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Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc [SOLVED]
by Rudi Ahlers 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi(a)softdux.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, compdoc <compdoc(a)hotrodpc.com> wrote: >> I love realtek - the resources they use tend not to conflict with other >> cards or hardware, they don't use much cpu time, the drivers are mature, and >> they don't cost much. What could be better? There does seem to be at least >> one onboard realtek chipset that can have driver issues, but I use the 8169 >> without problems. >> >> But hardware does fail. And any brand of nic can fail in odd ways. I'm >> guessing you've swapped it out? > > Yes, the NIC might have failed, but how do I tell? lspci still shows > it as active. > > >> >> Bios settings can change if the on-board battery is dead and the system >> loses power. (It can set to defaults) But bios settings rarely affect nics - >> you're more likely to see boot problems from a change in drive boot >> sequence. > > I already checked, BIOS settings didn't change :) > >> >> I don't suppose you have a vpn on your lan? I noticed you use the >> 192.168.1.x address range, which is one of the most common ranges in the >> world. If someone connects to your vpn from home or workplace, and if they >> use the same range, and if theres a bridge, addresses are going to >> conflict. > > This is purely cause the ADSL router in the office is on the > 192.168.1.0 subnet, so it's less hassle when it needs to be swapped > out to get it back up again. No VPN. > > >> >> If you delete your ifcfg-eth0 or ifcfg-eth1 files, centos will recreate them >> if it sees the nics at boot. But it tends to enable eth0 and disable eth1 or >> higher. You should have backups of your originals for that reason... > > I've already tried that, but eth0 doesn't automatically get detected. > > >> >> I bet you wish you had a tcp/ip based kvm switch system about now... >> > > Yes, I supposed I could take one from a client server, or open a > sealed one, but it's not really necessary. For now I put in another > D-Link and got the server up that way, but would prefer to use the > onboard one since I had to take everything out of the 1U chassis, > which doesn't support more than 1 additional NIC. > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> > > This is really weird, after I installed the 2nd D-Link card and booted up the server everyone could work again. But I noticed and eth2 being loaded as well, which could only make sense if the onboard NIC was in fact still working. And it was. So I took out the D-Link, deleted eth2, rebooted and it worked again as normal. Why would this happen, or have happened in the first place? Why would a NIC just loose it's drivers like that? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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latest kernel - version question
by Rob Kampen 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hi List, just doing my weekly yum update and noticed that the kernel is designated .i686 but the headers package is .i386?? surely the headers should match the kernel geometry that it was compiled for? confused. TIA Rob

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Re: [CentOS] usb 3
by Lisandro Grullon 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

It would be great if you can post the output of this command to see the device ID /sbin/lspci - n | grep '01:00.0' >>> Jerry Geis <geisj(a)MessageNetSystems.com> 1/10/2011 3:12 PM >>> sure - I can wait for 6. Was hoping it would be here by now. Jerry Lisandro Grullon wrote: Likely support for 3.0 hasn't reach that kernel, probably in the present unstable build it is being tested, not sure if you want to take that risk though. If I were you I would wait until they work out the bugs, likely this will get integrated in 6.x which should be out not too far ahead. Can you live with 2.0 for now. I rather play safe than dealing with module crashes, it will be your call. >>> Jerry Geis <geisj(a)MessageNetSystems.com> ( mailto:geisj@MessageNetSystems.com ) 1/10/2011 3:01 PM >>> running 2.6.18-194.26 - not the latest but close. jerry Lisandro Grullon wrote: Sounds like a driver issue then....have you update your kernel recently? >>> Jerry Geis <geisj(a)MessageNetSystems.com> ( mailto:geisj@MessageNetSystems.com ) 1/10/2011 2:56 PM >>> I am not getting any events when I plug/unplug from the usb 3 port. Works fine in a 2.0 port. jerry Lisandro Grullon wrote: Jerry, See the /var/log/messages and see if you see the device being detect by the kernel when you plug in. tail /var/log/messages should hint you something.. >>> Jerry Geis <geisj(a)pagestation.com> ( mailto:geisj@pagestation.com ) 1/10/2011 2:36 PM >>> > > It is backwards compatible, but the chipset might not yet be > supported. What does lsdev show for the port? > I dont have lsdev - I do have lspci. Is this what you meant? 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation Unknown device 0194 (rev 03) 02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [ION] (rev a2) 03:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) 04:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Jerry Geis MessageNet Systems 101 East Carmel Dr. Suite 105 Carmel, IN 46032 (317)566-1677 (317)663-0808 Fax -- Jerry Geis MessageNet Systems 101 East Carmel Dr. Suite 105 Carmel, IN 46032 (317)566-1677 (317)663-0808 Fax -- Jerry Geis MessageNet Systems 101 East Carmel Dr. Suite 105 Carmel, IN 46032 (317)566-1677 (317)663-0808 Fax

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Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm
by James B. Byrne 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

