Re: [expert] adding TTF's doesnt seem to work
"David G. Thiessen" wrote: This all worked. I think the problem is the fonts I dl'ed for the gimp. They dont have the .ttf extension, but .pfb. The fonts are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont and .. .. .. .. .. /sharefont and /URW. My ttf fonts are now available, but the fonts needed by the GIMP I cant get running.. Any more assistance? You generated the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files? You don't run ttmkfdir for non-truetype fonts. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
[expert] Xpdq won't compile.
I get: checking for glib-config... (cached) no checking for GLIB - version = 1.2.0... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. configure: warning: Warning. Glib = 1.2.0 is not installed. *** xpdq will not be built *** checking for gtk-config... (cached) no checking for GTK - version = 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to gtk-config. configure: warning: Warning. GTK = 1.2.0 is not installed. *** xpdq will not be built *** From /usr/doc/theirs: General Information === This is GLib version 1.2.6. GLib is a library which includes support routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation, and many other things. General Information === This is GTK+ version 1.2.6. GTK+, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. It is designed to be small, efficient, and flexible. GTK+ is written in C with a very object-oriented approach. Right Lib's? What do I have to do to make it compile (re: setting path env)? Running Mandrake 7.0. TIA -WBD
Re: [expert] Problem Mounting Floppy Disk
Larry Sword wrote: Dale Morris wrote: Ramon, Thankyou for your concise and thoughtful reply. I have saved it for future reference. I have tried the entries you suggested for my fstab file and it just isn't working. I am including a copy of my fstab file in hopes someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here. I am able to mount vfat floppies, just can't get the ext2 working. I've tried all the obvious.. Here's the fstab file, the way it came configured in Mandrake 7.0: /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 thanks again I don't have your original message, however: From the entries in you fstab I see that you have fd0 as supermount, vfat. This means that when using KDE you can simply click on the floppy icon to mount and read your vfat floppy. SO in order to mount an ext2 format floppy you must FIRST umount /mnt/floppy THEN you should be able to place an ext2 format floppy in your drive and mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy. Larry I get the message: Couldn't open /dev/fd0 no such device or address -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
Re: [expert] Removing supermount
Richard Yevchak wrote: It works for me. I'd like to know how many people who had problems with supermount were unable to get it to work and those that were able to get it to work. All we see is the request for help then nothing. That leads me to assume it worked. Richard On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote: Larry Sword wrote: Rich Clark wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Larry Sword wrote: Trevor Farrell wrote: How do I completely remove supermount from my system??? I just gotta few questions.. I am a MDK user, since 5.3.. I am still at 6.1, due to the flood of trouble reports here on MDK 7.0.. Just curious, does supermount NOT work?? Why are so many people wanting to remove it? Honestly? Thanks Alan For me supermount works fine for vfat floppies and cdroms. It doesn't want to know ext2 floppies and it seems (not completely verified as yet because I have not checked what happens with supermount disable) that it defeats all other attempts to read ext2 floppies using conventional means. That is I am completely unable to read ext2 floppies. Which is not good if I need Tom's root boot, I think. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
Re: [expert] Problem Mounting Floppy Disk
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Ramon, | Thankyou for your concise and thoughtful reply. I have saved it for future | reference. I have tried the entries you suggested for my fstab file and | it just isn't working. I am including a copy of my fstab file in hopes | someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here. I am able to mount vfat | floppies, just can't get the ext2 working. I've tried all the | obvious.. Here's the fstab file, the way it came configured in Mandrake | 7.0: | | /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 | /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 | /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 | /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 | /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 The "fs=vfat" says: I want this to work for vfat. if you want to mount ext2 floppies, you can at a minimum just change that to "fs=ext2" Does not work. Response is: Could not listdirectory contents file:/mount/floppy Though there's something terrily wrong if /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 There is something terribly wrong doesn't do it for you. Of course if you use this above you do have to "mount" it before you can use it. This is the Unix Classic approach. I've had very little luck with supermount myself, and use this approach. That is, to use it, you do mount /mnt/floppy ls /mnt/floppy and when done (this is important!) before removing it do umount /mnt/floppy If that doesn't work, please copy-and-paste the precise error messages you are getting. | none /proc proc defaults 0 0 | none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 | /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 | | | thanks again | | | --dale | | "my mind is scheduled to clear tomorrow, then not again for another 400 years." -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html . -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
Re: [expert] Problem Mounting Floppy Disk
Alan Shoemaker wrote: DennisI can read both. Here's my fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/dos_sda1 vfatuser,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/dos_sdb1 vfatuser,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/sda5 /boot ext2defaults1 2 /dev/sda6 swapswapdefaults0 0 /dev/sda7 / ext2defaults1 1 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd00 0 /mnt/floppy2/mnt/floppy2supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd10 0 none/proc procdefaults0 0 none/dev/ptsdevpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/zip/mnt/zipsupermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip0 0 /dev/hda/mnt/ls-120 vfatnoauto,user,exec0 0 to read a floppy w/ext2 I use this console command: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/tmp There is, of course, a /tmp directory in the /mnt directory. Alan Dennis Robertson wrote: Dale Morris wrote: Ramon, Thankyou for your concise and thoughtful reply. I have saved it for future reference. I have tried the entries you suggested for my fstab file and it just isn't working. I am including a copy of my fstab file in hopes someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here. I am able to mount vfat floppies, just can't get the ext2 working. I've tried all the obvious.. Here's the fstab file, the way it came configured in Mandrake 7.0: /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 thanks again --dale "my mind is scheduled to clear tomorrow, then not again for another 400 years." If I could add my 2 cents worth, I have tried every combination suggested by Ramon and Silkythreads without success. For me, I have to change the device entry to /mnt/fd0 to get even vfat to work (/mnt/floppy won't work and /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device). I believe the problem is related to supermount and would be interested to see the fstab file from anyone who is able to read both vfat and ext2 floppies in L-M7.0 with supermount enabled. As a matter of interest man fs says that /proc/filesystems shows the filesystems currently supported by the kernel; that file is empty on my system. Is that related? -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup. Got me beat. Tried that; got: Couldn't open /dev/fd0 no such device or address. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
[expert] One more problem duplicated RE: CD drives
Someone reported to the expert list within the past three days that the CD drive worked fine during install but then had trouble hdc: no driver installed mounting afterward. I have duplicated the performance. SUbject drive : Creative CDRW no other CDs Install Class : Custom Type : Development Security : Low It was on device hdd but an attenpt to mount /dev/cdrom produced the message no driver installed I tried /dev/hdd next on a mount instruction and was told not a block device I was in console so I coudl see complete feedback # modprobe ide-scsi reported back to me that it had found and attached /dev/sr0 # mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /root/tmp worked. This "hand installation" can be automated to good effect. So for those who have the single CDRW /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 should be the line in /etc/fstab. I suppose it could say /dev/cdrw instead if an additional folder is created in /mnt for it but we don't have the cdrw mounted to blank or burn anyway. and in /etc/conf.modules alias block-major-11 ide-scsi and in /etc/lilo.conf append="hdc=ide-scsi" or hdd or hdb depending on where it is installed together with /sbin/lilo, of course. And for the purists, right-click the CDROM icon and go to properties and change the name to CDRW. Also change the url if you made the line in /etc/fstab point to mount point /dev/cdrw. Civileme
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
I just thought I mention this: Actually, it doesn't have to be a WinModem (although this one probably is) to have this problem. I had (just sold it today) a Diamond SupraExpress PCI modem, which is not a winmodem, yet I had the same problems as I did with winmodems. It is heavily dependant on full plug'n'play support because of the way it communicates through the PCI port. On the RedHat hardware compatibility list it is listed as non-compatible. But I have found a file VERY hidden on the modem's driver disk which had a few lines on how to use it under Linus. This involved the use of the DOS driver (which I coud not fin anywhere) and LOADLIN and a few changes in autoexec.bat. So, in short, I would have had to 'warm boot' Linux. Istvan Ramon Gandia wrote: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: I've just reinstalled Mandrake Helios on my pentium platform. I have a Zoom 56K PCI Faxmodem that used to work. The boot process sets up the ISA PnP devices, but when I look for the modem with kppp I get a message that the modem is busy. It used to work? In Windows 95/98 maybe. The Zoom PCI modem, as with 99.99% of all PCI modems, is a WinModem. In other words, the parts are stripped out of it, and the functions are in a Win95 "driver program" that is proprietary and does not work in Linux. You need a new modem. It will also improve the performance under Windows. Trust me, I am an ISP. -- ___ POWERED BY L | Istvan Bronowiecki|_ I | Melbourne, Australia | http://me.alphalink.com.au | N |___| [EMAIL PROTECTED]| U |_| X MANDRAKE 7
[expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
OK, here are the facts as they apply to my system. With supermount enabled I cannot read ext2 floppies using any method suggested by the list, mandrakeuser.org or devised by anyone, as far as I can tell. With supermount disabled and using the conventional fstab entry suggested by Ramon: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nsuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 I used mount /mnt/floppy in a term and then left clicked the desktop floppy icon. Lo and behold I could open both vfat and ext2 floppies. So there's a bug in supermount, right? How do some folks manage to use it with ext2 floppies? Beats me. There's a bug in my system? I think not. Anyway it's very cumbersome and I don't mind using windows methods if they're clearly better, as they would be in the case of supermount, if only it worked. Roll on LM7.1. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
FW: [expert] Telnet and FTP Combination
"Joe" == Joe Sheble [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joe Because when I ftp in I'm limited to a very restricted
Joe directory structure (that users home directory) and I move
Joe files back and forth between work and home... most of these
Joe files are in a directory not available to the user I log in
Joe as with FTP... they're root files (configuration files,
Joe etc... to work on, read, or study during idle times as well
Joe as share with co-workers)... so I have to telnet in as a
Joe regular user, do a 'su', copy the necessary files to the
Joe appropriate home directory logout of telnet, then re-connect
Joe with ftp to actually get the needed file. It'd be much nicer
Joe to do this in one single connection.
