Re: [expert] persistent cdrecord failure
Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote: Since I upgraded my box from LM 7.0 to LM 8.0, I have had nothing but trouble writing CDs (from 100% success to about 10% success - I'm now drowning in coasters). See below for a sample cdrecord output. I'm currently using cdreecord from the cdrecord-1.10-1mdk rpm, but I've also tried other versions - with similar results. I have a Sony CRX 160E CD/RW hooked up using ide-scsi. Did you not upgrade through 7.2? If so, did that work? The best advice I have is to remap your IDE devices across the two channels in such a fashion that while writing CDs the cdwriter is the only active device on one channel. The worst case would be that the source iso file and the cdwriter are on the same IDE channel. The difficulty appears to be caused by motherboard chipset deficiences, most notably with the VIA chipset. If you have ATA-100 drives, set them up on the two extra IDE channels provided by the Promise, etc, ATA-100 PCI card (or the Promise motherboard chip). This leaves the original secondary IDE motherboard channel available to be dedicated to the cdwriter (ATA 33 is plenty). -- Ron. [au]
Re: [expert] kernel modules don't compile...
DM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried to compile using egcs 1.1.2 (gcc 2.91.66)? according to the kernel docs, that is the recommended compiler version. Yup. root@ponder: ~ # kgcc --version egcs-2.91.66 That's what the Mandrake kernel Makefile uses in any case. Parenthetically, I wish this whole gcc version/(un)official release/bugs situation were finally sorted out. I'd help, but I doubt my C skills are up to it these days even if I had the tuits, which I don't. Pete
Re: [expert] useradd
DM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i dont think there is way to change the default permission of created home dirs thru the config files... Defaults for Mandrake are set by the security profile, no? /etc/security/msec is the place to look. Pete
Re: [expert] kernel modules don't compile...
Am Samstag 04 August 2001 12:25 schrieb Pete Jordan: DM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried to compile using egcs 1.1.2 (gcc 2.91.66)? according to the kernel docs, that is the recommended compiler version. Yup. root@ponder: ~ # kgcc --version egcs-2.91.66 Sorry, but also with the kgcc (egcs-2.91.66) I can't compile the modules, it breaks with parse errors and the messages, which I have shown in another mail before... All compilers, egcs, gcc 2.96 or gcc 3.0 have the same errors. Jürgen -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] address: J. Hammelmann, Brühlstr. 6 phone: +49-7034-61578, +49-179-2178869 D-71157 Hildrizhausen, Germany fax: +49-7034-652189 www: http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/~hammelje
Re: [expert] useradd
hey Pete, thanks for sharing that ... msec is indeed something admins can use to make life easier. i have RH on some of the systems i maintain and would like to have the same ease in changing security levels on them ... i noticed that the man page specifically stated Mandrake security tools... but just the same, have you tried to use it on some other linuxes? can i just install the msec-0.15-14mdk rpm to my other machines? cheers, dianne --- Pete Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i dont think there is way to change the default permission of created home dirs thru the config files... Defaults for Mandrake are set by the security profile, no? /etc/security/msec is the place to look. Pete __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[expert] Problem compiling module...
Hallo! I'm compiling a module for my pcmcia network card (Conceptronic CON100TC); i follow the instructions on the readme and get the following error: --- [root@quinipc proves]# cc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c -o realtek_cb.o -I/usr/src/linux/include rtl8139.c:109:26: linux/bios32.h: File or directory doesn't exist [root@quinipc proves]# --- Can anyoye help me? Thanks!! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: quinir Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [expert] persistent cdrecord failure - fixed
Thanks - I know that pure scsi burners are more reliable this way, but I have been using ide-scsi for many years now without any problem, on many distros - until I upgraded to LM 8.0. However, I experimented some more with hdparm, and found that the problem goes away when I turn DMA *off* on /dev/hdc (hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc). It's highly reproducible; as soon as I turn using_dma on again (which is the default config) it fails 9 out of 10 times. I doubt this is the way things are supposed to work, but if it shuts down my coaster factory, I can live with it :-) -- Alex On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:29:43PM -0500, J. C. Woods wrote: | | Alex, | | Since you ask, and normally this is the kind of advise I am disinclined | to give, my advise would be to think about a pure scsi cd writer. There | are several good and cheap scsi boards out there, such as the Adaptec | 29xx series. Mandrake uses the aic7xxx driver, and has yet to fell me | in verision 7.0 thru 8.0. I know money can be an issue but I have never | had any problems burning a cd with my scsi setup in all the Linux | distros I have used, and there have been a few. If the frustration gets | to much with your ide cd writer, at least this is something your might | want to think about. Wish I had more for your situation. Hang in | there. | | drjung | -- | | Art is the illusion of spontaneity...
