Linux-Hardware Digest #754, Volume #12 Thu, 27 Apr 00 07:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Switching a network card ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Trio S3 3D/2D card: <ctrl>+<alt>+ <-/+> don't work,HELP! (iffy)
IDE HD Connector (Mark)
Re: Partition tools... (Eric)
Telnet zugriff ("Michael Fraefel")
Re: Completely new to Linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
SMP board? (Markus Grabner)
Re: How to get Adaptec 1520b working in Mandrake 7? (marc_badel)
help: Can't print to 2nd port of HP JetDirect EX Plus3 (Mark Paulus)
Re: Switching a network card (Michael Borgwardt)
DVD's & Linux ("Roaster")
Re: help: Can't print to 2nd port of HP JetDirect EX Plus3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ethernet card questions. (Florian Schiel)
Re: Switching a network card ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: What is the most IDE drives a box can have? (M. Buchenrieder)
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01 (Ale)
HSP56 Micromodem is a Linmodem ("Coutal Fancois")
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Switching a network card
Date: 27 Apr 2000 06:05:02 GMT
In alt.os.linux.mandrake Frederick Artiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Who can tell me how to go about de-installing a network card and
: installing a new network card under Linux?
Take old one out. Put new one in. Edit /etc/conf.modules to
change the alias for eth0 to the name of the new driver required.
See Ethernet-HOWTO.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (iffy)
Subject: Re: Trio S3 3D/2D card: <ctrl>+<alt>+ <-/+> don't work,HELP!
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:17:21 GMT
The S3 Trio 3d is junk. I did this to get 800x600. Type Xconfigurator
at the Prompt. When asked for video card pick S3 Trio3D from list(not
the one with the number XXc365). Pick your monitor. You can have it
probe but it won't do any good cause the screen resolution it picks
won't work. Pick the 24bit 800x600 resolution. This is the only
one I found that works. There many be others that work but 800x600 is
good enough for me so I stopped trying at that point.
I got got sick of the S3 trio3d because it really didn't even look
steady in windows. I picked up a another card and it has the S3
Savage4. This was easier to get working in Linux using XF86Setup. My
problem now is the damn savage4 keeps locking up my computer when I
run windows. It is working in Linux. I'll never buy any S3 shit again.
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 05:02:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Just installed RH6.1 and can't get the right video configs in it.
>I've tried different settings with different X severs but it's still the
>same thing: A large desktop with huge mouse pointer and
><ctrl>+<alt>+ <-/+> don't work. Am I doing something wrong?
>Do I need an updated xf86 server? What script can I edit to get it to
>use different pixel configs like 800x600?
>Please Help!
>
>Thanks in Advance!
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark)
Subject: IDE HD Connector
Date: 27 Apr 2000 07:05:17 GMT
Hi all,
Can someone tell me if I can even get the following:
I need to plug a normal IDE hard drive into a notebook. But the
notebook IDE connections are smaller and have more pins (50
compared to 40) because they get there power from the same cable.
What I want is a connector that enables you to plug a normal ide
drive into a notebook ide socket. Are these even available???
The only other solution I came up with was making my own,
i.e. soldering 40 tiny wires together!
I've got a wiring diagram for the notebook ide sockets so at least
I know what wires go where.
thanks.
Mark
Sys Admin
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Oz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition tools...
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:46:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrew Lassner wrote:
>
> Steve Fosdick wrote:
>
> > Simon Lemieux wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > one of my friends need both Windows and Linux. I know exactly
> > > what to do, but since I was one the Mac side and now on the Linux side,
> > > I don't know any tools for disk partitionning on the PC... I really like
> > > pdisk, I was wondering if it could build windows partion too? And please
> > > don't tell me about buying anything (That means, don't mention partition
> > > magic)!
> >
> > DOS comes with a very clumsy tool called FDISK which will only
> > manipulate
> > its own partitions or change which partition is marked bootable.
