Linux-Hardware Digest #810, Volume #12 Fri, 5 May 00 21:13:09 EDT
Contents:
bus error ("Robert L.")
Re: Driver for Panasonic/MKE CDROM? (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Keyboard fails after boot - Slackware 7 (Aaron Smith)
Re: ide cdrom, scsi disks - jumper question (Dances With Crows)
Re: Printing in linux RH6.1 (Andrey Vlasov)
Athlon Locks in Linux?!?! (jurgyman)
wanktek3010mt troubles (Andrew Walker)
Re: 3COM Etherlink III 10BaseT PCMCIA Card Model 3C589D installation in Mandrake 7.0
helps need ("Alex S")
3comU.S.Robotics 56k modem trouble (Andrew Walker)
Re: Int 13h Device Not Found, BIOS not installed ("Folkert Rienstra")
HELP PLEASE - how do i define a modem ("Fred Klitsuk")
Re: bus error ("Robert L.")
Re: 2 NIC Cards and IRQ (Chris Ream)
Re: bus error ("Robert L.")
cylinder 1024 (starting where) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Robert L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bus error
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 21:10:29 GMT
I buy an hard disk, Quantum Fireball lct10 5Gig.
I try to install a slackware, but the error message always appear:
bus error.
Is it the HD that have a problem or it's the motherboard?
As far as i know, there's no bus on the HD, but there's some on the
motherboard.
I try the ide1 & ide2. It does the same.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Driver for Panasonic/MKE CDROM?
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 21:10:29 GMT
On 5 May 2000 13:55:21 -0700, Sam E. Trenholme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[Summary: This person has an old pre-IDE soundblaster CD-ROM drive. He
> was able to perform a RedHat install with the CD-ROM, so it is one of
> the vender-specific CD-ROMs that Linux supports.]
Bughat was never too good about effectively supporting sbpcd.
[deletia]
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Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 17:05:45 -0400
From: Aaron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keyboard fails after boot - Slackware 7
I actually ran in to this the other day, but on a redhat system.
There was some sort of protocol error coming grom 'gpm' that
was seemed to be causing it. I was able to ssh in to the box, shutdown
gpm (since I don't use the silly thing) and the problem went away.
I have NO idea if your problem is even remotely related, but the symptoms
sound similar....
Stephen Park wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I've been running Slackware 7 without trouble since it was released, but
> now have a problem whereby my keyboard goes dead as soon as the login
> prompt appears. There does not appear to be a problem with the keyboard
> because:
>
> the problem is replicated with different keyboards.
>
> the keyboard continues to respond during the boot process prior to the
> appearance of the login prompt.
>
> the keyboard responds if I boot with an emergency boot disk, etc.
>
> I can login remotely as well.
>
> The keyboard is a ps2 type which is attached to ps2 adaptor. It has
> been used without trouble for at least a year.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve Park
> park#falaw.lan.mcgill.ca (replace # with @)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ide cdrom, scsi disks - jumper question
Date: 05 May 2000 17:18:22 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 05 May 2000 20:29:00 GMT, Bob
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I'm putting together a system with all SCSI hard drives, and a single
>IDE CDROM. No other IDE devices. Do I jumper the CDROM to be master
>on the first channnel?
You can put it anywhere you want, so long as it's jumpered correctly. My
BIOS seems not to care where the CD-ROM is hooked up when it boots from
CD-ROM.
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing in linux RH6.1
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 14:34:19 -0700
check here
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
Russell wrote:
> where could i find some printer drivers for linux. what i'm looking for is,
> Epson LQ - 1070+, and Lexmark 1100, or is there another way to print without
> using drivers, just simple text will do, i don't mind getting instruction to
> configure any files needed to get linux to print. I've tryed printtool and
> it wont detect anything located on my parallel port.
>
> what can i do to get linux to print
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Subject: Athlon Locks in Linux?!?!
From: jurgyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 14:36:30 -0700
hey bp and anyone with Athlon,
see below context.....
how did you get your athlon system stable? i have K7 700MHZ, Abit
KA7 ... and locks up regularly in linux. not too bad in windoze!
just upgrade to 300 WATT PS, a little better, but not much!
I have two PC100 64mb DIMMS...
seems to reliably lock when i play sound (mp3)?!?!
i dont have much hair left...
ideaz?
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Re: K7 Athlon 700 or BP6 dual celeron
Ed Jamison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steer clear of celeron, try the athlon...
Definitely do the athlon - too many people are having problems
with the
abit board, both in and out of linux-land. A friend of mine just
spent a
week trying to get his stable, to no avail (w/o overclocking at
all).
On the other hand, mine works flawlessly after about a week of
severe
pain shuffling cards and hard drives.
-bp
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From: Andrew Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wanktek3010mt troubles
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 23:47:17 +0100
Hello, I having trouble getting a wangtek 3010mt tape drive to work with
linux.
As I was given it I have no idea of the jumper settings or what they do
but as far as I can tell it is designed to plug into the second floppy
drive port..
