Linux-Hardware Digest #749
Linux-Hardware Digest #749, Volume #14 Thu, 10 May 01 00:13:06 EDT Contents: Compaq Armada E500 with Linux 2.4.4 (Manuel Capellari) Re: linux recognizes scsi card but not disk (Juha Laiho) Re: looking for tape backup recommendations (Joshua Baker-LePain) Re: Will this system support linux? (SammyTheSnake) Re: Fire GL 4000 (KegBot) Re: Fire GL 4000 (KegBot) Re: Tape drive installation problem (Tim Moore) Re: Serielles Terminal (SammyTheSnake) Re: Joystrick with Mandrake 8 (Kenton Groombridge) Re: Okipage 4w (Bo Nordahl Pedersen) Re: RedHat 7.1 install with GeForce Ultra 2 DDR (64Meg) (Bruce Robertson) Re: parallel port programming for linux? (Robert Taylor) Re: harddisk wierdness ... failed to respond for 5 minutes (Dances With Crows) Acer 620UT USB scanner problem (Paul Nixon) Voodoo II (Jan-Erik Bullett) Re: HP PhotoSmart 215 USB (Frank Hahn) Toshiba Portege 7020CT (Shreyas) Re: Packard Bell Iconnect 733C (Big Al) From: Manuel Capellari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Compaq Armada E500 with Linux 2.4.4 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 23:09:58 +0200 hi there, i've installed RedHat Linux 7.1 with kernel 2.4.4 on my compaq armada, it works great, but there are 2 problems 1st problem, the battery works for ~30 minutes only (it's not defective) i've activated all relevant PM settings in the kernel ... 2nd problem, i don't get the IRDA port working, 'findchip' finds absolutely nothing :-( is there someone out who can help me?? kind regards -- Manuel Capellari MC812866-NICAT AT 8940 Liezen .. Schillerstrasse 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ICQ 61916789 personal homepage .. http://www.gnustuff.com HIER ARBEITEN 650 MHZ EIN PINGUIN UND EIN ESEL -- From: Juha Laiho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linux recognizes scsi card but not disk Date: 9 May 2001 17:39:14 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rahul Dhesi) said: I haven't taken any specific steps to include SCSI disk support in the kernel. If SCSI disk support were not in the kernel, would I see a question at boot time asking me whether or not to configure the scsi card? The SCSI bus can host a variety of non-disk devices, too, and disks are handled similarly for each adapter, so adapter and disk support are completely separated -- but of course disks are dependent on the adapter. Check what you see in /proc/scsi/scsi and /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 (just cat them). The first should list the devices deteted on your SCSI bus(es), the second should give a detail view about your adapter. -- Wolf a.k.a. Juha Laiho Espoo, Finland (GC 3.0) GIT d- s+: a C++ UH UL$ P++@ L+++ E(-) W+$@ N++ !K w !O !M V PS(+) PE Y+ PGP(+) t- 5 !X R !tv b+ !DI D G e+ h--- r+++ y+++ ...cancel my subscription to the resurrection! (Jim Morrison) -- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: looking for tape backup recommendations Date: 9 May 2001 22:09:52 GMT Daniel Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for recommendations for tape backup devices. Likely SCSI. Should I go DAT 4mm? DDS3? DDS4? If so, which hardware do people find most reliable? Err, this is a really difficult question to answer unless we know what your needs are. How much data are you talking about? What's your budget? Is speed critical (how big is your backup window)? Are seek times important (i.e. pulling out single files vs. entire images)? Details, details, details. How about Exabyte? How does it compare to DAT? It seems to be a proprietary technology - can we be secure with it being around for a while? From some recent reports I've heard, Exabyte as a company is on the ropes and doesn't have much of a plan for getting off them. I've seen a few (very knowledgeable) people recommend against Mammoth2 drives partially for that reason (although there seems to be a reliability issue as well). All that being said, here's a data point. For nightly backups of about 43 partitions of varying size, I use an Exabyte Eliant 820, bought recently to replace an aging 8505 (thus why *I* went with Exabyte for that one). That drive does 7GB native on cheap (~$5) tapes, and does hardware compression. For monthly archival backups, I use a Sony SDX-300C, an AIT-1 drive. AIT is a Sony proprietary technology, but Sony isn't in any trouble and has a solid roadmap for AIT. The AIT-1 does 35GB native on expensive (~$70) tapes. AIT-2 drives (currently available) do 50GB native. AIT-3 is around the corner. I haven't had much luck with DAT drives, but, then again, I haven't used many of them. YMMV. Give us more specific needs, and we can give you more suggestions. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake) Subject: Re: Will this system support linux? Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:40
