Linux-Hardware Digest #141, Volume #9 Sat, 9 Jan 99 13:13:38 EST
Contents:
Which CPU to upgrade to? (John Taylor)
Can't setup my Asuscom ISDN card. Help! (Fx Fraipont)
Need Install Help with RAID-0 on DPT2144UW (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Re: Tape drive recommendations (Stephan Loescher)
Re: Scanner on parallel port (HOW) (William Burrow)
Re: Anyone use bellatlantic & Linux? ---> Connected -- Finally! (Frank Hale)
Re: monitor/keyboard/mouse switch advce requested (tony mollica)
Re: Scanner ("Todd A. Wood")
Re: Linux on iDot computers? ("Dana Rodeghiero")
Re: help with hardware........ ("Christopher J. Mark")
Re: ISDN/Red Hat 5.1 (Mark Cooperstein)
Re: linux viruses (James Youngman)
Re: Linux FREEZES! (James Youngman)
Linux on a Jaz disk? (Robotech_Master)
Help! Immovable Clusters Restrict Space Available for New Partition! ("Daniel
Reeders")
Re: Drivers for Riva TNT (Dan Nguyen)
Re: Multiple NIC Cards.. HELP!! (Shane Bearham)
IDE/ATAPI Tape. Is the a FAQ or HOWTO? (George)
Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 - SB64 (Peecee101)
Re: HP Deskjet 400 won't print ps - Help?! (George Dau)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Taylor)
Subject: Which CPU to upgrade to?
Date: 9 Jan 1999 13:31:51 GMT
I have a Intel Pentium 90 on a Intel Neptune mb that I bought 3 or 4 years
ago. I want to upgrade the CPU w/o swapping out the motherboard. Which CPU
should I upgrade to? I am interested in hearing about Intel, AMD, and Cyrix
(or any others) upgrades. Also, I will be exclusively running Linux 2.0.36
and Linux 2.2 (when it comes out).
Which is the most bang for the buck? Are there any to stay away from? etc,
etc.
Thanks,
John
--
John Taylor Large Scale Distributed Information Systems
System Administrator Computer Science Dept, University of Georgia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/
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From: Fx Fraipont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't setup my Asuscom ISDN card. Help!
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:34:34 +0100
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I have recently installed Suse 5.3, but I can't manage to set up my
AsusCom ISDN using Hisax. I've tried just about everything but it still
doesn't work.
Could someone be kind enough to lend me a hande?
I enclose a copy of my var/log/messages.
Thanks
FX
Jan 9 14:04:29 Vertigo kernel: ISDN subsystem Rev:
1.44/1.41/1.47/1.28/1.8 loaded
Jan 9 14:04:29 Vertigo kernel: HiSax: Driver for Siemens chip set ISDN
cards
Jan 9 14:04:29 Vertigo kernel: HiSax: Version 2.1
Jan 9 14:04:29 Vertigo kernel: HiSax: Revisions 1.15/1.10/1.10/1.30/1.8
Jan 9 14:04:29 Vertigo kernel: HiSax: Warning - no protocol specified
Jan 9 14:04:29 Vertigo kernel: HiSax: Note! module load syntax has
changed.
Jan 9 14:04:29 Vertigo kernel: HiSax: using protocol EURO
Jan 9 14:04:29 Vertigo kernel: HiSax: Total 0 card defined
Jan 9 14:04:29 Vertigo kernel: ISDN-subsystem unloaded
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Subject: Need Install Help with RAID-0 on DPT2144UW
Date: 8 Jan 1999 23:37:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I am trying to install RedHat 5.1 on one of my machines with a DPT
2144UW
RAID controller. I've set up three Barracuda drives in a RAID-0
configuration
and everything goes well in the installation until I reach the screen
where
I have to choose to run DiskDruid or fdisk to create partitions. At
this point,
( not sooner because boot messages are not shown on the screen,) one
is horrified
to discover that the disks have not been recognized as a single array
disk but
disks do show up individually. Please note that I've been using DPT
array controllers
for the last five years, albeit with other OS's, and know how to
create arrays. The problem
is that the boot floppy supplied by RedHat does not account for the
eventuality
that one might try to install on a RAID system. I use DPT controllers
on my other
(no longer available) Linux machines but never used RAID under
Linux. I've seen
the 'Linux DPT Hardware RAID HOWTO ' but that does not help me with a
fresh install.