[expert] Ncurses-devel package is missing on LM 8.0
Hi everybody. I have just installed LM 8.0 from sratch . Well anything goes ok , except for one thing. Kernel source package is not installed. I decide to install it by hand with rpm -i kernel-source-2.4.3-20mdk.rpm. Well rpm tell me that there are dependencies non satisfied. I look for those packages ,I install them without a problem but there is one missing Ncurses-devel . I look for it on the two cd's and on the internet. There is no ncurses-devel package on LM 8.0. I install the kernel source package forcing it except for ncurses the other dependencies are satisfied. Anyone know about this? Later, Jorge Giménez Registered Linux User 191803
Re: [expert] Problem compiling module...
are you using 2.2.x? how about getting the bios32.h from here: http://src.openresources.com/linux-2.2.1/I/bios32.h.html see if you can compile from that... --- Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo! I'm compiling a module for my pcmcia network card (Conceptronic CON100TC); i follow the instructions on the readme and get the following error: --- [root@quinipc proves]# cc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c -o realtek_cb.o -I/usr/src/linux/include rtl8139.c:109:26: linux/bios32.h: File or directory doesn't exist [root@quinipc proves]# --- Can anyoye help me? Thanks!! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: quinir Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Ncurses-devel package is missing on LM 8.0
you can use ncurses from rpmfind.net. i dont think its a good idea to 'force' unless you know which files are being replaced...try this: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/updates/7.1/RPMS/ncurses-devel-5.2-12.2mdk.i586.html dianne --- Jorge Giménez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. I have just installed LM 8.0 from sratch . Well anything goes ok , except for one thing. Kernel source package is not installed. I decide to install it by hand with rpm -i kernel-source-2.4.3-20mdk.rpm. Well rpm tell me that there are dependencies non satisfied. I look for those packages ,I install them without a problem but there is one missing Ncurses-devel . I look for it on the two cd's and on the internet. There is no ncurses-devel package on LM 8.0. I install the kernel source package forcing it except for ncurses the other dependencies are satisfied. Anyone know about this? Later, Jorge Giménez Registered Linux User 191803 __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[expert] Grub VGA Syntax
I'm coming up empty looking for docs to explain vga= syntax and a table of possible video modes. Can't find it in info grub. Can't find it in mini howto. Nothing other than vga=normal or vga=ask is working right on a Trident 9680. I want to use the native Trident 132 X 30 mode then booting to single. Pointer please? -- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. President John Adams Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
Re: [expert] persistent cdrecord failure - fixed
On Saturday 04 August 2001 11:43, Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote: However, I experimented some more with hdparm, and found that the problem goes away when I turn DMA *off* on /dev/hdc (hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc). It's highly reproducible; as soon as I turn using_dma on again (which is the default config) it fails 9 out of 10 times. I doubt this is the way things are supposed to work, but if it shuts down my coaster factory, I can live with it :-) -- Alex I think this is in the documentation (a howto?), so this is precisely how it is supposed to work. mg
[expert] /usr/local/sbin
I have wo questions... 1) How do i add /usr/local/sbin to the path of all my users. 2) is it unsafe to have /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin in roots path?? ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stud. Scient. Mathematics | TLF(home):39699914 - 116 Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 københavn NV - room 116. Url: www.math.ku.dk | Politics is for the moment, equations are forever - Albert Einstein
Re: [expert] /usr/local/sbin
hi lars edit the file /etc/profile and add PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin export PATH or if there is an existing path , just add it in as to the question of adding those paths to root, it depends ... what are the commands for? do you need to use them as root? if not, i think its better to leave root's profile as it is. =) dianne --- Lars Roland Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have wo questions... 1) How do i add /usr/local/sbin to the path of all my users. 2) is it unsafe to have /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin in roots path?? ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stud. Scient. Mathematics | TLF(home): 39699914 - 116 Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 københavn NV - room 116. Url: www.math.ku.dk | Politics is for the moment, equations are forever - Albert Einstein __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[expert] USB Printing with EPSON 777 - ?
Have any of you the experience of getting the Epson 777 to print via USB interface? (OS: LM-8.0) Thanks, Sevatio
Re: [expert] Problem compiling module...
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I'm compiling a module for my pcmcia network card (Conceptronic CON100TC); i follow the instructions on the readme and get the following error: --- [root@quinipc proves]# cc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c -o realtek_cb.o -I/usr/src/linux/include rtl8139.c:109:26: linux/bios32.h: File or directory doesn't exist [root@quinipc proves]# --- Can anyoye help me? Thanks!! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: quinir Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Joan, Seems like we need a wee bit more info from you. The file you referenced in your msg, bios32.h was part of the 2.2.19 kernel version. What version is your Mandrake kernel? I have a notion that you are working with a 2.4 kernel, and you will not find the bios32.h header file on it. In later kernel versions, it seems to be renamed bios.h, and in your case the compile is specifically looking for a bios32.h file. drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
Re: [expert] /usr/local/sbin
