Linux-Hardware Digest #260, Volume #11 Wed, 15 Sep 99 18:13:46 EDT
Contents:
Re: Anyone using Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 Network in a Box ? (Rod Smith)
cd audio problem on mandrake 6.0 ("pascal cruls")
Re: Help with hardware, PLEASE!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Winmodem Switching to Hardware Modem (Chris Reaves)
Guillemot Sound-Card (Winni)
swapping modems (Chris Reaves)
Re: Aiptek HyperPen 6000 Driver ("Markus Schuster")
Q&A from this newsgroup ("Tsak Fox")
Re:Small Lan-Big problem ->eexpress.c ("Kovalev")
Re: laptop touch pad (Alastair Couper)
Re: Someone who knows Linux modems PLEASE HELP ME !! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dell 4300 Server (Denton B)
SONY PCG-707C - What sound card is in this thing? (Michael Riffle)
Re: AMD K6-2/300 ("Drydd")
Re: AMD K6-2 (jwk)
Re: 2 NICS on the same machine (Larry Ozarow)
can't get sound to work....mad 16 (opti 82924 chipset)
Re: Someone who knows Linux modems PLEASE HELP ME !! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X problems (Valerio)
silver buttons on compaq presario laptop: how to get working under linux? (Id Est)
Re: Any Non-Booting SCSI-2 Cards. (Mike Frisch)
Kernel upgrade (Brian Donaldson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Anyone using Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 Network in a Box ?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:21:19 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <MPG.1249ab4151540769989683@defaultnews>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Akers) writes:
> I've just discovered a local PC shop selling the 'Linksys Fast Ethernet
> 10/100 Network in a Box' product for what seems like a very reasonable
> price. It says on the box that it is Linux compatible.
>
> Are any of you Linux users out there using one of these ? If so, what are
> your thoughts ? I am thinking of getting one of these (plus a third
> network card) for my home network which is currently running using old
> 3Com 3C503 ISA cards. My network consists of one Linux server, one W98
> machine and one multi-boot W98, NT4, Linux machine.
I'm not using this specific product, but I am using a 5-port Linksys
10/100 hub and a Linksys 10/100 NIC in one of my computers. They work
fine, though the vast majority of the Linksys 10/100 NICs on store shelves
today use PNIC Tulip clone chips rather than "genuine" DEC Tulip chips.
The result is that you'll probably have to recompile your kernel (or at
least your Tulip driver) to get the board to work with Linux.
One other caveat: Some kits of the type you describe come with 10/100 NICs
but only 10Mbps hubs, or some other crippling feature. Be sure that ALL
the components are capable of the 100Mbps speed.
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Author of _Special Edition Using Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux_, from Que
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From: "pascal cruls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cd audio problem on mandrake 6.0
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:32:49 +0100
Hi,
I have mandrake 6.0 runing with a pci 64 sound card and a 32x creative cd
rom drive.
the es1370 seems to be loaded with no error. As far as a know all the sound
file format work fine (.wav , mp3 etc ...)
The problem is that I can't play any audio cd (the drive is reading the cd.
The audio cable is fine, the mixer seems to be correctly set.
I have tried different cd players even x11amp.
an other thing :
When I try to mount an audio cd with
mount /devhdc /mnt/cdrom (without specifying the file system with -t )
I have an error on the file system, is that normal ?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers
Pascal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help with hardware, PLEASE!!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:46:52 GMT
Good news my friend,
If you just installed RH 6.0, you don't need to recompile your kernel.