It is nicer, much more convenient. It is also a security nightmare.
There are excellent security reasons for running ftp in a chroot jail
("a very restricted directory structure"), and telnet and http and
bind and many other services ought to be chrooted as well.
Take this from someone who's week was spoiled by running an old bind
version at work and not chrooting it. (We made the sans.org/giac.htm
list.)
Do you really want your box rooted?
(Views expressed != my employers.)
--
Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA
X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el
Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk
http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
Mar 8 St John of God
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our
enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." -
[G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 7/16/10]
Re: [expert] Xpdq won't compile.
Larry Sword wrote: When developing or compailing programs you will need the libraries and header files. So look for and install the programs,gtk+-devel and glib-devel. Larry Thanks Larry, just what I needed... -WBD
[expert] fetchmail/sendmail and spam?
"Andreas" == ller Andreas writes: [snip] fetchmail: SMTP 250 XAA00863 Message accepted for delivery fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: SMTP 221 localhost.localdomain closing connection fetchmail: socket error while fetching from pop3.myprovider.de fetchmail: Query status=2 [much log snipped] Andreas suppose that's O.K. but then I suppose with the QUIT Andreas command something goes wrong. The mail is not deleted Andreas from the pop server of my provider and all previous mails Andreas are not deleted, too. So I keep getting always the same It's staying in the spool since your box closes the connection before telling fetchmail that the mail was accepted. Why is sendmail doing a 'QUIT'? Andreas mails from my provider's server. Why do I get a socket Andreas error? This mail somehow blocks my mailbox on my You get a socket error because the connection is closed before delivery. Andreas provider's server. How to solve this problem? BTW I've Andreas read the man page for fetchmail, but I do not understand Andreas the antispam part that well. Is there any additional info Andreas with some examples on how to block spam wiht fetchmail. Fetchmail isn't really set up for spam filtering. Procmail does a better job, according to ESR. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 8 St John of God "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]
Re: [expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Dennis Robertson wrote: OK, here are the facts as they apply to my system. With supermount enabled I cannot read ext2 floppies using any method suggested by the list, mandrakeuser.org or devised by anyone, as far as I can tell. With supermount disabled and using the conventional fstab entry suggested by Ramon: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nsuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 I used mount /mnt/floppy in a term and then left clicked the desktop floppy icon. Lo and behold I could open both vfat and ext2 floppies. So there's a bug in supermount, right? How do some folks manage to use it with ext2 floppies? Beats me. There's a bug in my system? I think not. Anyway it's very cumbersome and I don't mind using windows methods if they're clearly better, as they would be in the case of supermount, if only it worked. Roll on LM7.1. Dennis, have you tried the following set of commands? umount /dev/fd0 mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy With fstab being set this way: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 I'd think that if you changed the entry in fstab so fs=ext2, you'd solve your problem. -- Rich Clark Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] Lost interrupt revisited
Civileme wrote: We are obviously dealing with something very subtle at the edge--the bleeding edge it would seem. What is different about Seagate drives? I tried Fujitsu, Maxtor, IBM, and Quantum in the same position and none showed the problem. It seems to take three conditions 1. Large Seagate Drive (8.4G or bigger) 2. VIA MVP3 or MVP4 chipset Super7 motherboard with IDT, AMD, INtel, or Cyrix processor 3. Linux-Mandrake 6.0 6.1(6.5MacMillan) or 7.0 Civileme, please have a look at this (if you didn't already): http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt2214_54.epl (the 2nd item) While it is not exactly the same problem, it has also to do with "lost interrupt" and it seems to be a pure hardware problem. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
Re: [expert] adding TTF's doesnt seem to work
yes, i have the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files. i also did run ttmkfdir. what do i need to do or undo to get these fonts to work in GIMP? Thanks for all the help so far! Dave Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: "David G. Thiessen" wrote: snip My ttf fonts are now available, but the fonts needed by the GIMP I cant get running.. Any more assistance? You generated the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files? You don't run ttmkfdir for non-truetype fonts. -- David G. Thiessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ThiessenDG King George, VAICQ: 55163586 http://webpages.kg.hsanet.net/ThiessenDG
Re: [expert] adding TTF's doesnt seem to work
I fixed my problem! Thanks for all the help, especially Sheldon's! Dave Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: "David G. Thiessen" wrote: This all worked. I think the problem is the fonts I dl'ed for the gimp. They dont have the .ttf extension, but .pfb. The fonts are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont and .. .. .. .. .. /sharefont and /URW. My ttf fonts are now available, but the fonts needed by the GIMP I cant get running.. Any more assistance? You generated the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files? You don't run ttmkfdir for non-truetype fonts. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz == -- David G. Thiessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ThiessenDG King George, VAICQ: 55163586 http://webpages.kg.hsanet.net/ThiessenDG
Re: [expert] NS 4.72 USA version problems
Gary Bunker wrote: snip --- Nil Carborundum Illegitimi Now there's a line I haven't heard in a while -- Joseph S. Gardner Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside
[expert] using gnupg instead of pgp for signing rpms
Hello all, I am making some rpms for Mandrake and was reading through the mdkrpm-howto and it stated that I should use pgp for signing any rpms I produce. I was wondering if I could use gnupg instead? Raja -- Nitin Raja Bhatia: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ |ICQ: 3417925 | "Where I want to go today is LINUX" | |IRC: #Linux-Mandrake on irc.openprojects.net| |WEB: http://www.linuxgiant.com | \/
[expert] ColdFUsion for Linux
Has anybody succesfully installed and used ColdFusion for Linux? What were some of the problems you faced? And what were some of the solutions? I'm considering giving it a try, but a colleague of mine has stated it won't work on Mandrake (for whatever reason)... Joseph (Joe) Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm http://www.wizaerd.com 3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas a little bit of everything... ColdFusion Developer iTOOL.com http://www.itool.com Come Build Your Site Today
Re: [expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
yes, if he changed it to fs=ext2 he would beable to mount ext2 floppys but NOY vfat ones, which would place him back in the same boat he is in. with fs=vfat he cannot mount ext2 with fs=ext2 he cannot mount vfat BUT if he axes the cludge of supermount and reverts back to the working fstab entry as he mentioned then he should beable to mount both vfat and ext2 with the -t option to mount. I had the same problem here. I was able to reproduce the above results with consistancy. Ron Rich Clark wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Dennis Robertson wrote: OK, here are the facts as they apply to my system. With supermount enabled I cannot read ext2 floppies using any method suggested by the list, mandrakeuser.org or devised by anyone, as far as I can tell. With supermount disabled and using the conventional fstab entry suggested by Ramon: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nsuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 I used mount /mnt/floppy in a term and then left clicked the desktop floppy icon. Lo and behold I could open both vfat and ext2 floppies. So there's a bug in supermount, right? How do some folks manage to use it with ext2 floppies? Beats me. There's a bug in my system? I think not. Anyway it's very cumbersome and I don't mind using windows methods if they're clearly better, as they would be in the case of supermount, if only it worked. Roll on LM7.1. Dennis, have you tried the following set of commands? umount /dev/fd0 mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy With fstab being set this way: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 I'd think that if you changed the entry in fstab so fs=ext2, you'd solve your problem. -- Rich Clark Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
The following procedure works for me: 1. su to root 2. Enter command: umount /mnt/floppy 3. Enter command: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 4. Do whatever desired with the ext2 floppy. 5. To return to original setup: Enter command: umount /mnt/floppy 6. Enter command mount /mnt/floppy 7. Everything is back as it was - floppy setup to read vfat. Jame Gibbs On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Dennis Robertson wrote: OK, here are the facts as they apply to my system. With supermount enabled I cannot read ext2 floppies using any method suggested by the list, mandrakeuser.org or devised by anyone, as far as I can tell. With supermount disabled and using the conventional fstab entry suggested by Ramon: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nsuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 I used mount /mnt/floppy in a term and then left clicked the desktop floppy icon. Lo and behold I could open both vfat and ext2 floppies. So there's a bug in supermount, right? How do some folks manage to use it with ext2 floppies? Beats me. There's a bug in my system? I think not. Anyway it's very cumbersome and I don't mind using windows methods if they're clearly better, as they would be in the case of supermount, if only it worked. Roll on LM7.1. -- Unix is a Registered Bell of ATT Trademark Laboratories. -- Donn Seeley
RE: [expert] Modem Problem
