[expert] Netmos 9805 PCI Parallel Card
Hi folks, I'm trying again, now that I've had some hair re-growth Anyone had experience with these devices? I have need of a second //port on my beast (AthlonXP 1.8 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/L Mobo running stock Mandrake 9.0) to run my ancient but reliable Epson GT-4000 scanner (with ADF unit). The scanner works fine when configured as a GT-5000 or 5500 and run off the existing onboard parallel port, however I need a printer as well. So I obtained a Netmos 9805 card and got it working out of Win98SE without too much hassle - but I cannot get it to work out of Linux. I have since removed all traces of win98 from the box!! Don't need it! The card is recognised in /proc/pci as follows: Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Communication controller: PCI device 9710:9805 (NetMos Technology)(rev 1). IRQ 19. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe807]. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe407]. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc07]. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd807]. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f]. As I understand I need to 'insmod parport.o' and then tell 'parport' where it is. Problem is that when I do the 'insmod parport.o' I get: [root@numbnuts john]# insmod parport.o insmod: parport.o: No such file or directory [root@numbnuts john]# I've since removed the '.o' and get a silent return to prompt. Now I would expect to see another reference to parport in dmesg after a reboot but don't see anything different. Dmesg still only references parport0 as being tied to lp0. I worked out how to create the second port reference with mknod, and I've got that to stick through reboots. I think I've read everything, but I just can't work this one out. Any help would be greatly appreciated Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netmos 9805 PCI Parallel Card
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:56:54 -0500 Cokey de Percin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Cokey - that got it - yipes what an exercise. Now all I have to do is get xsane to run as user Cheers John On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 07:01, John Rye wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying again, now that I've had some hair re-growth Anyone had experience with these devices? I have need of a second //port on my beast (AthlonXP 1.8 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/L Mobo running stock Mandrake 9.0) to run my ancient but reliable Epson GT-4000 scanner (with ADF unit). The scanner works fine when configured as a GT-5000 or 5500 and run off the existing onboard parallel port, however I need a printer as well. So I obtained a Netmos 9805 card and got it working out of Win98SE without too much hassle - but I cannot get it to work out of Linux. I have since removed all traces of win98 from the box!! Don't need it! The card is recognised in /proc/pci as follows: Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Communication controller: PCI device 9710:9805 (NetMos Technology)(rev 1). IRQ 19. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe807]. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe407]. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc07]. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd807]. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f]. As I understand I need to 'insmod parport.o' and then tell 'parport' where it is. Problem is that when I do the 'insmod parport.o' I get: [root@numbnuts john]# insmod parport.o insmod: parport.o: No such file or directory [root@numbnuts john]# I've since removed the '.o' and get a silent return to prompt. Now I would expect to see another reference to parport in dmesg after a reboot but don't see anything different. Dmesg still only references parport0 as being tied to lp0. I worked out how to create the second port reference with mknod, and I've got that to stick through reboots. I think I've read everything, but I just can't work this one out. Any help would be greatly appreciated Ok, I have a similar board and mine works this way; there are 6 ports, with the 1st, 3rd 5th ports used by the paralled ports (if you have that many). I have two, so I use the 1st and 3rd. The part of the modules.conf that matters is this: # Note: Anytime the PCI parallel card is moved to a different # PCI slot, the io ports change. Check the /proc/pci # file for the new ones alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378,0xfc70,0xfc88 irq=7,none,none I would guess that yours should look like this (for one port) alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378,0xe800 irq=7,none Note 1) if you move the board, the ports change and that breaks everything... 2) I'm not using irq's for the 2nd 3rd ports. It's more efficient if you do, but I haven't messed since it worked and the last two parallel ports are rarely used anyway. Best Cokey -- -- F. 'Cokey' de Percin, DBA Email: CSC Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Columbia, South Carolina Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Botched Install; How to Reinstall MDK8.1
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:32:25 -0800 Paul Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish it was that easy ... I forgot to mention that the computer is brand new. The CDs have only been used maybe 6 times. It is a Aopen 56X IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive. During past couple of weeks I've attempted to install Mandrake (7.2, 8 and 8.1) on machines with 52x CDROMs - each was a no-go. I swapped drives out for old quad speed drive and it worked!! I suspect it's a timing problem in the install programs. However, I've been doing some playing around, and I can't seem to play any audio CDs using gcd or grip, so *perhaps* there might be something wrong with my new CDROM drive after all. Paul - On Tuesday 18 December 2001 06:16 pm, you wrote: I know this is not the help you wanted, but can you try a different CDrom reader? is this one correctly configured in BIOS? I am only guessing, but if it booted once from the CDrom, unless the CD was damaged, it should boot again? don't you think? maybe you just got a bad cd? or was downloaded bad. On Tuesday 18 December 2001 18:03, you wrote: Hi, Borrowed the 3 CD Mandrake 8.1 distro. (downloaded) from a friend. Booted off CD 1, everything going OK until the install suddenly hangs when prompting me for CD #2; eventually had to cancel. The install then*skipped* a few important steps (create bootdisk, install bootloader). After restarting, it came up (albeit with a few warning messages). I wanted to do a clean re-install, so I placed CD #1 in, and rebooted. But it won't boot up from the CD. Help!! Paul _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Home: 263-2822 Work: 482-2843 Pager: 268-1780 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.localendar.com/public/consultant4hire _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 192802ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] not a good experience with LM8.1!
