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* RE: Package for reading hardware information such as BIOS Version etc ..
@ 2003-03-20 17:31 Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS)
  2003-03-21  3:11 ` Bruce Ferrell
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) @ 2003-03-20 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Bruce Ferrell'; +Cc: linux-admin

I downloaded lshw-T.00.07.tar.gz and compiled. When I execute lshw in
X-Terminal, it works fine.
But when I executed it in the Virtual Terminal(Text Mode) , it generates
the output,but
before that it displays two error messages.

"hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
 hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 "

I don't understand what these error messages mean?  Can someone explain
me these error messages and why
I am getting these?

Thanks
Pradeep




-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Ferrell [mailto:bferrell@baywinds.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:40 PM
To: Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS)
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Package for reading hardware information such as BIOS
Version etc ..


I just ran across something called lshw.  I think I found it on
freshmeat.

Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) wrote:
> Hi Friends...
> Thank you all for all your responses for my previous mails..!!
>  
> I am running RedHat Linux 8.0 on my Dell Latitude C610 Laptop. I am
> using the i8k package
> which reports the information such as BIOS Version, Serial Number, fan
> status, CPU temperature...etc.
> 
> I believe it is SMM BIOS for Dell Latitude Laptops. I don't even what
> this SMM BIOS means?
> 
> But when I am running the same i8k module on my Dell GX260 which runs
> same RedHat Linux 8.0,
> it reports an error message that 
> "unsupported model Dell Optiplex GX260
> unable to get SMM Dell Signature
> unable to get SMM BIOS Version"
> 
> What is the BIOS that comes with Dell Optiplex GX260? Is there any
other
> package to read the serial number
> from BIOS, as we do with i8k module on Dell Laptops? Please tell me if
I
> am not clear
> with what I am saying.
> 
> If anybody has got an idea on this, please share with me. 
> Thank you all in advance...
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Pradeep
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Furness [mailto:paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:10 AM
> To: Yu Chen
> Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Rather odd NIS problem
> 
> 
> Thanks, that fixed it. I know it sounds stupid, but it didn't occur to
> me that yppasswdd had a configuration file. Man, I must be asleep. :)
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:54, Yu Chen wrote:
> 
>>Looks like the same problem I had once. On NIS server do a ps -ef|grep
> 
> yp,
> 
>>see how yppasswdd is run, in your case, it should be something like
>>rpc.yppasswdd -D /var/yp
>>if not, you should tell yppasswdd where is your files, edit
>>/etc/sysconfig/yppasswdd
>>
>>Hope this will help!
>>
>>===========================================
>>Yu Chen
>>Howard Hughes Medical Institute
>>University of Maryland at Baltimore County
>>1000 Hilltop Circle
>>Baltimore, MD 21250
>>
>>phone: 	(410)455-6347
>>	(410)455-2718
>>fax: 	(410)455-1174
>>email: 	chen@hhmi.umbc.edu
>>===========================================
>>
>>On 19 Mar 2003, Paul Furness wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello.
>>>
>>>I have a reccuring problem with NIS. My main production NIS server
>>
> won't
> 
>>>let me change any passwords. The system is a completely new system
