Linux-Hardware Digest #864, Volume #9 Mon, 29 Mar 99 01:13:31 EST
Contents:
network card failed to detect (Po Tak Chi Stephen)
BIG MONITORS little money (The Grunewalds)
Re: USR V.90 internal faxmodem (model 0584) problem ("Charles Sullivan")
UPS problem: apcupsd is connected but not responding ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LT Winmodem? (Scott Long)
Re: Video accel w/ slow machine? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux, SCSI, RAID0 performance (Allen Crider)
Re: K6-2 okay? (Greg White)
Re: Winmodem driver for Linux... ("Charles Sullivan")
Yet Another PIC Modem Question ("nicholas butler")
Re: Yet Another PIC Modem Question (Greg White)
Re: Yet Another PIC Modem Question (Mircea)
Re: Linux RH 5.2 boot : monitor off and freeze (Steve)
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From: Po Tak Chi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: network card failed to detect
Date: 29 Mar 1999 03:21:49 GMT
The network configuration part of the RedHat 5.2 installation fails to
find my ISA network card.
In win95, my network card driver is NE2000 and compatible, using
0240-025F,
with IRQ 11. So, I choose NE2000 and compatible card, io=0240, IRQ=11 in
the configuarion program. But a message said that it can't be detected.
Any possible cause? What should i do?
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From: The Grunewalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BIG MONITORS little money
Date: 28 Mar 1999 19:47:55 PST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody know about the KDS VS-21, the MAG DJ920, Princeton C2001,
or CTX EX900 monitors? They are all 21", 1600x1200 res, .28mm dp.
I don't play games, I just like a lot of acreage for windows.
Any comments?
Thanks,
Jim
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR V.90 internal faxmodem (model 0584) problem
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:35:21 -0500
Do you know what speed it's connecting at? Try forcing it to connect at a
lower
speed and see if the 'pause' goes away. It sounds like the modem may be
trying to retrain too frequently. The "&Uxx&Nxx" parameters will limit the
max connect
speed.
Will Dennis wrote in message <01be7882$a674b2e0$8b2fbacc@willhome>...
>Hello all--
>
>I have recently put together a system that contains a USR V.90 internal
>faxmodem, model # 0584. The modem does handshake and connect, but when it
>connects, it exhibits "stop and go" behavior -- it'll pause for up to 10
>seconds between every few characters one types in. I have checked for
>interrupt conflicts in /proc/interrupts, and it's OK there (only dev on
>IRQ3), but these new modems don't have jumpers to set the IRQ anymore, so
>who knows what it's set to on the board... Anyone out there who can confirm
>this type of modem does work with Linux (kernel 2.0.36) and perhaps suggest
>AT cmd param's? (BTW, I have checked out the modem list at
>http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html, and this model is not listed
>there.)
>
>Thanks for any help provided--
>=======================================
>Will Dennis, Systems Admin.
>dennisw@p-wave"dot"com
>P-Wave, Inc. - http://www.p-wave.com
>=======================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: UPS problem: apcupsd is connected but not responding
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 02:36:24 GMT
I am using RedHat Linux 5.1 on a Pentium Pro system with APC Smart-UPS
600. I installed apcupsd-3.4.7-2.i386.rpm and changed /etc/apcupsd.conf
as: (I checked the cable type)
UPSCABLE 940-0024C
UPSTYPE smartups
PROCFS 10
TIMEOUT 180
When I started
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/apcups start
without connecting the serial cable, the panic message appeared.
However, it went ok after connecting the serial cable. It seemed that
the computer and UPS were properly communicating.
No, they are not. The file /etc/apcupsd.status is created, however,
empty. Nothing is written to apcupsd log file when I disconnect the
power cable to the UPS. Also apcaccess
# apcaccess status
apcaccess : polling apcupsd for status.
hung after displaying the message. I have to press ctrl-C to escape. It
seems that apcupsd does not say anything to Linux. I tried other
versions of apcupsd. apcupsd-3.4.7-2.i386.rpm and
apcupsd-3.4.7-libc5-2.i386.rpm from
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
and latest version apcupsd-3.5.6.bin.tar.gz from
http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/
display the same problem.