If you have a dual boot system, you might want to check under windows, if your modem has "HCL" in the description. If so, you are had, and have to buy a new modem (external will do the trick). Regards Fred de Klein tel: 01908 656106 (w) 0780 8254445(mob) http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it -Original Message- From: Istvan B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 March 2000 12:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Modem Problem I just thought I mention this: Actually, it doesn't have to be a WinModem (although this one probably is) to have this problem. I had (just sold it today) a Diamond SupraExpress PCI modem, which is not a winmodem, yet I had the same problems as I did with winmodems. It is heavily dependant on full plug'n'play support because of the way it communicates through the PCI port. On the RedHat hardware compatibility list it is listed as non-compatible. But I have found a file VERY hidden on the modem's driver disk which had a few lines on how to use it under Linus. This involved the use of the DOS driver (which I coud not fin anywhere) and LOADLIN and a few changes in autoexec.bat. So, in short, I would have had to 'warm boot' Linux. Istvan Ramon Gandia wrote: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: I've just reinstalled Mandrake Helios on my pentium platform. I have a Zoom 56K PCI Faxmodem that used to work. The boot process sets up the ISA PnP devices, but when I look for the modem with kppp I get a message that the modem is busy. It used to work? In Windows 95/98 maybe. The Zoom PCI modem, as with 99.99% of all PCI modems, is a WinModem. In other words, the parts are stripped out of it, and the functions are in a Win95 "driver program" that is proprietary and does not work in Linux. You need a new modem. It will also improve the performance under Windows. Trust me, I am an ISP. -- ___ POWERED BY L | Istvan Bronowiecki|_ I | Melbourne, Australia | http://me.alphalink.com.au | N |___| [EMAIL PROTECTED]| U |_| X MANDRAKE 7
Resolved RE: [expert] Need FrontPage Extentions
Thanks again to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have solved another puzzle. Again, thanks for the URL. It works perfect! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Civileme Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Need FrontPage Extentions "John F. McClinton" wrote: Hello Experts: Where can I get Frontpage extentions for Mandrake 7.0? Are they bundled up in my 3 CD-ROM set or is there an URL to download them? Thanks, John There are a number of URLs where you can download frontpage extensions for Apache. They are no different fro Mandrake. HOWEVER, please take a look at http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Microsoft.frontpage.insecurities.html These are 1998 posts. Nothing to my knowledge has been fixed. More exploits have been found. It is the insistence of FPE to run in su mode that causes the weaknesses. A cursory glance shows a superabundance of bugtraq reports on all FrontPage Extensions for Apache. http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/ and search to get the FrontPage extensions for Apache. Yes they are a Microsoft product. http://www.e-gineer.com/instructions/install-frontpage-extensions-for-apache -on-linux.phtml has some installation instructions that should work nicely for Mandrake. Now if you really do want to run FrontPage Extensions for Apach on Mandrake, then I want your IP g. It is what I would call "Welcome to Crackers". Civileme
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
Civileme wrote: Of course, with any modem purchase you are likely to receive by the munificence of AOL a brilliantly colored coaster suitable for absolutely anything you can imagine to do with it. Older modems carry the added benefit of a high-quality 3.5" floppy suitable for holding data after erasure. Back in the early 90's, those of us on the CP/M groups tested a whole slew of those AOL floppies. What we found out was disturbing. It SEEMS as if they are written to with a high write current. These disks have tracks that either do not format properly (the earlier data 'prints thru') or the track is wider than normal and creates errors when rewritten. The end result was that AOL floppies are fine for what they do: port AOL programs. They should not be formatted, erased or used otherwise. Compuserve floppies were better, but not by much. Lots of people lost lots of data with those! If you think about it for a bit, a floppy that is being mass marketed and probably going to be discarded, is not likely to be of very good quality. I bet the magnetic film was kinda spotty or poor and they made it up by stepping up the webbers on the write heads. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
[expert] what is initrd in lilo.conf ?
Hi, what for is the line: initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.13-7mdk.img in the lilo.conf file and what is initrd-2.2.13-7mdk.img
Re: [expert] SCSI CD Changers
Sure I have 2 7 disk changers working under mandrake 7. Auto detected the luns during install and made all of the links.. On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote: Has anyone gotten external SCSI CD "Jukeboxes" to work under Linux? I've got an "LA Sound" CDX7405 external 5-disk CD Changer here (I got a REAL good price on it! G) and I'd like to use it under Linux, if possible... preferably as a multi-cd changer. Thanks... John
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote: I've just reinstalled Mandrake Helios on my pentium platform. I have a Zoom 56K PCI Faxmodem that used to work. The boot process sets up the ISA PnP devices, but when I look for the modem with kppp I get a message that the modem is busy. Win Modem. 99.999% of all PCI modems are WinModems. Go to http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html for the low-down on what's a software modem and what isn't. John
Re: [expert] Xpdq won't compile.
Warren Doney wrote: I get: checking for glib-config... (cached) no checking for GLIB - version = 1.2.0... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. configure: warning: Warning. Glib = 1.2.0 is not installed. *** xpdq will not be built *** checking for gtk-config... (cached) no checking for GTK - version = 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to gtk-config. configure: warning: Warning. GTK = 1.2.0 is not installed. *** xpdq will not be built *** From /usr/doc/theirs: General Information === This is GLib version 1.2.6. GLib is a library which includes support routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation, and many other things. General Information === This is GTK+ version 1.2.6. GTK+, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. It is designed to be small, efficient, and flexible. GTK+ is written in C with a very object-oriented approach. Right Lib's? What do I have to do to make it compile (re: setting path env)? Running Mandrake 7.0. TIA -WBD When developing or compailing programs you will need the libraries and header files. So look for and install the programs,gtk+-devel and glib-devel. Larry
[expert] Halp! my SMP system Wont!!!
This is going to be long-winded, so be aware...There are LOTS of symptoms for this problem, and I want to share them all with you. Fisrt, Hardware. Microstar Motherboard, BX chipset. (2) PII-300 CPU's. 64MB PC-100 RAM i740 AGP video card (8MB) SB Vibra 16 PNP sound card. Fallaron Etherwave ISA 10Mbit dual port network card (3c509 chipset) IDE0: IBM 2.5gb hd, one partition (fat32) IDE1: Fujitsu 5.2gb partition one: fat32 2.4gb partition five: ext2 (mandrake) 2.7gb partition six: L-swap 64MB ide2: Fuji 24x ATAPI CDROM ide3: Memorex CRW 1622 rewritable ATAPI CD as for software, Ive got Mandrake 7.0 (http install) Symptoms: Kernel uncompresses and loads fine. mandrake initialization starts, and runs clean untill hardware detection (kudzu?) reports that it cant find my memorez CRW drive. I tell it to ignore this error, it continues booting untill it get to the `mounting other filesystems' segment, and stops. completely. at this point, the only thing I can do, is give it the three-fingered salute. (ctrl-alt-delete) upon recieving the salute, the machine goes through a clean shutdow/reboot sequence. This happens with ANY SMP ready kernel, ANY of the kernel's that I have compiled, the SMP kewrnel that comes with Mandrake 7, and even kernels that friends have compiled. With NON SMP kernels, there is NOT any problems. I've looked through the docs that I have, and all that are availible online that I can find, and have found no solution. Help?!? -- Shawn Somers AKA Razer ICQ UIN: 1867109 programmer, renderer, audio fanatic!
[expert] web pages under ~/public_html
How do I display web pages that I created under /home/user/public_html? I know httpd is running (I could connect to http://localhost/ and it displays the default home page) but when I tried to connect to http://localhost/~user, I get "HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden error". I do see this entry in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home # directory if a ~user request is recieved. UserDir public_html Help! Sang = Sang Y. Yum San Diego, CA __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Removing supermount
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote: I just gotta few questions.. I am a MDK user, since 5.3.. I am still at 6.1, due to the flood of trouble reports here on MDK 7.0.. Just curious, does supermount NOT work?? Why are so many people wanting to remove it? Honestly? Well, based on the reports in this list, I would say it's "buggy" rather than that it doesn't work. John
Re: [expert] Lost interrupt revisited
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote: Civileme wrote: We are obviously dealing with something very subtle at the edge--the bleeding edge it would seem. What is different about Seagate drives? I tried Fujitsu, Maxtor, IBM, and Quantum in the same position and none showed the problem. It seems to take three conditions 1. Large Seagate Drive (8.4G or bigger) 2. VIA MVP3 or MVP4 chipset Super7 motherboard with IDT, AMD, INtel, or Cyrix processor 3. Linux-Mandrake 6.0 6.1(6.5MacMillan) or 7.0 Civileme, please have a look at this (if you didn't already): http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt2214_54.epl (the 2nd item) While it is not exactly the same problem, it has also to do with "lost interrupt" and it seems to be a pure hardware problem. Yep, flaky disk drive timing. The strangeness was that I was able to make something happen positively by swapping it away then back to /dev/hda I never had a drive on the same IDE channel with the offensive Seagate. It is interesting that the signal reflection mentioned there is WD drives withj PII and PIII processors while I am observing this with Seagate and Super7 processors. Also, it appears, the problem relates to timing requirements becoming more strict as we progress upward in the processors we compile for. FreeBSD and Win98 showed NO errors and are 386 compiled. L-M 6.0, 6.1, and 7.0 are 586 compiled and obviously do not permit the sloppiness built into the Seagate, just as kernels built for the 686 and 586 gaVE EXTREMELY nasty performance with WDC and Maxtor drives on the same IDE channel for PII and PIII processors. And yes, it appears UDMA/66 is not ready for prime time unless you have a 386 compiled kernel Thanks for the heads-up. I'll be following that one, but it appears time for a convocation of Disk drive manufacturers with topics interoperability and quality. And I won't be putting any Maxtor master/WD slave combos up at all. Looks like that is downright dangerous to your data and temperament. Civileme Now on the Seagate I am seeing the lost interrupt on the OTHER channel and I am having trouble with the initial command set, but I am willing to bet it is an unwelcome signal reflection. Thus far, the IBM branded drives seem to be above this . -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
Re: [expert] md5sum mandrake70-2.iso
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote: Johnthere have been two Air iso's, 7.0 on January 14th and 7.0-2 on Febuary 4th. Hmm. Ok. I've got the 70-2.iso imageso I guess I've got the right one... :-) John
RE: [expert] Modem Problem
