Linux-Hardware Digest #849, Volume #9 Sat, 27 Mar 99 02:13:30 EST
Contents:
Re: Using make menuconfig (Christian D Freet)
Re: CNET 930 Ethernet Card (Brian Servis)
Graphics Card STB Velocity 4400 Purchase ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: New Hard Drive Purchase Input Wanted (garv)
Re: bios cpu temp reading under linux? (Mircea)
Re: [Q] Bootable Tape Support Under Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DVD-ROM ("Alexandre Jun")
Re: pppd still dies with out warning! (Shonne Beavers)
Re: KPPP and Sportster (**Nick Brown)
Re: Creative Sound Blaster 128 PCI (Bill Klein)
Re: Does IDE bus mastering benefit multitasking like SCSI? (Mark Hahn)
Re: How fast is your HD? (Mark Hahn)
Re: LT Winmodem? (Dan McGregor)
Re: LT Winmodem? (Benjamin Smith)
Re: Fast Ethernet Card support ..... (Rod Smith)
Toshiba deskstation ("Jo")
Re: Machine lockup w 4 PCI NIC & onboard S3 ("James Kosin")
Re: Epson 750 with uniprint and ghostscript (Dale Pontius)
Re: Dual PPro ("jeff")
Re: [Q] Bootable Tape Support Under Linux (Juergen Heinzl)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian D Freet)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Using make menuconfig
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 04:03:04 GMT
The newly compiled kernel is, I believe, in the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/
directory and
it's called zImage, if you used the "make zImage" command... if you used the "make
bzImage"
command, as I did, it will be named bzImage. Check out
http://www.redhat.com/knowledgebase/kb/cache/37.html
There is a good description of how to finish... make sure, after you copy the image to
where
ever you want it to stay permanently, that you modify the lilo.conf file to point to
it (see
the file... you'll know what I mean). Then run lilo (e.g. type "lilo, [enter]") to
map the
kernel... then reboot.
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:04:05 -0600, Rick Runowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Actually I am having a similar problem. I downloaded the latest kernel
>from ftp.kernel and I un tar/gz'ed it and I printed the instructions and
>followed them.. I got to the compile Kernel... where is the kernel at? Do
>I use cc kernel... I can't find the instructions on compiling... I'm very
>new to this... but where do I look... I tried the command below and got
>about four lines all of which have errors on them? Any help is
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, F.R.M.Barnes wrote:
>
>> Christian D Freet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> : I have read about reconfiguring the kernel, and I wish to do so. BUT, I can't
>figure out how
>> : to use the "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig" commands... when used, I get a
>message saying
>> : "no rule defined [etc.]"
>>
>> : What can I do? What have I done wrong?
>>
>> Assuming that you have the kernel sources (usually under /usr/src/linux):
>>
>> cd /usr/src/linux
>> make menuconfig
>>
>> Your error sounds like you're either in the wrong directory (no makefile)
>> or you don't have the kernel sources. If the latter is the case, grab
>> the sources from somewhere (ftp.kernel.org,ftp.cs.helsinki.fi,...).
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Fred.
>> --
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> | Fred Barnes, CS Student, UKC http://teddy.xylene.com/ |
>> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://stuE253.ukc.ac.uk/ |
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>>
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From: Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CNET 930 Ethernet Card
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:08:54 -0500
Steven wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> Does anyone know where I can get drivers for a CNET 930 ethernet card ?
>
> Cheers
http://www.cnetusa.com/drlib.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Graphics Card STB Velocity 4400 Purchase
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 23:10:03 -0500
Hello,
I am going to by a new graphics card. I am looking at 16 MB 128 bit
Riva TNT cards to work with both Linux and Win98. I have an IBM Aptiva
2138 with PCI slots. I have been considering the STB Velocity 4400 card
or the Diamond Viper 550. I have read messages where folks have got the
Viper card to work with Linux. Has any one had any experience with the
STB Velocity 4400 card?? Also, any suggestions of cards that are
possibly a little better, but not to pricey.
Thanks for any input,
Ken
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Hard Drive Purchase Input Wanted
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:19:51 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am thinking of purchasing a new hard drive for Linux. I am currently
> running a Dual boot with Linux and Win98 on an IBM Aptiva 2138. I am
Dual-boot-dual shmoot. Get removable drives (mobile racks) and you'll
wonder what took you so long.