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, DM wrote: Thanks hi lars edit the file /etc/profile and add PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin export PATH or if there is an existing path , just add it in as to the question of adding those paths to root, it depends ... what are the commands for? do you need to use them as root? if not, i think its better to leave root's profile as it is. =) dianne --- Lars Roland Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have wo questions... 1) How do i add /usr/local/sbin to the path of all my users. 2) is it unsafe to have /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin in roots path?? ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stud. Scient. Mathematics | TLF(home): 39699914 - 116 Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 københavn NV - room 116. Url: www.math.ku.dk | Politics is for the moment, equations are forever - Albert Einstein __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stud. Scient. Mathematics | TLF(home):39699914 - 116 Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 københavn NV - room 116. Url: www.math.ku.dk | Politics is for the moment, equations are forever - Albert Einstein
[expert] mysterious incoming packets
I have Mandrake 8.0 with the bastille firewall set up. Today, I noticed that I have a pretty steady stream of incoming packets coming across the interface that is plugged into the cable modem, although I am not doing anything on the Internet. According to gkrellm, it is about 1.0-1.2KBps. The activity light on my cable modem is blinking pretty steadily although there is no traffic initiated by me. Could someone help me diagnose where this traffic is coming from? Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:24:30PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 with the bastille firewall set up. Today, I noticed that I have a pretty steady stream of incoming packets coming across the interface that is plugged into the cable modem, although I am not doing anything on the Internet. According to gkrellm, it is about 1.0-1.2KBps. The activity light on my cable modem is blinking pretty steadily although there is no traffic initiated by me. Could someone help me diagnose where this traffic is coming from? I installed tcpdump and used that to monitor the interface. I am getting a steady stream of arp requests. I do not remember ever seeing this before. Is this something I need to bug the cable company about? Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] mysterious incoming packets
Cable modems are a shared resource. As a result you are seeing traffic for other servers and users on your network interface. This is normal. Feel lucky that you only get 1.2kbps... I get 24kbps of steady chatter or more... If you want to see what all your friends are doing, bring up iptraf (it's part of 8.0). Go into the configuration and set PROMISCUOUS MODE and turn ON DNS RESOLUTION. Now you'll be able to see what everyone else is up to, and where they are surfing to, in the first screen... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Glenn Johnson Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 5:25 PM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] mysterious incoming packets I have Mandrake 8.0 with the bastille firewall set up. Today, I noticed that I have a pretty steady stream of incoming packets coming across the interface that is plugged into the cable modem, although I am not doing anything on the Internet. According to gkrellm, it is about 1.0-1.2KBps. The activity light on my cable modem is blinking pretty steadily although there is no traffic initiated by me. Could someone help me diagnose where this traffic is coming from? Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Grub VGA Syntax
Felix Miata wrote: I'm coming up empty looking for docs to explain vga= syntax and a table of possible video modes. Can't find it in info grub. Can't find it in mini howto. Nothing other than vga=normal or vga=ask is working right on a Trident 9680. I want to use the native Trident 132 X 30 mode then booting to single. Pointer please? Felixbelow are a couple of tables that might help. -- Alan Colors (depth) 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 ---+---+---++-+- 256 ( 8 bit)| 769 771 773 775 796 32,768 (15 bit)| 784 787 790 793 797 65,536 (16 bit)| 785 788 791 794 798 16.8M (24 bit)| 786 789 792 795 799 The following table shows the mode numbers you can input at the VGA prompt or for use with the LILO program. (actually these numbers are plus 0x200 to make it easier to refer to the table) Colours 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200 +-- 4 bits |? ? 0x302 ??? ? 8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x3030x3050x1610x307 0x31C 15 bits |? 0x310 0x3130x3160x1620x319 0x31D 16 bits |? 0x311 0x3140x3170x1630x31A 0x31E 24 bits |? 0x312 0x3150x318 ? 0x31B 0x31F 32 bits |? ? ?? 0x164 ? Key: 8 bits = 256 colours, 15 bits = 32,768 colours, 16 bits = 65,536 colours, 24 bits = 16.8 million colours, 32 bits - same as 24 bits, but the extra 8 bits can be used for other things, and fits perfectly with a 32 bit PCI/VLB/EISA bus. Additional modes are at the discretion of the manufacturer, as the VESA 2.0 document only defines modes up to 0x31F. You may need to do some fiddling around to find these extra modes.
Re: [expert] Grub VGA Syntax
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Felix Miata wrote: I'm coming up empty looking for docs to explain vga= syntax and a table of possible video modes. Can't find it in info grub. Can't find it in mini howto. Nothing other than vga=normal or vga=ask is working right on a Trident 9680. I want to use the native Trident 132 X 30 mode then booting to single. Pointer please? Felixbelow are a couple of tables that might help. Where did you find these? I don't see how they can help. All 132 column svga vesa text modes are 16 color (4 bit). These have horizontal resolution in the 1056-1188 range. Colors (depth) 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 ---+---+---++-+- 256 ( 8 bit)| 769 771 773 775 796 32,768 (15 bit)| 784 787 790 793 797 65,536 (16 bit)| 785 788 791 794 798 16.8M (24 bit)| 786 789 792 795 799 The following table shows the mode numbers you can input at the VGA prompt or for use with the LILO program. (actually these numbers are plus 0x200 to make it easier to refer to the table) I don't understand. What about 0x16x in 1152X864? Colours 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200 +-- 4 bits |? ? 0x302 ??? ? 8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x3030x3050x1610x307 0x31C 15 bits |? 0x310 0x3130x3160x1620x319 0x31D 16 bits |? 0x311 0x3140x3170x1630x31A 0x31E 24 bits |? 0x312 0x3150x318 ? 0x31B 0x31F 32 bits |? ? ?? 0x164 ? Key: 8 bits = 256 colours, 15 bits = 32,768 colours, 16 bits = 65,536 colours, 24 bits = 16.8 million colours, 32 bits - same as 24 bits, but the extra 8 bits can be used for other things, and fits perfectly with a 32 bit PCI/VLB/EISA bus. Additional modes are at the discretion of the manufacturer, as the VESA 2.0 document only defines modes up to 0x31F. You may need to do some fiddling around to find these extra modes. Still need help. Even if I had the VESA specs, I still don't know the Linux syntax for either grub or lilo. Plus, 132 X 30 is a Trident proprietary that VESA doesn't even have. -- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. President John Adams Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0?