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote: If you have a dual boot system, you might want to check under windows, if your modem has "HCL" in the description. If so, you are had, and have to buy a new modem (external will do the trick). Ummm, make that external for an ordinary serial port. There are now USB winmodems for sale, which are also external. Civileme Regards Fred de Klein tel: 01908 656106 (w) 0780 8254445(mob) http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it -Original Message- From: Istvan B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 March 2000 12:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Modem Problem I just thought I mention this: Actually, it doesn't have to be a WinModem (although this one probably is) to have this problem. I had (just sold it today) a Diamond SupraExpress PCI modem, which is not a winmodem, yet I had the same problems as I did with winmodems. It is heavily dependant on full plug'n'play support because of the way it communicates through the PCI port. On the RedHat hardware compatibility list it is listed as non-compatible. But I have found a file VERY hidden on the modem's driver disk which had a few lines on how to use it under Linus. This involved the use of the DOS driver (which I coud not fin anywhere) and LOADLIN and a few changes in autoexec.bat. So, in short, I would have had to 'warm boot' Linux. Istvan Ramon Gandia wrote: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: I've just reinstalled Mandrake Helios on my pentium platform. I have a Zoom 56K PCI Faxmodem that used to work. The boot process sets up the ISA PnP devices, but when I look for the modem with kppp I get a message that the modem is busy. It used to work? In Windows 95/98 maybe. The Zoom PCI modem, as with 99.99% of all PCI modems, is a WinModem. In other words, the parts are stripped out of it, and the functions are in a Win95 "driver program" that is proprietary and does not work in Linux. You need a new modem. It will also improve the performance under Windows. Trust me, I am an ISP. -- ___ POWERED BY L | Istvan Bronowiecki|_ I | Melbourne, Australia | http://me.alphalink.com.au | N |___| [EMAIL PROTECTED]| U |_| X MANDRAKE 7
Re: [expert] Problem Mounting Floppy Disk
Have you tried a different floppy drive? Have you double-checked the connections on the back of the floppy drive and to the motherboard? Also, we're NOT talking about an LS-120 are we? If so all bets are off, 'cause it won't work with /dev/fd0. John
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote: I just thought I mention this: Actually, it doesn't have to be a WinModem (although this one probably is) to have this problem. I had (just sold it today) a Diamond SupraExpress PCI modem, which is not a winmodem, yet I had the same problems as I did with winmodems. It is heavily dependant on full plug'n'play support because of the way it communicates through the PCI port. On the RedHat hardware compatibility list it is listed as non-compatible. But I have found a file VERY hidden on the modem's driver disk which had a few lines on how to use it under Linus. This involved the use of the DOS driver (which I coud not fin anywhere) and LOADLIN and a few changes in autoexec.bat. So, in short, I would have had to 'warm boot' Linux. If memory serves, the Diamond Supra Express IS a "soft modem." I *could* be confusing it with the SupraMax, though. I know one of these is an HCF modem. I believe the PCI versions of the Supra Express ARE HCF modems, and I think the Supra Max is as well. HCF is just as dirty a word as "WinModem." Please double-check me on this, but I'm pretty sure that the DSE is a Soft Modem, just like the USR WinModems. Ok. I just went and viewed the "WinModem" page from http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. Every PCI version of the Supra Express is listed as either a WinModem or unknown. The EXTERNAL modems should work fine. John
Re: [expert] Removing supermount
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, alann wrote: Larry Sword wrote: Rich Clark wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Larry Sword wrote: Trevor Farrell wrote: How do I completely remove supermount from my system??? use the provided script 'supermount disable' to remove all the fstab modifications. If you still have lingering doubts it can be fully removed by rebuilding the src.rpm and commenting out the patch %patch36, specificly, just like any other modifcation you "dislike". I just gotta few questions.. I am a MDK user, since 5.3.. I am still at 6.1, due to the flood of trouble reports here on MDK 7.0.. Quite normal.. if it's not broke don't fix it is the motto i believe Just curious, does supermount NOT work?? Why are so many people wanting to remove it? No supermount does work. It like everything else has basic do's and dont's that some people don't care to learn, Richard among others who see it as just more work and others whos prefered GUI already handles mounting. Autodetection of the filesystem type isn't the best, a big problem for people whose only access to the internet is done via floppy from some other machine usualy Windows based. I imagine it's a literal nightmare for those with LS-120 and similar drives where the removeable media can have all sorts of partition/filesystem types. To record a cd, cdrecord must "jump thru hoops" to get the drive to the default state. Others are just concerned about security. Honestly? Yep. Thanks Alan -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] web pages under ~/public_html
--- "Sang Y. Yum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I display web pages that I created under /home/user/public_html? I fixed the problem by executing # chmod -r 755 /home/user Sang = Sang Y. Yum San Diego, CA __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[expert] WinTV GO and LM 7.0
I recently configured WinTV GO TV tuner card under LM 7.0. Take a look at http://www.yumnet.dyndns.org/~sang/linux/wintv.html Sang = Sang Y. Yum San Diego, CA __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
"Istvan B." wrote: I just thought I mention this: Actually, it doesn't have to be a WinModem (although this one probably is) to have this problem. I had (just sold it today) a Diamond SupraExpress PCI modem, which is not a winmodem, yet I had the same problems I just looked, just in case I had missed something. All Diamond PCI modems *are* WinModems. You should get a model number, which will be on the card, like Model 2920. They use 4-digits like that. "Supra Express" is meaningless as they use this term on ALL the modems that they make (ie, SupraExpress = ModemMadeByDiamond ). as I did with winmodems. It is heavily dependant on full plug'n'play support because of the way it communicates through the PCI port. On the RedHat hardware compatibility list it is listed as non-compatible. But I have found a file VERY hidden on the modem's driver disk which had a few lines on how to use it under Linus. This involved the use of the DOS driver (which I coud not fin anywhere) and LOADLIN and a few changes in autoexec.bat. So, in short, I would have had to 'warm boot' Linux. A few WinModems, depending on the chipset and vintage, will have limited functionality as a regular modem. Generally enough to allow for non-compressed communications at 1,200. MS-DOS is not equal to non-WinModem. It is perfectly possible to write a DOS driver for a WinModem, and some manufacturers have done this. In Fact, it is possible to write a WinModem driver that runs under Linux, and it is then called a LinModem. ATT/Lucent has opened the design of their chip to Linux folks, and the Lucent LT Modems now have Linux drivers for them. There are some things that distinguish the Lucent WinModems from the rest, the main one being that ALL Lucent LT modems look the same from the computer's point of view. It does not matter which manufacturer the modem is from, if its an LT chipset, it will use the SAME driver. There are variants if the modem also is a voice one; using the generic modem data driver might make you lose the voice capability. However, the generic driver will always work for LT's. This is a bragging point on the part of Lucent. (The voice stuff is external to their chipset). I can say more about Lucent, but will withold it for now. It is a great outfit. There are a couple more WinModems with Linux aspirations. The ones that are non-Lucent have limited functionality. Either only at 1200 bps, or can be used as dialers and voice only, not data. One year ago, if you had said PCI modem, I could have authoritatively told you it was a WinModem (or RPI, same thing in the end). However, that has changed. There are now three modems that are PCI and not WinModems. They are quite rare and not in common availability in the USA. I have never seen one in any catalog and they are brands you never heard of. Multitech also makes a PCI modem that is not a WinModem if you accept the fact that WinModem means a modem that has the DSP and Compression/ECC implemented in Software. The Multitech has it in hardware and is technically not a WinModem. However, it requires a special driver anyway as it does not look like a regular serial port. This driver has only been released for Windows. I use a Broader definition of WinModem as "does not respond as a regular modem and requires special software to work available only under Microsoft Windows". But you are welcome to disagree with me on that and call the Multitech a non-winmodem. If you do not want to take my word for PCI = WinModem, or harbor any doubts about your ISA or USB modem being Win or Regular, the final authoritative listing can be found at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and read down and go to the link "View the Entire Table" which is 345K long and has the best listing. In particular, you should be on the lookout for Rockwell Chipset modems. Most of those are WinModems, and some are particularly bad such as the HSP and HCF WinModems. Rockwell sold the chip division to Connexant, so you will also see them with that label on the chip. They also make externals and ISA modems, some of which are not WinModems. You should be aware that as an ISP, and a person that has wide contacts among ISP's, I can tell you that Rockwell/Connexant modems are simply the worse. I see a lot of advertising hype about this and that modem, but if the fine print says its a Rockwell or Connexant, I advise you to pass. If they *do not* mention the chipset, you can assume it is Rockwell or Connexant WinModem technology as it accounts for about 90% of the modem market share today. A Rockwell winModem costs the OEM only about $3 to put in, so you know now why they are sold so widely. There is not much to them, mostly empty chips. The Lucent chips have some meat in them, ie, hardware that helps the software do some things. Better junk. As an ISP, I have seen and worked with thousands of modems. For all practical purposes "I have seen them all" (I do get
Re: [expert] web pages under ~/public_html
what do the error logs say? /etc/httpd/logs/error_log might be a permision thing either on the public_html dir or the actual html files inside the dir my public_html dir has these perms drwxr-xr-x "Sang Y. Yum" wrote: How do I display web pages that I created under /home/user/public_html? I know httpd is running (I could connect to http://localhost/ and it displays the default home page) but when I tried to connect to http://localhost/~user, I get "HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden error". I do see this entry in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home # directory if a ~user request is recieved. UserDir public_html Help! Sang = Sang Y. Yum San Diego, CA __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[expert] PPPD Demand works, but...
