[expert] MDK 8.2 /dev/dsp & soundblaster Problem
Well, I guess this is a common enough problem but for now I'm damned if I can work my way around it. A few months back I built myself a new m/c, twin processors, loads of disk and memory, even added a nice flat panel display. All went well and my local lan worked well under samba also. I decided yesterday to add in a sound card and picked up a Soundblaster 4.1 Digital. I expected a quick configuration and then sound. How wrong I was. Using sndconfig I can see the board but it refuses to configure. Using Control Centre the board is identified as ens 1371. Entirely reasonable I believe, but again no configuration. If I depmod -a then modprobe snd-ens1371 I get a situation where lsmod shows up all sorts of ens entries - but still no sound. Re-booting (I know, I know) gives me an error message 'device /dev/dsp can't be opened...' In fact that is no surprise as /dev/dsp doesn't exist. A search reveals that /lib/dev-state/sound/dsp does exist so I created a soft link and to be on the safe side re-booted. The same error as before 'device /dev/dsp can't be opened...' There are lots of references to these problems in various archives but no-one seems to come up with a step 1, step 2, step 3 answer, or in fact any sort of an answer. Are there any suggestions as to how to get this working? regards Daryl -- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were playing a friendly game of Frisbee at the Gates estate on the shore of Lake Washington. At one point, Bill accidentally sends the Frisbee over Steve's head, and the Frisbee lands in the lake. Steve walks out onto the surface of the lake and retrieves the Frisbee. The next day the newspapers report: Gates' Throw Exceeds Expectations Apple CEO Unable to Swim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Custom small Linux howto
I am looking for a way to make a system that is foolproof. The best way I know to do that is eliminate the hard drive and use a CDROM with all the settings burned permanently. I need it to allow a PPP connection and use SCP or SFTP to transfer files. A BBS application with ZModem would also work, but I also need to be able to remotely print to a parallel port printer. For that, I was considering using a printer sharing daemon that would allow a windows98 machine to print to it over the PPP connection. If a BBS was used, I think a script would have to be run to print a file after it was uploaded. The system would also have to be able to mount a USB MMC card reader using VFAT. I think all this could be done with a single floppy. It doesn't matter to me. Either way, all it's going to be used for is retrieving the files on the MMC cards and remotely printing the results. Can someone point me to some HOWTO's that would get me started? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Custom small Linux howto
Barry Michels wrote: >I am looking for a way to make a system that is foolproof. The best way I >know to do that is eliminate the hard drive and use a CDROM with all the >settings burned permanently. I need it to allow a PPP connection and use >SCP or SFTP to transfer files. A BBS application with ZModem would also >work, but I also need to be able to remotely print to a parallel port >printer. For that, I was considering using a printer sharing daemon that >would allow a windows98 machine to print to it over the PPP connection. If >a BBS was used, I think a script would have to be run to print a file after >it was uploaded. The system would also have to be able to mount a USB MMC >card reader using VFAT. I think all this could be done with a single >floppy. It doesn't matter to me. Either way, all it's going to be used for >is retrieving the files on the MMC cards and remotely printing the results. > >Can someone point me to some HOWTO's that would get me started? > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Ummm, drop down one more level, there. Live filesystem is nice but look at www.linuxbios.org. How about booting from a DiskOnChip and having no flashing software in the system? DiskOn Chip goes to 288M or more, but the basic 8M or 16M models would be all you need--then --no CDROM. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Custom small Linux howto
> Ummm, drop down one more level, there. Live filesystem is nice but look > at www.linuxbios.org. How about booting from a DiskOnChip and having no > flashing software in the system? > > DiskOn Chip goes to 288M or more, but the basic 8M or 16M models would > be all you need--then --no CDROM. > > Civileme > Great idea! But the link you gave is dead. Is there a mirror somewhere? I did a Google search and found some great info, but no prices for anything yet... Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Alternative Mandrake RPM packages
There are a few sources for special Mandrake-ized RPM packages not included in the regular distribution (other than the Mandrake contribs section). I'm aware of: http://home.wanadoo.nl/cchq/conmen/rpms.html http://www.minlinux.org/projects/packages/ ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/RPMS ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/Contrib Are there others? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Alternative Mandrake RPM packages
Hoyt wrote: > There are a few sources for special Mandrake-ized RPM packages not included in > the regular distribution (other than the Mandrake contribs section). I'm > aware of: > > http://home.wanadoo.nl/cchq/conmen/rpms.html > > http://www.minlinux.org/projects/packages/ > > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/RPMS > > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/Contrib > > > Are there others? http://plf.zarb.org/ -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mdk 8.0 stucks
hi, was thinking, my prpblems with slowing down mdk 8.0 would be resolved, but it appears again. Now, what I have, is the complete /var/log/messages-file. If anybody is there, who could help me, to do an analyse of it, maybe, we can get a rid of some sources. Because the file /var/log/message is very big, I would think about to send it, if anybody can do such an anlysis - is this okay ? One more problem I got now - after reboot - I get an errormessage from my remote system, if I'll try to login over ssh: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. Any help and ideas are very welcome bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Networking resources attn James
Hey James where do you live that your so close to Central Computers? Im in Newark about two blocks from the Newark Central Computers. You dont happen to own a Camaro do ya? On Star Date Sunday 23 June 2002 09:58 pm, James sent this sub-space message. > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 00:34:17 -0400 > tarvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > > Why would anybody use a $40 hub when an $800 switch will do. > > Actually I've got a 5 port D-Link switched hub model DSS-5+ (yes it is > switched I've got 1 10mbps box and 2 100mpbs boxes connected all the > time and my laptops I have come in are either 10 or 100) It only cost > 49.95 it's a year old and haven't had a problem one with it. As for > cost effective. Check out the used parts stores. You can pick up > 10mbps NE2000 cards for about 5 bucks apiece grab 4 if you need 2 and > keep the others as "spares" These are ISA cards and they are generally > very reliable. Even old ISA 3coms can be gotten cheap. One supplier > near me (Central Computer) still sells new ISA NIC cards because of the > number of people doing just what you are doing with old boxes is great > enough it justifies a small store handling them. Since your connection > via DSL or Cable rarely exceeds 10mbps . it won't slow you down a > bit. Keeps the 100mbps cards for box to box transfers inside the LAN. > > James > > > I use a managed switch, I have 20 devices on the LAN, but I keep a > > cheap hub handy for times I need to sniff. > > > > Jim Tarvid > > > > On Monday 24 June 2002 12:06 am, you wrote: > > > Jason Guidry wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:55:49PM -0500 : > > > > so i need a NON COMMERCIAL site that is non-windowcentric to help > > > > decide on a hub or switch. what type of either, and maybe some > > > > other details > > > > > > No need for a site. Get a switch. Don't even give a hub a portion > > > of the thinking process. Get a switch. > > > > > > Unless you are trying to sniff traffic, in that case, get a managed > > > switch which you can make one of the ports a sniffer port. > > > > > > Either way, either get a switch, or get a very good switch. > > > > > > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER
Do you have reverse hostname entries in your dns server? Because this will cause this... -Original Message- From: David Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 10:47 AM To: mandrake Subject: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER Listmates: Over the past year, FTP and SSH logins are taking much longer. In the past FTP logins would take 2-3 seconds and SSH logins were almost instantaneous. Now both FTP and SSH logins take approximately 20 - 30 seconds. Uptime is 363 days and I haven't restarted either xinetd, FTP or SSH. Is there some kind of login history, or authentication log that could be causing the slowdows? Any other thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? Regardless of whether or not I use linuxconf, I would like to know this so I can always manually fix likely screwups from automagic tools. praedor On Sunday 23 June 2002 08:43 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Todd Lyons wrote: > | daRcmaTTeR wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:16:58PM -0400 : > |>It's really quite simple. Open Linuxconf->Networking->Host name and IP > | > | I usually recommend not to use linuxconf except as a last resort. It > | does some things to the system in a not friendly way and has left a bad > | taste in my mouth. Maybe it's better now, but I'm not going to trust it > | myself. Use webmin or mcc instead. > | > | Blue skies... Todd > > well...depending upon your system setup, mine included, you have to be > careful at the end of things when you're shutting it down. Linuxconf > often wants to "update" the system status. Most of the time, because of > the way I've got my FTP server setup I don't allow it to do anything. > However, thats just on the server. the workstations are a different story. [...] