Re: [expert] USB NIC?

[Mage Grimau]

>From the Linksys page on the USB100TX:
   "The 10/100 USB Network Adapter features an(sic) maximum of 12Mbps
throughput (the maximum throughput supported by USB)"

Seems rather pointless, to me. Why drag down your LAN with this device?

--- Jean-Louis Debert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "John D. Kim" wrote:
> > 
> > The kernel has some USB support, but it is very outdated.  You can
> > download a backport of usb from kernel 2.3.50 to 2.2.14.  I got myself a
> > Linksys 100TX for my iopener.  Haven't had a chance to play with it yet,
> > though...  The backport can be downloaded from...lets see if I can find
> > it...
> 
> Just a minute, please ... "100TX" seems to apply to a 100Mbit NIC, no
> ???
> 
> Isn't USB limited to 12 Mbit anyway ??? (until USB 2.0 which is not
> yet
> implemented on current motherboards AFAIK).
> 
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Re: [expert] USB NIC?

[John D. Kim]

Yes, the USB does limit the speed of the connection.  But there are many
100Mbit USB ethernet cards out there.  Probably has better compatibility
for places where they only have 100Mbit hubs or something.  Anyway, only
the Linksys 100TX is known to work.  I've heard suggestions not to use the
10Mbit version.  I got one for $40 at Frys.

John Kim
Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us as www.aslab.com

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:

> "John D. Kim" wrote:
> > 
> > The kernel has some USB support, but it is very outdated.  You can
> > download a backport of usb from kernel 2.3.50 to 2.2.14.  I got myself a
> > Linksys 100TX for my iopener.  Haven't had a chance to play with it yet,
> > though...  The backport can be downloaded from...lets see if I can find
> > it...
> 
> Just a minute, please ... "100TX" seems to apply to a 100Mbit NIC, no
> ???
> 
> Isn't USB limited to 12 Mbit anyway ??? (until USB 2.0 which is not
> yet
> implemented on current motherboards AFAIK).
> 
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Re: [expert] Overload

[Dave Brown]

It depends, I liked it, but after playing with the M15 build that came out 
the other day I think I prefer M15 to N6PR1. They are both very close to 
being "good enough" to replace 4.72 as my only browser though. YMMV 
though.the builds before N6PR1 and M15 were not very stable on my 
particular system.
  --Dave


vern typethed the following...
>Thanks for the update Dave, in your
>opinion is it worth the effort to install
>Netscape 6??  I'm not really impressed
>by the one I run now (4.7).
>Vern
>
>On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Actually, the mozilla project is not being touched by AOL, they are taking
> > the code to make Netscape 6 from it...but the code for mozilla will still
> > be available. I have been playing with the various builds of mozilla since
> > the M8 build(the m15 build came out tonight).
> > I have also tested out the Netscape 6 PR1 build.gotta hand it to them,
> > it runs FAST!!!.it's not totaly stable yetbut it's pretty close,
> > N6PR1 is more stable that M14 was.
> >   --Dave
> >
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[expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Wolfgang Bornath]

Hi,

My WIndows98 has done it again!

I'm using Mandrake 7.0.
My hd is configured like follows:

/dev/hda1  prim  vfat  /dos   1.5G (Windows98)
/dev/hda2  prim  ext2  /  1.8G (Mandrake 7.0)
/dev/hda3  prim  ext2  swap   120M
/dev/hda5  log   ext2  /home  1.5G
/dev/hda6  log   ext2  /usr   2.0G
/dev/hda7  log   ext2  /var   1.2G

Yesterday I booted into Windows to look at my bankaccount. Being
there I thought it a good idea to defrag "C:" (/dev/hda1) as I
was told to do so every now and then.
Checked the options of defrag, told the program to work on "C:"
and nowhere else, started the app and went to bed.
This morning the screen told me that defrag had done its task
without errors. I closed Windows and booted into Linux -- I
tried to boot into Linux!
The boot process (via LILO) started normal but somewhere before
entering interactive mode it hanged. The first time I had to hit
the reset button since I use Linux!
Booting with a floppy revealed that there was no /boot on
/dev/hda2.
I installed Mandrake 6.1 on the spare partition /dev/hda3 and
tried to mount /dev/hda2. No chance. It said that there was a
bad superblock on /dev/hda3.

To make it short: I had to use 'mke2fs -S' to put a new
superblock on /dev/hda2 and then I had to do a looong e2fsck on
the partition. After that I ended up with a lot of folders in
lost&found containing at least a part of my former /-partition.

What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
"C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.

Now I have restored a part of my former installation. How do I
restore the complete installation without messing up my /home,
/usr, and /var partitions?

wobo
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Re: [expert] adduser problems

[Gary Bunker]

Traditionally, Unix and Unix-like systems (VMS, Linux, BSD, etc) don't
like usernames that start with a numeral.  I don't believe that has
changed in Linux, but I may be wrong.

On 20 Apr, duncan wrote:
> I need to be able to add a user that is a number
> 
> When I try I get the following results.
> 
> [root@duncan www]# adduser 0413565739
> adduser: invalid user name `0413565739'
> 
> I have only tried this on cooker and 7.0 and dont know if this is
> something new or not.

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Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

[Brian T. Schellenberger]

You must have something very odd in your ~/.xinitrc.

Could you paste it for the group?

As are you _sure_ it's brings up kdm and not KDE?

You don't have a digital camera so could take a picture, do you?


Ken Archer wrote:
> 
> That only takes you directly to a console login.  When you use startx from the
> console it takes you right back to kdm's login screen.  I'm trying cut out that
> step.
> 
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Mike Corbeil wrote:
> > edit the file
> >
> > /etc/inittab
> >
> > change the line that says
> >
> > id:5:initdefault
> >
> > to
> >
> > id:3:initdefault
> >
> > that should do it.
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Re: [expert] telnet and X

[Matt Stegman]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Valjean wrote:
> I have installed the telnet server package from the second cd with the
> rpm -ivh packagename.rpm and the telnet line is uncommented in my
> /etc/inetd.conf...so why can't I telnet to my machine? 

I'll presume you restarted inetd after installing telnet, and that didn't
work.  Do other network functions work?  You're sure you're connected?

Second, if you've installed 7.0, might you have chosen a higher security
level?  It's possible Mandrakesoft decided that at a "high" security
level, telnet should be disallowed.  Or, you might have hosts.allow and
hosts.deny setup such that the machine you're at is not allowed access.

