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Joe Isom
jsi at adelphia.net
Fri Jun 27 23:06:39 EDT 2003
Hey, maybe this is a clue. I just got an EMAIL from PayPal, giving me
some privacy disclosure thing about my account. In the body is a link
to PayPal.com I thought, what the hell, I'll click on it and see what
happens. Wouldn't you know Mozilla opened and it took me right to
PayPal.com. I can go to any of the links within that site. So it does
seem to be an issue with my security settings. If I'm already looking
at a link on my screen, then it seems to go to that link just fine. But
if I want to enter a new address in the address field at the top of my
browser, thats when I get the "Connection refused . . ." message.
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 22:46, Joe Isom wrote:
> Oooohhhhhhhooo this is frustrating. When I read your comment about
> setting the BIOS for SCSI, I thought to myself, "Why of course!" I was
> all excited, but then when I got into my BIOS, believe it or not, there
> is no setting to account for a SCSI device. And it's not as if I have
> an old computer. This is a Dell Dimension 4100 with an 800mHz Pentium.
> Before I started monkeying around with this project I did flash my BIOS
> with the latest version available -- A11.
>
> Also, I deleted the existing device profile in network configurations
> and reinstalled my ethernet device, making sure I set the host name as
> localhost.localdomain. This brings up another issue. When I launch
> neat, I get a warning message (yellow triangle w/exclamation point) that
> states:
>
> "eth0 has an alias to module CDC in modules.conf,
> instead of currently loaded module CDC Ethernet Class!"
>
> What's this telling me?
>
> But I was getting this all along since my first installation attempt.
> (This makes about the 5th time I've deleted and reinstalled my ethernet
> settings, hoping to get things right.)
>
> I'm still getting the "Could not look up internet address for . . ."
> when I log in, except that "dhcp-124-6" has been replaced by
> "localhost.localdomain"
>
> Also, I believe it was Mike that mentioned that I should delete the
> firewall from RedHat. Since I can't seem to change the firewall
> settings from "High security," deleting the entire firewall sounds good
> right now. How do I do that?
>
> You know, I just had to have this 160 GB drive I found at Sams to
> replace the original equipment 20 GB drive running Windows ME. But I
> never thought to check to see if it was compatible with my existing
> BIOS. I thought I was going to be able to install it alongside my 20 GB
> drive using the onboard IDE channels, and then copy over whatever files
> I wanted to keep -- even have a dual boot system! But then, after I got
> it home, that's when I learned why that nice 48-bit LBA supported
> controller card was included. I wish now that I had a <137 GB drive.
>
> Again, thank you for taking your time to try and help me figure this
> out. I really appreciate it.
>
> Joe Isom
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:18, Cyber Source wrote:
> > Ok, I other thing, lol. Check the boot order in your BIOS and there
> > should be a selection for SCSI, put that before any reference to the
> > onboard IDE controller, this will tell the BIOS that it needs to look
> > beyond it's own controller(s) for a boot record.
> > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:08, Cyber Source wrote:
> > > One other note on that, take a look at the example of my lilo.conf
> > > file, lilo will always want to write to the first hard drive,
> > > usually /dev/hda but if that is not possible, like in your case or
> > > in mine below, you need to tell it what drive is first, hence, the
> > > bios=0x80 reference, that tells lilo that that is the first hard
> > > drive and where to write the master boot record too. In my case, I
> > > wanted it on my scsi hard drive, so I put that first and the put my
> > > windows drive (/dev/hdb) and told lilo that it is my second drive
> > > but not 0x81 instead at 0x82 because /dev/hda is actually on the
> > > system but I only mount it when needed. Hope this helps....
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 22:56, Cyber Source wrote:
> > > > OK, sounds like you've got a few problems. First, from a command
> > > > prompt, run the command neat, then adjust your network settings
> > > > accordingly. Your 127.0.0.1 address should not be hosting to
> > > > adelphia so remove the adelphia stuff and put in
> > > > localhost.localdomain .