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared > to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in > a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via > linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, > what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by > "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or > /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? > > Regardless of whether or not I use linuxconf, I would like to know this so I > can always manually fix likely screwups from automagic tools. > > praedor > for that praedor you will want to navigate to /etc/sysconfig where you will find all the config files that pertain to networking for your entire system. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Thanks to you and daRmaTTeR. New question...at every bootup, my modem is "destroyed" by the system. I have a winmodem that works with a linmodem driver. The win/linmodem is /dev/tts/LT0 and is symlinked to /dev/modem. Upon bootup/reboot, this is destroyed and replaced with /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0, a nonexistent device on my system. This behavior happens only since installing 8.2 and never happened with 8.1. I have to manually delete /dev/modem and recreate the /dev/tts/LT0 device and the proper /dev/modem symlink. This appears to be a problem with devfs...but in any case, how does one fix this? On Monday 24 June 2002 08:08 am, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 07:42, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > Regardless of whether or not I use linuxconf, I would like to know this > > so I can always manually fix likely screwups from automagic tools. > > > > praedor > > /etc/sysconfig/network [...] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Thanks to you and daRmaTTeR. > > New question...at every bootup, my modem is "destroyed" by the system. I have > a winmodem that works with a linmodem driver. The win/linmodem is > /dev/tts/LT0 and is symlinked to /dev/modem. Upon bootup/reboot, this is > destroyed and replaced with /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0, a nonexistent device on > my system. > > This behavior happens only since installing 8.2 and never happened with 8.1. > I have to manually delete /dev/modem and recreate the /dev/tts/LT0 device and > the proper /dev/modem symlink. This appears to be a problem with devfs...but > in any case, how does one fix this? > Praedor, I would write a simple, short bash script that executes at boot that checks for the existance of this symlink you've mentioned, and if it doesn't exist, then create it so that you don't have to manually do this every time you want to use your modem. place that script in /bin and make a symlink in /etc/init.d/ so that it get executed when the system starts up with the rest of the services that start at boot. Then, I would find out "why" this is happening and fix it once and for all. The first place I would look is what is different from 8.1 to 8.2 where this is concerned. I have a feeling it's got something to do with the procedure that is handling the device setup at boot. that would be my guess. although, now that I think about it, this sounds like there's already a script being run that is linking /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0. find that script and you've found your problem. Change the script to link /dev/modem -> /dev/tts/LT0 and you've solved your problem. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 04:23, Moose Magin wrote: > No no no, I run Windows and Mandrake. Not just Mandrake. I don't know why, > but i can't get Quake 3 running with sound in Mandrake, thus, I run Windows > as well. > > Matt What soundcard are you using? LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Peculiar Unicode/TT font problem: missing/wrong punctuation characters
I have rather a peculiar problem. It's NOT the usual problem with web pages written with numeric entities between 129 and 159 from Microsoft Window's CP1252. At first I thought it was, but then I realised that a lot of web pages I was viewing in Mozilla 1.0.0 were displaying incorrectly despite the fact that were using the *correct* named/decima/hex entites to include em and en dashes and curly/smart quotes. I thought that perhaps this was a general problem, but I went to this page: http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/ent4_frame.html and could see that in fact all of characters in the right frame display correctly EXCEPT a few punctuation characters, such as dashes and quote marks. I have put up a web page listing the characters together with a screenshot of how they are displaying in my browser: http://www.dzr-web.com/unicode-test.html This is weird. Non latin scripts, such as Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and various East Asian scripts display properly. I have installed the Microsoft True Type Core Web Fonts, using Mandrake's drakfont utility (I'm using Mandrake 8.1). Why would just these few characters not display properly? It's also frustrating because those characters are very commonly used (for instance, see http://www.alistapart.com/ ). I don't know whether it is a Mozilla problem or a problem with how my fonts have been set up, but I suspect that it is the latter (I doubt Mozilla 1.0.0 would have been released without this problem being spotted). I've been searching google for something about this and can't find anything. Does anyone have a clue what might be the problem? TIA for any help anyone might be able to offer. Best, Darren P.S. I thought it might be a problem with my preferences, so I created a test user and let Mozilla start up with its out of the box defaults and the problem recurred. So I guess it is either my font setup or Mozilla. -- == D. D. Brierton[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step before failure (Homer Simpson) == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quake3 was:An add I just recieved.
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 04:17, FemmeFatale wrote: > the Question being: can you still connect to 1.31 servers & play on the > Net? > > > -- > Femme The answer beingehno. BUT, recently I found that the Quake3-Aureal soundriver thing had been addressed and dealt with on Sourceforge a month or so back, and as I now have 8.2 installed, I'll be checking to see if their driver fix does work. In all other respects the Sourceforge Aureal drivers have been superb. It was just that Quake 3 thing that really bugged me. As you can probably understand. ;) The caveat is that you CANNOT use version 1.1.2 of the drivers, you have to be on 1.1.3; and that means you need to do a CVS download. Which is not a biggie; it's the same as unpacking the source tar and compiling, cept you're downloading source tree file by file. So, anyway, I'm looking forward to a 1.31 test of Q3. L8r! LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.
> On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 04:23, Moose Magin wrote: > > No no no, I run Windows and Mandrake. Not just Mandrake. I don't know > > why, but i can't get Quake 3 running with sound in Mandrake, thus, I run > > Windows as well. > > > > Matt > This might help. http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2110&lang=en -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mdk 8.0 stucks
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, hans schneidhofer wrote: > hi, > > was thinking, my prpblems with slowing down mdk 8.0 would be resolved, but it > appears again. > > Now, what I have, is the complete /var/log/messages-file. > If anybody is there, who could help me, to do an analyse of it, maybe, we can > get a rid of some sources. > How about this -- look through the log and post the most prevalent errors. Do not send the whole file, may ten lines or so of the problems that appear most frequently. > Because the file /var/log/message is very big, I would think about to send > it, if anybody can do such an anlysis - is this okay ? > > One more problem I got now - after reboot - I get an errormessage from my > remote system, if I'll try to login over ssh: > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. > You need to send the log information from the remote host. On the client side this could mean almost anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NIS on Linux
On 23 Jun 2002, Srinivasa Raghavan wrote: > ypwhich: yp_bind Cant find domain name !!! :( > Not sure if this is the problem, but a common error is to use the DNS domain instead of the yp domain. They are different. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Custom small Linux howto
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Barry Michels wrote: > I am looking for a way to make a system that is foolproof. The best way I > know to do that is eliminate the hard drive and use a CDROM with all the > settings burned permanently. I need it to allow a PPP connection and use > SCP or SFTP to transfer files. A BBS application with ZModem would also > work, but I also need to be able to remotely print to a parallel port > printer. For that, I was considering using a printer sharing daemon that > would allow a windows98 machine to print to it over the PPP connection. If > a BBS was used, I think a script would have to be run to print a file after > it was uploaded. The system would also have to be able to mount a USB MMC > card reader using VFAT. I think all this could be done with a single > floppy. It doesn't matter to me. Either way, all it's going to be used for > is retrieving the files on the MMC cards and remotely printing the results. > > Can someone point me to some HOWTO's that would get me started? > Not directly related, but the January issue of 'System Administration' had an interesting article on running your firewall in an init 6 state. I.e., you force the system to go into an "almost" reboot, but disable the scripts that actually down the system. I used to run my website from a CD by using the Rescue CD howtos as a guide. You'll need a good amount of memory because a ramdisk is required. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quake3 was:An add I just recieved.
