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Re: [Wlug] Lp0 issues

by Jeff Moyer

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ==> Regarding [Wlug] Lp0 issues; gwlt(a)ma.ultranet.com adds: gwlt> I have been making myself at home in KDE 1.1.2 under Linux gwlt> 2.2.15-4mdk and have managed to slowly get most functionality off of gwlt> the old Windows half of the dual boot drive. There is one major gwlt> impediment to moving over entirely: gwlt> I cannot print. I have an Epson Stylus Color 660, and can not make gwlt> it work, reconfigure and test as I try. If I am not mistaken the gwlt> system is using a ghostwriter filter that generically addresses Epson gwlt> Stylus Color printers (I have tried all sorts of earlier drivers and gwlt> generic options within this.) gwlt> When you go to the setup and configuration there is no auto detect of gwlt> the printer and type, You must manually chose it, and when you try gwlt> any form of a test print you get> gwlt> "Waiting for lp0 to become ready (offline?)" If you try to test gwlt> print from RHLinux Print System Manager ASCII directly you get: gwlt> "Couldn't write file "dev/lp0": no such device" When I try to print gwlt> from an app. I get: "lpr: lp: lp: unknown printer" Hmm, perhaps you didn't compile parallel printer support into your kernel? It's listed in make [,menu,x]config under: Character Devices->Parallel printer support Also, you'll probably want to check off Parallel Port support under General Setup. Hope this helps. - -Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org/> iEYEARECAAYFAjrwI38ACgkQH/inyh944bQ0iACeJpSgItxSXuqAyNpBNMqDxLXH s04An1yXs/oQ/S6ChOJGGx8pn+NhbGbg =SrTe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

May 2, 2001

Lp0 issues

by gwlt＠ma.ultranet.com

I have been making myself at home in KDE 1.1.2 under Linux 2.2.15-4mdk and have managed to slowly get most functionality off of the old Windows half of the dual boot drive. There is one major impediment to moving over entirely: I cannot print. I have an Epson Stylus Color 660, and can not make it work, reconfigure and test as I try. If I am not mistaken the system is using a ghostwriter filter that generically addresses Epson Stylus Color printers (I have tried all sorts of earlier drivers and generic options within this.) When you go to the setup and configuration there is no auto detect of the printer and type, You must manually chose it, and when you try any form of a test print you get: "Waiting for lp0 to become ready (offline?)" If you try to test print from RHLinux Print System Manager ASCII directly you get: "Couldn't write file "dev/lp0": no such device" When I try to print from an app. I get: "lpr: lp: lp: unknown printer" If you can spare a few seconds I would be thoroughly grateful for your thoughts.

May 2, 2001

RE: [Wlug] SCSI HD Boot Failure! BLA!

by Keller, Tim

That'll probably be really tough, since it won't even boot for the first time... What you could try is using a boot diskette to get the machine up and running, then compile a custom kernel that has support for the scsi card compiled in (not as a module) The kernel that the installer uses has -everything- compiled in so it'll work on a maximum number of systems, however, the kernel it installs on your machine does not. Hope that helps! Tim Keller -----Original Message----- From: Ben Dow [mailto:bdow@WPI.EDU] Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 5:30 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] SCSI HD Boot Failure! BLA! Try compiling scsi support into your kernel, or using a different precompiled kernel if you're not into compiling your own. You probably had scsi support in the installation kernel but not the one it installs to boot from by default. On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Sands Fish wrote: > Hello again all, > I've just recently started putting together a Mandrake 8.0 box. (About > 3 hours ago, yes in the middle of the night.) For a hard drive, I have an > IBM SCSI Drive on an Adaptec 2940-U2 card. When I ran the install, it found > the card and the drive automagically. I was impressed and happy. Went > through the installation fine, copied all the files. But as soon as I > rebooted to run it for the first time, I get the LILO graphical screen, I > choose one of the options (any), and get the following error... > > request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 > > Just some more information. The HD is on SCSI ID #6. The controller is on > #7. The SCSI BIOS sees the drive because I can see it report it on boot. > When I watch the boot messages fly by for Linux, I see no reference to any > sd# devices at all. > > I'm really completely lost here. Would changing the SCSI ID # help? That > doesn't seem to be likely. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Thanx a lot guys/grrls!! > > - - s a n d s - - > SandsFish(a)ArtKillsYuppieBabies.com > _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 30, 2001

Re: [Wlug] ipchains flush

by Jeff Wiedemeier

> Rusty's Three-Line Guide to Masquerading (IPCHAINS How-To) , each > modified to start with "ipchains -F" which should flush all existing > rules, that the flush isn't happening. You need to flush each chain separately. So.. ipchains -F input ipchains -F output ipchains -F forward will do what you want. /jeff

April 28, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Ximian Gnome on Debian

by Aaron Haviland

Something I forgot to mention... I haven't actually tested these. I will by tomorrow, though. I've elected to download to a machine elsewhere and burn to a CD instead of waiting for my 56k modem to crunch through them. However, I'm fairly sure I've fixed most of the dependancy problems that I noticed. gnucash from debian proper and gnome-games conflict because of differences in libguile out of all those packages installed, none depend on libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2, yet gnome-session should. Others probably should as well, but I hadn't gotten that far. I don't know if ximian plans a fix for gnucash. Terry Yelmene said: > Thanks Orion... This is the configuration I wanted to upgrade to. This > helps! > tyelmene > tyelmene(a)3c3art.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Orion" <orion(a)tribble.dyndns.org> > To: "WLUG" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 5:03 PM > Subject: [Wlug] Ximian Gnome on Debian > > > > Just in case anyone here uses Debian and is thinking of installing > > Ximian1.4, the directions that say to apt-get install task-helix-gnome > > are wrong. I've gone and made some task packages based on what > > helix/ximian used to have for its previous release. Just add this to > > your sources.list and you can use them: > > > > deb http://zork.net/~orion potato main > > > > (or s/potato/unstable/ of you prefer) > > > > also, if you need a deb-src line for ximian, until they fix it (IF they > > fix it) you need to use this instead of what they say: > > > > deb-src http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian/ dists/potato/main/sources/ > > > > (again, s/potato/woody/ if you wish) -- Orion orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org "You build a time machine that automatically, when it's about to be destroyed, etc, goes back and makes sure that absolutely everything that happened ever did actually happen that way." - Colin