> > > > You need to see how your harddrive is being recognized, run the
> > > > command dmesg and see what your hard drive is, it is probably
> > > > something like /dev/hde since it's on a seperate controller. There
> > > > are a bunch of options that can be put in the lilo.conf file, most
> > > > importantly the map-drive= line, to give you an idea of the
> > > > seperate commands on a dual boot/multi hard drive system, I will
> > > > include a copy of my /etc/lilo.conf file, if you change that, run
> > > > the lilo command again and you can probably do away with the
> > > > floppy, One other VERY important note, some systems cant handle
> > > > the linear geometry, change that to lba32 if so,
> > > >
> > > > prompt
> > > > timeout=50
> > > > default=RedHat
> > > > boot=/dev/sda
> > > > disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80
> > > > disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x82
> > > > map=/boot/map
> > > > install=/boot/boot.b
> > > > message=/boot/message
> > > > linear
> > > >
> > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
> > > > label=RedHat
> > > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
> > > > read-only
> > > > append="hdc=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"
> > > > other=/dev/hdb1
> > > > label=Windows
> > > > table=/dev/hdb
> > > > map-drive=0x80
> > > > to=0x82
> > > > map-drive=0x82
> > > > to=0x80
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 22:32, Joe Isom wrote:
> > > > > I used the command Mark gave me, and the settings for iptables look as
> > > > > you say it should. But nothing changed with respect to my inability to
> > > > > go anywhere but Redhat.com. And it is the Redhat.com site as opposed to
> > > > > any built-in help files. For example, I was able to sign up for the
> > > > > demo RHN account and have it query my system for available updates.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, I attempted to edit my etc/hosts file. It now looks like this:
> > > > >
> > > > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> > > > > # that require network functionality will fail.
> > > > > 127.0.0.1 GCPL301.buf.adelphia.net localhost
> > > > >
> > > > > That host name above is what I got from the Host Name field in ipconfig
> > > > > when I was running Windows. I'm not sure about that IP address though.
> > > > > Does it look like I set it up correctly? I still get the "Welcome to
> > > > > dhcp-124-6" at the login screen, and the "Could not look up internet
> > > > > address . . ." message when logging in despite making this change.
> > > > >
> > > > > Another problem that I didn't mention before is that I can only boot
> > > > > from a floppy. I'm not sure exactly why, but I guess it is because my
> > > > > BIOS doesn't know how to look for the hard drive as a bootable device.
> > > > > And that may be because my drive is connected through an ultra ATA
> > > > > controller card being that it is too large for my system BIOS. When I
> > > > > go into my BIOS setup, it simply shows my onboard IDE 1 channels as
> > > > > being empty (which they are) and my DVD and CD as installed in the IDE 2
> > > > > channels. It can't see the controller card or the two drives attached
> > > > > to it. However, when the machine boots, I can see when the BIOS on the
> > > > > controller card runs and detects the two drives attached to it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway, I was wondering if there might be a setting on the floppy that
> > > > > is giving me trouble.
> > > > >
> > > > > Again, I'm most appreciative of all your help.
> > > > >
> > > > > Joe Isom
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, John Seth wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/
> > > > > > ls
> > > > > > (look for something named S##iptables, mine is S08iptables)
> > > > > > mv S08iptables K08iptables
> > > > > > (change the "S" to a "K")
> > > > > > ls
> > > > >
> > > > > Actually, use chkconfig again:
> > > > >
> > > > > chkconfig --level 345 iptables off
> > > > >
> > > > > Then you don't have to mess around with the symlinks & Ks & Ss manually.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There should now be K##iptables. Now iptables will not start on
> > > > > bootup.
> > > > > > Using 'setup' RedHat will always try to get you to reset your
> > > > > firewall
> > > > > > to "High"... it doesn't reflect any changes you made, at least not on
> > > > > my
> > > > > > RH 9 system (which I'm using now).
> > > >
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> > > > --
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> >
> >
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