Urza9814

Well I already had to buy one new card 'cause my Belkin one was completely hopeless.

well, I did all that, everything ran smoothly, and nothing happened. wlan0 is in modprobe and everything, but it doesn't exist. ndiswrapper says everything's fine, but there just is no connection.

why did mandriva get rid of that list thing :(

The entire reason I'm using Mandriva is because in 2006, it had EXCELLENT wireless support. I simply hit 'select from list', selected the ACX100, and it worked. That's all it took. But that list isn't there in 2007. And ndiswrapper doesn't work. If I set it up from the command-line, it just doesn't do anything (everything appears fine, it just never connects or shows up in MCC), and if I set it up from MCC, it says "unable to find the ndiswrapper interface". When I try to install ndiswrapper from a tarball, I get the following error:

In file included from /home/urza9814/ndiswrapper-1.33/driver/hal.c:166:
/home/urza9814/ndiswrapper-1.33/driver/hal_exports.h:27:error: expected identifier or '(' before '/' token.

...Why did Mandriva screw it all up :( It worked so well!

So I'm gonna be coming across some large new hard drive real estate soon (getting a new 300GB drive) along with a 64bit AMD CPU and 2 more GB of RAM. I've been having some trouble with Mandriva (the c preprocessor stuff I posted a while back), and I'm thinking it's mostly a result of constantly reinstalling on top of existing installations. I've decided that the best thing to do is reformat and reinstall and hope I can get everything back to the way it is now fairly quickly.

Anyways, I am currently running on 2006, and am fairly happy with it's performance, so I'm wondering if I should upgrade to 2007. Mandriva seems to me (and I've had others confirm these thoughts) to have a good distro every other year, so I'm wondering if 2007 is REALLY better than 2006 (9.2 ran so much better on my comp than 10.2)

The other thing I'm wondering about is what exactly the deal is with 64 bit CPUs. I haven't really done much research into them, just enough to know that 64 bit apps get the best boost, but 32 bit programs will still run better. Anyways, how's Mandriva's 64 bit support? Will it work just as well as 32 bit? Basically, any information you can give me about 64 bit CPUs would be great :) I was gonna just get a better Athlon XP, but it turns out I can get a 64bit Athlon and a new mobo to support it for a lower price per GHz. And the new mobo should allow me to use this GB chip of high density RAM I've had laying around for a few months! :P

Ah, that's what I needed. And by firewall I meant software, not hardware. My hardware firewall is my router, and I was trying this to figure out what's causing the logs on it. It doesn't give near enough info.

Is there any easy way to record or view all the traffic to and from my computer (including traffice blocked by the firewall if possible) for about 10 seconds? Main thing I'm looking for is how much traffic and to what IP addresses. Port numbers would be nice too.

So I'm having problems with other things too. Trying to compile a newer version of Python (2.5) I got the same error. Turns out to be this:

/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.0.1/include/limits.h:122:61: error: no include path in which to search for limits.h

Does that help any?

I'm on Mandriva 2006

[urza9814@Arochone ~]$ rpm -qa | grep gcc
gcc-c++-4.0.1-5mdk
gcc-4.0.1-5mdk
gcc2.96-cpp-2.96-0.83mdk
libgcc1-4.0.1-5mdk
gcc-cpp-4.0.1-5mdk
[urza9814@Arochone ~]$

I tried urpmi, but it didn't have any of the packages. I have plf-free and nonfree set up.

Actually, no, it does have libdv4 and libdvdread3, but it says both are already installed, and mjpegtools still says failed dependancy libdv. Not sure why urpmi has libdv4 though...latest I could find online is 1.0.0?

not sure. assembly and C according to SourceForge.

already checked that.

[root@Arochone urza9814]# urpmi gcc-cpp gcc-c++
The package(s) are already installed

I'm trying to get some DVD authoring tools installed, and in the massive string of dependancies I came to libdv. I have the tarball for libdv1.0.0, but it won't install. I get the following error when I try to run ./configure. It comes up if I'm root too:

[urza9814@Arochone libdv-1.0.0]$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... unsupported
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

Here's my gcc info:

[urza9814@Arochone libdv-1.0.0]$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-slibdir=/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,f95,objc,java --host=i586-mandriva-linux-gnu --with-system-zlib --enable-long-long --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-gtk-cairo --disable-libjava-multilib
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0)

Anyone know what's going on?