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:14:37 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 October 2001 02:55 pm, John Rye wrote: On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 07:32:06 Orkunt Sabuncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I tried to install LM 8.1. But it is lik nightmare. Firstly I have to say that my system is really old and I know LM with KDE cannot live in a system with a conf. of 200MMX, 48MB Ram and 96MB Swap. But i found this statement is no good for linux because I am running Win2000 Pro in this system without any problems and really fast. I do not want to start a debate of win and linux on old machines but in the light of this fact (being able to use win2000 happily) not able to use linux makes me crazy. A comparison for you.. Pentium 133 32Mb Ram, 64mb Swap, LM8.0, kernel 2.2.19, ReiserFS. 3x Quantum 1.2gig Bigfoots (or is that BigFeet??) Pretty anemic h/w, by yesterday's standards. NT4 wouldn't be happy with it, either. It certainly is.. However the point of my contribution has been missed. And I only just realised why - I quoted the wrong bits :-( The comparison was supposed show the original poster (Orkunt Sabuncu) that my REALLY-old system was better behaved/faster than the one s/he was describing. I don't run any flavour of windows on it so I can't give you timings for those, but as I recall Win95 OSR2 took around 1 min 30 from powerup to desktop a couple of years ago. Sorry about confusion.. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UPS, PowerChute or NUT
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:42:37 -0700 (PDT) mick tooher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I try to cu to this port I get cu -l /dev/modem cu: creat (/var/lock/TMP000c8b): Permission denied cu: /dev/modem: Line in use Does the UPC software 'stipulate' that /dev/ttyS0 is to be used?? Do you in fact have a modem assigned to one of your /dev/ttySx ports ? - which one ?? - how is it assigned/configured Are you able to use another /dev/ttyS? - give it another bash and see what happens. Be a bit careful with connections to /dev/ttyS0 port as your mouse (regardless of type) still/may/might be assigned here despite what you think as indicated by the error message getting returned above. Anybody got past this point in the installation. I also tried the nut program without success. P.S. Yes, I do gave the infamous 940-0020B serial cable from APC, which is the one that supposedly works??? Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [expert] IPTables Question
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:35:42 -0700 (MST) Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If not, you want to learn the concepts - some other Rusty has a 'Rusty's three rules' (or something like that - I posted about his thing last month or this month) is good (do a search using your favorite search engine - in fact, I've found lots of good stuff out there about firewalling by looking for things like firewall, firewall setup, firewall howto, and so forth. Rusty's Rules is part of the 'Linux IPChains HOWTO' - goos reading. Cheers -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [expert] email form to staroffice apps
On Thu, 24 May 2001 14:26:56 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use CSV (Comma-Separated-Values) file type for speadsheet or database data. Works for me - it's a 'standard' method of text-based of data transfer Cheers John I am a student at a Southern California University. I need to know how to transfer rough data in an email document (text-based data) to the spreadsheets or database appications in Staroffice... I know ms access has some of these capabilites (as I done it before), but i don't see why Staroffice applications could not do it too. -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[expert] Netscape 4.77 problems
Hi all, I'm getting peculiar problems with Netscape 4.77 which are becoming quite frustrating. It seems that when exiting, the lockfile in ./netscape is not being cleared and have to manually removed after each use. If the lock isn't removed the program 'crashes' with a 'bus error' message - just that - nothing else. The second hassle is that netscape appears to hang until kppp is invoked. This last has to be something to do with the search path in resolve.conf (below) but I can't see what the problem is. search localdomain nameserver 203.97.33.1 nameserver 203.97.37.1 nameserver 192.168.0.2 nameserver 192.168.0.3 nameserver 192.168.0.5 Any answers or possible fixes?? Is it the order of the servers? Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] Network printing problem
This is a cross-post. I've set up a local network of 2 1/2 machines (well one is only half working til I find some monitor specs grin), and I have no trouble transferring data and using a common dialup connection. My problem is getting printing to work. I can print from any of the machines if a printer is physically connected to the parallel port - that's easy. What I haven't been able to do is print across the network. Cups has an amazing amount of documentation but for the life of me I cannot work out what I need to configure where. Three machines running LM8 and Cups 1.1.7, 3 printers (HP Laserjet 4p, HP Deskjet 500, 15 Epson Dotmatrix) M/c #1 IP = 192.168.0.1, called Tom.localhost.localdomain (HP4P) M/c #2 IP = 192.168.0.2, called Dick.localhost.localdomain (DJ500) M/c #3 IP = 192.168.0.3, called Harry.localhost.localdomain (Epson) Reading the various parts of the Cups documentation seems to keep coming back to implementations where the printers are individually addressed by unique IP and MAC addresses, which to me suggests that each printer has networking hardware built in, and that's certainly not the case here. Can someome point me to a HOWTO or webpage with a step by step process for doing this? Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[expert] Monitor Test Utilities
Hi all, I have here an old (circa '95) 15 analog monitor which is labelled as being a Data General Multisync SVGA. The DG part number from the rear of the monitor is: 7033D. I have searched all over looking for the specs for this device but without success. I know that DG is a vestige of the past, (absorbed by Compaq?? I think.) I need to get this monitor going for a test machine I'm building up, but each time I attempt to get the X-Server going with either Xconfigurator or XF86config for 640x480 or 600x800, it tests ok, and gives me acceptable resolution BUT the entire system appears to lockup when one exits from the config program. This behaviour is constant regardless of which of the generic' display characteristics I select. If I substitute the CTX-1451 monitor from my normal working system everything works as expected and I'm able to use the system in a 'normal' manner, which would seem to suggest that the problem is not connected to my S3 Virge 86C325 vidcard. Does anyone have either the specs for the monitor or know of a utiliy with which I could interactively test to find out what the Horizondal and Vertical sync rates are? Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?
