Linux-Hardware Digest #174, Volume #10 Thu, 6 May 99 17:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: why doesn't redhat 6.0 support ethernet card? ("Lee Sharp")
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (brian moore)
Re: Drucker =?iso-8859-1?Q?l=E4uft?= nicht (Manfred Becker)
Re: Q: HP NetRAID 3Si + booting LINUX (Bruno MONTET)
Re: kernel doesn't see new 32meg dimm (Mircea)
Linux on a Notebook? ("cris")
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Andrew Comech)
Re: ping utility (Sergei Zablotskii)
Re: Does Anyone have Mwave modem/sound card? ("Alan Bumpus")
Re: RedHat 6.0 and zip drive (Jim Chisholm)
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly ("Xin Feng")
Re: Linux modem list. (Andrew Comech)
Re: sblive (patrick)
Re: pci chip driver (Holger Blinzinger)
Sony SuperStation drive ("Scott Simpson")
Re: AHA-2940U2W (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Any External Modem? (Andrew Comech)
Re: Yamaha 4416 CD Drive not found ? (Andrew Benham)
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why doesn't redhat 6.0 support ethernet card?
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:08:56 -0500
Yafei Li wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|i installed it through ftp but the kernel doesn't support the network
|card after installation. and the kernel is 2.0.x. without network
|connection, i can't even download a new kernel. this is ridiculous!
|any suggestions?
You did not install RH 6.0... RH 6.0 is based on 2.2.x, and has network
support. You can download kernels, and upgrade them as well.
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an individual,
not as a representative of any company, organization or other entity. I am
solely responsible for my words.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: 6 May 1999 17:56:39 GMT
On 6 May 1999 13:39:22 -0500,
Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oops.
> Anyways, IP addresses are dynamically assigned when you dial up from home,
> so who cares (although a netmask 255.0.0.0 would be good).
For some. I dial up from home and have a static IP (and have had one
for years). Actually, it's a /28 network at the moment.
> Cookies themselves do not mean that much: this is far from a 100%
> identification, especially if you fake your email address (and disable finger).
> At the same time, PSN is close to 100% in more than 50% cases (all intel
> users who did not know how to disable PSN).
Neither is 100% identification. (Think shared machines: quite common at
many businesses.)
> Let me also answer other raised issues:
>
> This idea "stick to Linux and you are free from PSN identification" is...
> stupid. Linux is not _that_ popular so far, and we could face the mentioned
> problem that some internet services are just not accessible from machines
> with disabled PSN. They would not care much about losing Linux users as a
> whole, as do not care the manufactures of winmodems.
If they don't want my business, it's nice of them to make it inaccesible
to me so I know not to waste my time trying to give them money. There
are plenty of businesses that are glad to have my money.
> Also, there are more and more applications for Linux; just you wait for
> an IE (or is it there already?) and others... Or are you going to
> answer me that I (and everybody else) should carve out PSN lines from the
> source code?.. Again, there are "non-free" applications, when the source code
> is not available, and there could be more of those...
> Also, there are all those java things and plug-ins, and I wonder whether one
> may use them to turn the PSN on. So far, Linux is probably safe; next year it
> will not be.
Wanna bet?
> That is, this would be jungles of methods and and contra-methods which enable
> or disable PSN, where only brave [hackers] are able to overcome PSN in their
> computers. Do we want to face all that in a year or two, or do we just keep the
> voice up trying to avoid PSNs completely?
I think your time would be better spent on dealing with real privacy
issues, such as WebTV's reporting of TV viewing habits and what
Microsoft (owners of WebTV, after all) will do if they manage to get
WinCE into cable boxes.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: Manfred Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drucker =?iso-8859-1?Q?l=E4uft?= nicht
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 19:36:36 +0200
"Oliver J. Haas" wrote:
> Hi Leute,
>
Hi Oliver,
dies ist eine Englische-Newsgroup. Stelle deine Fragen in Englisch oder poste
unter de.comp....
Ciao
- Manfred -
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Hi Oliver,
this is an english-spoken newsgroup. Please send your news in english od post
to de.comp....
Ciao
- Manfred -
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From: Bruno MONTET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: HP NetRAID 3Si + booting LINUX
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 16:13:29 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few weeks ago, i've read (in HP site) that the NetRaid isn't supported
by Linux...
Christian Wiese wrote:
>
> hi folks,
>
> Is there anybody out there, who can tell me if it's possible to boot
> Linux from a harddisk that is connected to the HP NetRAID 3Si controller
> ???