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

Well, I pulled the IPs from my router logs, and that's all it tells me. I was kinda wondering if I could figure out a bit more about what they are, 'cause the IPs themselves don't help much there.

And actually, I just checked the logs, and the comcast one is back. It's the only one there too.

What really bugs me is my ISP just got bought by comcast, so if an email to the comcast abuse line doesn't help much, a phone call to the support guys probably won't either.

For several days now, I've been getting a bunch of traffic to my network being blocked by my router as DoS attacks. I know there's one Comcast IP, one Verizon, two or three from various South American countries, and a few others I never bothered to look into. When I shut down all my computers it still comes, and even after unplugging my modem for over an hour to drop the connection, it's still coming through nearly constantly. Anyways, I was kinda wondering if there's any way, before contacting my ISP, that I could look at this stuff a little closer and maybe figure out what the hell it is? It started out as only one IP, the Comcast one, and I sent an email to the Comcast abuse line...and I guess that helped because I'm not seeing much from it anymore...but now I'm getting slammed by 6 or 7 different IPs.

spend 5 hours so far working on this thing, got it all copied over and then copied back using cp -a....and it won't boot. No init found. I ran the installer again...still no luck. Good thing is, I knew this was gonna happen...so I left a dd copy of it on my drive.

screw it...I'll live with 10GB lost for now. This thing's REALLY starting to annoy me.

I get the following error with resize2fs:

Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock

I then tried shrinking it a bit with diskdrake, in the hopes that by changing the size it would fix it...it didn't....but it didn't break anything either.

resize2fs is not a command, nor is resizefs. I checked all the 'see also' at the bottom of the man pages, and came up with:

tune2fs

mke2fs

dumpe2fs

badblocks

Ah! ok, found it with a locate. It's resize2fs

I'm assuming I'll have to run this from a liveCD, since it's the root partition that I'm currently running off of? Can't do it now anyways though...I'm at school right now, checking all this stuff through webmin :)

Hmm. Looks like you're right...but...apparently I don't have resizefs.

[urza9814@Arochone ~]$ df
Filesystem			Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1			  40G   35G  5.2G  87% /
/dev/hda5			  44G  9.4G   33G  23% /home
[urza9814@Arochone ~]$ resizefs
bash: resizefs: command not found
[urza9814@Arochone ~]$ su
Password:
[root@Arochone urza9814]# resizefs
bash: resizefs: command not found

Think mebbe if I boot madriva move and just use Diskdrake to shrink it a bit then enlarge it again? lol

Can't do anything now though...I'll have to try later tonught.

See, I was kinda afraid of missing space too, but I checked and it looks fine to me. I'll use cp though from now on. I was just afraid for my root partition that cp might not carry over something I need for it to be bootable or whatever.

I'll look into gparted...bit late now...hah....but yea, I thought it was a full 700 meg ISO, not just a small 30MB. Might be useful to have in my collection though.

See, I was kinda afraid of missing space too, but I checked and it looks fine to me. I'll use cp though from now on. I was just afraid for my root partition that cp might not carry over something I need for it to be bootable or whatever.

Um...my original partition was 40GB. I opened diskdrake, created a new 53GB partition (both are ext3), and then used mandriva move and ran 'dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/dev/hda1', and then ran the installer again, telling it to use hda1 as the root partition and not to format. That's it. From what you're saying...it sounds like that shouldn't have worked? haha

It gets quite interesting when you dd from one partition into another of different size (be it smaller or bigger)

...didn't for me... :unsure:

And I never used resize2fs. I mean, that's probably what diskdrake does, but...didn't have any problems with it.

I'm a bit confused about how editing the grub and fstab files would work. I mean, it seems to me that if it's set to boot from hda5, how would editing the files on hda5 make it then start booting from hda1? I did notice in the lilo config (I was using lilo until about halfway through this when I realized I should try grub because lilo always gets screwed up and won't reinstall) that it says to run the command 'lilo' after you edit it...but when I tried that it just sat there for about a half hour and didn't seem to do anything until I finally killed it. I'm guessing that's probably my problem? I'll have to try to get it running right when I move my home partition...