Linux-Hardware Digest #749
Linux-Hardware Digest #749, Volume #13 Wed, 18 Oct 00 14:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Help with Lucent/Orinoco WaveLan IEEE 802.11 Turbo 11Mb Silver, RH 6.1, kernel
2.2.14 ("Matt Goheen")
Re: Help: can't mount /dev/hda8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP DeskJet 720C (Lee Zimmerman)
Re: Sound Card Suggestions (Edward Lee)
Re: ATA-66? (Mike Castle)
Re: Linux and digital camera (Lucas Tam)
Re: PIII vs Athlon ("Jukka Liimatta")
Re: Linux compatible PCMCIA card reader recommendations ("Chris Ripp")
Re: Linux and digital camera ("Chris Ripp")
Re: ISA boards with kernel 2.2.x ("Chris Ripp")
Re: SuSE 7.0 and 3Com 3c509b (Xeno Campanoli)
Re: Linux and digital camera (Billy)
Re: HP DeskJet 720C ("pl")
Re: Linux and digital camera (Billy)
Re: Is Creative CDRW RW8433E ATAPI compatible with Cdrecord? (Jim Chisholm)
Re: HP DeskJet 720C (Markus Kossmann)
Re: ATA-66? (Mark Dickie)
Re: looking for external scsi hard disk to go with adaptec aha1542cp (Dusty Bin)
From: "Matt Goheen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with Lucent/Orinoco WaveLan IEEE 802.11 Turbo 11Mb Silver, RH 6.1,
kernel 2.2.14
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:11:18 GMT
It doesn't work. I've tried LOTS of stuff. The basic failure at this point
is
that when I run test_network in the debug_tools directory of card services,
I get:
PCMCIA network settings are coming from /etc/pcmcia/network.opts.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 also exists??
Checking network interface eth2 (wavelan2_cs driver):
Kernel messages for eth2:
eth2: Transmit timeout.
eth2: Transmit timeout.
Current ifconfig settings:
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:1D:1E:91:2B
inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x400
Your default route is pointed to interface eth1.
The interface is configured and running.
There hasn't been any traffic on this interface!
Enter a numeric IP address to ping: 192.168.2.2
Pinging 192.168.2.2 ...timed out!
The device interrupt does not seem to be incrementing normally.
I get a message (as seen above) in the kernel messages file:eth2:
Transmit timeout.
I have two other Ethernet cards in this machine, running IPMASQ. I have
turned off all
ipchains rules during testing.
Any ideas Anyone?
If you email a reply, use "iname" in place of "noname" in the address!!!
Thanks,
Matt Goheen
Configuration:
Lucent/Orinoco WaveLan IEEE 802.11 Turbo 11Mb Silver (firmware 6.06)
SCM "swapbox" ISA PCMCIA adapter
RedHat 6.1
Linux kernel 2.2.14
pcmcia-cs-3.1.21
wavelan2_cs 6.05BETA (also tried 6.02 and wvlan_cs that came with
cs-3.1.21)
/proc/interrupts:
0: 24573544 XT-PIC timer
1: 1773 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 5851 XT-PIC i91u
9: 0 XT-PIC wavelan2_cs
10: 593405 XT-PIC eth1
11: 782725 XT-PIC eth0
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 376490 XT-PIC ide0
15: 7 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
/var/log/messages excerpts:
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.21
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: kernel build: 2.2.14 #19 Sat Oct 14 01:25:25
EDT 2000
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: options: [pci] [apm] [pnp]
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfdee0
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at
0xc00fc110
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at
f:c138, dseg at f
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: Vadem VG-469 rev 00 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port
0x3e0 ofs 0x00
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: host opts [0]: [ext mode] [isa buf]
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: host opts [1]: [ext mode] [isa buf]
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 9 polling interval =
1000 ms
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: clean.
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0400-0x04ff: clean.
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Oct 18 08:28:17 linux kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d-0x0d: clean.