On Wed, 16 May 2001 07:49:31 -0400 (EDT) Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only one way to remove that file Mark, as follows: as root, 'shutdown -r now enter Insert Windows 98 CD. wait for the reboot and install Win98 BIG FAT SILLY GRIN! That file is your memory... If you look at it's size in relation to your installed memory you'll find an amazing similarity (sp ??) such that the numbers are identical... Your space is being used by something else. /proc is opsys generated and doesn't in fact exist in the same form as other parts of your file system. umm sort of imaginary sortakandalike - there was a discussion on this some time ago. My thoughts are to go look at /var/tmp, /var/spool/cups, and /var/log to see if you have large numbers of old or archived files sitting there. Remember that logrotate gzips historical log files. Cheers Nope...no files. I found the file(s) responsible for eating up the diskspace. they were tmp files related to a MySQL process that had been running. I've got some rather large databases on this system and the tmp files generated by them while running SQL against them are rather large. I've got the same database on a Mandrake server at work and MySQL is doing the same thing there with one exception. Something happened and a kcore file was deposited in /proc that is now responsible for filling the / to capacity and I can't delete the sucker. The system won't permit it's deletion. I'm at somewhat of a loss as to how to handle this one. It's so full I can't even send an email message with Pine because the system doesn't have enough room left to write the scratch file to send the message. Any ideas on how to get rid of this file in /proc? -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :) On Tue, 15 May 2001, Tom Schutter wrote: Try a df -i. You will find that you have run out of inodes. Then go look at /var/log/mail. You will find it full of 1 files. An update to logrotate may solve the problem, but it did not for me (on LM 7.1). Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, I've got a problem here that isn't making any sense to me. This morning one of the leg messages reported that there wasn't any more space left on /var. that's ok cause it wasn't any big deal to fix that. what I did have a problem with is the difference free space that is being reported by two different programs on the system. df reports it this way: [mdw1982@mdw1982 mdw1982]$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 494M 156M 338M 32% / /dev/hda8 7.3G 1.1G 6.2G 16% /home /dev/hda1 1.7G 1.4G 297M 82% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdc1 652M 161M 491M 25% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hdc5 1.8G 92k 1.8G 0% /mnt/win_d /dev/hda7 2.9G 2.1G 798M 73% /usr /dev/hdc6 787M 757M 30M 96% /var -- the critical reading /proc/bus/usb 197M 197M 0 100% /proc/bus/usb - ...and du reports it this way: [root@mdw1982 mdw1982]# du -h --max-depth=1 / 4.5M/bin 266k/dev 16M /etc 36M /lib 1.5G/mnt 0 /net 512 /opt 4.0M/tmp 469M/var -- the critical reading 2.3G/usr 6.0M/boot 1.1G/home 0 /misc 1.0k/proc 6.7M/sbin 49M /root 512 /.automount 512 /.gnome_private 1.0k/.gnome 5.6G/ What really has me stuck is the different readings I'm getting on /var. Can any shed a little light on this? Xwc calculated /var and came up with essentially the same answer as du did. thanks, Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :) -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [expert] Optimising MTU/MRU packet sizes
On Fri, 4 May 2001 18:14:01 -0400 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jose. You can set MTU options as a PPP parameter. Yes - was aware of this. There is no dynamic utility to change or check this that I know of. You'll need to try one setting, dial, and check the results. It was the 'utility' I was looking for. However, after a couple of hours of testing, using 'ifconfig' reports, I think I have a sensible number which for the time being seems to work. (596 - saw this number pop up in various bits of Windows related posting I came across duting the search). Testing will continue.. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Fw: Re: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly
On Tue, 1 May 2001 03:14:11 -0500 Tutty, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Could anyone let me know what the most common causes for the above error in kppp is except for removing 'lock' from /etc/ppp/options? Edit your /etc/pp/options to include the following: == idle 300 ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local == idle (a number in seconds - I use 300 - 5 minutes) the ipcp options tell your isp's and your machine to accept the ip addresses as a given Make sure you have the ppp timeout values in kppp setup set to a similar number to the idle above, and the modem timeout value to something sensible - again I use 60 seconds to cope with my noisy phone line. There a bunch of ppp howtos out there with a great deal of this info in them - I think the one that got me going the furtherest was titled something like: How to hook up ppp, I think the author was WG Unruh. For massaging Kppp try: http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux I found this site very useful since way back in the days of LM6.5 Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] Just Couldn't Resist!!
FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK Researchers Shocked Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus. Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected, said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit. The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will Save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were spread by Microsoft Outlook, said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture Minister. By eliminating it,we can focus our resources elsewhere. However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has Recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as I Love You, Bubbleboy, Anna Kournikova, and Naked Wife, to name but a few. Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden University: It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be sceptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow. Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally sceptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth. Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?' she recalled. ++ Cheers John --- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [expert] LM8 XFdrake locks up system.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:53:07 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All AZZA PT-5i Main board (intel TX) Gen Intel P233 Realteck 8139 Lan S3 Virge Video. This system ran 7.1 7.2 with no problems at all, however 8.0 will not configure the X server, to be more specific XFdrake locks the system up. Did you elect to use Xfree 4 ?? I had the same problem I re-installed using Xfree 3.3 and all lit up like I thought it should Cheers John --- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [expert] Sylpheed running away with resources
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:52:08 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, I'm running Cups on Mandrake 7.2 and Sylpheed 4.61. I don't have the same conditions. I'd suggest either downgrading to 4.61 or maybe the problem doesn't exist with 4.63. 4.61 is very stable however and I'm more than happy with it. (Yes we use it in the office exclusively) Thanks James, I found the problem was to do with a corrupted addressbook, caused by editing an address. I had entered an address such as: Fred Blooggens [EMAIL PROTECTED] - the problem being that the xml widget became confused by the brackets. Some carefull editing fixed the problem after that possibility had been pointed out to me. Cheers --- Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[expert] Sylpheed running away with resources
CC: Till Kamppeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Sylpheed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting problem. Tonight I downloaded from the Cups site; cups-1.1.6-source.tar.gz and proceeded to to compile and install it on my Mandrake 7.1 system. Cups compiled without difficulty other than warnings from the compiler relating to un-initialised variables and similar. I then attempted to configure it via my browser using both http:// and https://localhost:631. This failed with a message indicating that a document could not be found. Somewhat confused I decided to see if I could get some help. I brought up my email app of choice (Sylpheed 0.4.62), which until now has been functioning without fault. I hit the compose button of the emailer to write the message and Sylpheed appeared to hang. After about 30 seconds I ran Ktop to see what was going on and found that the Sylpheed process was consuming around 97% of my CPU resources!! I thought this was odd but took little notice and killed the process and tried again with got the same result. Another kill. At this point I disabled Cups via Startup Services and rebooted - assuming that's where the problem had come from, only to get the same result. Something is not right here, and I don't know which way to turn. Cups doesn't! Sylpheed will download mail (not sure about send) but I cannot compose mail without CPU useage getting close to maximum. Help!! Cheers John -- Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [expert] Building an install floppy
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:09:27 -0600 "David C. Hoos, Sr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've received two replies to my question, both of which told me how to build a BOOT floppy, when what I asked was how to make an INSTALL floppy. Perhaps my intention was unclear, but in my mind, an install floppy is something quite different from a boot floppy. At any rate, what I'm looking to be able to do is build a floppy that will then enable installation from CD-ROM. David, On your L-M cd you'll find a directory called /dos/utils/, in there are a bunch of utilities to do what you ask. However, it does require you have access to MSDOS. On one of my machines which won't boot from the CDrom, I have a 350mb partition with a minimum Windows installed on it. In there I have a directory which I can use to boot and install from the cd for installation. Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:56:43 + "C. CLOSE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Thanks to Benjamin for the tip on XFCE it's quick and clean but I snip Has anyone else seen this behaviour??? Can it be fixed?? Colin, Just a comment on Marks' reply about CPU cycles. I think he'd looking/pointing in the right direction. I have a continuing problem on one of my machines with the same type of behaviour. It's an AMD K6-2/500 running basically stock 7.1 and KDE 1.99 (I think) BUT and this is the important bit - there's only 32Mb of ram and it's slow ram to boot. My other beast is a Pentium 133 with 64Mb and side by side the Pentium is considerably faster than the AMD for many things, StarOffice 5.2 takes just under 6 minutes to become useable on the AMD compared with a little over 2 minutes on the Pentium. I guess the only comment is something like --- Go Figure !! Only our selected Diety knows what's going to happen when I upgrade the AMD to 7.2 or even 8.0 Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[expert] RPM Updating
Sometime ago there was a series of posting regarding upgradeing/updating RPM to current versioning (4.???). I haven't been able to locate those posting. Could someone point me in the right direction, I remember there was a progression involved. I'm currently running L-M7.1 and rpm-3.0.4 and keep running into versioning problems as I attempt to upgrade some of the packages I use. Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [expert] Off Topic - email etiquette
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:10:30 +0100, Christian A Strmmen [Number1/NumeroUno] said: I know this is off topic for this list, but I once read an email here with a link to a page about email-etiquette. How to quote properly, why html in emails is a bad thing and so on. If the person sending that mail, or someone that knows of such a page, reads this mail, could you please send me the link to that page in a personal mail? (eg. not to the list) Thanks for your trouble :) here 'tis. http://www.firstbite.co.nz/training/easemail/emquot.html -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [expert] Script empties file?!