> >
> > You can create a partition for another OS from Linux if you partitioning
> > program lets you set the partition type number. I haven't seen pdisk
> > but cfdisk does let you do this. Here's the list of partition types:
> >
> > 01 FAT12 40 Venix 80286 86 NTFS volume set
> > 02 XENIX root 41 PPC PReP Boot 87 NTFS volume set
> > 03 XENIX usr 42 SFS 93 Amoeba
> > 04 FAT16 <32M 4D QNX4.x 94 Amoeba BBT
> > 05 Extended 4E QNX4.x 2nd part A0 IBM Thinkpad
> > hiberna
> > 06 FAT16 4F QNX4.x 3rd part A5 BSD/386
> > 07 HPFS/NTFS 50 OnTrack DM A6 OpenBSD
> > 08 AIX 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux1 A7 NeXTSTEP
> > 09 AIX bootable 52 CP/M B7 BSDI fs
> > 0A OS/2 Boot Manager 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 B8 BSDI swap
> > 0B Win95 FAT32 54 OnTrackDM6 C1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-12)
> > 0C Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 55 EZ-Drive C4 DRDOS/sec (FAT-16
> > <
> > 0E Win95 FAT16 (LBA) 56 Golden Bow C6 DRDOS/sec (FAT-16)
> > 0F Win95 Ext'd (LBA) 5C Priam Edisk C7 Syrinx
> > 10 OPUS 61 SpeedStor DB CP/M / CTOS / ...
> > 11 Hidden FAT12 63 GNU HURD or SysV E1 DOS access
> > 12 Compaq diagnostics 64 Novell Netware 286 E3 DOS R/O
> > 14 Hidden FAT16 <32M 65 Novell Netware 386 E4 SpeedStor
> > 16 Hidden FAT16 70 DiskSecure Multi-Boo EB BeOS fs
> > 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS 75 PC/IX F1 SpeedStor
> > 18 AST Windows swapfile 80 Old Minix F4 SpeedStor
> > 1B Hidden Win95 FAT32 81 Minix / old Linux F2 DOS secondary
> > 1C Hidden Win95 FAT32 ( 82 Linux swap FD Linux raid
> > autodetec
> > 1E Hidden Win95 FAT16 ( 83 Linux FE LANstep
> > 24 NEC DOS 84 OS/2 hidden C: drive FF BBT
> > 3C PartitionMagic recov 85 Linux extended
> >
> > IIRC correctly Win95 and Win98 will format the partition for you before
> > installing to it - all you need is the empty partition ready.
> > --
> > Steve Fosdick Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Voice: +44 1473 642987 MSMAIL: BTEA/BTLIP23/FOSDICSJ
> > Fax: +44 1473 646656 BOAT: FOSDICSJ
> > Snail: B29/G34, BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, IP5 7RE, England.
>
> Is cfdisk destructive? Will it destroy the other partitions on my disk?
> thanks in advance for any help.
Not if you don't touch the other partitions. So you can't resize
partitions without destroying them, but you can add new partitions from
free, unpartioned space on your disc without destroying previous
partitions.
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From: "Michael Fraefel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Telnet zugriff
Date: 27 Apr 2000 07:44:16 GMT
Hallo,
Ich habe einen Server mit Linux (SUSE 6.3) aufgesetzt. Leider kann ich
nicht mit Telent von einem externen Netz auf den Rechner zugreifen. Aber
von dem lokalen netz funktioniert es. Wie kann ich es meinem externen Netz
erlauben auf den Server zu zugreiffen?
Gruass Michael
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Completely new to Linux
Date: 27 Apr 2000 07:38:46 GMT
Brad Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> various websites make it appealing to me. My question is, would Linux
:> (Mandrake, for example) run on my old and currently unused IBM 486 SX-25
:> with 8 megs of RAM? Would it run well on this system? I don't have a modem
: I had linux on a 486-33 with 16MB of RAM and running X (the graphical
: interface) was brutally slow - about a minute or more to open an application.
I'm on a 486sx50 with 8M right now, and X works fine. It takes about 5s
to open an xterm. I wouldn't dream of running more than about 8
processes, though!
init-+-X
|-3*[agetty]
|-cardmgr
|-fvwm
|-inetd
|-kerneld
|-kflushd
|-kswapd
|-rpc.portmap
|-rxvt---tcsh-+-pstree
| `-slogin
|-sshd
`-update
baby:/home/ptb% free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7116 6980 136 4864 236 2696
-/+ buffers: 6744 372
Swap: 7124 616 6508
Peter
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From: Markus Grabner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMP board?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:41:30 +0200
Hi!
Any recommendations for a good dual-Pentium-III board for Linux?
I've been using an Asus P2B-DS for more than a year, and it worked
perfectly, but now it seems a bit out of date.
