Linux-Hardware Digest #469, Volume #13 Wed, 23 Aug 00 17:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: IBM intellistation Z pro loses time at night (AndrewM)
Re: BT ADSL modem & Linux? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: disabling CPUID Serial Number , general protection error 0000 (Matey Kaltchev)
HELP: Unknown LAN adapter ("=?iso-8859-1?B?VGVlbXUgTeRraQ==?=")
Re: AMD Thunderbird (Matey Kaltchev)
Re: disabling CPUID Serial Number , general protection error 0000
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP: Unknown LAN adapter (Edward Lee)
Re: zip module (Eugene Y Lee)
Cable modem bonding?? (yo ho)
Does the Asus p3c-s motherboard work with dimm/simm? (Diego Pinheiro Pedro)
HP LJ Series II, header suppression (Tom)
Re: IBM intellistation Z pro loses time at night ("Rob Windgassen")
cdrecord problem : 'read track info' (ingo korndoerfer)
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From: AndrewM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM intellistation Z pro loses time at night
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:00:44 GMT
I had the same problem with an Intel motherboard running a P133 and
RH6.1.
I couldn't fix it so I disabled the apmd (power management daemon). My
drives don't go to sleep, but the clock is always right.
Andrew
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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> I have an IBM intellistation Z pro running redhat 6.2 and it looses
time
> at night!
> What Bios parameter do I change to alter this behavior?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: BT ADSL modem & Linux?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:12:08 GMT
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:28:37 +0000, Anton Shafarenko
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK I've just found out that the new BT ADSL service uses USB for it's
>connection. If you want an ethernet-enabled box, that's a £100/month
>line rental as opposed to £40 which is typical BT crap seeing as you're
>paying through the nose for the same bandwidth but for their royal
>permisson to attach more than one comp to theservice. Does anyone know
>if it's possible to use this USB ADSL modem under Linux, i.e. to have a
>bt0 interfaceor something?
Is it the Alcatel?
http://feenix.eyep.net/ldp/adsl/
Look in the Links section near the end for the Alcatel USB project. Some
hoop jumping, maybe.
I'd love to hear the rationale for the price difference. Assuming they
have one.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Matey Kaltchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disabling CPUID Serial Number , general protection error 0000
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:23:29 -0500
You may try this:
=======================================================================
Note that Epox has a fix for these types of Kernel panics
http://www.epox.com/html/english/support/motherboard/Get.asp?Article=1271
POSSIBLE SOLUTION
This issue appears to be related to a Processor Serial Number
function supported by Redhat that the
Duron does not. There are two possible resolutions depending
upon the status of your installation.
1. When first installing Redhat 6.2 (or 6.1) you will be
asked at some stage if you require any special
parameters for the kernel. At this point enter:
x86_serial_nr=1
Once installed, this parameter is already in the kernel and
there is no need to do more.
2. If Redhat was already installed type at the lilo prompt:
linux x86_serial_nr=1
Once you boot, recompile the kernel with the: "Disable Serial
Number at boot" left clear.
Date: 12:33 on 08-15-2000
=================================================
I found this following a link from www.linuxtests.org
TongEng Chiah wrote:
> RH 6.2
> system specs are
> Asus A7V Duron Motherboard
> 128 MB twinmos pc133 sdram
> maxtor 10.2 GB ATA/66
>
> Chiah Tong Eng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > i just installed RH linux on my computer running on AMD Duron 700
> > on bootup, the above error message was displayed.
> >
> > anyone got any idea what went wrong?
> >
> > thanks
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?B?VGVlbXUgTeRraQ==?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.networks,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,de.comp.hardware.misc,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,ukr.comp.hardware,zer.z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware,z-netz.net
Subject: HELP: Unknown LAN adapter
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:19:47 +0300
Sorry about crossposting, but I wanted as many people as possible to read
this message.
My question is: Is there any software out there that can identify an unknown
LAN adapter? I recently bought a used computer from our university. The hard
drive was of course erased and there weren't any drivers etc. left on it. It
has an ISA LAN-adapter installed, which I cannot identify and there are no
manual or anything. I had the Linux network config program probe for the LAN
card but it was unable to recognise it.
Please answer me (preferably by mail) if you know a solution to my problem.
--
Teemu Mäki * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sunpoint.net/~teukkam/
Eine Leiche macht noch keinen Friedhof.
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From: Matey Kaltchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD Thunderbird
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:27:08 -0500
Try this from a link at www.linuxtests.org
=============================================
Note that Epox has a fix for these types of Kernel panics
http://www.epox.com/html/english/support/motherboard/Get.asp?Article=1271
POSSIBLE SOLUTION
This issue appears to be related to a Processor Serial Number
function supported by Redhat that the
Duron does not. There are two possible resolutions depending upon
the status of your installation.
