Re: [newbie] SNF packet forwarding problem.
I am sorry to repost this request, but I have still not managed to turn on forwarding in Mandrake SNF (original description follows). I do know a little more. I have managed to install a different firewalling distro - smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org), so I do know that the problem is not due to some HP proprietary hardware weirdness. How would I turn on forwarding, manually, in SNF? Thank you again. John T John Turnbull wrote: I have installed Mandrake SNF on an elderly HP Ventra with a 200MHz Pentium Pro in a test-bed configuration. I have it set up with eth0 (ne2k-pci card - 192.168.3.34) connected to the LAN side of my network and eth1 (3c59x - 192.168.4.34) running through a crossover cable to a laptop acting as a stand-in for the internet. From the HP firewall, I can ping both of its NICs and can also ping the 'internet' (laptop - 192.168.4.65) and any internal machine (say: 192.168.3.45), so the TCP/IP stuff seems to be fine. I can connect to the HP firewall with either ssh or Mandrake Security (port 8443: I intentionally set it up to allow both) from either the LAN side or the 'internet' side, but I cannot connect from the LAN side to the internet side at all. Mandrake Security - Restrict Access lists Firewall Rules on and Mandrake Security - Internet Access lists Access Status Down and no amount of poking 'Start' or 'Stop', in any combination, seems to change its status. . . sigh Any hints on how I should proceed would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. John T (BTW what does 'Test' do?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SNF packet forwarding problem.
I have installed Mandrake SNF on an elderly HP Ventra with a 200MHz Pentium Pro in a test-bed configuration. I have it set up with eth0 (ne2k-pci card - 192.168.3.34) connected to the LAN side of my network and eth1 (3c59x - 192.168.4.34) running through a crossover cable to a laptop acting as a stand-in for the internet. From the HP firewall, I can ping both of its NICs and can also ping the 'internet' (laptop - 192.168.4.65) and any internal machine (say: 192.168.3.45), so the TCP/IP stuff seems to be fine. I can connect to the HP firewall with either ssh or Mandrake Security (port 8443: I intentionally set it up to allow both) from either the LAN side or the 'internet' side, but I cannot connect from the LAN side to the internet side at all. Mandrake Security - Restrict Access lists Firewall Rules on and Mandrake Security - Internet Access lists Access Status Down and no amount of poking 'Start' or 'Stop', in any combination, seems to change its status. . . sigh Any hints on how I should proceed would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. John T (BTW what does 'Test' do?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] About to take the plunge with a Asus av133 - any issues? - jrt
Lanman wrote: John; That's exactly what I have. Install went A.O.K., and system is rock-solid stable. What video card and hard drive do you have? On Sunday 13 May 2001 9:48, you wrote: Are there any known issues with installing Mandrake 8.0 on the mew (Mid April?) Asus A7V133 motherboard with a 1.1GHz T-bird and PC133 memory? This is the board that has the Promise ATA100 IDE controller built in. Thank you in advance for any advice. John T -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd. Registered Linux User # 190712 Dan: At the onset I will be using a 17G Quantum Fireball lct, but may replace it with one of the newer, faster drives that are out there. I am even thinking of experimenting with RAID 0. Has anybody got this working in Linux? What are the performance gains with software RAID and the Promise hardware RAID that is optional on the A7V133? The real barrier, for me, is that I don't need the storage that even the a two disk RAID would deliver. Well, I could probably fill a 2X20G setup, but a 3X or 4X30 would just spin for me. Re the video. I have an PCI Voodoo III in the box right now. I'll keep it for the time being. Just for the record. This will replace an AMD K6-2 200 so I expect to see some changes. John T
[newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt
I realize that Mandrake 8.0 is very new and as a result, not all the surprises are known. A quick peruse with various search engines indicates that there may be some issues between Linux and AMD CPUs or chip sets. None-the-less, if one were considering building an AMD based machine, specifically for Mandrake, are there any preferred CPU/motherboard combinations that are known to be stable and good price performance in the 800 MHz speed? Any that should be avoided? Thank you all in advance. John T
Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt
Gerry wrote: Seems you need to make a symlink to the 2.2.18-dir.. cd to the parent dir of "linux-2.2.18", and type: ln -s linux-2.2.18 linux That will create a symlink named linux that point to linux-2.2.18. (btw, did you copy the source to /usr/src/linux-2.2.18 ? the path /usr/src/linux might be hardcoded into the source..) Gerry Thank you Garry: You are right there is no file /usr/src/linuxat all, let alone a link to the 2.2.18 sources. The interesting thing is that on the Mandrake home page there is a link to www.mandrakeuser.org, where they advise, in www.mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade3.html, to break that link: 1. Delete the symlink '/usr/src/linux'. Otherwise the sources will be unpacked into the Mandrake kernel sources directory! But never instruct the user to recreate it after they install the new sources. I must write to them. Thank you again. I could not see the answer. John T
[newbie] Need help installing Perfect Office 2000 - jrt
It would seem that I have managed to install most of Corel Perfect Office 2000 under Mandrake 7.2. When I execute wordperfect, as a user, I get the following error messages: No running font server was detected. I will try to start a font server on this host and then wait for 30 seconds to allow the font server to start up. followed 30 seconds later by: Unable to add FonTastic font server to the font path. The font server is probably not installed or not running. Correct the problem and try again. The problem is clear enough. . . I am not running FonTastic, but it is not clear how to correct the problem. Interestingly, when I did a: locate fontastic I get: /usr/include/wine-wpo2000/fontastic This turns out to be an empty folder, hence the problem. I attempted to do a reinstall, and this time I noticed the error messages on the console (there are no errors reported to the user nor in the install file). They read: file /etc/init.d from install of fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.03.13.12.01-1 conflicts with file from package initscripts-5.27-37mdk file /etc/init.d/fonttastic from install of fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.03.13.12.01-1 conflicts with file from package fonManttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.03.13.12.01-1 file /etc/rc.d/init.d/fonttastic from install of fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.03.13.12.01-1 conflicts with file from package fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.03.13.12.01-1 Has anybody managed to install Perfect Office 2000? Any hints would be appreciated. John T
Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt
John Turnbull wrote: I now have unpacked the kernel 2.2.18 sources. They wound up in /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/linux, but the structure looks much like a normal kernel source directory. Now I can do dome real damage (clearly I am on the edge of my competence level. John T Er. . . well I was hopping to be able to do some damage. . . but the compile just stalled with: [root@mpdlin linux-2.2.18]# make bzImage gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36, from scripts/split-include.c:26: /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 1 [root@mpdlin linux-2.2.18]# I had done a standard make xconfig and not fiddled too much, saved and did a: make dep make clean the : make bzImage and if died. Could somebody please interpret this error? Oh yes. I did a make mrproper, then repeated the above steps, without changing anything in xconfig (it os OK because this is a very standard K6 box running LM7.2, so even the lesser CUP optimizations should not be the problem. Thank you all in advance. John T
Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 05 March 2001 01:20 pm, John Turnbull wrote: I need to compile a new 2.2.18 kernel snip vanilla source from kernel.org is not the best way to compile a Mandrake kernel. I have no idea about your ntp-pps requirement, but Mandrake source for 2.2.18 kernels is available on any cooker mirror. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 look for 'kernel22-2.2.18*' files. Tom: Thank you, I had grabbed something called kernel22-2.2.18-14mdk.src.rpm, but when I installed it with kpackage, the little slider bar did its thing, but it did not transfer me to the installed packages window, nor did it generate the files under /usr/src/linux-2.2.18. . . Clearly, I do not have the right thing, or I have installed it incorrectly. What files am I looking for, and where in the cooker file structure might they be. I am not seeing the normal src and header RPSs that I would expect. Than you again. John T
Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt