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:19:17 -0800, Cecil Watson said: I'm trying to help a friend with a problem. He has some scripts on a webserver, the problem is when ever the script runs and it needs to write to a file, it deletes the content of the file(s). Anyone got any ideas?! Thanks in advance, As a real newbie to linux and with next to nil scripting experience And without seeing the script in question (You didn't post it for the EXPERT gurus on this list to parse) May I suggest that he is missing a redirection eg using a single instead of a to add to his file. Worked(s) in MSdos - bet it works here too. Substitue copy for cat cat text text1 Just copys it to a file called text1 If the file does not exist it is created else it is replaced cat text text1adds to the already exiting file called Text1 Cheers John (newbie too) -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [expert] pop-up adds
On 10 Jan 2001 18:13:22 -, chronos . said: Hi all, Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen we see anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? Like for instance get the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to block that specific ip address ? Would that work or is this just pissing into the wind ? Thank you, Chronos. look for an app called junkbuster - works well. -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
[expert] Detection of skymedia SM200D card
Mandrake 7.0 2.2.14-15mdk - stock standard, no mods, vanilla variety! Epoyx M3VCA Mobo, Celeron 566 Coppermine III 128M Ram GEFORCE 256 DDR, 3COM 3c905 NIC SB Live 56K modem Skymedia SM200D Ethernet Satellite Receiver Card -- der Problem! The card is NOT detected by Lothar under 7.0(Air) The card appears to be detected as 'Auravision' by lothar under Mandrake 7.2 (2.2.17-21.mdk) Usual disclaimer - grin - 'works with Win98' - grin becomes sneer!! It's known to run on other flavours of linux - Debian, SUSE, Redhat We have a variety of tarballs parts of some do compile! The problems all appear to be in one set of modules within these tarballs. If one attempts to use the ISP-supplied drivers for LM2.2.14 the install script vomits by telling us that it cannot complete the install because the modules where compiled for 2.2.14 and we have 2.2.14-15mdk - jeezz. Does anyone have any experience with these cards. -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [expert] Modem speed
Ron Stodden wrote: Tom Berkley wrote: I agree that html mail is a pain in the eyeball, but netscape has never crashed for me responding to html formatted email. My Netscape (from 7.2) crashes only with a reply attempt to that particular HTML message. This happens before the compose window appears, so you may be interested to try a reply yourself to that HTML message. Ron, I've had that problem since foreever as well - right pain it is. I think it may have to do fonts, because it's not consistant through all html messages. Now - I just curse and leave it for someone else Cheers -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] soundcard problem...conflicting irq?
praedor wrote: Hmpf. It's the only thing I can think of that would be a cause of the NEW problem...which only actually appeared at some point after an upgrade to 7.2 but it CAN'T be Mandrake 7.2, because... I have an AudioPCI es1371 card and a PCI 3com 3C900B card presently sharing an irq. The soundcard has worked fine in the past, no cricket noises, no problems. I have now found that the same problem occurs under windoze, which made me think the card went bad. I picked up a new card, a soundblaster PCI 128 (drats!!) which isn't well supported under linux, it turns out. Windoze had the same problem with it as with the AudioPCI card it replaced...chirping noises covering most system sounds. I couldn't get it working under linux but since the same problem occurred, AND in a different PCI slot, I guess it isn't the card. I have also tried two separate sets of speakers but that doesn't change anything. I have an AOpen AK72 mobo with athlon 700. The onboard sound is disabled (I would use it if it were possible under linux). This problem with chirping static noises happening when sounds are played is rather new, and doesn't coincide with my original upgrade to this motherboard and cpu. It can't be a linux problem either since it also occurs in windoze. I am stumped. Anyone have any ideas? I've tried different PCI slots, different audio cards, different speakers. I've also tried different kernel builds. I have that problem if I have the covers off my box and if I place the speaker which has the amplifier etc close to (within 6 inches or so) of the card slots. Is your problem emf related?? Speaker volume highish but aumix control lowish?? Just a thought -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Use of make oldconfig while compiling a new kernel.
Mark Weaver wrote: What is "mr proper"? Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 Scott Tyson had this to say! *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/20/2000 at 6:55 PM Andrew George scribbled: Um...I think it's a little more complex than that (unless something changed in 7.2's kernel-source rpm) What I did was download the kernel srpm grab the config files out of that (forget where they are) copy the kernel config file of your choice to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig make oldconfig This step right here is the same as make xconfig or make menuconfig. It just uses the old config file and only asks for new items. Then follow the normal make clean, mr proper, etc. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Seems Mark is asking the same ones I asked a while back on the Newbie list. May I add another? What's the difference between 'vmlinuz' and 'bzImage' when it comes to boot images? Cheers -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Use of make oldconfig while compiling a new kernel.