All of these hdwrs. are already supported by your kernel. That's, of
course, not a guarantee that the brands you have are supported,
though. This may be easier than you thought. As regards your modem;
if it's a winmodem, you can forget it. It's not gonna happen. If it
isn't, you're probably OK. You have to add the modem as a network
interface device. to do this, go into windows (if you have it) and
find out what com port the modem is on. While you're there find out
all relevant info on IRQ's and I/O addresses for all hardware you want
to use in linux. When you get back in linux, open a shell and type
>netcfg. Not the carrot > just the netcfg. This is obviously the
network config utility. Click the interfaces tab and install the
modem. Hint: Modem on COM 1 in windoze is CUA0 in linux...COM2=CUA1,
etc. When you initialize the modem, you should hear it try to dial (if
you've already installed sound that is) Hint2: don't link CUAx to
/dev/modem ...it's a bit unreliable. How do you get your sound card
working? First track down the docs that came with it. If your lucky,
you won't need it. But linux doesn't like Plug-n-Pray, so be prepared
to know it's recommended IRQ, DMAs (there are two...like 1 and 5), and
I/O addresses. When you have that, open a shell (xterm, konsole, etc.)
and type >sndconfig . This is the sound config tool. It's easy. As
regards the zip disk: goto this directory on your hdd...
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini and look for the ZIP howto's at the bottom. Also
easy. Last bit of advice. How much is your time worth? Mine's worth
alot, and I've save 10s of hours by buying "Sam's Red Had Linux 6.0
Unleased" from Amazon (no I don't work for either of them). It's under
$40.00 and WELL worth the money. Best of Luck, and keep at
it....Tweak, tweak, tweak all day long...tweak, tweak, tweak while I
sing this song.
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From: Chris Reaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Winmodem Switching to Hardware Modem
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:31:22 GMT
I presently have an lt winmodem and what i want to do is to take my
fiances modem which is a isa actiontech hardware modem and put mine in
hers. Will i have to do anything special in redhat linux to get my modem
to work properly. The linux is already installed in the system.
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From: Winni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Guillemot Sound-Card
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:31:18 GMT
I have a Guillemot Maxi Home Studio ISA-PnP Card.
Anyone got an idea how to install it ? (Delix Distribution)
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From: Chris Reaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: swapping modems
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:31:20 GMT
i wondering if i swap my lt winmodem with my fiances isa actiontech
hardware modem how do i set this up in redhat linux or do i. the linux are
already installed.
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From: "Markus Schuster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Aiptek HyperPen 6000 Driver
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:25:38 +0200
I'm new with Linux and I want to use my Aiptek HyperPen 6000 Graphiktablett
(I don't know the English word for this).
But I can't find a driver or something like this on the web.
Can anybody help me? (Sorry for my bad English, but I'm from Germany)
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From: "Tsak Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q&A from this newsgroup
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:42:12 +0300
Questions and answers from this newsgroup (archived by subject) can be found
at http://server.hellug.gr/LUGistics/en/pub/QA_articles_main.php3
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Kovalev")
Subject: Re:Small Lan-Big problem ->eexpress.c
Date: 15 Sep 1999 16:02:12 GMT
Hi, folks,
Thanks everybody.
Seems, I'm starting to nail down the problem and it looks like
it's not a route problem. (I'm not posting route table and ifconfig,
cause at the moment they look normal, although I tried all you
proposed - all default routes and stuff)
Each time, the packet is supposed to go through eth0,
no matter what program sends it, ping other host or telnet it,
I get a bunch of kernel error messages to the log files
Like this:
KERNEL: i82586 startup timed out, status 0000, resetting...
[...]
KERNEL: i82586 reset timed out, kicking...
[...]
KERNEL: i82586 not responding, giving up.
(With the "Board on fire?" after a while)
After any such attempt ifconfig shows TX packets non-zero and TX errors
too, although a smaller number.
They repeat several times and then, if, say ping still tries to ping through,
repeat all over again.
I was looking for this particular problem in general Ethernet HOWTO, but
they refer me to the eexpress.c listing.
So I go there and see something about whole bunch of problems (not
described exactly) with using EtherExpess 16 on "faster machines" ..
One of the solutions, proposed there is "Get another NIC".
Ok, just fine, I'm not VERY upset by this but before I go and get it
maybe someone knows about any bugfix/newer driver/rough solution,
which might make this EtherExpress 16TP work properly on the celeron box??
