Linux-Hardware Digest #901
Linux-Hardware Digest #901, Volume #14 Thu, 14 Jun 01 10:13:09 EDT Contents: Re: Hard Drive Mess !! (Dances With Crows) KYRO 2 drivers? (Mark Vulfson) RH 7.1 failed ppp interface (cfeller) Re: Sound Card Locks Up Machine (Rand Simberg) Re: Linux X goes away??? (JT) lm_sensors-2.5.5 (Pavan) Re: Creating Raw Devices (Michael Heiming) Driver for EPSON Stylus 440/460 (Tahir Hashmi) Re: Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such device) (Michael Heiming) Re: Old 486 and 56k modem (Tony Hague) Re: Driver for EPSON Stylus 440/460 (Jef Peeraer) Re: Can anyone help me on a best notebook choice (Kristian Schmees) Re: Capacity of Dell Server running as a web server? (Heikki Tuuri) Changing from 10 to 100mbs ethernet (Rich Pinder) Sound recording (Robert) Re: Mikrosekunden in Pixel umrechnen? (Iwo Mergler) Re: Lexmark Z52, USB, possible? (Aetos) Re: Changing from 10 to 100mbs ethernet (Iwo Mergler) Re: Creating Raw Devices (Jaishni Govender) Re: Asus CUV4X-D linux issue (John-Paul Stewart) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) Subject: Re: Hard Drive Mess !! Date: 14 Jun 2001 03:14:49 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:46:45 GMT, Rinaldi J. Montessi staggered into the Black Sun and said: Boot Linux in some way. http://www.toms.net/rb/ for the best rescue system you can fit on one floppy. Then do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 ...et voilà, no more partitions of anything. Replace hda with sda if you're booting from a SCSI disk, of source. When you use the install CD for any OS, it will detect that the disk is unpartitioned, and start up a partitioning utility so that you can do whatever you want with the free space. Education time. Is /dev/zero a legitimate /dev such as /dev/null? And is bs=512 telling it to write to the MBR? What's count=1 do? Read The Man Pages. man zero ; man dd. /dev/zero is a perfectly legit device name; it is a character device that returns 0x00 if read from and discards anything that's written to it. The options to dd include: if= The file or device to take input from, /dev/zero in the example. of= The file or device to write output to. In the example, this is /dev/hda, which means the first IDE hard disk taken as a unit, starting at the MBR. /dev/hda1 refers to the first partition on the first IDE hard disk. bs= The block size to use. 512=512 bytes, 1k=1024 bytes, 1M=1024k, etcetera. count= The number of blocks to read and write There are a few more, but those are used most often. The example command is a computer-parseable way of saying write zeroes over the MBR, which will destroy the partition table as well as any resident bootloader. There is a wealth of information at http://linuxnewbies.org/ and http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ as well as in file:/usr/share/doc/ . -- Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best http://www.brainbench.com / friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark =/to read. ==Groucho Marx -- From: Mark Vulfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: KYRO 2 drivers? Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 03:55:57 GMT Hi, I am new to the group so please advise if I ask the question in the wrong spot... thanks. Does anyone know when the Linux communitty will see Kyro2 drivers? I could not find any... Thanks, -- Mark = Modify email address to reply directly -- From: cfeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.ppp,linux.redhat Subject: RH 7.1 failed ppp interface Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:01:52 -0700 This makes no sense... have an Pentium 233 MMX processor running on a VX-98 motherboard w/ 128 MB of RAM. Modem is a Zoom model 2919 (internal). The modem works great under Redhat 5.2, 6.2, 7.0, oops~! Not 7.1 I upgraded both my PC and my laptop to 7.1. No problems on the laptop (laptop uses PCMCIA modem), but under the PC, I get failed to activate ppp0 with error 6 What is error 6? If this is relevant, the motherboard likes to assign the modem to IRQ 10, so I have to setserial /dev/ttyS2 IRQ 10 I did try removing that, but it did not change the error message. Please advise. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg) Subject: Re: Sound Card Locks Up Machine Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 04:09:40 GMT On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:22:05 GMT, in a place far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: I know the card is OK, because I've run it in my W2K machine. I've looked at /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports and see no conflicts of cmpci with anything else. What other diagnostics can I do to see why sound attempts send
