Hi Everyone,
I have just installed FC5 to replace RH9 and am encountering loads of problems in getting it set up as my old RH9 system was.
I use it mainly as a web server using PHP and Mysql, I had it networked to my XP machine using samba and had it set up as a dhcp server. I want to run my internet connection through it as well for when I expand my network at a later date.
Ok, I have installed FC5 and set up my second drive which contains all my work as '/home'. I have also installed dhcp and got that working ok but thats where my problems start.
Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not running.
I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'. When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm I get loads of confiction errors. I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive software infomation' error. When I try to use yum with the command 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot find a baseurl for repo: core'. Why am I unable to install samba?
Many thanks, Garry.
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 20:35 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have just installed FC5 to replace RH9 and am encountering loads of problems in getting it set up as my old RH9 system was.
I use it mainly as a web server using PHP and Mysql, I had it networked to my XP machine using samba and had it set up as a dhcp server. I want to run my internet connection through it as well for when I expand my network at a later date.
Ok, I have installed FC5 and set up my second drive which contains all my work as '/home'. I have also installed dhcp and got that working ok but thats where my problems start.
Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not running.
I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'. When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm I get loads of confiction errors.
That's probably because you already have samba installed but have not configured it to run.
I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive software infomation' error. When I try to use yum with the command 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot find a baseurl for repo: core'.
This is probably because you are not connected to the Internet when trying to use yum or one of the GUI tools built on top of it.
Paul.
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Freedom Web Services wrote:
Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not running.
A more general network problem may well be the first cause of your problems.
I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'. When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm I get loads of confiction errors.
It's much preferable to use yum these days. There's no need to download the rpm or deal with dependencies manually.
I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive software infomation' error. When I try to use yum with the command 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot find a baseurl for repo: core'.
This looks like you have a more general networking problem on the system. Have you tried to run 'yum update' yet? I'm guessing you'll get a similar error about the core repo. If so, you should check first that your network is working correctly. If it is, then you'll need to look into the reason yum is not working.
Once yum is working you should be able to run 'yum install samba' (or Add / Remove Software) to get it installed.
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Freedom Web Services wrote:
Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not running.
A more general network problem may well be the first cause of your problems.
I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'. When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm I get loads of confiction errors.
It's much preferable to use yum these days. There's no need to download the rpm or deal with dependencies manually.
I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive software infomation' error. When I try to use yum with the command 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot find a baseurl for repo: core'.
This looks like you have a more general networking problem on the system. Have you tried to run 'yum update' yet? I'm guessing you'll get a similar error about the core repo. If so, you should check first that your network is working correctly. If it is, then you'll need to look into the reason yum is not working.
Once yum is working you should be able to run 'yum install samba' (or Add / Remove Software) to get it installed.
My Linux machine is not yet connected to the internet!
I have a BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB modem and connect through AOL on my windoze box. I have installed the drivers for this modem, eciadsl, and configured it for my modem and AOL but I can not get it to work. I have looked on the net and found that I need a module called n_hdlc in order to get this to work, the standard FC5 does not have this module. I understand that I need to recompile my kernel to add it. I have downloaded the 'kernel-2.6.15.2054_FC5.src.rpm' file and installed it. As far as I am aware this should have created the relevant directories/files in '/usr/src' directory but they are not there. So how do I go about recompiling the kernel to add the module n_hdlc? Hopefully when I can get the internet working I will be able to run 'yum update' and be able to install samba through yum.
Many thanks, Garry.
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:58 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
Freedom Web Services wrote:
Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not running.
A more general network problem may well be the first cause of your problems.
I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'. When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm I get loads of confiction errors.
It's much preferable to use yum these days. There's no need to download the rpm or deal with dependencies manually.
I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive software infomation' error. When I try to use yum with the command 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot find a baseurl for repo: core'.
This looks like you have a more general networking problem on the system. Have you tried to run 'yum update' yet? I'm guessing you'll get a similar error about the core repo. If so, you should check first that your network is working correctly. If it is, then you'll need to look into the reason yum is not working.
Once yum is working you should be able to run 'yum install samba' (or Add / Remove Software) to get it installed.
My Linux machine is not yet connected to the internet!
That's why 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu aren't working. They use yum as the backend and that's configured out of the box to get packages from the Internet.
