R: [newbie-it] distributori
Dove trovare Mandrake 6.0 in italia? Chi e' il distributore? Il sito non segnala correttamente... forse www.thule.it ha anche mandrake AS
[newbie-it] connettersi senza kppp
Vorrei potermi connettere anche senza dover avviare X e quindi senza kppp Ho Mandrake 5.3 che uso con Windowmaker...KDE è un po pesantino Ho inserito in /etc/ppp/options /dev/cua3 115200 modem crtscts defaultroute connect /etc/ppp/chat-script poi in etc/ppp/chat-script #!/bin/sh chat -v -t60 '' ATM1DTnumero ogin: mio-login sword: mia-password'' quindi ho dato il comando chmod u=rwx chat-script e in etc/resolv.conf ho inserito ip del dns del mio provider e suo dominio (ctonline.it) ora non ho capito bene come devo procedere.. se do il comando "chat" mi dice command not found.. se digito "pppd" stessa storia.. se vado in usr/sbin e do il comando ./pppd succede qualcosa ma non attiva il modem e quindi non alza la linea ( USR faxmodem 56k) Questo è quello che ho trovato in var/log/messages 12:50:07 localhost kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Aug 2 12:50:07 localhost kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) Aug 2 12:50:07 localhost kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. Aug 2 12:50:07 localhost kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Aug 2 12:50:07 localhost kernel: registered device ppp0 Aug 2 12:50:07 localhost pppd[352]: pppd 2.3.5 started by daft, uid 1001 Aug 2 12:50:08 localhost pppd[352]: Connect script failed Aug 2 12:50:09 localhost pppd[352]: Exit. Dove sbaglio?.. forse devo aggiundere anche qualcosa in pap-secrets?... su kppp l'autenticazione è settata su PAP. oppure scarica X-ISP un programmino efficente per configurare connessioni ppp-slip da X senza sbatt bye Cello Mi puoi dire dove lo posso scaricare? su rpmfind non l'ho trovato. Esiste anche in formato rpm da qualche altra parte? GRazie Andreas -- "Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'".
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs
Check out LinuxMall they should sell the GPL versions of the Older Linux OS's.. James J. Capone Webmaster http://linuxuser.8m.com Webmaster http://teammajestic.8m.com Asst. Webmaster http://www.ptm.com Co Author Linux For Newbies "Even Common People Can Attain Uncommon Results" -Original Message- From: Andy Goth [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 2:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs File: ATT4.txt; charset = x-user-defined
Re: [newbie] Ethernet card help!!!
Joe Brault wrote: I am trying to get my Linux box ready for my trip to college this fall, and have a question. I have a SohoBasic Plug and Play Ethernet ISA Adapter in my box at this time... Will this card work with Linux as is? Do I need to get other drivers?? Is it a lost cause??? Thanks in advance! Nighthawk It's an NE2000 compatible card and well supported by Linux.
[newbie] boot hang up
I have installed linux mandrake 6.0 on my PC with a 1Gig hard disk. Everytime I try to boot for the first time after installation it hangs at the following stage: creating /mnt/disk[OK] after this nothing happens can you help?
Re: [newbie] How to use terminal
If I'm not mistaking, the prompt is the shell Xwindows is the GUI server and on top of that you run a Window Manager in wich you can open a terminal window Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net 7 www.net7.be - Original Message - From: Tom Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 8:38 PM Subject: [newbie] How to use terminal Well I am a computer technician that is 19 yrs. old. I handle all the repair and service at my job. I basically started learning on Win 95 which I know better than my boss, but he knows DOS better than me. I have little knowledge of command line programs and commands. I have taken programming in high school, but it was a joke on apple computers. I know many of windows deeper problems and really want to understand Linux, and the best way I know how to do that is to learn the terminal first. I know I can use the X-windows. I need to find web pages that will teach me how to use the prompt instead of only the shell.