1. When first installing Redhat 6.2 (or 6.1) you will be asked at
some stage if you require any special
parameters for the kernel. At this point enter:
x86_serial_nr=1
Once installed, this parameter is already in the kernel and there
is no need to do more.
2. If Redhat was already installed type at the lilo prompt:
linux x86_serial_nr=1
Once you boot, recompile the kernel with the: "Disable Serial
Number at boot" left clear.
Date: 12:33 on 08-15-2000
=======================================================
Shawn Smith wrote:
> I can install Linux (RH 6.2) okay, but when I go to load it, the kernel
> says something about disabling CPUID serial numbers, which causes a HUGE
> FAULT to freeze the computer. Any suggestions? Please email me directly as
> it's difficult for me to use PINE to do newsgroup searches.
>
> ==================+
> Shawn Smith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> WPI, Class of 2002
> MIS Major
> AIM: BgJonson79
> ==================+
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: disabling CPUID Serial Number , general protection error 0000
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:25:42 GMT
The default RH6.2 install mistakes Duran/Tbirds
for PIIIs. Only way I got it to boot was
removing the drive and putting it on another
system, then recompiled the kernel with the beta
2.4.0-test6 kernel. moved drive back and it would
boot fine. I to recompile a couple of more times
to tweek out some settings, but everything works
great.
I've got RH6.2 running on a Tbird K7 800mhz
Asus A7V (with linux running off the ATA100
promise controller)
Sound blaster Live
Viper770 ultra
128 PC133
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"TongEng Chiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> RH 6.2
> system specs are
> Asus A7V Duron Motherboard
> 128 MB twinmos pc133 sdram
> maxtor 10.2 GB ATA/66
>
> Chiah Tong Eng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message
>
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > i just installed RH linux on my computer
running on AMD Duron 700
> > on bootup, the above error message was
displayed.
> >
> > anyone got any idea what went wrong?
> >
> > thanks
>
>
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Unknown LAN adapter
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:46:27 -0700
Check the chip ID, most LAN chips (actually, most computer chip) have their ID
stamped on the chip.
You should have enough responses and complaints from people reading one
newsgroup (comp.os.linux.hardware, in my case), it is not necessary to
cross-post.
Teemu Mäki wrote:
> Sorry about crossposting, but I wanted as many people as possible to read
> this message.
>
> My question is: Is there any software out there that can identify an unknown
> LAN adapter? I recently bought a used computer from our university. The hard
> drive was of course erased and there weren't any drivers etc. left on it. It
> has an ISA LAN-adapter installed, which I cannot identify and there are no
> manual or anything. I had the Linux network config program probe for the LAN
> card but it was unable to recognise it.
>
> Please answer me (preferably by mail) if you know a solution to my problem.
>
> --
> Teemu Mäki * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sunpoint.net/~teukkam/
>
> Eine Leiche macht noch keinen Friedhof.
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From: Eugene Y Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: zip module
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:50:17 -0400
> pre-install sd modprobe -k ide-scsi
I added this line to my conf.modules and it did not work. The other
relevent line in there is
alias block-major-8 ide-scsi
I've tried various combinations with and without these lines no
success. I've also tried adding an append="hdd=ide-scsi" to my
lilo.conf to no avail. At this point would be satified without an
autoloading module. I'd rather not have to recompile the kernel, as
something is wrong whenever I try to compile the kernel ( a seperate
problem)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (yo ho)
Subject: Cable modem bonding??
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:02:37 GMT
does anybody know of a way to bond 2 cable modems toghter or atleast
let them work properly on a single machine?
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From: Diego Pinheiro Pedro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does the Asus p3c-s motherboard work with dimm/simm?
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:10:15 -0300
I'm looking at the asus p3c-s motherboard and even if its specs
says it works fine with simm/dimm rams (using the adaptor, of
course), there are a lot of rummors about a chipset bug involving the
intel 820 chipset.
Any comments?
Diego
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom)
Subject: HP LJ Series II, header suppression
Date: 23 Aug 2000 20:39:57 GMT
Hello:
printer: HP Laserjet Series II
Printing is fine in Wordperfect, no headers as desired.
Printing text files from KDE always prints a date/time/page number header.
The header line is cut in half vertically, the top half not visible. This
half height header is 3/16 inches from the top. I assume it only prints
half the line because the printer cannot print to the edge of the paper.
The :sh line in my printcap file apparently has no effect. The same thing
happens if I leave it in or take it out.
Is this an issue related to my printer that is not correctable?
Anyone with the same printer have this issue?
This printer is currently out of service, and this header problem and Linux
compatibility are 2 of my considerations in whether or not I fix it or
replace it.
Thank You.