>
> thank you very much
>
> best regards
>
> christian
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel doesn't see new 32meg dimm
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 13:27:07 -0400
Read the Linux-FAQ section 1.8. It has only 6 lines. shouldn't be too
difficult to grasp.
MST
chris wrote:
>
> i'm probably going to get flamed for posting this to 2 groups, but what
> the hell.
>
> I had 2 32 meg sdram dimms and tossed a third in. windows (and the bios)
> see the third, but linux (2.2.5) still thinks I have 64 megs of ram. As
> I said in .comp.os....setup, I want to troll for suggestions before a
> hair-pulling session in HOW-TO land.
> thanks.
> chris
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From: "cris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on a Notebook?
Date: 6 May 99 18:02:53 GMT
Hello out there!
I want to install my DLD Linux 6.0 on a new DELL Latitiude CPi Notebook.
I have now already installed it, but I have a problem with the
konfiguration of the X-Server, what kind of Entrys i have to make? I have
also a 3com 10/100 Base- Tx Ethernet- card and a Psion Dacom 56k Modemcard.
What kind of Entrys i have to make, or must i modify the Kernel?
Please help me or I shot a Cucumber into my Knee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greatings Cris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 May 1999 13:39:22 -0500
On Thu, 06 May 1999 10:31:39 -0500, Erica Vogle wrote:
>
>
>Andrew Comech wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 5 May 1999 22:16:58 -0400, Bill Frisbee wrote:
>> >
>
>> >Last time I checked you all had IP addresses, MAC addresses
>> >and some like Sun boxes and several other Uber
>> >processor machines had serial numbers.
>>
>> You _think_ there is no difference between the above numbers and the
>> PSN thing. I _think_ you are wrong. Let me try to justify my point of view:
>> MAC addresses are only relevant when we are talking about MAC users, IP
>> numbers are usually dynamically-assigned, SUN boxes are not a common thing
>> at home, and "who's Uber?".
>
>When he says MAC addresses, he doesn't mean MACintosh, he means MAC
>address, as in ethernet address, the address that IP addresses are
>finally translated to. And he is right, since MAC addresses are more or
>less unique. A site could theoretically track these just as they could
>do with the hostid on a Solaris machine, or the Processor# in a PIII.
Oops.
Anyways, IP addresses are dynamically assigned when you dial up from home,
so who cares (although a netmask 255.0.0.0 would be good).
>This is not a new concept by any stretch of the imagination. It's only
>a big deal because the media has begun harping on it as the downfall of
>civilization, which has gotten the less-than-informed to take up arms
>against Intel. And you know what? It's not that different than when a
>site throws a cookie on your machine, so the next time you visit that
>site, they know who you are and can base questions, offerings, news,
>etc. on it.
Truly, I disabled cookies. Not that I care much, but...
Cookies themselves do not mean that much: this is far from a 100%
identification, especially if you fake your email address (and disable finger).
At the same time, PSN is close to 100% in more than 50% cases (all intel
users who did not know how to disable PSN).
>Just because, as you state, SUN boxes are not a common thing at home,
>doesn't mean that they aren't a common thing at businesses, where the
>real battle over tracking serial numbers would be fought. Trust me, Sun
>Workstations are all over the place, and you know what? Businesses
>don't mind that they have a burned in serial number.
I do not care much about businesses; as long as I am not affiliated with
one which would force me to work with a camera aimed at me or alike. But,
as you say, businesses may use Suns as well, so they are not that affected.
>From my point of view,
intel's PSN _primarily_ affects privacy of _private citizens_, and
it would be the _best_ aid (among cookies and whatever) in tracing them
up to their desk.
Let me also answer other raised issues:
This idea "stick to Linux and you are free from PSN identification" is...
stupid. Linux is not _that_ popular so far, and we could face the mentioned
problem that some internet services are just not accessible from machines
with disabled PSN. They would not care much about losing Linux users as a
whole, as do not care the manufactures of winmodems.
Also, there are more and more applications for Linux; just you wait for
an IE (or is it there already?) and others... Or are you going to
answer me that I (and everybody else) should carve out PSN lines from the
source code?.. Again, there are "non-free" applications, when the source code
is not available, and there could be more of those...
Also, there are all those java things and plug-ins, and I wonder whether one
may use them to turn the PSN on. So far, Linux is probably safe; next year it
will not be.
That is, this would be jungles of methods and and contra-methods which enable
or disable PSN, where only brave [hackers] are able to overcome PSN in their
computers. Do we want to face all that in a year or two, or do we just keep the
voice up trying to avoid PSNs completely?
