Linux-Hardware Digest #99, Volume #11 Thu, 26 Aug 99 01:13:28 EDT
Contents:
Re: UPS for LINUX (Ronald Bruck)
Re: Can't install Linux on an ROBO-505 single board computer (Scott Copus)
Re: Install Suse 6.1 with a Freecom-IQ cdromplayer. (Michael Treacy)
Re: Creative Labs ModemBlaster 28.8 (Rob Clark)
Re: Network config: AMD PCNET PCI?? (Scott Copus)
Re: X11 Configuring (Joseph P Turner)
Re: Boot on LAN? (Scott Copus)
Re: Is onboard 3d SiS AGP supported (Scott Copus)
RE: Support for SB PCI128 on Redhat6.0 ("Sebastian G.")
Re: Last 3com drivers
Re: ghost script and epson stylus 640 ("John E. Garrott")
Re: Avoid ATI Graphics like the plague ("Rashputin")
Sound card setings for Thinkpad 600 (2645-51U)? (root)
Re: 3com ISA cards and linux ("Kalkas")
Re: I can't power down using "shutdown -h now"! (John Doe)
Re: FS: $6,000 pair of PCI Fibre Cards for $1 no reserve (John Doe)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald Bruck)
Subject: Re: UPS for LINUX
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:36:33 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Fincher) wrote:
:>I bought a MGE ES2+ from Fry's for $50 and used a Linux driver from
:>MGE's web page. It works.
:>
:
:From fry's? Where's that? Is there a URL?
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha [wild maniacal laughter].
Check out "Dave's Experiences at Fry's Electronics" web pages at
<http://www.accesscom.com/~dave6592/frys.html>
before visiting an actual store. My favorite TITLE, at least, is on Page
10: "I HATE FRY'S MORE THAN GIANT RED AMAZONIAN FIRE ANTS STINGING ME IN
THE EYES!!!!!!!" BTW, they don't REALLY do body cavity searches before
you leave, although it comes close.
You can sometimes get pretty decent prices at Fry's--if you're an expert,
know EXACTLY what you want, and are willing to put up with the "help". I
doubt you can beat the prices from places like www.buybuddy.com, but if
you need to get your hands on it NOW, Fry's is a very popular place.
Since I'm often in that situation, where Fedex would kill my savings, I
shop there a lot.
They do NOT have a web page. That would be like waving a red flag in
front of a bull, especially for Linux users ;-)
--Ron Bruck
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From: Scott Copus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't install Linux on an ROBO-505 single board computer
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:10:43 -0500
Does that hard drive have more than 1024 cylinders?
I don't know if you already know this, but LILO has the 1024 cyl
limit. I don't know how linux takes LBA into effect either, but
you may have to play with BIOS settings on LBA translation.
If you have a hard drive less than 500Mb, I would try to see
if LILO can even get past the "LILO" prompt with it.
good luck,
Scott.
Alex Bolenok wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have got such a problem.
>
> I tried to install Red Hat 6.0 on a ROBO-505 SBC. I have booted from the CD,
> the installation program ran well, I passed through it and rebooted. I have
> got first three letters from LILO prompt and the machine hanged. When I
> removed the flash disk from the machine, LILO started to load well, and
> wrote 'Loading linux.....", but when all the dots were placed, it hanged
> again. Then I installed the HD to another machine, and booted it. The system
> started well. I raw copied the kernel to a floppy, and booted the ROBO-505
> machine from it. It said that it has found a boot record on the floppy, but
> wrote nothing and hanged. Then I removed all the peripherals from the
> machine, including HD and CDROM, turned off all COM and LPT ports, onboard
> IDE, USB etc., so I left only integrated video card, integrated LAN adapter
> and floppy disk. The situation remained the same. Then I tried to replace
> the CPU and memory, and installed an old Intel Pentium 200 and a 64 Mb DIMM,
> which I knew to work with Linux, but it didn't help too. I made a Windows 98
> boot disk, put back the flash disk, and sys'ed it. Then I copied loadlin.exe
> and vmlinuz from the Red Hat CD, booted from the flash disk, and ran
> loadlin. It printed three rows of dots, cleared the screen and the machine
> hang. The same situation was when I booted from a DOS floppy and ran loadlin
> from there. Now I have no more ideas. Hope you'll help me to find any.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Alex Bolenok.