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: bios cpu temp reading under linux?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 23:22:01 -0500
See:
http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78
MST
Don Nightingale wrote:
>
> Is there a way to read CPU temp/fan speed under linux with systems that
> support it in BIOS?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: [Q] Bootable Tape Support Under Linux
Date: 26 Mar 1999 00:29:28 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system
Michael Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm very interested in whether support exists (or is planned to exist)
> for bootable tape (assuming SCSI tape).
>
RedHat for Sparc can boot from tape, but you cannot install the RPMS
from tape.
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/sparc/rh51-errata-sparc.html
In addition to booting from tape, Ultrapenguin-1.1.9 is working on a
method to install from tape.
http://ultra.linux.cz
--
Roger J. Allen Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
System Administrator Chicago, IL USA
Surgical Information Systems Voice: (312)-942-4825
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: (312)-733-6921
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From: "Alexandre Jun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD-ROM
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:41:07 -0300
Does anyone know a DVD-ROM player software where i can read all the formats
1-6 of the films?? on the linux?? or even one of then i'll be glad
Alexandre
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From: Shonne Beavers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pppd still dies with out warning!
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:12:54 -0600
"Michael W. Ryder" wrote:
>
> Have you tried to monitor the connection using ezppp to see what is
> happening?
>
> Watcher wrote:
> >
> > I have linux on a P24T ( 83MHz), 16meg's ram, hayes modem,
> > I'm using kppp to connect to my isp and just after the username and
> > password my pppd dies. any ideals?
> > thank you
> > bill
> > ::
> > ::
> > i tried ezppp and it does the same thing. i followed the howto and i
> > still get the same thing. and ideals?
> > bill
I had the same problem. Remove the lock from options file.
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KPPP and Sportster
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:40:23 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Found it... the modem is sensitive to the power supply voltage. I was
recycling an old power supply. I got a real Sportster p/s and it works
OK now. Another symptom was the RD and SD lights being on at power-up.
**Nick Brown wrote:
> story). The Sportster causes kppp to hang at "Setting speaker volume".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Klein)
Subject: Re: Creative Sound Blaster 128 PCI
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 04:59:09 GMT
Shonne Beavers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How did you get it work?
In RedHat 5.2 it was detected properly by sndcfg...
It's an AudioPCI really, so if that's what it detects
for you then it's right.
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does IDE bus mastering benefit multitasking like SCSI?
Date: 27 Mar 1999 01:21:40 GMT
> |Does IDE bus mastering benefit multitasking like SCSI?
yes, busmastering delivers the same benefits for either.
no, this has nothing to do with "multitasking", regardless of disk interface.
> There is only one time when the SCSI multithreaded bus shows an
> advantage.
yes, when you're accessing, in reverse order, blocks from within the same
physical cylinder.
> That is when multiple processes are accessing multiple separate
> disks!
this conflates two things: multiple processes (which are wholly
irrelevant; only the sequence of requests matters), and the fact
that ide disks on one channel are inherently serialized.
> There is some CPU load to IDE, but it is negligible today. There
false. ide presents, if anything, lower load to the CPU. the protocol
is much simpler than scsi, and busmastering is busmastering (ie, the
controller does all the copying of data.)
regards, mark hahn.
--
operator may differ from spokesperson. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://java.mcmaster.ca/~hahn
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How fast is your HD?
Date: 27 Mar 1999 01:25:27 GMT
>> QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, 6149MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA
17.2G Maxtor DM 4320, 14.87 MB/s
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From: Dan McGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: LT Winmodem?
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 04:48:15 GMT
> Patrick Sonnek wrote:
>
> It's making life miserable for a lot of us old timers, who have to
> patiently explain to another new Windoze customer why their brand new
> computer, with the brand new LT Winmodem, cannot connect to the Internet.
> They just cant seem to comprehend that all of the current computer
> manufacturers are putting Cheap! modems in these expensive machines.
>
> I guess I should be glad that no one makes Cheap! memory, or a Cheap!
> hard drive. (those companies all went out of business years ago.)
Yes, but there is a new generation of Cheap hardware manufacturers.
They will be around as long as Windows has a virtual monopoly. I am
beginning to wonder if microsoft is forcing people to put winmodems in the
machines they put windows on.
oh well. I am happy with my real modem, real sound card, real hard drive,
real everything.
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:21:02 -0500
From: Benjamin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: LT Winmodem?