Scott Walker wrote: vmlinuz = compressed with gzip bzImage = compressed with bzip2 - smallest foot print, but slower to load... So, there is an option 'somewhere' to select the gzip or bzip2 footprint? Can you show me the commandline? or point me to where I find those compiler options? Seems I've waded thru several reams of paper these last few months looking for little tidbits like this. Cheers -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] [Fwd: Updating ML and Kernel]
mrweb wrote: Any help with this will be appreciated. Thanks! mrweb Subject: Updating ML and Kernel Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 10:38:06 -0700 From: mrweb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: web/tech/ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I too am wanting to update my kernel, and have downloaded most of the kernel packages from the ml update ftp mirror, but am not certain which ones I need? Do I need the source headers packages? And all of the others? I was going to use kpm to install the updated kernel packages, is it a preferred method to use mu instead? I am updating from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 and actually want to install all of the available updates with the exception of, all of the versions of NS. I was wondering if anyone knows whether there is a particular order in which to install all of the updated packages to bring my ml system up to a current state, one that will ensure a smooth transition? I don't seem to have mu=MandrakeUpdate installed, I must have somehow over looked it during installation? All I find on my system is/are the 'bdflush/update' forking daemon/s, which if I correctly follow the man page, I am pretty sure bdflush is not what I am looking for at this time, or am I? ;) All helpful advice, information, ideas, and thoughts are hereby sought after, and I am very much thankful for them as well. mrweb The files you need to obtain are as follows: kernel-2.2.16-9mdk.i586.rpm* kernel-doc-2.2.16-9mdk.i586.rpm* kernel-headers-2.2.16-9mdk.i586.rpm* kernel-source-2.2.16-9mdk.i586.rpm* kernel-utils-2.2.16-9mdk.i586.rpm* Then login to your system in text mode (linux 3 at lilo prompt) cd to /usr/src/ and look for the README file in the source trees. Read the Readme!! Go then to http://mandrakeuser.org/ and find their HOWTO on compiling the kernel Then read the whole lot again!! Having been there and tried to do this from Xwindows - I don't recommend trying it this way. I'm pretty certain you will get the same list of advise from elsewhere as well. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Netscape bus errors
Praedor Tempus wrote: I have been stuck at Netscape Communicator (mandrake) 4.73. I have tried upgrading first to 4.74, then the new 4.75. I have tried compiling the mandrake src.rpm. Doesn't matter. Whenever I try to access my pop email account or access another web-based email account, BAM!, bus error. In each case, after repeated attempts I have had to give up and go back to 4.73, which doesn't give me this grief - but which is rather insecure. Has anyone else had such problems with 4.75 like this? How did you fix it if you did? I read in a newsgroup that you could try changing the permissions on /tmp/ndebug to 666 but this doesn't exist on my system - certainly not in respect to netscape, so I cannot give it a try. praedor I had that same error a couple of weeks ago too. Turns out I had some flaky RAM - a few judicial thumb applications on all the IC's on the motherboard and popping and replacing the RAM slices fixed it for me - but then I'm using a pretty old Pentium 133. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And 23:59:59 ahead of most of the rest of the world Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] UMP midi plugin for Netscape
Charles Curley wrote:
Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi plugin
for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the library
and timidity. I can go to the test page
(http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on the
"click here" link. The first time I did this, a file downloaded, then
Netscape went to the next page, but I heard nothing. Subsequently,
Netscape simply goes to the next page, and again I heard nothing.
The mime types appear to be set up correctly. Here is the relevant part
of my ~/.mime.types:
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=audio/midi \
desc="UMP plugin version 1.10" \
exts="mid,midi"
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=audio/x-midi \
desc="audio/x-midi" \
exts="mid,midi"
I did check on another web site
(http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/david/TUheadsd.html), and got no joy
there.
My sound system works well enough to play CDs. I have KDE running, and the
KDE desktop mixer appears to work. I have "playmidi-2.4-8mdk" installed,
and it sucessfully plays the midi file from Netscape's cache (except that
it doesn't sound like led zeppelin even to my rock-avoiding ears :-):
ccurley@charlesc $ find . -iname "*.mid" -exec ls -l {} \;
-rw---1 ccurley ccurley 45820 Sep 15 07:41
./cache/05/cache39C226E516325E8.mid
-rw---1 ccurley ccurley 4316 Sep 13 06:35
./cache/19/cache39BF74996340313.mid
-rw---1 ccurley ccurley 51620 Sep 15 07:50
./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
ccurley@charlesc $ file ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid: Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 17 tracks
ccurley@charlesc $ playmidi ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details please see the file COPYING.
ccurley@charlesc $ pwd
/home/ccurley/.netscape
ccurley@charlesc $
Thank you
Charles
I stuffed around with that plugin for several days before giving it
away - just couldn't get to do anything sensible at all.
I eventualy got Plugger 3.2 from http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html
This one seems to all that I require in terms of Net plugin stuff.