Woo! Got the root partition moved up, after much pain. Used mandriva move to copy it back with dd, then ended up just running the installer again, changing the mount points, and telling it to not format. I tried just changing fstab and the grub config, but it didn't work...dunno why, I'm not too familiar with how those files work, so...doesn't surprise me any that I screwed it up. But anways, now I just gotta move my /home up a bit, and that shouldn't be too hard.

ahh...see, I was just gonna run the installer again to re-create lilo.conf and fstab. Your way would be a lot quicker though, huh? :P

Yea...I been using this thing for...year and a half now I think...and I still don't know what I'm doing. haha

ehh...I really don't wanna download anything else. Besides, I'm using up enough discs with my backups :)

Would my dd method at least work? (Even if it is slightly retarded...lol)

Ok, so I wanna move my windoze partitions off onto a different hard drive. Here's my current drive setup, as it appears in diskdrake:

hda:

| Win98 | WinXP | Win Share | / | /home | swap |

hdb:

| unused NTFS | /Backup |

So here's what I wanna do. Take hdb, install windows on that. But then I need to expand my / and /home partitions once I remove the three windows partitions. The windoze partitions are a total of 100GB, my / is about 40GB, and my /home is around 60GB. So I was wondering, is there any way I could delete the win partitions and then copy the / to near the front, so I'd have something like this:

| copy of / | unused | / | /home |

And then run the installer again and set it to use the copy of / as / and not to format, then delete the original /, copy the /home up, and run the installer again, giving me something like this:

| / | unused | /home | unused |

And then simply resize them. Hope you can understand what I'm saying...but basically I wanna resize them, and since they're at the end and you can't change where a partition starts (right?), I wanna move them up so I can then resize them to what I want. How hard would this be? Could I just use diskdrake to create the new partitions, and then dd to copy everything over? Would dd work when the partition is currently mounted, or would I have to use a live CD or something? And most importantly...is there any easier way to do what I want?

Ok, so currently my computer partitions are as follows:

200GB DRIVE:

10GB Win98

10GB WinXP

80GB Win Shared

40GB /

53GB /home

a few GB swap (or something like that)

30GB DRIVE:

20GB empty NTFS partition (It was used before...)

10GB /Backup (just created for, yup, you guessed it, backups of some important files)

But see...WinXP hasn't worked in a month or two, and I don't really need it. It's nice for those rare occasions when I wanna play a game or something, but I have my mom's computer down the hall on XP for anything critical, and after getting QEMU and finding the original Red Alert runs almost perfectly on that, there's not much use for XP. Win98 I've only ever booted in to from QEMU on Linux in the past year or so...so I was thinking of just giving the whole 200GB drive to Linux, and the 30GB drive to WinXP. I figure I can create a .img file of my Win98 partition, and just store that on my Linux drive for QEMU. But I don't know how to do that. Any help?

Hmm...also just had a though...perhaps I should leave WinXP on the 200GB drive and use the 30GB for 98 on QEMU? Would it maybe run faster on separate drives, or is it pretty much QEMU that's gonna slow it down? (I use the accelerator package). I don't really wanna have to re-install Win98 though to move it....the installer makes me nervous because of the way it doesn't really choose partitions, so if that'd help is there a way I could just copy the existing 98 partition and resize? I don't need it actually be bootable from lilo, only QEMU. It won't boot on my computer anyways because I have too much RAM and I'm too lazy to install the patch.

I already tried setting it to UDF with no luck...but...it appears I don't have mkudffs installed. Might be helpful :)

...but sadly...it won't install. Won't even configure.

[root@Arochone udftools-1.0.0b3]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

I looked at config.log a bit...it's quite big, but these errors jumped out pretty quick:

configure:2536: gcc  -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:2493:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
configure:2494:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
configure:2495:22: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
configure:2498: error: syntax error before '*' token
configure:2498: warning: 'struct stat' declared inside parameter list
configure:2498: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is pr
obably not what you want
configure:2498: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
configure:2517: error: syntax error before 'FILE'
configure:2517: warning: 'struct stat' declared inside parameter list
configure:2517: error: 'pairnames' declared as function returning a function
configure:2517: error: syntax error before 'int'
configure:2539: $? = 1