Is there anybody here who made it work?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alastair Couper)
Subject: Re: laptop touch pad
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:19:42 GMT
Denton B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> offered:
>anyone know how to turn off the tap (click) feature? the laptop is a
>compaq presario 1255 with the glidepoint.
Which driver are you using? Is it this one ? :
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Synaptics/
Alastair Couper
aquarius at ccmaui dot net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Someone who knows Linux modems PLEASE HELP ME !!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:08:29 GMT
Hello, I don't have a modem in my linux box yet, but from what I've
read, you will probably have the best luck if you can set it in non-pnp
mode. Then set the modem to an available address (COM port) and IRQ
with jumpers, (leave the plug-and-pray stuff for window$).
Hope this helps,
gnu_user
In article <7rnc57$21q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Dan Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I dont understand why this has to be so hard. I'm certain I will
have
> hypertension as a result of my efforts.
>
> Bought a Creative Modem Bastard 5601-1 because it has a controller
(ie not a
> win modem). I have seen reports on sites that claim to have gotten it
to
> work. But no one can tell me how or at least answer a few simple
questions.
>
> Should I set the jumpers to PNP mode ?
> I tried this. Windows liked it, but using pnpdump -c
>/dev/isapnp.conf and
> the isapnp but this showed error messages that suggest there are
conflicts
> even though the conf file said thet there were several options ofr
> configuring this device.
>
> I got minicom to connect. I had an irq conflict because the characters
> appeared after a long delay. I tried launching Netscape but it said
that I
> may have a problem with my nameserver. I may need info on configuring
this.
>
> I am at my witts end. If you can help I would be very greatfull.
>
> Dan
>
>
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From: Denton B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell 4300 Server
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:21:48 GMT
yeah, get more than 256K RAM :-)
other than that...I envy you.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Todd Simi wrote:
> Hi,
> I am about to order a Dell 4300 Server with RedHat 6.0 pre installed
>
> It will have the PERC/SC Raid Controller
> 4) 9GB 10K rpm drives ( RAID 1 )
> 256K Ram
> SCSI 12/24 DSS 4mm Tape
> SCSI CD-ROM
>
> Either 600Mhz PIII or Dual 500Mhz PIII
>
> Please,
> I would like as many opinions on this system as possible.
>
> I will be running PICK, another operating system as a virtual machine,
> as well as up to 2 dozen pc's on an ethernet network. 4 terminal servers
> with dumb terminals and serial printers. And, who knows. this will be a
> machine running our production database system
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Todd
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Riffle)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: SONY PCG-707C - What sound card is in this thing?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:44:10 GMT
Subject pretty much says it all.
I'm recording audio with this puppy via the line-in port. I have it
working, but I can't get a sample rate above 8032. I want a sample
rate of 44100. When I try to force the sample rate to 44100 I just
get an empty file. I'm using sox to do this.
I think it may be due to me using the incorrect driver (SoundBlaster)
and I need to know what driver to use!
So what sound card is in here?
If it matters, I'm running RH 6.0 - and it's mostly working great
(except for this sample rate problem).
Mike
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From: "Drydd" <someone@special>
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2/300
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:05:22 -0400
I can pretty much gaurantee it was your motherboard, not the
processor... But I'll leave you alone about it as I don't really have the
energy for a technical explanation. The guy that posted before stating that
you can't use the 100MHz system bus speed with that processor was, in
essence, correct.
Jaakko Heikkila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ro2qs$brv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.hardware JL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > More likely you have a motherboard with flaky components on it. Windows
has
> > grossly inferior error reporting (I think by design), so its likely that
at
> > least some of your Windows problems have hardware issues at the root of
them
> > as well.
>
> > You should first move to a distrib with a 2.2.x kernel (like RH6.0),
which
> > supports the K6 better than 2.0.x kernels.
>
> Now I have AMD K2-350 attached. I fixed file system and installed RH6. So
far
> everything seems to work fine. I have to try K2-300 once again before I
throw
> it away...
