Linux-Hardware Digest #770, Volume #9 Fri, 19 Mar 99 20:14:19 EST
Contents:
Do I have a WinModem? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need advice on video card and monitor for Linux-X (Tim Moore)
Re: Help! Bizarre error ! Zip no longer works upon install of new Hard (Akira
Yamanita)
Re: Digital Celebris 590 config (Stephen Ashley)
Re: Modems for Linux and Unix? (Pete H)
Need help with my Ethernet Card!!!!! (Jordi Mola)
Re: EtherNet Card Problems (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Adaptec AIC - 7890 ("Michael W. Ryder")
Re: For all you Microsoft lovers (now about security) (John R. Campbell)
Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (Joseph T. Adams)
Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (Joseph T. Adams)
Re: Power Down with Linux? (gus)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat)
(jedi)
Re: Riva TNT with RedHat 5.2/X (Mike)
Riva TNT with RedHat 5.2/X (Robert Martin)
SupraExpress 56i Pro on linux ("Claus Jul Larsen")
Ide floppy and QDI mother board (Pierre Habraken)
Re: Do I have a WinModem? (Rob Clark)
Teles 16.3c ISDN card + kernel 2.0.36 (John Wong)
Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (Ed Falis)
Re: Linux and 486 (Markus Wandel)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Do I have a WinModem?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:03 GMT
How do I find out if the PCI modem installed in my emachines 300k is a
WinModem or not. Its an HSP MicroModem 56 PCI modem. I need a modem that will
work under linux and need to know whether I have to buy a new modem (a real
modem if this is a windoze modem) or not. Is there a way to get a winmodem to
work in linux, just in case?
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need advice on video card and monitor for Linux-X
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:05 GMT
I've a ViewSonic 17" P775 at home, and have spec'ed the 19" GT series for projects at
work. Flawless in my experience, including eyestrain perspective.
As for cards, similar story for Matrox. I've used the Mystique 220 and Millenium
II. Next card will be one of their newer AGP 250MHz cards.
> I'm upgrading to SUSE 6.0 and want to use KDE as my desktop. Toward
> this end I want to replace my current video card (S3-864 generic card
> with 256K ram) with something more substantial as well as replacing my
> 14" monitor with a 17 incher. I'd like some opinions on what other
--
[Replies: make the double y a single]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Bizarre error ! Zip no longer works upon install of new Hard
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:09 GMT
Craig and/or Cecilia wrote:
> Hi. Let me just say up front that, relative to everyone else on this
> newsgroup, I don't
> know jack about linux (or computers in general, for that matter), so if
> anyone can help me
> I would REALLY appreciate it., but please don't assume that I know very
> much when
> giving your answers. Thanks.
>
> My internal SCSI 100 Mb Iomega Zip drive (/dev/sda4 on my computer)
> was working just fine in Red Hat 5.0 . However, I was running low on
> disk space so I installed
> a new 10 Gb hard drive. much tweaking around, I finally got the thing
> installed correctly, partitioning
> half of it for linux and half of it for DOS/Windows in FAT32 mode.
> Because I at one point thought
> I had to use Dynamic Drive OVerlay software to read all 10 Gb, I
> re-installed lilo to the root
> partition instead of the MAster Boot Record.
uggh.. overlays.. Remove the overlay (fdisk /mbr) and re-run LILO. Overlays
are only meant for systems that don't support LBA (logical block addressing)
if you have a drive that is over 2GB. I'm sure they have their limitations
as well since the other utilities that they come with are generally for
16-bit file systems. I don't even know if that'll help you at all but
that's the first step I'd take. :-) Try booting off of a floppy and
that'll help you narrow down the problem. About the FAT32 partition
affecting your Linux operation, it's highly doubtful. I have two hard
drives and am dual booting and my vfat (FAT32) partition is mounted at
boot-up. I transfer files to and from that partition without any problems.
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From: Stephen Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Digital Celebris 590 config
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:14 GMT
I have one of these units at home and at work, and have dual P5 133 CPUs in (on)
this system (home). The SCSI chip is a NCR53c810 with BIOS. I have run RedHat
5.2 2.0.36 kernals on this system. The cpu daughter card is capable of running
as a dual CPU system.
**** But DIGITAL (Compaq) won't support the config as such. **** (gotta do the
company thing.)
