[expert] Support for Wireless PCMCIA NIC's in 8.1?

[jlemay]

Is there any support for wirless lan cards - specifically pcmcia ones -
built into 8.1? I'm really waiting on this feature alone so that I can get
my Thinkpad up and running with Mandrake.



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FW: [expert] Mandrake Freq: Aurora Prevents Boot

[jlemay]

Unfortunately Aurora fails to time out on these hangs and instead leaves
the console in an apparently "stuck" state. While Aurora does a nice job
of making startup "pretty", it seems rather lacking in function and
recovery. One issue that concerned me was that while Aurora indicated
that it was waiting for nmbd to start, a quick "samba status" from
another machine (fortunately sshd had already started) showed that both
smbd and nmbd had started properly.

Is there some method - other than DrakConf - to disable Aurora in cases
like this? For example, what if I didn't happen to have X installed on
my 7.2 server or I didn't happen to have Exceed on my Win2K laptop?
Chances are, I would still be stuck at the Aurora login screen. Does
failsafe prevent Aurora from starting?

Sorry for all the questions - I was unable to install 8.0 and while Freq
is a development image, I would hate to see 8.1 end up with some real
functionality issues such as these. For all of my "semi-techie" friends
that want to try Linux, I would push them to either LM72 or RH71 right
now. I would like to be able to recommend Freq or 8.1!

== Original Message ==

Aurora is closely linked to initscripts and will hang when things are
changed 
in them, and there is usually a lag until Aurora is modified to catch
up.

Civileme

RE: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and aic7xxx

[jlemay]

I did, sort of. It turns out that the version of the aic7xxx driver used
during the installation of LM8 is incompatible with many - if not all - SCSI
cdroms. I ended up replacing the cdrom with an IDE unit and the install ran
without timeouts. The install time went from about 6 hours down to about 20
minutes.

As I understand, the version of aic7xxx used in the LM8 2.4.3 kernel that is
installed does not have this problem, nor do the later kernels (I think Alan
incorporated the fix in 2.4.3ac-something). Supposedly you can switch back
to the SCSI cdrom post install. I've also since found out that installing a
physical terminator on the narrow chain (where the cdrom is) also helps fix
this problem in some setups. Also, make sure your adapter is at the latest
bios level. This problem reportedly happens more often in older adapters due
to a backwards-comaptibility issue between old and new BIOS' from Adaptec.

However, I had such a horrible time with LM8, I've since gone back to LM7.2.
If 8.1 doesn't come soon and prove (a) easier to burn to CD and (b) more
stable than 8.0 I'm considering moving back to RedHat or possibly to SuSE.
This is not the first time I've had SCSI related problems on LM.

-Original Message-
From: Duncan Grant
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Sent: 6/12/01 8:31 AM
Subject: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and aic7xxx

jlemay,

I'm have a similar problem to :

> scsi0:0:1:0: Command found on device queue
> aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
> scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT

Did you eventually find a solution, and if so what?



Regards
Duncan Grant
Indovision

[expert] Mandrake 8.0 and aic7xxx

[jlemay]

So far I have had no luck with Mandrake 8.0 - in fact, I can't even get a
good install.

My machine is configured with a couple of Seagate U2W disks and an Adaptec
2940U2W controller. I've been reading everything I can find on the problems
with 2.4.3 and aic7xxx the past few days, unfortunately I haven't found a
solution. 

I have flashed the bios on the 2940U2W to the latest from Adaptec, however I
am still seeing the "abort" messages. Specifically:

scsi0:0:1:0: Command found on device queue
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT 

These loop about every time my CDROM (Toshiba SCSI 40x) is accessed. 

I tried creating a boot disk from one of the alternative images provided on
the 'Drake8 install CD, but I only get to the initial boot GUI (just beyond
the press Enter / press F1 option) and I receive a "boot failed" message.
I'm guessing something isn't seeing the CDROM?

Can anyone provide some insight here? Three days without my primary machine
has been rather annoying. Perhaps I need to try another boot disk image or
should I just wait for 8.1?

Help!