For a way of using yum and 'Add / Remove software' using the ISO images used to install the system instead of network repositories, see: http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages
I have a BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB modem and connect through AOL on my windoze box. I have installed the drivers for this modem, eciadsl, and configured it for my modem and AOL but I can not get it to work. I have looked on the net and found that I need a module called n_hdlc in order to get this to work, the standard FC5 does not have this module.
It's in the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel though. Try downloading and installing that update. Much easier than recompiling the kernel yourself.
Paul.
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:58 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
Freedom Web Services wrote:
Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not running.
A more general network problem may well be the first cause of your problems.
I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'. When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm I get loads of confiction errors.
It's much preferable to use yum these days. There's no need to download the rpm or deal with dependencies manually.
I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive software infomation' error. When I try to use yum with the command 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot find a baseurl for repo: core'.
This looks like you have a more general networking problem on the system. Have you tried to run 'yum update' yet? I'm guessing you'll get a similar error about the core repo. If so, you should check first that your network is working correctly. If it is, then you'll need to look into the reason yum is not working.
Once yum is working you should be able to run 'yum install samba' (or Add / Remove Software) to get it installed.
My Linux machine is not yet connected to the internet!
That's why 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu aren't working. They use yum as the backend and that's configured out of the box to get packages from the Internet.
For a way of using yum and 'Add / Remove software' using the ISO images used to install the system instead of network repositories, see: http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages
I have a BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB modem and connect through AOL on my windoze box. I have installed the drivers for this modem, eciadsl, and configured it for my modem and AOL but I can not get it to work. I have looked on the net and found that I need a module called n_hdlc in order to get this to work, the standard FC5 does not have this module.
It's in the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel though. Try downloading and installing that update. Much easier than recompiling the kernel yourself.
Paul.
Thanks for the help Paul.
I have downloaded and installed the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernal update but unfornatunatly this does not solve the problem. The eciadsl-doctor program still shows that the n_hdlc module is not found, it also reports that I am using the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernal, how can this be when I have just installed the updated kernal with no problems? Am I missing something?
Many Thanks, Garry.
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:42 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:58 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
Freedom Web Services wrote:
Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not running.
A more general network problem may well be the first cause of your problems.
I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'. When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm I get loads of confiction errors.
It's much preferable to use yum these days. There's no need to download the rpm or deal with dependencies manually.
I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive software infomation' error. When I try to use yum with the command 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot find a baseurl for repo: core'.
This looks like you have a more general networking problem on the system. Have you tried to run 'yum update' yet? I'm guessing you'll get a similar error about the core repo. If so, you should check first that your network is working correctly. If it is, then you'll need to look into the reason yum is not working.
Once yum is working you should be able to run 'yum install samba' (or Add / Remove Software) to get it installed.
My Linux machine is not yet connected to the internet!
That's why 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu aren't working. They use yum as the backend and that's configured out of the box to get packages from the Internet.
For a way of using yum and 'Add / Remove software' using the ISO images used to install the system instead of network repositories, see: http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages
I have a BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB modem and connect through AOL on my windoze box. I have installed the drivers for this modem, eciadsl, and configured it for my modem and AOL but I can not get it to work. I have looked on the net and found that I need a module called n_hdlc in order to get this to work, the standard FC5 does not have this module.
It's in the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel though. Try downloading and installing that update. Much easier than recompiling the kernel yourself.
Paul.
Thanks for the help Paul.
I have downloaded and installed the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernal update but unfornatunatly this does not solve the problem. The eciadsl-doctor program still shows that the n_hdlc module is not found, it also reports that I am using the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernal, how can this be when I have just installed the updated kernal with no problems? Am I missing something?
You won't be using the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel until you've rebooted.
Paul,
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:42 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:58 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
Freedom Web Services wrote:
Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not running.
A more general network problem may well be the first cause of your problems.
I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'. When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm I get loads of confiction errors.
It's much preferable to use yum these days. There's no need to download the rpm or deal with dependencies manually.
I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive software infomation' error. When I try to use yum with the command 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot find a baseurl for repo: core'.
This looks like you have a more general networking problem on the system. Have you tried to run 'yum update' yet? I'm guessing you'll get a similar error about the core repo. If so, you should check first that your network is working correctly. If it is, then you'll need to look into the reason yum is not working.
Once yum is working you should be able to run 'yum install samba' (or Add / Remove Software) to get it installed.
My Linux machine is not yet connected to the internet!