NOPE SORRY YOU DON'T NEED MARS-NWE TO DO THAT! Corrections/Updates: New version of ncpfs which now supports NDS logins. If you only wish to use the services of an existing NetWare server, you can use ipx_configure (section 7.1) to automatically define the IPX interfaces by using broadcast queries to look for a server. If this fails, or you wish to provide IPX services, you will need to define the interfaces manually using ipx_interface or mars_nwe. # ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 0x39ab0222 ipx_configure This command enables or disables the automatic setting of the interface configuration and primary interface settings. --auto_interface allows you to select whether new network devices should be --auto_primary automatically configured as IPX devices or not. After your IPX network is configured you should be able to use the slist command to see a list of all of the Novell fileserver on your network: # slist WITH OUT MARS-NWE! http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO.html Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) From: Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0? Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:49:50 -0400 But eh, I think you've missed the point... Mars is the only app that probes the frames and network numbers correctly that in turn permits ncpmount to function... Linuxconf should do this upon startup, but it does not. Loading ipx by itself or running ncpmount doesn't autoprobe... -JMS -Original Message- From: Brandon Caudle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0? right as i stated in one of the emails its not Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
[expert] Virus detection with postfix and Amavisd rocks!!!
For those of you running mail servers... I have a recomendation. I just started testing a new setup,, I am using the latest amavisd snapshot along with a recent postfix version... and Network Associates Virus scan for linux 4.0.50 anyway, after many problems, (which turned out to be typos on my part) I got it all working on my test box. It is quiet efficient on system resources, (testing on a PPro200 system with 64mb of ram) works fairly quickly and efficiently, and flawlessly I might add. Although amavisd works with sendmail, exim and qmail, I would suggest to you that the postfix install is the cleanest and most efficient. I am usin it with Mandrake 7.2 (you do have to upgrade the postfix version to use content_filtering, which means any postfix newer then Postfix snapshot 2529, but if you watch this list, you would know that we have access to that on this list, and a quick look in rpmfind.net found several rebuildable rpms's that work just fine with mandrake and amavis.. the site for amavisd is amavis.org and they guys on their mailing list are fantastic. Anyway, thats enough from me just thought those of you who run mail servers would like to know this if you didn't already. rgds Frank.
[expert] Can't configure monitor
I am trying to configure a ViewSonic VG150 LCD 15 monitor under Mandrake 8.0 using Mandrake Control Center. The reason I am trying to configure the monitor is that it boots up into a very funny font that looks like the OCR writing on a check. Parts of each character are highlighted and parts are skinny which I was told was because Mandrake is trying to force a 1024x768 monitor into a 800x600 space using some kind of frame. Also part of the text extends past the top and bottom of the screen. The funny font is both in terminal mode and X and is hard to look at. I can fix this by activating the Auto Synch feature on the monitor but it's a pita to keep doing that. To try to change the monitor I go through the following steps: I click Mandrake Control Center, enter my root password and select Hardware | Display. After setting the resolution and color depth, I somehow get to a screen that gives me several options including Change Monitor. I select Expert Mode and that allows me to use either XFree86 3 or 4. I choose 4. When I click that a list of monitor types and brands comes up. ViewSonic is the last one on the list and I can select VG150 which is my present LCD monitor. I then OK out, expecting my settings to be saved in /etc/XFree86-4. However, they are not saved or changed although both XFree86 (version 3) and XFree86-4 are updated for date and time. Under the monitor section, my monitor is listed as monitor1 just as before. I check the files with less. It's slow going as I have been experiencing frequent freezes under X. They are all the same, I click on something and the mouse pointer freezes. Neither ctl-alt-backspace or ctl-alt-del do anything even though I tested both and they normally work. The freezes have been while working in Mandrake Control Center and one time when I first clicked on the RPM Software Manager although it worked the second time. I'm about ready to reinstall Mandrake but this shouldn't be happening. The computer I'm using has been super reliable under Mandrake 7.2 and Windows. The only thing I have changed is a new IBM 40 gig hard disk with about a 24 gig /home partition. Other partitions are /boot, /, /usr, /usr/local, /var, /opt and swap. FWIW I _believe_ the monitor problems are unrelated to the X freezes. It's just that the X freezes complicate the configuration problem. Any help you can give me on this would be greatly appreciated. I'll hold off on the re-install hoping for some feedback. Thanks, Larry Alkoff N2LA Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:18:05PM -0400, Brandon Caudle wrote: before you start to bug your cable company about arp packets you should know what they do. An ARP reply packet contains the hardware and protocol address of the machine being booted so that other machines can record its address resolution for future use. I have this same issue but I have a dsl and a local network I unpluged the dsl from the linksys router and the arp packets were still being brocast so no worry if you have a local lan. Why would these arp requests occur as a steady stream, all going to primarily one machine it looks like? This just started today. I usually see an occasional flash of the activity light on the cable modem but the activity light is almost burning steady now. Here is a snippet of output from tcpdump. 