Re: [expert] The wierd wild wacky woolly window manager

[jlemay]

> I was wondering,
> (I know I know, enough w's)
> 
> Is fvwm or fvwm2 designed to have icons on its desktop
> or is it designed for pulldown menus only?
> 
> I have out of my curiosity getting the best of me,
> been snooping around the net and I cannot seem to stumble
> upon anything about it as far as configging instructions.
> 
> Just curious about how one goes about configging it
> and if its possible to hack some icon capabilities
> into it if it does not have any.
> 
> 


Doesn't fvwmx use .rc files for menu defs? I'm almost certain it is a 
menu only system with no true desktop environment (therefore no desktop 
on which to place
icons).

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Re: [expert] Installing on SCSI drive problem

[jlemay]

I'm not familiar with the adapter or driver, and the messages don't look 
familiar either. However, I had major SCSI problems with 'Drake 6.1 and 
7.0 that 7.1 fixed. I was using Seagate LVD drives and an Adaptec 2940U2W 
adapter. Not sure how much help that will be.

Of course, check termination!

> I'm not sure if this is a problem of the SCSI card (Tekram 390F with
> newest bios, 3.21), my hard drive, or Mandrake. I own two IBM 
> Ultrastar 2XP SCSI drives.  I've asked Tekram and IBM, so I
> figure I may as well ask the Mandrake experts too... :)
> 
> This is my new problem:
> When I go to install Linux Mandrake 6.1 or 7.0, the installer freezes
> when
> it goes to install the SCSI card driver (ncr53c875 PCI).  This is the
> message that is seen:
> 
> <6> ncr53c875E-0-<3,0>: Phase change 6-7 8@0bx7ccc8 resid=5
> <6> ncr53c875E-0-<3,*>: asynchronous
> <6> ncr53c875E-0-<3,0>: M_REJECT Received (80:8)
> <4> ncr53c875E-0: SCSI Phase Error fixup: CCB already dequeued
> (0xcb87c820)
> <6> ncr53c875E-0: restart (SCSI restart)
> <4> ncr53c875E-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS
> 
> This message repeats until I reboot the machine or turn it off.  I can
> install
> FreeBSD 3.4 on the drives, but I would prefer to use Mandrake.
> Any ideas?  Thanks!
> 
> 
> Socheat
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Re: [expert] Remote Access of Root

[jlemay]

> I have Mandrake 7.1 up and running and for maintenance purposes I want 
to
> log on remotely as root for telnet and ftp from another system.
> 
> Right now this seems to be defeated by the system. Can I change this?
> 


I'm not sure in which of two places the problem lies. First, if you 
cannot login at all via ftp or telnet, check /etc/inetd.conf and (I 
think) /etc/services to make sure these apps are available. If they are 
enabled and you cannot login as root (which is highly likely), you can 
telnet in as a normal user and "su" to root. I'm not sure how to solve 
this issue for ftp access.

You may want to consider installing ssh (OpenSSH for a business 
environment - I believe that one is free for commercial use) and using it 
instead of telnet since data will be encrypted as it passes over the 
network. With telnet all data - passwords and all - are sent in clear 
text. Again, I don't know much about ftp. However, a quick search on 
freshmeat may turn up some secure ftp client/server.

One last tip if you are using Windows clients to telnet or ssh into your 
*nix servers, check out CRT as a replacement for telnet or SecureCRT for 
a ssh client for Windows. It's an excellent terminal app - much better 
than Windows telnet!


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Re: [expert] install to scsi drive problems (7.0)

[jlemay]

> I just built a new system, which happens to be 100%
> SCSI (something I have never attempted before, apparently with good
> reason!).  The bios recognizes both 18GB drives as well as the scsi
> cdrom.  It boots the install cd, starts the installation, recognizes the
> aic 2940/7980, continues, and then barfs when it wants to create
> filesystems, complaining that there are no valid devices found.  Any
> idea why it might not see the hard drives?  Both drives are on the
> lvd/scsi2 channel and the cd and tape are on the legacy fast/wide
> channel.  Any help would be appreciated...  I checked the archives and
> everyone else seems to be having problems loading drivers or problems
> booting successful installations.  I get past the first problem, but die
> before the second.  I wish I could get that far...
> 

Sam,

Grab a copy of Mandrake 7.1 and you should be fine. I had a similar 
problem with any version of Mandrake earlier than 7.0. Apparently the 
SCSI driver has a problem with either the newer adapters (I'm going to 
guess a 2940U2W or 29160) or the LVD drives, or both. In my case, the 
install would hang while detecting the devices, almost as if the chain 
was not terminated. Hitting "ALT-4" would show exacly what was happening 
after the SCSI module was loaded. 