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs
Colin - You'll probably get quite a few replies, but in any case, the Mandrake 6.0 linux is one of those that is compiled to run on a Pentium chip. You won't get it working correctly on a 486. The earlier Mandrake 5.3 however, should work correctly. I've loaded it on a 486dx2/66, and had it up and running without problems. Bill -Original Message- From: Colin Eddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs Actually I've tried both the Mandrake and RedHat 6.0 installs and they do the exact same thing and hang in the same place. Plus I wouldn't think that pentium optimizations would cause a hang on the install before anything really happens. What kind of a processor _do_ you have? If you don't have a Pentium, what is it supposed to do when it received an unrecognized opcode? Some processors just stop working. Others call some bad-opcode-handler interrupt. Even if your processor calls an exception interrupt, the setup may not have made it do anything besides hang the computer. I am using a 486DX2/66 for this. I have read all the Mandrake and RedHat documentation/hardware compatibility lists and they both say that anything Intel above a i386 are fully supported. Although on another list, Mandrake says all Intel and compatibles, but they only specifically list Pentiums and above. Both distributions apparently now give you the option during the install process to choose the type of prebuilt kernel you want to install. At this point I could see how if I chose a pentium kernel instead of a 486 one I would have a problem. Since I don't even begin the install before it hangs, this should not be the problem. The kernel running from the boot disk should be a completely backwards compatible 386 kernel or else they should not/could not claim to support the older processors like they do in their documentation. As far as other hardware related issues, since I'm already running RedHat 5.0 with absolutely no problems, the only issue would be if the newer distributions decided to no longer work with my hardware which I haven't read anything about anywhere. All my relevant hardware seems to be on the lists anyway. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
[newbie] Printer Problems
Hallo,
Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.2.34 and everything
seemed to work ok. However, I did not test printing and when I started
it today, it does not work. After investigating a bit further (with
printtool) I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not
detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still
existing, the entry looks like:
crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 lp0
crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 1 May 5 1998 lp1
crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 2 May 5 1998
lp2
and that has obviously not changed until installation. As I have nothing
else changed and printing has worked so far, I am a bit lost and any
help would be appreciated - where to look / what to do ?!
Thanks and bye,
willy
Re: [newbie] Usr Sportster voice 33.6
its pretty easy. all you need to do is know what com port it is on. run " modemtool " from a command line and it is pretty much self-explainatory. I have the same modem and i set it to /dev/cua3 and it works great RB wrote: Hello, I have a usr sportster voice modem and I don't know how to setup up this one. What can I do to linux find my modem ? Thanks in advance Romain __ Message envoye depuis iFrance http://www.ifrance.com Gratuit Hebergement (50 Mo)/Vos emails (POPHTML)/Vos P.A. NOUVEAU : vos encheres On-line : http://ifrance.aucland.fr
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs
try ftp.linux-madrake.com Andy Goth wrote: Actually I've tried both the Mandrake and RedHat 6.0 installs and they do the exact same thing and hang in the same place. Plus I wouldn't think that pentium optimizations would cause a hang on the install before anything really happens. If they both hang in the same place, that points to a different issue. Possibly an incompatibility with something in your PC. Pentium optimizations also imply Pentium opcodes which don't exist on the 486. Any program compiled with a Pentium specific compiler could fail. I don't know which items in Mandrake are compiled specifically for Pentium, but I suspect probably all of them are. That would seem to be the easiest way, as it should only affect the make file. While on the subject, how can I (or anyone else) obtain a version of Mandrake-Linux that's compiled for a 486 (or some other processor)?
[newbie] Large HD install
I'm trying to install LM 6.0 for the first time. I used fips to decrease my windows 98 partition on a 13 GB HD. When I try and run Disk Druid, it comes up with an error "Boot partition too large." I know that I've read something about this, but can't remember where. Can anyone give me a hand with this? TIA Rob
Re: [newbie] Printer Problems
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:
I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not
detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still
existing, the entry looks like:
crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 lp0
crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 1 May 5 1998 lp1
crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 2 May 5 1998
lp2
The device entries have nothing to do with the actual devices.
Make sure you've loaded all the kernel modules you need for printing, try
modprobe parport
modprobe parport_pc
modprobe lp
LLaP
bero
Re: [newbie] Ethernet card help!!!
