Re: blog-lite for Debian Stable?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:36:48AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Think I'll start off with a simple text-editor or use OOo, then ftp them > to the server. Not a true blog, but a starting place. Check out www.blosxom.com...easy to setup, and it uses plain text files. It's also available in testing/unstable via "apt-get install blosxom". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless recommendations
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:44:06PM -0400, Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: > If you are considering the linksys WPC11, i'd advise you to check the > version number before you buy. > > i have the latest version (ver. 4) and it has a realtek 8180L chip > instead of the earlier prism based ones. the driver for the realtek > chip is partly closed source and its performance is, shall we say, > iffy. Linksys will swap your v4 for a v3, if you ask (that's what I did). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting USB devices
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:26:32PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > One more dumb question...how do I know my user ID? grep trey /etc/passwd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting USB devices
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 09:52:05AM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > 1. Are these assignments going to change each time I shut down and then > start up my machine (as far as how they are detected)? I asked because > I am running a rather old machine that I leave on during the day, but > then shut down at night. I doubt they would change, unless you added or removed some hardware. (I've never had my dvd, cd-rw, or tape drive change, so I'm not expecting the CF drive to change). I hardly ever shut my machines down, so I may be wrong... :-) > 2. How do I give myself access to my devices (read & write) as a normal > user? I had to su from the terminal to execute teh sg_map command > because I had no access as a normal user. This would be for all devices > like my CD drives, Zip drive, CF reader, etc. Use the "uid" and "gid" mount options in your /etc/fstab: /dev/cf /mnt/cf vfatuser,noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 The "user" option above allows you to mount the device without changing to root, and "uid/gid" options are used to set the desired user (1000, in my case). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting USB devices
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:05:18PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> How can I tell how my USB devices are indentified in Linux? I want to
> be able to mount my Sandisk USB mass storage device to get pictures off
> my camera's CF card. I know through trial and error that my Zip 250 USB
> drive is seen as /dev/sda1 so I created a mnt/sda1 to access it. I have
> several devices connected via USB including printer, mouse and scanner
> in addition to the devices mentioned.
I just went through the same thing this morning, when I added a usb CF
reader to my system. Here's a quick 'n dirty checklist:
ezekiel:/# apt-get install sg3-utils
ezekiel:/# sg_scan -i
/dev/sg0: scsi0 channel=0 id=2 lun=0 type=5
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-305 1.03 [wide=0 sync=1 cmdq=0 sftre=0 pq=0x0]
/dev/sg1: scsi0 channel=0 id=4 lun=0 type=1
HPC1533A9503 [wide=0 sync=1 cmdq=0 sftre=0 pq=0x0]
/dev/sg2: scsi1 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em] type=5
LITE-ON LTR-52246S6S04 [wide=0 sync=0 cmdq=0 sftre=0 pq=0x0]
/dev/sg3: scsi2 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em] type=0
SIIG CompactFlash Car 0113 [wide=0 sync=0 cmdq=0 sftre=0 pq=0x0]
ezekiel:/# sg_map
/dev/sg0 /dev/scd0
/dev/sg1 /dev/st0
/dev/sg2 /dev/scd1
/dev/sg3 /dev/sda
>From the above, you can see that my CF card is /dev/sda, so the data
partition is located on /dev/sda1. I added the following line to
/etc/fstab:
# compact flash reader
/dev/cf /mnt/cf vfatuser,noauto 0
0
[Note: I used /dev/cf in fstab, as I've linked cf to sda ("ln -s sda1 cf")]
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Re: weird routing problem??
Duh...thanks for pointing out the obvious...I knew that it had to be something simple! I now remember changing ezekiel's gateway to bethel (.11) when I needed to temporarily take ariel down for a harddrive change. I hadn't used the laptop since that time, and I evidently forgot to change the gateway back. I'll bet that I'll find that my son changed the gateway on woody at the same time, so that he could continue to access the Internet while ariel was down. Thanks to all! On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:06:38AM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > > ezekiel:/home/thoover# route -n > > Kernel IP routing table > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 > eth0 > > 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.110.0.0.0 UG0 00 > eth0 > > There's your problem. Your gateway should be 192.168.1.10, not > 192.168.1.11. -- Tom Hoover N5NTM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.hisword.net/tom - checkout HisWord(tm) Palmtop Bible at the above URL - --- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key
weird routing problem??