OK. I am one of those CHEAP! manufacturers. I run a computer store called
"Computers Cheap!", so I guess that would be obvious.
The "winmodem" was, at first, a piece of !@#@.
However, in the past year, they have managed to get the drivers good enough,
and the CPU's on new machines have gotten fast enough to effectively use these
(so-called) modems.
They are cheap and reliable, is it any wonder they are use alot?
Of course, when putting together a server, I will use a Rockwell modem
instead of a PC-Tel Winmodem!
Sure, it slows the computer down. (So now your 333 system acts more like a 300
mhz machine when you are online - who cares?) Sure, it's not a "real" modem.
DOS is not a "real" operating system, either, and somehow it is the standard
that everything else is measured by.
I don't like microshaft all that much, and (ask any of my employees) I am a
loud proponent of Linux.
However, winmodems provide a cheap, viable alternative that can sweeten the
ever-slimming bottom line.
-Benjamin Smith
Dan McGregor wrote:
> > Patrick Sonnek wrote:
>
> >
> > It's making life miserable for a lot of us old timers, who have to
> > patiently explain to another new Windoze customer why their brand new
> > computer, with the brand new LT Winmodem, cannot connect to the Internet.
> > They just cant seem to comprehend that all of the current computer
> > manufacturers are putting Cheap! modems in these expensive machines.
> >
> > I guess I should be glad that no one makes Cheap! memory, or a Cheap!
> > hard drive. (those companies all went out of business years ago.)
>
> Yes, but there is a new generation of Cheap hardware manufacturers.
> They will be around as long as Windows has a virtual monopoly. I am
> beginning to wonder if microsoft is forcing people to put winmodems in the
> machines they put windows on.
>
> oh well. I am happy with my real modem, real sound card, real hard drive,
> real everything.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,cern.linux,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Fast Ethernet Card support .....
Date: 26 Mar 1999 14:10:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Greetings!!!
>
> I've a LinkSys LNE100Tx Fast Ethernet card on my PC which my SuSE Linux
> 5.3 fails to recognise/startup.
> Apparently this card is not in the list of standard networking card
> modules provided by my Linux vendor. So I tried selecting a similar
> 3Com card and a few other standard cards ..but no luck.(Is this the
> right way to do it?? how do u connect non-standard cards anyway?? do I
> need a specific linux device driver for it??)
The Linksys LNE100TX is one of MANY cards based on the DEC "Tulip"
chipset. Unfortunately, I gather that DEC is no longer making this
chipset (the reports I've seen are that Intel swallowed up that part of
DEC and has discontinued the chipset). Fortunately, a number of clones of
the Tulip chipset have become available, and most Tulip board
manufacturers, including Linksys, have simply switched to one of these
clones. The clones may not be recognized by any but the latest of the
Linux Tulip drivers, though. You can obtain the latest from:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip-devel.html
You'll need to take the tulip.c file and put it in your kernel source
directory (in drivers/net, IIRC), then recompile either modules or the
kernel, depending upon how your system is configured.
Now, if your card is old enough to have a "genuine" DEC part, it SHOULD be
recognized already, assuming that SuSE includes Tulip support by default.
That assumption could be wrong. In either event, try this at a command
prompt:
dmesg | grep eth0 -
This will show you the kernel bootup messages concerning the eth0 device.
Here's what this returns on my system, which uses a recent Linksys
LNE100TX with a Tulip clone:
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0x7c00, xx xx xx xx xx xx, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
eth0: The transmitter stopped! CSR5 is 2068012, CSR6 812e0002.
eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
(I've axed my board's identifying numbers.) The output for a board with
an original DEC part will be a bit different, of course, but you should
see some sort of part identification and status report.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: "Jo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Toshiba deskstation
Date: 24 Mar 1999 10:51:10 GMT
I have a Tecra 500 and a deskstation V+. I want to install linux (RedHat
5.2) in a hard drive in the deskstation drive bay, but neither diskdruid or
fdisk work. The later finds a non IDE device. If you have any experience of
this, or know of someone who has, please help. Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "James Kosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Machine lockup w 4 PCI NIC & onboard S3
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:10:58 GMT
Dear David Putney,
I don't know if this applies; but, I have noticed... since I have 5
PCI slots. That my 4th and 5th cards share the same IRQ. You may
have a similar problem. Check to be sure the cards are able to
address many IRQs and IO address spaces. If unsure, ask the
manufacturer of the card how many you can put in one system before
problems arrise.