One thing to make sure of is that the CPU cache module is the Async one instead
of the Sync module. Check the part number on the card (54-23532 with 9 chips in
a row) not the 3 LSI chips. If you do have the sync type remove the cache
otherwise you'll end up with a crashing system. The core clock and divider jumps
are located to the front side and should not prove to be a great brainer (i.e
you bugger much, the system will just not start DON'T run the CPU's fro too long
massivley over clock, they won't anyhow). Make sure all the fans are able to
rotate, the big fan in the fornt of the case is temp controlled by the Power
Supply. My daughter Brd can only clock upto a 133 Mhz P54C CPU, make sure you
try and find like CPU's as best you can. We have an old XL590 with dual CPU's
clocked to 100Mhz run as a general purpose hack for our work group, has 196MB of
memory and several old 7200rpm 4Gb disks. Blows the doors of a simlarly
configured system run as an NT domain controller...
Cheers,
Stephen Ashley.
Alice Springs,
Out Bak Oz.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Recently picked up a Digital Celebris 590 at a used parts sale. It appears
> to have on board SCSI and definitely can accommodate dual processors
> (previous owner had a single pentium 90 installed). I'd like to put dual
> P90s or 100s on board and fire up Linux, but I don't have any doco about the
> box/jumper settings. Don't want to frag the box if I can help it. Can
> anyone help point me in the right direction?
>
> TIA-
>
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From: Pete H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modems for Linux and Unix?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:11 GMT
Black Blade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>If you have a modem running successfully under Linux I
> wouldn't mind getting the brand and model #.
>
> Any help is appreciated
> Thank You
>
I'm running a USR external (the one that says it needs windows). External
modems, by definition, are hardware based modems, so linux won't have any
problems with it.
Pete
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From: Jordi Mola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help with my Ethernet Card!!!!!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:22 GMT
Hi,
I've recently installed LINUX on my PC at work, I'm used to work with
UNIX, but actually I've a big problem I'm unable to fins a driver for my
Ethernet card from kingston. It is a
EtheRx Plug and Play ISA Ethernet Adapter
Does anyone know where can I find it (at www.kingston.com isn't any
driver for Linux).
Thanks a lot.
J. Mola
P.S. Please send the answer to my e-mail addreess also, since I'm not an
usual reader of this group.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: EtherNet Card Problems
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:27 GMT
"destiny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> eth0: Interrupted while Interrupts are masked! isr0x0 imr 0x0
>My current setup is an AMD K6 233 CPU with 128M ram.
>eth0 is a Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card II at irq 5, io 6100
^^^^^
>eth1 is a 3Com 3C905B (PCI) at irq 5, io 6000
^^^^^
[...]
Put one of them onto a different IRQ and try again. While the PCI
architecture allows proper IRQ sharing , not all the Linux
drivers do as well.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Michael W. Ryder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC - 7890
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:25 GMT
The 7890 is a Ultra2 chipset. As far as I know it is Not supported
under Redhat 5.1. You need to upgrade to 5.2 to use it. But it works
fine and is auto detected by the new versions of Linux (2.0.36 and
above).
Hope this helps.
Michael W. Ryder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> 1 - I try to install REDHAT 5.1 on a dual pentium Gateway ALR 7200
>
> 2 - It has an Adaptec AIC - 7890 SCSI that is not recognized,
> I went to
>
> ftp.redhat.com/support/5.1/i386/aic7xxx-kernel
>
> and downloaded the vmlinuz file.
>
> 3 - I downloaded the boot.img and supp.img files from a nearby directory,
> and used rawrite to build the two diskettes...
>
> 4 - Now I am not sure what to do. I can not replace the
> vmlinuz with aic7xxx-kernel/vmlinuz because
> there is no enough space in the boot disk.
>
> Any help is appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> D. Rey
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John R. Campbell)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Microsoft lovers (now about security)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:44:24 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>doole writes:
>>Rufus V. Smith writes:
>>>The point is that sometimes innocent people need their privacy.
>> From Authorities? Why??
>
>"Authorities" with a capital "A", eh? Who do you think these "Authorities"
>are, God? Why should the fact that someone is employed by one of those
>organizations that you label an "Authority" give him the right to read my
>private files?
Perhaps, if there is no need for *any* form of privacy, we
should all send our messages via postcard, using the most
efficiently OCR'd font possible, so that the "Authorities"
know that we're knuckling under.
As for "Authorities", who do you trust? All organizations
that *I* know of are composed of human beings. If any of
them took an interest in me I would not like to have all of
my life open for examination...
Remember what McCarthy taught us all in the fifties- even
someone with a "clean" record can have it mis-interpreted
and twisted to suit an "Authorities" goals.
The Bill of Rights in the US isn't just a good idea- It's
the law (all of which are threatening to the "Powers that Be"
which explains why they are all threatened).
