Re: [leaf-user] CF & DOM errors

2004-11-25 Thread freeman groups
I get hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: packet command error: error=0x50 today, on a non-LEAF box I'm playing with. Curiously hda is a CD-ROM - I get it any time I try to mount /dev/hda and there's no CD inserted. For a h/d, IIRC it comes up only

Re: [leaf-user] My leaf crashed

2004-11-10 Thread freeman groups
Bad floppy drive/disks can give said effects. My drive/disk is currently in that transient-problem state itself (I'm fairly certain it's the drive, not the disk). scott; canada ALParada wrote: Hello, I had a problem with Leaf yesterday that surprised me a little bit. Last --

[leaf-user] [OT] Seeking Supplier of Assembled LCD Display

2004-11-04 Thread freeman groups
LCD displays have been used on a few LEAF boxes so I'm trying to pick any experienced or knowledgeable brains. A customer of mine has need for a 1/2-height-5.25"-bay mountable LCD display, say 2x16 line (sorry, not for a LEAF box but another 'appliance' animal). What I've been having difficult

Re: [leaf-user] beep.lrp question

2004-11-01 Thread freeman groups
I think you want to be notified, audibly, once the entire system has booted up, shorewall is loaded, etc, etc. Me too. I tucked in a call to my script in /etc/init.d/cron, just because it's nearly the last thing to boot up ('S89'). Quick & dirty hack that worked for me. scott; canada Troy Aden

Re: [leaf-user] Bering-uClibc 2.2.2 Not avalible....?

2004-10-29 Thread freeman groups
I'm getting the same thing. FWIW the ISO image is coming in OK, but I've tried 3 or 4 of the different mirrors (for the 1860-exe) and they're all failing (I tried both with my usual Moz and with IE). E.g.: The mirror you've selected, telia.dl.sourceforge.net does not currently have the file you re

Re: [leaf-user] LRP router failing? - Alcatel SpeedTouchHome (STH)DSL line-quality info

2004-10-14 Thread freeman groups
About your 'strongest' comment... This is by no means far-fetched, IMO. We're all probably more accustomed to hardware being either working or non-working and are infrequently confronted with a situation of degradation or 'dying' gear. A story from my past: I was working in telecom - PC-based

Re: [leaf-user] LRP router failing? - Alcatel SpeedTouchHome (STH) DSL line-quality info

2004-10-12 Thread freeman groups
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Thinking about this some more, I'm beginning to suspect the DSL line. If I may, would this possibility not have been obviated when Dale connected a Win98 box to the line and had no loss in pings? But taking that bad-copper theory further I'll make mention of the value

[leaf-user] RFE's for LEAF - auto-run LRCFG in root pkg, using local.lrp, 720K support, beeping/sound, PPP delay at boot-up, verify saved LRP packages, persistent 'confirm writes' setting

2004-09-29 Thread freeman groups
Hi folks, thought that I would toss out a few RFE's to see if I can encourage their inclusion. I'd be very happy to spend some time to make inclusion as easy as possible for the Bering Team, if any of these changed are desired. 1) LRCFG is invoked from /root/.profile The default installation

Re: [leaf-user] basic functionality/usability questions

2004-09-29 Thread freeman groups
I hope that the 'powers that be' cast an eye on this because it might be worthy of a change. From the PPPoE package, in the file /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider, there is a parameter labelled as follows: # Set maxfail to 0 for unlimited connections attemps maxfail 10 As indicated, the default packa

Re: [leaf-user] editing lrp files in windows

2004-09-21 Thread freeman groups
The easiest thing might be to ssh/telnet/serial-port-terminal into your existing box and 'clipboard-copy' off the relevant settings. Note that the editor (at least as I have it set - 'e3' mode, IIRC) does auto-indenting so pasting things that are indented leads to staircase-shaped indentation.

Re: [leaf-user] Should RC Candiate Releases Have Significant Changes Made to Them?