Hi, I finally got the pppd demand option to work. I have noticed though that if I start the browser on a client pc (Win98) and cause my server (linux with pppd) to dial, the browser continue to say "finding www.xyz.com" even after the connection is established. If however, I stop the browser and refresh it, it will work and I get to see the web site. By the way, I don't have this problem if the connection is already established. Any idea? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
I've done the modem dance with name brands for several years. Thus far I have found one modem that works flawlessly with Windows and Linux. USR 56k V.90 External with the TI chipset. It was recognized the first time in Linux and every time since. Save time, save money and save aggravation. It ain't cheap but you gets what you pays for. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] PHP on Air
Hi Jean-Michel! Thanks for your hint. With naming those files whatever.php3 it worked.. So i have to add something to parse also html-files, sorry, thought that this is the standard situation. But now i got it.. Bye, Torben Jean-Michel Dault wrote: On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Bug Hunter wrote: You may have a bit more reading to do. Apache has to know to associate the web pages produced with the php parser. you have to edit the /etc/httpd.conf files. I forget exactly what you put there. If you visit http://www.php.net, and look for their searchable FAQ, it will probably put you on the right track. Some others have had problems similar to yours, and the answers are provided by users that solved the problems. The Mandrake Apache and PHP3 are already pre-configured. All you have to do is name your file whatever.php3 and it should work. If it doesn't... Also, did you restart your server after changing the config files? If not, it doesn't work. (experience speaking :)) Yup, you have to restart Apache =) /etc/rc.d/init.d/apache restart Also, make sure your web server has the permissions to read your php3 files. (chmod 0755 file). Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
- Original Message - From: Ramon Gandia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Modem Problem I just looked, just in case I had missed something. All Diamond PCI modems *are* WinModems. You should get a model number, which will be on the card, like Model 2920. They use 4-digits like that. "Supra Express" is meaningless as they use this term on ALL the modems that they make (ie, SupraExpress = ModemMadeByDiamond ). A few WinModems, depending on the chipset and vintage, will have limited functionality as a regular modem. Generally enough to allow for non-compressed communications at 1,200. There are some things that distinguish the Lucent WinModems from the rest, the main one being that ALL Lucent LT modems look the same from the computer's point of view. It does not matter which manufacturer the modem is from, if its an LT chipset, it will use the SAME driver. I can say more about Lucent, but will withold it for now. It is a great outfit. There are a couple more WinModems with Linux aspirations. The ones that are non-Lucent have limited functionality. Either only at 1200 bps, or can be used as dialers and voice only, not data. In particular, you should be on the lookout for Rockwell Chipset modems. Most of those are WinModems, and some are particularly bad such as the HSP and HCF WinModems. Rockwell sold the chip division to Connexant, so you will also see them with that label on the chip. They also make externals and ISA modems, some of which are not WinModems. You should be aware that as an ISP, and a person that has wide contacts among ISP's, I can tell you that Rockwell/Connexant modems are simply the worse. I see a lot of advertising hype about this and that modem, but if the fine print says its a Rockwell or Connexant, I advise you to pass. If they *do not* mention the chipset, you can assume it is Rockwell or Connexant WinModem technology as it accounts for about 90% of the modem market share today. A Rockwell winModem costs the OEM only about $3 to put in, so you know now why they are sold so widely. There is not much to them, mostly empty chips. The Lucent chips have some meat in them, ie, hardware that helps the software do some things. Better junk. As an ISP, I have seen and worked with thousands of modems. For all practical purposes "I have seen them all" (I do get a surprise now and then, usually not pleasant). Often I get folks that have spent a lot of money on a computer and insist that their modem is of the "best quality". Or had very good luck with a Rockwell and insist that they are "the best" type around. Most, if not all of these fold have been exposed to just one or two modems in their life, and their knowledge is flawed. If you go out and buy a Modem, stick it in a Windows 95 computer, fire it up, and insert a disk when the thing says "new hardware detected". And then use it successfuly to dial up your ISP, I do not think that I would call that as 'experienced with this or that modem'. It is merely anecdotal experience of the type that the manufacturer hopes you have. To know a modem you have to experience horror stories with that type, or conversely, experience nothing but good from this other type. OK, you gave us the "bad" news, now recommend a good internal modem (based on your experience) that is affordably priced (US$100) and works well with Linux. Hoyt __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
I couldn't agree more. Pay a little more and get an extrenal modem. No COM3/4 or IRQ to worry about, simply plug into your serial port and you are all set. Sang --- ibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done the modem dance with name brands for several years. Thus far I have found one modem that works flawlessly with Windows and Linux. USR 56k V.90 External with the TI chipset. It was recognized the first time in Linux and every time since. Save time, save money and save aggravation. It ain't cheap but you gets what you pays for. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Sang Y. Yum San Diego, CA __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] SCSI CD Changers
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote: Sure I have 2 7 disk changers working under mandrake 7. Auto detected the luns during install and made all of the links.. Kewl. I guess the question *I* have then, is how does one talk to the external CD changer on an EXISTING install? Would just rebooting (or restarting something) cause it to autodetect the SCSI device? John
Re: [expert] Halp! my SMP system Wont!!!
On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote: This happens with ANY SMP ready kernel, ANY of the kernel's that I have compiled, the SMP kewrnel that comes with Mandrake 7, and even kernels that friends have compiled. With NON SMP kernels, there is NOT any problems. I've looked through the docs that I have, and all that are availible online that I can find, and have found no solution. Help?!? For giggles, try this at the next boot -- At "LILO:" type imagename NOAPIC where imagename is the name you have for that LILO option, ie "linux NOAPIC" (not sure if it's case sensitive.) If that fixes it, I *may* have a kernel patch for you that someone sent to me from the Linux-SMP mailing list. John
Re: [expert] PPPD Demand works, but...
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, AS T wrote: Any idea? drop win98 to trash and install LM :) -- Inprise/Borland CEO Dale Fuller was even more generous: "Microsoft will continue to be a player in this environment in this world," Fuller said, "*for a few more years.*"
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
Ah yes, but there is a little caveat. The TI chipset is the key. Ramon can explain it beautifully and has in prior threads. The modems with the TI chipset is the only bulletproof unit that is wholly Linux compatible. I believe Phoebe makes two versions. USR external is the only model with TI. The internals use a Rockwell chipset that may or may not be winmodem versions. Pj Sang Y. Yum wrote: I couldn't agree more. Pay a little more and get an extrenal modem. No COM3/4 or IRQ to worry about, simply plug into your serial port and you are all set. Sang --- ibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done the modem dance with name brands for several years. Thus far I have found one modem that works flawlessly with Windows and Linux. USR 56k V.90 External with the TI chipset. It was recognized the first time in Linux and every time since. Save time, save money and save aggravation. It ain't cheap but you gets what you pays for. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Sang Y. Yum San Diego, CA
[expert] Problems upgrading to Air (7.0)
I have two issues: 1. the update of RPMs failed on my K6-3d 451MHz, Dual Adaptec Fast Wide SCSI Server. Let suffice it to say that MANY of the RPMs appear to be partially updated. What is the best way (short of Installing a FRESH OS), to update the RPMs? Is the New Floppy Boot Disk the answer? 2. The kernel-source-2.2.14.-15mdk source code fails to boot. I eventually get the following Fatal Message: scsi: 3 hosts scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 47, scsi 2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 TEST UNIT Ready 00 00 00 00 00 scsi host 2 abort (pid 47) timed out - resetting scsi bus is being reset for host 2 channel 0, Kernel panic: aix7xxx: AWAITING_MSG for an SCB that does not have a waiting message. This was from a compiled kernel using the mdk source RPMs. There was also an entry in the /etc/conf.modules for aix7xxx which was unnecessary, as I compiled the support into the kernel. This was not intended to be a module. I obtained the same Kernel Source from kernel.org and recompiled it via the Redhat 2.2 Kernel FAQ (is Mandrake going to maintain one as well?), and found the problem with the /etc/conf.modules containing an entry for the aix7xxx driver which was unnecessary. After I removed it, it appears to boot perfectly! Question 2, what updates the /etc/conf.modules file? Apparently it needs to be reviewed, or put into the FAQ for additional info. I'll gladly post the differences between the Linux Kernel Source and Mandrake Kernel Source, if anyone is interested. Albert E. Whale [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hky.com/aewhale.html -- Sr. Database, Internet and Unix Systems Consultant PAPI - Pennsylvania Parenthood Initiative - Co-Founding Father http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4688/papi.htm Father's Rights Network - http://www.hky.com/frn/frnhome.html
Re: [expert] PHP on Air
If you name your files *.php3, it will parse HTML and php3. If you name your files *.html, it will only work with html. If you want to use server-side includes, you must use .shtml. However, everything that server-side includes offer, you can do it with php3. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Torben Tretau wrote: Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 21:49:00 +0100 From: Torben Tretau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] PHP on Air Hi Jean-Michel! Thanks for your hint. With naming those files whatever.php3 it worked.. So i have to add something to parse also html-files, sorry, thought that this is the standard situation. But now i got it.. Bye, Torben Jean-Michel Dault wrote: On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Bug Hunter wrote: You may have a bit more reading to do. Apache has to know to associate the web pages produced with the php parser. you have to edit the /etc/httpd.conf files. I forget exactly what you put there. If you visit http://www.php.net, and look for their searchable FAQ, it will probably put you on the right track. Some others have had problems similar to yours, and the answers are provided by users that solved the problems. The Mandrake Apache and PHP3 are already pre-configured. All you have to do is name your file whatever.php3 and it should work. If it doesn't... Also, did you restart your server after changing the config files? If not, it doesn't work. (experience speaking :)) Yup, you have to restart Apache =) /etc/rc.d/init.d/apache restart Also, make sure your web server has the permissions to read your php3 files. (chmod 0755 file). Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] PPPD Demand works, but...