My network at home is setup as follows: Internet | | (external NIC) | ariel | | (192.168.1.10) | | (192.168.247.10) <--- (two internal NICs) | | | |___ || || || wiredSubnet wirelessSubnet - --- taz (192.168.1.2) paltiel (192.168.247.6) woody (192.168.1.3) ezekiel (192.168.1.4) noah (192.168.1.5) This setup has worked fine for months, properly routing traffic between the wired and wireless subnets, and also allowing both subnets to access the Internet using IPMasq. I hadn't used the laptop for over a month, and when I fired it up today is when I noticed these usual problems. 1. paltiel (on the wireless subnet) can still access the Internet just fine, but it is acting weird when accessing the wiredSubnet. paltiel can access taz and noah, but cannot access ezekiel nor woody (neither ssh nor ping works). The following traceroute to taz is normal: paltiel:/home/thoover# traceroute taz traceroute to taz (192.168.1.2), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 192.168.247.10 (192.168.247.10) 8.991 ms 10.798 ms * 2 taz (192.168.1.2) 10.672 ms 10.282 ms 10.465 ms but the following traceroute to ezekiel doesn't work: paltiel:/home/thoover# traceroute ezekiel traceroute to ezekiel (192.168.1.4), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 192.168.247.10 (192.168.247.10) 137.452 ms 10.118 ms 24.051 ms 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * 2. From the wired side, taz and noah can ping paltiel, but neither ezekiel nor woody can ping paltiel (which I think confirms a routing problem). For some reason ariel is able to properly route between paltiel and either taz or noah, but not between paltiel and either ezekiel or woody. All machines can connect to ariel, and ariel can connect to all other machines (including ezekiel and woody). I thought it was some kind of weird routing problem, so here's the routing tables for both paltiel, ariel and ezekiel (which all appear normal to me): paltiel:/home/thoover# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.247.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.247.10 0.0.0.0 UG1 00 eth0 ariel:/home/thoover# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 216.87.138.200 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 0 00 eth0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 192.168.247.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth2 0.0.0.0 216.87.138.201 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 ezekiel:/home/thoover# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.110.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 HELP!! Does anyone have any idea what I should check next? The only change that has been made to any of the systems since they were working normally is a couple of "apt-get update; apt-get upgrades" over the past month. BTW- all machines are running potato with kernel 2.2.15. -- Tom Hoover N5NTM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.hisword.net/tom - checkout HisWord(tm) Palmtop Bible at the above URL - --- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key
Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 06:57:48PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > I don't know. What I could suggest you to do is this: > > make-kpkg --revision... build > fakeroot make -f debian/rules kernel-image-deb > fakeroot make-kpkg modules_image > > The above sequence has never failed me. It builds the kernel without a > fakeroot jail, and does the install-and-create-a-deb pass inside a single > fakeroot jail. Is there any advantage to building the kernel outside of fakeroot? > I dislike compiling the modules under fakeroot (and the fakeroot docs do > warn not to do this), but ALSA seems not to mind it. Anyway, I dislike the I'm learning here...why do you dislike compiling modules under fakeroot? Thanks for the help! -- Tom Hoover N5NTM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.hisword.net/tom - checkout HisWord(tm) Palmtop Bible at the above URL - --- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key
Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 07:11:23PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > Am I misreading the docs? > > I don't know. What I could suggest you to do is this: > > Well, now I know. The make-kpkg man page makes it very clear that the only > target which knows how to deal with rootcmd is buildpackage. I never use it, > though. I don't need to build the rather big kernel-doc package, as I keep > the kernel source tree around. Thanks for the clarification. The following (from the kernel-package README) led me to believe (especially the part that I begin with ">>>" ) that it would work with kernel_image: Phase ONE: Getting and configuring the kernel 1 % cd 2 % make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure Phase TWO: Create a portable kernel image .deb file 3 % make-kpkg clean 4 % $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image (Get_Root is whatever you need to become root -- fakeroot or sudo are examples that come to mind). Phase THREE: Install the kernel image on one or more machines 5 # dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_.deb 6 # shutdown -r now >>> With the addition of fakeroot ( a really nice program, I recommend >>> it). To use fake root, try setting ROOT_CMD to 'fakeroot --'. Steps >>> 1 to 4 can be carried out as a non root user. Step 5 does require >>> root privileges. -- Tom Hoover N5NTM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.hisword.net/tom - checkout HisWord(tm) Palmtop Bible at the above URL - --- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key
Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 07:30:19AM -0700, Nuhn Yobiznez wrote: > > Debian is great for newbie kernel building > because it has a wonderful package called kpkg. This > package does ALMOST everything for you! I highly > recommend doing an apt-get for it! It simplifies the > process to the point that after xconfig all you have > to do is: > make-kpkg clean > make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.XX. kernel_image I've successfully built a new kernel package with make-kpkg, but only if I use: fakeroot -- make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.XX. kernel_image I've attempted to set the environment variable "ROOT_CMD='fakeroot --'" as called out in the docs, but the package build always fails unless I include the "fakeroot --" at the beginning of the command. echo $ROOT_CMD correctly returns "fakeroot --", so I know that the variable is set correctly. Am I misreading the docs? Here's the last few lines of messages when the build fails: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15' touch stamp-build rm -f -r ./debian/tmp-image ./debian/tmp-image.deb test -f stamp-configure || make -f /usr/share/kernel-package/rules configure test -f stamp-build || make -f /usr/share/kernel-package/rules build install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN install: debian/tmp-image: Operation not permitted make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1 "DEBIAN" never gets created. I'm running as thoover, and the permissions of the directories are as follows (debian and tmp-image are created during the make-kpkg process): drwxr-sr-x3 thoover src 4096 Sep 23 13:24 debian/ drwxr-sr-x2 thoover src 4096 Sep 23 13:24 tmp-image/ -- Tom Hoover N5NTM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.hisword.net/tom - checkout HisWord(tm) Palmtop Bible at the above URL - --- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key
Re: Install-boot failure
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:21:26PM +, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: > > When I try to boot from the debian slink or potato cd, the boot process > apparently hangs with the following line: > > FDC 0 is a post - 1991 82077 > md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > > The interesting thing is , we are able to put Redhat linux into the same > machine. We are trying to remove redhat to put debian. I, too, would like to find an answer to the above problem. A search on dejanews locates hundreds of messages similar to this one, but no answers (unless you're running an Athalon...the answer is then upgrade to frozen). I have an old 486 that I'd like to install Debian 2.1 or 2.2 on, but I get the same hang every time. I can install RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and Slackware, but not Debian. Any ideas? -- Tom Hoover N5NTM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.hisword.net/tom - checkout HisWord(tm) Palmtop Bible at the above URL - --- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key
