Linux-Hardware Digest #207, Volume #14 Sat, 20 Jan 01 03:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: CD-RW info and recommemdations needed
Re: Xerox DocuPrint P8 (Dances With Crows)
Re: My Modem :( (John Todd)
Re: My Modem :( ("Tina Carter")
Sorry one more Modem Q. ("Tina Carter")
Re: netgear pa301 phoneline card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Rio 600 support needed (downey)
Iomega zip drive ("Bob Howard")
Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why? (Marcus Lauer)
Re: Modem Creative D15655 cannot be detected (Rob Clark)
Re: Linux Internal Modem Setup (Rob Clark)
Re: To switch to Linux or not? Advice please. ("Dave Stanton")
Re: AVA-1502AE, Software interrupt lost (henk van der knaap)
Re: AVA-1502AE, Software interrupt lost (henk van der knaap)
Re: Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370? ("Igor Fedulov")
RedHat7.0 can't see 1024MB memory ("Preklizka")
Locked file System - Help please ("Drew")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: CD-RW info and recommemdations needed
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:14:37 -0000
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:26:12 GMT, Alan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:10:59 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>
>
>>>You gets what you pays for, at least when it comes to hardware. Is it
>>>more important for you to have 10 more FPS in Quake3, or a fast and
>>>reliable backup system? Only you can decide.
>>
>> I don't think this is what is at stake at all actually.
>> There is little difference between IDE and SCSI for
>> most people and 'fast' may not be that relevant.
>
>Exactly. But price is a very important concern for me.
Then RUN, not walk, away from sCSI.
>
>> OTOH, larger media might be more valueable. In that case
>> a MO drive or DVD-RAM might be more appropriate.
>
>Perhaps. The big factor is that Zip disks are too expensive, and CD-R
>media is cheap. $300 is getting closer to DVD-RAM territiry, and
>eventualy I do plan to get a DVD drive. However, the CD format is
>essentialy a standard. Can I download a newer Linux distribution ISO
>image, put it on a DVD-RAM disk, and install at all, or as easily as
>with a CD-RW?
Don't see why not. Suse puts their distribution on DVD.
It may not be that common at this point but it's certainly
possible.
>
>
>> Then again, a jukebox burner of some kind (if they make such a
>> beast) might make more sense. Or, 3 2x burners rather than one
>> faster burner might make sense (in lieu of a stacker).
>
>Not likely. Do yo need to burn a music CD on one drive, while doing a
>system backup on the other? Do you need to burn 3 CDs unattended
>while you eat dinner? Do you envision a striping system where you
>might copy a DVD video to a set of CD-R drives?
Yes actually.
Alternately, 640M just isn't big enough for a system backup.
Besides, this sort of arrangement is quite common in backup
systems where the size of the intended back up is larger
than the size of the backup media.
The CD backup of my MP3 archive spans about 20 disks these days.
Personally, I'd love a 5 or 10 disk changer attached to a CDR.
--
Also while the herd mentality is certainly there, I think the
nature of software interfaces and how they tend to interfere
with free choice is far more critical. It's not enough to merely
have the "biggest fraternity", you also need a way to trap people
in once they've made a bad initial decision.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Xerox DocuPrint P8
Date: 20 Jan 2001 02:15:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:21:02 -0500, john calison staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> Hi, hope someone can help with configuring a "Xerox DocuPrint P8"
>to work with 7.0 which was a 6.1 upgrade. I'll first submit relevant
>info and then submit what problem I'm encountering.
[snip]
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=84864
"Paperweight" + "WinPrinter". Prognosis bad. Unless you mean this is a
P8e, which speaks PCL....
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: My Modem :(
Date: 20 Jan 2001 01:20:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man setserial
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:06:26 -0500, Tina Carter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Everyone
>I just change few thing in my linux dial up network.
>One was I change /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS1 But it keep saying Modem
>instinalising. And does nothing.....
>
>I think I need to change my modem irq how do i do that?
>Please let me know. Thanks..
>
>
>
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|<de in RH6
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Modem :(
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:43:12 -0500
Hi John
I'll try that :).
"John Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> man setserial
>
>
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:06:26 -0500, Tina Carter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi Everyone
> >I just change few thing in my linux dial up network.
> >One was I change /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS1 But it keep saying Modem
> >instinalising. And does nothing.....
> >
> >I think I need to change my modem irq how do i do that?
> >Please let me know. Thanks..
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> _____________________
> The lap of Linuxury
> |<de in RH6
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sorry one more Modem Q.
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:44:37 -0500
Okay I set my modem to ttyS1 and click on conect.
Guess what?
It's says following things.
Modem Ready
Initializing Modem
But where is dialing? What am i doing wrong?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: netgear pa301 phoneline card
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 03:06:43 GMT
Ray, I don't know if there is a way to get the
PA301 to work, but I do know that you can use the
Diamond Homefree HPNA cards with linux, if you
compile pcnet32 into the kernel, alias eth0 to
pcnet32.o in /etc/modules.conf and set up IP
masquerading (www.linux.com/howto)
Good luck!
P.S. Return your PA301 now, it is probably junk!