How did you setup the DNS on the Windows client? Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, AS T wrote: Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:35:11 -0800 (PST) From: AS T [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] PPPD Demand works, but... Hi, I finally got the pppd demand option to work. I have noticed though that if I start the browser on a client pc (Win98) and cause my server (linux with pppd) to dial, the browser continue to say "finding www.xyz.com" even after the connection is established. If however, I stop the browser and refresh it, it will work and I get to see the web site. By the way, I don't have this problem if the connection is already established. Any idea? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] PHP on Air
You don't want to change apache to parse html files as php3 files. This can present a security risk if more than one person shares your machine. This allows people to run php3 scripts that copy any readable file on the server and present that file to themselves by placing a .html page up. This is not a horrible risk, but a risk. You can limit which directories that you allow php3 scripts to run in. This is what you should do, and you should force the pages to be php3 pages. php3 can be a mixture of standard html pages and php3 script. On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Torben Tretau wrote: Hi Jean-Michel! Thanks for your hint. With naming those files whatever.php3 it worked.. So i have to add something to parse also html-files, sorry, thought that this is the standard situation. But now i got it.. Bye,
[expert] fetchmail/sendmail and spam?
Hi all, I'm using Mandrake 7.0 with sendmail and fetchmail. I have given sendmail some adresses to filter. I have a dial up connection to the internet. Now I receive some mails from a spammer and unfortunatly something goes wrong, when filtering. Here are the logs: fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BODY=8BITM IME SIZE=29045 fetchmail: SMTP 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown fetchmail: SMTP RSET fetchmail: SMTP 250 Reset state fetchmail: SMTP 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.8.7; Tue, 7 Ma r 2000 23:12:05 +0100 fetchmail: SMTP HELO localhost fetchmail: SMTP 250 localhost.localdomain Hello IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] n [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@localhost fetchmail: SMTP 250 FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@localhost... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok(will queue) fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP: (bounce-message body) fetchmail: SMTP. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP 250 XAA00863 Message accepted for delivery fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: SMTP 221 localhost.localdomain closing connection fetchmail: socket error while fetching from pop3.myprovider.de fetchmail: Query status=2 Now can anybody help? As much as I understand it, my sendmail accepts the mail and wants to bounce it, I suppose that's O.K. but then I suppose with the QUIT command something goes wrong. The mail is not deleted from the pop server of my provider and all previous mails are not deleted, too. So I keep getting always the same mails from my provider's server. Why do I get a socket error? This mail somehow blocks my mailbox on my provider's server. How to solve this problem? BTW I've read the man page for fetchmail, but I do not understand the antispam part that well. Is there any additional info with some examples on how to block spam wiht fetchmail. TIA Andreas
Re: [expert] adding TTF's doesnt seem to work
"David G. Thiessen" wrote: yes, i have the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files. i also did run ttmkfdir. You can't use that b/c those are not truetype fonts. run mkfontdir instead. If you ran ttmkfdir then you fonts.dir and .scale files may very well be empty or invalid. If they are empty you won't get any fonts. what do i need to do or undo to get these fonts to work in GIMP? -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
[expert] Telnet and FTP Combination
Does anybody know of an application that combines both the functionality of a telnet server and an ftp server? As well as offering a Linux based and Windows version of the server and appropriate clients? Joseph (Joe) Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm http://www.wizaerd.com 3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas a little bit of everything... ColdFusion Developer iTOOL.com http://www.itool.com Come Build Your Site Today
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
The AOpen FM56-ITU/2 works in both Linux, Windows, DOS ... There are a few more but this is the best I've found. Jim Tarvid Aopen Acer 56K V.90 Internal With Voice ISA fax modem (Not aWinmodem) With VoiceMail #AOPFM56-ITU/2 $ 41 Unknown?? 2/27/00 12:25:03 PM CST Comp-U-Plus 800-287-8786 914-352-8100 Online Ordering NY FM56 Aopen FM56-ITU/2 ,V.90,56K, , ISA, Linux Compatible Internal modem/FM56ITU $ 47 5.00/FLAT anywhere in cont. USA - no other fee 12/28/99 7:24:00 PM CST Openlinx Communications 562-623-9334 . Online Ordering CA -
Re: [expert] Telnet and FTP Combination
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Joe Sheble wrote: Does anybody know of an application that combines both the functionality of a telnet server and an ftp server? As well as offering a Linux based and Windows version of the server and appropriate clients? Why do you need a combined application? There is the standard telnetd and standard ftpd, and you can use the MS$ telnet client and ws_ftp/cute_ftp. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph (Joe) Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm http://www.wizaerd.com 3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas a little bit of everything... ColdFusion Developer iTOOL.com http://www.itool.com Come Build Your Site Today
FW: [expert] Telnet and FTP Combination
Because when I ftp in I'm limited to a very restricted directory structure (that users home directory) and I move files back and forth between work and home... most of these files are in a directory not available to the user I log in as with FTP... they're root files (configuration files, etc... to work on, read, or study during idle times as well as share with co-workers)... so I have to telnet in as a regular user, do a 'su', copy the necessary files to the appropriate home directory logout of telnet, then re-connect with ftp to actually get the needed file. It'd be much nicer to do this in one single connection. -Original Message- From: Jean-Michel Dault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 5:26 PM To: Joe Sheble Cc: Expert Mandrake List Subject: Re: [expert] Telnet and FTP Combination On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Joe Sheble wrote: Does anybody know of an application that combines both the functionality of a telnet server and an ftp server? As well as offering a Linux based and Windows version of the server and appropriate clients? Why do you need a combined application? There is the standard telnetd and standard ftpd, and you can use the MS$ telnet client and ws_ftp/cute_ftp. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph (Joe) Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm http://www.wizaerd.com 3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas a little bit of everything... ColdFusion Developer iTOOL.com http://www.itool.com Come Build Your Site Today
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote: Ah yes, but there is a little caveat. The TI chipset is the key. Ramon can explain it beautifully and has in prior threads. The modems with the TI chipset is the only bulletproof unit that is wholly Linux compatible. I believe Phoebe makes two versions. saved from a prior Ramon post: Internal: Phoebe CMV1456VQH-X External: Phoebe CMV1456VQE-X I have an old phoebe, TI 33,6. It's jus'a'bout bulletproof. I live on a hill in the southern Ozarks (AR, USA). Two rusty wires goin down the mountain into Russellville. I always get 28,8 or better out'a the world's worst collection of ISP's (3). 'Course I measure them as opposed to www.hal-pc.org (Houston, World's best) A search of pricewatch.com will turn up 25+, just search 'hardware modem' -- .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] . USR external is the only model with TI. The internals use a Rockwell chipset that may or may not be winmodem versions. Pj Sang Y. Yum wrote: I couldn't agree more. Pay a little more and get an extrenal modem. No COM3/4 or IRQ to worry about, simply plug into your serial port and you are all set. Sang --- ibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done the modem dance with name brands for several years. Thus far I have found one modem that works flawlessly with Windows and Linux. USR 56k V.90 External with the TI chipset. It was recognized the first time in Linux and every time since. Save time, save money and save aggravation. It ain't cheap but you gets what you pays for. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Sang Y. Yum San Diego, CA
Re: FW: [expert] Telnet and FTP Combination
Get a Terminal program that does Z-modem (Comnet or CRT, you can get them at any tucows mirror), and install the lszrz package. Then, in telnet, type "sz file" and your terminal program will receive it. If you want to send files to your linux box, type "rz", and tell your terminal to send a file with Zmodem, and it will receive it. It even works with HyperTerminal (with the TCP/IP option) except that when it sends a file, it puts it in uppercase letters. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Joe Sheble wrote: Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:15:29 -0700 From: Joe Sheble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: [expert] Telnet and FTP Combination Because when I ftp in I'm limited to a very restricted directory structure (that users home directory) and I move files back and forth between work and home... most of these files are in a directory not available to the user I log in as with FTP... they're root files (configuration files, etc... to work on, read, or study during idle times as well as share with co-workers)... so I have to telnet in as a regular user, do a 'su', copy the necessary files to the appropriate home directory logout of telnet, then re-connect with ftp to actually get the needed file. It'd be much nicer to do this in one single connection. -Original Message- From: Jean-Michel Dault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 5:26 PM To: Joe Sheble Cc: Expert Mandrake List Subject: Re: [expert] Telnet and FTP Combination On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Joe Sheble wrote: Does anybody know of an application that combines both the functionality of a telnet server and an ftp server? As well as offering a Linux based and Windows version of the server and appropriate clients? Why do you need a combined application? There is the standard telnetd and standard ftpd, and you can use the MS$ telnet client and ws_ftp/cute_ftp. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph (Joe) Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm http://www.wizaerd.com 3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas a little bit of everything... ColdFusion Developer iTOOL.com http://www.itool.com Come Build Your Site Today
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
You know, I have used a lof of modems, and the cheapest ones, the Boca or GVC external modems work well. The only problem is that they produce a lot of heat when connected 24/24. It's okay for a home user, but if you're an ISP with hundreds of them, it's a problem. Ask your ISP, I'm sure they have some units gathering dust somewhere, and they will probably sell you one for a few bucks =) Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Tom wrote: Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:17:20 -0600 From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Modem Problem On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote: Ah yes, but there is a little caveat. The TI chipset is the key. Ramon can explain it beautifully and has in prior threads. The modems with the TI chipset is the only bulletproof unit that is wholly Linux compatible. I believe Phoebe makes two versions. saved from a prior Ramon post: Internal: Phoebe CMV1456VQH-X External: Phoebe CMV1456VQE-X I have an old phoebe, TI 33,6. It's jus'a'bout bulletproof. I live on a hill in the southern Ozarks (AR, USA). Two rusty wires goin down the mountain into Russellville. I always get 28,8 or better out'a the world's worst collection of ISP's (3). 'Course I measure them as opposed to www.hal-pc.org (Houston, World's best) A search of pricewatch.com will turn up 25+, just search 'hardware modem' -- .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] . USR external is the only model with TI. The internals use a Rockwell chipset that may or may not be winmodem versions. Pj Sang Y. Yum wrote: I couldn't agree more. Pay a little more and get an extrenal modem. No COM3/4 or IRQ to worry about, simply plug into your serial port and you are all set. Sang --- ibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done the modem dance with name brands for several years. Thus far I have found one modem that works flawlessly with Windows and Linux. USR 56k V.90 External with the TI chipset. It was recognized the first time in Linux and every time since. Save time, save money and save aggravation. It ain't cheap but you gets what you pays for. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Sang Y. Yum San Diego, CA
[expert] Air mdksecure, and VMware Install Problem
For those who haven't looked in to it, the default kernel run when you install Air server:high is mdklinus, which is just a plain vanilla as if downloaded from kernel.org. I changed to mdksecure, which was precompiled with patches that prevent changes to critical system files, and other security-related enhancements. No inconvenience from it so far, EXCEPT: VMWare 2 doesn't have a precompiled module corresponding, (it does for the Air mdk kernel) so it tries to compile using src/linux/include. It fails, as the running kernel doesn't match include/. (mdksecure v. mdk) I edit include/version.h to mdksecure and try VMware compile again. Now it fails with 'slight symbol mismatch', as headers are still only for mdk. (not mdksecure) I make mrproper make xconfig and make deps make bzImage, but go no further in hopes the include/ dir is filled in correctly for VMware compile, but same problem. I do not have the patch they add to the kernel for mdksecure, nor the headers for it, so cannot =compile= a secure kernel. I can reboot to mdk, VMware finds precompiled modules, installs runs fine. But when I reboot to mdksecure with these modules, of course mismatch between modules running kernel. So I am faced with a choice: a hardened kernel, or VMware. Will Mandrake release either the patches or headers for mdksecure? Or should I go to something like LIDS? Would I have the same problem with LIDS? -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] adding TTF's doesnt seem to work
Didn't see the original posting for this, but I had trouble adding TTFs to Air as well. (xfs crashed) Pablo recommended changing all *.TTF to *.ttf and it worked. Do this, then run ttmkfdir and chkfontpath --add. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers "David G. Thiessen" wrote: yes, i have the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files. i also did run ttmkfdir.