>>
> which
> 
>>>I have built from the ground up to replace the old, failing one. It
>>
> is
> 
>>>based around RedHat 7.3 with updates; the kernel version is
>>>2.4.18-24.7.x, ypserv is version 2.5-2.7x, ypbind is 1.10-7, and
>>>yp-tools is 2.6-4.
>>>
>>>Although the setup (in terms of the files which are shared) is the
>>
> same
> 
>>>as the original system (which did work ok), the config files are the
>>
> new
> 
>>>default ones, edited by me. Also, I have needed to edit the Makefile
>>
> in
> 
>>>/var/yp so as to share the correct things as the correct names. The
>>>changes I made were based on comparing the old files with the new
>>
> ones,
> 
>>>so I didn't simply copy all the old stuff into the new places.
>>>
>>>Anyhow, ypserv, ypbind and yppasswdd all start fine, and the domain
>>
> is
> 
>>>shared correctly and works. I have moved everything over to using
>>
> this
> 
>>>domain, and removed the old NIS server. Everything else works fine,
>>
> but
> 
>>>when I try and change a user's password, this happens:
>>>
>>># yppasswd furnesp
>>>Changing NIS account information for furnesp on
>>
> antonia.vil.ite.mee.com.
> 
>>>Please enter root password:
>>>Changing NIS password for furnesp on antonia.vil.ite.mee.com.
>>>Please enter new password:
>>>Please retype new password:
>>>Error while changing the NIS password.
>>>The NIS password has not been changed on antonia.vil.ite.mee.com.
>>>#
>>>
>>>(obviosly, I enter the appropriate passwords when prompted!)
>>>
>>>If I try to "su - user" first, I still get the same output (asking
>>
> for
> 
>>>user's old password instead of root password).
>>>
>>>Incidentally, I did wonder if the password I was using was too
>>
> simple,
> 
>>>but the problem happens with very strong passwords as well.
>>>
>>>It may or may not affect it, but I am not using passwd or group file
>>
> in
> 
>>>/etc; all the files are in /var/yp/ypfiles. I have edited the
>>>configuration in the Makefile to take account of this, and it works
>>>fine. If I manually enter a new user into /var/yp/ypfiles/passwd,
>>
> and
> 
>>>copy/paste a password from an existing account into the password
>>
> field,
> 
>>>then do a make, the new user account appears correctly in the NIS,
>>
> and
> 
>>>the password works. Oh, and I am not using a shadow file at all.
>>>
>>>
>>>For brevity, I haven't copied the Makefile to this email, but below
>>
> is
> 
>>>/etc/ypserv.conf and yp.conf. If anyone wants to look at the
>>
> Makefile,
> 
>>>I'll send it to you off list.
>>>
>>>Has anyone seen this problem before?
>>>
>>>Tks.
>>>
>>>Paul.
>>>
>>>-----------
>>>
>>>yp.conf:
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>>domain vilnis broadcast
>>>
>>></SNIP>
>>>
>>>ypserv.conf:
>>><SNIP>
>>>
>>>dns: no
>>>
>>>files: 30
>>>
>>>xfr_check_port: yes
>>>
>>># Host                     : Domain  : Map              : Security
>>>
>>>*                          : *       : *                : none
>>></SNIP>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>---------------
>>>
>>>--
>>>Paul Furness
>>>
>>>Systems Manager
>>>Visual Information Lab
>>>Mitsubsihi Electric ITE BV
>>>Guildford, UK
>>> __________________________________________________________
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>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>>
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* Package for reading hardware information such as BIOS Version etc ..
@ 2003-03-19 17:43 Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS)
  2003-03-20  4:39 ` Bruce Ferrell
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) @ 2003-03-19 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-admin