2004-09-21 Thread freeman groups
whose efforts I am truly grateful. My usual sign-off for posts here: Thanks for LEAF! scott; canada Martin Hejl wrote: freeman groups wrote: Then... Changes between 2.2.0_rc1 and 2.2.0 weblet * splitted weblet contents and sh-http server which seems to have ended up with a couple of minor bust

[leaf-user] Should RC Candiate Releases Have Significant Changes Made to Them?

2004-09-21 Thread freeman groups
Hi folks, first let me say that I love LEAF and really appreciate all the time and effort that is made by people to produce formal releases, etc. But I'd like to share my slight disquiet, if I may. I've been working through the most recent beta releases of uClibc 2.2, awaiting the final release

[leaf-user] Bering uClibC & ISP Problem - stalled web-page loading, etc - PPP(oE), MTU, MRU, CLAMPMSS

2004-08-24 Thread freeman groups
Prefix: Well, I'm sure glad I searched the maillist further (looking into my hunch of MTU/MRU issues), my problem was solved with the CLAMPMSS=yes setting in shorewall's 'Config' file. So the rest of this email is perhaps only of use to anyone who stumbles down my well-worn path, except for

[leaf-user] How do I set 50-line mode for VGA console (Bering uClibc 2.2b5)

2004-07-27 Thread freeman groups
For SSH & ttyS0 I can achieve this but I cannot figure out how to have my VGA monitor console on my Bering uClibc box give me 50 line display, akin to the DOS command "mode con lines=50 cols=80" I've tried adding each of the following to isolinux.cfg (even separately testing with syslinux.cfg)

Re: [leaf-user] Bering uC 2.2b5 bug? shorewall: handling of two 'blacklist'ed interfaces

2004-07-26 Thread freeman groups
ing... Blacklisting enabled on ppp0 Blacklisting enabled on eth0 Setting up Kernel Route Filtering... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Personally, I have a sneaking suspicion that it /might/ have something to do with the new 'dash' that is the shell on 2.2b5, but that's just a (long) shot, in t

[leaf-user] Bering uC 2.2b5 bug? shorewall: handling of two 'blacklist'ed interfaces

2004-07-23 Thread freeman groups
Playing around with 2.2b5 I gave it my usual setup which includes having two interfaces flagged as blacklist-respecting (via /etc/shorewall/interfaces) even though I don't have any entries in the blacklist file. Thus, upon shorewall's startup it gives this error message (middle line): Adding Co

Re: [leaf-user] Re: Bering-uClibc 2.1.3 Question (2. PS1)

2004-07-06 Thread freeman groups
This is what I have in my /etc/profile. It gives a shell prompt akin to: # It also updates whenever I change to a new directory, in terms of adjusting the prompt to indicate the new current directory that I am in. Can ya tell, I'm an ole DOS hag ;) -- unal

Re: [leaf-user] Syslinux /dev/hda1 = Message "Syslinux: not found "

2004-07-05 Thread freeman groups
Luis.F.Correia wrote: I have used a few versions of syslinux for DOS and found some aggravation: - Under Win98 pure-DOS boot (i.e. io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com only) I can never recall having had syslinux c: (or even syslinux -s c:) work: - I get an error: "Error 440D: Unable to lock d

Re: [leaf-user] Syslinux /dev/hda1 = Message "Syslinux: not found"

2004-07-05 Thread freeman groups
[A belated re-sent to the list cuz I didn't adjust the reply-address] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Charles Steinkuehler wrote: There's even a version you can run from a dos command prompt (or from dos window inside Windows). I have used a few versions of syslinux for DOS and found some aggra

Re: [leaf-user] PPPD and dynamic dns (pppoe)

2004-07-04 Thread freeman groups
Erich Titl wrote: Scott & List I don't have an ip_ip.d nor an ip_down.d ... I am using the stock PPP.LRP & PPPOE.LRP packages ... so maybe you're talking apples and I'm eating oranges? M... this is from Bering 1.2 ppp.lrp tar tzf ppp.lrp ... etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ ... Oooops, my