[expert] Air mdksecure, and VMware Install Problem
For those who haven't looked in to it, the default kernel run when you install Air server:high is mdklinus, which is just a plain vanilla as if downloaded from kernel.org. I changed to mdksecure, which was precompiled with patches that prevent changes to critical system files, and other security-related enhancements. No inconvenience from it so far, EXCEPT: VMWare 2 doesn't have a precompiled module corresponding, (it does for the Air mdk kernel) so it tries to compile using src/linux/include. It fails, as the running kernel doesn't match include/. (mdksecure v. mdk) I edit include/version.h to mdksecure and try VMware compile again. Now it fails with 'slight symbol mismatch', as headers are still only for mdk. (not mdksecure) I make mrproper make xconfig and make deps make bzImage, but go no further in hopes the include/ dir is filled in correctly for VMware compile, but same problem. I do not have the patch they add to the kernel for mdksecure, nor the headers for it, so cannot =compile= a secure kernel. I can reboot to mdk, VMware finds precompiled modules, installs runs fine. But when I reboot to mdksecure with these modules, of course mismatch between modules running kernel. So I am faced with a choice: a hardened kernel, or VMware. Will Mandrake release either the patches or headers for mdksecure? Or should I go to something like LIDS? Would I have the same problem with LIDS? -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
Hoyt wrote: OK, you gave us the "bad" news, now recommend a good internal modem (based on your experience) that is affordably priced (US$100) and works well with Linux. The best seem to be based on the US Robotics chipset. USR does not manufacture chips; they contract them out to Texas Instruments. Thus a "TI" chipset modem with X2 technology (besides V.90) is a USR- workalike. You can buy the genuine product, the USR Sporster internal (or external). Be careful of the internals as they also have WinModems of the same name (Sporster WinModem, but many catalogs conveniently drop the 'winmodem' part of the name). These run $80-$105 from places like Warehouse.com or pcmall.com or pricewatch.com The externals are quite good, and the blinking lights help, but they cost about $30 more than the internals. With USR/3Com you also have to buy the serial cable. A clone modem is made by Phoebe Micro. The Phoebe's use the Texas Instrument chip set, and sound just like the 3COM/USR. In fact, the same "driver" will work for both brands. Phoebe makes them in internal and external versions. You want to be SURE you get the TI chipset ones, because they also make cheapo Rockwell and Cirrus winmodems. The internal is CMV1456VQH-X the external is CMV1456VQE-X and tell the salesperson it is the one with X2 and TI chip. I get them for about $43 internal, $51 external from www.hitech-usa.com (Hi Tech USA). Call their sales department and ask for a Saleswoman by the name of Phoebe Qin. The name is pure coincidence. Tell her I sent you to get those modems as she is familiar with them. They do not usually stock them, but will ship them to you within 24-36 hours. The internals come with COM2 IRQ 3 out of the box. Go into the BIOS and disable your COM2 port on the motherboard, plug this modem in and you are all set to go. You can also put the jumpers in PnP mode, but I have had mixed results with that in Windows 95/98 and of course, PnP is terrible in Linux. But these have jumpers. The externals come WITH the serial cable, wonder of wonders. Both the Phoebe's and the USRobotics Sporsters are wonderful performers and reliable under adverse line conditions. Often a Rockwell will show a higher connect speed, but the throughput will be higher on the UsR/Phoebe. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: Fwd: [expert] Modem Problem
"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: I fear that I didn't include sufficient information with my original message for which I apologize. I should have elaborated on my statement that it used to work, it did work on another platform running Linux from which I moved the modem. Further isapnpconf found the card and generated the following conf file: # $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.18 1999/02/14 22:47:18 fox Exp $ # Trying port address 0203 # Board 1 has serial identifier b6 ff ff ff ff 80 71 93 04 big snip isapnpconf is a program to detect and set up ISA cards, not PCI, and looking over the I/O ports listed in the message, they are all ISA range ports, not PCI. Your modem seems to have been ISA. Find out the model number and we will know for sure. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
ibi wrote: Ah yes, but there is a little caveat. The TI chipset is the key. Ramon can explain it beautifully and has in prior threads. The modems with the TI chipset is the only bulletproof unit that is wholly Linux compatible. I believe Phoebe makes two versions. USR external is the only model with TI. The internals use a Rockwell chipset that may or may not be winmodem versions. No, No. Phoebe makes a TI chipset model in both External AND internal versions. I gave the model numbers earlier today. Be careful, Phoebe makes LOTS of junk modems too, you have to pick thru the part numbers to get the right ones, as I did and shared with this list. Because they are the priciest Phoebes, the dealers do not seem to want to stock them. They prefer to sell the $ 9.95 Rockewell WinModems. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
"James E. Tarvid" wrote: The AOpen FM56-ITU/2 works in both Linux, Windows, DOS ... There are a few more but this is the best I've found. Jim Tarvid Aopen Acer 56K V.90 Internal With Voice ISA fax modem (Not aWinmodem) With VoiceMail #AOPFM56-ITU/2 $ 41 Unknown?? 2/27/00 12:25:03 PM CST Comp-U-Plus 800-287-8786 914-352-8100 Online Ordering NY FM56 Aopen FM56-ITU/2 ,V.90,56K, , ISA, Linux Compatible Internal modem/FM56ITU $ 47 5.00/FLAT anywhere in cont. USA - no other fee 12/28/99 7:24:00 PM CST Openlinx Communications 562-623-9334 . Online Ordering CA - Yes, they are ISA and non-Win, but they are Rockwells. Look in http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/2307a.html for the lowdown. AOPEN makes a Texas Instrument model, which is probably good, its is the FM56PVS-T (the -T is the critical part and makes it a TI chipset modem, hopefully with the V90/X2 protocol. If so, it should be good). Non-Win Rockwells work, but they are not good performers. They have aggressive speeds, usually a notch or two higher than they should for given line conditions. They get LOTS of retrains which I can see on my logs here. They frequently disconnect with "lost carrier" in my logs. Retrains are bad, because it means the modem is spending most of its time resending data that had errors. The Connect speed may be 52,000 vs 46,666 for a USR/TI, but the lower speed modem will pass MORE data bytes in a given time. There are also lots of other bugs that plague Rockwells. On the server end, Rockwell digital modems at the ISP end do not work well with Channelized T1 service using D4/AMI signalling,and that is about 50% of the phone switches in the USA. The US Robotics make great consumer modems but are just terrible for an ISP, although the later revisions seem to be working better. At one time there was a class action suit about it, if I recall. The Lucent digital modems, like I use here at Nook Net seem to be the most robust of the lot. I tried equipment from Ascend and Cisco here and simply could not make it work above 31,200. Cisco tried valiantly with their AS5200no dice. My Lucent Portmasters PM3 do fine. On the Analog end, I use a number of US Robotics couriers, and they do real well too. In one village I was kinda cheap and used US Robotics sporsters 33.6 data fax modems, and they work well too. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
- Original Message - From: Ramon Gandia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Modem Problem Both the Phoebe's and the USRobotics Sporsters are wonderful performers and reliable under adverse line conditions. Often a Rockwell will show a higher connect speed, but the throughput will be higher on the UsR/Phoebe. Thanks, Ramon. I have a Speedcom (Cirrus Logic chipset, jumpers) modem and a Zoom 2819 (Rockwell chipset, jumpers). The Zoom is the winner hands down. My backup is an older AcerOpen with the Rockwell chipset (switches)- a solid 33.6 modem. Linux likes 'em all. I have never cared for jumperless modems. Hoyt __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
lack of documentation (was Re: [expert] Removing supermount)
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Axalon wrote: | On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, alann wrote: | | Just curious, does supermount NOT work?? Why are so many people wanting to remove |it? | | No supermount does work. | | It like everything else has basic do's and dont's that some people don't | care to learn, I'm sorry, I've stayed restrained for a long time, but . . . Where do you get off saying that people "don't care to learn"??? HOW THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW TO USE IT? The man entry for supermount doesn't discuss any of this. THERE ARE NO #@$! HOWTOS IN MANDRAKE 7.0!!! I've been using Unix for 19 years, and Linux for 6, but I've not been reading minds at all. The sources of information I'm used to consulting don't explain this, and when I installed Mandrake 7.0, my devices were just plain WRONG. I am rather offended at the suggestion that this somehow represents laziness on my part. -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
Re: [expert] Removing supermount
As I gather it, supermount works . . . .. . . but not for a CD-RW, and my only CD-ROM is a CD-RW. .. . . but not for ext2 floppies, and I tried one of those second. .. . . but not for an LS-120 drive (I don't have one of those, at least). .. . . but not with filesystem of "auto" (which I happen to like). So my take is that it's not quite "ready for prime time," though if you have a thoroughly conventional system which you use in a thoroughly conventional way . . . well, then, you're running Windows, then, aren't you? . . . I mean, then it would work for you. I have a somewhat unconventional system and I've been using Unixy systems for nearly 20 years now and I found Supermount just got in my way. YMMV.