Suryo Mataram wrote: Maybe you should install it first. You may be able to configure it manually (IRQ address and other stuff). Suryo. From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to get my Linux box ready for my trip to college this fall, and have a question. I have a SohoBasic Plug and Play Ethernet ISA Adapter in my box at this time... Will this card work with Linux as is? Do I need to get other drivers?? Is it a lost cause??? Thanks in advance! Nighthawk There is a utility disk that ships with the card that will allow you to set the IRQ and IO ports for the card. If I recall correctly, the configuration tool that shipped on the disk was nearly useless. The web address on the SOHObasic box has updated utilities that work well. Get those before you attempt to change settings on the card. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Large HD install
Doesn't this problem have to do with the size of the first partition exceeding 1023 cylinders and dos is not able to see the second partition? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pr. Robert Wurst Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 16:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Large HD install I'm trying to install LM 6.0 for the first time. I used fips to decrease my windows 98 partition on a 13 GB HD. When I try and run Disk Druid, it comes up with an error "Boot partition too large." I know that I've read something about this, but can't remember where. Can anyone give me a hand with this? TIA Rob
RE: [newbie] Large HD install
Right. If you have a small /boot partition (~25 MByte partition) in the first 8Gig area of your disk, you will be able to boot OK. The rest of the linux can go anywhere. Bill -Original Message- From: James J. O'Keefe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Large HD install Doesn't this problem have to do with the size of the first partition exceeding 1023 cylinders and dos is not able to see the second partition? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pr. Robert Wurst Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 16:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Large HD install I'm trying to install LM 6.0 for the first time. I used fips to decrease my windows 98 partition on a 13 GB HD. When I try and run Disk Druid, it comes up with an error "Boot partition too large." I know that I've read something about this, but can't remember where. Can anyone give me a hand with this? TIA Rob
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs
On 02-Aug-99 Colin Eddy wrote: I am using a 486DX2/66 for this. I have read all the Mandrake and RedHat documentation/hardware compatibility lists and they both say that anything Intel above a i386 are fully supported. Although on another list, Mandrake says all Intel and compatibles, but they only specifically list Pentiums and above. Both distributions apparently now give you the option during the install process to choose the type of prebuilt kernel you want to install. At this point I could see how if I chose a pentium kernel instead of a 486 one I would have a problem. Since I don't even begin the install before it hangs, this should not be the problem. The kernel running from the boot disk should be a completely backwards compatible 386 kernel or else they should not/could not claim to support the older processors like they do in their documentation. If you read that Mandrake works on anything below a Pentium-class CPU, then it either wasn't for M6 or it needs to be updated. ALL (or at least most--I don't know if they compiled Netscape's source code themselves) the Mandrake packages are compiled with Pentium optimizations, so there wouldn't really be any point in having a kernel compiled for 386, for Mandrake. I have no idea why RedHat would give you problems. Maybe there is something about the newer RedHat/Mandrake installation disks that causes problems with your hardware. If you're making the boot disks yourself from images, are you using rawrite in DOS, or dd from an already set up Linux installation? dd seems more reliable than rawrite. If you don't have an existing Linux installation, you can make a root/boot disk (there's one on M6 CD and should be one on RH6 CD too I think), boot from it, and then use dd to make an installation boot disk. If THAT doesn't work I'd try starting the installation with a boot disk from an older version of RedHat. And if that doesn't work, I'd try either Mandrake 5.3, Redhat 5.2 (if you can still get them) or another distro.. As far as other hardware related issues, since I'm already running RedHat 5.0 with absolutely no problems, the only issue would be if the newer distributions decided to no longer work with my hardware which I haven't read anything about anywhere. All my relevant hardware seems to be on the lists anyway. There could be subtle corruptions with your hardware that show up under certain conditions but not under others. (And it seems a lot of people have had that kind of trouble with Mandrake in particular.) -Tom
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs
try ftp.linux-mandrake.com Uh... sorry. This computer (which I do not have constant access to) has a slow modem, and my PC doesn't have a modem at all. Downloading the whole thing is out of the question. Compiling the whole thing should take way too long as well. It takes DJGPP at least a minute to make a single simple object file! Linux-Mandrake is a pretty complicated beast! I hope I can get a better computer someday soon. It's pretty hard knowing that I cannot buy any new software since it's all designed for better processors than I have. Money trouble... urgh. Maybe I'll just stick to Red Hat 5.0.