> And how do I switch the default windows manager that comes up when I use
> the startx command?  I am using Gnome..but I'd like Window Maker.

You can use "desktopcfg" to change your desktop environment.

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Re: [expert] 7.0-2 on a 6X86 MX (dual boot NT)

[Bug Hunter]

  Get your NT installation cd.  If it is NT 4, on another machine create
the three boot floppies for NT.  Then boot from those floppies, with NT in
the cdrom drive. It will ask you if you want to repair a previous NT
installation.  That is what you want to do.

  i've never done this.  Good luck.

wade



On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Joseph S Gardner wrote:

> Ok, after banging head on keyboard I've decided to ask for help.
> 
> I tried installing 7.0-2 on a 6x85 MX 200 that already had NT on it. 
> I added a 3rd HD and dedicated it entirely to linux leaving the first
> 2 alone (silly me) hoping to dual boot.
> 
> Well all was going well until I went to configure X and when I
> selected my monitor (Magnvox 17"  with a Diamond Stealth ll S200) it
> dumped bytes all over my lap forcing me to use the big red help
> switch.  The boot floppy that was created has some type of error on
> it and it won't complete the boot and somehow or another the MBR on
> the NT disk's are amuck now and I can't even reboot into that.
> 
> I need to get the MBR back on the NT disks and at this point my brain
> is fried and don't know where to look.  Any pointers?
> 
> If memory serves my I need to run fdisk MBR but am unsure if this
> works with NT (with NTFS) and don't want to screw things up any
> further than I already have.
> 
> 

Re: [expert] Overload

[Ron Johnson]

Dave Brown wrote:
> 
> It depends, I liked it, but after playing with the M15 build that came out
> the other day I think I prefer M15 to N6PR1. They are both very close to
> being "good enough" to replace 4.72 as my only browser though. YMMV
> though.the builds before N6PR1 and M15 were not very stable on my
> particular system.

I heard that M15 and N6pr1 are "the same thing", i.e. that
Mozilla.org just added all the extra bells and whistles on
to M14 to make M15.

What do you say?

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Re: [expert] Booting problem-----more

[Brian T. Schellenberger]

Ok, somehow in playing with your zip drive you goobered your /etc/fstab.

FIRST, ls /etc/*fstab* and see if there are any good backup copies of
the fstab file; if you find one, rename ("mv") it to /etc/fstab, reboot,
and you should be in business.

 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - -

If not, you'll have to re-create your fstab by hand.  To do this you'll
have to know what partitions you laid out for what; to start with, use
the fdisk command to see what partitions you have.  This is pretty
self-explanatory, but you are stuck try this:

echo p | fdisk /dev/hda

Then you have to set up a proper fstab.  As an example of a reasonably
complex fstab, here is mine.  Yours is certain to be simpler than this,
and most people mount devices to the /mnt directory rather than to
single-letter directories at the root.  But between looking at your
fdisk output, the "fstab" man page, and this example file, you ought to
be able to get your system working again without too much trouble.

/dev/hda1 /C vfat noauto,user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext2 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda4 /vm ext2 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda5 /home ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda6 /usr ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda8 /bts ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda9 /tmp ext2 noatime 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/floppy /A  auto noauto,user0 0
/dev/cdrom  /E  auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/loop0 /F iso9660 noauto,user 0 0
bbsrv01.unx.[CENSORED].com:/afs /afs  nfs noauto,rw,user 0 0

 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - -

Of course, *next* time you are trying to set up your zip drive try
making a safe copy of fstab first!


Good luck.


J D wrote:
> 
> okay, i figured out what is wrong.  my hard drive has all of a sudden become
> read only.  i didn't think this was possible, but here i am.
> what i don't understand is how it got that way, and how to fix it.  any help
> would be great.
> 
> also, i have looked in my fstab file.  for some reason, only stuff for the
> zip drive is there.  now, considering i don't know very much, i think that
> that is a major problem.
> 
> >From: Mike Corbeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [expert] Booting problem-more
> >Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:22:47 -0400
> >
> >J D wrote:
> >
> > > i got into linuxconf.  when i got to access local volumes, all it has
> >is:
> > >
> > > /dev/zip for source, /mnt/zip for mount point, vfat for FsType.
> > > it says it three times.  there is nothing else.  could this be the
> >source of
> > > my problems?  i think i know what's going on, but since i'm new to this,
> >i
> > > don't want to get ahead of myself.
> >
> >Understandable.
> >
> >Add the dos drive or partitions, if that's what you want to do; however,
> >you
> >need to know what the /dev/{filename} is.  You can find that out with
> >fdisk.
> >If your dos partition is on the first hdd, then run fdisk without any
> >arguments; if on the second hdd, then run with /dev/hdb for an argument.
> >The
> >screen you need to use is Config | Boot, instead of Config | Filesystems.
> >
> >mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On the other hand, that's for adding filesystem fstab mounts, whereas I
> >believe
> >what you're trying to do is to configure lilo for a boot manager.
> >
> >In this case, you need to provide the following information:
> >
> >- the contents of your lilo.conf file, and
> >
> >- what hdd your dos boot partition is on, hda or hdb.
> >
> >Also, look using either fdisk, or looking at your fstab file, to see which
> >/dev/hd[ab]{n} device file your dos boot partition is mapped to.  If it's
> >at
> >the beginning of hda, then it's probably /dev/hda1, and in this case, if
> >you
> >want to place lilo boot manager in the MBR (master boot record), then you
> >need
> >to make sure that the first line of your lilo.conf file (in the /etc
> >directory)
> >is
> >
> > boot = /dev/ hda
> >
> >You can configure lilo using linuxconf, but you described the wrong screen,
> >above.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Xdm (generic), kdm (KDE) and gdm (gnome) all provide another level of security,
> but my original question was about doing away with any of the login managers. 
> Once you have setup Mandrake to launch X and go directly to a gui, the default
> is to bring up Kdm.  Now I would rather go directly to a consol screen and
> then, using "startx" go directly to my window manager of choice as set up in
> ~/.xinitrc.  What I can't find is the file to edit to take kdm out of the
> process.
>
You shouldn't have ANY *dm when you boot to console and
then run startx. IF you want to boot to console first and
THAT'S the problem, you need to edit your /etc/inittab and
change the default runlevel. Your /etc/inittab PROBABLY has
the following line:
 
id:5:initdefault:

Change the ABOVE from 5 to 3 as follows:

#
# inittab   This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#   the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:   Miquel van Smoorenburg, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#   Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Things to run in every runlevel.
ud::once:/sbin/update

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.  
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

[expert] Setting Up Sendmail

[Wizaerd]

Ok, I need some information, but you'll need some background information...
I have a linux box at home hooked up to the internet with DHCP through US
West VDSL.  The IP has never actually changed, but it could at any time
because of the DHCP.  I have a Windows 98 box connected via a second NIC
card to the Linux machine, which uses the Linux box as a
gateway/router/firewall to the internet.  So because of the DHCP connection,
I don't have DNS running and I don't use Sendmail.

