Re[2]: [expert] Passwd file conversion?
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, David Relson wrote: Clayton, Have you tried runing grep common_user_id /etc/passwd /etc/shadow, or comparable command, on both boxes It'd show you whether the hashed passwords are the same (or not). Here's a Solaris 8 /etc/shadow entry: klowe:TvfSj1YJdIPhw:11848:: And one from Mandrkae 8.2 /etc/shadow: klowe:$1$MXBnpAoD$DvUgscvrW1YPCqBrQ08im1:11886:0:9:7:-1:-1:1073867006 The Linux crypt() function can generate both versions of the hash. It looks at the salt fields (2 characters in the first, $1$ for the second) to generate the appropriate hash. The authentication system uses the second, more secure version. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK 9.0 Beta3 no sound.
Hi all, I just installed 9.0 Beta3 and my sound system is not setup. When I first started KDE I had no sound so I went to the control panel (KDE's control panel) and found I hade to turn on the arts sound server, so I did and restarted KDE and then got an arts error message saying Cannot open /dev/dsp (no sush file or directory).. I'm using a SB Live sound card that was setup during the install and worked great in 9.0 Beta2. It would be cool to fix but I just wanted to let Mandrake know about the problem. One other suggestion. The newly designed software management tools (the instalation tool) try's to access my cdrom for something like 30 seconds before doing any thing Stop this!! Don't even check to see if there is a cdrom in the drive, after the selections are made for software to be installed then check, and eject the disk tray, or dont even check if there is a disk in the drive just eject the disk tray. This would be much better than waiting fot it to check the drive before anything is even selected for instalation. IMO Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 9.0 Beta3 no sound.
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 11:21, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: It would be cool to fix but I just wanted to let Mandrake know about the problem. Tho' mandrake people read this list, this is not where bugs are reported. The newly designed software management tools (the instalation tool) try's to access my cdrom for something like 30 seconds before doing any thing Stop this!! Don't My guess is you need to swap out that cdrom or try an ftp install. my experience is that when weird things start happening with the cd during install, a new cdrom is in that machine's future. -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 9.0 Beta3 no sound.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 10:32 -0500, Jason Guidry wrote: My guess is you need to swap out that cdrom or try an ftp install. my experience is that when weird things start happening with the cd during install, a new cdrom is in that machine's future. Does Weird Things(TM) include screeching sound and smoke coming out of the machine? That was happening last week when somehow a tiny metal splinter found it's way onto the tray. CD looked interesting after that. And, yes, following Murphy's Law it was one of my more expensive CDs! :(( wobo -- ... and anyway, an html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #128612867 GPG-ID: A69882EE --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] sudden hangs after booting from a w2k cd
hi all, for some reasons I tried to boot my linux-only laptop from a w2k cd, which succeeded (I only *booted* and did *not* install). And exactly after having booted *once* from this cd, my laptop has become completely unusable, it freezes a couple of seconds after having reached the final runlevel (5 and 3 makes no difference). I really *know* that I did not change anything at all, the only unordinary thing was to boot from the w2k cd ... Some time ago I remember having read that somebody had the same problem, but unfortunately I don't find the thread again. So *any* suggestions are welcome!! thanks udo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VIA KT266 and Promise FastTrack 100 Lite
Hello. I don't know about VIA problems, but maybe he can add some boot-time parameters to the installation kernel to get a bit further... If he has some problems with dma (as it seems to be), maybe he can try forcing ide speed: idebus=100 If it fails, try no dma: ide0=nodma ide1=nodma ide2=nodma ide3=nodma If it fails, try to guess pci option from bios/hardware/...: pci=off Or: pci=bios Or: pci=nobios Or: pci=biosirq If nothing else works maybe (as it happened to me with another raid motherboard) that as soon as the kernel loads a certain module it suddenly understands more ide's than in the initial boot and remaps them spoiling the boot process. If so, he can try forcing them to be what they should be. For exaple, to make hde be the first drive (probably hda), hdf to be the second one, and so, try something like this but whith proper driver identifiers: disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hdf bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x82 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x83 Anyhow, goodluck as it looks like a complex issue... (at least to me!!) PS: You can find more on kernel parameters on http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/kernel-parameters.txt.html El vie, 16-08-2002 a las 21:51, Wolfgang Bornath escribió: Hi, a german user (probably a non-english