As for Linux, it'd be interesting to have a physical key (like
a PCMCIA slot in the front panel) for a PGP decryptor card so
that we can have encrypted filesystems, though I'd be concerned
that such a device can be "spoofed" (though an Open Source
environment is much like a "free society"- I can protect others
because I'm protecting myself).
Now...
Have I muddied the waters enough?
--
John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- As a SysAdmin, yes, I CAN read your e-mail, but I DON'T get that bored!
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are those of John Campbell alone and
do not reflect the opinions of his employer(s) or lackeys
thereof. Anyone who says differently is itching for a fight!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph T. Adams)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:34 GMT
Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Amen...A word that is mentioned quite infrequently in this group,
: productivity.
:
: It doesn't matter a hill of beans how technically superior your OS is
: if there are no applications for it that the general public want to
: use.
Linux was not aimed at the "general public" until very recently. Its
application base was and is quite adequate for the great majority of
existing Linux users, and is rapidly expanding to take into account
the different needs and preferences of the "general public" as well.
: Vi, And EMacs and ppp-on, ppp-off, and slrn and tin an trn and tetris
: and ispell and on and on and on don't cut it when you have a plethora
: of Windows applications that blow the doors off the Linux crap...
: Users are NOT interested in going back to the 1970's....
Most of those apps are designed for computer professionals, not home
users. Substitutes such as XEmacs, wvdial, Linuxconf, and the various
KDE and Gnome utilities exist to meet the differing needs of home
users and/or those new to Linux.
BTW Unix, generically speaking, is state of the art; it has not been
improved on and remains not only the most stable and reliable OS for
PC-class machines, but the *only* stable and reliable OS for PC-class
machines. The fact that its roots go back almost as far as DOS, and
that it relies on a foundation of proven and mature computer science
rather than fads, does not mean it's "outdated." If anything, an "OS"
that is really a buggy DOS extender plus a third- or fourth-rate
graphical shell is what's outdated.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph T. Adams)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:31 GMT
Ed Falis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: You must have a pretty strange idea of what serious work is. We field IDE's on
:Windows as well as various Unices for various kinds of applications including hard
: real-time, multi-million line applications, and safety-critical applications. And I
:daresay our Windows hosted versions are more pleasant to use than the UNIX ones.
I hope you're not trying to say that you're using Intel PCs (never
mind Windows) in safety-critical applications? They are not designed
for such use.
Of course PCs can be used for the kinds of "serious work" where
occasional crashes and small amounts of data loss (<1 day's work) can
be tolerated. But such risks are inherent in the platform, and can't
be totally eliminated even by using a more robust OS such as Linux
(though they can be greatly reduced, assuming that the hardware is
in good working order).
Joe
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Power Down with Linux?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mohd H Misnan wrote:
>
> Clive Andeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Jim Zubb wrote:
> >
> >> halt -p didn't work from the command line for me.
>
[snup]
>
> >> I had to edit my halt script in init.d to read:
> >>
> >> *halt)
> >> message="The system is halted"
> >> command="halt -p"
> >>
> >> Added the -p on the command line. This is on Redhat 5.2
> >> system, YMMV on other distros.
>
> This will work nicely on most of other distributions too.
>
> >I had this feature working quite nicely in RedHat 5.1 kernel 2.0.36. I have
> >upgraded to RedHat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.2 and I cannot get it to work again. Did this
> >feature get broken in kernel 2.2.2?
>
> At first I thought so and went to the codes and add shutdown codes into one
> of the source code inside the kernel until somebody pointed out that
> halt -p will do the same thing and much better (dunnot need to mess with
> the kernel).
>
> --
> |Mohd H Misnan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] + [EMAIL PROTECTED] |i
I (now) have SuSE 6.0 ...
FWIW, I have been struggling with this for a couple of months now, since
2.2.0-pre7 I think was out. Anyway, I haven;t been able to pay it much
attention, although I knew I was meant to use halt -p to poweroff. Did
not work for me, and I thought it was simple enough to manually switch
the machine off, and it was a low priority "fix". Since reading the
above post, I started going through the /sbin/init.d directory and the
scripts in there. I found the logic flow to be quite complex, but when
going to run level 0 (halt) the rc script calls the "halt" script. This
has the lines as described above. I edited the halt line to read "halt
-p". My machine now powers off when halted. It does not seem to have
much to do with the flags passed from the command line.
Well, that fixed my SuSE poweroff problem.