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 04:48, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Wed 19 Jun 2002 10:23, Moose Magin wrote: > > No no no, I run Windows and Mandrake. Not just Mandrake. I don't know why, > > but i can't get Quake 3 running with sound in Mandrake, thus, I run Windows > > as well. > > > > Matt > > Lyvim X (or whatever;o) ) > Had the answer to that a while back (07-04-2002 on this list) I've taken the > freedom ofg copying it for you.. > > > Here it is:.copying LX's answer. > > > > I installed Quake3 and updated it to the latest patch, which was: > > > linuxq3apoint-1.31.x86.run > > > Unfortunately it failed sound initialization. The trouble was, I found, > that the sound init routines had changed in the Quake code in the latest > patch. So I downloaded the patch BEFORE this one, and installed it. > After that I had no problems. > > > I have an Aureal AU8830 card, and I use the drivers for the AU8830 off > of the Sourceforge site. The sound drivers really need to be updated to > be in sync with the latest Quake version; however they have not done > that yet. So I still use the linuxq3apoint-1.30.x86.run patch, at least > until the Aureal drivers on Sourceforge are fixed. > > > > > Maybe he's gotten even more knowledgeable in the meantime. > > hint,hint..nudge,nudge..;o) Kind of like, more battle scars! ;) > Good luck, > > Harm. > L8r, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 00:51, David Rankin wrote: > Uhh > > That maybe the problem.. Windows expects the harware clock to be in > local time. Therefore, if you have you dual-boot Linux config set in GMT > or (UTC) then the two OS's may not play nicely together... > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. > RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC > 1329 N. University, Suite D4 > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > (936) 715-9333 > (936) 715-9339 fax Just out of curiosity, what in the heck does that have to do with Quake 3 sound not working? LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] pcmcia i82365 parameters
I have an irq conflict between my wlan card and my winmodem. If I use the wlan card without using the modem, no problem, I can connect to my other computer via wlan. If I connect via modem to my ISP, it kills my wlan card with a buttload of "Tx timeout! resetting card" and loss of ability to talk to my other computer. I looked at the irqs in use and see that irq 3 is for the wlan module/device itself, and is unshared. The pcmcia controller, on the other hand (i82365) shares irq 9 with the modem driver (ltserial). I have read the PCMCIA howto and it indicates that one thing I could try is to force the system to use ONLY PCI interrupts by using the irq_mode=0 setting. OK. So, where does one place this switch? What file contains the "load i82365.o" command because it sure isn't modules.conf. Also, I don't know the syntax of the command. The HOWTO shows "i82365 module: irq_mode=0" Nice, but it sure doesn't say what the actual method of passing this switch is, nor what file. I don't need to add an insmod command anywhere, pcmcia support is autoloaded at bootup. How does one pass commands such as this? praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:38, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: > Install ALSA drivers for your soundcard. BTW, Q3A under Linux runs > faster than in WinXP (with Nvidia boards at least). > > Wooky You are absolutely correct on that, my friend. BTW, have you seen the latest benchmarks here with Winblows Quake 3 against native Linux Quake 3 ? http://www.tomshardware.com/newsletter/vol2/20/gaming.html Linux is outperforming Windows in those benches by a nose, and they are using Nvidia graphics. Actually XP did us all a flavor, cause just about anything runs faster than XP now. ;) LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Praedor Tempus wrote: > > I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared > to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in > a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via > linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, > what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by > "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or > /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? > >> >> Praedor Tempus wrote: >> > >> > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: >> > > Praedor Tempus wrote: >> > > > I am hesitant to try this again...I run postfix on my system as my mta. >> > > > I own the ravenhome.net domain. I want my postfix to identify outgoing > > > >> > I do own ravenhome.net and have an account with dydns. Works well. What >> > concerns me is naming my system ravenhome.net and having no problems when I >> > am not connected. In the past, I have edited my hosts file to change >> > localhost entries to ravenhome entries and it borked my system. It has been >> >> Did you really _change_ the localhost entries? If so, that >> is a no-no. You _must_ have the localhost entries intact. >> You just _add_ entries for the additional IP/name >> combinations you need. >> >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/hosts >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost >> 192.168.1.12mrambo.imcdom.local mrambo >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ >> >> > a while so I don't recall the details but is this not really all I should >> > HAVE to do to change my hostname? Simply replace the localhost.localdomain >> > entry with ravenhome.net? > >This occured to me after I sent the previous mail >unfortunately... > > *The answer to your question is below* >Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The >hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts >relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set >anything. *The answer to your question is above* > >Sorry if I've misunderstood or just stated the obvious but >if you get some of this wrong it really will mess things up. >In particular, localhost is required for many system >processes. Without that /etc/hosts entry things will >definitely go wrong... > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: cardctl scheme has no effect (and why, MandrakeSoft?)
On June 20, 2002, Jan Lentfer wrote:
JL> There is response that says "Changing scheme from xyz to
JL> zxy" but the configuration just isn't changed. Is there a
JL> different way in MDK to manage different pcmcia network
JL> setups. The cardctl scheme is so nice and easy why doesn't it
JL> work with MDK?
When it comes to PCMCIA network cards, Mandrake (and supposedly also
Redhat---see the note ), uses the network settings specified in
/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*.
These script does not take into account the scheme set using cardctl.
You can try to compare the configuration files in /etc/pcmcia with
configuration files accompaning the pcmcia package (these can for
instance be found in the pcmcia-cs-*/etc directory of the kernel
sources, e.g., /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/pcmcia-cs-3.1.29). You will
notice that everything except the network-script is as provided by the
pcmcia-package. Thus schemes actually work out of the box for all
other types of PCMCIA cards.
As for the script for network cards, it has been replaced with a
script that calls the relevant /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup
script. And this script is actually run when you do cardctl scheme
But, obviousely, you see no change since the settings are
independent of schemes.
The configuration of the wireless card is BTW an interesting piece a
code under MDK. The card configuration from the pcmcia package is
copied in twice! First it can found in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless which is processed when
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup figures out that we have wireless
card. And shortly after the same section appears with all the
variables names prefixed by WIRELESS_. I wonder if someone at
MandrakeSoft has a good explanation for that duplication (downwards
comtability??).
Anyways, we can use this to get schemes back, by adding the following
to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless:
# Implement the scheme of cardctl taken from the pcmcia package
# The following is copy-and-paste from a couple of places in
# pcmcia/shared and is used to obtain the settings for the card
# with the current scheme.
grep_stab ()
{
# this should be cheaper than invoking "grep"
local CLASS DEV
while read SOCKET CLASS DRIVER INSTANCE DEV MAJOR MINOR ; do
if [ "$1" = "$DEV" ] ; then return 0 ; fi
done
return 1
}
get_info ()
{
if [ -d /var/lib/pcmcia ] ; then
STAB=/var/lib/pcmcia/stab
else
STAB=/var/run/stab
fi
if [ -f /var/lib/pcmcia/scheme ] ; then
SCHEME=`cat /var/lib/pcmcia/scheme`
elif [ -f /var/run/pcmcia-scheme ] ; then
SCHEME=`cat /var/run/pcmcia-scheme`
fi
if [ -z "$SCHEME" ] ; then SCHEME="default" ; fi
grep_stab $1 < $STAB || usage
}
WI_HWADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig $DEVICE | sed -n -e 's/.*addr \([^ ]*\) */\1/p'`
get_info $DEVICE
ADDRESS="$SCHEME,$SOCKET,$INSTANCE,$WI_HWADDR"
if [ -r ./wireless.opts ] ; then
. ./wireless.opts
else
. /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
fi
Best
Peter
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Re: [expert] USB 2 Support in MDK 8.2