Linux-Hardware Digest #901
Linux-Hardware Digest #901, Volume #12 Sun, 21 May 00 17:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Load ethernet driver??? ("John Doe")
Re: Load ethernet driver??? (Hal Burgiss)
D-Link DMF560TX on Thinkpad 600e hard lock-up (Bill Hudacek)
Re: How to setup a private firewall system? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: hdparm (Robert Redelmeier)
Scanner recommendation (Smitty)
Re: Scanner recommendation ("mphm.janssen")
Re: Tired of spam! (Mark Bratcher)
Re: How to regocnize my seond ethernetcard ? ("Yves Cornet")
Kernel Update-How to (John Carew)
SB AWE32 sound only partially working... (Jim Morrissey)
Re: HPT366 UDMA4 Last patch ("Randal Powell")
Re: DIVA USB (Channing Walton)
corel linux hardware problems... ("Phreeb")
Driver for Tulip NCC32 Network card ("Leon Zandman")
Re: HPT366 UDMA4 Last patch (Hal Burgiss)
Re: SB AWE32 sound only partially working... (Henri Fallon)
Re: How to regocnize my seond ethernetcard ? ("Ed Bras")
From: "John Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Load ethernet driver???
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:19:02 GMT
I am new to linux and I recently got a cable modem but my network card, a
netgear FA310TX, is not working correctly. It came with drivers for it. The
instructions were basicly to compile the driver then copy the object file to
a certain location. Add some text to /etc/modules.conf and then reboot. I
did all of this with no difficulty but then after rebooting, as instructed,
the driver did not load durring the boot time. I was unable to ping any
computer on the network. Does anyone have any advice or help for me? If you
need more information tell me and I can find it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Load ethernet driver???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:39:16 GMT
On Sun, 21 May 2000 16:19:02 GMT, John Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am new to linux and I recently got a cable modem but my network card, a
netgear FA310TX, is not working correctly. It came with drivers for it. The
instructions were basicly to compile the driver then copy the object file to
a certain location. Add some text to /etc/modules.conf and then reboot. I
did all of this with no difficulty but then after rebooting, as instructed,
the driver did not load durring the boot time. I was unable to ping any
computer on the network. Does anyone have any advice or help for me? If you
need more information tell me and I can find it.
What are error messages during boot? You might try
modprobe -v module_name
and see what errors that shows. It is probably always a good idea to
retrace your steps and make sure everything went according to plan. For
instance, you might have more than one /lib/modules tree, and make sure
it is in the right place. You might also try turning off PnP in BIOS.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bill Hudacek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: D-Link DMF560TX on Thinkpad 600e hard lock-up
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 12:52:23 -0400
Subject says it all. There's an internal modem in this laptop,
statserial shows dcd etc 'up', but can't access it (device in use,
though lsof fuser show no processes using it); /proc shows no ioport,
irq 4 'auto-assigned' by/to serial_cs. Bye-bye internal modem! Just
ignoring it.
So, I picked up a d-link dmf560tx pcmcia multifunction card, as it's
listed on the linux pcmcia supported cards list... :|
...after pc_net_cs module is loaded, serial_cs module is loading when
the box locks up hard. Reset required. But, at least twice, if I boot
without the card inserted, the network *has* come up. That's how I
think I'm sure that it's a serial problem here :-)
eth0 using ioport 0x300, irq 4 (specifying alt io/irq in
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts causes no change in ioport but irq will switch
to 3, still locks up).
I've checked lots of on-line resources, d-link mfr site, can't "diagnose
it" because now can't get the card to come up at all.
Any ideas? As with so many things, serial works great when it works, and
I haven't had to debug a problem of this kind up to now.
TIA.
--
Bill Hudacek (Lockergnome MVG)
IBM Global Services
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"These opinions and statements are my own, not those of my employer."