23:11:45.429645 arp who-has 24.158.211.28 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.597693 arp who-has 24.158.211.128 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.603525 arp who-has 24.158.209.52 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.648017 arp who-has 24.158.213.195 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.701103 arp who-has 24.158.213.186 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.799656 arp who-has 24.158.208.6 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.803653 arp who-has 24.158.208.213 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.807188 arp who-has 24.158.213.2 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.814144 arp who-has 24.158.211.254 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.833711 arp who-has 24.158.213.253 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.856152 arp who-has 24.158.210.61 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.906593 arp who-has 24.158.210.26 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.943625 arp who-has 24.158.223.226 tell 24.158.223.129 23:11:45.949866 arp who-has 24.158.222.24 tell 24.158.222.1 23:11:45.966988 arp who-has 24.158.212.132 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:46.052650 arp who-has 24.158.212.103 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:46.065411 arp who-has 24.158.220.82 tell 24.158.220.1 23:11:46.156773 arp who-has 24.158.220.139 tell 24.158.220.1 23:11:46.164731 arp who-has 24.158.215.52 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:46.169593 arp who-has 24.158.209.195 tell 24.158.208.1 It seems to me that there is some problem here. How would you suggest I approach the cable company with this information? From: Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 16:43:45 -0500 On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:24:30PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 with the bastille firewall set up. Today, I noticed that I have a pretty steady stream of incoming packets coming across the interface that is plugged into the cable modem, although I am not doing anything on the Internet. According to gkrellm, it is about 1.0-1.2KBps. The activity light on my cable modem is blinking pretty steadily although there is no traffic initiated by me. Could someone help me diagnose where this traffic is coming from? I installed tcpdump and used that to monitor the interface. I am getting a steady stream of arp requests. I do not remember ever seeing this before. Is this something I need to bug the cable company about? -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] module problems.
Hi everyone,, I have started getting hundreds of char-major messages in my logs.. it seems I have some aliases to setup in modules.conf, can anyone point me in the right direction with these? char-major-156 (this one comes up thousands of times...) char-major-4 (possibly related to samba) char-major-154 char-major-174 char-major-180 (think is related to samba, not sure.) binfmt- net-pf-10 (appears in boot logs.) Turned this one off as its just ipv6. system config... Ppro 200 (test system) FX chipset. 64mb ram. virge video. rgds Frank
RE: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets
It's unlikely that this is a problem given the relatively ARP low rate you are getting. A normal Cable modem node may have over 10,000 users. The head-end system has to update it's table of available (connected) IP's almost constantly. If you call the cable company, all you are going to get will be a yeah, well, this is normal. response... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Glenn Johnson Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:21 AM To: Brandon Caudle Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:18:05PM -0400, Brandon Caudle wrote: before you start to bug your cable company about arp packets you should know what they do. An ARP reply packet contains the hardware and protocol address of the machine being booted so that other machines can record its address resolution for future use. I have this same issue but I have a dsl and a local network I unpluged the dsl from the linksys router and the arp packets were still being brocast so no worry if you have a local lan. Why would these arp requests occur as a steady stream, all going to primarily one machine it looks like? This just started today. I usually see an occasional flash of the activity light on the cable modem but the activity light is almost burning steady now. Here is a snippet of output from tcpdump. 23:11:45.429645 arp who-has 24.158.211.28 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.597693 arp who-has 24.158.211.128 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.603525 arp who-has 24.158.209.52 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.648017 arp who-has 24.158.213.195 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.701103 arp who-has 24.158.213.186 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.799656 arp who-has 24.158.208.6 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.803653 arp who-has 24.158.208.213 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.807188 arp who-has 24.158.213.2 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.814144 arp who-has 24.158.211.254 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.833711 arp who-has 24.158.213.253 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.856152 arp who-has 24.158.210.61 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.906593 arp who-has 24.158.210.26 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:45.943625 arp who-has 24.158.223.226 tell 24.158.223.129 23:11:45.949866 arp who-has 24.158.222.24 tell 24.158.222.1 23:11:45.966988 arp who-has 24.158.212.132 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:46.052650 arp who-has 24.158.212.103 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:46.065411 arp who-has 24.158.220.82 tell 24.158.220.1 23:11:46.156773 arp who-has 24.158.220.139 tell 24.158.220.1 23:11:46.164731 arp who-has 24.158.215.52 tell 24.158.208.1 23:11:46.169593 arp who-has 24.158.209.195 tell 24.158.208.1 It seems to me that there is some problem here. How would you suggest I approach the cable company with this information?
RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0?