Thanks Larry, USB 2 controller is integrated into VIA's new VT8235 Southbridge. Had a good read through the USB Linux project and it seems USB2 is not supported in 2.4.18-6 and is flaky in all 2.4 kernels, it recommends using 2.5 kernel. So I'm going to leave it for a while and see if there are any further developments. Andy - Original Message - From: "Larry Sword" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [expert] USB 2 Support in MDK 8.2 > This was just a "off the top" suggesting. Anyway, last night we finished > replacing several motherboards for new client. Using Abit KG7-Raid and > in the manual concerning USB ports: > > "Two options are available: Disabled and Enabled. The default is > Enabled. .. Even if so equipped, if you add a higher performance > controller, you will need to disable this feature." > > So on this particular, Abit KG7-Raid, motherboard equipped with USB1.0 > if installing a USB2.0 interface card the onboard USB1.0 must be > Disabled for the new USB2.0 interface card to function properly. > > This may be the same situation as with your card. > > Larry > > > Andy wrote: > > If I put the order of modules.conf as; > > > > alias usb-interface usb-uhci > > alias usb-interface ehci-hcd > > > > The module that is used is usb-uhci and devices are picked up OK > > > > If I order modules.conf > > > > alias usb-interface ehci-hcd > > alias usb-interface usb-uhci > > > > It tries to use ehci but fails as listed previous. > > > > Andy > > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Larry Sword" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 5:45 PM > > Subject: Re: [expert] USB 2 Support in MDK 8.2 > > > > > > > >>Since you have both a USB1.0 and a USB2.0 what happens when you use both > >>statements in you modules.conf file? > >> > >>alias usb-interface usb-uhci > >>alias usb-interface ehci-hcd > >> > >>Larry > >> > >>Andy wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I'm trying to get USB 2 working under Mandrake 8.2, so far it fails to > >>>operate correctly when I use -- "alias usb-interface ehci-hcd" in > >>>modules.conf. Motherboard has a VIA VT8235 southbridge. > >>> > >>>If I use "alias usb-interface usb-uhci" then USB works fine as USB ver > >> > > 1.0 @ > > > >>>12 MB/s. With 3 root hubs and 2 ports each. > >>> > >>>I have a Epson C42UX and a Freecom FX-1 CD-RW which are both detected in > >>>UsbView (/proc/bus/usb/devices) correctly and I have no problems > >> > > printing, > > > >>>(haven't tried the FX-1 yet). > >>> > >>>As soon as I switch modules to "alias usb-interface ehci-hcd" the ehci > >>>module is picked up and configured (or so messages log tells me), > >> > > however > > > >>>UsbView only reports 1 root hub (USB ver 2.0 @ 480 MB/s) but with 6 > >> > > ports!! > > > >>>As soon as a device is plugged in get the following kernel error; > >>> > >>>kernel: ehci-hub.c: GetStatus port 1 status 0x1803 POWER speed=2 > >> > > CSC > > > >>>CONNECT > >>>kernel: hub.c: Cannot enable port 1 of hub 1, disabling port > >>>kernel: hub.c: Maybe the USB cable is bad? > >>>kernel: ehci-hcd.c: 00:10.3: free_config devnum 0 > >>> > >>>Any ideas? > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>> > >>>Andy > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- -- > > > > > > > > > >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pcmcia i82365 parameters
Hmpf. In playing around, it appears that it is virtually impossible to have a modem connection AND pcmcia wlan card functioning at the same time. I think I found how to pass options for the i82365 module (/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia - add a "PCIC_OPTS=" line) but the i82365 wont accept irq_mode=0, it totally wrecks system startup and this line gets magically converted into a series of "U" characters instead. I am simply unable to force i82365 to NOT use irq 9. In trying to force the lt_modem driver to use another irq, it fails to load. Nice. You either get to have a wireless connection or a modem connection but not both - I ran into similar ridiculous irq problems (in this day and age) on my desktop when trying to get a wlan card to work. I had to throw away good money spent on a pci-to-pcmcia adaptor and "good" orinoco gold card and cough up for a usb wlan box that works under windoze thus far but no in linux. This is certainly almost enough to make me dump PCs forevermore and go to a Mac which simply never has irq problems...EVER. praedor On Monday 24 June 2002 09:57 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I have an irq conflict between my wlan card and my winmodem. If I use the > wlan card without using the modem, no problem, I can connect to my other > computer via wlan. If I connect via modem to my ISP, it kills my wlan card > with a buttload of "Tx timeout! resetting card" and loss of ability to talk > to my other computer. [...] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] pptp
hi, have a little bit of trouble with pptp in understanding that : pptp my.pptp.host debug name cananian remotename ntdialup 172.18.0.2:172.18.0.3 route add -net 172.18.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 172.18.0.3 this is from the script /usr/share/doc/pptp-adsl-fr-1.0.2/USING now what I cannot understand the right way is : my.pptp.host debug name cananian remotename do I have to replace my.pptp.host with my hostname or with a canonical hostname for my providers hostname ? name ? cananian remotename ? thanks for advertising and some enlightments bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Mike Rambo wrote: > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared > > to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in > > a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via > > linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, > > what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by > > "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or > > /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? > > > > > > >> > >> Praedor Tempus wrote: > >> > > >> > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >> > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > >> > > > I am hesitant to try this again...I run postfix on my system as my mta. > >> > > > I own the ravenhome.net domain. I want my postfix to identify outgoing > > > > > > > >> > I do own ravenhome.net and have an account with dydns. Works well. What > >> > concerns me is naming my system ravenhome.net and having no problems when I > >> > am not connected. In the past, I have edited my hosts file to change > >> > localhost entries to ravenhome entries and it borked my system. It has been > >> > >> Did you really _change_ the localhost entries? If so, that > >> is a no-no. You _must_ have the localhost entries intact. > >> You just _add_ entries for the additional IP/name > >> combinations you need. > >> > >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/hosts > >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > >> 192.168.1.12mrambo.imcdom.local mrambo > >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ > >> > >> > a while so I don't recall the details but is this not really all I should > >> > HAVE to do to change my hostname? Simply replace the localhost.localdomain > >> > entry with ravenhome.net? > > > >This occured to me after I sent the previous mail > >unfortunately... > > > > > > *The answer to your question is below* > > >Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The > >hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts > >relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set > >anything. > > *The answer to your question is above* > > > > >Sorry if I've misunderstood or just stated the obvious but > >if you get some of this wrong it really will mess things up. > >In particular, localhost is required for many system > >processes. Without that /etc/hosts entry things will > >definitely go wrong... > > > > > > > > > Mike, apart from sheery confusion your point in that post was...what? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Praedor Tempus wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:08:34AM -0500 : > New question...at every bootup, my modem is "destroyed" by the system. I have > a winmodem that works with a linmodem driver. The win/linmodem is > /dev/tts/LT0 and is symlinked to /dev/modem. Upon bootup/reboot, this is > destroyed and replaced with /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0, a nonexistent device on > my system. > in any case, how does one fix this? I'm pretty sure I already answered this for you: rm -f /lib/dev-state/modem Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55680/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Praedor Tempus wrote: >I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared >to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in >a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via >linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, >what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by >"hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or >/etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? > >Regardless of whether or not I use linuxconf, I would like to know this so I >can always manually fix likely screwups from automagic tools. > >praedor > >On Sunday 23 June 2002 08:43 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Todd Lyons wrote: >>| daRcmaTTeR wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:16:58PM -0400 : >>|>It's really quite simple. Open Linuxconf->Networking->Host name and IP >>| >>| I usually recommend not to use linuxconf except as a last resort. It >>| does some things to the system in a not friendly way and has left a bad >>| taste in my mouth. Maybe it's better now, but I'm not going to trust it >>| myself. Use webmin or mcc instead. >>| >>| Blue skies... Todd >> >>well...depending upon your system setup, mine included, you have to be >>careful at the end of things when you're shutting it down. Linuxconf >>often wants to "update" the system status. Most of the time, because of >>the way I've got my FTP server setup I don't allow it to do anything. >>However, thats just on the server. the workstations are a different story. >> >[...] > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Praedor use the hostname command in a terminal su'ed to root hostname lapdog.ravenhome.net reboot If you look at rc.sysinit you will see that /bin/hostname is how the hostname is retrieved and how it is set. Now quit reading BSD specific/Slackware specific man pages, take your head out of the sand, and do it. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Praedor Tempus wrote: >Thanks to you and daRmaTTeR. > >New question...at every bootup, my modem is "destroyed" by the system. I have >a winmodem that works with a linmodem driver. The win/linmodem is >/dev/tts/LT0 and is symlinked to /dev/modem. Upon bootup/reboot, this is >destroyed and replaced with /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0, a nonexistent device on >my system. > >This behavior happens only since installing 8.2 and never happened with 8.1. >I have to manually delete /dev/modem and recreate the /dev/tts/LT0 device and >the proper /dev/modem symlink. This appears to be a problem with devfs...but >in any case, how does one fix this? > >On Monday 24 June 2002 08:08 am, Dave Sherman wrote: > >>On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 07:42, Praedor Tempus wrote: >> >>>Regardless of whether or not I use linuxconf, I would like to know this >>>so I can always manually fix likely screwups from automagic tools. >>> >>>praedor >>> >>/etc/sysconfig/network >> >[...] > Look at /etc/devfsd.conf and read man devfsd.conf and man devfsd It is all there including your specific case for the modem. Civileme > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > Mike, > > apart from sheery confusion your point in that post was...what? > > -- > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Mike Rambo wrote: > > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > > > I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared > > > to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in > > > a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via > > > linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, > > > what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by > > > "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or > > > /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? Unless I missed the point, Praedor asked this question "If it isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it?" regarding what file to edit to change THE hostname of his box. My answer included the following which was itself part of an earlier question Praedor asked. DrJung (I think - I've already deleted the mail so I can't be sure) expressed the idea that questions were being answered by folks on the list but that Praedor might be missing some of the steps along the way in trying to implement the solution. I was trying to emphasize the answer to the question that was asked. Apparently I didn't do too well... > > *The answer to your question is below* > > > > >Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The > > >hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts To clarify, if one wants to edit a file to change the hostname, /etc/sysconfig/network is the file to edit. > > >relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set > > >anything. > > > > *The answer to your question is above* > > Hoping to have done better this time ... ;-) -- Mike > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > >> Praedor Tempus wrote: > > >> > > > >> > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > >> > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > >> > > > I am hesitant to try this again...I run postfix on my system as my mta. > > >> > > > I own the ravenhome.net domain. I want my postfix to identify outgoing > > > > > > > > > > > >> > I do own ravenhome.net and have an account with dydns. Works well. What > > >> > concerns me is naming my system ravenhome.net and having no problems when I > > >> > am not connected. In the past, I have edited my hosts file to change > > >> > localhost entries to ravenhome entries and it borked my system. It has been > > >> > > >> Did you really _change_ the localhost entries? If so, that > > >> is a no-no. You _must_ have the localhost entries intact. > > >> You just _add_ entries for the additional IP/name > > >> combinations you need. > > >> > > >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/hosts > > >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > >> 192.168.1.12mrambo.imcdom.local mrambo > > >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ > > >> > > >> > a while so I don't recall the details but is this not really all I should > > >> > HAVE to do to change my hostname? Simply replace the localhost.localdomain > > >> > entry with ravenhome.net? > > > > > >This occured to me after I sent the previous mail > > >unfortunately... > > > > > > > > > > *The answer to your question is below* > > > > >Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The > > >hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts > > >relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set > > >anything. > > > > *The answer to your question is above* > > > > > > > >Sorry if I've misunderstood or just stated the obvious but > > >if you get some of this wrong it really will mess things up. > > >In particular, localhost is required for many system > > >processes. Without that /etc/hosts entry things will > > >definitely go wrong... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
On Monday 24 June 2002 01:36 pm, civileme wrote: > Praedor Tempus wrote: > >I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) > > appeared to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not > > to use it in a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the > > hostname via linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot > > again but still, what file/system config contains THE hostname > > information utilized by "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, > > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or > >/etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? [...] > Praedor > > use the hostname command in a terminal su'ed to root > > hostname lapdog.ravenhome.net > reboot > > If you look at rc.sysinit you will see that /bin/hostname is how the > hostname is retrieved and how it is set. > > Now quit reading BSD specific/Slackware specific man pages, take your > head out of the sand, and do it. [...] I have corrected the difficulty, but did so by editing /etc/sysconfig/network and adding entries to /etc/hosts. /etc/sysconfig/network: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=no HOSTNAME="lapdog" DOMAINNAME=ravenhome.net /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog 10.0.0.1lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog 10.0.0.5overlord.ravenhome.net overlord I now have the domain and hostname that I wanted and it remains such after reboot, reboot, reboot. I have, in the past, tried the "hostname" method only for the change to go away and remit back to "localhost" upon the next reboot. A binary file cannot hold the hostname inside itself, thus the binary "/bin/hostname" would have to store a hostname in a file somewhere. I was less interested in the binaries and wizards and guis that one can try to change this or that and more interested in the REAL meat...the actual file that stored the change for posterity. In my past attempts at using "hostname ", it appeared to me that hostname merely stored the hostname change for the current session rather than forevermore because upon reboot, zap, back to localhost. I quit trying to use /bin/hostname. In any case, as to the "...quit reading BSD specific/Slackware specific man pages, take your head out of the sand, and do it" statement. What is the point of including the manpages with the distro? To add to the injury, many than answer a question with a directive for the person to "read the manpage" For instance, this hostname thing is totally wrong in the manpage. Tell a newbie to read the manpage and they will get exactly nowhere, get no answer, and wonder what's wrong with their system or what's wrong with linux. I believe the manpages should be eliminated if they are not current or do not apply to linux. It is also one thing to try to make everything easy to do with GUIs and wizards, but to obfuscate what is actually happening, to make it difficult to determine what is being done for someone so inclined (or who needs to know because the wizard, GUI, or "simple" tool failed to perform as expected) is pointless and counterproductive. I figure that roughly 30-40% of the manpages I've read are either useless because they are too generic or cryptic or they are flatout wrong. They generally lack any examples so one can see a real example of the command syntax, instead simply enumerating a list of commands and thinking that it is completely intuitive as to how to use the commands (it is not). praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quake3 was:An add I just recieved.
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 04:17, FemmeFatale wrote: > > >>the Question being: can you still connect to 1.31 servers & play on the >>Net? >> >> >>-- >>Femme > > > The answer beingehno. > > BUT, recently I found that the Quake3-Aureal soundriver thing had been > addressed and dealt with on Sourceforge a month or so back, and as I now > have 8.2 installed, I'll be checking to see if their driver fix does > work. > > In all other respects the Sourceforge Aureal drivers have been superb. > It was just that Quake 3 thing that really bugged me. As you can > probably understand. ;) > > The caveat is that you CANNOT use version 1.1.2 of the drivers, you have > to be on 1.1.3; and that means you need to do a CVS download. Which is > not a biggie; it's the same as unpacking the source tar and compiling, > cept you're downloading source tree file by file. > > So, anyway, I'm looking forward to a 1.31 test of Q3. > > > L8r! LX > > Heh, well icq me sometime & we'll test it ;p 5441067 -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER
Randy, I think your on to something. My auth.log reveals the following for SSH and FTP authentication: Jun 24 13:26:12 Nemesis sshd[24448]: Accepted password for david from 66.76.72.50 port 1026 Jun 24 13:26:12 Nemesis sshd[24448]: Could not reverse map address 66.76.72.50. Jun 24 13:26:12 Nemesis PAM_unix[24448]: (system-auth) session opened for user david by (uid=0) Jun 24 13:29:14 Nemesis PAM_unix[24448]: (system-auth) session closed for user david Jun 24 13:29:29 Nemesis xinetd[27314]: START: ftp pid=24469 from=66.76.72.50 Jun 24 13:31:24 Nemesis xinetd[27314]: EXIT: ftp pid=24469 duration=115(sec) sshd can't reverse map the 66.76.72.50 IP that I have at home? That seems really strange, because I CAN do reverse lookups of other addresses. Any thoughts on why nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx would yield good results on some addresses and not on others? Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA wrote: > Do you have reverse hostname entries in your dns server? Because this will cause >this... > > -Original Message- > From: David Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 10:47 AM > To: mandrake > Subject: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER > > Listmates: > > Over the past year, FTP and SSH logins are taking much longer. In the > past FTP logins would take 2-3 seconds and SSH logins were almost > instantaneous. Now both FTP and SSH logins take approximately 20 - 30 > seconds. Uptime is 363 days and I haven't restarted either xinetd, FTP > or SSH. Is there some kind of login history, or authentication log that > could be causing the slowdows? Any other thoughts? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. > RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC > 1329 N. University, Suite D4 > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > (936) 715-9333 > (936) 715-9339 fax > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] upgrading....reinstall?
I am currently running Mandrake 8.2 on a K6-2 400 with a EPOX MVP3G5 (VIA super 7) motherboard. I am upgrading soon to a Duron or an Athlon, haven't decided yet with a DDR mobo. Can I just chuck in the new mobo, RAM and CPU and them boot my system as normal? Run Kudzu then? Or should I do a total re-install (hope not). Darren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] upgrading....reinstall?