Of course, make sure you do have a terminator made for LVD/SE attached to 
the last position on the cable connecting the wide (68 pin) chain, and 
that you have enabled Term power on the drives on the wide chain. Also, 
double check that your narrow side is properly terminated by enabling 
termination on the last device on the chain. (Last device always refers 
to the last physical device, regardless of the SCSI id assigned to the 
devices.)

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Re: [expert] starting X for remote access only

[jlemay]

> VNC is nice as you can start a desktop at one site and go somewhere else
> and pick-up where you left off.  You have to preset VNC for the desktop
> you want to be using.  Also as stated VNC is free.

Something I've never tried, but what if you don't specify a wm/de in 
~/.vnc/xstartup and instead kickoff an xterm or some gtk util or similar 
to allow you to choose one? This goes just as well for X in general. I 
imagine someone must have tried it... 


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Re: [expert] starting X for remote access only

[jlemay]

Also check out VNC from AT&T. It's free, it's small, and it runs on 
various platforms.


> :~>so the question, how can i start the X-server (or client, how you
> :~>like it ;) at the router in serve-mode only?
> 
> check /etc/X11/xdm dir.
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[expert] Printing via SMB Stopped Working

[jlemay]

I'm not sure if this belongs on the Samba list, but I thought I'd start 
here first since I subscribe to this list.

I installed 7.1 about a half week ago. During the install I setup my 
printer - an HP1120C hanging off a Windows 98 box (I know, I know.) - as 
a SMB attached printer. I've given the config tool the name of the box, 
the ip address of the box (name is resolved fine, ip address is static), 
and the correct queue name. This worked perfectly for the test print and 
for a couple of days after.

About two days ago, I noticed that I could no longer print. The Win98 box 
seems to be working fine, as I can print from another Win98 machine on 
the net. I even went so far as to try using the CLI to SMB, smbclient, 
and connected to the resource and sent an ASCII file to the printer. 
After two attempts, the first line of the print job spewed out of the 
printer for the last attempt.

I've tried removing the queue and recreating it, however that has not 
helped. I recall that the printer stopped working around the same time I 
installed StarOffice 5.1 (I'm on 56K dialup, so I haven't downloaded 5.2 
yet). Could SO have messed up something? Does it alter anything in lpd or 
something of the sort? The printcap file seems intact, as do the files 
in /var/spool/lpd/lp (the printer is setup as "lp").

FWIW, this is acting just like the printer problems I've had in 7.0, 6.1, 
and my days with RedHat 4.x, 5.x, and 6.0. As hard as I've tried, I've 
never been able to solve this type of problem, probably because I don't 
know where to start troubleshooting. Oh, I did define the two debug var's 
in /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter, however it doesn't look like the print jobs 
are making it that far since the output file in never created in /tmp. 

Help!

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Sort By Thread (WAS: [expert] missing SSH ?)

[jlemay]

Just a quick comment, and I'll probably get blasted for it, but I haven't 
found a mail client for Linux that does "View by Thread" as well as MS 
Outlook. Netscape is horrible, I don't think Polarbar does it, and I 
haven't been happy with other clients I've tried.


> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> 
> I think that if we all had our mail clients set to display by THREAD,
> we'd have seen the responses. However, you can't FORCE people to read
> by thread. I, for example, prefer to read by date/time of arrival.
>   John
> 
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Re: [expert] Auto Install of 7.1 Skips Network

[jlemay]

You'd have to run this by Don Becker and/or Alan Cox (via linux-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are interested), but I *BELIEVE* that 3c90x 
module is the 3Com written code. My understanding is that this code was 
developed by 3Com specifically for the later chipsets used on the 3C905x-
TX adapters (Volcano and Tornado spring to mind...)