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From: "Rob Windgassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM intellistation Z pro loses time at night
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:57:40 +0200
AndrewM heeft geschreven in bericht <8o170f$6jc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I had the same problem with an Intel motherboard running a P133 and
>RH6.1.
>
>I couldn't fix it so I disabled the apmd (power management daemon). My
>drives don't go to sleep, but the clock is always right.
>
Although you cannot use apmd because of it's effect on the clock, you
can put your drives to sleep using hdparm with the -S option.
See the man page of hdparm for proper values.
>Andrew
Rob Windgassen.
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From: ingo korndoerfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrecord problem : 'read track info'
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:52:51 +0200
hi everybody,
i've been struggling with my cd burner for a few days now. off and on i
can burn a good cd, so i think my setup is right. but then, evry once in
a while, i just can't get it work right and produce one coaster after
another.
i got a bit closer now, but don't understand what the messages i get
really mean. can anybody help out ?
- 8 tracks seem to burn fine. then it wants to start recording track #9,
hangs and eventually bails out.
i have marked the place where the error occurs with ###########
below.
any idea for a remedy would be greately appreciated. is the problem
maybe cdparanoia, which does not
extract the tracks properly ? how can i tell before burning ?
cdrecord is the latest version from mandrake. i have to be root to
burn, else nothing goes,
even though
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root cdwriter 163888 Jun 2
12:25 /usr/bin/cdrecord*
but that just on the side.
1000 thanks in advance !!!!!
[root@chocolate temp]nice -18 cdrecord -pad -vv -VV dev=0,0,0 -audio
*.wav
log file (-vv -VV) follows :
Executing 'write_g1' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 2A 00 00 02 7B CF 00 00 0C 00
Sending 28224 (0x6E40) bytes of data.
Write Data: 02 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 FD FF 00 00 00 00 01 00
FE FF FE FF FE FF 00 00 00 00 01 00 FE FF 00 00 01 00 0
1 00 01 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 FE FF 00 00 02 00 FD FF 00 00 FE FF 00 00
FE FF 00 00 FE FF 00 00 FE FF FE FF FE FF FE FF 00 00 02 00 00 00 FE FF
00 00 FE FF 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 FE FF
cmd finished after 0.147s timeout 40s
Track 08: Total bytes read/written: 52374336/52374336 (22268 sectors).
Executing 'flush cache' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 120s
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
cmd finished after 7.495s timeout 120s
Executing 'test unit ready' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
Executing 'test unit ready' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
Executing 'mode sense g1' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 5A 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 02 00
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
Got 2 (0x2), expecting 2 (0x2) bytes of data.
Received Data: 00 3A
Mode Sense Data 00 3A
Mode Sense Data (converted) 37
Executing 'mode sense g1' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 5A 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
Got 60 (0x3C), expecting 60 (0x3C) bytes of data.
Received Data: 00 3A 10 00 00 00 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode Sense Data 00 3A 10 00 00 00 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode Sense Data (converted) 37 10 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode Sense Data 37 10 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode Page Data 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Executing 'mode sense g1' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 5A 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
Got 60 (0x3C), expecting 60 (0x3C) bytes of data.
Received Data: 00 3A 10 00 00 00 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode Sense Data 00 3A 10 00 00 00 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode Sense Data (converted) 37 10 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode Sense Data 37 10 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode Parameters (un-converted) 00 10 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0
#############################################################################################
# ... this is where the problem occurs ... what is happening ???
#############################################################################################
Executing 'read track info' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout
240s
CDB: 52 01 00 00 00 FF 00 00 1C 00
cdrecord: Input/output error. read track info: scsi sendcmd: retryable
error
CDB: 52 01 00 00 00 FF 00 00 1C 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0x00 (no seek complete) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 160.580s timeout 240s
Got 28 (0x1C), expecting 28 (0x1C) bytes of data.
Received Data: 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 05 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 2303.891s
Fixating...
Executing 'close track/session' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout
480s
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd:
retryable error
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0x00 (no seek complete) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 53.237s timeout 480s
cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd:
retryable error
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0x00 (no seek complete) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 53.237s timeout 480s
Executing 'test unit ready' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
Executing 'read disk info' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 240s
CDB: 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 240s
Got 16 (0x10), expecting 16 (0x10) bytes of data.
Received Data: 00 26 05 01 01 01 09 80 00 00 00 00 00 11 21 12
Fixating time: 53.241s
Executing 'test unit ready' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
Mode Parameters (un-converted) 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 30
Set Mode Parameters 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 30
Executing 'mode select g1' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
Sending 16 (0x10) bytes of data.
Write Data: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 30
cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
error
CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
Executing 'prevent/allow medium removal' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun
0 timeout 40s
CDB: 1E 00 00 00 00 00
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
cdrecord: fifo had 12570 puts and 12443 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 12291 times full, min fill was 96%.
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