scottd1978
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ethernet, dos2unix, tar, printer
Help!!!
Ok, I have a few issues here.
1. I cannot get my linksys 10/100 ethernet card to work. I've downloaded tulip.c, but cannot get it to compile, which brings me to my next problem.
2. I cannot get my dos2unix program to install using rpm. On the command line I type rpm -i -v dos2unix-blah-blah.src.rpm
3. I cannot get my x-windows to work. I have the SiS530 video card. I just ftp'd over the newest version of xfree86, and uncompressed all the files using gzip -d. This left me with a bunch of .tar files that I cannot seem to uncompress. I try using tar -x *.tar, and tar -x filename.tar and both just hang. I see the preinst.sh file, but don't know what to do with it.
4. My printer does not work. I am using a HP deskjet 710c. When I try to print something, I don't get an error, and it tells me the file is printing, but nothing comes out? heheh
I know I'm asking a lot here. I'de really appreciate it if you guys can help me out (If I have to ask one of the guys on campus for help I'll never hear the end of it)
Oh ... by the way, I'm using Mandrake 6.something
Ok, I have a few issues here.
1. I cannot get my linksys 10/100 ethernet card to work. I've downloaded tulip.c, but cannot get it to compile, which brings me to my next problem.
2. I cannot get my dos2unix program to install using rpm. On the command line I type rpm -i -v dos2unix-blah-blah.src.rpm
3. I cannot get my x-windows to work. I have the SiS530 video card. I just ftp'd over the newest version of xfree86, and uncompressed all the files using gzip -d. This left me with a bunch of .tar files that I cannot seem to uncompress. I try using tar -x *.tar, and tar -x filename.tar and both just hang. I see the preinst.sh file, but don't know what to do with it.
4. My printer does not work. I am using a HP deskjet 710c. When I try to print something, I don't get an error, and it tells me the file is printing, but nothing comes out? heheh
I know I'm asking a lot here. I'de really appreciate it if you guys can help me out (If I have to ask one of the guys on campus for help I'll never hear the end of it)
Oh ... by the way, I'm using Mandrake 6.something
ASKER
1) Got the dos2Unix to install -- thanks
2) After following your instructions to create the tulip.o file, and trying to use the insmod tulip.o I get one of 2 errors.
1) init_module: Device or resource busy
2) tulip.o: unresolved symbol somename (this one shows a lot of the same error with different values for somename)
3) tar -xvf *.tar gives me the following error:
filename.tar not found in archive ... this also happens many times.
2) After following your instructions to create the tulip.o file, and trying to use the insmod tulip.o I get one of 2 errors.
1) init_module: Device or resource busy
2) tulip.o: unresolved symbol somename (this one shows a lot of the same error with different values for somename)
3) tar -xvf *.tar gives me the following error:
filename.tar not found in archive ... this also happens many times.
Please provide a copy of the output of the following commands:
1) cat /proc/modules
2) cat /proc/interrupts
3) cat /proc/ioports
4) cat /etc/config.modules
That will give me enough info to help you get the network card going.
1) cat /proc/modules
2) cat /proc/interrupts
3) cat /proc/ioports
4) cat /etc/config.modules
That will give me enough info to help you get the network card going.
ASKER
cat /proc/modules
nls_iso8859-1 2052 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3580 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11036 1 (autoclean)
fat 32960 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 7978 XT-PIC timer
1: 251 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
12: 4 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 43760 XT-PIC ide0
15: 30 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
4000-4007 : ide0
4008-400f : ide1
cat /etc/conf.modules
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
nls_iso8859-1 2052 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3580 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11036 1 (autoclean)
fat 32960 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 7978 XT-PIC timer
1: 251 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
12: 4 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 43760 XT-PIC ide0
15: 30 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
4000-4007 : ide0
4008-400f : ide1
cat /etc/conf.modules
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
The problem with the tar command is that the archive is incomplete. Your download must be corrupted or incomplete. The tar archive holds a header which marks all included files and positions. It attempts to extract them all, whether there or not. If they are missing, this error is reported. So, you need to download your archive again. Sorry.
Is the linksys card you are using a pcmcia card? If so "su -" to root and try running:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
After doing this please provide the following dumps:
1) cat /proc/modules
2) cat /proc/interrupts
Bringing up a pcmcia card is easy if the pcmcia services are running and yours are not from the data dumps you provided.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
After doing this please provide the following dumps:
1) cat /proc/modules
2) cat /proc/interrupts
Bringing up a pcmcia card is easy if the pcmcia services are running and yours are not from the data dumps you provided.
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It's not a pcmcia card ... I'm going to try ftp'in again. I appreciate your help on this.