Brandon, what you are doing is MANUALLY initiating configuration IPX startup, which effectively bypasses the scripts and configs which Mandrake purposely included in 8.0. While there is nothing wrong with this, you have to remember that you are dealing with Newbies on the list... (eh, by the way, none of this is news to me... I've worked with this stuff for over 25 years... ) You can't expect them to deal with the nuances of manual configuration and knowing things about frames, etc. In addition Mandrake in and of itself fails to autoprobe, which I mentioned before. This WAS originally designed to be done by Linuxconf, but the scripts never worked properly. Now Mandrake seems to be moving away from Linuxconf, and there remain MANY holes... This being one of them. You can go ahead and define the interfaces to BE autoprobed in Linuxconf but the probe will not be initiated by anything already in the release (except manually as you've stated) EXCEPT starting up MARS. The beauty of Linux, is that since you DO have access to the nitty gritty, so to speak, you can make things work, one way or another, by beating programs into submission, as what you are suggesting. However the initialization of the ipx like this is far too much to expect for the first time user to do. It's far easier for them to deal with setting up MARS using the example script and having the service autostarted, than it is for them to find and modify the proper scripts to fix the problem... And a problem it is! Though the NDS login support is (welcome) news to me... -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Brandon Caudle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0? NOPE SORRY YOU DON'T NEED MARS-NWE TO DO THAT! Corrections/Updates: New version of ncpfs which now supports NDS logins. If you only wish to use the services of an existing NetWare server, you can use ipx_configure (section 7.1) to automatically define the IPX interfaces by using broadcast queries to look for a server. If this fails, or you wish to provide IPX services, you will need to define the interfaces manually using ipx_interface or mars_nwe. # ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 0x39ab0222 ipx_configure This command enables or disables the automatic setting of the interface configuration and primary interface settings. --auto_interface allows you to select whether new network devices should be --auto_primary automatically configured as IPX devices or not. After your IPX network is configured you should be able to use the slist command to see a list of all of the Novell fileserver on your network: # slist WITH OUT MARS-NWE! http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO.html Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) From: Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0? Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:49:50 -0400 But eh, I think you've missed the point... Mars is the only app that probes the frames and network numbers correctly that in turn permits ncpmount to function... Linuxconf should do this upon startup, but it does not. Loading ipx by itself or running ncpmount doesn't autoprobe... -JMS -Original Message- From: Brandon Caudle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0? right as i stated in one of the emails its not Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:06:12AM -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: It's unlikely that this is a problem given the relatively ARP low rate you are getting. A normal Cable modem node may have over 10,000 users. The head-end system has to update it's table of available (connected) IP's almost constantly. If you call the cable company, all you are going to get will be a yeah, well, this is normal. response... Well, that may be the case. The thing is though, it is not normal. I have had this cable modem service for about a year and this is the first time I have seen this behavior. Even today, this morning everything was normal (no activity) then at about noon CST the arp requests started flooding in. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets
I've found that if one of the DHCP servers at the head end is unable to find a route to other nodes it's expecting, an ARP flood will occur (at least with @home and other providers) as the routers try to figure out where everyone is. Since they don't receive the expected response, they keep retransmitting until the problem is fixed. Normally this tells me that the upstream connection is screwed up and not to expect ANY successful connections to the internet outside of my ISP. It may be that they have a somewhat localized problem that is not fully impacting you. I'd not worry too much about it. While annoying (I wish you could see the traffic on mine!) it doesn't really affect your throughput, as your machine will only respond if it is getting a REAL arp request to it. You could filter these out, but why bother? You computer doesn't answer anyway. -JMS -Original Message- From: 'Glenn Johnson' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 1:33 AM To: Jose M. Sanchez Cc: 'Brandon Caudle'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:06:12AM -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: It's unlikely that this is a problem given the relatively ARP low rate you are getting. A normal Cable modem node may have over 10,000 users. The head-end system has to update it's table of available (connected) IP's almost constantly. If you call the cable company, all you are going to get will be a yeah, well, this is normal. response... Well, that may be the case. The thing is though, it is not normal. I have had this cable modem service for about a year and this is the first time I have seen this behavior. Even today, this morning everything was normal (no activity) then at about noon CST the arp requests started flooding in. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets
I am on the @home network and have been receiving this same activity all day since around 2pm MST. I imagine they (@home) is haveing some type of internal problem. My activity light has been glowing the same as yours. I wouldn't worry about it. I John
Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?
On Saturday 04 August 2001 23:13, you wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2001 23:06, you wrote: I'm considering a switch from Ext2 to ReiserFS or anything better than Ext2. Currently I'm LM8.0. What's your opinion on the stability of the Reiser File System? Is there an improvement for Ext2 on the horizon? What software would be best at converting the Ext2 partitions to ReiserFS? TIA, Sevatio I am about 99% sure that ext2 cannot be converted to reiserFS. I am sure if I am wrong someone will correct me and offer the help you need. Regards, John
Re: [expert] Problem with StarOffice