I now have fonts! I added the font directories found by /usr/sbin/chkfontpath to the Files Section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and following a restart things began to work. The system startup script for xfs makes reference to a /tmp/.font-unix directory. An error message appears on the boot details screen to the effect that lstat reports /tmp/.font-unix does not exist but I can find no reference to this error in any of the logs. After startup I can find that directory but it is empty. I have no idea how this is supposed to work but I suspect that the dynamic discovery and addition of the font directories is failing for some reason. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm
by James B. Byrne 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

On Mon, January 10, 2011 12:37, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: >> I copied your file into my home directory as ~/XTerm and took a >> look at its contents. As far as I can see you did not intend >> for me to make any alterations to it to begin with. > > James: > > I sent the entire file FYI, and it's yours to hack as you see > fit. Lines starting with "!" are comments and may be removed. > Thanks. I thought as much. It really does seem to come down to the fact that xfs is not finding the fonts and that therefore only the default fonts are left available to XTerm. I have tried configuring the FontPath argument in xorg.conf but all that manages to do is to stop the xserver from starting at all. I looked into the rc script and to me it is a nightmare. To begin with, instead of just configuring the font directories the startup script runs a font locater utility /usr/sbin/chkfontpath. When run from the command line this yields these results: /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1 /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 /usr/share/fonts/webcore But when I run xset q I do not see these listed: Font Path: built-ins Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Font cache: Server does not have the FontCache Extension File paths: Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modules path: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log I would appreciate some guidance on how to proceed from this point. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Set font and size in xterm
by James B. Byrne 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

I have a situation where gnome console does not handle vt102 escape sequences properly and therefor need to employ xterm instead. When I run xterm from a gnome terminal window I am presented with an extremely small terminal window employing an almost unreadably small font. I have attempted to set the font size using xrdb and a custom .Xresources file. I can change the colour scheme. I can create a scrollbar. I can move the scrollbar to either the right or left window margin. What I cannot do is to change the font size. When I do xfontsel I get this error: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion and I see only four fonts listed in the application window, all of them small and none with a point size of greater than 12.0.! If I do fc-cache -f -v I see 14+ font directories containing more than 100 fonts # fc-cache -f -v /usr/share/fonts: caching, 0 fonts, 7 dirs /usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts: caching, 31 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera: caching, 10 fonts, 0 dirs . . . fc-cache: succeeded but I also see lots of this: /var/cache/fontconfig: invalid cache file: f93b699072f38b46be29013fc93f1bbe-x86.cache-2 /var/cache/fontconfig: invalid cache file: 7ddba6133ef499da58de5e8c586d3b75-x86.cache-2 I really need some help sorting this out. If someone could explain to me what I am missing I would be most grateful. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Terminal with variable sized font
by Frank Cox 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Using gnome-terminal and the like, you can set the font size that you want and then if you drag the window larger or smaller, you get more or less character per line. Is there a terminal that allows you to set the rows and columns that you want and then resizes the text instead? gnome-terminal has a zoom-in and zoom-out function that's close to what I want but it's not "infinite" and works by repeatedly hitting hotkeys, not by changing the window size. The objective here is to use ncurses-based programs and be able to "blow them up" by dragging the terminal window bigger or clicking the maximize button. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!

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[OT] RHEVM List
by Rajagopal Swaminathan 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Greetings, Apologies for Off thread (and possibly stupid) question: Where on the net one can find the RHEV-M general list like this one for centos <rant> I have been tearing my hair for past week to make RHEV work with two boxens. One RHEV H and one running XP with two VMs uner VMware WS. One VM is openfiler for iscsi storage and another VM w2k3 for RHEVM. Search in foogle for the error "Network conenction error 5022" does not allow creation of the storage domain with couple of iscsi storage (openfiler) targets. I troubled google uncle for answers but perhaps is angry with me. sigh. And I know only *ONE* list which knows all the correct answers: centos [at] centos.org </rant> Thanks for any pointers. Regards, Rajagopal

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Helper variables like %{rhel} on CentOS
by Santi Saez 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hello, I'm trying to use helper variables like %{rhel} in a .SPEC file on CentOS (as they are defined in RHEL and Fedora [1]), but it seems they are not available. Is there any way to detect automatically CentOS release from a .SPEC file in a RPM build process? As a workaround, I use this hack: %if 0%{?rhel} >= 5 (..) %endif And when calling rpmbuild I use a conditional build, like: $ rpmbuild -ba --clean --define "rhel 5" Regards, [1] http://goo.gl/dkGUg -- Santi Saez

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Re: [CentOS] yum difference
by derleader __ 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

>On 01/09/2011 11:13 PM, derleader __ wrote: >> Hi, >> Can you tell me what ate differences in the source code between the >> original Red Hat yum and the one which Centos uses for update > >there are no differences functionally, they are now identical packages. > >- KB >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS(a)centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Red hat yum downloads packages from RHN Centos yum downloads packages from the fastest mirror? There is difference in configuration.

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