On the Linux box, I have Apache 1.3.12 installed and am in the process of
learning PHP.  However, one of the things I want to do is convert my
ColdFusion discussion forum over to PHP, but was hoping I could send myself
email notifications during the testing period (so when I do copy this app to
a real server it would work as expected...)...

Is there someway to use sendmail and the mailing options of PHP without
using DNS and having a static IP?  Or better yet is there a way to use
sendmail and DNS without having a static IP?

Thanx!

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Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote:

> However, if there's an enhanced security advantage using kdm or gdm or
> xdm boot mode, then I would definitely switch.  Otherwise, am in no
> hurry to do so.
> 
> Is there such an advantage booting with these as the boot mode?
> 
AFAIK, there is no security advantage. It's just that
most of the off-line mail readers are in the GUI mode, and
there are other tools that are more easily available in GUI
mode. :-)
John

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> That only takes you directly to a console login.  When you use startx from the
> console it takes you right back to kdm's login screen.  I'm trying cut out that
> step.
> 
Hmm...never done that to me you've got a strange
system! Did you select "high security" when you installed?
If so, that may be the problem.
John

Re: [expert] telnet and X

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> 
> I'm having a similar problem.  I can connect to the box but then the error
> "connection closed by foreign host" . ftp conections work fine and Apache
> is fine.
> 
Pat:
Did you manually install the telnet-server package? If not,
do so now. Then, make sure telnetd is started by default.
HOWEVER, it is HIGHLY recommended that you use SSH or
something similar instead of Telnet. Telnet can be sniffed.
SSH cannot. SSH is *secure,* Telnet is NOT!!!
John

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My WIndows98 has done it again!
> 
> 
> Yesterday I booted into Windows to look at my bankaccount. Being
> there I thought it a good idea to defrag "C:" (/dev/hda1) as I
> was told to do so every now and then.
> Checked the options of defrag, told the program to work on "C:"
> and nowhere else, started the app and went to bed.
> This morning the screen told me that defrag had done its task
> without errors. I closed Windows and booted into Linux -- I
> tried to boot into Linux!
> The boot process (via LILO) started normal but somewhere before
> entering interactive mode it hanged. The first time I had to hit
> the reset button since I use Linux!
> Booting with a floppy revealed that there was no /boot on
> /dev/hda2.
[snip]
> What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
> primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
> "C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
> 
I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm).  This
makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
Linux do the partitioning.
John

RE: [expert] telnet and X

[Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS]

Have you removed the # from the /etc/services file ?

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-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] telnet and X


On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> 
> I'm having a similar problem.  I can connect to the box but then the error
> "connection closed by foreign host" . ftp conections work fine and Apache
> is fine.
> 
Pat:
Did you manually install the telnet-server package? If not,
do so now. Then, make sure telnetd is started by default.
HOWEVER, it is HIGHLY recommended that you use SSH or
something similar instead of Telnet. Telnet can be sniffed.
SSH cannot. SSH is *secure,* Telnet is NOT!!!
John

Re: [expert] adduser problems

[Matt Stegman]

I don't know why adduser doesn't like numbers for names.  I get the same
thing on RedHat 6.0.  I do know that you can do everything by hand.

First, make the appropriate entries in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and
/etc/group.  You ought to be able to copy lines from existing user
entries, and make the few changes necessary.  If you don't know what the
fields in these files do, read the man pages: passwd(5), group(5), and
shadow(5).

In /etc/shadow, don't worry about copying the password hash.  Just leave
the field blank, and after you finish, run passwd to set the password.

Once that's done, you need to create the skeleton home directory.

# cp -a /etc/skel ~username/

and chown it, too.

# chown -R username:groupname ~username

This ought to do everything adduser does.  After setting the password, try
logging in as the user.

-Matt Stegman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, duncan wrote:

> I need to be able to add a user that is a number
> 
> When I try I get the following results.
> 
> [root@duncan www]# adduser 0413565739
> adduser: invalid user name `0413565739'
> 
> I have only tried this on cooker and 7.0 and dont know if this is
> something new or not.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Dunc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- //- Duncan Hall - SysAdmin Viator Systems +61 2 9211 2336 -//--
> 
> 

Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail

[Bug Hunter]

  Yes.  However, with the preponderance of UCE (Unsolicited Commercial
Email, also known as SPAM), you will have problems.  The majority of
systems you try to deliver to will reject your mail because your domain
name is bogus and does not match up with your ip address.

  Sendmail will just work.  So will PHP3.  You can test with your loopback
address of 127.0.0.1 without a problem.


On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Wizaerd wrote:

> Ok, I need some information, but you'll need some background information...
> I have a linux box at home hooked up to the internet with DHCP through US
> West VDSL.  The IP has never actually changed, but it could at any time
> because of the DHCP.  I have a Windows 98 box connected via a second NIC
> card to the Linux machine, which uses the Linux box as a
> gateway/router/firewall to the internet.  So because of the DHCP connection,
> I don't have DNS running and I don't use Sendmail.
> 
> On the Linux box, I have Apache 1.3.12 installed and am in the process of
> learning PHP.  However, one of the things I want to do is convert my
> ColdFusion discussion forum over to PHP, but was hoping I could send myself
> email notifications during the testing period (so when I do copy this app to
> a real server it would work as expected...)...
> 
> Is there someway to use sendmail and the mailing options of PHP without
> using DNS and having a static IP?  Or better yet is there a way to use
> sendmail and DNS without having a static IP?
> 

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[D. R. Evans]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

On 20 Apr 00, at 14:33, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:


> What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
> primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
> "C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
> 

Wow! I really appreciate this posting. 