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From: Henrik Carlqvist [E
Linux-Hardware Digest #901
Linux-Hardware Digest #901, Volume #10Sun, 1 Aug 99 16:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: Format disk (jim holder)
Re: Format disk (Abdullah Ramazanoglu)
Re: Modem dialing automatically!? (Abdullah Ramazanoglu)
Re: help wanted with Dual Pentium Board (root)
SupraExpress 56i PRO Diamond modem ? (Jorge =?iso-8859-1?Q?Serv=E1n=20Jim=E9nez?=)
Re: Format disk (Carsten Lechte)
Re: Problem w/ Microsoft mouse (root)
Re: Linux support for Plextor px-w4220ti/sw CD-RW drive? (root)
Re: LILO and a 10GB disk??? ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Configuring USR 56K Internal Voice Modem ("Charles Sullivan")
Advice needed on Gateway 2500SE / Gateway 9150SE (Pattard)
Advice needed on Toshiba Satllite 2050CDS (Pattard)
Advice needed on Compaq Presario 1600 (Pattard)
HP DDS Tape drive backup (Tim Meals)
bttv and wintv problems (James Taggart)
From: jim holder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Format disk
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:31:33 -0400
Joshua Li wrote:
I have two HDs, one is 6.4 G Win95 disk, the other (4.3G, w/ COL) has
three partition, due to an installation problem, I had to delete
/dev/hdb1/ under DOS fdisk.
How can you format partition /dev/hdb1 without destroy the data on hdb3?
--
Joshua Li
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Nothing is impossible for a man who doesn't do it himself.
mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1
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From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Format disk
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 20:40:14 +0300
Joshua Li wrote:
I have two HDs, one is 6.4 G Win95 disk, the other (4.3G, w/ COL) has
three partition, due to an installation problem, I had to delete
/dev/hdb1/ under DOS fdisk.
How can you format partition /dev/hdb1 without destroy the data on hdb3?
What filesystem was on the /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb3 ?
If you have deleted a filesystem belonging to linux, you will have to
reinstall linux. If you have private (non-linux) data on /dev/hdb3 and
want to save its contents during reinstall, just as a thought :
1. Boot from boot/root diskette(s) which has a kernel with vfat support
embedded,
2. Create /mnt/mydata and /mnt/myw95 directories,
3. Mount /dev/hdb3 and /dev/hda? (w95 partn) to /mnt/mydata (as ext2)
and /mnt/myw95 (as vfat) respectively,
4. Copy everything in /mnt/mydata to /mnt/myw95,
5. Reinstall linux, enable vfat support, mount your w95 disk under
linux,
6. Copy everything back.
HTH
--
Abdullah Ramazanoglu[ aramazanoglu AT demirbank DOT com DOT tr ]
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From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Modem dialing automatically!?
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 21:10:46 +0300
Bill Smith wrote:
Hello,
I am attempting to set up a new USRobotics 56k internal modem. However,
when I enter the command "setserial /dev/ttyS2 16550A," the modem connects
to the phone line and dials out. What is going on, and how can I get
through the rest of the configuration process?
Thanks for your help in advance
Bill Smith
Could it be that modem is set up to auto-dial some number with DTR or
DSR pulse? I'm not sure but setserial might cause reassertion of one of
those lines (while resetting serial port).
--
Abdullah Ramazanoglu[ aramazanoglu AT demirbank DOT com DOT tr ]
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From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help wanted with Dual Pentium Board
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:47:30 -0400
Barry Schofield wrote:
I am trying to load Redhat 5.2 on my Dual Pentium II 400Mhz Tyan S1837
Thunder Bolt Motherboard.
Anyone know if I am wasting my time on this board?
The boot image does not include the Adaptec AIC-7896 dual channel
Ultra 2 SCSI (on board) in the listing. The bios lists the SCSI on
bootup that is a IBM SCSI Ch A DGHS09V Ultra2-LVD and CH B
The Yamaha SCSI CD writer YAM-4416VK CD writer.
I use another CDreader on the IDE secondary, -Primary IDE is Win 95
Seagate- to load the Linux and even can boot from the Yamaha on the
SCSI but when I try to use the SCSI drivers listed the load hangs or
says disc read only.
Can anyone suggest if Redhat 6.0 can solve the problem and does it
list the AIC-7896 SCSI driver?
Will either support the Yamaha CD writer?