What are your suggestions ?
Regards,
Marcelo
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From: Stephan Loescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape drive recommendations
Date: 09 Jan 1999 12:47:15 +0100
Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi!
> I am looking for a tape drive with at least 10GB uncompressed. Speed is
I am going to buy a NS-20 tape drive.
The best seems to be the Tandberg NS20.
URLs:
http://www.tandberg.com/products/ns20_pro.html
http://www.tecmar.com/product/travan/travan20/travan20.html
http://www.aiwa.com/csd/product/ns20.htm
http://www.seagate.com/tape/horntrav.shtml
http://www.seagate.com/tape/tapetrav.shtml
The Tandberg SLR and MLR are also interesting, if your disks are fast
enough:
http://www.tandberg.com/products/slr6.html
http://www.tandberg.com/products/mlr.html
> I also need recommendations for backup software. The system will only
> backup the local drives. It will not backup across a network.
The best and simpliest is tar.
Stephan.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Scanner on parallel port (HOW)
Date: 8 Jan 1999 23:35:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 09:22:21 -0800,
Gene Markozen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just bought a Digital Research parallel port (EPP) high
>resolution scanner.
>
>Is there a way to get it to work in Linux?
Write your own driver. Otherwise, no.
>I downloaded
>the SANE package, but it looks like the package doesn't
>support using the printer/parallel port. It seems that
>the package is targeted at SCSI scanners. There is a
Correct.
>It may be the case that I have to write my own driver.
>Does anyone know where I can find the TWAIN protocol
>documentation/specification?
My understanding is that TWAIN is a driver-application interface, not
a hardware-driver interface. You need detailed hardware specs for the
scanner. Good luck finding any.
Umax sells a cheap SCSI scanner, though they will not support you in
any way manner or form. Just mentioning Linux trashes any hope of
getting any help.
--
William Burrow, VE9WIL -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: Anyone use bellatlantic & Linux? ---> Connected -- Finally!
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 18:42:06 -0500
What version of PPP are you using? I use bellatlantic and it wouldn't
connect with any new version of PPP above version 2.2.0f-5 that came
with RedHat 5.0 Powertools. As soon as I downgraded everything worked
perfectly.
I have been using bellatlantic and Redhat for a year and could never use
any version of PPP above 2.2.0f-5 and of course we all know that
BellAtlantic doesn't support linux so I couldn't get any help from them.
I also use wvdial to connect.
--
From: Frank Hale
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Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/frankhale/
Jade: http://jade.netpedia.net/
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From: tony mollica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monitor/keyboard/mouse switch advce requested
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 00:36:49 +0000
I've been using a Protec Bytelan KVM switch for about a
year with four computers connected, 1 Linux, 1 nt4 and
2 win95/98. The only problem I had was with a win95
screensaver that occasionally locked up the mouse on
all computers. Not using that particular screensaver
eliminated the problem. Protec now has a less expensive
unit for just 2 computers connected to the same mouse,
keyboard and video for about $110. The Protec cables
are a little expensive, but they are good and have a
minimal amount of interference (29.00 each, but worth it).
The Protec customer support is very good, if you need it.
Switching to any computer at any time has never been
a problem. Very stable.
By the way, the only computer that was able to un-freeze
it's mouse was the Linux box. The rest had to be rebooted.
The mouse lockup is no longer a problem, though.
Other computers continuously get swapped in and out
without any problems.
There are units other that the Protec available, but the
are significantly more expensive.
--
tony mollica
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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 15:48:55 +0100
From: "Todd A. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Scanner
Doug wrote:
>
> I have a Mustek 800sp scanner it is on a scsi card #1 scuzzy card. Can I
> get linux to recognize it??
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
> Doug
Check out SANE
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
Todd.
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From: "Dana Rodeghiero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux on iDot computers?
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:32:38 -0500
We sell modems that aren't winmodems and are register compatible with USR
for less than $60!
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From: "Christopher J. Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,cern.linux
Subject: Re: help with hardware........
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 10:34:46 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mosl Roland wrote:
> >I'm new with Linux, and started by instaling Red Hat 5.3.
>
> Red Hat 5.3 ? Typing error or new release?
>
I think it's a typing error. SaX comes with SuSE 5.3.