> Just a silly question about this card (i got the same) : why is the 
3c59x
> module used, where the kernel has also a 3c90x module, that seems
> to be most adpated ? 
> 
> Also sprach mer, 21 jun 2000 :
> > Is it normal for the auto-install of 7.1 to skip the installation of 
my network
> > adapter and the configuration of TCP/IP? This seems a bit odd. The 
nic is a
> > 3c59x compatible 3c905B-TX. A quick reconfig with DrakConf had 
everything up and
> > running in no time.
> > 
> > John LeMay Jr.
> > Senior Enterprise Consultant
> > NJMC, LLC.
> > 
> > Mandrake Linux 7.0 (2.2.14)  /  Polarbar Mailer 1.16c
> > JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-2515
> -- 
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> Iremia - Université de la Réunion
> 
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> 
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[expert] Window Manager Menus

[jlemay]

Hi,

Can someone provide me with a link to some info on how the new menu 
system works? I read the doc I found in (I think) /usr/doc, but I'm still 
a bit lost. FWIW, I'm moving from a machine that has been running Window 
Maker for a couple of years (since the 0.18 days)using the old menu 
style - a flat file in ~/GNUstep/Default/WindowMaker - and now I'm not 
sure how to migrate my old menu settings over to the new system.

I like the fact that menus are consistent across window managers, but I 
am looking for an easy method to manipulate them. Since this isn't 
necessarily Window Maker specific, I thought I'd post here first instead 
of to the wmuser list.

Thanks!


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Re: [expert] PPPoE and DSL

[jlemay]

I'm not sure which router you have, however I've heard the Netgear 
supports PPPoE rather well. You might also want to check out the Netopia 
7100/7200 (depends on the DSLAM your provider is using) as it provides a 
more complete solution including firewall, VPN, and some other "cool" 
stuff that the big boys would charge plenty for.


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Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve

[jlemay]

I don't have an .Xresources file either, however VNC runs fine for me. 
Have you tried specifying a different window manager in xstartup?


> Okay, I checked the log file and it's telling me that "xrdb" cannot 
find $HOME/.Xresources
.  I can't find .Xresources anywhere.
> Would you happen to have a copy to send me?
> 


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[expert] Re: SCSI Errors with 2940U2W gone with Mandrake 7.1

[jlemay]

> 
> Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but LVD doesn't use termination does it?
> Certainly not the same kind as SE, which uses active terminators. (by

LVD does still require termination. The active terminators I used 
apparently can be used with Ultra2/LVD and Ultra devices.

> I assume by Ultra and Ultra2 sides you meant, wide and narrow 
> connectors to

Yes, wide and narrow would also explain this, but...

> the same buss, since I think this card is a two bus, LVD on one, SE on 
> the other.

The card has 68-pin connectors on BOTH the Ultra2 and Ultra sides. The 
Ultra side also has a narrow connector. Two busses, three internal 
connectors.

> Some controllers do get confused when two connectors of different 
widths are
> used on the same buss.  If you are using the narrow and wide connectors 

Not the case here...

> high end of the bus is terminated, and the low end isn't.  Then set the

This *STILL* confuses me. Can anyone define what is meant by "high" 
and "low" end of the bus?

> 
> Term power is almost always a universally good thing, unless a drive 
has a
> shorted diode or fuse.

It's important to know that this is NOT enabled by default on the Seagate 
drives I had. In fact, the tech that setup the hardware (incorrectly) at 
first did not enable this, nor did he use LVD cables, terminators, etc. I 
guess the point is that most of today's techs that are assembling 
hardware know little about SCSI, and know even less about newer 
incarnations of SCSI. I know I've learned a great deal, and I've been 
working with SCSI for upwards of 6 years
now.

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[expert] Missing monitor def in 'Drake 7.1, 3Dfx 3000

[jlemay]

I just attempted to configure X on my 7.1 box and noticed that the Nokia 
447Z is not defined. I wouldn't consider this an issue except that the 
other 447 and 447Zx models (Zi, Za, etc.) are defined. Am I missing 
something?

Also, anyone know about configuring a 3Dfx 3000 AGP adapter with either 
3.3.6 or 4.0? Looks like the card was incorrectly detected as a "Generic" 
even though (I think) there is support for this
card.

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Re: [expert] Logging into NT network with Linux client

[jlemay]

> Ok, here's the scenario. I'm trying to setup a Linux box here at work. 
> What I'm trying to figure out is what I need to do to log into our 
network 
> (WinNT Enterprise). Any thoughts?
> 
> 

This depends on what you want to do. To access a file share, and assuming 
you have the Samba client installed, smbclient //server/share -Uuser 
password is, I believe, the proper syntax. This opens an ftp-like 
interface (console based) to the server for the purpose of transferring 
files.

For browsing, you still need the Samba client package, however you will 
also need one of the "Network Neighborhood" clones written to provide a 
GUI interface to smbclient.

Hope this helps!


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