Normally I defrag my Windows junk every couple of months. Having just put 
Linux on my brand new Win98 box, I hadn't given a moment's thought to 
changing this practice, and fully expected to do a defrag sometime in the 
next month or so. Now I won't!

This seems so fundamental that I'm surprised I haven't seen words to this 
effect somewhere else. Or maybe you were just very, very (un)lucky.

  Doc Evans


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Re: [expert] 7.0-2 on a 6X86 MX (dual boot NT)

[Joseph S. Gardner]

Bug Hunter wrote:

>   Get your NT installation cd.  If it is NT 4, on another machine create
> the three boot floppies for NT.  Then boot from those floppies, with NT in
> the cdrom drive. It will ask you if you want to repair a previous NT
> installation.  That is what you want to do.
>
>   i've never done this.  Good luck.
>
> wade
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Joseph S Gardner wrote:
>
> > Ok, after banging head on keyboard I've decided to ask for help.
> >
> > I tried installing 7.0-2 on a 6x85 MX 200 that already had NT on it.
> > I added a 3rd HD and dedicated it entirely to linux leaving the first
> > 2 alone (silly me) hoping to dual boot.
> >
> > Well all was going well until I went to configure X and when I
> > selected my monitor (Magnvox 17"  with a Diamond Stealth ll S200) it
> > dumped bytes all over my lap forcing me to use the big red help
> > switch.  The boot floppy that was created has some type of error on
> > it and it won't complete the boot and somehow or another the MBR on
> > the NT disk's are amuck now and I can't even reboot into that.
> >
> > I need to get the MBR back on the NT disks and at this point my brain
> > is fried and don't know where to look.  Any pointers?
> >
> > If memory serves my I need to run fdisk MBR but am unsure if this
> > works with NT (with NTFS) and don't want to screw things up any
> > further than I already have.
> >
> >

Thanks,

I fingered it out.  I found an old dos disk ( thank G_d for being a pack rat )
ran "fdisk /mbr" and all was well.  BTW this was NTFS disk/partition - go
figure.


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Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail

[Nick Kay]

At 07:29 20/04/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Ok, I need some information, but you'll need some background information...
>I have a linux box at home hooked up to the internet with DHCP through US
>West VDSL.  The IP has never actually changed, but it could at any time
>because of the DHCP.  I have a Windows 98 box connected via a second NIC
>card to the Linux machine, which uses the Linux box as a
>gateway/router/firewall to the internet.  So because of the DHCP connection,
>I don't have DNS running and I don't use Sendmail.
>
>On the Linux box, I have Apache 1.3.12 installed and am in the process of
>learning PHP.  However, one of the things I want to do is convert my
>ColdFusion discussion forum over to PHP, but was hoping I could send myself
>email notifications during the testing period (so when I do copy this app to
>a real server it would work as expected...)...
>
>Is there someway to use sendmail and the mailing options of PHP without
>using DNS and having a static IP?  Or better yet is there a way to use
>sendmail and DNS without having a static IP?
>

If you only need to send mail to the Windows box for testing then
you do have a static IP address - its the one on the internal network.

hih
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>Thanx!
>
>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
>Zanova, Inc.
>http://www.ZanovaInc.com
>Moving your business forward...
>
>
>
>

Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail

[Daniel Woods]

Joseph,

> Ok, I need some information, but you'll need some background information...
> I have a linux box at home hooked up to the internet with DHCP through US
> West VDSL.  The IP has never actually changed, but it could at any time
> because of the DHCP.  I have a Windows 98 box connected via a second NIC
> card to the Linux machine, which uses the Linux box as a
> gateway/router/firewall to the internet.  So because of the DHCP connection,
> I don't have DNS running and I don't use Sendmail.
> 
> On the Linux box, I have Apache 1.3.12 installed and am in the process of
> learning PHP.  However, one of the things I want to do is convert my
> ColdFusion discussion forum over to PHP, but was hoping I could send myself
> email notifications during the testing period (so when I do copy this app to
> a real server it would work as expected...)...
> 
> Is there someway to use sendmail and the mailing options of PHP without
> using DNS and having a static IP?  Or better yet is there a way to use
> sendmail and DNS without having a static IP?
> 
> Thanx!
> Joseph (Joe) Sheble
> a.k.a. Wizaerd

Since the DHCP generated number only changes a few times a year (YMMV),
you could simply notice when this happens and change your setup to
reflect the new IP.  A friend has setup two DNS machines at his home
by purchasing an extra dynamic IP from the cable service.

   Comp B |   |-|   |-|
  |h| Comp A ---|h|- cable modem
  |u|   |u|
   Comp C |b| Comp D ---|b|
  |-|   |-|
 (private side)

He has a DNS server on Comp A and Comp D.  When he notices that the
ISP DHCP returns different IP numbers (usually on different subnets),
then he manually changes his DNS setup.

At least that's how I understand this is supposed to work. :)

Thanks... Dan.

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Lyndon Lininger Sr.]

I've never had a problem on a dual boot system with defraging the windows
partitions. You must have been very unlucky or your hard drive got flaky.

Lyndon Lininger Sr.

- Original Message -
From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux


> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> On 20 Apr 00, at 14:33, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
>
> > What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
> > primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
> > "C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
> >
>
> Wow! I really appreciate this posting.
>
> Normally I defrag my Windows junk every couple of months. Having just put
> Linux on my brand new Win98 box, I hadn't given a moment's thought to
> changing this practice, and fully expected to do a defrag sometime in the
> next month or so. Now I won't!
>
> This seems so fundamental that I'm surprised I haven't seen words to this
> effect somewhere else. Or maybe you were just very, very (un)lucky.
>
>   Doc Evans
>
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>
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Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Daniel Woods]

> I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
> partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm).  This
> makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
> leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
> Linux do the partitioning.
>   John

Is is ok if you let Partition Magic 4/5 do it ?

Thanks... Dan.