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: Sergei Zablotskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ping utility
Date: 6 May 1999 16:32:40 GMT
David Claney wrote:
>
> simple question? linix machine can ping all the machines on
network with
> great success but i can not ping it from win95 machine?
>
> this
hurdle to get over then onto Samba!!!
> This stuff gets more facinating by the minuet.
;-)
>
> All responses greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
Hi David,
It appears to me that
your MS network machines can't resolve the name of your linux box. I suggest to add a
STATIC entry into your DNS or WINS server list of hosts, worked for me.
Cheers
Sergei
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From: "Alan Bumpus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Anyone have Mwave modem/sound card?
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:07:15 -0500
I have one. It won't work. See www.flexion.org/mwave/
al
Jeho Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ggidq$ne9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have Mwave modem(IBM MWV3000) and have problem to make it work with
Linux.
>
>
>
>
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From: Jim Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.0 and zip drive
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 16:43:23 +0000
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Tom Holt wrote:
> I have a parallel port zip drive that installed fine under RedHat Linux 5.2.
> I have now upgraded to RedHat 6.0 and the zip drive won't install. When the
> upgrade utility gets to the SCSI section, I specify parallel port zip drive
> and probe for parameters (this procedure worked under RH 5.2) and the
> program tells me that there is no such device on my system.
>
> Has anyone else managed to install a parallel port zip drive under RedHat
> Linux 6.0?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tom
Hi Tom..
What works (for me) is in your kernel .config
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_SCSI=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
You will probably have to do a "modprobe ppa" before your "mount" command..
Good Luck
Jim
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Jim Chisholm
Dalhousie University, Dept. Physics Halifax N.S. Canada
http://electron.phys.dal.ca
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service
Lieutenant #2 Bay Road Station 59
http://www.fire-ems.net/firedept/view/HalifaxNSCA
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Tom Holt wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I have a parallel port zip drive that installed fine
under RedHat Linux 5.2.
<br>I have now upgraded to RedHat 6.0 and the zip drive won't install.
When the
<br>upgrade utility gets to the SCSI section, I specify parallel port zip
drive
<br>and probe for parameters (this procedure worked under RH 5.2) and the
<br>program tells me that there is no such device on my system.
<p>Has anyone else managed to install a parallel port zip drive under RedHat
<br>Linux 6.0?
<p>Thanks in advance.
<p>Tom</blockquote>
Hi Tom..
<br>What works (for me) is in your kernel .config
<br>
<pre>CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m</pre>
<pre>CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m</pre>
<pre>
CONFIG_SCSI=m</pre>
<pre>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m</pre>
<pre>CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m</pre>
<pre>You will probably have to do a "modprobe ppa" before your "mount" command..</pre>
<pre>Good Luck</pre>
<pre>Jim</pre>
<pre>
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Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dalhousie University, Dept. Physics Halifax N.S.
Canada
<A HREF="http://electron.phys.dal.ca">http://electron.phys.dal.ca</A>
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service
Lieutenant #2 Bay Road Station 59
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From: "Xin Feng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 12:32:40 -0700
Ken,
Thank you first, I made my WinTV (the same model 401, setero TV and radio)
work under your instructions. But I can not get stereo sound, mono only.
Did you?
Xin
Ken Cormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
"Jeff Volckaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>All my hardware (with the exception of my Hauppauge tuner card) works
>flawlessly. Ensonique sound, Riva128 video, 13G seagate drive and ne2000
>network included.
Jeff - Got my Hauppauge WinTV Model 401 working just fine here under RedHat
6.0 with xawtv-2.43-1.i386.rpm (built from xawtv-2.43.tar.gz, using the
command "rpm -ta xawtv-2.43.tar.gz", also per the xawtv docs). Kradio even
works well. I can offer a few things to look for, but if needed, I'll ask
you
to give a few specifics about your configuration.
To start, here's a snippet from my /etc/conf.modules (per the xawtv docs),
relating to the WinTV board....
alias char-major-81 bttv
pre-install bttv modprobe -k msp3400; modprobe -k tuner
options bttv card=0 radio=1 vidmem=0xff0
options tuner type=2
Also, here's a look at my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file (which may not exist by
default but is searched for and executed if found during startup)...
/sbin/modprobe tuner
/sbin/modprobe msp3400
/sbin/modprobe bttv
Per the xawtv docs, be CERTAIN to compile kernel bttv support as a module!