I've had three in my system so far, and all three
have become defective after about a week of use
(you will know when you loose a dial tone on your
phone line). Don't think about contacting their
tech support; I waited for an hour last night
just to get disconnected by their system.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if the Netgear pa301 phoneline
(hpna) network card
> works on linux.
> If not, then does anyone know where I can get a
couple Actiontec
> ActionLink cards, none of the computer stores
in my area stock them.
>
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rio 600 support needed
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 03:35:24 GMT
I'm wondering if there is any project happening to get this great mp3
player to work with Linux. Aparently Jasper Wallace is cooking up support
for BSD. http://pointless.net/~jasper/rio600.tgz
ps: I'm getting sick of listening to the last 5 songs I uploaded to my
rio600 before I expunged windows for good.
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From: "Bob Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iomega zip drive
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:02:52 -0600
Does anyone have any advice for hooking up an Iomega zip drive and what
drivers to use for a beginning Linux Red Hat user. Please email me at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you can help.
Thanks!
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why?
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:28:32 -0800
Steve Swiss wrote:
> First let me tell you I am no novice user, I have been using linux since
> the kernel was like 0.8 or something, and I am pretty sure this isn't
> BIOS problem or a jumpering problem or something so trivial, but I hope
> it is. ;)
>
> I had been running a older TX mainboard with DMA using the following:
> M-Tech R541 Mainboard w/96 Meg Ram
> Symbios Logic 53c875 SCSI card with 9 Gig Seagate UW Barracuda
> Generic CD-Rom 48x /dev/hda
> HP9100i CD-RW /dev/hdc
> 3Com 3C595 10/100 Network Card
> Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla Sound Card
> ATI Expert @ Play 98 PCI Video
> Dual Boot Win98/Linux-Mandrake 7.2
>
> Everything worked fine and dandy, but slow for me, So I got a new MSI
> K7T-Pro2A Mainboard with 192 Meg PC133 Ram and a AMD Duron 800 CPU,
> swapped it into a new ATX case with a 300 watt PS, all other peripherals
> the same, except using onboard sound instead of TB card. Well Windows 98
> worked perfectly, can burn a cd and surf the net and compile C code
> while never getting the CD-RW's buffer under 90% while copying a CD.
> Problem comes when under Linux, system is irrattic, doesn't allow the
> proper use of any IDE device, gives lots of errors if it does boot up,
> errors are timeouts and lost interrupts on IDE devices from either the
> kernel or ide-scsi module, if I remove the HP9100i, everything is OK,
> Hook it back up and whether I load the ide-scsi module or not the system
> just goes bonkers. I have tried swapping IDE channels, turning DMA on
> and off, and just about anything else I can think of. If anyone has any
> ideas, it would be appreciated. Would really like to use a real OS
> instead of Win98. ;)
>
> -Steve
>
>
That MSI board uses the new Via vt686b South Bridge. Supposedly this
is not perfectly supported under Linux yet. I remember reading that ATA-33
support works fine, but ATA-66 and -100 support is not there yet. I wish I
could tell you exactly how to solve this problem, but I don't know. Maybe
setting your hard drives to ATA-33 mode?
Incidentally, I also have an 800Mhz Duron and that same MSI
motherboard coming to me in the mail as we speak, so if you even find a
solution, please tell me :)
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Subject: Re: Modem Creative D15655 cannot be detected
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 04:33:17 GMT
In article <948slr$pa5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bindou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>I am very new to redhat linux and i have an internal modem creative D15655
>which works well under windows me but is not detected under linux redhat
>7.0.
>I read somewhere that i had to run pnpdump in order to find the modem.but
>nohing was detected .
It is a winmodem, so you will need to use the ESS "Linmodem" driver for
this modem's chipset (ESS ES56T-PI). Please see:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Linux Internal Modem Setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 04:35:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi
>I m not able to install linux internal modem.
>i have got Supra Express 56i .,
>how can i install it.
>as i m a newbee pls give me guidelines step by step.
It depends on the model. Just about all of the Supra Express models have
"56i" somewhere in the name. Do you have a model number and/or
description?
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: To switch to Linux or not? Advice please.
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:05:09 -0000
"jelb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Cross posted to alt.os.linux; comp.os.linux.hardware and
> comp.os.linux.questions
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I like the Windows GUI. After five years using it I know my way around
> it very well. I love it - but I'm sick sick sick of blue
> screen/lockups. I've got Windows ME and, I don't know if it's because
> I haven't re-installed it in many months but man it locks up several
> times a day. Due to the IE browser mostly, and some games.
>
> So... I'm thinking (again) of switching to Linux - or maybe Apple's
> OS. Last year I downloaded a half dozen of the well known
> distributions. I liked Corel the most but it won't run with my current
> graphics card. Soon I'll be replacing this system though so maybe now
> is the time I'll switch.
>
> Now a few questions:
>
> 1 ) Is there a more newbie friendly distribution than Corel's yet? It
> is nice but still has a long way to go to being as easy to use as
> Windows. (Sorry but it's the truth).
>
Just installed Mandrake 7.2 to try it out and am very impressed with ease of
install.