Where can I load the Red Hat 6.0 from I can't find the directory to
load at Red Hat.
Barry Schofield
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For the latest info on ISDN check out Lion's web site
at www.lioncom.net.
Not completely. you see SMP was not supported until the 2.2.x kernels
and RH 5.2 has 2.0.x kernel. There are two thing you can do, one is to
download a newer kernel, and the second is to Buy a newer distribution
that uses the 2.2 kernel.
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Linux-Hardware Digest #901
Linux-Hardware Digest #901, Volume #9 Thu, 1 Apr 99 23:13:40 EST
Contents:
Installing RedHat 5.2 on a Gateway 2000 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer ("David Lloyd-Jones")
Re: Is Windows for idiots? ("Charles R. Lyttle")
Re: Adaptec AHA-2940U2W ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on SBC? ("Witman Peng")
Hauppauge WinTV ("Jonathan D. Kramer")
Best Linux Web Cam to Buy (keg)
Re: MS-LINUX ("Dan M. Johnson (LinuxBox1)(bagzman)")
Trident 9750 AGP problem ("mikeytan")
Xircom PCMCIA Modem (Patrick Finnegan)
MS-LINUX ("TURBO1010")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Installing RedHat 5.2 on a Gateway 2000
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 02:49:38 GMT
I have a Gateway 2000 (PII/233MHz, 8.3G HDD, 32MB RAM) which I want to
rid of the Windoze 95 that it came preinstalled with. It's the standard
box that came with all the Gateway stuff that they bundle in it - no new
or changed components.
I want to install RedHat 5.2 on it, but I hear RHL installations frequently
tend to screw themselves up badly on proprietary systems. Some of the things
I've heard are pretty serious - the BIOS doesn't let LILO get loaded,
basically thinking it's a virus!- various components -
including the large 8.3G disk - are either not supported, or if
supported are not correctly recognized by Linux correctly. - X
doesn't work (locks up/hangs the machine) - the stupid little wheel mouse
(isn't it a PS/2 device) driver isscrewed up. I think these
limitations are pretty severe. Has anyone out there experienced something
similar? Has anyone - anyone at all - installed Linux (specifically RHL) on
a Gateway 2000 G series machine (I think that's what this one is; I'm not
sure)? What were the problems faced? What are the precautions to take?
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
--
U.V. Ravindra
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From: "David Lloyd-Jones" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:20:19 -0500
d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox) wrote
That's not correct. There are just a few million receptors in your
eyes,
As against say 768X1024 (is it?) = 3/4ths of a meg pixels on the screen.
but the resolution is highly concentrated in the center of
your
field of vision. Eye motion creates the experience of a large area of
high resolution.
Even if you didn't do-the-pigeon, your concentrated area sitting still would
be bored by a normal screen.
But you're right about lots of big monitors being cool.
Here we agree.
FWIW, I was asked to be keynote speaker of the National Students Association
Annual Conference a few years ago, and I did it with 24 Carousel projectors,
six movie projectors and about five horsepower of backup sound, with a 50' x
150' screen wrapped around the audience. Nobody complained about being
assaulted, so I take that as being a first approximation of normal
information intake. :-)
-dlj.
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From: "Charles R. Lyttle" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is Windows for idiots?
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:19:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article 7dv9eq$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Jan Johansson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heck, I started on a ZX81 with 1K of memory and a 3MHz Z80 (or was it
slower...?)
3MHz Crystal, but only 1MHz Sysclock.
Hang on there a minute... 3MHz Xtal, but only a 1MHz Sysclock?
Could you explain further what you mean by that? Because to me, that makes no
sense, and I've been programming the Z80 for about 18 years now.
Simon (NSFMSFT)
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I don't recall which the Timex used, but there were (are) lots of cheap
3mhz crystals available from the TV industry. It is a simple matter to
either use a subharmonic or a divide-by-3 counter to get the system
clocks. It is much simpler to start with a high frequency source and use
counters to get quadature phases required on some systems.
That little Timex was the Palm Pilot of its day.
--
Russ Lyttle, PE
http://www.flash.net/~lyttlec
Thank you Melissa!
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