Re: [leaf-user] PPPD and dynamic dns (pppoe)

2004-07-02 Thread freeman groups
Via BEEP.LRP my Bering 1.2 box makes lovely, helpful sounds (hint, hint :) when the link goes up & down. This happens from within scripts /etc/ppp/ip_up & /etc/ppp/ip-down so AFAICT you should be able to get notification via these scripts. I don't have an ip_ip.d nor an ip_down.d ... I am using

Re: [leaf-user] login and password - CR,LF & DOS2Unix

2004-07-01 Thread freeman groups
Sorry to KP for originally sending my reply only to him ... pesky reply-to setting of this LEAF list :/(yes, I know...) K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote: If you can edit leaf.cfg with a decent editor (not adding CR/LF) like notepad, I was curious about this because my recollection was that notepad

Re: [leaf-user] Seeking uClibc Compile of Beep.LRP

2004-06-29 Thread freeman groups
K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote: You may try to compile it yourself - it isn't that hard to set up an uClibc environment: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=91018&page_id=52 kp Thanks for the suggestion KP but this is way beyond my ability at this time as I have two in-use Linux boxes

Re: [leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0b4 RFE^2 - Enhanced support for dropbear's login banner

2004-06-28 Thread freeman groups
How about a super-sized RFE? Basically, it might be a GoodThing to have some default banner for the dropbear service which states that'unauthorized access is prohibited', etc. This would, by default, provide some foundation upon which criminal charges could be brought against someone attempting to

[leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0b4 RFE- Increased clarity re need for filename for dropbear banner

2004-06-27 Thread freeman groups
Via LRCFG one can edit the config file for dropbear, /etc/default/dropbear. There's a parm within, as follows: # optional banner to display before the user authenticates DB_BANNER="" However whenever I make it non-blank (followed with svi dropbear restart) I cannot thereafter connect in via SSH.

[leaf-user] Seeking uClibc Compile of Beep.LRP

2004-06-25 Thread freeman groups
This is a really handy 'toy' because it's used by the PPP package (at least it was in Bering 1.2) and would give audible indicators of the up/down activity of one's DSL link - and mine goes up & down sometimes :/ The Bering 1.2 package was originally found at: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/deve

[leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0b4 Bug? - tmp_size parameter within LEAF.CFG

2004-06-24 Thread freeman groups
(Really ... this is the last 'bug' that I'm aware of :) In LEAF.CFG there are 3 memory size parms that can be adjusted: syst_size tmp_size (commented-out by default) log_size When I try to use the line: tmp_size=3M I get the following error message upon boot-up: [...] LINUXRC: Mounting

Re: [leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0_b4 - Caution using via-rhine - "kern el BUG at slab.c:1130!"/"In interrupt handler - not syncing"/"Kernel pani c"

2004-06-24 Thread freeman groups
rther. scott; canada Luis.F.Correia wrote: Hi! -Original Message- From: freeman groups [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 3:13 AM To: LEAF Subject: Re: [leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0_b4 - Caution using via-rhine - "kernel BUG at slab.c:1130!"/"In interrupt h

Re: [leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0b4 - Backup Limitation (was: Bug?) - excluded files cannot be included elsewhere

2004-06-21 Thread freeman groups
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Excludes override includes of the same specificity (this is a feature of tar). You can read up on tar (google for man/info pages), and find more details about the packaging system in the SF FAQ's: [... Doing some reading ... thank you again Charles ... bookmarking the

Re: [leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0b4 - RFE: Handling in LEAF.CFG; was: ": not found" error message at bootup - RESOLVED

2004-06-21 Thread freeman groups
oaded or run. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- As always, thanks for LEAF! scott; canada freeman groups wrote: > Found this and figured it out so I thought that I'd share. > > This message comes up at bootup if one has 's in one's > LEAF.CFG file. I.E. inste

[leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0b4 - ": not found" error message at bootup - RESOLVED

