Linux-Hardware Digest #771, Volume #12 Sun, 30 Apr 00 10:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: LG (goldstar) 8083B audio cd burning (Jeremy Crabtree)
Re: Linux Woes on the horizon !!! (ravikumar_ece)
Re: webgear wireless & redhat 6.2 problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 30 Apr ("K.Tsakaloglou")
Re: BT878 TV-Karte unter Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Woes on the horizon !!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Have new parallel port - but it's PCI!! (Chris Rankin)
Re: Building new linux / apache server, hardware advise needed: ("Marcus Ortinger")
Newbie: Pls advise installing Dual boot Dual HD Mandrake 7 (Michael Badt)
NetGear FA410TX PCMCIA Card ("Kevin Drysdale")
Re: NetGear FA410TX PCMCIA Card ("Kevin Drysdale")
Unified IDE Patches (Dusten)
Re: Unified IDE Patches (Michael Kelly)
Re: Abit KA7 and Linux (Bryan)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Crabtree)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.comp.periphs.cdr
Subject: Re: LG (goldstar) 8083B audio cd burning
Date: 30 Apr 2000 06:43:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Elliot Nathanson allegedly wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Erg! MIME!...you end up sending a lot of junk to the NG that way,
plain text is better.
Now...about your problem...try the -swab and the -pad options.
--
"The UNIX philosophy is to provide some scraps of metal and an enormous
roll of duct tape. With those -- and possibly some scraps of your own
-- you can conquer the world." -- G. Sumner Hayes
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From: ravikumar_ece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Woes on the horizon !!!
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:31:28 -0700
dear sir
i cant configure my vcard for kde in linux
1)am having samtron 4bi monitor
2)dual board celeron (433mhz)
3)32 mb ram
4)mercuruy board with inbuilt AGP kob 810 dst
pls help me to configure my agp sir
i tried generic configuration but it is futile pls help
warm regards
coordially
miss arthi sharma
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: webgear wireless & redhat 6.2 problem
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 07:08:00 GMT
Great, great idea. Unfortunately, it didn't fix the problem.
Someone else requested route info. Here's route, plus more (moon is
the laptop, jupiter the desktop):
[root@moon /root]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F1:11:75:F7
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:3
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
[root@moon /root]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.0.0 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
[root@moon /root]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
moon.atext.c * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.0.0 jupiter.atext.c 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
default jupiter.atext.c 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
[root@moon /root]# ping jupiter
PING jupiter.atext.com (192.168.0.1) from 192.168.0.2 : 56(84) bytes of
data.
>From moon.atext.com (192.168.0.2): Destination Host Unreachable
>From moon.atext.com (192.168.0.2): Destination Host Unreachable
>From moon.atext.com (192.168.0.2): Destination Host Unreachable
>From moon.atext.com (192.168.0.2): Destination Host Unreachable
>From moon.atext.com (192.168.0.2): Destination Host Unreachable
>From moon.atext.com (192.168.0.2): Destination Host Unreachable
>From moon.atext.com (192.168.0.2): Destination Host Unreachable
>From moon.atext.com (192.168.0.2): Destination Host Unreachable
>From moon.atext.com (192.168.0.2): Destination Host Unreachable
--- jupiter.atext.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +9 errors, 100% packet loss
Apr 29 17:28:41 moon cardmgr[494]: initializing socket 1
Apr 29 17:28:41 moon cardmgr[494]: socket 1: RayLink PC Card WLAN
Adapter
Apr 29 17:28:41 moon kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
Apr 29 17:28:42 moon cardmgr[494]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia/ray_cs.o essid=ADHOC_ESSID translate=0
beacon_period=256'
Apr 29 17:28:42 moon kernel: ray_cs.c,v 1.11 2000/04/04 23:14:18 root
Exp - Corey Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apr 29 17:28:42 moon kernel: ray_cs Detected: WebGear PC Card WLAN
Adapter Version 4.88 Jan 1999
Apr 29 17:28:42 moon kernel: eth0: RayLink, irq 3, hw_addr
00:00:F1:11:75:F7
Apr 29 17:28:42 moon cardmgr[494]: executing: './network start eth0'
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tech-Rat) wrote:
> Under win98 in the nework control panel, look at the properties of the
> webgear card. There is a field for AdHoc network. Make sure that that
> is the same name as the one in the config file for the linux webgear
> driver. Then start the win98 computer. After inserting the the webgear
> card into the linux box watch the message log. You should see an entry
> that says "Network <Network name> Joined" If it says "Started" instead
> of "Joined" then the two cards are not seeing one another.
>
> E-mail me if this doesn't help
> Todd (Tech-Rat)
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 01:16:54 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein?= Gyland
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> The laptop network access works fine Win98->Win98, But the best I
can
> >> achieve with RH 6.2 is a link light when I compile in
pcmcia-cs-3.1.14.
> >> The eth0 interface is up, but pinging the desktop returns
destination
> >> errors.
> >
> >How does route look ?
> >
> >--
> >Øystein Gyland
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
>
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Before you buy.