RE: [newbie] Large HD install
Doesn't this problem have to do with the size of the first partition exceeding 1023 cylinders and dos is not able to see the second partition? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pr. Robert Wurst Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 16:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Large HD install I'm trying to install LM 6.0 for the first time. I used fips to decrease my windows 98 partition on a 13 GB HD. When I try and run Disk Druid, it comes up with an error "Boot partition too large." I know that I've read something about this, but can't remember where. Can anyone give me a hand with this? TIA Rob
[newbie] Slow bandwith Fixes
Sounds great, but I need more instructions. My rc.local file doesn't have any reference to these. I did get the 'novj' option set, and that has helped, but I'm still lost on the rest. Thanks! -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 connection you might want to try the following. 1 - Locate the rc.local file and add the following line to setserial to boost the port speed setserial /dev/ttySx spd_vhi replace x by the port number (ttyS0, ttyS1, etc.) mine is /dev/modem 2 - Turn off Van Jacobsen compression for PPP. In the PPP argument box of KPPP add 'novj'. 3 - Set the MRU and MTU to low values. Both MRU and MTU can be set to 296 or 576.
[newbie] Installing Version 5.3 on laptop
Specifically, I'm thinking of installing Linux-Mandrake 5.3 on a Toshiba 2540CDS with 96 of RAM. I'm curious if anyone has tried this and ifthere is anything special that I need to know about this. Thanks. -- bgf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installing Version 5.3 on laptop
I'm running 6.0 on a Toshiba 2515. Installed great and everything works (sound, pcmcia modem and ethernet card, etc). Pick up a 6.0 version it includes some kde utils for apm (dockable battery monitor, suspend util) plus the cool theme manager. Running the MacOS theme on the laptop looks good. Another big plus on the 6.0 version is the pgcc compilation. My sys is a P266MMX 32m ram, and with RH6.0 is was a bit slow. With the LM 6.0 installed I saw at least a 15%-20% bump in speed. My only prob is with the kernel upgrade. Upgrading to the official 2.2.9 or the cooker 2.2.10 packages kills pcmcia. I've not had the time to poke around and find a fix. With the orig kernel I get the damn umount failure on halt. But I need the ethernet card so I'm living with it until I get around to finding a fix, or the next mandrake version comes out. On Mon, 02 Aug 1999, you wrote: Specifically, I'm thinking of installing Linux-Mandrake 5.3 on a Toshiba 2540CDS with 96 of RAM. I'm curious if anyone has tried this and ifthere is anything special that I need to know about this. Thanks. -- bgf [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] file utilities slowdown with many files ..
If I put 30-40,000 files in one directory (to avoid the overhead of putting and getting from some container) and do 'ls', or 'ls -1', then my new Mandrake 6.0 machine (with plenty of memory and disk) gets busy 98% busy for 10-15 minutes and then returns the expected output. Same with other utilities, f.eks. tar'ing these many files starts out being fast, then gradually slows to 10-20% of the speed when it starts; I dont believe swapping is the cause, as I got 800 mb of ram. On the other hand, I can write a simple Perl script (below) that does the same as 'ls -1' but in 1 second. Also, it seems slower to copy a file into a directory with many files than into one with few. Is this well a known thing? I have guesses to why, but that would be pure speculation; do anyone know? Another observation .. I was in the middle of editing /etc/fstab with Emacs when guy downstairs presses the power button, forgetting to see if someone works on it, also forgetting to shut down right. Then, he couldnt boot the machine. We were asked during the boot to fix file system errors, ran fsck and pressed y a few times (what else can one do?) and try again. Still no boot, because now /etc/fstab was gone. I have not tried to reproduce this (pulling the plug while editing a file isnt fun), and I have not yet applied the Mandrake updates (kernel and initscripts). Again, has this been seen by others? Niels Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith Fixes
Original Message On 8/2/99, 6:34:57 PM, "Robert Gilley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith Fixes: [snip] 3 - Set the MRU and MTU to low values. Both MRU and MTU can be set to 296 or 576. How do I do that part too. I was a Winder's Wizerd, but I'm a Linux Newbie. ;) -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
Re: [newbie] Printer Problems
Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:
Hallo,
Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.2.34 and everything
seemed to work ok. However, I did not test printing and when I started
it today, it does not work. After investigating a bit further (with
printtool) I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not
detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still
existing, the entry looks like:
crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 lp0
crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 1 May 5 1998 lp1
crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 2 May 5 1998
lp2
and that has obviously not changed until installation. As I have nothing
else changed and printing has worked so far, I am a bit lost and any
help would be appreciated - where to look / what to do ?!
