Linux-Hardware Digest #154, Volume #10 Tue, 4 May 99 07:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help with AGP Video Cards i740 (TTS)
Writing CDs with 2.0.37 pre 11: FAILURE!! (TTS)
Re: server watchdog timer ("[SS]Strobi")
Help!! re 2 CD-ROM ATAPI devices on IDE controller causing conflict? ("Ciaran
Mulloy")
Fritz!X PC Installation??? ("thollman")
parport0: detected, IEEE-1284 device (Canon, BJC-4400) detected, can't (Hunter
Thomas)
Re: Does Linux work on AMD K6-3 processors? (Jimmy Taylor)
Re: 3C905B + RedHat 6 + dhcp = problem??? ("cloudboy")
Re: SCSI ZIP Drives ("Robear")
Re: Linux modem list. (jason)
Printing with canon lbp8 ("Bell / Shane Anthony (ISE)")
Re: 3C905B + RedHat 6 + dhcp = problem??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH and Dell Precision 610s (Darryl Burling)
Fixed problem, but, don't know why it works! (Daniel Lewis)
Re: Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ? (Ray)
Winmodem Rip Off Baskets ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Iomega 2G-Jaz on laptops (Pierre Bachelart)
X-SVGA-Server mit CL-GD 5426! ("Daniel Wagner")
Linux als Faxabrufserver (Haupt-User Stefan Kuhnert)
Setting a 3c509 NIC to 10baseT ("Christopher A. Suleske")
mounting MO Drive with sectorsize=1024 (Christian Buehler)
Network card for Linux and windows 98 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Network card for Linux and windows 98 ("Derek Turner")
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From: TTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with AGP Video Cards i740
Date: 3 May 1999 22:35:26 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rizzo"
says...
>
>I cannot find this link, I need to know this too as I also have the Video
>Excel 8mb AGP Card using the i740 chip set. Anybody else have any ideas.
>
>>Look at this: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/XBF/README.i740
>>I'm using i740 vcard with theze drivers - 800x600x16bpp without any
>problems...
My advice is run away from this Intel chipset...!
I am returning my Diamond Stealth II as soon as possible.
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From: TTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Writing CDs with 2.0.37 pre 11: FAILURE!!
Date: 3 May 1999 22:26:36 -0700
I was giving a try at the 2.0.37 pre 11 kernel and had discovered that
cant run cdrecord anymore... The process hangs silently and resists at
a 'kill -9 PID' command!!!
cdrecord-1.8a21.tar.gz
libc5
gcc 2.7.3.2
My HP 7200i burner is reding with no problems with SCSI emulation but writing
it is impossible.
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From: "[SS]Strobi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: server watchdog timer
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 10:29:22 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to install a watchdog timer device for my server (one that
> watches the box and reboots it in times of trouble). The only company
> I know of that has something like this that works for linux is
> Industrial Computer Source in San Diego.
>
> In particular, I am interested in their products PCI-WDT 500/501
> Has anyone had experiences with these products, good or bad? How easy
> is it to install/use the devices?
Euhm, is the software Watchdog in RH6.0 nog sufficient enough ??? It is
working quite fine here !
Greetz,
Strobi
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From: "Ciaran Mulloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help!! re 2 CD-ROM ATAPI devices on IDE controller causing conflict?
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 00:54:40 +0100
I am using Caldera Open Linux 1.3 and got all my devices operating, however
I recently added a 2nd CDROM device to the 2 IDE controller. The device is a
HP8100 ATAPI CD-ROM RW device , it shares a the IDE controller with a
Creative Labs CDROM ATAPI 2423 device.
As I am new to Linux and not very familiar with adding a device module to
the kernal I decided the easiest thing to do was to re-install Linux. During
re-installation it successfully identified both drives sharing the IDE
controller.
I get maybe hardware conlicts causing system slowdown and error messages
such as "hdd: irq timeout status=0x50" when I sometimes try to access the
CDROM drive. I have search all the HOWTOS for a clue to my problem without
success.
I originally installed the HP8100 under Windoze 98 without any problems or
conflicts. Is there any Linux utility to probe the and resolve a some form
of drive conflict? Or suggestions on specifying particular kernal parameters
to resolve the problem. There seems to be very little information on adding
such devices in Linux. Is it OK to have 2 ATAPI devices on the same IDE
controller?
I would appreciate if someone could give advice on this issue.
Ciaran Mulloy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dublin, Ireland
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From: "thollman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fritz!X PC Installation???