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From: "K.Tsakaloglou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 30 Apr
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:35:01 +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
Links suggested in those messages are categorized at
http://links.hellug.gr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BT878 TV-Karte unter Linux
Date: 30 Apr 2000 07:26:39 GMT
Some obvious things: Did you run depmod after installing the modules?
If not, run "depmod -a" from the base of your current kernel's module
directory. Second, are the modules somewhere other than where modprobe
expects them?
You might try using insmod, and see if that has any more luck.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Woes on the horizon !!!
Date: 30 Apr 2000 07:41:10 GMT
Ahh yes, nothing like a Presario to make you give up hope.
Some of them, maybe all, I dont know, have the BIOS configuration
utility on a partition on the first fixed disk. On the last one
I used, it was the first 8MB, and on an unknown file system.
The only way I found to install the thing was via the quik fix
disk, which also installed Win95, no questions asked.
jeremy
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Have new parallel port - but it's PCI!!
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:35:25 +1000
Hi,
(Firstly, sorry if this message shows up twice: my ISP's news server is
playing up)
I have just installed a new parallel port into my PC, but am having
trouble configuring it. The fact that's it's PCI doesn't help matters, I
think, but anyway:
This is the output from lspci:
00:0e.0 Class 0783: Syba Tech Ltd Multi-IO Card (rev 92) (prog-if 15)
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at f800
I have tried to configure this port as LPT2 by setting the IRQ to 9 and
the IO to 0x278 in modules.conf. I then loaded the parport driver and
got this:
/proc/parport/1/autoprobe:
MODEL:Unknown device;
MANUFACTURER:Unknown vendor;
/proc/parport/1/devices:
/proc/parport/1/hardware:
base: 0x278
irq: 9
dma: none
modes: SPP,PS2
/proc/parport/1/irq:
9
This seemed OK, but I then plugged my Zip100 drive into the port
(shutdown first, of course) and got "zip" !! I also saw the following
lines in /var/log/kernel:
Apr 29 23:39:23 WellHouse kernel: 0x278: CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0xff
Apr 29 23:39:23 WellHouse kernel: 0x278: DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff
which come from this piece of code in parport_pc.c:
if (user_specified)
/* That didn't work, but the user thinks there's a
* port here. */
printk (KERN_DEBUG "0x%lx: CTR: wrote 0x%02x, read 0x%02x\n",
pb->base, w, r);
So does this mean that my spiffy PCI card requires some kind of manual
configuration so that it knows which port to use? And presumably
something similar to switch it between SPP, ECP and EEP? Well, I was
kind of expecting the latter...
It looks like I'm going to have to modify the parport driver to do
this... unless "setpci" can come to my rescue??? (somehow???)
I have tried using 0xf800 as the parallel port address too, to no avail.
Can anyone give me a jump-start here, please?
Cheers,
Chris.
PS: The card, port and ZIP drive work fine under That Other OS. There is
also a 68K VB tool which does some manual configuration. Does anyone
know of a good disassembler for Linux so that I can pull this thing
apart, if necessary?
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From: "Marcus Ortinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Building new linux / apache server, hardware advise needed:
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:42:45 +0200
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
8eakl9$7b6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi !
>
> I am building a new web server in order to provide virtual server
> hosting. The typical client will not be a hardcore CGI programmer, but
> rather novice web publishers who will use the standard set of CGI
> routines which will be made available by us.
>
> Following will be run on the server:
>
> Linux (Latest stable kernel)
> Apache / SSL
> Some CGI in Perl / PhP3 (Web Board, Reply Forms, Counters, Custom made
> account manager, WebMail, other custom build CGIs)
> Some Mysql
>
> A set of standard unix services (sh, ftp, sendmail & co)
>
> Now please comment what you think about those 2 hardware setups:
>
> Setup1:
> Dual Celeron 466/66 (I am not planing to overclock them to 100fsb, since
> 24/7 stability is a major issuse for me)
> Abit BH6 motherboard
>
> Setup2:
> Single Athlon 750mhz
> Asus K7V motherboard
>
> Both setups will share the rest of:
> 384mb PC-100 Ram
> AMI Megaraid 428 3-channel Raid controller with 8mb Cache
> 5 x IBM 7200rpm u2w drives bundled into RAID-5 (2 hdds on first 2
> channels and parity on the third one)
> DDS2 backup
>
> Questions:
>
> 1: Which CPU choice will be better for my server ?
> 2: Is 382mb ram enough or should I go for 512 ?
> 3: RAID5 or RAID0 ? :)
> 4: Should I add more cache on the raid controller ?
> 5: Anything else to add / change ?
>
> and finally: What do you think, how many virtual hosts could I
> realistically put on those machines ? I know it is hard to tell, but
> roughly ?
>
> Thanks for help !
>
> Kirill
>
>
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> Before you buy.
Hi,
In my opinion the dual Celeron solution will be the better one because i
heard of some problems when using an Athlon (not sure, though). Second it
would be better for scalability if you plan to enhance your server e.g. with
an Application Server or so, for most of them are supporting
multiprocessing.