Thanks and bye,
willy
Try re-running printtool.
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Re: [newbie] Installing Version 5.3 on laptop
- Original Message - From: Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Version 5.3 on laptop I'm running 6.0 on a Toshiba 2515. Installed great and everything works (sound, pcmcia modem and ethernet card, etc). Pick up a 6.0 version it includes some kde utils for apm (dockable battery monitor, suspend util) plus the cool theme manager. Running the MacOS theme on the laptop looks good. Another big plus on the 6.0 version is the pgcc compilation. My sys is a P266MMX 32m ram, and with RH6.0 is was a bit slow. With the LM 6.0 installed I saw at least a 15%-20% bump in speed. I have had 5.3 and 6.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420, P75, 24MB - 6.0 performs better. A suggestion: use /dev/hda1 as the swap partition and /dev/hda2 as the ext2 partition; this puts the swap at the fastest part of the drive. The MacOS theme really throws a curve to some people . 8) Hoyt
Re: [newbie] file utilities slowdown with many files ..
Chmouel, it's normal if your ls is a ls --color, ls do before a file on each files to see the filetype and colorise it. your perl script do only a opendir/readdir, it's only two call to system. Thats it, thanks .. I did 'unalias ls' and time dropped from 10-15 mins to 2 seconds. Then I did 'alias ls="ls --color"' and it took long time again. Also, it seems slower to copy a file into a directory with many files than into one with few. Is this well a known thing? I have guesses to why, but that would be pure speculation; do anyone know? Could you bring some benchmarks with the time(2) command. Ok .. I am at my home box now, 2.0.30, Pentium 200, RH 5.1, maybe it makes no sense to do it then, but I can repeat tomorrow if you wish. Anyhow, I get the same result here: I moved 1000 small files (they were symbolic links) from directory with ~30,000 files into directory "temp". Then I first copied these files into an empty "temp2" directory, (biobase) /hd/9/temp time cp -d * ../temp2 0.01user 1.93system 0:04.11elapsed 47%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (79major+10minor)pagefaults 0swaps Now I copy these ~1000 files back where they came from, (biobase) /hd/9/temp time cp -d * ../chromat_dir 0.01user 65.70system 2:10.44elapsed 50%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (79major+10minor)pagefaults 0swaps .. 30-fold increase .. maybe an inefficient way of updating directory information .. (pure speculation) Another observation .. I was in the middle of editing /etc/fstab with Emacs when guy downstairs presses the power button, forgetting to see if someone works on it, also forgetting to shut down right. Then, he couldnt boot the machine. We were asked during the boot to fix file system errors, ran fsck and pressed y a few times (what else can one do?) and try again. Still no boot, because now /etc/fstab was gone. I have not tried to reproduce this (pulling the plug while editing a file isnt fun), and I have not yet applied the Mandrake updates (kernel and initscripts). Do the updates and it should fix your problem. Again, has this been seen by others? Oh yes :-((. Allright, I am happy to hear this. Its kind of an unfortunate error then, almost wonder if might be reason enough to update your iso's (?) for the sake of those newcomers who overlook that applying updates is a must .. maybe .. Thanks for being so helpful .. Niels L