Could anyone suggest a solution to this problem?
Sincerely,
Wonyong Koh, Ph.D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
p.s. Please remove NOSPAM from my email address.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Long)
Subject: Re: LT Winmodem?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:30:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
DrBoom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> You'd be amazed what people will pay. I buy stuff retail (though
> discounted because I schmooze salescritters) and charge a fixed 15% of
> the total cost of the hardware and software as a service & setup fee. My
> proposals show the item cost and source for each machine, and I often
> encourage them to go buy it themselves from the dealer to save
> themselves the service fee. So far, nobody has done so.
>
> I end up making about $25-30/hour building a Wintendo box, the customer
> doesn't have to deal with salescritters, the salescritters don't have to
> answer the same questions they've heard 10^10 times, and the end result
> is a good, solid machine with quality components -- everybody wins.
>
> Just my 15% ;-)
> -j
Depends where you're located. Here in San Diego many places can't even
take AMEX because the margins are so thin.
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Video accel w/ slow machine?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 02:48:24 GMT
Ooops,
It turned out that modprobe was looking for my mouse. Seeing as how I don't
have one (only network cable and power cord) it kept trying endlessly to load
char-major-10-1 which maps to psaux. I turned it off in conf.modules and the
load went back to 0.01! Wasn't WindowMaker or the video card at all. Whoopie!
Later,
Mike
In article <7dkf4m$akv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I was wondering, will an accelerated video card reduce the system load on a
> wimpy machine? I put and ATI Expert XL in my Dell Optiplex 120 (acts more
> like a 90) w/ 64MB at work running WindowMaker @ 16bpp and the load is always
> around 0.65 :~( The card is not accelerated. The 3.3.3.1 docs says it is but
> I think they snuck in a new chip into this particular card or something
> because I couldn't get it to work. I hacked XF86Config fairly thoroughly too.
> Anyway, if I get an accellerated card will it assume certain drawing
> responsibilties and save clock cycles thus reducing the load? It used to be
> 0.01 when I ran fvwm. Plus what cards have support for accel? I can't find
> examples of good cards. The ATI cards are not accelerated over 8bpp. Can't
> find a Millennium II anymore. So whats the best card to solve this problem.
> I'm willing to pay $200 if necessary.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael B. Allen
>
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From: Allen Crider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, SCSI, RAID0 performance
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:52:11 -0800
Thomas Dorris wrote:
>
> > 3. cost vs. benefit
>
> 40MB/sec or $800, whichever comes first.
You can't get 40MB/sec on a 40MB/Sec bus. There are too many things going on on
that data channel for it to be completely filled with daya all the time.
I think you have gotten fine performance (17 mb/sec) out of your setup!
The high CPU utilization is bacause of the nature of the software doing the test.
Check out this page on the DPT website for more info about RAID. Good luck.
http://www.dpt.com/pr/library.html
> That was my goal when I
> started this project. So far, I've invested about $400 and I'm sitting
> at 17MB/sec and 75% CPU utilization... I'm holding off buying any more
> drives until I convince myself I know what's going on with this two
> drive configuration. Right now, I'm a bit confused. With one drive, I
> see 13MB/sec at 50% CPU utilization. With two drives, I see 17MB/sec at
> 75%. Why the h*ll is the CPU usage so high??
>
> It doesn't take a math whiz to see I'm gonna hit a deadend real quick
> while still a far cry from my performance objectives. Thus the reason
> for my original post. Does anybody have any idea what might be going on
> here? Or, on a related note, does anybody else have a FirePort 40
> running efficiently in a software RAID configuration under Linux? I
> think I'll post that question separately to see if I get any bites.
>
> Thomas Dorris
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From: Greg White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: K6-2 okay?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 02:48:26 GMT
John J Lee wrote:
>
> I read on both the linux HQ and RedHat hardware listings that old versions
> of the K6 had some trouble working with Linux, but I can find nothing
> mentioning the K6-2 anywhere. Are there any problems with it, or not?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> John
Definitely not, as far as my experience goes. Late model K6's and K6-2's
have worked great for me. Early K6's had a problem with everything,
because of a bug to do with memory mapping above 16MB (or somesuch,
don't quote me on that), but I have successfully run Linux on many K6's
and K6-2's. Looking forward to getting a K6-3 450 as soon as I can
afford it <g>.