Ciao,
Markus
--
Markus Grabner - Computer Graphics and Vision
Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16/II, 8010 Graz, Austria
Phone: +43/316/873-5041, Fax: +43/316/873-5050
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], WWW:
http://www.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/~grabner
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From: marc_badel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get Adaptec 1520b working in Mandrake 7?
Date: 27 Apr 2000 10:05:56 +0100
I have a such controller (Adaptec 1520B drived under Linux by the AHA152x module).
With this module, I have to specify the io port address, the irq number, the address
of SCSI controller itself (usually 7) and the reconnect option (1 for yes, 0 for no).
Syntax of options is:
aha152x=ioport_address,irq_number,controller_itself_number,reconnect_option
For example, on my personal computer, io port is 0x340 and irq used is 11. My complete
options are:
aha152x=0x340,11,7,1
There can be a few more options on a SUSE distribution (I dont remember exactly), but
the options above are sufficient on a Redhat or Slackware distribution.
Where can i specify these options:
The option above is a kernel option when the driver is compiled with the kernel. Type
a such option when installing a distribution. If the driver is loaded as a module,
give the option when loading the module. Examples (for my personal computer):
modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7,1
or better, specify the option in /etc/conf.modules file and then call modprobe (if not
generated automatically by the distribution installation).
I hope that these hints will be helpful.
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From: Mark Paulus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: help: Can't print to 2nd port of HP JetDirect EX Plus3
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:51:30 -0600
Hi,
I have an HP External JetDirect Print Card/Server (J2593).
On port 1 I have a DJ 880C, and on port 2 I have an
Okidata OL410e. I have set up /etc/printcap entries for
both of these, but I guess I don't have things quite right.
I can print to port 1 (The InkJet), but I can't figure out
how to get to the 2nd port. I have played with HP's
WebJet software, but it wasn't a lot of help either. I keep
getting some kind of password error.
Has anyone else gotten an EX Plus3 working with Linux, and
if so, what do your printcap entries look like??
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Borgwardt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Switching a network card
Date: 27 Apr 2000 08:14:14 GMT
In article <8e8lae$ffl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In alt.os.linux.mandrake Frederick Artiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Who can tell me how to go about de-installing a network card and
>: installing a new network card under Linux?
>
> Take old one out. Put new one in. Edit /etc/conf.modules to
> change the alias for eth0 to the name of the new driver required.
Changing /etc/conf.modules *before* chaning the cards would be more
elegant...
--
Michael "Brazil" Borgwardt --- Member of #WASHU# and Her would-be guinea-pig.
Untiring defender of Washu-chan, Asuka-chan and Elektra-chan.
A Homepage for Elektra: http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~borgward/
ANT - Animeclub fuer Deutschland: http://www.anime.no.tomodachi.de/
=============== Let`s shake the dew off this lily, shall we ? ===============
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From: "Roaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD's & Linux
Date: 27 Apr 2000 08:20:47 GMT
Hi
I've just bought a Pioneer internal DVD player for my PC - and was
wondering on my options / chances of Software playback of DVD's in Linux???
Specs:
PII 400, 128 Ram, TNT video cards and Creative Live sound card.
Playback is OK in Windows with a software player. I was wondering of the
kind of Linux software available, with regeon decoding (that I heard, bit
legaly dubious) etc.
Any info appreciated.
Cheers.
Chris.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: help: Can't print to 2nd port of HP JetDirect EX Plus3
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:37:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Paulus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an HP External JetDirect Print Card/Server (J2593).
> On port 1 I have a DJ 880C, and on port 2 I have an
> Okidata OL410e. I have set up /etc/printcap entries for
> both of these, but I guess I don't have things quite right.
> I can print to port 1 (The InkJet), but I can't figure out
> how to get to the 2nd port. I have played with HP's
> WebJet software, but it wasn't a lot of help either. I keep
> getting some kind of password error.
>
> Has anyone else gotten an EX Plus3 working with Linux, and
> if so, what do your printcap entries look like??
>
> Thanks.
>
try \\hpnetbox\raw2
--
'...' said the joker to the thief
'there's too much confusion, i cant get no relief...
so let us not talk falsely now, the hour's getting late'
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Florian Schiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ethernet card questions.
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:12:20 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> First, I'm running Slackware 7.0 on a 500mhz machine, 32mb RAM.
>
> 1. I bought a generic ethernet card with a RealTek 8913 chipset.