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:25 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
 
> I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
> partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm).  This
> makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
> leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
> Linux do the partitioning.
>   John

Good advice, John, but I knew that one before. I always do only
the "C:" partition with M$-fdisk. Every other partition is
created by Linux.
Next point: As you may see it was not the extended partition
which got "mugged", it was the second primary partition. That is
a sure sign that I did not set it up with M$-fdisk!

wobo
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Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> 
> Wow! I really appreciate this posting. 
> 
> Normally I defrag my Windows junk every couple of months. Having just put 
> Linux on my brand new Win98 box, I hadn't given a moment's thought to 
> changing this practice, and fully expected to do a defrag sometime in the 
> next month or so. Now I won't!
> 
> This seems so fundamental that I'm surprised I haven't seen words to this 
> effect somewhere else. Or maybe you were just very, very (un)lucky.
> 
Doc (et al):
As long as you don't make Windows aware of the Linux
partition, (by using M$ Fdisk to create the "extended"
partition that Linux lives in) you shouldn't have a
problem. However, if you DID use Windows FDISK, I would be
EXTREMELY careful about using Defrag!
John

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
> > partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm).  This
> > makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
> > leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
> > Linux do the partitioning.
> > John
> 
> Is is ok if you let Partition Magic 4/5 do it ?
> 
MAYBE. I'd still suggest using Linux to partition it,
either using Linux FDISK or the nifty little util they have
at install. What I would use PM for would be to create a
blank area after Windows, which you can use Fdisk from
Linux to partition. That way, Windows knows NOTHING about
that partition and can't touch it! :-)
John

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Brook humphrey]

The best one is ranish partition manager from dos. Just do a search for
ranish.

John Aldrich wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > > I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
> > > partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm).  This
> > > makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
> > > leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
> > > Linux do the partitioning.
> > > John
> >
> > Is is ok if you let Partition Magic 4/5 do it ?
> >
> MAYBE. I'd still suggest using Linux to partition it,
> either using Linux FDISK or the nifty little util they have
> at install. What I would use PM for would be to create a
> blank area after Windows, which you can use Fdisk from
> Linux to partition. That way, Windows knows NOTHING about
> that partition and can't touch it! :-)
> John

RE: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS]

I have had problems with Win defrag on my dual boot system. 98 does something to my 
secondary drive. That drive is partitioned 2Gig for Win and 4Gig for linux. This drive 
was partitioned with linux fdisk. I had to turn off defragging my second drive 
altogether. I use loadlin and since have had no probs with defragging since this is 
not my boot drive for win.

Brian D. Klar - CVE
OTS
WPAFB
(937)257-5773
937-973-3125 (Pager)


-Original Message-
From: Lyndon Lininger Sr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux


I've never had a problem on a dual boot system with defraging the windows
partitions. You must have been very unlucky or your hard drive got flaky.

Lyndon Lininger Sr.

- Original Message -
From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux


> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> On 20 Apr 00, at 14:33, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
>
> > What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
> > primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
> > "C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
> >
>
> Wow! I really appreciate this posting.
>
> Normally I defrag my Windows junk every couple of months. Having just put
> Linux on my brand new Win98 box, I hadn't given a moment's thought to
> changing this practice, and fully expected to do a defrag sometime in the
> next month or so. Now I won't!
>
> This seems so fundamental that I'm surprised I haven't seen words to this
> effect somewhere else. Or maybe you were just very, very (un)lucky.
>
>   Doc Evans
>
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>
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Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Brian T. Schellenberger]

It's also possible that the partitions overlap.

Mandrake 7.0 will make such things.  Run fdisk and see if that might
happen. You wouldn't notice a problem until Windows tried to write to
the end of the partition, such as when you ran a defrag program.

If this is it, you'll have to blame Mandrake rather than Microsoft, I'm
afraid.

John Aldrich wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My WIndows98 has done it again!
> >
> >
> > Yesterday I booted into Windows to look at my bankaccount. Being
> > there I thought it a good idea to defrag "C:" (/dev/hda1) as I
> > was told to do so every now and then.
> > Checked the options of defrag, told the program to work on "C:"
> > and nowhere else, started the app and went to bed.
> > This morning the screen told me that defrag had done its task
> > without errors. I closed Windows and booted into Linux -- I
> > tried to boot into Linux!
> > The boot process (via LILO) started normal but somewhere before
> > entering interactive mode it hanged. The first time I had to hit
> > the reset button since I use Linux!
> > Booting with a floppy revealed that there was no /boot on
> > /dev/hda2.
> [snip]
> > What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
> > primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
> > "C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
> >
> I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
> partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm).  This
> makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
> leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
> Linux do the partitioning.
> John

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Re: [expert] adduser problems

[Gary Bunker]

The reason Unix systems don't like numbers for names is because the
name is just an alias for a number that Unix assigns internally.  Take
a look at the /etc/passwd file for example.  Here's an example line
from my box:

nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:
This means that the user "nobody" is actually UserID 99, with GroupID
99, realname is Nobody and home directory is /

So, there is a good reason that Unix hates usernames that are numbers. 
I don't know if manually creating one will do anything funky, but I'd
bet it won't work perfectly for some reason.

On 20 Apr, Matt Stegman wrote:
> I don't know why adduser doesn't like numbers for names.  I get the same
> thing on RedHat 6.0.  I do know that you can do everything by hand.

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Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Pj]

Luckily, this has not been my experience. I partitioned Win and Linux
using Partition Magic 5.0. LILO is not in my MBR; Winblows does not know
Linux exists; defrag works correctly; and Win files are on my KDE
desktop. 

Pj

Lyndon Lininger Sr. wrote:
> 
> I've never had a problem on a dual boot system with defraging the windows
> partitions. You must have been very unlucky or your hard drive got flaky.
> 
> Lyndon Lininger Sr.
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux
> 
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> >
> > On 20 Apr 00, at 14:33, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> >
> >
> > > What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
> > > primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
> > > "C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
> > >
> >
> > Wow! I really appreciate this posting.
> >
> > Normally I defrag my Windows junk every couple of months. Having just put
> > Linux on my brand new Win98 box, I hadn't given a moment's thought to
> > changing this practice, and fully expected to do a defrag sometime in the
> > next month or so. Now I won't!
> >
> > This seems so fundamental that I'm surprised I haven't seen words to this
> > effect somewhere else. Or maybe you were just very, very (un)lucky.
> >
> >   Doc Evans
> >
> >
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> > D.R. Evans N7DR / G4AMJ  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail

[Gary Bunker]

I use Sendmail on a similar system as he mentioned, and I have to force
some mail to be routed via my ISP's SMTP server, for exactly that
reason.  So far, I've had to create "Domain Routing" rules for AOL,
Compuserve, Earthlink and Adobe (whatever), as well as a local ISP in
Minnesota.  Oddly, I can email to Microsoft and other large companies
without a problem.  But, it's still a pain at times.  I just use it
because it's the Unix-y thing to do.  :-)  Well, and I'm trying to
continue my education in SysAd stuff.