If you normally use "make menuconfig", you'll find the settings under...
Main Menu
Character devices
Video For Linux
<M> Video For Linux
<M> BT848 Video For Linux
Finally, I ran the following to make sure I had the needed device nodes...
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV video
I hope this info helps.
>DHCP will not work with my Cable modem. My workstations DHCP fine to my
>Linux DHCP server though. This one really hurts and prevents me from
>upgrading my firewall until it's fixed. I'm told that Redhat now uses a
>program called pump instead of dhcpcd.
Regarding the above, I have had no problems with DHCP and my cable modem
(Time-Warner's RoadRunner in Northeast Ohio, while using an Artisoft
AE2/NE-2000
Clone), yet I DO experience lock-ups (and a spewing of garbage on the LAN at
the
office) under DHCP with a Compaq-labled Intel EtherExpress 10/100 PCI NIC.
Wierd.
(Solved that issue by simply getting a fixed IP address at the office,
though that doesnt
help you out here - sorry)
Keep us posted, k?
Ken
==================================
Ken Cormack
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.neo.rr.com/kcormack/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Linux modem list.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 May 1999 12:52:41 -0500
On 06 May 1999 09:19:43 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> Can anyone point me out to the place where they have
>> a comprehensive list of all modems that can run
>> under Linux.. dont wanna spend the damn $$$ and find
>> out its some lousy Wind(woes) only compatible modem
>> Thanks,
>> Rajesh.
>
>if it says *external* on the box, i am 99.9% sure it will work.
<loud>
EXCEPT FOR EXTERNAL MODEMS WITH USR INTERFACE
</loud>
There are more and more of these bastards; not just 0.1%.
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sblive
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 21:43:34 +0200
got it work only wav files are stuttering
patrick wrote:
> hello all
>
> okay i downloaded the sblive beta driver at creative, but i cant get it
> working, i did everything as stated in the info file
>
> im using suse linux 6.1 kernal 2.2.5
>
> please help
>
> patrick
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From: Holger Blinzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pci chip driver
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 17:53:39 +0200
ellis wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Holger Blinzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I want to run a pci interface chip (PLX9080) on Linux.
>
> Doing a quick grep of the kernel source I see that the PLX-9080
> is already supported. What do you want to do with it?
I need this chip to gain access to a FPGA and be able
toinitialize/configure it this way. Can you tell me how I can set this
driver up to work with my device (PLX9080)?
> --
> http://www.fnet.net/~ellis/photo/linux.html
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From: "Scott Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony SuperStation drive
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:12:16 -0700
I have a Sony SuperStation drive. Is there any Linux support
for such a beast? Linux seems to complain vociferously when
it comes up.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: AHA-2940U2W
Date: 6 May 1999 18:49:06 GMT
On Thu, 6 May 1999 07:06:54 -0300, Ricardo Canani wrote:
> What about Slackware Linux ?
it's the same OS !!! if you have kernel 2.0.36 with
SCSI support, it should work just fine.
--
Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Buying computer parts ? How do you know which vendors to trust ?
http://www.resellerratings.com
Impartial and accurate. Straight from the buyers mouth.
( disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with resellerratings.com )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Any External Modem?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 May 1999 10:50:51 -0500
On Mon, 03 May 1999 02:17:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is it true that any external modem will work with linux?
Yes, _EXCEPT_ for modems with USB interface. One should also
avoid (obsolete) RPI modems (RPI stands for Rockwell Protcol Interface).
>I am looking to
>purchase a DATA BRIDGE:ELITE ROCKWELL CHIPSET 56K DATA/FAX external modem for
>$53. Does anyone have have any experience using this modem with Linux?
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: Andrew Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yamaha 4416 CD Drive not found ?
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 17:31:57 +0100
Andrew Benham wrote:
> I've just got around to replacing my old Toshiba 2-speed SCSI CD drive
> with a Yamaha 4416 SCSI Re-writable drive.
>
> Although 'another OS' can see the new drive OK, Linux (kernel 2.0.36)
> can't see it. It doesn't show up during the startup probe, and if I
> try to mount it it tells me that /dev/scd0 isn't a block device.
> Everything was working just fine with the Toshiba SCSI CD drive.
And everything is working after I visited the Yamaha website
http://www.yamahayst.com/
and downloaded the update to take the drive firmware from v1.0e to v1.0g
--
Andrew Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nortel Networks, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1279 402372 Fax: +44 1279 405746
I speak for myself, my views are not necessarily the views
of Nortel Networks or any other corporation.
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