That's why 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the 'Applications' menu aren't working. They use yum as the backend and that's configured out of the box to get packages from the Internet.
For a way of using yum and 'Add / Remove software' using the ISO images used to install the system instead of network repositories, see: http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages
I have a BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB modem and connect through AOL on my windoze box. I have installed the drivers for this modem, eciadsl, and configured it for my modem and AOL but I can not get it to work. I have looked on the net and found that I need a module called n_hdlc in order to get this to work, the standard FC5 does not have this module.
It's in the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel though. Try downloading and installing that update. Much easier than recompiling the kernel yourself.
Paul.
Thanks for the help Paul.
I have downloaded and installed the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernal update but unfornatunatly this does not solve the problem. The eciadsl-doctor program still shows that the n_hdlc module is not found, it also reports that I am using the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernal, how can this be when I have just installed the updated kernal with no problems? Am I missing something?
You won't be using the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel until you've rebooted.
Paul,
I have rebooted a couple of times plus the computer was off overnight!
Thanks, Garry
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 21:54 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:42 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
I have downloaded and installed the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernal update but unfornatunatly this does not solve the problem. The eciadsl-doctor program still shows that the n_hdlc module is not found, it also reports that I am using the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernal, how can this be when I have just installed the updated kernal with no problems? Am I missing something?
You won't be using the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel until you've rebooted.
Paul,
I have rebooted a couple of times plus the computer was off overnight!
What's the output of:
$ rpm -qa kernel* $ uname -a $ cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel $ cat /etc/grub.conf
Paul.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" paul@city-fan.org To: "Freedom Web Services" info@freedomwebservices.net; "For users of Fedora Core releases" fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 9:58 PM Subject: Re: Samba install problem
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 21:54 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:42 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
I have downloaded and installed the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernal update but unfornatunatly this does not solve the problem. The eciadsl-doctor program still shows that the n_hdlc module is not found, it also reports that I am using the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernal, how can this be when I have just installed the updated kernal with no problems? Am I missing something?
You won't be using the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel until you've rebooted.
Paul,
I have rebooted a couple of times plus the computer was off overnight!
What's the output of:
$ rpm -qa kernel*
kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
$ uname -a
Linux linux 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel
UPDATEDEFAULT=yes DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
$ cat /etc/grub.conf
default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hdo,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
By the looks of it the kernel has not been updated, strange as it installed with no problems!
Many thanks, Garry.
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 22:12 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" paul@city-fan.org To: "Freedom Web Services" info@freedomwebservices.net; "For users of Fedora Core releases" fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 9:58 PM Subject: Re: Samba install problem
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 21:54 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:42 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
I have downloaded and installed the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernal update but unfornatunatly this does not solve the problem. The eciadsl-doctor program still shows that the n_hdlc module is not found, it also reports that I am using the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernal, how can this be when I have just installed the updated kernal with no problems? Am I missing something?
You won't be using the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel until you've rebooted.
Paul,
I have rebooted a couple of times plus the computer was off overnight!
What's the output of:
$ rpm -qa kernel*
kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
$ uname -a
Linux linux 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel
UPDATEDEFAULT=yes DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
$ cat /etc/grub.conf
default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hdo,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
By the looks of it the kernel has not been updated, strange as it installed with no problems!
The only explanation I can think of for this is that you downloaded and installed the SRPM (.src.rpm) instead of the binary RPM for your system's architecture (e.g. .i386.rpm or .x86_64.rpm).
Paul.
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:58 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
My Linux machine is not yet connected to the internet!
I have a BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB modem and connect through AOL on my windoze box.
With that USB modem, it might be easier to have your linux box as the primary machine to the net, moving the USB modem onto the linux box, adding a router or hub for a ethernet connection for the Windows machine to your linux box. I bought a Linksys router for $49 at Wally Mart. Works very well. No need for samba to do ethernet.
The best setup would be to have a plain ole external DSL modem doing all the dialup and handshaking, plug the router to it, then plug all your machines to the router. Linux likes that. Even Network Mangler can manage that setup quite nicely and you can yum until your butt falls off. :)
Linux (UNIX) seems to like devices best that are standalone, like external modems, requiring no system overhead to make them run. If that USB modem requires Windows drivers to work at all, then it's robbing the machine of a few cpu cycles and you're also tied to the evil empire forever, just to talk to the net. -Ric
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