Eh... excuse me if I was ambiguous :-P I'm running Linux MandrakeFreq (8) kernel 2.4.5-5mdk root partition is ReiserFS Xfree86 4.1.0, patch level 4mdk. KDE 2.2alpha2 My computer: Motherboard Intel AL440LX Pentium II 233 Mhz. 224 Mb RAM Ati Xpert XL 4 Mb. The program: StarOffice 5.2 in spanish, installed with the -net option in /opt/office52, and a user installation from this location in /home/oscar/office52 The problem: From time to time (may be one month, two weeks, six months...) the program refuse to start, saying violación de segmento (segmentation fault, I believe). If I use the option repair of the program setup, the problem continues. If I delete the user installation in /home/oscar/office5.2 and I reinstall from /opt/office52, the problem persist. In order to get the program working again, I must rm -rf /opt/office52 and reinstall from 0. I don't remember any problem in the last execution of the program before the faiure appears. I'm currently using StarOffice to write my Thesis. The program is very good, except by this problem... Any idea? Thanks, óscar. El Sáb 04 Ago 2001 04:49, escribiste: On Friday 03 August 2001 17:33, Oscar wrote: Hi, It's my 3rd re-installation of Star Office. From time to time, when I try to run StarOffice, y get: Segmentation fault And the program don't works never more. Then, it's time to delete installation and reinstall it. Any idea? Since we don't know whether you are using a stock LM6.0 with X 3.1 and FVWM95, or LM8.0f1, how can we answer you? -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | | | Our computers and their computers are the same color. The | | conversion should be no problem! | |Unknown | ++
Re: [expert] persistent cdrecord failure
Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote: Since I upgraded my box from LM 7.0 to LM 8.0, I have had nothing but trouble writing CDs (from 100% success to about 10% success - I'm now drowning in coasters). See below for a sample cdrecord output. I'm currently using cdreecord from the cdrecord-1.10-1mdk rpm, but I've also tried other versions - with similar results. I have a Sony CRX 160E CD/RW hooked up using ide-scsi. I found a few hints in the expert archives (upgrade mandrake_desk, modify XF86Config-4, dma enabled on IDE channel), but none of these work for me. If anybody has any advice, solutions, or things to try, please let me know! Regards, -- Alex -- Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 89943 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 31 of 527 MB written (fifo 100%). /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 3E 1F 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 08 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x08 Qual 0x03 (logical unit communication crc error (ultra-dma/32)) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.105s timeout 40s write track data: error after 32569344 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 55.086s Fixating... WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time:0.010s /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 577 puts and 514 gets. /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 419 times full, min fill was 73%. -- Since this is an upgrade from 7.0 to 8.0 check and see if you possibly have some extra statements in /etc/modules.conf file. -- alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter - *** pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi --- For some reason the line, left after the upgrade, alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter caused a lot of problems. On a clean install of LM 8.0 this line never appeared in the modules.conf file and things work fine. .. This is from a clean 8.0 install, works fine. ** notice there is only one reference to ide-scsi *** pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 8139too -- I did work on one machine for about 2 weeks with cd-writer acting up such as you have ... finally discovered it was a drive gone bad. It just did it at the time of the upgrade. Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587
RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0? Are you saying that slist will not work until the mars-nwe package is loaded and the service is started? I wouldn't have thought mars-nwe was necessary unless you wanted to share resources with other Novell clients. --- More on this... Your observation is correct, mars is in and of itself unneeded... However I cannot get an NCPmount to work until I start it. I find that this is due to the IPX protocol not probing the network and autoconfiguring for each frame type until mars is activated. -JMS
[expert] mysterious disappearing fonts
Hi, Didn't get an answer on the newbie list so I thought I'd try expert. BTW, the installation (Mandrake 8) had been working for several months before this started to happen. -Original Message- From: Justin Kao [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:20 AM Subject: [newbie] mysterious disappearing fonts Many of my fonts stopped working recently, when I restarted xfs this was what /var/log/message said: - Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba Font Server[1094]: Re-reading config file Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba Font Server[1094]: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled (unreadable) Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba xfs: xfs -USR1 succeeded Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba Font Server[1094]: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont (unreadable) Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba Font Server[1094]: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled (unreadable) -- What's it mean, and how do I fix? I looked in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory and it looked like everything was there (as far as I could tell, which is not all that far) Thanks for your help, Justin
Re: [expert] mysterious incoming packets
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you what port the TCP packets are bound to? If port 80, I would expect that you are seeing Code Red in action. Dave On Saturday 04 August 2001 16:24, thus spake Glenn Johnson: I have Mandrake 8.0 with the bastille firewall set up. Today, I noticed that I have a pretty steady stream of incoming packets coming across the interface that is plugged into the cable modem, although I am not doing anything on the Internet. According to gkrellm, it is about 1.0-1.2KBps. The activity light on my cable modem is blinking pretty steadily although there is no traffic initiated by me. Could someone help me diagnose where this traffic is coming from? Thanks. - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7bGw3A68l26XsZUYRAuYUAKDDoBtBjwQ1ije99XgLYNeM2kUPCACg3gxr N6sBgec77h6aJuAV2ryRRh8= =hSNW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets
before you start to bug your cable company about arp packets you should know what they do. An ARP reply packet contains the hardware and protocol address of the machine being booted so that other machines can record its address resolution for future use. I have this same issue but I have a dsl and a local network I unpluged the dsl from the linksys router and the arp packets were still being brocast so no worry if you have a local lan. Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) From: Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 16:43:45 -0500 On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:24:30PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 with the bastille firewall set up. Today, I noticed that I have a pretty steady stream of incoming packets coming across the interface that is plugged into the cable modem, although I am not doing anything on the Internet. According to gkrellm, it is about 1.0-1.2KBps. The activity light on my cable modem is blinking pretty steadily although there is no traffic initiated by me. Could someone help me diagnose where this traffic is coming from? I installed tcpdump and used that to monitor the interface. I am getting a steady stream of arp requests. I do not remember ever seeing this before. Is this something I need to bug the cable company about? Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
[expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?