2004-06-21 Thread freeman groups
Found this and figured it out so I thought that I'd share. This message comes up at bootup if one has 's in one's LEAF.CFG file. I.E. instead of the more proper only, as used in the Linux world. You probably were editing your LEAF.CFG file in a DOS/Windows environment and saved it. Probably th

[leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0b4 - Backup Bug? - excluded files cannot be included elsewhere

2004-06-21 Thread freeman groups
I have noticed that if a file is excluded by a package - say ROOT - (e.g. root.exclude.list containing the line "var/lib/lrpkg/backdisk") then I can't have that file included within a different package - CONFIG - (e.g. having the line "var/lib/lrpkg/backdisk" within the file config.list). FWIW

Re: [leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0b4 bug? - partial backup of etc package ignoring /etc/ folder

2004-06-21 Thread freeman groups
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: The correct way to fix this is with an etc.local file: Charles, without sounding like I'm endlessly contradictory might I propose that this is, IMO, not the correct way to fix this? The doc'n regarding partial backups: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/bubooting

Re: [leaf-user] uClibC 2.2.0b4 Bug - leaf.cfg media ordering acting reversed

2004-06-20 Thread freeman groups
ery few people go this route? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Thanks for LEAF, folks! scott; canada Charles Steinkuehler wrote: freeman groups wrote: I have a CD-ROM & f/d partial-backup setup happening. I was finding that no matter the changes made to a config file and saving it ('p

[leaf-user] uClibC 2.2.0b4 Bug - leaf.cfg media ordering acting reversed

2004-06-19 Thread freeman groups
I have a CD-ROM & f/d partial-backup setup happening. I was finding that no matter the changes made to a config file and saving it ('partially') to the floppy, when I rebooted I was met with the 'original' cd-rom-stored settings. My relevant leaf.cfg lines: PKGPATH="/dev/cdrom:iso9660,/dev/f

[leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0b4 bug? - partial backup of etc package ignoring /etc/ folder

2004-06-18 Thread freeman groups
I've been attempting to move to a cd-based setup and have been getting into partial backups as a consequence. I've noticed some unexpected behaviour (bugs?) and would like to bring my observations to the attention of the Bering/uClibc team. I began by wanting to do a partial backup of the etc p

Re: [leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0_b4 - Caution using via-rhine - "kernel BUG at slab.c:1130!"/"In interrupt handler - not syncing"/"Kernel panic"

2004-06-17 Thread freeman groups
e) not working sure confounded me, since I was pretty darned fastidious about my IRQ assignments, given how full my slots are. scott; canada Original Message- From: freeman groups [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:50 PM To: LEAF Subject: [leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0_

[leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.0_b4 - Caution using via-rhine - "kernel BUG at slab.c:1130!"/"In interrupt handler - not syncing"/"Kernel panic"

2004-06-16 Thread freeman groups
My net card in question is a D-Link DFE-530TX Rev A1. I have been placing the modules into the modules package (/lib/modules folder) and backing up. From the file Bering-uClibc_2.2.0_modules_2.4.26.tar.gz I had pulled the files: /net/pci-scan.o (7412 bytes) and /net/via-rhine.o (16428 byt

[leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.rc4: Suggestion re doc'n within /etc/modules re crc32

2004-06-11 Thread freeman groups
Following up on kp's suggestion that I clearly articulate what I think could be improved regarding documenting the dependency of 8390.o upon crc32.o... Within the file /etc/modules of the modules.lrp package I would change line 34 from: # 8390 based ethernet cards to # 8390 based ethernet c

[leaf-user] uClibc 2.2.rc4: Bug? - Duplicated files within shorwall.lrp, weblet.lrp

2004-06-11 Thread freeman groups
I just downloaded the rc4 flavour and separately, then collectively extracted all the files so I can easily search through them on my Win box. In doing do I observed that there are 2 files (same path & name) which are stored both within shorwall.lrp and weblet.lrp... shorwall.lrp: Date