On 25 Jun 2002, Darren King wrote: > I am currently running Mandrake 8.2 on a K6-2 400 with a EPOX MVP3G5 > (VIA super 7) motherboard. > > I am upgrading soon to a Duron or an Athlon, haven't decided yet with a > DDR mobo. Can I just chuck in the new mobo, RAM and CPU and them boot > my system as normal? Run Kudzu then? > > Or should I do a total re-install (hope not). > It worked for me -- moved from a K6-2/500 to Duron 1.3G/ECS K7S5A without a hitch. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
At Last This:- > >Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The > >hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts > >relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set > >anything. this is what isn't obvious. I dont have a network at home, but I dont want to have to call my Linux box localhost.localdomain . I'd totally given up in Mandrake - its about the third thing you choose in a Slackware install - I couldn't find what file really held the hostname. I'd figured out the /etc/hosts file ages ago, but it does nothing on its own - except bugger everything if you take replace the localhost entry. Finally I've given my machine its own name which remains after a hard reboot and everything else still appears to work. Thanks loads everyone, been following this thread since the get go hoping the last piece[s] in the puzzle would appear, and they did... /etc/sysconfig/network ...of course I've got to find something else busted to fix now ;-) Si - Original Message - From: Mike Rambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:13:43 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared > > to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in > > a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via > > linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, > > what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by > > "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or > > /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? > > > > > > >> > >> Praedor Tempus wrote: > >> > > >> > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >> > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > >> > > > I am hesitant to try this again...I run postfix on my system as my mta. > >> > > > I own the ravenhome.net domain. I want my postfix to identify outgoing > > > > > > > >> > I do own ravenhome.net and have an account with dydns. Works well. What > >> > concerns me is naming my system ravenhome.net and having no problems when I > >> > am not connected. In the past, I have edited my hosts file to change > >> > localhost entries to ravenhome entries and it borked my system. It has been > >> > >> Did you really _change_ the localhost entries? If so, that > >> is a no-no. You _must_ have the localhost entries intact. > >> You just _add_ entries for the additional IP/name > >> combinations you need. > >> > >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/hosts > >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > >> 192.168.1.12mrambo.imcdom.local mrambo > >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ > >> > >> > a while so I don't recall the details but is this not really all I should > >> > HAVE to do to change my hostname? Simply replace the localhost.localdomain > >> > entry with ravenhome.net? > > > >This occured to me after I sent the previous mail > >unfortunately... > > > > > > *The answer to your question is below* > > >Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The > >hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts > >relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set > >anything. > > *The answer to your question is above* > > > > >Sorry if I've misunderstood or just stated the obvious but > >if you get some of this wrong it really will mess things up. > >In particular, localhost is required for many system > >processes. Without that /etc/hosts entry things will > >definitely go wrong... > > > > > > > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Save up to $160 by signing up for NetZero Platinum Internet service. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=N2P0602NEP8 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Mike Rambo wrote: > > > My answer included the following which was itself part of an > earlier question Praedor asked. DrJung (I think - I've > already deleted the mail so I can't be sure) expressed the > idea that questions were being answered by folks on the list > but that Praedor might be missing some of the steps along > the way in trying to implement the solution. I was trying to > emphasize the answer to the question that was asked. > Apparently I didn't do too well... > Mike, you did just fine. This thread has been kicking around for literally months. I have seen at least a half dozen good answers, such as the one that civileme just posted. It is time for Praedor to put the crack pipe down, and try some of these suggestions. After all, he is only trying to give a host a hostname. Just think of the fun he will have when he attempts to do some node clustering :-) drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pcmcia i82365 parameters
Praedor Tempus wrote: > > Hmpf. In playing around, it appears that it is virtually impossible to have a > modem connection AND pcmcia wlan card functioning at the same time. > > I think I found how to pass options for the i82365 module > (/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia - add a "PCIC_OPTS=" line) but the i82365 wont accept > irq_mode=0, it totally wrecks system startup and this line gets magically > converted into a series of "U" characters instead. > > I am simply unable to force i82365 to NOT use irq 9. In trying to force the > lt_modem driver to use another irq, it fails to load. > > Nice. You either get to have a wireless connection or a modem connection but > not both - I ran into similar ridiculous irq problems (in this day and age) > on my desktop when trying to get a wlan card to work. I had to throw away > good money spent on a pci-to-pcmcia adaptor and "good" orinoco gold card and > cough up for a usb wlan box that works under windoze thus far but no in > linux. This is certainly almost enough to make me dump PCs forevermore and > go to a Mac which simply never has irq problems...EVER. > > praedor > > On Monday 24 June 2002 09:57 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > I have an irq conflict between my wlan card and my winmodem. If I use the > > wlan card without using the modem, no problem, I can connect to my other > > computer via wlan. If I connect via modem to my ISP, it kills my wlan card > > with a buttload of "Tx timeout! resetting card" and loss of ability to talk > > to my other computer. > [...] > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Have you tried adding the following to your /etc/modules.conf file? "options i82365 irq_mode=0" Just a thought. Good luck Arnold -- Arnold Troeger Unocal Thailand Phone: 011-66-2-545-5456 5th Floor, Tower 3, SCB Park Plaza FAX:011-66-2-545-5374 19 Ratchadapisek Road, Chatuchak Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bangkok 10900, Thailand "Microsoft Windows: for when your machine is just too fast" "Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier!" "Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)
I promised this a while back and got sidetracked by RL. ;) So here it
is.
This is what it takes to record broadcasts off the net in ogg format.
Using Sox (which is the best sound util ever made) you can also record
just about anything that your soundcard puts out; VERBATIM.
Sox is a deceptively innocuous utility that endows the user with a huge
amount of power and flexibility with sound streams that are routed thru
the soundcard. By trade and public presentation, Sox was originally
touted as a file format conversion utility. However Sox's real power
comes in it's ability to snatch an audio stream from /dev/dsp and
convert it into the file format of your choice. In this case, our
choice will be Ogg Vorbis.
There are fully 24 file formats listed in the Sox man page. You can
encode to or convert between all of them. Oddly enough, Ogg Vorbis is
not amongst them; at least in the LM82 version of the Sox man pages.
The first wrinkle that we encounter is the fact that Sox as installed
from the Mandrake LM81/82 CD's does NOT encode Ogg capability. Ogg
Vorbis encoding/conversion is indeed supported under Sox, however you
need to read the source documentation to catch this clue. To his
credit, the current maintainer of Sox Chris Bagwell does give Ogg an
honorable mention on his website. Which is:
http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/sox.html
In order to get Ogg capability we must compile it in. Unfortunately,
running rpm --rebuild on sox-12.17.1-3mdk.src.rpm will not do this; it
will not detect installed oggvorbis libraries, and you will be forced to
do two things. One is to recompile the source code. The other is that
you must have the ogg vorbis libraries installed. The next time somebody
redoes the sox source rpm it would be nice if their configure routine
checks for Ogg Vorbis libs.(HINT HINT nudge nudge)
The devels may not be needed, I haven't checked. But this is what I have
installed according to Rpmdrake:
libogg0
libogg0-devel
libvorbis0
libvorbis0-devel
If you don't have those, do a search for them using rpmdrake and get
them installed off of your installation cd's. Next, make sure that you
have the rpm version of Sox installed. Yes I know I just said that the
rpm binary version of Sox does not support Ogg; however we need to
maintain some semblance of order with regard to the RPM database and in
order to do that we are going to cheat a little, since we must deal with
a direct source to binary install.
Make sure you have the Sox rpm installed. Now we go to CVS and download
the latest Sox code. That's right, if we've got to go pure source we
might as well go to thewell, the source. Hehe. Go to your home or
main /tmp directory and enter the following as a non-root user in a
terminal command line:
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sox login
(when prompted for a password here hit enter)
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sox co
sox
And after the last line you should see a "sox" directory created and the
CVS download will commence.
After you have the entire CVS tree, su to root. Make sure you su to
root. Descend into the "sox" directory and enter the following two
commands:
./configure
make
After that we need to edit the Makefile that we just made. Do
vi Makefile
If you are not a member of the one true vi faith, you may be able to
scrape by with another of the lesser heretic faiths. I personally don't
recommend it, however.
In any case, at the beginning of the Makefile you will see the
following:
__
# Makefile.in
#
# Processed by configure into a Makefile. We assume the environment in
# which we are running is a POSIX'y environment. Thus, all of the
standard
# POSIX tools are available.
#
# Paths
srcdir = .
prefix = /usr/local
exec_prefix = ${prefix}
bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin
libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib
mandir = ${prefix}/man
includedir = ${prefix}/include
*snip**
Change "prefix = /usr/local" to "prefix = /usr". That's all. Save and
exit.