>
> P.S. My machine:
>
> ROBO-505 single board computer, which consists of:
>
> AMD-K6-2 300 MHz processor
> Intel 82430TX PCIset
> RTL8139 Fast Ethernet controlled (onboard)
> CHIPS 69000 Graphics controller (onboard)
> M-Systems DiskOnChip 2000 12 Mb flash disk (onboard)
> IDE, FDD, COM's, LPT's, PS/2 keyboard and mouse
> 16 Mb 100 MHz 8 ns DIMM
> Caviar 31000 HD (1083 Mb)
> Asus 34x CD-ROM
> Floppy drive
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From: Michael Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install Suse 6.1 with a Freecom-IQ cdromplayer.
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 02:58:38 +0100
"f.g.a.m.wouters" wrote:
> I'm a newbie with Linux (Suse 6.1) and i have installed Linux on my PC with
> succes.
> Now i want to install it on my laptop ! !
> I have a IBM laptop 486 with HD of 850 Mb and a Freecom cdromplayer for
> parrallel port use, but the Suse manual says they don't support Freecom.
> Does anyone has a solution to this problem ?
>
> Thanks,
> Frans
Frans,
I just had a look at the SuSE 6.1 manual and it seems that you CAN install from
a parallel-port CD-ROM.
When you pick the installation medium, choose CD-ROM. I presume that it will
then try to mount the CD and fail because it is looking in the usual place. You
can then tell it to look in the Parallel port when the dialog menu pops up.
It's the last option on the list.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Creative Labs ModemBlaster 28.8
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 02:58:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
remove-to-reply) (Matt Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>While I hunt down an inexpensive v.90 internal modem that will work with
>Linux, I thought I'd install an old Creative Labs ModemBlaster 28.8. I set
>the jumpers to Com3 and IRQ7 [IRQ 5 is occupied by my sound card], and away
>I went. No dice. It's an ISA modem, not -- as far as I can tell -- PnP, and
>it certainly predates the days of WinModems.
Did you remember to use setserial to tell Linux you were using that
bizarre address/IRQ combination?
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Scott Copus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Network config: AMD PCNET PCI??
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:02:15 -0500
I will probably be buying a motherboard real soon with on-board
everything--including a network card. I think the brand is AMD
PCNET also. I have been reading everything I can to find out
what this NIC chipset supports as far as OS's goes. Reading
the Linux _Ethernet How-To_ says that AMD PCNET chipsets
should work by loading the LANCE or NE1500 modules.
Try that out. I would *VERY* much be interested in your
results... if it worked or not. Is your NIC onboard?
Scott.
"T.P Harte" wrote:
> Trying to get Red Hat 6.0 to talk to the world.
>
> I have a :
>
> AMD PCNET PCI
>
> ethernet adapter, but there does not appear to be a suitable
> module to load either in the list of available modules in the
> `Define Module` window of the Kernel Configurator, nor in
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/net
>
> Does anyone have a suitable module out there?
>
> ping 127.0.0.1 works okay, but the kernel reports that
> eth0 has initialization delayed.
>
> I did not configure the system for networking at install time,
> so my guess is that linux has detected an ethernet card but
> doesn't know how to talk to it.
>
> Any help appreciated, thanks.
>
> Thomas.
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:10:30 +0800
From: Joseph P Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X11 Configuring
Joseph P Turner wrote:
>
> Hello, I've been trying to configure X a mobo with a VIA Apollo MVP4
> chip[set (built in AGP) awith AMD 350MHz.I'm using Debian 2.0 and I've
> run SuperProbe -verbose -no_bios and it told me that the AGP chipset is:
>
> First video: Super-VGA
> Chipset: Trident GUI 9420 (Port Probed)
> Memory: 2048 Kbytes
> RAMDAC: Trident Built-In 15/16/24-bit DAC
> (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
>
> So I tried to configure X as this using XF86Setup and xf86config without
> any luck. Sometimes I could get to that familar grey screen, but it was
> doing the job very well at all...icons lokoed larger and it was a
> complete mess. I tried many different configurations but could not get
> it to work.
>
> I was thinking the problem may have something to do with the two
> settings in the BIOS:
>
> Frame Buffer Size & AGP Aperture Size,
> since I'm not really sure what Ishould set this to.
>
> Anyone managed to to configure X using this mobo and its built in
> graphics adaptor?
> Any help or guidance very appreciated.