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 02:20:03 +0200
Wie installiere ich meine Fritz!X PC - ISDN Telefonanlage unter Suse 6.1??
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From: Hunter Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux
Subject: parport0: detected, IEEE-1284 device (Canon, BJC-4400) detected, can't
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 09:22:52 +0000
No matter what I do. I am going to try messing wtih the bios a bit, but
I don't think that will work. The problem is, when I even try to write
directly to the lp0, lp1, par0, par1, etc. devices, with, say 'echo
"fnord" > /dev/blah, if comes back with "Operation not supported by this
device". Also, autoprobing from RH printtool does not work. Yes, I am
sure I have it hooked up. Also, as an important note, I am using kernel
2.2.5. Is there a newer, stable, final relese? Should I go back to say,
2.2.4, or 2.2.2, or even 2.2.0? I think not 2.2.0. Anyway, please let me
know if you can help.
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 21:00:08 -0800
From: Jimmy Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Does Linux work on AMD K6-3 processors?
I know this might have been done when you upgraded but sometimes the hard
problems have simple solutions. Have you upgraded the BIOS?
When I first installed RH Linux 5.2 on a P55 200 mmx, it wouldn't boot after the
install. Kept hanging. Tried a Cyrix P200 + and it worked. Then I happened to
run across the web site of my MB manufacture (It's obscure and found it strictly
by chance) Found a BIOS upgrade and it allowed the Intel CPU to run it.
Strange thing was that Everything seemed to work during install and the initial
bootup correctly identified CPU.
Ian Nicholls wrote:
> I have just upgraded my PC from an AMD K6 233Mhz to an AMD K6-3 400Mhz and,
> although Windows 95 runs OK, I have been having problems with the X server
> since the upgrade. I have been using Daryll Strauss's Banshee server: it
> worked just great with the K6 processor, but wouldn't work with the K6-3.
> Not only that, but in attempting to understnd more about the problem, the
> machine would hang, necessitating a re-boot without a proper shutdown. This
> corrupted various files, so I decided to re-install Red Hat 5.2, which is
> the version of Linux I am using.
>
> Now I cannot even re-install Linux. I get as far in the installation as
> choosing the packages, and then the install fails with a "Signal 11" error.
> Is there a basic incompatibility between AMD K6-3 (and presumably K6-2)
> processors and the version of Linux I am using? Am I just unlucky with this
> particular chip or my PC setup? Any help and advice would be welcome.
>
> The other hardware is as follows:-
>
> AOpen AX59Pro motherboard with 1Mb cache
> 192Mb of SDRAM
> Processor running at 400Mhz, FSB at 100Mhz and memory at 66Mhz (a feature of
> the VIA chipset)
> 6.5 and 4.3 Gb harddiscs
> approx 2Gb Linux partition and 128Mb Linux swap partition
> Creative Banshee graphics card
> SBLive! soundcard
>
> This has me baffled, since there are now commercial PCs on sale running
> Linux and with AMD K6-2s! I have tried the installation after turning off
> the external cache in the BIOS setup, but still no joy.
>
> Waiting hopefully
>
> Ian Nicholls
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From: "cloudboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3C905B + RedHat 6 + dhcp = problem???
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 16:29:09 +0900
Have you tried the follwing?
First, with lan-card utility, disable pnp mod.
Second, change proper irq setting.
Some irq may be not avaiable, you must try to find. I am using irq 9.
Third, if your card is combo type, specify the conection type you are using.
Problem is beyound these, I am sorry for nothing to tell you.
Ramesh Dharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>��(��) �Ʒ� �޽�����
news:7gm1ac$39b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]�� �Խ��Ͽ����ϴ�.
> I have the same problem with an ISA 3c509-Combo... Does anyone know if
this
> will work if the proper manual settings are used (i.e. is it just the dhcp
> that doesn't work?)
>
> Ramesh Dharan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: "Robear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI ZIP Drives
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:17:15 +1000
Ok, the ZIP disk was formatted under Win98 using the IOMEGA extensions to
the Windows Explorer. I have the entry in FSTAB and I am mounting like:
mount -t {tried all OS) /dev/sr0 (device given to it) /mnt/zip (yes I have
created a ZIP dir)
Regards,
Robert
Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Robear wrote:
> >
> > Done that, but Linux comes back with an UNKNOWN OS type of message.