1) Add a line to /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 tulip
2) Then as root
insmod tulip
3) cat /proc/modules
4) cat /proc/interrupts
alias eth0 tulip
2) Then as root
insmod tulip
3) cat /proc/modules
4) cat /proc/interrupts
ASKER
Did this ... (Still haven't redownloaded) and I get this error:
/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/n
cat /proc/modules
nls_iso8859-1 2052 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3580 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11036 1 (autoclean)
fat 32960 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 10784 XT-PIC timer
1: 354 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
12: 1 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 43837 XT-PIC ide0
15: 30 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/n
cat /proc/modules
nls_iso8859-1 2052 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3580 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11036 1 (autoclean)
fat 32960 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 10784 XT-PIC timer
1: 354 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
12: 1 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 43837 XT-PIC ide0
15: 30 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
Hmm, still did not load the module. I'll have to sleep on this a bit. What version of the kernel are you using?
cat /proc/version
cat /proc/version
ASKER
cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.13-7mdk (root@kenobi.mandrakesoft.
Linux version 2.2.13-7mdk (root@kenobi.mandrakesoft.
Think I can resolve the "tar" issue.
If you type "tar -xvf *.tar" and you have *several* files ending in .tar in your directory (say, file1.tar, file2.tar and file3.tar), your command line resolves into "tar -xvf file1.tar file2.tar file3.tar", meaning that you want to extract file2.tar and file3.tar out of file1.tar.
You can try "tar -xvf file1.tar; tar -xvf file2.tar; tar -xvf file3.tar", or
for I in *.tar; do tar -xvf $I ; done
In the first case, you just enter all the filenames by hand, the second is a simple loop going over every file that ends in .tar and calling tar -xvf for it.
Good luck with your other problems!
If you type "tar -xvf *.tar" and you have *several* files ending in .tar in your directory (say, file1.tar, file2.tar and file3.tar), your command line resolves into "tar -xvf file1.tar file2.tar file3.tar", meaning that you want to extract file2.tar and file3.tar out of file1.tar.
You can try "tar -xvf file1.tar; tar -xvf file2.tar; tar -xvf file3.tar", or
for I in *.tar; do tar -xvf $I ; done
In the first case, you just enter all the filenames by hand, the second is a simple loop going over every file that ends in .tar and calling tar -xvf for it.
Good luck with your other problems!
Ah, I knew I forgot something the moment I clicked "Submit" ... B-(
Files ending in .sh (as your preinst.sh) are shell scripts. You can read them in your favorite editor or by typing "less preinst.sh" to see what they do. If you want to run it, go to the directory where it lives and enter
sh preinst.sh
That should work in every case. There, now that part's *really* done, I hope B^)
Files ending in .sh (as your preinst.sh) are shell scripts. You can read them in your favorite editor or by typing "less preinst.sh" to see what they do. If you want to run it, go to the directory where it lives and enter
sh preinst.sh
That should work in every case. There, now that part's *really* done, I hope B^)
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Round 7
Ok, got the sh preinst.sh set-up, but when I try to do the tar as listed by gruse, I get an error saying cannot chown on lot's of files. I'm in as root. I tried both ways. Are there books for this stuff?
Ok, got the sh preinst.sh set-up, but when I try to do the tar as listed by gruse, I get an error saying cannot chown on lot's of files. I'm in as root. I tried both ways. Are there books for this stuff?
You should have man pages. Try
man tar
man chown
etc...
man tar
man chown
etc...
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wooohooo ... thanks gruse. I had those files in my windows partition. After I moved them, the unpacked nicely. I then ran the postinst.sh and then xf86config. At first it gave me an error with the symolic link ... /etc/X11/X. For some reason the config prog set the link wrong. Once I changed that the x fired up (besides the extremely large kde desktop everythings cool). Woohoo! I wish I could give out points to each person that solved a problem in here so far. Is that possible? If I could just get my ethernet to work now ...
If you don't have a /usr/include/linux/version
cd /usr/src/linux; make include/linux/version.h
Copy the driver source code to a source directory. I usually use /usr/src/modules/tulip.c.
Compile the file using the compile-command at the bottom of the tulip.c source file.
As 'root', load the module using "insmod tulip.o". You should first test this by hand in single-user mode. If it works as expected you should add the insmod command to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
2) Two problems. You have the source rpm, not the rpm. Click the BIG BLUE LINK at the top of this page:
http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc5/i386/dos2unix-2.2-4.i386.html
Then use the command: rpm -ivh dos2unix-2.2-4.i386.rpm
3) Use the command: tar -xvf *.tar
4) Not sure that that particular printer is supported. Tackle the other 3 and then we'll see about the printer.