Gerry wrote: Thank you, I had grabbed something called kernel22-2.2.18-14mdk.src.rpm, (snip) That's a source rpm, so it put its stuff under /usr/src/RPM/. As root, cd to that dir and type 'rpm -ba SPECS/kernel22-2.2.18-(etc.)' to configure compile it. Then it puts the installation rpm in RPMS/(your processor)/. Good luck :) Gerry Gerry: Thank you. I would not have discovered that by myself, in a hurry. . . It had a dependency problem. It requires libbinutils2-devel. I cannot find this animal in the SRPMS subdirectory or in cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ but I did find a binutils-2.10.0.24-4mdk that I thought might contain a libbinutils, but that was not to be. sigh. Where might I get libbinutils2-devel? John T
Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt
John Turnbull wrote: snip Gerry: Thank you. I would not have discovered that by myself, in a hurry. . . It had a dependency problem. It requires libbinutils2-devel. I cannot find this animal in the SRPMS subdirectory or in cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ but I did find a binutils-2.10.0.24-4mdk that I thought might contain a libbinutils, but that was not to be. sigh. Where might I get libbinutils2-devel? John T Sorry people. I must be going blind, libbinutils2-devel is in cooker/Mandrake/RPMS. I now have it installed and have unpacked the kernel 2.2.18 sources. They wound up in /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/linux, but the structure looks much like a normal kernel source directory. Now I can do dome real damage (clearly I am on the edge of my competence level. John T
[newbie] How do I set up by COM ports? - jrt
I an setting up a stratum 1 ntp server using a GPS as a reference clock. To do this, the GPS talks to the computer through one serial port for the time information and a second serial port for a pps (pulse per second) signal to condition the computer's clock. The default serial port configuration for the GPS is 4800 8N1 with no flow control. I can monitor the GPS 'sentences', from the command line with: stty --file /dev/ttyS0 4800 igncr cat /dev/ttyS0 or I cam use minicom, and monitor the data whether flow control is on or off. (BTW: the output data looks something like this: $GPGSV,3,1,11,01,00,000,,02,00,000,,03,00,000,,25,00,000,*7C $GPGSV,3,2,11,26,00,000,,27,00,000,,28,00,000,,29,00,000,*78 $GPGSV,3,3,11,30,00,000,,31,00,000,,32,00,000,*49 $PGRME,,*4D $GPRMC,142410,V,2503.715) The problem is that you occasionally need to talk to the GPS as well through the first serial port. I can do this with minicom, because I can turn off flow control, but I cannot do it from the command line and when I exit minicom, it resets the port with flow control turned on. A command sentence, say to turn off the $PGRMC sentence above that contains no useful data, would look like: $PGRMO,PGRME,0 To make matters worse, the command sentence must end with a CRLF or 0D 0A hex. The questions: How do I configure the serial ports from the command line (or a shell script) or change the default setup on boot? They need to be 4800 8N1 flow control none. How do I generate a carriage return, line feed from the command line so that a command like: cat \$PGRMO,PGRME,0CRLF /dev/ttyS0 would work? Specifically, is there an escape or Alt key sequence that will generate the code for carriage return and line feed? Thank you for the help. John T
[newbie] Requesting info about ntp-4.0 audio clock drivers - jrt
Hi: I am attempting to set up a stratum 1 ntp server using the CHU Canada time signal as a reference clock. Is anybody successfully using or tested the ntp audio reference clock drivers either on a i386 or the sparc? Background: The newest version of NTP has some neat drivers that should make this dead simple. The 'Radio CHU Audio Demodulator/Decoder' is designed to allow you to simply connect the headphone output from a short wave radio to the line in on a sound card and the driver will generate a pulse-per-second signal, to condition the system clock, and extracts the time code from the signal to set the clock. Depending on your location (and I am 11 KM - 37 uS - from the transmitter in Ottawa ON.), the driver will set, and maintain, the system clock to 10s of microseconds of the 'kerect time'! The problem is that the drivers were developed on a sparc running solaris and are optimized for the sun sound system. Some of the traffic on the NG comp.protocols.time.ntp hints that people are having success on other machines (probably sparcs, but possibly i386). Mandrake 7.2 i386 and 7.1 Sparc do contain the new ntpd. Anybody playing? I would really like to hear success stores, but also any notes from people who have tried and failed. What did you try and how did it fail. At this point, I should offer to do the port, but since I don't program for beans, the result would be a long time coming, and no good when it arrived. But if we can compile some war stories, perhaps some talented sole will get some bright idea of what is broken and just fix it. Thank you all in advance. John T
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