speaker) asked me: --quote I'd like to install Mandrake Linux 8.2 but at the start of the installation process the machine hangs with these last lines: VP_IDE : VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 Contoller on PCI 00: 11.1 ide2: BM-DMA at 0XFF00-=XFF07, BiosSettings: hde pio, hdf: pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0XFF08-=XFF0F, BiosSettings: hdg DMA, hdh: DMA Hardware: MSI-Board: === SLOT A - BIOS AMI - Vers. 062710 Promise Fast Track 100 Lite / Ultra 100 EIDE - Controller Name Product: Promise Technology PDC 20265 FAST TRACK 100 Lite / Ultra 100 EIDE - Controller MSI K7T 266 PRO / Version MS-6380 - 1.0A VIA Apollo KT266 VT 8366 Super Nothbridge VT 8233 Southbridge System SMBus Contoller = VIA VT823xSMBus - 16 kHz --unquote--- I'm sure I read something about the VIA chipset and also something about the Promise controller. I searched google and the mailinglist archive and found a lot about this but nothing about installation issues. This german user seems to be a total newbie (as he himself writes) so the help has to be really in a hand-holding way. Could someone please point me into the right direction so that I can help him? wobo -- ... and anyway, an html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #128612867 GPG-ID: A69882EE --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ___ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versión: Webcam, voz, y mucho más ¡Gratis! Descárgalo ya desde http://messenger.yahoo.es Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wireless NICs
No experience at all on wireless NIC's... but I have some experience mounting GSM (mobile phone network), and I can tell you that being below the maximun distance between antennas, the most important (almost the only) thing to worry about is having direct line of sight from one antenna to the other. Anyway, if possible I would buy/make a very directive antenna in both ends (or at least in one of them) and point one to the other instead of the omni as you would dramatically increase power and quality signals (increasing range/possible speed) and for sure you still be covering more neighbourhood that strictly your house. Good luck. El vie, 16-08-2002 a las 22:59, Dodd, David J escribió: I have a linksys access point and it has good transmission but if you want to measure it use wavmon. You can set up an omni dir antenna to get a little more range. Setup a VPN for security would be a good measure. I just bought the house across the street from my current home. HouseA has DSL service and my entire network configured. I would like to share the DSL connection from one house to the other. Has anyone here experimented with any of the wireless options on Mandrake (or any Linux for that matter)? What's the throughput like? Does weather adversely affect the transmissions speeds? What is the range? Thanks for any pointers. Kwan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ___ Copa del Mundo de la FIFA 2002 El único lugar de Internet con vídeos de los 64 partidos. ¡Apúntante ya! en http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/fc/es/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VIA KT266 and Promise FastTrack 100 Lite
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 20:16 +0200, ddc_prueba wrote: Hello. I don't know about VIA problems, but maybe he can add some boot-time parameters to the installation kernel to get a bit further... [Options snipped] Anyhow, goodluck as it looks like a complex issue... (at least to me!!) PS: You can find more on kernel parameters on http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/kernel-parameters.txt.html Thanks for all these ideas, but this guy wrote, he is a total newbie in Linux and not too close a friend with his computer anyway. So I think all this may well be overdemanding for him. It's not easy for him in any case because the real good hints and tips are still in english lists or sites and this guy doesn't speak english. As he doesn't live nearby I cannot go over and do some hand-holding. I'll advise to look out for a LUG in his area. Thanks wobo -- ... and anyway, an html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #128612867 GPG-ID: A69882EE --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 8.2 Won't run on my machine
I have used Mandrake from version 7.1 and have never had problems installing. I have used this box with 8.0 and 8.1 with great success. Over the last few weeks I have tried version 8.2 and cannot get it to work reliably. Many times it fails durning the install wether I do graphical or text. Generally during the package installation the machine locks up. If I manage to get it installed whenever I do a major install/upgrade like Ximian-Gnome or an upgrade to KDE 3 the machine locks up while installing. Might their be a piece of hardware that 8.2 or the default kernel does not like? Abit KG7 (non-raid) - AMD761/VIA 686B Chipset - AMD 1.3 Ghz CPU - NVidia Geforce2 MX PCI Vid card (using nv driver no upgrade to GLX/Nvidia driver) - 3Com 905 NIC - Soundblaster Live Value - 256 MB DDR - WD 15 GB HD (Windows hda) - Maxtor 10 GB HD (Linux hdb1) - Sony crx 140 E CD-Burner -Aopen 40x CD-Rom Thanks, John Wheat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert]
Test message only Mail services have been helping me and I'm trying to get unhelped. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 9.0 Beta3 no sound.