Oct 18 08:28:17 linux kernel: eth2: WaveLAN/IEEE, io_addr 0x400, irq 9,
mac_address 00:60:1D:1E:91:2B
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux cardmgr[10672]: starting, version is 3.1.21
Oct 18 08:28:16 linux cardmgr[10672]: watching 2 sockets
Oct 18 08:28:17 linux cardmgr[10672]: initializing socket 1
Oct 18 08:28:17
Linux-Hardware Digest #749
Linux-Hardware Digest #749, Volume #10 Tue, 13 Jul 99 07:13:23 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dev's won't work??? (Ron Gibson)
36 GB LVD SCSI FDISK (David Brian Lawson)
Sound Card Help ("Brian")
Re: i740 (Karlo Szabo)
DSL PacBell (Arnold Komala)
Diamond Sonic Impact S70 PCI sound card ("Mark")
Debugging lpr and Epson 740 ("James Wall")
Re: QuickCam VC anyone? (Mircea)
Re: SCSI controller for ZIP 250 (Tim Moore)
Recommend: good AGP video card (Carlos Wexler)
Re: Bogus hard disk sizes from manufacturers (Tark)
Re: Limit Access By Time or Date (Mihaly Gyulai)
Recommend: good AGP video card (Carlos Wexler)
Experiences with CD-RW Ricoh 7040S? (Frank Paehlke)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Colin Andrew Percival)
Re: Recommendation sought: good AGP video card (Ian Tester)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? ("FM")
Re: How Close is the Mobo temp to the CPU temp ("Ron Keller")
ATI Expert 128 Video ("Ron Keller")
Re: Bogus hard disk sizes from manufacturers (Brown Bear)
bttvgrab, sound (Thomas Schwarze)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Helge Hafting)
configuring ISDN adapter for Red Hat (Srikanth Minnam)
Re: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 ("Ricardo C.")
Modular Technology Modem (Dean Edwards)
Re: UDMA 66 Support (Helge Hafting)
RE: configuring ISDN adapter for Red Hat ("Carlos RCU")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dev's won't work???
Date: 13 Jul 1999 04:16:23 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:34:56, "Thierry ANDRIAMIRADO"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For instance invoking commands such as "ftape" or "fd0" I get a no such
device message. However when viewing the directory with MC the devices
and or links are there and they have been made.
I'm having the same problem. I updated my RedHat 5.2 to RH6 so my printer
doesn't work anymore!!
I discovered that my /dev/lp symbolink link disapeared and I re-created it!
But it doesn't work anymore! any idea?
You got me. I've never seen this one before. Whenever I've had a
device problem it's been because they weren't made. I made them and
everything was all right. I'm beginning to think that I made a mistake
in recompiling the kernel.
Did you use MAKEDEV? It is a little daunting unless you're pretty good
at perl but I managed to trudge my way through it. In my case I needed
to make up to hda16 and it would only go to hda8. I finally found an #
in the script after 8 and moved it to after 16 and all was well.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Brian Lawson)
Subject: 36 GB LVD SCSI FDISK
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Jul 1999 00:35:26 -0500
We just bought 2 of the new 36 GB LVD SCSI drives and put them in our Linux box
at work. The goal is/was to stripe the two of them into a nice fat 72 GB
partition for a large database. The problem is that FDISK won't create a
partition bigger than 24 million blocks for some reason. I can't imagine
what magic number this blows away but whatever it is, we hit it. Right
now I have the drives cut into 2 18 GB partitions per drive and then I
stripped over that. That seems to work but I know that it isn't optimal.
Does anyone have any clues? I've searched for the fdisk source one web sites
hoping there might be a new one but I can't even find it anywhere. I didn't
think SCSI had these problems?
Also, does anyone know if the RAID setup in RedHat 6.0 is safe and stable. I
had a heck of a time getting it to work but it does seem to stripe the 4 18GB
partitions ok.
Thanks for any help,
Dave
--
Reply-To: "Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound Card Help
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 04:36:43 GMT
I am using redhat 5.2 with the kernel 2.0.36
I am having trouble with my sound card.
It is a ESS with full Adlib, Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro
compatibility as well as plug and pray.
This information came from my windows setup:
ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive
IRQ: 05
I/O: 0220h-022FH
I/O: 0388h-038Bh
I/O: 0330h-0331h
DMA:01
DMA:03
When I try to set it up I get this error:
/lib/modules/preferred/misc/sb.o:init_module:Device or resource busy
sound:Device or resource busy
Can anyone help?
I am new to linux so please excuse my lack of knowledge.
Thank you in advance.
--
From: Karlo Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: i740
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:10:00 +1000
"crtl" + "Alt" + backspace will exit you from X-windows.
"crtl" + "Alt" + the plus or negative key changes the resolution of X.
basic wrote:
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