Cheers and thanks, Jim
gus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls
flat)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:11:43 GMT
On 14 Mar 1999 16:58:02 -0600, Jeff Szarka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:18:22 +0100, Henning Strandin
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>:Jeff Szarka wrote:
>:>
>:> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:23:47 +0100, Henning Strandin
>:> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[deletia]
>:> Linux:
>:> Edit config files and god know's what else
>:>
>:> Why does everything have to be so inconvenient? I don't even care if
>:> you can get a program to let you do this, it HAS to come built in,
>:> ready to go, I don't want someone telling me I can download
>:> whateverdalskjflsa;djfla;sjdfl;.rpm or download the source and compile
>:> it. I just want it as simple as win9x/nt, end of story.
>:
>:Then don't use Linux. Simple. Of course, you'll have to live with the
>:instabilities inherent in Windows, but you can't get everything. It's a
>:matter of priorities. I'm not being sarcastic here, I consider it to be
>:a valid choice if that's what suits you the best. I surely wouldn't
>:recomend Linux to my mother for example.
>
>If only more linux users understood there are cases in which people
>don't want to run linux. I was talking to a linux user on irc about 2
>months ago and he was one of those "if you use windows your a fucking
>idiot" kind of people, and he refused to admit there are cases in
>which linux is not a better choice then windows.
There is a considerable difference between realizing
that someone might want to use an OS other than Unix
and actually believing that there are actually any
sensible non-market driven reasons for using WinDOS.
[deletia]
Someone not taking your pet OS at all seriously does not in
any way imply that that person doesn't take any other options
seriously.
If you can really deal with all the complexity a 'random collection
of spare parts' can dish out, Linux is not a thing. Otherwise, you
really should have been buying Apples,Ataris or Amigas all along.
--
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die |||
while you discuss this a invasion in committe." / | \
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Riva TNT with RedHat 5.2/X
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:37 GMT
I am using a Diamond Viper V550 AGP board which has the same nVidia
Riva TNT chip and have no problems. You will need to upgrade your
XFree86 to the latest version (3.3.3.1?) and use the SVGA server.
HTH
mike
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:38:52 -0800, Robert Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am thinking about building a Linux box with a Creative Labs Graphics
>Blaster 16MB nVidia Riva TNT AGP card (that was a mouthful!). Since the
>engine (I think that's what is called) is rather new I was wondering if
>a driver had come out for it yet. Also, I heard Linux had some problems
>with AGP. Can someone please help? Thanks!
>
>
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From: Robert Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Riva TNT with RedHat 5.2/X
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:39 GMT
I am thinking about building a Linux box with a Creative Labs Graphics
Blaster 16MB nVidia Riva TNT AGP card (that was a mouthful!). Since the
engine (I think that's what is called) is rather new I was wondering if
a driver had come out for it yet. Also, I heard Linux had some problems
with AGP. Can someone please help? Thanks!
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From: "Claus Jul Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SupraExpress 56i Pro on linux
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:45 GMT
Hi,
I had a compaq presario with the SupraExpress Pro 56i (56K modem). I've
troubles with the modem init. I wroted: AT+MS=V34,1,28800,33600 - but the
xisp say the modem init had failed.. :-( - maybe the carriage return code
doesn't here? If it's the reason, what is the carriage return code for
linux?
Thanks.
Claus
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From: Pierre Habraken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ide floppy and QDI mother board
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:47 GMT
I have just installed two machines, both with an IDE Iomega Zip drive.
The first machine has an ASUS mother board and everything works fine.
The second machine has a QDI P6I440BX/B1S mother board.
On this machine the ide driver identifies the Zip drive at boot time but
reports a strange message about the capacity of the drive:
========================================================================
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX3.2A, 3079MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=782/128/63, UDMA
hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hdc: CRD-8322B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdb: 98288kB, 196576 blocks, 512 sector size
hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
hdb: The drive reports both 100663296 and 100646912 bytes as its
capacity
========================================================================
Then, when I try to read the partition table of a fresh disk (one
partition hdb4) using fdisk, the latter does not find any partition
despite the one which does reside on the disk:
========================================================================
# fdisk /dev/hdb
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help):
========================================================================
However, if I create a new partition and mke2fs it, I can then mount it
and use it. The problem is that I have a bunch of Zip disks containing
data which I certainly don't want to reformat...
I tried to set up the drive as a master on the secondary ide interface
(/dev/hdc) but it did not lead to any better result.
Thanks in advance for any help.