I think the RAM should be enough for a while. We are currently working on a
similar configuration but additionally with an App-Server which manages
loads of Java-Apps and currently have installed 256 Megs. We also ask
ourselves if it would be better to upgrade to 512 Megs. So if you get some
tips or make any experiences it would be nice to get mail from you (my
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Now to the RAID-question: I think RAID 5 would be great for a performance
boost if you are going to expect very much hits for your sites. I never had
to deal with RAID-things, so this is only my opinion. Better you gather more
info about that.
Hope this will help you a little!
Final question: How about security? Do you know a good Site describing how
to secure a Apache-Linux based Webserver environment?
ciao,
marcus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Badt)
Subject: Newbie: Pls advise installing Dual boot Dual HD Mandrake 7
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:26:24 GMT
Hi,
I'm new to Linux, just got Mandrake 7 distro. Haven't installed yet as
I'm waiting for a new IDE 17G HD (should arrive tomorrow) which I'll
connect as Secondary Master (4G Primary Master IDE HD has Win98,
Primary Slave is my CDROM drive).
My PC is a 64 MB AMD K-6 II 350.
I plan a dual Sys/ dual HD with LILO and plan using the first 6G of my
new HD for Linux and the rest of it for Win98.
Please advise regarding:
1. Should I format/partition my new HD before installing Linux
(using what fdisk?) or can I just proceed with my "virgin" HD?
2. Should I install Linux (recommended Mandrake Mode) first and
partition/format the rest (of the HD) under Win98 later (as Windows
does not recognize Linux partitions will it not "run-over" my Linux
partition)? Or shall I partition Win BEFORE installing Windows?
3. Assuming I'll use Mandrake's (graphical) DrakX, does it
recognize TWO HDs and will it enable me (under Recommended mode) to
pick which HD/partition to use for Linux and its swap?
TIA
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From: "Kevin Drysdale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NetGear FA410TX PCMCIA Card
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:37:38 +0100
Hi;
I've been trying to get a NetGear FA410TX PCMCIA network card up and running
in my laptop. It's running Red Hat 5.2, with kernel 2.2.9, and the latest
PCMCIA software (3.1.14, I think). It identifies the card fine, using
pcnet_cs as an NE2000 compatible, gets the hardware address and assigns IO
and memory resources to it. I can bring up the eth0 device, but I cannot
send or receive any data - when I try to ping something from my laptop, I
get the following appearing in the out put of demsg :-
eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem ? TSR=0x42, ISR=0x0, t=1000
I know that there is no problem with the cable, since the exact same
physical setup works just fine in Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6a on the
same laptop, a Viglen Dossier M.
Does anybody have any ideas about what might be causing this rather strange
problem in Linux ? In case it was because there was some issue with Red Hat
5.2, I tried the Slackware 7.0 and Red Hat 6.2 boot discs - they had the
exact same problem. They could recognise the card and bring up eth0, but
could not send or receive any data.
Any help at all would be very much appreciated.
Thank you;
Kevin Drysdale ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Kevin Drysdale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NetGear FA410TX PCMCIA Card
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:39:21 +0100
Hi again, everyone;
I also just noticed that the ollowing appears in /var/log/messages after
every time the network device is brought up :-
kernel: eth0: Found link beat
kernel: eth0: Lost link beat
Does this help at all ?
Thank you;
Kevin Drysdale ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Dusten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unified IDE Patches
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:41:14 GMT
Well this is the deal I would like to add a PROMISE Ultra66 card because
my onboard ide is full with 2 hard Drives, cd-rom, and a cd-rw. So I
was thinking the first place to go would be the UltraDMA How-To. The
how to helped a lot but now I need to patch my kernel with the files
found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ but
every time I do this it give me
[root@localhost src]# cat ide.2.2.15-19.20000420.patch | patch -p0
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
==========================
|diff -urN linux-2.2.15-19-pristine/CREDITS linux-2.2.15-19/CREDITS
|--- linux-2.2.15-19-pristine/CREDITS Thu Apr 20 23:18:04 2000
|+++ linux-2.2.15-19/CREDITS Thu Apr 20 23:19:05 2000
==========================
File to patch: (use control-c to exit)
[root@localhost src]#
I think I also have to add the hdparm-3.9a.patch.gz and
util-linux-2.10h-fdisk but where is the header file and where is fdisk
so I can recompile.
Well if you have any Ideas.
Thanks
Dusten
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unified IDE Patches
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:28:28 GMT
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:41:14 GMT, Dusten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well if you have any Ideas.
It might be easier just to get a newer kernel.
I'm using Promise with the 2.3.4 kernel.
Just do make xconfig while in X and
select all the Promise and udma options.
Make sure at the top you select that you
want to be prompted for developmental
and experimental drivers, or you won't
see the Promise stuff.
I also selected all the stuff that said
"boot off-board eide chips first"
and "use dma by default when avail"
and "use udma" etc..
It's working for about a month so far with
fsck not reporting anything funky.
Mike
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-- Groucho Marx
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit KA7 and Linux
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:09:05 GMT
yes.
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi everyone,
: Before I make any purchase, is the Abit KA7 (Athlon Slot-A)
: motherboard compatible with Linux??
: Thanks in advance,
: Mark
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