course, I'm having some problems, and the answer doesn't seem to be obvious to other Kahn users, so I'm guessing that it's a problem with my network. The setup is this: 1.1.1.1 is a linux machien running kahnd 1.1.1.2 is a win95 dialing into 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.3 is a win95 machine on the same lan as 1.1.1.1 Connect through mgetty/pppd just fine. 1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3 can both read the samba drives on 1.1.1.1. Now, both .2 and .3 can connect to the kahnd on 1.1.1.1, and can talk to each other, but .2 doesn't show on .3's list. In addition, when trying to play a game (any game!), I can see the network game, but when I attempt to join it, the attempt fails. I assume this means that either global or direct packets aren't making it. Any ideas would be helpful, or at least where to look. Thanks. --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DEITY TEAM: Ideas (Long)
Ok guys, ready for my comments on dselect? There are some doozies in here, and some not-so-doozies. Also, there may be many points that can't work simply because of the way packages are set up. The ideas are in no particular order. 1) Allow quick install from floppies It'd be really nice to have a system for having a single package installed on a floppy, or set of floppies in a way where a user can stick the disk in, and dselect would read and install whatever is on it. The main reason for this is for the user's ease. If the package being installed has dependancies, they should be listed with some sort of You need XXX to install this, where can I find it? message. 2) Simple install When trying to install debian, I am simply overwhelmed by the number of packages I have to deal with, and I consider myself to have above average knowledge of UNIX programs! When first installing Debian, a simple walkthrough of Q/A would solve most of these problems. EXAMPLE: (inaccurate, but you get the point) Are you going to access the WWW from this system?[Yes] What is your prefered Reader?[NETSCAPE] Are you going to read email on this system? [Yes] What is your prefered Reader?[ELM] Do you want X installed on this system? [Yes] Will you be writing programs for X? [Yes] If all questions are displayed at once, some questions can grey out, or options become unavailable as each question is answered. 3) Insist on better package descriptions When digging through packages, I'd frequently come across a package I don't recognize. I can't even tell if it would be something I'd want, because there's no description! 4) Graphical Install It is possible to make a GUI work in text, but often you'll end up in a situation where too much information is displayed in a manner that the user just can't comprehend because of all the text on the screen. I also understand that X may not be an option. Mid-way, you can use text with IBM-ASCII symbols to make nice borders around everything to seperate them out evenly. 5) Better keystroke selections I dont' know how many times I got upset when I selected a package with return only to exit the selection process. d to read more of the description? + -? Here's an idea of what I'm thinking of: (done in non-ibm ascii, because I'm not on an IBM.. and done without any planning, so I can do better :) __ ___ _ / Location \/ Selection \/ Install \ ---/ \ || | - Base X11 *Communication* math development games design - | || | PACKAGE Description Status| | - | | Elm A mail reader Installed | |-Netscape A WWW Browser SELECTED | | tin A News reader | | ppp A communication protocol Unconfigured | | slip A communication protocol FAILED| | dip Manager for SLIP DE-SELECTED | || || | Press space on any item to select or de-select it. Press Return on any | | Item to get more detailed information on it. | -- In this particular design, you use tab to rotate through the tabs, left and right arrows to select the groups of packages you are dealing with, up and down to scroll through the possible selections, and space to select. Return gives the description of the package, as well as a reason for its status. In the case of slip above, it would search the package and say something like: file /usr/bin/slip is missing. Solution: Re-install. Colors would bring this sort of UI one step farther, coloring the packages and their statuses diffrently depending on their status. Allowing a simple filter that filters out packages with a particular status would be fantastic, allowing people to ignore already installed or uninstalled packages if they need to. Similarly, we could have: __ ___ _ / Location
power_saver and Dead Monitor
Ok, last night I decided to put the power_saver option in my XF86Config. It made sense since I had a power-saving monitor and a Number 9 Motion 771 Graphics Card. (In addition, windows 3.1 drivers did this automatically for me, so I felt it was legal) The next morning, I woke up. The monitor was in power save mode. Great! Move the mouse, I hear it warming up... Great! But then I notice that the screen is one big line. Further testing showed that my monitor's scan beam wasn't moving horizontally. So, now I'm going to replace my monitor. My question, though, is could it be the power_saver option that killed it? I'd really like to have the power_saver option running, but if it's going to blow future monitors... Ideas/opinions welcome. --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. URL: ftp://col.hp.com/html/mike/home.html -
Promise 4020-1 upgrade
There's an upgrade for the BIOS of the Promise 4020-1 VESA controller that allows LBS devices. Has anyone gotten this upgrade, and can they confirm that it works in Linux? (The information on their web page hints that it would only be usable in an MS OS) --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. -
help with mgetty..
