Linux-Hardware Digest #143, Volume #14 Sun, 7 Jan 01 22:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: 3Com 3c509B ISA card Help, please... (Dances With Crows)
Re: Raid with promise 2065, any experience? (Tim Moore)
Re: UltraDMA66 HD & Linux 6.2? (Tim Moore)
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (Colin Greatwood)
Re: Linux SBC with audio (J Wendel)
Re: Linux with Abit KT7 & AMD Duron ("Stephan Winter")
Re: Where does EZ-BIOS reside on disk? ("Jason Byrne")
Abit KT7 Raid. Anyone got solution for Raid0? ("Stephan Winter")
Need help - Anyone with a Toshiba 2805 laptop (Ken Miller)
Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (Noble Pepper)
Re: Can you help me with XFree86? (Noble Pepper)
Re: Bash Command Not found (Noble Pepper)
Re: HP Colorado 14GB Streamer (Tim Moore)
Re: why hasn't hardware howto been updated? (Tim Moore)
AMR modem ("John Hughes-Jones")
Re: VMware, 3Dpro/2mp chipset, and deliverance from windows. (Tim Moore)
Re: VIA apollo pro 133A ("John Hughes-Jones")
Old SiS 85C496 486 board and New wd300bb-00aua1 EIDE ("David E. Vandewalle")
SoundBlaster 16 (Vibra 16) Problem with kernel 2.4.0 (Nicolas Gosselin)
Re: Old SiS 85C496 486 board and New wd300bb-00aua1 EIDE (Jeff Moore)
Re: VIA apollo pro 133A (Daniel Nilsson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c509B ISA card Help, please...
Date: 7 Jan 2001 23:37:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 19:04:08 -0000, Jurph staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I've got an old 386DX-33 that I'm starting to put Redhat 6 onto. I'd
>like to do an FTP install, but to do that, I need my 3c509B to be
>working. I have the driver, but I don't know what flags to
>set--autoprobe doesn't work for ISA cards. Does anyone know what
>flags/parameters I need to pass during the install to get RedHat to see
>my card? It's in the 5th ISA slot, btw.
Use the DOS disk that came with the card (or look for the package on
3Com's website) and run 3C5X9CFG.EXE to set the thing to a known IRQ and
I/O value, and get it out of Plug-N-Pray mode. Then when you boot from
the RedHat boot floppy, switch to another console and "insmod 3c509
irq=X" where X is the IRQ you set the thing to, then use "ifconfig" to
set eth0 to a known IP addr. You may have to use the "modules" disk
that RedHat provides.
BTW, forget about running anything graphical on that system, and forget
about compiling anything large, but you knew that, right?
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Raid with promise 2065, any experience?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 23:40:42 GMT
> Hi, I have a mobo with a integrated promise
> 2065 ide raid controller. I don't know if this is crap
> or not, but I'm wondering of buy a pair of hd
> and running them in raid for speed.
Promise uses W9x/WNT software drivers to enable RAID functionality, not
currently available for linux.
Their controllers work great as extra IDE controllers and with linux
software raid. http://www.linuxdoc.org/ type 'RAID' or 'IDE
controller' in the search box.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UltraDMA66 HD & Linux 6.2?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 23:46:22 GMT
> My question:
> Which drive is the 3rd IDE under RedHat Linux6.2? is it hde?
controller master slave
IDE0 hda hdb
IDE1 hdc hdd
IDE2 hde hdf
IDE3 hdg hdh
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Colin Greatwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 23:53:20 +0000
I bought linux Mandrake a week ago and I am having trouble with my
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer. HardDrake lists it under the mouse bit
(along with UNKNOWN - my ps/2 mouse) but it still doesn't work, so I
have to resort to using my ps/2 mouse instead. Does anyone know how I
can fix this?
