Re: [expert] A few questions
lorne Check out the setserial command. Here is a quick one to try but make certain that the serial port is correct (ttyS0 is the first serial port, ttyS1 is the second, ...). This should reset everything. If not, then check the man pages. /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig Tom lorne schachter wrote: > > I've got a couple of problems with the 7.0 beta that I'm running (I > should get the official release next week to install): > > 1) When I leave the machine running with my screen saver on > (kscience - the bouncing ball), the system will > occasionally log me out, back to the login screen w/o rebooting. I log > in and everything's fine, but I'm not sure why it's logging me out. > > 2) If my ISP hangs me up (it does occasionally) and I try to > reconnect, I get the message modem not responding from kppp. I can't > send an ATDT to the modem, because it's not responding. The only way to > clear it up is to reboot. Is there any other way to reset the modem. > > In general, I'm happy with 7.0 over 6.1 since it handles my video > card w/o a problem. Looking forward to > installing the official release. > > Lorne > > -- > Lorne Schachter > (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX) > http://www.intact.com/~lorne
Re: [expert] A few questions
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: > 2) If my ISP hangs me up (it does occasionally) and I try to > reconnect, I get the message modem not responding from kppp. I can't > send an ATDT to the modem, because it's not responding. The only way to > clear it up is to reboot. Is there any other way to reset the modem. I have seen this happen also, sometimes pppd, does not seem to know that kppp died. Try doing a kill -9 `pidof pppd` as root and see if that kills it, and allows the modem to be reset If you have an external modem, you could try powering it off then back on. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
[expert] A few questions
I've got a couple of problems with the 7.0 beta that I'm running (I should get the official release next week to install): 1) When I leave the machine running with my screen saver on (kscience - the bouncing ball), the system will occasionally log me out, back to the login screen w/o rebooting. I log in and everything's fine, but I'm not sure why it's logging me out. 2) If my ISP hangs me up (it does occasionally) and I try to reconnect, I get the message modem not responding from kppp. I can't send an ATDT to the modem, because it's not responding. The only way to clear it up is to reboot. Is there any other way to reset the modem. In general, I'm happy with 7.0 over 6.1 since it handles my video card w/o a problem. Looking forward to installing the official release. Lorne -- Lorne Schachter (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX) http://www.intact.com/~lorne
[expert] A few questions...
I've got a few questions since installing 7.0 on my laptop and server. First, some server config questions: Any time I bring my server back up after a reboot I have to manually start lpd since it is set to 'off' in all of the msec security levels. I also plan to use nfs to share /home on the server with my tower system, but I can't get nfs to start. When I try to start nfs, I get the following message: Cannot register service: RPC: unable to receive; errno = Connection refused mountd: unable to register (mountd, 1, udp). done. [FAILED] What is RPC and how do I configure it? Second, my laptop (and soon my tower): What do I need to do to let all the users on my laptop write to my Windows partition? (A stupid question, I know, I just can't, for the life of me, remember how I had this working before!) I've tried unmounting it and running 'chmod a+w /mnt/windows' which then shows drwxrw-rw- as the permissions, but it switches back to drwxr--r-- when I remount the drive. The entry for the partition in fstab is as follows: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsvfatdefaults0 0 I've tried specifying the parameters where 'defaults' is including 'rw' and just about everything else that didn't break the mount call to no avail, and I'm getting really tired of being limited to transfering files smaller than 1.44MB to and from my Windows partition by way of floppy disk. (Besides, I can't very well try out WINE if I can't write to the partition all my Windows apps are on.) I've checked through the archives, but the closest I can find is a recommendation to use mtools because linux can corrupt a vfat file system. (doesn't make much sense that the OS can't reliably write to it but there's a tool FOR the OS that can) - Theo