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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From: "Alex S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3COM Etherlink III 10BaseT PCMCIA Card Model 3C589D installation in
Mandrake 7.0 helps need
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:53:25 -0700
I solved the problem if you want to know...take me about 2 days but I did
:-))
Alex
"Duaine Alderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have posted the same question in comp.os.linux.help. Hopefully someone
will
> respond.
>
> Alex S wrote:
>
> > Linux forever!
> >
> > I have been trying to install or make Linux Mandrake 7.0 detect my
PCMCIA
> > card on my laptop (Toshiba 220CDS) without any success. The PCMCIA card
is
> > Etherlink III 10BaseT Model 3C589D from 3COM. Lothar cannot detect it
in
> > its Networking Device. So I cannot access the internet right now with
my
> > Laptop.
> >
> > I have been wondering if someone can help me on this matter.
> >
> > Thank you.
>
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From: Andrew Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3comU.S.Robotics 56k modem trouble
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 23:52:20 +0100
I`m using my external 3COM U.S. Robotics 56k faxmodem with linux and it
works fine however I`m not sure its using its full speed. When I
shutdown my KPPP connection it says I`ve connected at 31k. Do you need a
special escape code to use 56K or is it just my phone line?
I also get a lot of stalls on netscape, could this also be connected?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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From: "Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Int 13h Device Not Found, BIOS not installed
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 00:03:42 +0200
"M. Buchenrieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| [FollowUp-To: set]
|
| "Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| Folkert, please don't ignore the FollowUps.
What did I ignore?
If I ignored something please have the courtesy of saying what I ignored.
Oh strike that. While saving I just saw the message was automatically addressed
to you too. So it was probably you who messed up OE so it send one of my earlier
posts twice. That never happened to me before. I had deleted that second message
but OE send it anyway. Very embarrasing.
As to the socalled followups, I just never do CC's unless someone specifically
asks (politely) not to post because of some private nature that is not to be
shared with everyone. I believe sendig a post by email is a courtisy, not a right.
| Or if it is OE again that does it, junk it finally.
Who are you to order me to junk a program that is used by thousands and
thousands.
Do you have any special rights here? If it is that the comp.os.linux.hardware
group, that this message is cross-posted to, has special rules that I don't know
of I will be just so happy not to automatically crosspost to it anymore.
Then you can come to comp.periphs.scsi and abide to the rules there.
|
| >123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456*70 1234567*80*
|3456789 123456789 123456789 1234*120*
|
| >This line says that the window I am using to post is 70 wide
|
| This line says that your newsreader doesn't add line breaks properly :)
Yes it does, it is at 132 and it didn't break the line.
|
| >But because I am using 'Comic Sans MS' as a display font it is
| >actually possible to
| >cram in more because it is a true type font (i'd say ~80).
|
| [sigh]
|
| It didn't get to you that not everyone is using a graphical terminal,
So what, it is how a message is dispayed to me, not to you. You don't have
a say in it.
| did it? There's not much sense in doing it for newsreading, anyways.
There is that 'I don't see a reason for using it so you shouldn't either'
attitude.
And yes, there is. It presents a very juicy, pleasing to the eye and easy to
read message display.
|
| >"M. Buchenrieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
|news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
|
| >| A fixed line length of roughly 72 chars will make sure that your lines
| >| will not be broken up into ugly pieces whenever somebody posts a
| >| followup and cites your message.
|
| Folkert wrote:
|
| >Yes they will. This newsgroup is full of post that suffered from that.
|
| No. (sigh)
O yes there are. It is just that I forgot this message is also crossposted to
comp.os.linux.hardware, (from my viewpoint). And I think that applies to
you too. comp.periphs.scsi is full of such posts. It really does not take great
effort to find them.
|
| This may only happen if you're in a thread where citations have been
| done at least about ten times,
No, it takes just one to trip the automatic line break feature.
What you asume is that your line is 10 characters removed from automatic
line break and that only one citation character is used.
| so that the number of citation signs added
| at the beginning of the lines causes the line length to exceed 80 chars
| or so. But that's usually rare. If a standard discussion causes the
| line breaks to be messed up, then it's the fault of the crappy news-
| readers used by the participants, not the fault of using a fixed line
| length. You may as well set the maximum to 80 chars and add line breaks at
| 72 chars manually to circumvent the above mentioned possibility of
| having the line switch over into the next line due to citations.
I already explained to you that that is what I'm doing.
|
| >Explain to me the magic of 72. Did MS code OE the way that it messes up
| >messages when an other number than 72 is used?
|
| The 70 - 75 char limit is caused by the fact that a terminal screen
| is usually defined to be roughly 80 chars wide, using a default textmode
| resolution.