Thanks for any help
Colin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Wendel)
Subject: Re: Linux SBC with audio
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 23:53:45 GMT
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 22:13:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm looking to start a project with a Linux-based Pentium-MMX single
>board computer with at least one serial port, build in sound hardware,
>support for at least one IDE device, and preferably USB (but ethernet
>if necessary). Cost is an issue, but compatability is most important:
>I want it to run Linux dead-reliably right out of the box. APM or a
>better equivalent is a must. No backplanes or anything: this is going
>to be an embedded system. Something like a nice boot PROM would be a
>bonus, but I don't want to have to buy extra hardware to burn a chip.
>
>I know a little about SBCs, but nothing about reliable manufacturers,
>where to buy them, how much I can expect to be gouged, etc. I found
>some stuff on the Internet from - uh - Advantech? that looks close to
>what I want for about $550. I was hoping to find something in the
>$300 range.
>
>--
>Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is small size important ? If not, why not just use an integrated PC
Motherboard. They're much cheaper than the embedded system
manufacturers stuff.
You might check <http://www.allwell.com.tw/> and
<http://www.arisecomputer.com>
Sorry I don't have any good answers.
John
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From: "Stephan Winter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux with Abit KT7 & AMD Duron
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:07:47 +0100
Hello!
Anyone got experiences with the Raid function of the HPT370?
I cannot boot my redhat because he cant find any drives. I am using 2 IBM
307030 in Raid0 Mode (striping)
I hope s.o. can help me
Stephan Winter
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where does EZ-BIOS reside on disk?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:36:39 -0800
"Trebor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8GL56.34714$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Where do programs like EZ-BIOS and MaxBlast reside on a hard disk? Is it
in
> the master boot record, as part of the master boot code? Or, does it
reside
> in the volume boot code of the active partition?
>
> Anybody know of a site that describes how these programs work (I've
already
> visited Maxtor's customer support web site, which gives some superficial
> info .. I'm curious how these things really work, beyond the basics)
>
> In particular, I'd like to understand how I can make an old drive that
uses
> EZ-BIOS as a secondary drive in linux. Am I faced with having to backup,
> re-partition, re-format and restore the disk? Or, can I get away with
> something simpler, like just replacing the MBR? (wishful thinking)
well... if you are going to run Linux by itself on this machine (not
dual-booting, etc...) - you don't have to pay attention to the EZ-BIOS stuff
(feel free to put LILO on the MBR)
for a dual-boot machine... (assuming Win98) - you can install LILO on the
Linux /boot partition... and just make the Linux /boot partition the active
partition on the disk. This will effectively toggle off the active status
of the Win98 partition... but you preserve EZ-BIOS for the OS' that need it
(Win98) to see the whole drive.
In other words... something like the following for a dual-boot machine:
/dev/hda EZ-BIOS not changed on MBR
/dev/hda1 C: drive, Win98
/dev/hda2 /boot for Linux - *active* partition
etc....
- Jason
>
> Thanks,
> -Bob
> Andover, MA
>
>
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From: "Stephan Winter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Abit KT7 Raid. Anyone got solution for Raid0?
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:12:51 +0100
hello.
Has anyone got a solution on how to use the Raid function of the HPT 370 on
the Abit KT7 Raid?
on the HPT site they just say, that only non-raid disks are supported.
Anyone got a solution?
--
Stephan Winter
--
live long and prosper (M. Mittermeier)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Miller)
Subject: Need help - Anyone with a Toshiba 2805 laptop
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:20:01 GMT
I have a new Toshiba Satellite 2805-S201 that comes with Win ME and I
really want to switch it over to Linux.
Can anyone tell me if they have done it successfully and which
distribution they used. I need to be able to use the USB, LAN
connection, modem and the DVD player.
Also this might be a stupid question, but you can watch DVD movies
under Linux, correct?
I know you can hotsync Palm Pilots, but what about the possibility of
linking a Casio Q3000EX digital camera, RIO 500 MP3 player and Sony
miidisc player/recorder :)
Thanks for any help.
Ken
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:29:54 -0600
Colin Greatwood wrote:
> I bought linux Mandrake a week ago and I am having trouble with my
> Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer. HardDrake lists it under the mouse bit
> (along with UNKNOWN - my ps/2 mouse) but it still doesn't work, so I
> have to resort to using my ps/2 mouse instead. Does anyone know how I
> can fix this?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Colin
>
try-
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
If that doesn't get you going and no one else here helps, try
comp.os.linux.x, what you have is actually a X window problem.