> >
> > Jarl Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7gjf6u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > "Robear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > >Well, I've read a lot about Parallel ZIP Drives but I have a question
> > about
> > > >a SCSI ZIP drive.
> > >
> > > >My RedHat 5.2 recognises it, assigns a device to it BUT I can't
> > read/write
> > > >to it because I don't know what FILESYSTEM it uses.
> > >
> > > use fdisk to check partitions and filesystems, but dont touch
anything.
> > >
> > > Jarl, Denmark
>
> It depends on what your zip disk is formatted for. How are you mounting
> the zip drive? Do you have it in your fstab? More details would help.
> --
> Michael Barnhill
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte294f
> ICQ 13526262
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux modem list.
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:54:23 -0400
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 19:44:02 +1000
From: "Bell / Shane Anthony (ISE)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing with canon lbp8
G'day,
I have a canon "lbp-8 mark III T" laser printer that I am trying to get to
print under linux using ghostscript, but when I set the device to lbp8 it
just prints crap to the printer. The lbp8 driver is for the lbp8-II series
of printers, but mine is a III (ie newer) and it doesn't seem to work.
Does anyone know where I can get a driver for it that I can build into
ghostscript or a compatible driver that I can use, or any way at all that
I can get it to print postscript??? (plain text is no problem!)
Thanks,
Shane.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3C905B + RedHat 6 + dhcp = problem???
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 00:42:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Denis Laventure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone tried this combo? The dhcp doesn't seems to work... Before
> installing RH 6, I was running RH 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36 and it was ok.
> Now that I have RH 6 with kernel 2.2.5, I must configure my lan
> manually...
>
> Can someone help me with this?
>
> Denis
>
>
I have the same combination. The 3com is connected to a cable modem. At
installation (expert) I pick 3com 905x (boomerang) card. When configuring LAN
I choose dhcp. When asked to choose active services at bootup I check dhcp
(not checked by default). Then after Linux boots my cable modem is online, no
additional configuration is needed.
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From: Darryl Burling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH and Dell Precision 610s
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 21:59:16 +1200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dean B. Cookson wrote:
> One of my sysadmin staff has volunteered to trade his Ultra2 in for a
> decently spec'ed linux box and I'm trying to come up with a box
> similar to his Sun. Does anyone know if RH (5.2 or 6.0) will run
> on one of the dual proc 610s, like the 500 or 550 MHz PIII Xeons?
>
>
I installed RH 5.2 on a 410 a while ago. The video card was not supported out of
the box, but is probably supported out of the box on 6.0. Other than that I had
no problems. I have heard of people having problems with the integrated NIC on a
DELL GX1 (PII 350). Watch out for the SCSI Drivers too as they may be a little
picky (no experience with this under RH though sorry). I had to install the
specific manufacturer drivers for the 7880 UW for NT to install..
Like I said this is on a 410. I am not sure of the hardware differences under
the 610
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From: Daniel Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fixed problem, but, don't know why it works!
Date: 28 Apr 1999 13:32:25 GMT
I have recently stopped the "tearing" of my Xwindows
with my Diamond Stealth64 2001 Graphics card. I used
the no_accel option. What do the acceleration
features of my card have to do with the redrawing problems?
Dan
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:42:44 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : Can anyone who has downloaded the beta driver post them here? I can't seem
> : to access their ftp site. Thanks in advance!
>
> Can someone please download the entire Red Hat 6.0 ISO image to this
> text-only nonbinary newsgroup as well? I'm too impatient to wait for
> the CD to arrive in the mail and I just down feel like downloading it
> on my own. Downloading over usenet is much easier.
Yeah, and it's easier to download when a few hundred thousand machines
each have a copy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ?
Date: 4 May 1999 10:12:03 GMT
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:51:55 +0200, David Guyon Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Do you have an internal modem working with linux ?
Yes, several
>
>Is there any trouble or dissadvantage ?
They still require Windows to upgrade the modems Flash ROM. Of course all
of the usual issues with internal modems apply. The same folks also make
win-modems.
>
>What kind of modem is it: constructor, series, ... ?
Amquest Hypermodem. I've installed quite a few of these, both the jumpered
and PnP versions without any trouble.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Winmodem Rip Off Baskets
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 10:13:52 GMT
Hi!
Originally for uk.legal, but I thought it might interest you...