[expert] Samba - Linux to Win printer
Greetings, Ok. I've setup Samba on Mandrake 6.1, and have things working just fine..., minus the fact that I cannot print to my Canon BJ 6000 on the Win box from the Linux box. I followed the instructions in the book from O'Reilly "Using Samba", still no go. Any ideas? (stock install of Samba from 6.1 btw) Regards, Dana
Re: [expert] Modem Problem
Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Ramon Gandia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Modem Problem I just looked, just in case I had missed something. All Diamond PCI modems *are* WinModems. You should get a model number, which will be on the card, like Model 2920. They use 4-digits like that. "Supra Express" is meaningless as they use this term on ALL the modems that they make (ie, SupraExpress = ModemMadeByDiamond ). A few WinModems, depending on the chipset and vintage, will have limited functionality as a regular modem. Generally enough to allow for non-compressed communications at 1,200. There are some things that distinguish the Lucent WinModems from the rest, the main one being that ALL Lucent LT modems look the same from the computer's point of view. It does not matter which manufacturer the modem is from, if its an LT chipset, it will use the SAME driver. I can say more about Lucent, but will withold it for now. It is a great outfit. There are a couple more WinModems with Linux aspirations. The ones that are non-Lucent have limited functionality. Either only at 1200 bps, or can be used as dialers and voice only, not data. In particular, you should be on the lookout for Rockwell Chipset modems. Most of those are WinModems, and some are particularly bad such as the HSP and HCF WinModems. Rockwell sold the chip division to Connexant, so you will also see them with that label on the chip. They also make externals and ISA modems, some of which are not WinModems. You should be aware that as an ISP, and a person that has wide contacts among ISP's, I can tell you that Rockwell/Connexant modems are simply the worse. I see a lot of advertising hype about this and that modem, but if the fine print says its a Rockwell or Connexant, I advise you to pass. If they *do not* mention the chipset, you can assume it is Rockwell or Connexant WinModem technology as it accounts for about 90% of the modem market share today. A Rockwell winModem costs the OEM only about $3 to put in, so you know now why they are sold so widely. There is not much to them, mostly empty chips. The Lucent chips have some meat in them, ie, hardware that helps the software do some things. Better junk. As an ISP, I have seen and worked with thousands of modems. For all practical purposes "I have seen them all" (I do get a surprise now and then, usually not pleasant). Often I get folks that have spent a lot of money on a computer and insist that their modem is of the "best quality". Or had very good luck with a Rockwell and insist that they are "the best" type around. Most, if not all of these fold have been exposed to just one or two modems in their life, and their knowledge is flawed. If you go out and buy a Modem, stick it in a Windows 95 computer, fire it up, and insert a disk when the thing says "new hardware detected". And then use it successfuly to dial up your ISP, I do not think that I would call that as 'experienced with this or that modem'. It is merely anecdotal experience of the type that the manufacturer hopes you have. To know a modem you have to experience horror stories with that type, or conversely, experience nothing but good from this other type. OK, you gave us the "bad" news, now recommend a good internal modem (based on your experience) that is affordably priced (US$100) and works well with Linux. Hoyt __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Modem Blaster Flash 5611. I have used the earlier ISA modem in this series and it provides excellent performance. Also, Hayes made some nice ISA v90 modems. www.soundblaster.com to see the modem blaster The Modem Blaster Flash 5611, the external Flash 5611 are both good hardware modems. The older modem blaster I used kept 15 computers on the internet at once for more than a year of nearly constant login. The modem blaster 56K v.90, the modem blaster 56K USB modem (yes an external) are cheap junk The 56K USB modem requires win98 (no others at all) to run. But why 56K? It usually runs at the speed of the nearest bottleneck. I have found I get about 20K performance where I live so I could be using a 28.8 modem and still have the same data rates. Actually one good reason is that it is digital in the BIG direction and may hang on the line better. NEWCOM produced the 56K IFXSP(C) whixh is a 56K X2 modem with a firmware upgrade to v.90 readily available and the package is cheap in comparison to most. Watch the surplus distributors. A Phoebe model is supposed to be very good. Perhaps someone will mention it. Having direct experience with only the modem blaster, the Hayes, and the
[expert] Lost interrupt revisited
Within the past three days, someone posted to the expert list on a lost interrupt which stopped his installation of Mandrake 7.0. I have managed to duplicate the error, at least I think so. I hope the poster will respond with his equipment configuration. OK VIA MVP4 Chipset, K6-2 standard clocking 100MHz bus and 500MHz processor--dropped to 80 and then to 75 and finally to 66 in an attempt to pass the error. Settings for UDMA/PIO/Prefetch and HDD Block mode were progressed truth-table style. None seemed to have any effect on the error. an 80-pin UDMA cable was removed. Still no effect. The drive caused an error as follows Invalid code register dump Kernel Panic Attempting to kill inactive process In swapping processes hdc: lost interrupt (That was my Creative CDRW) The drive was a seagate barracuda 7200 rpm 7.6ms nominally 10.2 G. It looked like the 6.0/6.1 problem with large UDMA Seagate Drives and MVP super7 chipsets all over again. I salvaged one of those Seagate drives by putting it as /dev/hdc and setting it to NORMAL, so I tried that. hda: lost interrupt (that was my Creative CDRW) Uh huh. Well I put a 2.5G Maxtor drive at hda instead of the CD-ROM Passed the boot point where it was failing and signal 11ed after loading second stage from CD-ROM Now I wanted the exact wording for the error so I restored the Seagate to drive /dev/hda and ran the CD boot again. Signal 11ed on second stage. I dropped the clock 5% THe thing is installing. UDMA is auto, Prefetch is on, PIO is auto, HDD Block is enabled mem is 8ns and cycle time is 2. Installing at 95Khz/475MHz processor without any trouble. I would guess it is an initial load of some NVRAM in the Seagate which is "cured" by setting it temporarily to drive C. IN the original failure position, I was able to install FreeBSD and to remove FreeBSD and install Win98 and to remove win98 and fail on VEnus and Helios with the typical large Seagate errors previously reported. None of these installs had any effect on the Seagate drive as far as its behavior toward an AIR install was concerned. We are obviously dealing with something very subtle at the edge--the bleeding edge it would seem. What is different about Seagate drives? I tried Fujitsu, Maxtor, IBM, and Quantum in the same position and none showed the problem. It seems to take three conditions 1. Large Seagate Drive (8.4G or bigger) 2. VIA MVP3 or MVP4 chipset Super7 motherboard with IDT, AMD, INtel, or Cyrix processor 3. Linux-Mandrake 6.0 6.1(6.5MacMillan) or 7.0 And it seems to be cured by functioning as /dev/hdc in an attempted install with a non-seagate /dev/hda Once the "cure" is performed, it will install. But will it boot? LIL- Using the boot floppy does bring it up. Obviously Seagate is doing something very diferent from other manufacturers. I have observed similar or worse problems on an Intel TX chipset with a Seagate large Drive where the install seemed to go perfectly well but the HDD was completely corrupt afterward. On a TX chipset board, the position of the drive mattered not a whit. It installed without error messages and was completely corrupt. On SiS super-7 chipsets on boards I have a lot of trouble making hiccup during burn-in testing, I also have trouble with Seagate large drives, though they work like champs as /dev/hdc and NORMAL. OK this system is running with the large Seagate in /dev/hda (primary boot) but it will boot only from boot disks. SO is that where you encountered the "Lost Interrupt"? Was it a Seagate Drive? If it was, what was the Chipset and Processor? And does anyone need a cheap Seagate barracuda, capable of hyperfast accesses in Windows or FreeBSD? Civileme -- experimentation involving more than 500 trials with an ordinary slice of bread and a tablespoon of peanut butter has determined that the probability a random toss will land sticky side down (SSD) is approximately .98