--
Christopher J. Mark
Mathematician, Tutor, and Webpage designer
http://www.math.umd.edu/~cjm
"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana."
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Cooperstein)
Subject: Re: ISDN/Red Hat 5.1
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 03:15:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am currently connecting to the internet through a 3ComImpact IQ ISDN
>modem. I am able to connect fine and I am also us ipfwadm without a
>hitch. My problem is that my connection speed is Really slow. I am only
>able to get 2-3k a sec on download. This is a 128k account. I set the
>modem up in network config on the control panel (adding a ppp
>interface). I have tried useing setserial /dev/cua1 spd_vhi, but it
>does not increase the speed at all. The line speed is set to 115200 and
>the modem init string is ATS60=64s80=1 (from a previous post) These also
>do not affect the speed. If anyone has any help, I would greatly
>appreciate it.
>
>Thanks
>Andrew Marcum
>
First of all, are; you sure your getting an mlppp connection? ie: are both B
channel LED's lit up when you get connected? Assuming they are, you should
definately get better throughput thenj 2-3K/second. What is the DTE rate for
/dev/modem set to? I believe the correct command you should issue to setserial
(prior to ppp-on, or ifup command) is:
#setserial -a -v /dev/modem 115200 irq 3 port 0x2f8
assuming /dev/modem points to COM2.
The other parameters in setserial (spd_cust, spd_vhi, divisior, baud_base)
shouldnt matter and you should take the default if you use the built in COM
ports on the motherboard. I assume you have a 16550 UART, so the defaults
should be ok.
Be that as it may, the dte rate (baud rate) for setserial will be overridden
by the baud rate in ppp options, so it's possible that although you think that
you're setting the highest baud rate via setserial, it's autobauding down to a
lower baud rate because of a setting in /etc/ppp/options.
Finally, you really shouldnt expect a 16550 to go any faster then 115200
because of it's smaller i/o buffer size. It *can* be made to work at 230400,
but it's tricky and I don't recdomend it.
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux viruses
Date: 09 Jan 1999 15:32:10 +0000
"Chris Schuler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> its virii
Actually, it is not. See the FAQ for the VIRUS-L mailing list.
This was thrashed to death ten years ago.
>
> //Chris
> x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:V9Sj2.1837$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >is it possible to get a virus protector for linux?
> >
> >
>
>
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux FREEZES!
Date: 09 Jan 1999 15:31:22 +0000
Alessandro Ferioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed Linux Slackware 3.5 on a PII 333 Mhz, 96 Mb RAM, 8Gb HD EIDE
>
> (SOYO 6KBE motherboard, AWARD BIOS), Expertcolor 4 Mb S3 AGP graphic
> adapter (DV5357).
> An ISA sound blaster, an ISA 3C503 and a PCI INTEL video camera card are
>
> also fitted in their slots.
> A 100 Mb swap partition is present.
>
> It works fine but it hangs when using some applications, like games,
> ghostview, textedit, ...
> Simply the system (keyboard, mouse, applications) stops responding and I
>
> must hardware reset.
Does it *ever* freeze when you are not running X?
I bet the kernel and so on are still alive, it's just that the X
server has crashed and can't let go of the screen & keyboard.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robotech_Master)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux on a Jaz disk?
Date: 9 Jan 1999 05:00:37 GMT
My brother has two Jaz drives (as well as a Zip, a Bernoulli, and I
don't know what-all), and very little space on his hard drives. He's
expressed a bit of a passing interest in Linux, and I'd offered to
install a partition on a Jaz disk for him. However, one of his
friends claims that Jaz disks are really unsuited for holding
often-accessed information--they're too slow to read and write, and
are really meant solely for making backups--something like a bootable
OS and swap space would overtax the media and wear it out quickly.
However, one of _my_ friends, whose computer expertise I tend to
trust, claims that Jaz disks are as sturdy and as fast as your average
SCSI hard drive, and that he keeps his MP3 collection on them.
Who's right? Would a bootable Linux partition do well on a Jaz drive?
Please give me the straight Jaz on this issue, if you would. :)
--
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Robotech_Master | Homepage: <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~robotech/>
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From: "Daniel Reeders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Help! Immovable Clusters Restrict Space Available for New Partition!
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:14:21 +1100
I hope someone will know how to help with this problem.