> Joe
I downloaded the newest version of X from the xfree comepage and I did
another SuperProbe.
irst video: Super-VGA
Chipset: Trident (chipset unknown) (PCI Probed)
Signature data: 84001023 (please report)
Memory: 2048 Kbytes
RAMDAC: Sierra SC1148{2,3,4} 15-bit or SC1148{5,7,9} 15/16-bit
HiColor
(with 8-bit wide lookup tables)
Since is this the end of the road for me in terms on configurig this
onboard AGP with X? I do not intend on even trying to write drivers
since I have no ida where to start. I do not want to run it as a VGA
server. Guess I'll have to shove a svga card in for the time being.
Joe
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From: Scott Copus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Boot on LAN?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:20:18 -0500
Have you had any responses to this yet? I would also like to
have a Linux app that can generate these packets.
Where did you find the dos/win apps to send magic packets?
thanks,
scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have several linux boxen in my care. One runs headless 24/7 as a
> server and I use another for interactive stuff. The latter machine
> usually gets powered down if I go away for the weekend. Occasionally,
> though, I find a need to get at something on this machine when I am
> away from home and the machine is powered down.
>
> This machine also has a fairly nice (if a little outdated) Intel
> motherboard (integrated ethernet) which reminds me that it can "boot
> on lan" every time it goes through the BIOS init. I got to thinking
> this evening that it would be nice if I could power this machine up
> remotely.
>
> The owners manual makes mention of a "Magic Packet" and I have found a
> number of dos/win apps to generate one, but no Linux appl. Does
> anyone know if there exists a Magic Packet generator for Linux?
>
> -p.
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From: Scott Copus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is onboard 3d SiS AGP supported
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:18:05 -0500
"Peter S. Frouman" wrote:
> I have a pcchips M590 board and had major problems getting the onboard
> video to work until I upgraded to XFree86 3.3.4. Using xf86config and the
> SVGA server I was able to get it working at 1024x768 24bpp. I think it is
> because more support for several SiS chips was added in this release. I
> don't think any current distributions include 3.3.4 yet but it can be
> downloaded from http://www.xfree86.org/ and other locations.
>
> The onboard sound was more problematic. Although the CMI8330 is listed as
> supported, I wasn't able to get it to work even after reading the detailed
> CMI8330-Howto at http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/linux.htm
I'm curious about your onboard sound problems with the SoundPro(?) chipset.
I planned on buying a motherboard with onboard everything--including the
chipset the same as yours.
Do you remember which part of the How-to didn't work for you?
thank you much,
scott.
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From: "Sebastian G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Support for SB PCI128 on Redhat6.0
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:18:45 -0300
hi I=B4m just a newbie baut i had the same problem, (I am starting to try t=
o
resolve ir right now).
first try to fuond the sound drivers modules in one of this URL
http://www.insflug.nova.es/howtos/online/sonido/sonido-COMO.html
http://www.4front-tech.com/ossfree/new_cards.html
Them try running sndconfig
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Subject: Support for SB PCI128 on Redhat6.0
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> I just installed Redhat 6.0 on my machine with sound card from Creative
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> SB PCI128. However I did not find any info in the docs, on how to enable
>
> sound on my machine.
>
> Is there a driver that I need to download from some place ?
> Are ther options under linuxconf, kdemenus, gnome utilities that I
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Last 3com drivers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 03:36:03 GMT
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:01:16 +0200,
Emmanuel CHILAUD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for the latest drivers for 3c905b ethernet card.
>
>Can someone tell me where I can find that ?
>
>Thanks,
>
>E. CHILAUD
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
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From: "John E. Garrott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ghost script and epson stylus 640
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:09:36 -0700
Bill Maniatty wrote:
>
> Stewart Hector wrote:
>
> > can only tell me how to set ghostscript up to work with epson stylus?
> >
> > please, don't tell me to rtfm!
> >
> > a working script would be nice!!
>
> I don't have such a configuration, so I have not had a chance to try the
> following.
> However, two interesting places on the web for just such stuff include:
> http://eunuchs.org/epson/index.html
> and
> http://www.u.arizona.edu/~zdw/uniprint.html
>
> Unfortunately your question is so vague that reading and trying stuff is
> probably
> the only way to get a more specific problem statement.
>
> I hope that helps. I am under the impression that the uniprint drivers
> could
> require some color correction parameters to match the quality of the
> Epson
> supplied drivers (which are not available for Unix :-(). You might also
>
> want to check dejanews to see if there is any good stuff in
> comp.peripherals.printers.