Posted from a K6-2/350 MHz, running great since Christmas, when I bought
it. (Except for the Banshee card, but that's another story...)
--
Greg White
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodem driver for Linux...
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:45:38 -0500
Greg H. wrote in message ...
>Cameron Jay Erens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Why doesn't one of you programming geeks save us all a lot of trouble,
and
>> make the many winmodems that are in Linux machines today more than a
piece
>> of silicon doing NOTHING!!! I am one of those people who just bought a
>> nice $100 winmodem (not knowing it WAS a winmodem) and finding out that
it
>> is useless in Linux. In fact, I will PAY someone to do this and have the
>> driver distributed throught the net so we can have them adapted to fit
all
>> winmodems. If someone does this, or has any ideas or problems...please
>> email me @ [EMAIL PROTECTED]!!!
>
> Here's an idea, Cameron; why don't _you_ program the driver? If it were
>so easy to do, don't you think it would have been done by now? After all,
>Winmodems have been around for quite a while now. Or, you could bring the
>Winmodem you bought back to the store and buy a hardware-driven modem. It
>was _your_ mistake, anyway.
That's a non-answer. After all, he offered to pay to have it done.
A more reasonable answer would be that these software-controlled modem
manufacturers don't publish the interface specs, so their Windows drivers
would
have to be reverse engineered and rewritten for Linux for practically every
separate
manufacturer/model modem - pretty much a losing battle.
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Reply-To: "nicholas butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "nicholas butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yet Another PIC Modem Question
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:13:20 -0000
Ok so lets review, I just spent and Hour reviewing messages posted to this
and other conferences that go something like
person 1 : I have PCI Modem
person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
person 1: Yes but how can I try to configure it
person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
person 1:Ok heres the speck
person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
person 1: Funny but its not listed at the usual sites, maybe its
difference
person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
person 1: Look how do I set up PCI/DEVICES etc ...
person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
and so it goes on..
Here is a thought. My PCI Modem is a
PRO MEDIA Internal ITU-T (previously CCITT) V.90 Spec
FM-56RI
No mention of HCP or HSP
Plenty of mention Lucent Technologies.
So all that is left is ....
How the hell does any one irrespective of ***modem, validate and
configure the PCI devices in order to attempt to configure the modem.
Dont tell me it cant be done.
Ive got a Ditto Max (PNP) accelerattor card, AWE 64 and Diamond Stealth
3d Card all in here and working just fine in my RH systems, hell I can even
get Ftape working so I an darned if someone is gonna
person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
me as a response.
Your chance , lets get definitive here please?
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From: Greg White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yet Another PIC Modem Question
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 02:58:23 GMT
nicholas butler wrote:
>
> Ok so lets review, I just spent and Hour reviewing messages posted to this
> and other conferences that go something like
> person 1 : I have PCI Modem
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> person 1: Yes but how can I try to configure it
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> person 1:Ok heres the speck
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> person 1: Funny but its not listed at the usual sites, maybe its
> difference
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> person 1: Look how do I set up PCI/DEVICES etc ...
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> and so it goes on..
>
> Here is a thought. My PCI Modem is a
> PRO MEDIA Internal ITU-T (previously CCITT) V.90 Spec
> FM-56RI
>
> No mention of HCP or HSP
>
> Plenty of mention Lucent Technologies.
>
> So all that is left is ....
>
> How the hell does any one irrespective of ***modem, validate and
> configure the PCI devices in order to attempt to configure the modem.
>
> Dont tell me it cant be done.
>
> Ive got a Ditto Max (PNP) accelerattor card, AWE 64 and Diamond Stealth
> 3d Card all in here and working just fine in my RH systems, hell I can even
> get Ftape working so I an darned if someone is gonna
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> me as a response.
>
> Your chance , lets get definitive here please?