>
> --
> Jaakko
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2
Date: 15 Sep 1999 20:28:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 15 Sep 1999 05:20:50 GMT, Scott Alfter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>problem with Netscrape...it would be nice if Microsoft saw fit to port IE to
>Linux.) I've done a couple of kernel compiles with no problems at all.
Aaargh. Go wash your hands. If there is anything else but lynx we need,
it *may* be Opera. IE5 on Linux - complete with rampant Active-X
controls and all the other backdoors - is a vision from the Gates of
Hell itself :-)
BTW a K6/2 is an excellent CPU, and I'm going to ditch mine only because
I'm buying a K6/3.
Jurriaan
--
I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
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From: Larry Ozarow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 NICS on the same machine
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:39:04 GMT
Michael Meissner wrote:
>
> I've never had a problem with this, since I make sure that I use NICs that use
> different drivers (for example on my machine, I have a builtin Intel
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Me too. I would like to say I do it on purpose, but it's just that I have a lot
of scavenged old cards sitting around the house. The original poster had two of
the same type though.
Oz
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't get sound to work....mad 16 (opti 82924 chipset)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:35:49 -0500
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
i have rh6. the only drivers that i see are for 82928,82929,82930
i have the card working in dos/win. and i have even booted into dos the with
loadlin into linux. then tried to run sndconfig.
but it's still not working.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Someone who knows Linux modems PLEASE HELP ME !!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:41:49 GMT
> I got minicom to connect. I had an irq conflict because the characters
> appeared after a long delay. I tried launching Netscape but it said
that I
> may have a problem with my nameserver. I may need info on configuring
this.
>
> I am at my witts end. If you can help I would be very greatfull.
>
> Dan
>
>
For the nameserver , you need to put in the nameserver/domain name
information in /etc/resolv.conf
If isapnp gives you conflicts, you have to manually edit the
configuration file so that the conflicts go away. Your modem manual
would be able to give you details on the valid IRQ, port address and
so forth
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From: Valerio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X problems
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:32:28 -0800
I really need help with my linnux installation:
I got a PIII 500, with a TNT2 and I can't get RedHat 6.0 working.
First I install it, but my Xconfig does`nt work, so I skip it and I also
have to skip the mouse, bacause if I don`t linux will halt even in text
mode. Then once installed without X mode and without mouse, I do a setup
in textmode and install my PS2 mouse, then I reeboot and my textmode
works...then I downloaded the riva TNT2 packages from nvidia.com install
it and run XF86config. After that I finally get X windows working
perfectly, but if I reboot either in text mode or in grafic mode my
system comlpetely halts and I didnl`t get either the mouse neither the
keyboard...so I have to reinstall Linux again....What can I do ????
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Id Est)
Subject: silver buttons on compaq presario laptop: how to get working under linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:11:38 GMT
got linux running just fine on this compaq presario 1262 laptop, except for
one thing. there are four silver buttons just below the keyboard that do
various things under windoze such as connect to the internet, check for mail,
..., but don't currently do anything under linux. neither "showkey" or
"xev" seem to see any activity from them at all. does anybody know of
how i might be able to get input from them?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Any Non-Booting SCSI-2 Cards.
Date: 13 Sep 1999 14:39:01 GMT
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:18:58 GMT, just me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm want to use my Symbios 20810 (pci) which is based on the
>53C3810 chip in a Linux Box. I can't find it on the Redhat list.
That chip is very well supported, so I suspect you won't have a problem.
There should be an entry in the RedHat hardware list for the 810. If
there isn't, it's a serious oversight.
I have two 810 based cards- DTC 3130B and an ASUS SC-200. Both work
perfectly in Linux.
Mike.
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:52:20 -0400
From: Brian Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel upgrade
I have kernel 2.0.36 on linux5.2 Red hat. Can i upgrade to 2.2.5 or
higher, and what is the best way to do it. I have already tried to
compile from source and the code has errors in it. What is the best
solution to this problem?
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