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 12:30, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 10:32 -0500, Jason Guidry wrote: My guess is you need to swap out that cdrom or try an ftp install. my experience is that when weird things start happening with the cd during install, a new cdrom is in that machine's future. Does Weird Things(TM) include screeching sound and smoke coming out of the machine? Hey, don't go trying that with me. I have prior art on that*, namely my beloved K6 notebook, which kept us warm when the furnace broke... That was happening last week when somehow a tiny metal splinter found it's way onto the tray. CD looked interesting after that. And, yes, following Murphy's Law it was one of my more expensive CDs! :(( I'm almost positive there's some sort of DMCA or copyright violation there. I'll report the incident to the RIAA and have you picked up. *DoesWeirdThings(TM) is a registered trade mark of Jason Guidry. -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] new kernel doesn't leave boot messages
I've got a few kernels running now for different things. If I boot from the standard 8.2 kernel, I can use dmesg to see how the boot went and any messages that came up during the boot. When I boot from the cooker kernel, however, dmesg still displays the result of the last standard 8.2 kernel boot. How do I get the cooker kernel to write the boot messages so I can see them with dmesg? Darren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] CUPS/foomatic printing problem
I've traced down my printing problems to a foomatic error in MDK 8.2. I am printing to a Samba-based printer on a remote host, but the Samba connection is ok. The bad foomatic line ends with 'sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 31 12 and the error I get is... Unable to open the initial device, quitting. /dev/fd/0 is a symlink to /dev/pts/1, and so is /dev/pts/0 and /dev/pts/2, but /dev/fd/3 does not exist! How should I fix this? Anyone know what are these links about and what creates them? I'm running with a high-security installation and the permissions for /dev/fd are r-x for root. Maybe Mandrake Control Center was supposed to create something here when I set up the printer, but was prevented somehow? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] new kernel doesn't leave boot messages
On Sunday 18 August 2002 06:06 pm, Darren King scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I've got a few kernels running now for different things. If I boot from the standard 8.2 kernel, I can use dmesg to see how the boot went and any messages that came up during the boot. When I boot from the cooker kernel, however, dmesg still displays the result of the last standard 8.2 kernel boot. How do I get the cooker kernel to write the boot messages so I can see them with dmesg? Darren Isn't that the quiet LILO/GRUB option at work? If so, remove it. IIRC the hidden messages are displayed if you press Alt-Ctrl-F12 ? -- 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
[expert] Printer fails to work on boot/reboot
Hello. Mandrake 8.2 with mandrake rpm kde3.0 added. I asked this on the newbies list but didn't get any response. When I setup the printer via configuration | harddrake | printer It sets up fine. Prints great, from cups or generic unix pld. When I shutdown and later startup again, both fail. If I go back into the configuration, delete the printer, and add a new one it works fine again. This didn't happen on 7.2 or 8.1. Any clues about this ? What info is required to track this down. Regards...Martin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] new kernel doesn't leave boot messages
Nope...I don't have the quiet option on this kernel. I do have the quiet option on my standard kernel and I still get the dmesg stuff for that one so the quiet option must be just for displaying boot time messages, not for writing them to the file. Darren On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 10:06, HoytDuff wrote: On Sunday 18 August 2002 06:06 pm, Darren King scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I've got a few kernels running now for different things. If I boot from the standard 8.2 kernel, I can use dmesg to see how the boot went and any messages that came up during the boot. When I boot from the cooker kernel, however, dmesg still displays the result of the last standard 8.2 kernel boot. How do I get the cooker kernel to write the boot messages so I can see them with dmesg? Darren Isn't that the quiet LILO/GRUB option at work? If so, remove it. IIRC the hidden messages are displayed if you press Alt-Ctrl-F12 ? -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Where to stick the CDs?