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can you help me with XFree86?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:31:38 -0600
> I would like to know if you can help me making my card to work with
> XFree86, your help will be very appreciated. If this isn't the most
> correct place to find help, I apologize and ask for some better
> directions.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rodrigo
>
>
>
If you don't get help here try comp.os.linux.x
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bash Command Not found
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:44:19 -0600
Roger Hawley wrote:
> I found that one but try running xconfigurator from root I get command not
> found. I am using Redhat 7
If you are a dos or windows convert (and how many of us aren't?) remember
case, Case, CASE ! X is not the same as x and C is not the same as c. It
appears from your post you are bright enough to use the shift key, not a
safe assumption for Billy boy's drones.
I think you are looking for Xconfigurator (definitely Redhat now) or was it
XConfigurator?, try
locate *onfigurator
and see what you get.
Sounds like you have path problems big time, once you get a GUI going use
locate */bin/* |more
and put anything that looks useful in your path setting statement (as
before probably in ~/.bashrc) it should be easy to spot once you find it.
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Colorado 14GB Streamer
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:57:01 GMT
> I would like to use my HP Colorado 14GB IDE streamer under Linux (RedHat
> or Debian).
> Can this be realized with the SCSI-Emulation for IDE devices? Are there
> any restrictions or performance problems to be expected?
SCSI emulation gives less read/retry/timeout errors than ATAPI in my
experience, performance is ~950KB/s for dump. Use mt version >= 0.5b.
[2.2.14+ide patch]
...
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive
*hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33)
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
*scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi1 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
scsi : 2 hosts.
* Vendor: HP Model: COLORADO 20GB Rev: 4.01
* Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
*Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416E Rev: 1.0e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.13
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why hasn't hardware howto been updated?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:59:22 GMT
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/hardware.html
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: "John Hughes-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMR modem
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 20:04:34 -0400
Is an AMR modem considered to be a Winmodem and if not does Redhat support
it?
I am running linux and its swap file on two logical partitions, it does not
like the swap file, says that I am trying to mount an extended partition
instead of a logical drive on an extended partition.
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMware, 3Dpro/2mp chipset, and deliverance from windows.
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:07:50 GMT
> My video card is a firegl 4000 which is based off of the 3Dpro/2mp
> chipset by Misubishi / Evans & Sutherland... when the card was being sold
> at the retail price of 2000 dollars 3 years ago, I got it for 500...
>
> It's been 3 years and there is still no X server for the card. I know 3
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Obsolete chipset (E&S). Look at something with nVidia TNT or higher
chipsets, or anything supported by the XFree86 SVGA driver as a start.
There are many other options typically consolidated by linux
distribution.
Example:
http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/intel/62/rh6.2-hcl-i.ld-8.html
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: "John Hughes-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA apollo pro 133A
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 20:20:21 -0400
Built a computer a couple of months ago using a LEGEND Advance 10E
motherboard running P111 733 and 256MB SDRAM at 133MHz-have never had a
problem. Am running OSx4 on same HD, one of which is Redhat 6.5
Daniel Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:934kj4$g6e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of buying a new computer, intel based
> 2-way SMP. Seems like my best bet would be a system based
> on the VIA Apollo pro 133A chipset. Though there has been
> some reports on various places about performance problems,
> (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1384) is one of
> them.
>
> Does anyone have more information if this is a problems
> that is Linux specific and if work is being done to
> resolv the issues or if it's the chipset itself that has
> poor performance. Would you recommend using a different
> chipset instead (there doesn't seem to be a lot of chipsets
> for PIII that supports SMP and SDRAM)
>
> Thanks
> Daniel Nilsson
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: "David E. Vandewalle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Old SiS 85C496 486 board and New wd300bb-00aua1 EIDE
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 19:34:26 -0600
Hey,
I've got a system I'm having trouble with.