On 20 Apr, Bug Hunter wrote:
> 
>   Yes.  However, with the preponderance of UCE (Unsolicited Commercial
> Email, also known as SPAM), you will have problems.  The majority of
> systems you try to deliver to will reject your mail because your domain
> name is bogus and does not match up with your ip address.

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Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> 
> Good advice, John, but I knew that one before. I always do only
> the "C:" partition with M$-fdisk. Every other partition is
> created by Linux.
> Next point: As you may see it was not the extended partition
> which got "mugged", it was the second primary partition. That is
> a sure sign that I did not set it up with M$-fdisk!
> 
Actually, IIRC, you *can* use DOS FDISK, but it won't LIKE
doing it. :-)
John

Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail

[Christopher Quale]

One other possibility: you should have SMTP service provided
by your ISP.  You can set up sendmail to use your ISP's mail
delivery service. One tool that may be helpful in setting it
all up is a utility called install-sendmail.  Go to
http://freshmeat.net and do a search for "install-sendmail".
Check the homepage to get the version that matches your
version of sendmail.  I believe that you also need procmail
and fetchmail as well as the sendmail-cf and m4 packages
installed. Here's what I have:

sendmail-cf-8.9.3-9mdk
sendmail-8.9.3-9mdk
m4-1.4-13mdk
procmail-3.13.1-3mdk
fetchmail-5.0.3-2mdk

The install-sendmail script asks you questions (at the command
line) about how you want to set up your mail server, then
generates the necessary config files for you. It has worked
beautifully for me, as I am certainly no sendmail guru. One
good way to test it is to install the mailx package and
from the command line on the mailserver you can use the "mail"
command to test out sendmail.

Chris


Wizaerd wrote:
> 
> Ok, I need some information, but you'll need some background information...
> I have a linux box at home hooked up to the internet with DHCP through US
> West VDSL.  The IP has never actually changed, but it could at any time
> because of the DHCP.  I have a Windows 98 box connected via a second NIC
> card to the Linux machine, which uses the Linux box as a
> gateway/router/firewall to the internet.  So because of the DHCP connection,
> I don't have DNS running and I don't use Sendmail.
> 
> On the Linux box, I have Apache 1.3.12 installed and am in the process of
> learning PHP.  However, one of the things I want to do is convert my
> ColdFusion discussion forum over to PHP, but was hoping I could send myself
> email notifications during the testing period (so when I do copy this app to
> a real server it would work as expected...)...
> 
> Is there someway to use sendmail and the mailing options of PHP without
> using DNS and having a static IP?  Or better yet is there a way to use
> sendmail and DNS without having a static IP?
> 
> Thanx!
> 
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> 
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Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail

[Deim Ágoston]

On 20 Apr 00, at 7:29, Wizaerd wrote:
> Is there someway to use sendmail and the mailing options of PHP without
> using DNS and having a static IP?  Or better yet is there a way to use
> sendmail and DNS without having a static IP?
Yes. Just use the masquarading options what sendmail offers. 
Masq your envelope and header.
Bye,
Ago
ps.: there's a very good HOWTO about sendmail and different 
environments at RedHat's page under howtos

"If you love somebody set them free..."
Sting is GPL fan :-))
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Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Pj]

I've had some minor problems running defrag on three drives, before
Linux. Two drives were W98 and one W95. When I selected defrag "all
drives", I noticed a lot of thrashing on the W95 drive. From that point
on I selected each drive to defrag individually, and eliminated that
problem. I added Linux at the bottom of the drive outside of the 1024
range. As it wasn't recognized, Window didn't try to defrag it. I've
probably been blessed with newbie dumb luck. 

Pj

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[D. R. Evans]

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On 20 Apr 00, at 13:50, John Aldrich wrote:

>
> > Is is ok if you let Partition Magic 4/5 do it ?
> > 
> MAYBE. I'd still suggest using Linux to partition it,

I used PM 5.0, and I'm not going to risk defragging. Theoretically, it 
_should_ be OK, but PM was running under Windows (of course) and I don't 
trust Gates' wonderfully invasive system enough to be certain that it 
doesn't think, at least at some low level, that it still owns the whole 
drive.

  Doc


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[expert] Advice on a cheap serial card

[Caruso, Anthony J.]

Hi all,

I have a Dell that I really like -- only has just one serial port.  I found
a nice 2 serial port PCI card from Boca for $35 retail - but it only works
with 95/98/NT.  Boca said Linix [sic] is not supported.

1.  Anyone know if it will work with Linux?
2.  If !1 - anyone know of another brand that will.

I am not looking for anything fancy.  Just need to plug my Palm, UPS, &
Modem into the serial ports.

Thanks.

-Tony

Re: [expert] Network card causes modem to disappear

[D. R. Evans]

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On 19 Apr 00, at 7:59, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:

> "D. R. Evans" wrote:
> > So I'm wondering, is there any way to get a device-by-device listing of
> > what's occupying the various IRQs? (One hypothesis being that something
> > else was sitting on IRQ 5 and moved to IRQ 10 when the network card
> > appeared and occupied IRQ 5. I know that the PCI bus is not supposed to
> > allow two devices to occupy the same IRQ, but I'm grasping at straws.)
> 
> 
> You have that under /proc 
> 

Here is what I see in /proc/interrupts
   CPU0   
  0: 152398  XT-PIC  timer
  1:493  XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
  3:  0  XT-PIC  es1371
  8:  1  XT-PIC  rtc
 12:  11288  XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 13:  1  XT-PIC  fpu
 14: 100956  XT-PIC  ide0
 15:251  XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:  0

Interestingly, no IRQ 10 (for the modem) or IRQ 5 (for the network card).

I imagine, though, that these are the interrupts that have actually 
occurred since booting. I hadn't brought up the network card, so no IRQ 5; 
and since I can't get to the modem I suppose I shouldn't be surprised 
(should I?) that IRQ 10 doesn't appear.