I have a three gigabyte hard drive, with 2 gigabytes free space. Windows
95b is the OS, and I used its Disk Defragmenter tool to defragment the whole
disk. In order to resize a partition, all the files have to be on one side
of the disk, and all the free space on the other.
I wish to set aside 1 gigabyte of space for Linux partition/s, using a
non-destructive partioning tool. However, when I tried to use FIPS (the
partitioning tool supplied with Red Hat 5.2), the largest partition it could
create was 126 Mb - there was a cluster at 126mb from the end of the
partition, restricting the space available for the new partition.
Defragmenting doesn't move this cluster or the many others that are
scattered through the free space - it marks them as immovable clusters.
Can anyone please tell me what this means, and how to get rid of them? I
don't think I'm running any mirror or imaging programs, like the
documentation for FIPS suggested. I've tried disabling virtual memory in
Windows, thinking that the swap file might show up as immovable clusters.
The main problem, I think, is the irritating little clusters / cluster
groups, which show up even when I've rebooted into clean vanilla DOS.
I would be very grateful if someone could tell me how to move or delete
these clusters, either by finding the file attached to them, or by using a
disk tool or similar utility. Are these used by Windows 95? Will Partition
Magic, if I buy a copy, ignore them or delete them and allow me to create a
new partition that way? Could system attributes set on Win95 files cause
clusters to appear immovable (eg hidden, system, read-only) ?
Thanks for your attention to this plea!
Daniel Reeders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drivers for Riva TNT
Date: 9 Jan 1999 17:38:19 GMT
Patryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello, I've just installed Red Hat 5.2 and I can't use anything that is in
: Graphic mode. In the list of RH 5.2 was the Riva 128 but not Riva TNT.
: Anyone can tell me where can I find the drivers for my video card.
XFree86 3.3.3 has support for the Riva TNT (although work does need to
be done on it)
--
Dan Nguyen | There is only one happiness in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | life, to love and be loved.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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From: Shane Bearham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple NIC Cards.. HELP!!
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:46:16 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do I do that?
>
> PDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ...
> >if you plan on using two nic cards of the same type, you need to re-compile
> >your kernel to use the driver directly IN the kernel, not as a module
Sorry I disagree with that.... as I have personally built a linux box with 8
nics
yes 8 NICs... and the drivers are loaded as modules
and it works perfectly
the cards are RealTek NE2000 clones
4 x PCI
4 x ISA
Shane ()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George)
Subject: IDE/ATAPI Tape. Is the a FAQ or HOWTO?
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 05:32:39 GMT
Finally have RH5.2 supporting all my hardware, but I don't have an
approach to using my IDE/ATAPI tape drive for backups. Can someone
point me in the right direction?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peecee101)
Subject: Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 - SB64
Date: 9 Jan 1999 17:52:34 GMT
>Don't bother with sndconfig. At least from the latest 2.1-kernels the SB64
>is supported. I don't know if patches for 2.0-kernels are available.
>Just choose ES1370. Give the card an interrupt in the BIOS, the rest is
>automatic. My SB64 happily shares one interrupt with SCSI and works great.
>> Bjorn W
>Heiner
>
>--
>******************************************************
>* Heiner Kallweit, Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *
>******************************************************
>
>
>
>
>
>
Could you tell me how you configured you kernel? I've tried with kernel
2.2.0-pre4 and I set up everything in sound to compile as modules. I've tried
insmod and modprobe, the es1370.o module isn't detected or loaded. Any help
will be greatly appreciated.
PeeCee101
Not as politically correct as you might have thought...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Dau)
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 400 won't print ps - Help?!
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 06:11:27 GMT
"Alvaro A. Novo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]Printer Model: HP DeskJet 400
]Software: Redhat 5.1; kernel 2.0.34; ghostscript 3.33, printtool 3.28
]
]Problem: No longer able to print but text files.
]
]Facts:
] - "Print ASCII test page" and "Print ASCII directly to port" no
] problem.
] - Printing ps test file from print tool the following message is
] printed "-r must be followed by <res> or <xres>x<yres>
] note: The same happens if I attempt it from gv.
]
Before spending more time trying to diagnose this, look around for aps and
install that. It worked nicely for me, auto-detecting formats etc.
Sorry to hear you have a HP DJ 400. I have one too. It jams and tears
more paper than it prints, and can't be trusted to print unattended.
Writing things down by hand is faster than unjamming the printer.
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