First of all, let me just say, that AFAIK _all_ PCI modems are
Windows-only modems. They _all_ require proprietary software to make
them work correctly, if at all. Here, however, is a good test - can you
make your modem respond to simple AT commands _without_ using a
manufacturer-supplied diskette? For example, remove all Windows drivers
for your modem, and reboot into Windows again. When Windows finds the
new hardware, try telling it that it is a generic 300 bps modem (nice
compatible AT strings), and make sure that you have no conflicts in
Device Manager. Crank up Hyperterminal, and see if you can get any
response from your modem. If you do not, you have a Windows only modem,
and in my opinion, you got screwed by the seller of your computer.
BTW, you mention configuring it strictly as a PCI device... If it is a
_hardware_ modem, the above steps will configure it for Windows no
matter what bus architecture it is. The sad fact is, that I have yet to
hear of a _hardware_ implementation of a PCI modem. Most people do not
know any better, and will buy it anyway.
--
Greg White
Systems Engineer
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Tel: (604)647-0261 Fax: (604)647-0155
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yet Another PIC Modem Question
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:23:59 -0500
Nicholas,
It seems you don't grasp what the problem is about. A winmodem isn't a
modem. It's merely a digital-to-analog converter, which interfaces the
telephone line to the PCI bus. Nothing more. And a modem should consist
of a lot more than this. A controller, microcode, DSP, etc. OK, some
have more components than this, but _none_ is complete. To save a few
bucks during manufacturing, the companies left important pieces of
hardware out, and are emulating them in software. The said software
("drivers", although a real modem doesn't need any drivers) is only
available for windows, and the specifications of what's left of the
hardware are kept secret by the manufacturers, so that nobody can write
"drivers" for another OS.
A REAL modem should'n need, I repeat, any drivers. Test yours: boot into
DOS, by pressing ctrl-F5 during the boot process, and type:
echo atdt8888888 >com1 (or whatever com port your modem might show in
windows). Can you hear it dial? If it does, it's a real modem, and there
is hope that you can make it work in linux, os/2 or whatever other os
you like. If it doesn't, it's not a real modem, and there's no way to
"configure it as a PCI device" to work outside windows, since all the
protocols, timings, etc, are in the "drivers".
Hope that helps. See also:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
MST
nicholas butler wrote:
>
> Ok so lets review, I just spent and Hour reviewing messages posted to this
> and other conferences that go something like
> person 1 : I have PCI Modem
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> person 1: Yes but how can I try to configure it
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> person 1:Ok heres the speck
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> person 1: Funny but its not listed at the usual sites, maybe its
> difference
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> person 1: Look how do I set up PCI/DEVICES etc ...
> person 2: Oh its Winmodem , your screwed....
> and so it goes on..
> (...)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux RH 5.2 boot : monitor off and freeze
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 02:12:37 GMT
Well I hope that you can find someone with an answer...I have the
exact same symptoms on an old Dell 486/50 with the onboard
video(Quatel S3 86c807/805)
Good luck,
Steve
On 19 Mar 1999 20:22:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Excuse me for reposting I am desparate,
>
>I have two Dell poweredge XE 590 who are not able to boot from the RH 5.2
>boot diskettes. I have made several RH 5.2 boot floppies from both the web
>and cd's but no luck. I used several floppies, made on several platforms and
>several diskdrives.
>
>Here's what happens :
>I can see the Welcome to Redhat Linux bootmessage, I can switch between
>screen(F1,F2,F3,F5,F6). After I hit enter, I see :
>Loading initrd.img...
>Then the sreen starts scrolling and after a few seconds the monitor switches
>off.
>
>My system :
>Dell PowerEdge XE 590 (EISA/PCI)
>Intel Pentium 90
>64M memory
>On-board NCR 53C810 SCSI hostadapter (PCI)
>Adaptec AHA-1740 Eisa SCSI hostadapter (EISA)
>ATI68800AX videocard
>
>The bootdiskettes work perfectly well on a Dell optiplex, so I assume there's
>nothing wrong with the diskettes. Also RH 4.2 installed like a charm, even on
>the same diskettes!
>
>I have seen only a few postings on dejanews, but there was no reply, so is
>there anybody out there who can help me out?
>
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