Dave
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: henk van der knaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AVA-1502AE, Software interrupt lost
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 06:46:35 +1300
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, henk van der knaap wrote:
> Dear readers,
>
> I have installed an AVA-1502AE SCSI Host Adapter card. This card works
> beautifully on my 486 computer with the following kernel, (using modules):
>
> Linux version 2.2.17pre6 (root@henk) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian
> GNU/Linux)) #4 Mon Jan 1 23:54:49 NZDT 2001
>
>
> However on my pentium I get the following distressing message (with the
> same kernel version):
>
> aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
> aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=10, SCSI ID=7,
> reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100,
> extended translation=disabled
> aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
> aha152x: IRQ 10 possibly wrong. Please verify.
> scsi : 0 hosts.
>
>
> I have seen other people reporting this problem, but nowhere I have found
> a solution. Yes, it all works under Windows95.
>
>
> Any thought would be very much appreciated.
>
Hi,
I can tell you that I solved the problem. By looking at the jumpers on the
board it quickly became clear that these installed wrongly. Someone in
the factory had simply been too lax. Set the jumpers as in the
documentation and everything is well.
_ _
| |__ ___ _ __ | | __
| '_ \ / _ \ '_ \| |/ /
| | | | __/ | | | <
|_| |_|\___|_| |_|_|\_\
*******************************************************************
I am happily using Debian 2.2 Linux as my operating system.
*******************************************************************
Henk van der Knaap,
92 Halswell Junction Road,
Christchurch 8003,
New Zealand
Phone/Fax 6433229185
My e-mail address is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: henk van der knaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AVA-1502AE, Software interrupt lost
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 07:32:34 +1300
> Dear readers,
>
> I have installed an AVA-1502AE SCSI Host Adapter card. This card works
> beautifully on my 486 computer with the following kernel, (using modules):
>
> Linux version 2.2.17pre6 (root@henk) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian
> GNU/Linux)) #4 Mon Jan 1 23:54:49 NZDT 2001
>
>
> However on my pentium I get the following distressing message (with the
> same kernel version):
>
> aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
> aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=10, SCSI ID=7,
> reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100,
> extended translation=disabled
> aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
> aha152x: IRQ 10 possibly wrong. Please verify.
> scsi : 0 hosts.
>
>
> I have seen other people reporting this problem, but nowhere I have found
> a solution. Yes, it all works under Windows95.
>
>
> Any thought would be very much appreciated.
>
Hi,
I can tell you that I solved the problem. By looking at the jumpers on the
board it quickly became clear that these installed wrongly. Someone in
the factory had simply been too lax. Set the jumpers as in the
documentation and everything is well.
_ _
| |__ ___ _ __ | | __
| '_ \ / _ \ '_ \| |/ /
| | | | __/ | | | <
|_| |_|\___|_| |_|_|\_\
*******************************************************************
I am happily using Debian 2.2 Linux as my operating system.
*******************************************************************
Henk van der Knaap,
Christchurch 8003,
New Zealand
My e-mail address is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Igor Fedulov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:44:03 -0600
> I would like to know if I can use RAID 0 for my machine in Linux.
> My controller is HPT370. When I boot Linux Mandrake 7.2 from CD ROM, it
does
> detect my chipset but it fails to detect my Windows 2000 partition which
is
> using RAID 0.
> Can anyone kindly help me solve the problem?
AFAIK HPT370 supports only software raid, thus you probably held with no
support. What I did was kinda lame but it works for my purposes. I installed
REDHAT and then installed VMWARE which running Windows 2000 for me.
Igor
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From: "Preklizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat7.0 can't see 1024MB memory
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:15:20 +0100
I previously used RedHat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.16-3smp on my server
without problems. Due to adding the Adaptec RAID 2100S card and problems
with getting the right version of drivers a reinstalled the server with
RedHat 7.0 kernel 2.2.16-22smp. Everything seems to be all right only kernel
says on booting "Warning, only 896MB will be used" and I really can't see
the whole memory. I tried append="mem=1024M" in lilo.conf, but it didn't
help.
Is that any limitation in that version of kernel? Can anybody help with
this problem? I probably won't be able to recompile my kernel, because of
the RAID card driver.
Thanks beforahand
Z.P.
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From: "Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Locked file System - Help please
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:10:21 -0800
I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on an AMD Duron. After several months of no
problems, I suddenly have a lock symbol on the directories /mnt/cdrom and
/mnt/floppy, and canno mount or otherwise access that directory.
Haven't the slightest idea what caused this and have found no info with
searches of the web using "locked files" or "locked directories" etc. Have
found no info in the Linux books or Mandrake or KDE user guides, including
Konquerer guide.
I noted that if I remark out the cdrom line in /etc/fstab and reboot, the
/mnt/cdrom directory will come up with the lock icon missing that was on top
of the cdrom directory icon, and I can mount the cdrom and see its contents.
But if I " unremark the cdrom line in fstab and reboot, the /mnt/cdrom again
comes up locked with the lock icon showing and I cannot access the cdrom.
Has anyone ever seen this before and know how to clear this lock?
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