Cheers
John
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Re: [expert] OT: w98 equiv to this list
Email me privately Doug - I have a fix... Cheers Doug McGarrett wrote: Does anyone here know of a Windows 98 equivalent to this mailing list? I need one question answered, but if someone here was willing to do so, I'd be very happy not to have to mess with a Windows list. Question: I'm converting from an all-SCSI system to a hybrid that will have an IDE hard drive. (I can't fight the prices any more!) Is there any way that I can convert what is presently on the SCSI drive to the new system, without reloading the OS and all the apps from scratch. I'd like not to have to reload WP, AutoCad, etc., especially since some are upgrades, and would require 2 or 3 earlier programs to be installed first, for no reason except to permit the upgrade to install. (Yes I know I can copy the _data_ files from WordPerfect, AutoCad, etc.) New machine will have SCSI--different card--but could have old card for a little while, or forever, for that matter. New machine will have "old" SCSI format, just enough to isolate cd-r from rest of system, for example. SCSI-2. Also to allow JAZ drives to plug in and work. Of course, the humongous drive will have Linux on it, right after W98, which _insists_ on being first. Any caveats there are welcome. Please copy replies to the list. I'm probably one of few but not alone with this kind of question. BTW, this is a great list. I don't read everything, since I have a life to live, but there is a whole heck of a lot of expertise here! TIA for any help I get. --doug Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: "D. R. Evans" wrote: If I kill the script-based bit, then I never get to the PAP. BOTH are necessary, which does seem faintly ridiculous. But perhaps not without precedent; this is, after all, USWest. (Maybe this whole thing has something to do with the takeover, since they are now QWest. But it's probably just a coinicidence. It's no good asking them. They don't seem to have a clue about much at all. In the course of the last three months I have contacted tech support three times. They didn't solve a single one of the problems.) That's because all the really talented people are not working for peanuts in tech support anymore. -Stephen- There is a very good diagnostic-type page on setting up PPP at: http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/ There is/are serverl pages of step by step instructions on how to go about the process of figuring out just what the ISP expects to process during your login. It may be very useful in diagnosing just what is happening here. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Annoying Samba text conversion
Greg Stewart wrote: The text file structure in Unix is slightly different from that in windows. You'll noticed, occassionally, that if you open some Unix-created text files in Windows notepad/word you may see little blocks at line's end. I'm not sure that the "carriage return" is different in the oses, but they seem to handle the end-of-line differently. And I think (again, not sure) that there are a few different ways of handling this. --greg End of line character in Unix is a single linefeed character Hex 0A In Dos systems it is a carriage-return linefeed pair 0A 0D If you are to convert from one to the other you need to add or remove the corresponding character - no mean feat if there is a lot of data involved, text or otherwise. If you are dealing with binary encoded data - then you have an even greater problem to deal with. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] cdrom boot
Tony McGee wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Mike Rambo pushed some tiny letters in this order: Alan N wrote: lorne schachter wrote: I've got two copies of the Mandrake 7.1 CD, one from Maximum Linux mag and one from Linux Labs. In either case, when I try to boot from them, it gets past 2nd stage ram disk and config CDROM and then exits with signal 11. From what I have learned at installfests from my local linux guru's, a sig 11 just about ALWAYS means a hardware problem of some type. Alan This reminds me that there are instances where it would be incredibly useful to have a list of what the different signals mean. Does anyone know where one exists? Running 'kill -l' will give you a list of signal names and numbers. Check /usr/include/bits/signum.h for further (although brief) explanations of the signals. A good linux programming book will explain the most frequently used signals. Signal 11 is a segmentation violation meaning the program tried to do something with memory it wasn't supposed to, eg. dereferencing a null pointer. Tony This is useful BUT... Where/how does one find more info as to what is actually causing these seg faults, or even some kind of diagnostic routine? I've been getting lots recently, even after popping every ic on I can find they continue to show up kinda/sorta/abit like too often while compiling from gcc. I'm been running a 64mb Pentium 133 Soyo mobo quite happily for around 9 months on L-M 6 and 7. Cheers John
Re: [expert] OLDER HP printers Full permission to VFAT partitions
Vic wrote: I have an old HP DeskJet, no numbers or anything after it, just Deskjet, since its an older one, and has both parallel and serial hookups, would it work in Linux? It is a black and white printer. No good reason why not - if all else fails you can even configure it as an HP Laser Jet (generic) - works for me Cheers On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:39:37PM +0800, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Joe User is running Linux "just to get his feet wet." He has a Win-Printer, and cannot print using Linux. He creates a grocery list using his favorite Linux editor, and before leaving for the store reboots to print the list. Win-printer? Win-modem does exist, but I'm not sure if any win-printer exists. Hard to believe anyway. Can you give me any example so as to avoid them? Win Printers are normally called GDI printers. They are heavily tied to Windows. They have the same failings as winmodems: zero brains on board, host processsor hogs, Linux-unfriendly, etc. IMHO, HP DeskJets are half winprinters, given their distinct lack of Linux support and refusal to share coding specs for the latest and greatest (my HP 970CSe gives crappy print quality under Linux). Matthew Zaleski
Re: [expert] Dial on Demand
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: I was wondering. What happens to the connection when the app initiating the connection is closed or dies? Hey Mark, It will connect, probably not transfer any traffic, then disconnect after the idle timeout occurs. Also, for some reason when I tried to start the process of installing this I issued the launch command for the dialer from a terminal window per the instructions and all I was able to get to happen was the modem would continue to dial up the ISP. It wouldn't complete the connection. Any suggestions? Sounds like you need to modify the chat script - could be your ISP doesn't use the same prompts. Follow the suggestion of calling your ISP with a basic term program, and write down the prompts. Also check your /var/log/messages file to see what is going on. I think this user has the same problem as I have, that there are NO prompts from the ISP's interface which waits until pppd sends some LCP packets before continuing the handshake. My reading indicates that the PPP session should commence to send the LCP packets after the chat script exits - which _should_ occur when the modem returns the CONNECT message - Are we missing something from the pppd command line?? I have been back and forth over this countless times, dd if I can find it? John