Quick and too the point... I have some docs I got from http://www.buoy.com/isp/mgetty.html; that talk about policy.h and login.config... Neither of which I have. any ideas? --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. -
Re: help with mgetty..
(setting up a linux box connectable to by a Win95 box) Quick and to the point... I have some docs I got from http://www.buoy.com/isp/mgetty.html; that talk about policy.h and login.config... Neither of which I have. any ideas? First, you need to install the mgetty package. The policy.h you don't need because the mgetty package is pre-built(correctly). The login.config Ok.. I'm really close now. Really, really close. I dial in and I get this: mgetty FATAL: yS2 login: '/etc/mgetty/login.config' must be root/0600 3/14 01:33:42 yS2 login: '/etc/mgetty/login.config' must be root/0600: Invalid argument 3/14 01:33:42 # data dev=ttyS2, pid=348, caller=none, conn='38400' name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='/AutoPPP/' --Mike
IPX routing
Hello again!
Thanks to a lot of help from Tim Sailer, I've gotten to the point where
Win95 users can dial into my linux box and communicate with it.
The next step is to try to get an IPX router running on the Linux box
so that people can communicate with my win95 systems on this side as well.
Something like this:
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| Remote Win95 || Modem |-| Linux Rt |---| MyWin95 |
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Currently, people can talk from Remote - Linux fine, but fail to
communicate Remote - MyWin95.
In trying to do this, I've been digging in the IPX HOWTOS located at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO-11.html
But every time I try to start an ipxd or change /etc/ppp/options, or
/etc/ppp/options.ttyS2 I can no longer log into the linux box.
The remote system says to try again later.
I know it isn't much to go on, but has anyone tried to set this up with
any success?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Dial-In /Promise controller
First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me with my last problem. I now have a system that acts as a fileserver for both my linux and win95 machines, and the install for it took 100 megs, easy! Now on to the questions * I have a promise VL4030-1 controller (currently it has the original BIOS, but I'm thinking of grabbing the latest) and I would like to put a third or fourth drive on it. Does Linux have any problems recognizing these drives, or is there a patch out there for this? Or can I only use two of the Promise's drives? * Now that I have this nifty Linux box that I'm using as a central hub for my network, I was wondering if it would be possible to give it dial-in PPP capability. Optimally, I would like the person to be able to dial in with a Win95 box and hook into my own systems using IPX. possible? Maybe someone could point me to some documentation on this one. Thanks for the help! --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. -
Minimal Install
I came up with an interesting challenge for myself the other day... Unfortunately, I can't even seem to get past square 1. I have a spare system sitting aroud doing nothing, so I thought it might be a good idea to put this guy to work as a fileserver/printserver. So far, so good, right? The problem is that I'm trying to do a debian install in less than 100 megs. Of course this means forgoing things like X, etc... But every time I go through dselect and choose packages to remove, it refuses to comply! Instead, it complains about failed dependancies, etc, that are listed as ok. Does anyone know the magical combinations of packages to start out with a simple system that I can add onto as I need to? As a side note, here's what I wante this machine to eventually do (in order): * Be mountable by my other Linux boxes * Act as an IPX router (needed for next requirement?) * Have some directories mountable (shared) by my Win95 boxes * Act as a print server (using a local printer) * Allow dial-in PPP/IPX (Win95) As you can see, this means that I don't need many of the packages, and that I need to get rid of some if I'm going to be sucessful in getting this in under 100megs. Any ideas? Thanks for any responses. --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. -