FWIW, here is /proc/ioports:
-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
d000-d007 : ide0
d008-d00f : ide1
d800-d83f : es1371
dc00-dc1f : eth0
ec00-ec07 : serial(set)

The last entry comes from this in my rc.local file:

# DRE
setserial -v /dev/ttyS4 port 0xec00 uart 16550A irq 10 ^fourport

- -

What is the name of the serial driver? When I look at the loaded modules I 
see:
ne2k-pci4256   0 (autoclean) (unused)
83906020   0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
lockd  33256   1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 56612   1 (autoclean) [lockd]
nls_iso8859-1   2052   2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437   3580   2 (autoclean)
vfat   11004   2 (autoclean)
fat32640   2 (autoclean) [vfat]
ide-scsi7584   1
supermount 14880   3 (autoclean)
es1371 26308   0
soundcore   3524   4 [es1371]

(this was after bringing up the eth0 interface, which is why it's listed).

I expected to see something I could identify as a serial driver, but it's 
not obvious.

One other thing that probably doesn't mean anything, at boot time I see a 
message that sits on my screen for about 1 millisecond, so I can't read it, 
but it contains the string "ttyS4". Looking in the log in dmesg or 
/var/tmp/messages doesn't help, because that particular message doesn't 
appear; maybe there's some other place I could look so I can get a chance 
to read the message? I don't think it's an error message, but it would be 
nice to be sure.

> Note that PCI bus _IS_ supposed to allow to devices to occupy 
> the same IRQ (there is arbitration _if needed_, i.e. if either
> of the devices indicates that it _CAN'T_ share a resource, 
> which would probably be the case for either modem or ethernet,
> because of timing considerations).
> 

I'd forgotten that, but of course you're right. (It's been a couple of 
years since I last looked at the PCI specs.)

> Besides, did you consider that it might _NOT_ be the IRQ,
> but also a possible I/O (including memory mapped I/O) port
> or address, that could cause the conflict, and/or confuse
> the driver because the wrong device would answer ?

Yes. But the ioports look OK as well, per the list above.

  Doc Evans


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Re: [expert] adduser problems

[D. R. Evans]

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On 20 Apr 00, at 14:08, Gary Bunker wrote:

> So, there is a good reason that Unix hates usernames that are numbers. I
> don't know if manually creating one will do anything funky, but I'd bet it
> won't work perfectly for some reason.
> 

I suspect it _will_ work, but I'll be interested to hear the result of the 
experiment either way.

I can't imagine that there'll be any problem creating the user, but, as 
Gary suggests, the test will come when the user logs in and tries to do 
some real work.

Incidentally, my user name is "N7DR" (that's right, with uppercase 
characters). It's interesting to observe how, even though I can log in with 
that username (which is more than can be said for some Unices I've used), I 
sometimes have to switch to lowercase while I'm working in order to do some 
things.

  Doc Evans


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[expert] OT: need URL

[Pj]

Does anyone know the URL for the Linux Driver's Petition site?

Thanks,

Pj

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Wayne Petherick]

I have linux installed on the primary partition of my HD, with windows
installed on the second.  The disk was originally split using dos fdisk, though
the first partition was formatted using diskdrake.  I want to run a Nortons
utils speed disk on my C drive, but now I am not so sure!!!  Will nortons
effect it or is it only wind'ohs defrag that will f&*k it up?

Wayne

[expert] X Crashed - Please Help

[Sevatio Octavio]

My X Server crashed and I'm without a solution.

It says:

_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =111
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

Where would I start from here?  Is this a known issue with Mandrake 7.0-2?

Seve

[expert] os by default

[Patrick]

hi,
i have linux mandrake 5.3 and windows in my machine .I want to know how
configure lilo for that windows is the os by default.Thank you for your help

 
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Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Linda Walsh]

John Aldrich wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > > I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
> > > partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm).  This
> > > makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
> > > leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
> > > Linux do the partitioning.
> > > John
> >
> > Is is ok if you let Partition Magic 4/5 do it ?
> >
---
I started with a windows machine (22.5G laptop) from Dell (before they
offered their stripped down linux versions).  I used partition magic to shrink
the dos size down to about 45% and used it to create:
Primary 2 - 256Mb /boot
Primary 3 - 256Mb swap
Primary 4 - extended
ext 1 - 512M /tmp
ext 2 - 1024M /var
ext 3 - 4.7G /
ext 4 - the rest - /home
---
I've never had a problem with defrag'ing (W98R2) walking out of primary 1.
I just recently used PM5 to further shrink down the windows to about 5.6G
since I got VMware I can use disk space in the linux partitions for DOS if needed.
/home is about 10G now.  PM5 resized Dos down, moved all the partitions down and
then expanded home -- no problem.

I also recently got Norton Util's 2000 and it's disk defragmenter causes
no problems either.

So now my *usual* setup is Windows in a VMware box (either suspended or just
closed) set for 128M for Windows (Internal to Windows it has its own 256M swap) and
Linux up full time.  Have a few hiccups now and then, but nothing serious.  I have
my windows partition setup to boot into VMWare or on the real hardware (in case
I want something like DVD play or I'm dealing with some VMWare incompatibility).
I just have to reload the diaplay driver each time in windows -- got that down to
an art though (for some reason hardware profiles does do it's job for the display
driver -- munges my icons each time, since going to either first time boots
to 640x480 (down from normal 1280x1024).  However, usually, I just use VMware --
occasionally I have my screen split -- windows on one side, Linux on the other to
copy /paste some text or do a linux task in the middle of a windows task -- but 
often the VMware box is minimized -- then I just CTR-ALT-F8 to flip to Windows,
or CTL-ALT-F7 for Linux.  I store most of my files on the Linux part now -- I
just export my home as a Samba share and Windows treats it like a fairly fast
network drive.  I run my Windows disk partitioning in background while I work
in my Linux part -- that way I don't have to worry about the defrag restarting all
the time due to disk writes -- since from the Windows machine perspective, nobody
is accessing 'its' disk. 

It's all tres sweet.  Also, as added protection, VMware can be configured to
prohibit access to any other partitions to the guest-OS.  I find that read access
of the header partition (0) is needed by Norton for it to do it's checks.  But
it doesn't try to do any writes.

Fairly happy camper.  ...