Re: [expert] Dial on Demand
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: I think this user has the same problem as I have, that there are NO prompts from the ISP's interface which waits until pppd sends some LCP packets before continuing the handshake. My reading indicates that the PPP session should commence to send the LCP packets after the chat script exits - which _should_ occur when the modem returns the CONNECT message - Are we missing something from the pppd command line?? I have been back and forth over this countless times, dd if I can find it? John Hi John, I suggested to the other guy to modify the chat script so that it simply looks for the "CONNECT", and then exits normally. This should dump you right in to PPP, and hopefully it will authenticate you. You might need the pap-secrets or the chap-secrets file residing in your /etc/ppp so that PPP knows what to send - do you have one of these files with your username and password? Try this script and let me know what happens: Your script was very similar to what I had arrived at but still produced the same problem - just didn't make sense. I have tried the method described by Dennis further back in the thread. It works - well mostly 2 'oddies' - seems Linux can start NOR shutdown the ppp0 interface - returns a FAILED message - Il work my way thru that. The other is that I can't disconnect gracefully - dropping line by disconnecting the phoneline physically til I work that one out.. off to get another pair of sidecutters in the morrow grin Cheers John
Re: [expert] Dial on Demand
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: I think this user has the same problem as I have, that there are NO prompts from the ISP's interface which waits until pppd sends some LCP packets before continuing the handshake. My reading indicates that the PPP session should commence to send the LCP packets after the chat script exits - which _should_ occur when the modem returns the CONNECT message - Are we missing something from the pppd command line?? I have been back and forth over this countless times, dd if I can find it? John Hi John, I suggested to the other guy to modify the chat script so that it simply looks for the "CONNECT", and then exits normally. This should dump you right in to PPP, and hopefully it will authenticate you. You might need the pap-secrets or the chap-secrets file residing in your /etc/ppp so that PPP knows what to send - do you have one of these files with your username and password? Try this script and let me know what happens: Your script was very similar to what I had arrived at but still produced the same problem - just didn't make sense. I have since tried the method described by Dennis further back in the thread. It works - well mostly 2 'oddies' - seems Linux can neither start NOR shutdown the ppp0 interface - returns a FAILED message during the process - I'll work my way thru that. The other is that I can't disconnect gracefully - dropping line by disconnecting the phoneline physically til I work that one out.. off to get another pair of sidecutters in the morrow grin Cheers John
[expert] Printing et al
Hi all After several weeks GRIN of reinstalling the reinstall from the previous several reinstalls from scratch I finally have Linux 6.1 (I think) running..Well sort of... I have have a couple of problems which have stumped me. I am able to print test pages from printtool but for some reason cannot print from anywhere else.. I suspect that I may have some kind of lock in the spooler but haven't been able to locate it... The second is only cosmetic but one I find quite annoying. When the system boots there are scads of confirmation messages. The first bunch up to the point where the Penguin is displayed don't cause me any distress. But immediately X starts up there are what appear to be several screenfulls of messages to do with the video card - Is there any way that this material can be supressed?? Can someone point me in the right direction??? Cheers
[expert] lpr Config.....
May I have a pointer please... Printer is HP Laserjet 4P hanging on lp0. Printing is normal from Star Office and similar applications BUT I try a simple lpr filename usually a readme from the Konsole and the left side of the page is noted by it's abscense. Text looks normal but about 10 characters are missing from start of the line. I know I've been here before but age has got the better of me, it's been called 'brain-farts' Cheers John
Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets
At 02:46 04 04 2000 -0800, you wrote: -- Anyone remember TurboDOS? How about Formula/Formula II or Final Word? Or the OKIData 3300 74Mb HDD which was successfully placed on a micro in 1977. 100lbs of platters in 14" format fitting nicely into a rack And a bargain at $6000! Bouncing around in old messages - must have missed this bit.. Yup Have a full development system here - still runing quiet happily Got a problem??? Full set of manuls !! You need ?? grin Cheers
Re: [expert] CD-RW UDF?
At 11:14 16 04 2000 +0200, you wrote: vern wrote: the CDROM,CD-R HOWTO's. That left me with another question or two. I can read CD's CD-R's, but no CD-RW's does that mean that they are automatically in the UDF format?? Or are they Then Alen wrote: Why couldn't you read RW's?? I read them normal There is no difference in reading RW's or just CD-R if they are created in a normal matter (sessions...). I am writing/reading CD-RW's normal under LiNUX, but not in UDF format. I use normal erase/write procedure for CD-RW! But I think that Vern gets the same message as I get:: ## This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system ## that supports the ISO-13346 "UDF" file system specification. So far I haven't been able to locate any sensible information on UDF, Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places - I certinaly cannot read or write to these types of media from Linux either - Works fine in that other opsys though Any help or pointers will be appreciated by both of us .. Cheers (From Land of America's Cups and Good Racehorses)
[expert] Printing et al
Hi all After several weeks GRIN of reinstalling the reinstall from the previous several reinstalls from scratch I finally have Linux 6.1 (I think) running..Well sort of... I have have a couple of problems which have stumped me. I am able to print test pages from printtool but for some reason cannot print from anywhere else.. I suspect that I may have some kind of lock in the spooler but haven't been able to locate it... The second is only cosmetic but one I find quite annoying. When the system boots there are scads of confirmation messages. The first bunch up to the point where the Penguin is displayed don't cause me any distress. But immediately X starts up there are what appear to be several screenfulls of messages to do with the video card - Is there any way that this material can be supressed?? Can someone point me in the right direction??? Cheers