I put a stock RH7.0 install on a 30 gig WD EIDE disk. Boots fine on a newer
machine.
I put this disk into it's new home which is an old 486 based on the SiS 85C496
chipset.
It now hangs during the kernel boot process.
It gets this far:
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
hda: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
and then hangs. I let it sit for at least 15 minutes.
I tried stick an older drive in as the master and jumping the new disk as
slave. At that point
the system would boot and I could mount up the new drive, however that was under
kernel 2.2.5-15, not the kernel that ships with RH7.0.
I'm guessing that this old chipset doesn't like the newer IDE disk ... some
negotiation problem when the new drive is master?
If anyone else has seen the problem and has any advice, I would appreciate
hearing from you.
thanx,
dv
--
// David E. Vandewalle | The tree of research must from time to time
// [EMAIL PROTECTED] | be refreshed with the blood of bean counters.
// [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Alan Kay
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From: Nicolas Gosselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster 16 (Vibra 16) Problem with kernel 2.4.0
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 02:16:25 GMT
Hi,
Ive been trying to figure this out all day now. I had no problem with it before what
so ever
and it still works when I boot a older kernel. For some reason they removed the i/o
base, irq,dma1,dma2
out of the sound section for the kernel config in 2.4.0. They say to use boot
commands to the kernel
instead which would mean to use append within lilo I presume. ive tried
sb="220,5,1,5" as the help for
the sound blaster card says in the kernel menuconfig, but no luck. I also tried to
make it a module but
still no luck with it. If anyone has any clue please let me know.
Thanks,
nic
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Old SiS 85C496 486 board and New wd300bb-00aua1 EIDE
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 20:19:00 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have an sis486, and mine boots to the same point.
I think this has to do with how much ram the system has.
How much ram does your 486 box have?
Jeff Moore
"David E. Vandewalle" wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've got a system I'm having trouble with.
> I put a stock RH7.0 install on a 30 gig WD EIDE disk. Boots fine on a newer
> machine.
> I put this disk into it's new home which is an old 486 based on the SiS 85C496
> chipset.
>
> It now hangs during the kernel boot process.
> It gets this far:
>
> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> hda: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
>
> and then hangs. I let it sit for at least 15 minutes.
>
> I tried stick an older drive in as the master and jumping the new disk as
> slave. At that point
> the system would boot and I could mount up the new drive, however that was under
> kernel 2.2.5-15, not the kernel that ships with RH7.0.
>
> I'm guessing that this old chipset doesn't like the newer IDE disk ... some
> negotiation problem when the new drive is master?
>
> If anyone else has seen the problem and has any advice, I would appreciate
> hearing from you.
>
> thanx,
> dv
>
> --
> // David E. Vandewalle | The tree of research must from time to time
> // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | be refreshed with the blood of bean counters.
> // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Alan Kay
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From: Daniel Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA apollo pro 133A
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 02:42:29 GMT
Thanks All,
I guess I'll try to use a motherboard based on this chipset then,
seems like the best way to go for a home computer anyway (the server
boards doesn't fit that category in my mind).
Daniel
In article <0y866.2819$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"John Hughes-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Built a computer a couple of months ago using a LEGEND Advance 10E
> motherboard running P111 733 and 256MB SDRAM at 133MHz-have never had
a
> problem. Am running OSx4 on same HD, one of which is Redhat 6.5
>
> Daniel Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:934kj4$g6e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm in the process of buying a new computer, intel based
> > 2-way SMP. Seems like my best bet would be a system based
> > on the VIA Apollo pro 133A chipset. Though there has been
> > some reports on various places about performance problems,
> > (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1384) is one of
> > them.
> >
> > Does anyone have more information if this is a problems
> > that is Linux specific and if work is being done to
> > resolv the issues or if it's the chipset itself that has
> > poor performance. Would you recommend using a different
> > chipset instead (there doesn't seem to be a lot of chipsets
> > for PIII that supports SMP and SDRAM)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Daniel Nilsson
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com
> > http://www.deja.com/
>
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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