I guess, you mean the RTL 8139 (100MBit) Chip? not the RTL 8029 (10
MBit).
Usually this card is supported with the module 'rtl8139'.
I have heard (but don't believe) that some of those cards only work with
the driver 'ne2k-pci'. This driver is the one to choose if you have a
RTL8029.
You have to edit /etc/conf.modules to tell the machine which driver
should be loaded, on access to some device. You should have a line like
this:
alias eth0 rtl8139
The rest of the configuration should be done pretty generic in some
rc-file or some configuration script. i geuss its /etc/rc.d/network to
look in.
SuSE (based on slackware) has a rc.config file for all this information.
> Slackware can't see it. I tried '/sbin/insmod ne2k-pci' to see if
> I could get the NE2000 module to support it but nothing happened.
> My question(s):
> a.) I found a *.c file at the RealTek website. Where do I place
> the file to compile it?
For lots of newer drivers and linux-information on netcards take a look
at Donald Beckers Page: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/
There you can even find his latest versions of the drives.
> b.) How could I include it, or where could it be placed so that
> it would be included when i recompile my kernel?
I simply copy the .c file into the drivers/net/ Directory in the
Kernel-tree
and overwrite the old one... this worked for me.
> c.) If I can't do (b.) then, where do I put the module, and how
> can I edit my /etc/rc.d file so that the module would be
> loaded at boot?
The module should be compiled against the kernel you really use. So just
copying the module could work, but not for sure.
All kernelmodules are located at:
/lib/modules/<Kernel-Version>/
So you find your network-modules for kernel 2.2.14 here:
/lib/modules/2.2.14/net/
> 2. Can someone recommend a better card for $40 or less?
This RTL card is really good if you dont want to run a
high-traffic-server!
I use it also for my home-network.. No problems yes...
> 3. Someone on a local user group recommended a card with an Intel
> chipset. Does anybody know of some cards with an Intel chipset that
> are supported by Slack 7?
Yes, Intel cards are also fine, but some versions are AFAIK rather
strange.
Driver support for such standard network cards has nothing to do with
Slackware itself. They are contained within the Kernel-distribution.
Since almost all Linux distributions come with most driver modules
already compiled, you dont need to recompile the kernel in most cases.
Altough compiling a kernel ist no fearful at all! :-)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Switching a network card
Date: 27 Apr 2000 09:43:15 GMT
In alt.os.linux.mandrake Michael Borgwardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <8e8lae$ffl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:> In alt.os.linux.mandrake Frederick Artiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>: Who can tell me how to go about de-installing a network card and
:>: installing a new network card under Linux?
:>
:> Take old one out. Put new one in. Edit /etc/conf.modules to
:> change the alias for eth0 to the name of the new driver required.
: Changing /etc/conf.modules *before* chaning the cards would be more
: elegant...
Admitted and agreed!
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: What is the most IDE drives a box can have?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:46:48 GMT
mopi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>SCSI is better or even SCSI + IDE where ide drives are used less often
>at least in my experiance. But I have seen a 2*66 + 2*33 mobo with a
>total of 8 disks attached that worked fine as a personal win9x system
>- maybe someone has seen/used a linux setup with 8 disks.
[...]
The EIDE specs define 4 possibvle IDE channels with 2 devices each.
There are a lot of systems that use that many drives. However,
as long as you don't run out of available resources, you could edit
the ide.c source to even have more than 4 channels available. This
will, however, only work with Linux...
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ale)
Subject: VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:19:33 GMT
I get this message on install:
scsi : 0 hosts
scsi : detected total.
COMX : driver version 0.82 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro Co.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) 0 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9>
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
My Pc is a K7, mobo asus k7m, hd ibm 20,5 ide , g400
Please help me!!!!!
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From: "Coutal Fancois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HSP56 Micromodem is a Linmodem
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:35:23 +0200
Internal card badly named � Host Signal Processor �according to the
modem-HOWTO, requiring 16 MB and Win95/98/NT according to my motherboard's
manual, composed of an analogic DAA module (Direct Access Arrangement) and
sharing the capabilities of an onboard modem/sound ASIC (C-media cmi8738),
HSP56 Micromodem is running under Linux after a recompilation of the kernel
with the files of the archiv cmpci-2.41.tar and AMR pctel.o driver's
installation (see site www of paragraph 4.4 modem-HOWTO)
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