Now from the "sox" CVS dir do
make install
And you will see stuff happen. You should be root as you do "make
install".
Now do "sox -h" and you should see the following:
_
[elx@tamriel elx]$ sox -h
sox: Version 12.17.3
Usage: [ gopts ] [ fopts ] ifile [ fopts ] ofile [ effect [ effopts ] ]
gopts: -e -h -p -v volume -V
fopts: -r rate -c channels -s/-u/-U/-A/-a/-i/-g/-f -b/-w/-l/-d -x
effect: avg band bandpass bandreject chorus compand copy dcshift deemph
earwax echo echos fade filter flanger highp highpass lowp lowpass map
mask pan phaser pitch polyphase rate resample reverb reverse silence
speed stat stretch swap synth trim vibro vol
effopts: depends on effect
Supported file formats: aiff al alsa au auto avr cdr cvs dat vms gsm
hcom la lu maud nul ossdsp prc raw sb sf sl smp sndt sph 8svx sw txw ub
ul uw voc vorb
Re: [expert] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)
> This is what it takes to record broadcasts off the net in ogg format.=20 > Using Sox (which is the best sound util ever made) you can also record > just about anything that your soundcard puts out; VERBATIM.=20 Lyvim - this is way cool - keep it coming. I am a bit skeptical that it would work, since xmms is playing the file in the background but hell, it's going to be worth a try. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Praedor Tempus wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:49:25PM -0500 : > > /etc/hosts: > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost good start > 127.0.0.1 lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog bad. Delete it. > 10.0.0.1lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog good > 10.0.0.5overlord.ravenhome.net overlord good One of two situtations will exist: 1) You don't have any network cards. All hostnames that you want to use to access stuff on your machine will be appended to the localhost line. Leave the first part alone, just add the hostnames to it. 2) You do have at least one network card. In this case, the localhost line should consist solely of the first like you have listed above. Any other hostname should have its own IP address on the following lines. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55694/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Simon Naish wrote on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:47:57AM +0100 : > At Last > This:- > > >Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The > > >hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts > > >relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set > > >anything. > this is what isn't obvious. I dont have a network at home, but I dont want to have >to call my Linux box localhost.localdomain . I'd totally given up in Mandrake - its >about the third thing you choose in a Slackware install - I couldn't find what file >really held the hostname. The first thing that happens when the kernel finishes booting is it mounts the root filesystem and then calls "/sbin/init". This then reads the /etc/inittab file which is a list of things to do on startup (or change in runlevels in general). One of the first things is to run the rc.sysinit script. The rc.sysinit script is located at /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and you can take a look at it if you look. If you do a search for "HOSTNAME", you'll see where it reads in /etc/sysconfig/network (which sets the HOSTNAME variable) and then runs the /sbin/hostname command with it. A really good document that details the boot process is: http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/tips/Boot-Process-Tips/Boot-Process-Tips.html Blue skies... Todd P.S. It's also considered courteous to trim email messages of unneeded extra parts. If you force yourself to reply to bottom-post (or inline) instead of top-posting, you generally develop good habits of deleting the unnecessary parts. -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55695/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] M 8.2 & Yamaha ISA OPL3-SAx
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 08:06, Michal Hrtko wrote: > Hi all, > > My Yamaha doesn't seem to work under M 8.2 (kernel 2.4.18-6) > I've tried to configure it with sndconfig, but it returns an error > /dev/audio - an unknown device. > What can I do? > Under M 8.1 works all the best. > > Thanks, > Michal. This is interesting as recently I tried to install a Yamaha Waveforce 192XG (chipset YMF-724E) under LM82, and I could run programs like xmms and other sound utils, but no sound would be produced. This is a card that is supported in the kernel in native mode.very baffling. The sound card is a known good card and works under other circumstances. Even more confusing was that during the LM82 install routine the Yamaha was detected as a YMF-724, which it is. However after entering X no sounds could ever be produced. So I ended up replacing the Yamaha with my old faithful Aureal SuperQuad 8830 card, and everything started working. However this time I was using version 1.1.3 of the Aureal drivers off of Sourceforge. So is there a functinal issue with drivers supplied with the kernel as compared to drivers being supplied by third party programmers? Don't know. But I wonder. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Here they come again...
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 03:18, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Charlie wrote: > > Wassup doc? (I'm sorry but I couldn't resist.) > > What it be like, dude? > > > The responses ranged from; "How much is Microsoft paying them for this > > crap?" from an > aunt of a good friend, to his reply which is unfit > > for quotation on a polite mailing list such as this. :-) > > Who is spreading those fucking rumors about this being a "polite mailing > list"? > :-) > > BTW did you know that the ZDNet Forum "Computer Help" was; for a very long > > time, the "online support" link for Windows ME? Isn't _that_ just "special?" > > > > ZDNet. Another site that I choose not to open. > > The source of these kinds of attacks on open source are inconsequential. > This was posted so we could be aware of what some groups have as their > agenda. It is very easy to dismiss this as so much propaganda coming > from the likes of Micro$oft. A simple read of history shows us what > dismissive attitudes cost Europe in May of 1940; what they cost the USA > in Dec of 1941, and what they cost her again in Sept of 2001. We may > consider such statements from an "influential think tank" to be just so > much crap but summarily dismiss them at your own peril. I, for one, take > these attacks on the future of open source development as very serious. > Let there be no mistake about it: the barbarians are at the gate. > > drjung > WOO HOO!! The Doc is in the howse!! Good grief, the gems you miss when you are offline. Preach it, DJ ! L8r, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 21:50, Todd Lyons wrote: > Praedor Tempus wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:49:25PM -0500 : > > > > /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > good start > > > 127.0.0.1 lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog > bad. Delete it. Out of curiosity, why is it "bad" to have two lines with different hostnames pointing at the same IP address? Other than the fact that it isn't very elegant? I have it in my system because it is a laptop, and I never know from one day to the next what my IP address will be. Therefore, I make it really easy for my system to resolve the IP address of itself, by pointing it at the standard localhost address. -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. "lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc | gpg --import" signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Dave Sherman wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:32:04PM -0500 : > > > > > > /etc/hosts: > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > good start > > > 127.0.0.1 lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog > > bad. Delete it. > Out of curiosity, why is it "bad" to have two lines with different > hostnames pointing at the same IP address? Other than the fact that it > isn't very elegant? After digging through the documentation available to me I have concluded that there is no technical basis for my conclusion that it was bad, just because it was a duplicate of the line above it. However, be careful about quoting out of context. His was: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog 10.0.0.1lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog If you try to test to lapdog.ravenhome.net, are you using localhost or are you using the ethernet interface? Or is it possible to distinguish? I will change my description from "bad. Delete it." to "confusing and redundant. Delete it". Good call, Dave. Regards... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55699/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)
dfox wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:30:49PM -0700 : > > There is a wrinkle - first you can issue ./configure --prefix=/usr > instead of editing the Makefile, but that's a pretty minor issue. > Sox's idea of where the manual pages differs from where Makdrake > puts them,though. If you do a 'man sox' after you do an install, > you'll think the old version is still there :(. ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib \ --sysconfdir=/etc This comes from the macro that is used to build rpms. -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55700/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Here they come again...