I'm unsure why anyone would need that many cards in one system. And
the board manufactures may have a limit as to how far the board
searches for free space before giving up or causing BIG problems.
The other place to check would be the manufacturer of your
Motherboard. The BIOS they use may have limits as well.
I hope this helps,
James Kosin
David Putney wrote in message <7cukgr$4ht$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|I'm thinking I've probably got a hardware problem, but I'm not sure.
|I have a couple Dell Optiplex Gn+ machines, which come with a builtin
S3
|Trio64V2 and a builtin 3c905. When I have 3 3c905b cards in the
|machine, and disable the onboard 3c905, XFree86 runs fine. If I put
a
|fourth card in, or if I put a 4 port ZNYX ZX346 in, XFree86 will
crash
|blindly (no error messages that I can find). If I happen to be
|fortunate enough to get XFree86 to run, I can only sometimes get an
|Xterm up. And in the situation where Xterm doesn't seem to crash the
|machine, I try to run Netscape, which will certainly crash the
machine
|after just a couple of clicks, if not sooner. Whenever the machine
|crashes in the above described situation, I have to hit the reset
button
|(the power button won't work!). Then, when the POST comes up
(without
|errors), it usually sits there, and I need to reset the machine
again.
|This looks to me like there's a PCI bus contention problem. Am I
|barking up the wrong tree, have I set something wrong, or am I
missing
|information? I would greatly appreciate any help.
|-Dave Putney
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Epson 750 with uniprint and ghostscript
Date: 24 Mar 1999 18:11:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear Folks
>
> A quick, probably stupid question. I have just bought a new shiny Epson
> 750 and while it prints *very* nice output from windoze it doesn't work
> very well, for me at least, from Linux. From the printing HOWTO I can
> get it mainly working (enough for reports) from Linux but I need the
> uniprint driver, and ideas where from and I'm confused what is the
> uniprint driver in respect to ghostscript, is it another program to
> compile and add, something to add to ghostscript and recompile or just a
> config file.
>
First off, get Ghostscript 5.1, which probably didn't come with your
distribution. There's some sort of license problem with that, but 5.1
is readily available for free. (Beer or speech, I don't know.) It has
the Uniprint driver in it.
Second, there are several web pages on getting Epsons to work with
Linux. I don't know them offhand, but I'd suggest a search for,
"Zach's Uniprint Page" as a starting point.
Third, the 7X0 is rather an odd family of printers. The 700 is a
6 color photo printer, the 740 is a regular 4 color printer mid-
way between the 6X0 and 8X0 in capability, and I believe the 750
is another 6 color photo printer. It's a matter of finding which
4 color printer the 750 most closely resembles, and using it as
that. I believe any of them will print with the 500 config files,
too. For one other piece of information, the 6X0 printer have 32
jets/color, the 740 has 48 jets/color, and the 8X0 has 64 jets/color.
I don't know about the 700 and 750, though they were mentioned here,
yesterday.
I did the *.upp files for the 740, though they're a work in progress.
When I get time, I'm going to put them up on a web page.
Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)
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From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual PPro
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:17:23 -0800
I am thinking the original poster was referring to when "RedHat" was going
to release. I believe that RedHat says that they are still testing the
Kernel to make sure that there are no conflicts or compatibility issues with
the rest of their distribution.
Saw it on their web page somewhere, I think in the FAQ under 2.2.X kernel.
j.
Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask: When will 2.2.x be
> > officially released? I like to stick with RedHat releases, but I am
also
> > running a dual PPro and would like to move forward. I just don't want
the
> > pain of running beta software :-)
>
> Huh? There have already been _5_ releases of the 2.2.x kernel (the latest
> being 2.2.4 of course). Look at http://www.kernel.org/
> --
> Reply to "cwv [at] idirect (dot) com"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: [Q] Bootable Tape Support Under Linux
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:07:34 GMT
In article <7dba9v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Peterson wrote:
>I'm very interested in whether support exists (or is planned to exist) for
>bootable tape (assuming SCSI tape).
Since the BIOS has something to say about here I am afraid ... no. It
would be nice though, esp. for highend machines but as long as PC' must
be (a) cheap (b) cheap and (c) cheap ... said that already, our HP workstation;
you just switched it off and it would shutdown itself, cool 8)
Cheers,
Juergen
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