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more on network card
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

I think what is happening is that when the machine is rebooting, it is losing its eth0 settings, and so the wins server hasn't a clue what it is, and can't resolve any requests made for trx850 when requests are made. I then have to do insmod rtl8139 and bring up the network address with ifconfig. These settings are then lost again when i reboot. I can't find why the routing stuff is being lost. But I feel if it wasn't my problem would be solved. Sorry about this. Jen.

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Re: [Alug] new netowrk card
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

Ricardo wrote: >>How do the windoze boxes connect to it? via a URL or a windoze style \\intranet\index.html method? Has the IP >address changed at all? If your windoze boxes use a Hosts file, that will have to be updated if the IP has changed. No, I changed nothing else. IP stayed the same. The only thing is that the card uses UTP rather than BNC, but as the card is talking on the network this can't be a problem. Connect via samba shares (working ok) then trying to connect to the apache server (not working ok). I *think* I've now narrowed the problem down to the WINS server not detecting the linux box on the network anymore. Why I don't know though. Thanks, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] new netowrk card
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

No, I did restart samba and apache, also have checked all through /etc/network and ifconfig. Ifconfig is showing the card as there and raring to go. Log files: apache/error.log shows nothing abnormal, even though i've been trying to access webpages from windows machine on network and failing. apache/access.log doesn't recognise that the machine has been trying to reach the pages. I thought there may be a method for checking the settings for a network card, similar to the config program I ran on the 3c509. Thanks. Jen.

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Re: [Alug] new netowrk card
by MJ Ray 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

Chris: > I don't know what distro you're using, but the service command works with > Redhat and Mandrake. The word "debian" should be a clue. The general Unix equivalents are: /etc/init.d/samba restart /etc/init.d/apache restart I don't think that's the problem though. Jenny: > > no longer appearing in the windows network neighbourhood, and the inranet > > site served up from linuxbox won't display over the network (it will > > display using lynx on itself). > > Is there a file in debian where I can check the settings for a card, eg > > check it is configured to use TCP/IP (I think ping is UDP)? ping is ICMP. TCP/IP is quite core to GNU/Linux, so using ifconfig -a should show that the card is configured. Other files to look at include the contents of /etc/network and your log files. HTH -- MJR

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new netowrk card
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

Hi all! I've just replaced the 3com 10mb on my work box with a realtek 8139 100mb. The card is working, I can ping other machines on the network, telnet in to linuxbox from my windows machine, use my samba share, BUT the linux box is no longer appearing in the windows network neighbourhood, and the inranet site served up from linuxbox won't display over the network (it will display using lynx on itself). Is there a file in debian where I can check the settings for a card, eg check it is configured to use TCP/IP (I think ping is UDP)? Thanks, Jenny.

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Which CPU?
by Edenyard 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

I have a choice of 2 CPUs for my ex-skip Linux box: Intel P166-MMX (166MHz) or ST 6x86-166+ (133MHz). According to Norton SI under DOS, the MMX scores 580, whilst the 6x scores nearly 800, although both are reported as being a 486. However, when Linux boots, it reports 330 bogomips for the MMX but only about 160 for the 6x. I have two versions of the kernel 2.4.9, one optimised for the MMX and the other for the 6x. So the question is: which CPU will make Linux run faster? And will I notice the difference? Other system specs are RAM 64Mb, PCI bus, 256k PBSRAM cache. Gerald.

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Re: [Alug] Colour printing under Linux
by MJ Ray 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

Edenyard wrote: > Does anyone have any thoughts about colour (=photograph) printing > under Linux? [...] Yep. Use gimp-print drivers for CUPS, ghostscript or the GIMP if your printer is supported. I hear the latest debians have the ghostscript drivers as standard. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Big disks and BIOS
by Edenyard 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

Thanks for all the hints on these large disks, chaps! Seems like I'll go and open the wallet any day now. Look out for low-flying moths.... Gerald.

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Colour printing under Linux
by Edenyard 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

Does anyone have any thoughts about colour (=photograph) printing under Linux? Everything I've researched starts off by talking about 'The Linux Printing Problem'. I have an HP DJ930C and it seems to work on Mandrake 8.0 using a combination of CUPS and Kview. I really want it to work under my favourite Slackware, since Mandrake seems to run like a snail through treacle for me. I started off reading the Printing-HOWTO (several times) but, unlike most of the Linux HOWTOs that I've read, the printing one seems a complete muddle and I fear I'm none the wiser. I don't seem to be able to collect the right parts together to make Slackware do this thing so I was wondering whether anyone else has? Thanks for any pointers! Gerald.

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Re: [Alug] Debain installation crash]
by Steve Fosdick 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:26:56 Ian Douglas wrote: > I brought myself a copy of "Debian GNU/Linux Bible" today and > tried installing Debian Potato on my PC from the CD bundled with > the book. I used fips to create some space on my Windows hard > disk, used rawrite to create the Rescue and Root floppies (my PC > cannot boot from CDs), reset the PC with the Rescue floppy and > CD inserted, watched loads of lines of text scroll past as the > PC booted then finally received a message telling me to remove > the Rescue disk insert the Root disk and press return. I put > the Root disk in, hit return, a line of text appears briefly > then my screen goes black and about a second later my PC resets > (consistently). Anyone any idea what is causing the installation > to crash? > > In frustration I have (successfully) installed SuSE Linux on > another hard disk which I can use in the PC to carry out tests > (if anyone can suggest any worth doing) to help determine the > cause of the Debian installation problem as I would like to be > able to install and experiment with Debian Linux if possible. A couple of possibilities spring to mind: corrupt floppies or a driver build into the default debian kernel conflicting with a different piece of hardware in your PC. To deal with the corrupt floppies issue you use your SuSE distribution to compare the debian floppies against the image of these from the Debian CD: cmp /dev/fd0 /cdrom/whereever-the-floppy-image-is for each disk changing the right hand of the two paths to match the images you actually used from the Debian CD. Please also bear in mind that not all magazine cover disks have the correct versions of everything including the floppy images. Regarding the kernel drivers problem, and official Debian CD set ships with a choice of boot floppy images containing various different kernels to suit different hardware. If you have that choice from your CD it may be worth trying on of the other ones. If these aren't on your CD you can find them on the Debian FTP site. Start with this directory: ftp:://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06… And then check the sub-directories safe udma66 idepci compact each of which contains a slightly different build of the kernel. Hope this helps. Steve.

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