I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard drive. Is there a traditional place to which I should copy all the RPMS (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I just make a new partition called /cds and copy them to /cds/cd1, /cds/cd2/ and /cds/cd3? -- Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 20:06, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard drive. Is there a traditional place to which I should copy all the RPMS (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I just make a new partition called /cds and copy them to /cds/cd1, /cds/cd2/ and /cds/cd3? if you install in expert mode, you can label partitions whatever you want. I used to make a /rpms directory and mount it on it's own partition. This is handy for upgrades when some security fixes have already released. If you have a descent connection, try just loading an ftp site into your urpmi database and dumping your cd's. -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard drive. Is there a traditional place to which I should copy all the RPMS (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I just make a new partition called /cds and copy them to /cds/cd1, /cds/cd2/ and /cds/cd3? -- Matt um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditribution you've chosen to install on your system. Urpmi takes the misery out of having to hunt down the package you want to install that you're not sure which CD it's on. EX: urpmi some-package-name ENTER If the package is on the CD's and you're logged in as root it will tell you which CD to place in the Drive so you can install the package. If it's not on the CD's then it won't know what you're talking about and it will tell you so. Another very painless way you can do this very same thing is to use the systems software manager. It's called rpmdrake. This is the same little gem of a program that allows you to do the updates for your system. Get to know it. It's not the monster some would have you believe it is. You can also use the search function contained on it to search your system to see if the package you're looking for is already on your system. Try one or both of these methods the next time you wish to install a package that you think may be on the CD's, but you're not certain. I have a feeling you'll be very pleasantly surprised. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:49:18 -0400 (EDT), daRcmaTTeR spaketh: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. [snip] um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditribution you've chosen to install on your system. Urpmi takes the misery out of having to hunt down the package you want to install that you're not sure which CD it's on. EX: urpmi some-package-name ENTER My installation must be incomplete. I am getting the error: unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)] exists However, urpmi did popout the cd tray and asked me to insert the cd where the rpm lives. Thanks for the tip. Another very painless way you can do this very same thing is to use the systems software manager. It's called rpmdrake. This is the same little gem of a program that allows you to do the updates for your system. Get to know it. It's not the monster some would have you believe it is. Actually, it's not the monster it used to be in the 7.X series. Thanks for re-aquainting me to it. -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?
I think we are missing the point. With hard disk space ubiquitous and cheap, why not load them to the hard drive. To make life easy would this work? mkdir /iso dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 ... dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd2 ... dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd3 mkdir /mnt/cd1 mkdir /mnt/cd2 mkdir /mnt/cd3 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd1 /mnt/cd1 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd2 /mnt/cd2 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd3 /mnt/cd3 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd1 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd2 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd3 Jim Tarvid On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard drive. Is there a traditional place to which I should copy all the RPMS (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I just make a new partition called /cds and copy them to /cds/cd1, /cds/cd2/ and /cds/cd3? -- Matt um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditribution you've chosen to install on your system. Urpmi takes the misery out of having to hunt down the package you want to install that you're not sure which CD it's on. EX: urpmi some-package-name ENTER If the package is on the CD's and you're logged in as root it will tell you which CD to place in the Drive so you can install the package. If it's not on the CD's then it won't know what you're talking about and it will tell you so. Another very painless way you can do this very same thing is to use the systems software manager. It's called rpmdrake. This is the same little gem of a program that allows you to do the updates for your system. Get to know it. It's not the monster some would have you believe it is. You can also use the search function contained on it to search your system to see if the package you're looking for is already on your system. Try one or both of these methods the next time you wish to install a package that you think may be on the CD's, but you're not certain. I have a feeling you'll be very pleasantly surprised. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:30:32 -0400, tarvid spaketh: [snip] To make life easy would this work? I tried it; see below mkdir /iso dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 This has to be changed to dd if/dev/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 Ditto for cd2 and cd3 mkdir /mnt/cd1 mkdir /mnt/cd2 mkdir /mnt/cd3 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd1 /mnt/cd1 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd2 /mnt/cd2 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd3 /mnt/cd3 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd1 This has to be changed to urpmi.addmedia 'mdk 8.2 cd1 iso' file://mnt/cd1 The name is required and the file:// spec had a typo. Ditto for cd2 and cd3 Jim, thanks. This is so cool. Moreover, 'mdk 8.2 cd1 iso' also showed up as a valid resource in rpmdrake. That means once you install all three disks this way, you could remove the CD resources from rpmdrake if you wanted. -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:11:30 -0400, Matthew O. Persico spaketh: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:30:32 -0400, tarvid spaketh: [snip] To make life easy would this work? I tried it; see below mkdir /iso dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 This has to be changed to dd if/dev/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 gr! make that dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 Ditto for cd2 and cd3 mkdir /mnt/cd1 mkdir /mnt/cd2 mkdir /mnt/cd3 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd1 /mnt/cd1 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd2 /mnt/cd2 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd3 /mnt/cd3 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd1 This has to be changed to urpmi.addmedia 'mdk 8.2 cd1 iso' file://mnt/cd1 The name is required and the file:// spec had a typo. Ditto for cd2 and cd3 Jim, thanks. This is so cool. Moreover, 'mdk 8.2 cd1 iso' also showed up as a valid resource in rpmdrake. That means once you install all three disks this way, you could remove the CD resources from rpmdrake if you wanted. -- Matthew O. Persico -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
