Hi all This discussion is already past its sell-by-date so I don't want to prolong it any further unnecessarily. In my office (V Small Co.) I get very tired of anyone and everyone passing on the latest 'Virus Warning' or something so I have alot of sympathy with MJ. I have implemented a virus/security policy as follows : Every Monday Morning I visit the website of our virus checker vendor and download the latest updates, then install them. I also visit www.securityfocus.com (good source of general info), www.cobalt.com (our webserver vendor) www.redhat.com (our in-house linux vendor) www.microsoft.com (our desktop/server vendor) and check all the security advisories, download any necessary patches and install them. Meanwhile, I subscribe to a couple of the (relevant) advisory newsletters from security focus and read them when they arrive. That's it. EOF If anyone can think of anything further needed please let me know.
It's probably time to compile a list "Charter" or FAQ, pointing people towards other more appropriate resources for common requirements like good security alerts. Anyone able to help on this? ALUG Admin:, if you wish you can use this mail as the basis for an FAQ on posting security announcements/requests for all subscribers. Everyone: (especially home users/linux beginners) this is about all you need to do, and about all you need to advise anyone. Then if someone wants to get 'security-techie' they have a great start in the right places. Hope this doesn't sound condescending.
(aside : the point is valid that for beginners the idea of totally secure Linux has been hyped from somewhere (LINUX IS MORE SECURE THAN WINDOWS BY DEFAULT - TRUE - , but that's about it) you can get a bit shocked when you hear of a so called Linux Virus - and I do think that to a point the first port-of-call for any newbie who is unsure of something should be the local LUG - from where they can get pointed in the right direction - without feeling intimidated - agreed??)
Perhaps a "Securing Linux" talk or two at the next meeting? Any takers?
I would be glad to discuss security issues in more depth if people are interested, the concepts of hacking (cracking) etc and common methods + good prevention practice (If anyone feels better qualified please feel free - I'm not an expert, just forced into it by necessity). Just an overview with perhaps some handout info so that anyone who is completely new to it can at least get a handle on it. I would admit now though that I would only be using info gleaned from www.attrition.org, www.insecure.org and www.securityfocus.com as a basis! (but I could bring along some RPMs of nmap, tripwire and other stuff for people who want them (of course I could explain/demo them if needed)) I'll await feedback on this offer... Sorry I went on a bit. Best Regards Earl
All, I recently bought my self a new motherboard, sound card and network card. I installed the hardware in the machine, booted up and on boot noticed that I have got 4 devices on IRQ 11, 2 devices on IRQ 12 and one on IRQ 10. I am now having difficulty adding the modules for the sound and network cards as it shows up IRQ comflicts. This gives me the following questions: - 1) How do I get a listing of the boot messages under Peanut liniux? 2) How do I resolve this problem? Is it going to mean replacing the hardware or can it be resolves in software? 3) If anyone can suggest how I can get USB to work as well that would be a great help Thanks D PS This is the contents of /proc/PCI PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 2). Vendor id=1106. Device id=305. Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd0000008]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 0). Vendor id=1106. Device id=8305. Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=4. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 34). Vendor id=1106. Device id=686. Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 16). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32 . I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 16). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 16). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801]. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: Host bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 48). Vendor id=1106. Device id=3057. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 8). � Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]. Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=127a. Device id=1002. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xd8000000]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 18). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=40. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8010000 [0xd8010008]. Bus 0, device 17, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Mystique (rev 3). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd4000000 [0xd4000008]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd5000000 [0xd5000000]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd6000000 [0xd6000000]. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
On Thursday 08 March 2001 21:20, you wrote:
All,
I recently bought my self a new motherboard, sound card and network card. I installed the hardware in the machine, booted up and on boot noticed that I have got 4 devices on IRQ 11, 2 devices on IRQ 12 and one on IRQ 10.
I am now having difficulty adding the modules for the sound and network cards as it shows up IRQ comflicts.
This gives me the following questions: -
1) How do I get a listing of the boot messages under Peanut liniux?
2) How do I resolve this problem? Is it going to mean replacing the hardware or can it be resolves in software?
3) If anyone can suggest how I can get USB to work as well that would be a great help
Don't know about your IRQ problems, but if you are running kernel version 2.2.18 it should all run.
Thanks
D
PS This is the contents of /proc/PCI PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 2). Vendor id=1106. Device id=305. Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd0000008]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 0). Vendor id=1106. Device id=8305. Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=4. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 34). Vendor id=1106. Device id=686. Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 16). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32 . I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 16). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 16). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801]. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: Host bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 48). Vendor id=1106. Device id=3057. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 8).
� Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]. Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=127a. Device id=1002. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xd8000000]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 18). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=40. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8010000 [0xd8010008]. Bus 0, device 17, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Mystique (rev 3). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd4000000 [0xd4000008]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd5000000 [0xd5000000]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd6000000 [0xd6000000].
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--- Mark Elliss <mark.elliss@btinternet.com> wrote:
On Thursday 08 March 2001 21:20, you wrote:
All,
I recently bought my self a new motherboard, sound card and network card. I installed the hardware in the machine, booted up and on boot noticed that I have got 4 devices on IRQ 11, 2 devices on IRQ 12 and one on IRQ 10.
I am now having difficulty adding the modules for the sound and network cards as it shows up IRQ comflicts.
This gives me the following questions: -
1) How do I get a listing of the boot messages under Peanut liniux?
2) How do I resolve this problem? Is it going to mean replacing the hardware or can it be resolves in software?
3) If anyone can suggest how I can get USB to work as well that would be a great help
Don't know about your IRQ problems, but if you are running kernel version 2.2.18 it should all run.
I am using kernel 2.2.18. Can any one recommend a howto or faq on hardware modules and drivers? Thanks D
Thanks
D
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