Lyvim Xaphir wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:06:51PM -0400 : > > Charlie wrote: > > from the likes of Micro$oft. A simple read of history shows us what > > dismissive attitudes cost Europe in May of 1940; what they cost the USA Godwin's law is an amazing occurrance in nature. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55701/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)
> Lyvim - this is way cool - keep it coming. I am a bit skeptical that > it would work, since xmms is playing the file in the background but > hell, it's going to be worth a try. :) Following up: There is a wrinkle - first you can issue ./configure --prefix=/usr instead of editing the Makefile, but that's a pretty minor issue. Sox's idea of where the manual pages differs from where Makdrake puts them,though. If you do a 'man sox' after you do an install, you'll think the old version is still there :(. So we need to clean up: sox puts the man pages in /usr/man/man1 instead of /usr/share/man/man1. By default, they are not compressed, and Mandtrake compresses its manpages using bzip2 compression. So as root, you'll need to cd into /usr/share/man1 and move the sox manpages to /usr/share/man/man1: cd /usr/man/man1 mv sox.1 soxmix.1 play.1 /usr/share/man/man1 Then compress sox.1: cd /usr/share/man/man1 rm -f sox.1.bz2 bzip2 sox.1 rm -f play.1.bz2 bzip2 play.1 # play is pretty short, so bzip2 is optional, but you don't want to carry two copies of the same manpage... Since 'rec' is a link to the play manpage, you'll need to re-establish the right links. 'soxmix' is also a link to the 'sox' manpage. rm -f soxmix.1* rec.1* ln -sf sox.1.bz2 soxmix.1.bz2 ln -sf play.1.bz2 rec.1.bz2 Now you should have updated manual pages in the rigth place. One other slight thing - your original post has a buch of =20 characters at ends of lines. This may cause it to be harder to read (ex 'login' becomes 'login=20'.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:30, dfox wrote: > > Lyvim - this is way cool - keep it coming. I am a bit skeptical that > > it would work, since xmms is playing the file in the background but > > hell, it's going to be worth a try. :) > > Following up: > > There is a wrinkle - first you can issue ./configure --prefix=/usr > instead of editing the Makefile, but that's a pretty minor issue. > Sox's idea of where the manual pages differs from where Makdrake > puts them,though. If you do a 'man sox' after you do an install, > you'll think the old version is still there :(. You know, I had recompiled the latest sox srpm, which matches the latest CVS download, and installed the resultant rpm. Thus I was seeing man pages with the same version as the CVS sox. And I wasn't watching when sox installed it's man pages, so I completely missed all this. I've been depending on the source documentation moreso than the man pages; since you caught this things should be much better. > So we need to clean up: sox puts the man pages in /usr/man/man1 instead of > /usr/share/man/man1. By default, they are not compressed, and Mandtrake > compresses its manpages using bzip2 compression. > > So as root, you'll need to cd into /usr/share/man1 and move the > sox manpages to /usr/share/man/man1: > > cd /usr/man/man1 > mv sox.1 soxmix.1 play.1 /usr/share/man/man1 > > Then compress sox.1: > > cd /usr/share/man/man1 > rm -f sox.1.bz2 > bzip2 sox.1 > rm -f play.1.bz2 > bzip2 play.1 > > # play is pretty short, so bzip2 is optional, but you don't > want to carry two copies of the same manpage... > > Since 'rec' is a link to the play manpage, you'll need to re-establish > the right links. 'soxmix' is also a link to the 'sox' manpage. > > rm -f soxmix.1* rec.1* > ln -sf sox.1.bz2 soxmix.1.bz2 > ln -sf play.1.bz2 rec.1.bz2 Excellent and competent help, dfox. Some extra points here you might want to know about... soxexam.1.bz2 is still in /usr/share/man/man1 and needs to be deleted soxexam.1 is in /usr/man/man1 and needs to be moved and compressed; thus: cd /usr/share/man/man1 rm soxexam.1.bz2 mv /usr/man/man1/soxexam.1 . (Everyone else; don't forget or miss the last space-dot on this move command line) bzip2 soxexam.1 And finally: cd /usr rm -rf man Deleting what the source to binary install put in place, since we are finished. > > Now you should have updated manual pages in the right place. > > > One other slight thing - your original post has a bunch of > =20 characters at ends of lines. This may cause it to be > harder to read (ex 'login' becomes 'login=20'.) > Major yeechhh!! I will have to be careful how I paste into the Evolution windows in the future; thanks for letting me know. I thought I was broadcasting straight text. I'll check the settings; this Evolution install is just a little over a week and 1/2 old. BTW, I followed your instructions (and added mine), and guess what; the man pages now reflect an entire section on Ogg Vorbis. Very primo cool. Thanks, dfox. :) LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Networking resources attn James
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:29:59 -0500 "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > Bill wrote: > > > > Hey James where do you live that your so close to Central Computers? > > Im in Newark about two blocks from the Newark Central Computers. You > > dont happen to own a Camaro do ya? > > Naw! Are you kidding? James cruises town in a "cherried" out 1936 > Roadster. He is the one you always see with the good lookin blond > sitting next to him... > > Truck on, brother, > drjung Doc god whatever you do don't let the Brunette I'm married to find out about the blonde *grin* James > > > -- > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT Network/System Administration > http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html > Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Here they come again...
On Monday 24 June 2002 11:06 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 03:18, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > Charlie wrote: > > > Wassup doc? (I'm sorry but I couldn't resist.) > > > > What it be like, dude? > > > > > The responses ranged from; "How much is Microsoft paying them for this > > > crap?" from an > aunt of a good friend, to his reply which is unfit > > > for quotation on a polite mailing list such as this. :-) > > > > Who is spreading those fucking rumors about this being a "polite mailing > > list"? > > > > :-) > > : > > > BTW did you know that the ZDNet Forum "Computer Help" was; for a very > > > long time, the "online support" link for Windows ME? Isn't _that_ just > > > "special?" > > > > > > ZDNet. Another site that I choose not to open. > > > > The source of these kinds of attacks on open source are inconsequential. > > This was posted so we could be aware of what some groups have as their > > agenda. It is very easy to dismiss this as so much propaganda coming > > from the likes of Micro$oft. A simple read of history shows us what > > dismissive attitudes cost Europe in May of 1940; what they cost the USA > > in Dec of 1941, and what they cost her again in Sept of 2001. We may > > consider such statements from an "influential think tank" to be just so > > much crap but summarily dismiss them at your own peril. I, for one, take > > these attacks on the future of open source development as very serious. > > Let there be no mistake about it: the barbarians are at the gate. > > > > drjung > > WOO HOO!! The Doc is in the howse!! > > Good grief, the gems you miss when you are offline. Preach it, DJ ! > > L8r, LX LX: You ain't seen nothin' yet. Here's one about MS's new Palladium project that showed up over the weekend: http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp Now, this is really scary. Bill gets world domination, Senator Fritz can satisfy his very good friends at Disney, the RIAA gets what they want, the feds get Carnivore back doors, the list goes on... -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Peculiar Unicode/TT font problem: missing/wrong punctuation characters
yep looked familiar. I'm running 1.0 (2002052918) Found out it all went away when I went to this page. http://www.desktop-linux.net/aa-font-tweaks.htm and followed their instructions on using true type fonts in Mandrake and then in Mozilla. I render them correctly now. (and the tweaks are noticeably sharp) Also check your font set. I've had a couple that were at best flakey (even in windows) Microsoft Tahoma comes out nicely for me. James On 24 Jun 2002 15:14:00 +0100 "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > I have rather a peculiar problem. It's NOT the usual problem with web > pages written with numeric entities between 129 and 159 from Microsoft > Window's CP1252. At first I thought it was, but then I realised that a > lot of web pages I was viewing in Mozilla 1.0.0 were displaying > incorrectly despite the fact that were using the *correct* > named/decima/hex entites to include em and en dashes and curly/smart > quotes. > > I thought that perhaps this was a general problem, but I went to this > page: > > http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/ent4_frame.html > > and could see that in fact all of characters in the right frame > display correctly EXCEPT a few punctuation characters, such as dashes > and quote marks. I have put up a web page listing the characters > together with a screenshot of how they are displaying in my browser: > > http://www.dzr-web.com/unicode-test.html > > This is weird. Non latin scripts, such as Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and > various East Asian scripts display properly. I have installed the > Microsoft True Type Core Web Fonts, using Mandrake's drakfont utility > (I'm using Mandrake 8.1). Why would just these few characters not > display properly? It's also frustrating because those characters are > very commonly used (for instance, see http://www.alistapart.com/ ). > > I don't know whether it is a Mozilla problem or a problem with how my > fonts have been set up, but I suspect that it is the latter (I doubt > Mozilla 1.0.0 would have been released without this problem being > spotted). I've been searching google for something about this and > can't find anything. Does anyone have a clue what might be the > problem? > > TIA for any help anyone might be able to offer. > > Best, Darren > > P.S. I thought it might be a problem with my preferences, so I created > a test user and let Mozilla start up with its out of the box defaults > and the problem recurred. So I guess it is either my font setup or > Mozilla. > > -- > == > D. D. Brierton[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dzr-web.com > Trying is the first step before failure (Homer Simpson) > == > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