>
> Regards:
>
> Bill Maniatty
Also http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
John
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From: "Rashputin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Avoid ATI Graphics like the plague
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:34:50 -0400
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Gee, I guess that means I should put off trying Linux until I have a card
and system that is all supported, right ? I mean, what the hell, it all
runs under Windoze just fine, but if I have to purchase new hardware to
leave windows, I guess I should just hold on to it as is. Thanks for the
tip. I may have wasted a lot of time scrambling to try and find somebody on
the net with a driver.
David C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "zerocool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Alas, I just dropped 250 bucks for an All-in-wonder 128 card, and I'm
> > SOL in regards to X support. I just downloaded the latest demo of
> > Accelerated X, and I'm hoping that might work, I may have to drop down
> > another 100 bucks to buy that IF it works. But the neat features of
> > this card will probably never be supported under X
>
> I will never understand why someone will buy a new card, and only after
> getting it home decide to find out if there is driver support available.
>
> I recently upgraded my video card, and the _FIRST_ thing I did was
> download the XFree86 compatibility list from their web site. I braught
> the list into the store and rejected a-priori any chipset not on the
> list.
>
> The result is that the new card (based on Riva-TNT, in case anybody
> cares) works great, and no special effort was required to make it work.
>
> If I didn't do that, I would probably have ended up with a Rage-120 or
> Voodoo-whatever card, and I'd be scrambling to try and find somebody on
> the net with a driver.
>
> -- David
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Sound card setings for Thinkpad 600 (2645-51U)?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:13:17 -0700
What settings sould I have in my /etc/conf.modules to get the sound card
to work on a ThinkPad 600?
Some sound works and some does not .
*.mid, and cd music work.
*.wav files do not work.
I ran sndconfig, and selected the Crystal audio Driver, accepting the
default settings.
Now the /etc/conf.modules looks like this:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias sound cs4232
pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5
synthirq=5 synthio=538
Thank you for your help,
John Stile
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From: "Kalkas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 3com ISA cards and linux
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:27:08 +0200
See sig for reply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> X-No-Archive: yes
>
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kalkas wrote:
>
> > I have been seriously thinking to use Linux and stop using Windows 98. I
am
> > fascinated by Linux's stability and security.
>
> I agree.
>
> > However, it seems that it is not possible for me to use Linux, since I
use
> > cable modem with a 3com ISA card. More precisely, I use 3com EtherLink
III
> > ISA (3C509/3C509b) network interface card, and there are no drivers
which
> > will support my card in Linux.
>
> Ooops?
> One of my Linux boxes does use a 3C509. Had no problems to get it running.
> Even the Linux which included kernel 2.0.33 supported it.
>
> Cheers,
> Detlef.
Thanks for your answer. Every help is valuable:)
Are there problems in configuration of the modem-cable I have with Linux. I
am thinking of configurations of proxy setings, etc. I know how to configure
it in Windows 95/98. Is it similar in Linux?
I plan to buy a comprehensive manual for Linux before I dare to install it.
Sincerely yours,
Kalkas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
Subject: Re: I can't power down using "shutdown -h now"!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 Aug 1999 00:26:41 -0500
You have missed red hat 6.0. Try that and it will work.:)
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 03:44:03 +0000, Ross Anderson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've recompiled the kernel (2.2.7) to include APM support and to turn off on
>shutdown, but when I use the "shutdown -h now" command, it goes through all
>the usual stuff and then just sits there!
>
>Anyone got any ideas on what I've missed? I'm using SuSE 6.1....
>
>Thanks!
>
>Ross Anderson
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,alt.2600,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: FS: $6,000 pair of PCI Fibre Cards for $1 no reserve
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 Aug 1999 00:25:17 -0500
I will report this to ebay; ebay rules forbid sellers from spamming.
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:33:36 GMT, Steve W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=152677644
>
>That's where you'll find a pair of Emulex LP7000E-N1 PCI Fibre Channel
>cards, valued at almost $6,000.
>
>Starting at $1 with no reserve, good luck to all bidders!
>
>TCP/IP and SCSI simultaneously at 100 megabytes (gigabit) per second
>full duplex over optical cable at great distances.
>
>Software Environments
>Windows NT 3.5.1/4.0 (Alpha & x86) SCSI and IP
>Solaris 2.5.1 (SPARC & x86) SCSI and IP
>NetWare 4.x SCSI
>UnixWare 2.1 SCSI
>IBM AIX 4.1 SCSI and IP
>
>Hardware Environments
>x86, SPARC, PowerPC and DEC Alpha
>PCI hardware platform
>
>check the ebay link for full info
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