April 28, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Ximian Gnome on Debian

by Terry Yelmene

Thanks Orion... This is the configuration I wanted to upgrade to. This helps! tyelmene tyelmene(a)3c3art.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Orion" <orion(a)tribble.dyndns.org> To: "WLUG" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 5:03 PM Subject: [Wlug] Ximian Gnome on Debian > Just in case anyone here uses Debian and is thinking of installing > Ximian1.4, the directions that say to apt-get install task-helix-gnome > are wrong. I've gone and made some task packages based on what > helix/ximian used to have for its previous release. Just add this to > your sources.list and you can use them: > > deb http://zork.net/~orion potato main > > (or s/potato/unstable/ of you prefer) > > also, if you need a deb-src line for ximian, until they fix it (IF they > fix it) you need to use this instead of what they say: > > deb-src http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian/ dists/potato/main/sources/ > > (again, s/potato/woody/ if you wish) > > -- > Orion orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org > > "so did you eat the dog or walk it? ;)" - iain > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 28, 2001

Ximian Gnome on Debian

by Orion

Just in case anyone here uses Debian and is thinking of installing Ximian1.4, the directions that say to apt-get install task-helix-gnome are wrong. I've gone and made some task packages based on what helix/ximian used to have for its previous release. Just add this to your sources.list and you can use them: deb http://zork.net/~orion potato main (or s/potato/unstable/ of you prefer) also, if you need a deb-src line for ximian, until they fix it (IF they fix it) you need to use this instead of what they say: deb-src http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian/ dists/potato/main/sources/ (again, s/potato/woody/ if you wish) -- Orion orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org "so did you eat the dog or walk it? ;)" - iain

April 28, 2001

ipchains flush

by Richard Goodman

I'm running three dual-homed RedHat 7.0 boxes on separate DSL or cable, each doing IP Masquerading to private networks. I'm attempting to do some more serious firewalling, and am trying to debug problems in a rc.firewall script generated from Bob Ziegler's site. I've noticed that when I swap between Bob's 600+ line script and Rusty's Three-Line Guide to Masquerading (IPCHAINS How-To) , each modified to start with "ipchains -F" which should flush all existing rules, that the flush isn't happening. I'm switching by doing "sh <scriptname>" after having made both scripts executable. If I reboot Linux after changing which script is referenced in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, then everything is clean. Any ideas? Dick -- ------------------------------------------------- Richard Goodman dick(a)goodman1.net ---> Home: (508) 753-DICK trader(a)goodman1.net ---> Work: (508) 757-3452 voice/fax

April 28, 2001

Re: [Wlug] SCSI HD Boot Failure! BLA!

by Ben Dow

Try compiling scsi support into your kernel, or using a different precompiled kernel if you're not into compiling your own. You probably had scsi support in the installation kernel but not the one it installs to boot from by default. On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Sands Fish wrote: > Hello again all, > I've just recently started putting together a Mandrake 8.0 box. (About > 3 hours ago, yes in the middle of the night.) For a hard drive, I have an > IBM SCSI Drive on an Adaptec 2940-U2 card. When I ran the install, it found > the card and the drive automagically. I was impressed and happy. Went > through the installation fine, copied all the files. But as soon as I > rebooted to run it for the first time, I get the LILO graphical screen, I > choose one of the options (any), and get the following error... > > request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 > > Just some more information. The HD is on SCSI ID #6. The controller is on > #7. The SCSI BIOS sees the drive because I can see it report it on boot. > When I watch the boot messages fly by for Linux, I see no reference to any > sd# devices at all. > > I'm really completely lost here. Would changing the SCSI ID # help? That > doesn't seem to be likely. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Thanx a lot guys/grrls!! > > - - s a n d s - - > SandsFish(a)ArtKillsYuppieBabies.com >

April 28, 2001

SCSI HD Boot Failure! BLA!

by Sands Fish

Hello again all, I've just recently started putting together a Mandrake 8.0 box. (About 3 hours ago, yes in the middle of the night.) For a hard drive, I have an IBM SCSI Drive on an Adaptec 2940-U2 card. When I ran the install, it found the card and the drive automagically. I was impressed and happy. Went through the installation fine, copied all the files. But as soon as I rebooted to run it for the first time, I get the LILO graphical screen, I choose one of the options (any), and get the following error... request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 Just some more information. The HD is on SCSI ID #6. The controller is on #7. The SCSI BIOS sees the drive because I can see it report it on boot. When I watch the boot messages fly by for Linux, I see no reference to any sd# devices at all. I'm really completely lost here. Would changing the SCSI ID # help? That doesn't seem to be likely. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanx a lot guys/grrls!! - - s a n d s - - SandsFish(a)ArtKillsYuppieBabies.com

April 28, 2001