--
________________________________________________________________________
Pierre HABRAKEN - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
T�l: 04 76 82 72 48 - Fax: 04 76 82 72 87
IMAG-LSR BP72 38402 SAINT MARTIN D'HERES Cedex
________________________________________________________________________
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Subject: Re: Do I have a WinModem?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:50 GMT
In article <7cic2b$5fl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I find out if the PCI modem installed in my emachines 300k is a
>WinModem or not. Its an HSP MicroModem 56 PCI modem. I need a modem that will
>work under linux and need to know whether I have to buy a new modem (a real
>modem if this is a windoze modem) or not. Is there a way to get a winmodem to
>work in linux, just in case?
This is definitely a winmodem (HSP stands for Host Signal Processing)--
this modem is made by several manufacturers using the PCtel micromodem
chipset.
There is no way to use this modem without the MS Windows software. If you
are looking to replace it, 56K hardware modems can be found for about $40;
see http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: John Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Teles 16.3c ISDN card + kernel 2.0.36
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:52 GMT
Hi,
Anybody got a Teles 16.3c ISA PnP ISDN card working with
Linux kernel 2.0.36??
I've compiled the ISDN subsystem as a module...
HiSax drivers as modules... here's the relevant section in
the .config file...
CONFIG_ISDN=m
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y
CONFIG_ISDN_MPP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_HISAX=m
CONFIG_HISAX_EURO=y
CONFIG_HISAX_16_0=y
CONFIG_HISAX_16_3=y
CONFIG_HISAX_TELES3C=y
CONFIG_HISAX_TELESPCI=y
CONFIG_HISAX_S0BOX=y
Booted with this kernel... got isapnp to load the following isapnp.conf..
(CONFIGURE TAG2620/209717183 (LD 0
(IO 0 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0300))
(INT 0 (IRQ 10 (MODE +E)))
(NAME "TAG2620/209717183[0]{TELES.S0/16.3c Plug&Play}")
(ACT Y)
))
ran isapnp and got ...
Board 1 has Identity 76 04 03 02 01 00 20 32 0d: CIR2000 Serial No 67305985 [checksum
76]
Board 2 has Identity bd 0c 80 07 bf 20 26 27 50: TAG2620 Serial No 209717183
[checksum bd]
TAG2620/209717183[0]{TELES.S0/16.3c Plug&Play}: Port 0x300; IRQ10 --- Enabled OK
BUT when i tried to load the HiSax modules by modprobe... i
got the following errors...
# modprobe hisax type=14 protocol=2 io=0x300 irq=10
Initialization of hisax failed
Initialization of hisax failed
ISDN subsystem Rev: 1.44.2.9/1.41.2.11/1.48.2.27/1.28.2.2/none loaded
Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 1
Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 2
Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 3
HiSax: Card Teles 16.3c not installed !
Initialization of hisax failed
ISDN-subsystem unloaded
What could be the problem? any ideas?
regards,
John Wong
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Falis)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:54 GMT
<1104_921461409@DZOG-CHEN> <7cireg$f3s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 15 Mar 1999 11:37:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph T. Adams) wrote:
> I hope you're not trying to say that you're using Intel PCs (never
> mind Windows) in safety-critical applications? They are not designed
> for such use.
>
> Joe
Our products are the development systems for such applications. So far, I haven't
seen a vanilla PC used for a safety-critical application itself, though there are some
customers getting pretty close with things like PC 104 boards do moderate-criticality
things. We do have customers using 32-bit x86 processors in custom board
configurations for high-criticality applications.
As far as the crashing issue, in a development environment it's generally not that big
an issue. I've experienced very few of these under NT4 and the NT 5 ("win 2000")
betas, never with impacts on data. When I say very few, I mean on the order of three
times over a period of 9-12 months, if that many.
- Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Linux and 486
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:14:55 GMT
In article <__iG2.8068$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tom Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> TN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
>
>> A 486-66 w/8meg, text only, is perfectly suited for this type of thing --
>> throw two "cheap" NIC's in it [isa slots only], and you have an instant
>> firewall that can easilly handle T1 speed connections
>________________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>I think not. An old ISA nic card on a 486 will be damned lucky to do
>200KB/sec in the configuration you discribe. Expect some serious slowdowns
>on the boxes inside the 486linux firewall.
Um, a T1 is only 1.544Mbps, that's 193kbytes/sec minus overhead.
I just set up a 486DX2/66 clunker and networked it to my fast machine via
a couple of NE2000 clone "old ISA NICs." FTP transfers run at 660kbytes/sec.
>From this empirical data I would say the 486DX/22 can, in fact, easily handle
T1 speed connections.
Markus
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