-linda

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Re: [expert] Advice on a cheap serial card

[Cokey de Percin]

"Caruso, Anthony J." wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Dell that I really like -- only has just one serial port.  I found
> a nice 2 serial port PCI card from Boca for $35 retail - but it only works
> with 95/98/NT.  Boca said Linix [sic] is not supported.
> 
> 1.  Anyone know if it will work with Linux?
> 2.  If !1 - anyone know of another brand that will.
> 
> I am not looking for anything fancy.  Just need to plug my Palm, UPS, &
> Modem into the serial ports.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Tony

I've been using a byterunner (www.byterunner.com). They have inexpensive 
ISA and PCI serial, parallel & combo cards.  I believe I paid between $60 
& $70  for a 4 serial & 2 parallel card.  The serial can share an IRQ so I 
disabled one of the onboard ports and used the IRQ for the 4 serial.  Works 
very nicely.  I'm currenlty using it to support a modem, dumb terminal & UPS.

Best

Cokey

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Re: [expert] Advice on a cheap serial card

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Dell that I really like -- only has just one serial port.  I found
> a nice 2 serial port PCI card from Boca for $35 retail - but it only works
> with 95/98/NT.  Boca said Linix [sic] is not supported.
> 
It *should* work with Linux. A serial card is a serial
card. So long as it's got a 16550AFN or similar on it,
Linux should recognize it.
John

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> I have linux installed on the primary partition of my HD, with windows
> installed on the second.  The disk was originally split using dos fdisk, though
> the first partition was formatted using diskdrake.  I want to run a Nortons
> utils speed disk on my C drive, but now I am not so sure!!!  Will nortons
> effect it or is it only wind'ohs defrag that will f&*k it up?
> 
It *may* mess it up. I would think twice about running it.
John

Re: [expert] os by default

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> hi,
> i have linux mandrake 5.3 and windows in my machine .I want to know how
> configure lilo for that windows is the os by default.Thank you for your help
> 
Well, I only have Linux on this machine, but I should be
able to demonstrate what you need to do. 
First of all, open a console window and SU to root. (or
open a "root console.") This is, of course, assuming
you're in X. If in console just switch to a different VT
and log in as root.

Then, as root, open /etc/lilo.conf in your favorite editor.
(I like "joe" myself.) 

Here's my /etc/lilo.conf:\

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda5
append="noapic"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux-up
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda5
append="noapic"


Notice the "default" line? Yours will probably say the same
as mine. Change the default to whatever the label is for
Windows, save the lilo.conf and execute /sbin/lilo (as
root.) That will cause LILO to boot to Windows by default.

Oh, you DO realize you're a bit behind there's been a
LOT of BIG upgrades/changes to Linux in general since
Mandrake 5.x Depending on your situation, you may want
to consider upgrading...
John

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Ron Stodden]

Daniel Woods wrote:

> Is is ok if you let Partition Magic 4/5 do it ?

Not only is it OK, but it is the ONLY way to manage disk partitioning
if you don't want serious problems.  PM also includes an excellent
DOS program PARTINFO which will tell you everything that is wrong
with your partitioning (usually plenty).   

Quite simply, you do not have a reliable system until PARTINFO gives
you a clean report without even any warnings.

-- 

Regards,

Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.

Re: [expert] X Crashed - Please Help

[Dana J. Laude]

Run "/usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker.inst" (minus the quotes.)  ;)

This will make WindowMaker the default GUI.  Much less
overhead than KDE, but then again it's one of those personal
preference deals. 

Dana

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:30:47 -0700
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio)
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] X Crashed - Please Help
> 
> My X Server crashed and I'm without a solution.
> 
> It says:
> 
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> Where would I start from here?  Is this a known issue with Mandrake
> 7.0-2?
> 
> Seve
> 

Re: [expert] adduser problems

[Matt Stegman]

Such as?  What do you do that requires a lowercase username?  Or am I
misunderstanding?  Please, elaborate.

-Matt Stegman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Incidentally, my user name is "N7DR" (that's right, with uppercase 
> characters). It's interesting to observe how, even though I can log in with 
> that username (which is more than can be said for some Unices I've used), I 
> sometimes have to switch to lowercase while I'm working in order to do some 
> things.

[expert] Question about /tmp

[Craig Woods]

I remember a posting here some weeks ago about system files in the /tmp
directory. It sounded absurd but I think the point was being made about
essential system files being placed in the "/tmp" directory by
LinuxMandrake. Coming, as I do, from a Solaris background, I dismissed
this as possibly being a fluke on some individual box. My question is
simple: does anyone know what the ".X11-unix" and ".font-unix" folders
are about in "/tmp"? They each contain one file, "X0=" and "fs-1="
respectively. Are these actually system files that must stay or is it
safe to delete them? I thank you for any assistance you can render in
this matter. I can not locate any documentation in this issue.
Craig


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Re: [expert] X Crashed - Please Help

[Alen Salamun]

Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> 
> My X Server crashed and I'm without a solution.
> 
> It says:
> 
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
Hi!

This happens if you have changed permissions on /tmp and /tmp in not
writable by anyone anymore...

Bye, Alen
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Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Rial Juan]

Sorry, John, but that makes absolutely no sense. DOS Fdisk is an MS-Dos
program. It's only purpose is: to set up partitions, or in more detail: to set
pointers to begin and end cylinders on the drive, and map partitions to it in
the 'TOC' of your harddrive, together with the partition type.

After doing this, it reboots the machine (or at least: YOU should reboot the
machine), since the new partitions aren't usable right yet; the 'TOC' must be
re-read by the BIOS or the bootloader or something I suppose. During this
reboot, DOS Fdisk gets thrown out of system memory.

After the reboot, you should format any DOS-drives, and then you can install
windows.

Now, since Fdisk is NOT running anymore when you install windows, how can it
tell windows where your partitions are? Well, it could leave a 'note' for
windows somewhere in the 'TOC', but that would mean that this write function
should be written into Fdisk, and a read function into Windows, and in such a
way that it doesn't screw up the partition table in any way. For what purpose
would anyone, even at Microsoft, do something silly like that when it's
perfectly possible for any program to just read out the 'TOC' of the harddrive,
and thereby figuring out the locations of any partitions?

I don't know where the partitions get read at boot time, but it happens long
before Windows boots, probably even before DOS boots. I guess the bootloader on
the MBR takes care of this.

Anyway, point being: Windows can read the partition table at any time, so it
really doesn't need the drive formatted with Fdisk for DOS to know where your
linux partitions are.

What did went wrong here then? My guess is hda1 and hda2 are overlapping, as
suggested by somebody else on this list. That's the first thing to come to mind,
although it might be 'coz of some other reason too, who knows?


On Apr 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
> partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm).  This
> makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
> leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
> Linux do the partitioning.
>   John


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