Hi Friends...
Thank you all for all your responses for my previous mails..!!
 
I am running RedHat Linux 8.0 on my Dell Latitude C610 Laptop. I am
using the i8k package
which reports the information such as BIOS Version, Serial Number, fan
status, CPU temperature...etc.

I believe it is SMM BIOS for Dell Latitude Laptops. I don't even what
this SMM BIOS means?

But when I am running the same i8k module on my Dell GX260 which runs
same RedHat Linux 8.0,
it reports an error message that 
"unsupported model Dell Optiplex GX260
unable to get SMM Dell Signature
unable to get SMM BIOS Version"

What is the BIOS that comes with Dell Optiplex GX260? Is there any other
package to read the serial number
from BIOS, as we do with i8k module on Dell Laptops? Please tell me if I
am not clear
with what I am saying.

If anybody has got an idea on this, please share with me. 
Thank you all in advance...

Thanks and Regards,
Pradeep
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Furness [mailto:paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:10 AM
To: Yu Chen
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rather odd NIS problem


Thanks, that fixed it. I know it sounds stupid, but it didn't occur to
me that yppasswdd had a configuration file. Man, I must be asleep. :)

Paul.


On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:54, Yu Chen wrote:
> Looks like the same problem I had once. On NIS server do a ps -ef|grep
yp,
> see how yppasswdd is run, in your case, it should be something like
> rpc.yppasswdd -D /var/yp
> if not, you should tell yppasswdd where is your files, edit
> /etc/sysconfig/yppasswdd
> 
> Hope this will help!
> 
> ===========================================
> Yu Chen
> Howard Hughes Medical Institute
> University of Maryland at Baltimore County
> 1000 Hilltop Circle
> Baltimore, MD 21250
> 
> phone: 	(410)455-6347
> 	(410)455-2718
> fax: 	(410)455-1174
> email: 	chen@hhmi.umbc.edu
> ===========================================
> 
> On 19 Mar 2003, Paul Furness wrote:
> 
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have a reccuring problem with NIS. My main production NIS server
won't
> > let me change any passwords. The system is a completely new system
which
> > I have built from the ground up to replace the old, failing one. It
is
> > based around RedHat 7.3 with updates; the kernel version is
> > 2.4.18-24.7.x, ypserv is version 2.5-2.7x, ypbind is 1.10-7, and
> > yp-tools is 2.6-4.
> >
> > Although the setup (in terms of the files which are shared) is the
same
> > as the original system (which did work ok), the config files are the
new
> > default ones, edited by me. Also, I have needed to edit the Makefile
in
> > /var/yp so as to share the correct things as the correct names. The
> > changes I made were based on comparing the old files with the new
ones,
> > so I didn't simply copy all the old stuff into the new places.
> >
> > Anyhow, ypserv, ypbind and yppasswdd all start fine, and the domain
is
> > shared correctly and works. I have moved everything over to using
this
> > domain, and removed the old NIS server. Everything else works fine,
but
> > when I try and change a user's password, this happens:
> >
> > # yppasswd furnesp
> > Changing NIS account information for furnesp on
antonia.vil.ite.mee.com.
> > Please enter root password:
> > Changing NIS password for furnesp on antonia.vil.ite.mee.com.
> > Please enter new password:
> > Please retype new password:
> > Error while changing the NIS password.
> > The NIS password has not been changed on antonia.vil.ite.mee.com.
> > #
> >
> > (obviosly, I enter the appropriate passwords when prompted!)
> >
> > If I try to "su - user" first, I still get the same output (asking
for
> > user's old password instead of root password).
> >
> > Incidentally, I did wonder if the password I was using was too
simple,
> > but the problem happens with very strong passwords as well.
> >
> > It may or may not affect it, but I am not using passwd or group file
in
> > /etc; all the files are in /var/yp/ypfiles. I have edited the
> > configuration in the Makefile to take account of this, and it works
> > fine. If I manually enter a new user into /var/yp/ypfiles/passwd,
and
> > copy/paste a password from an existing account into the password
field,
> > then do a make, the new user account appears correctly in the NIS,
and
> > the password works. Oh, and I am not using a shadow file at all.
> >
> >
> > For brevity, I haven't copied the Makefile to this email, but below
is
> > /etc/ypserv.conf and yp.conf. If anyone wants to look at the
Makefile,
> > I'll send it to you off list.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this problem before?
> >
> > Tks.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> > -----------
> >
> > yp.conf:
> >  <SNIP>
> >
> > domain vilnis broadcast
> >
> > </SNIP>
> >
> > ypserv.conf:
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > dns: no
> >
> > files: 30
> >
> > xfr_check_port: yes
> >
> > # Host                     : Domain  : Map              : Security
> >
> > *                          : *       : *                : none
> > </SNIP>
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------
> >
> > --
> > Paul Furness
> >
> > Systems Manager
> > Visual Information Lab
> > Mitsubsihi Electric ITE BV
> > Guildford, UK
> >  __________________________________________________________
> > |  Fight Spam! Join EuroCAUCE: http://www.euro.cauce.org/  |
> >  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
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