I'm considering a switch from Ext2 to ReiserFS or anything better than Ext2. Currently I'm LM8.0. What's your opinion on the stability of the Reiser File System? Is there an improvement for Ext2 on the horizon? What software would be best at converting the Ext2 partitions to ReiserFS? TIA, Sevatio
Re: [expert] VMWare and INet sharing. Sorted
Not sure whether that means that you're running DNS or not, ps -A should help you sort that out. Glen DStevenson wrote: Voila!! Thanks, I have never used DNS before. I have just added the IP of the machine connected to the internet to the primary DNS of the VMachine, and that sorted the connection from explorer. I guess that the textual name was'nt being resolved into the IP address. Does this mean that my Mandrake machine is running a DNS server, or are the packets for resolution being forwarded by the Gateway to the DNS of the ISP? Thanks for all the help chaps. Now all I need to do is get the VM to see the other hosts running Samba serverswhat fun we have!!! Dave. On Friday 03 August 2001 09:53, Glen Sagers wrote: It certainly sounds like it. Can you ping or telnet to an external address by name? If you can, that rules out DNS problems. If not, try adding the DNS server that your linux box uses to your VMware virtual Ethernet adapter from within windows. (Right click on network neighborhood, properties, choose TCP/IP for that adapter, properties, DNS configuration). Make sure you add it to the bridged adapter, not the host-only adapter. Glen Sagers DStevenson wrote: I have returned my system to its original statere-installed from scratch an restored from tape important config files. I have checked the iptables config and all appears OK. I can now connect from another machine on the network to the internet. The VMware Win98 machine can ping an external address, it can even telnet to an external IP, but it will not connect to an www address in explorer. I must be missing something, is it something to do with DNS/translation ??? Thanks in advance for any help. On Wednesday 01 August 2001 19:11, DStevenson wrote: I am in the middle of re-building my system after a critical hardware failure. I'll try your suggestions and post my results as soon as I have a fully fuctioning system again. I have just about got mail working again. Thanks for your responses. Dave. On Tuesday 31 July 2001 02:11, Greg A. Bur wrote: Dave, Check and see if you have iptables installed on your computer. If you do the fix is fairly simple, just enable IP Masquerading(make sure ip forwarding is enabled first) with: iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 192.168.0.2 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQUERADE Obviously if you have a different external interface you would substitute that for eth0 in the above command line. As to the message you're finding in your logs, no, I don't believe that is your problem. Hopefully my little one-liner will help you on your way. If not let me know otherwise. On 31 Jul 2001 06:49:44 -0400, DStevenson wrote: Has anyone set up a VMware Win98 VM on Mandrake 8. I have Win98 running no problem, but I need Windows to share the internet connection with the host box. Thanks in advance. Dave. -- Greg A. Bur Secretary/Treasurer BlazeConnect Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blazeconnect.net Voice: (231)597-0376 Fax:(231)597-0393 -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Gnome PGP version 0.4 mQGiBDsmr/oRBACKyg093fkecRe/U88oWPmPfTkb+39vXFEADEnICQuu0FXaiYJY JrvZyudbUIH3ndqYP6MELApVhyP3fxt950E3VhWzyDBB3Y0ER/9muIp49pYSRk6U pKRv/gZMWd2wzdgkD9u7utCyrBnTm8u4C6S5h4RpG5KQkkXVRLAdaSI7LwCgxC1a f2z9E8OVLqf9LC1Gzi6G4gkD/2WTBJr/O7JD0dUVXkZoSUWcNsE8nyX7RSNV5lK0 buEvGa7I4Pe9+a+2JOHy2slcApP/32mNpJlh61K5UkxHmzwadNt86s6JGLzmN/uJ AvD+tD7GGrc5EhqA0FZkiHObHukAEoVALgBy9LorVGwPh9lOA3s7aKRF/3l/v8YI pMIkA/0avqGC3AKRdU9b6QNekgzq/C+huAUT7wPO5e8wNwUbWzAvzMd1BU8UtMp7 sitb+A5y7QVzgUSq+jgSY7VVhL8W5LnLongKhn/aC2JqI425TCFTXPBN/BTryFUx GieKgxkZAMbzLRGBQPuvCMIOabj5DXTHtL4fzwHKhCfNkISQfLQjR3JlZyBBLiBC dXIgPGdyZWdAYmxhemVjb25uZWN0Lm5ldD6IXQQTEQIAHQUCOyav+gUJAeEzgAUL BwoDBAMVAwIDFgIBAheAAAoJEIOucOLj5OPKE9AAn25bOxcJhRLggto+iJhYjR9d q33rAKCrn7fzo9/ix0zADAj3zFEOPlZn1bkBDQQ7JrAFEAQAvb4l9wYO5/fIEhgA YB/HQJSK2v6L61/eCtjxxP8HrgOkYb+3ThLfAPFnIqkKTG1U1rakuewuCvXMKQCq Yw5iTdBeyU7GZ7C+RoYLWDjYuTd43+LAVgvjP3p8YUEsnDA+JeRuAvokAyzGwNz8 DXbRXLpxQl72mT0C+zmk4BABeVcABAsD/RLC8yE5YRWJCzpZui3eMWVEWT18BdtJ DevXu/nWyUvgdrFxQFwxD1TVMAhJRW4MpfwNpx/ABCr79THfG7N/6oBcw51EbaYn 4B6o6VWCmQKzhEY5VGp4m2GehR5d/FcONp9u41/cpB56jiAAQjKhIS07rUf8sZbh YCxZWgQhsMr8iEwEGBECAAwFAjsmsAUFCQHhM4AACgkQg65w4uPk48rpFQCfVVMC CdzWGjWBcy+sLhZY6esj4I0AoLZiZa8rPDbzRy87faoki5BGbTuo =EU8Q -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