Get a load of this for the ultimate in a Microsoft dominated world :
I bought a Pace 56k Internal modem from a local computer store for 59.99. It
was an ISA modem and works perfectly with Windows, Linux and anything else you
care to throw at it. Having recommended this modem to a friend, I went in and
purchased what I thought was the same one for him, again for 59.99. Only this
time, it turns out it was a PCI controllerless modem (i.e. you need to be
running Windows in order for it to work (winmodem)). This particular flavour
of consumer rip off do not operate under Linux or anything else other than
Windows (and maybe Macs). They are a rip off because they are inefficient,
they lack certain hardware that makes the modem completely independent of the
OS used, and they depend wholly on the performance of the host machine which
dictates their own performance. You'll know if you have one by looking under
System/Hardware. If you find an HCFENUMERATOR device or equivalent (most seem
to be tied to IRQ 9), then you are the hapless victim also.
Anyway, I called them up and explained the situation, and they said there
would be a 20% restocking charge. Perturbed by this news, I rang trading
standards who say that because there was no breach of contract on their part
they can do this. I did not specify which OS the modem was to operate under
at the time of purchase. Are they not under any obligation to show on the
advertisement that there are specific software requirements for the hardware
(i.e. Windows) or am I stuffed? Certainly, if I'm stuffed, then there should
be some sort of legislation to prevent this nonsense happening to your
average computer joe. It's happened to me, and I know what I'm doing which is
why I feel particularly stupid for just assuming it would be the same
hardware.
One last piece of info, the amount shown on the receipt as being charged is
60.00. The modem is advertised at 59.99. As a last resort, can I use this
overcharging as the basis of a refund?
Remember, next time you buy an internal modem, specify that it's for Linux and
you'll get one that operates properly. Cos Windows won't be here forever.
Thankyou!
Best Rgds
Stuart J. Ewen
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From: Pierre Bachelart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega 2G-Jaz on laptops
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 12:17:34 +0200
Maia wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if the iomega 2GJaz drive will work well with
> regular pcmcia scsi adapters (I have the adaptec slimsci) or should
> one buy their pcmcia adapter? How does it perform with Linux,
> particularly on a laptop?
>
> I was thinking on using this as a simple way to share big amounts of
> data between my laptop and my regular pc. I've tryed to look iomegas
> webpage but they have no references at all to Linux.
I'm using a Jazz with a Slimscsi (adaptec) for my laptop and with
a 2929 (adaptect) for my desktop without problem.
Regards.
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From: "Daniel Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: X-SVGA-Server mit CL-GD 5426!
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:23:23 +0200
Hello out there,
I've the following problem with X:
If i want to use 800x600 pixels with 16bpp the X-Server doesn't startup and
displays an errormessage:
...no screens found...
Can anybody help me?
Daniel
PS: If I use any mode with 8bpp X works really fine.
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From: Haupt-User Stefan Kuhnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux als Faxabrufserver
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:10:33 +0200
Hallo,
ich m=F6chte einen Linuxserver als Faxabrufserver konfigurieren.
wer hat Erfahrunug, wer kann helfen.
Vielen Dank =
mfG Stefan Kuhnert
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From: "Christopher A. Suleske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Setting a 3c509 NIC to 10baseT
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:16:43 GMT
Setting up a 3com Etherlink III ISA card, detects the IRQ and IO
correctly, but the module loading indicates it is using the BNC port.
Went to Donald Becker's site... entered "xcvr=4" in the eth0 module
options under the kernel configurator (in linuxconf), no luck, tried
"xcvr=0" also, which is supposed to indicate the default (usually
10baseT). The module doesn't balk when loading, just loads in as BNC.
Chris
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From: Christian Buehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting MO Drive with sectorsize=1024
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 12:34:44 +0200
I'm mot able to get my SCSI MO Drive to work under Suse Linux 6.1.
I have mediums with sectorsize=1024 and played with mounting options,
but
with no success. How do I mount such mediums?
Please help...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network card for Linux and windows 98
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 02:37:43 GMT
Can anybody suggest a good (but inexpensive) 10/100 base PCI Ethernet card
that will be supported by both Linux and Windows 98 OS?
Thanks
Brian
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From: "Derek Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network card for Linux and windows 98
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 08:16:21 +0100
Bay Netgear FA310TX (PCI)
uses DEC Tulip chipset which is supported
by linux kernel 2.0.3
HTH
Derek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7glmhn$69k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can anybody suggest a good (but inexpensive) 10/100 base PCI Ethernet card
>that will be supported by both Linux and Windows 98 OS?
>
>Thanks
>
>Brian
>
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