Ah, you are using a VT100, upgrade to a VT132, has colours too.
|
| >This problem has been discussed may times and still IS about weekly in the
| >MS Outlook Express discussion groups. The solution is not to use the automatic
| >line breaks but provide your own or use Quoted Printable.
|
| If QP on OutShot solves this, then it is even more broken then I expected
| it to be. QP is only relevant for the message encoding (mainly of 8bit
| characters), nothing more.
|
| [...]
|
| >Tell it to MicroSoft.
|
| Don't use it. It is a worthless POS, and yesterday's attacks just prove
| this again.
|
| [...]
|
| >Which is what I use: ~80, so line breaks should be between 70 and 80.
|
| ...which would be fine with me. :) Unfortunately, though, you don't
| do it consistently.
|
| >|
| >| [...]
| >|
| >| >Posting in HTML has none of these problems but that seems to be
| >| >NOT DONE.
| >|
| >| Posting in HTML is a no-no, and will even get your messages junked by
| >| some servers automatically. Usenet doesn't consist out of sites that
| >| have Internet access and/or a graphical interface.
| >|
| >| >Posting using 'quoted printable' also does not suffer from those
| >| >annoying unexpected
| >|
| >| QP does nothing have to do with linebreaks at all. It is a way to
| >| encode / display 8-bit characters. Unfortunately, most of today's
| >| newsreaders still don't handle QP correctly at all, which is why I
| >| usually set the transfer-encoding to 8-bit when posting / mailing
| >| within Germany ( we use Umlauts that need to be encoded otherwise) .
| >|
| >| [...]
| >|
| >| >I'm using a little over half of my screen (20 inch), using a 12
| >| >point character size,
| >|
| >| [...]
| >|
| >| I'm looking at it on a 15" terminal monitor. So there.
|
| >So what? Little over half of 20 is? Do the math.
|
| You don't get it. This is a text terminal - and that is what is usually
| considered to be a Usenet default setup. Whether or not we could switch
| over to some ridiculously high resolution with almost unreadable pixel
| settings is irrelevant .
|
| >12 point is 12 point. What I see is what you see.
|
| [...]
|
| In theory, yes. Don't forget that Usenet is a text-based medium. I don't
| _have_ 12 point settings on a terminal screen. I'm presently viewing
| this on a 25/80 B/W screen .
On a 15 "? Christ, we programmed on a VT131 or VT220 in 132 mode and I
think those were even 12".
Thanks, the importance of your posts just became apparent.
|
| Michael
|
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From: "Fred Klitsuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP PLEASE - how do i define a modem
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 02:21:25 +0300
hi
i'm trying to connect to the net with mandrake 7
but he can't fund my modem
he tells me that my modem is ready that it initializes it and than it
freezes
and nothing happens
can someone help me please ?
thanks
Fred Klitsuk
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From: "Robert L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bus error
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 23:32:47 GMT
I think is not the HD or the motherboard.
It seem to be the boot floppy or the ramdisk program.
Why? I format it for fat32, i put a lot of thing in the drive and no bus
error was detected.
Robert L. a écrit dans le message
<9NGQ4.3432$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I buy an hard disk, Quantum Fireball lct10 5Gig.
>
>I try to install a slackware, but the error message always appear:
>bus error.
>
>Is it the HD that have a problem or it's the motherboard?
>
>As far as i know, there's no bus on the HD, but there's some on the
>motherboard.
>I try the ide1 & ide2. It does the same.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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From: Chris Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 NIC Cards and IRQ
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 23:49:59 GMT
Ya, very good question, I have tried a variety of secondary NIC cards, and get
pretty much the same thing, though the Bios pulls them up with different IRQ's
I noticed WInblows chose to stick both of them with 5, and I am assuming, Linux
is doing the same damn thing. :O(
On Thu, 04 May 2000, ludovic.lestrat wrote:
>Hello everyone's
>
>I'm trying to install a proxy server for my private use. My
>configuration is an internet connection via cable-modem (dhcp-client), a
>local network TCP/IP with 2 machines.
>
>I've got a problem with my 2 ethernet cards. One is usefull for the
>cable modem and the other one is connected to the hub of the local
>network.
>The interrupts are :
> - SCSI Advansys : 12
> - Realtek 8029 : 12
> - RealTek 8139 : 12
>I know, of course it should procure problems, but the surprise is that
>it works under Windows NT ?!
>On linux, only one NIC at the time can work, and only the eth0. for the
>second one, I receive a message when using ifconfig
>:"...SIOCSFFLAGS...", that meen the IRQ is already used (Didn't it ?).
>So, does someone knows how to modify the IRQ adress of one of my pci NIC
>? Or does anyone knows another method ?
>
>Thank's a lot
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From: "Robert L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bus error
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 00:39:31 GMT
Problem solved.
Bad floppy for installation. I reformat, re RaWrite them.
I was afraid that i buy an HD and my motherboard was defective.
Bye.
Robert L. a écrit dans le message
<9NGQ4.3432$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I buy an hard disk, Quantum Fireball lct10 5Gig.
>
>I try to install a slackware, but the error message always appear:
>bus error.
>
>Is it the HD that have a problem or it's the motherboard?
>
>As far as i know, there's no bus on the HD, but there's some on the
>motherboard.
>I try the ide1 & ide2. It does the same.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cylinder 1024 (starting where)
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 01:05:44 GMT
Hello y'all,
I've read several messages here and elsewhere on the cylinder 1024
limit, but there's all kinds of vague statements and some
contradictions on the subject.
If I compute to translate the limit into a MB value, taking the values
from the little pamphlet included with my disk (16 383 cylinders, 16
heads, 63 sectors/track, total capacity = 10.24 GB), I get
(1024/16383) x 10.2 GB x 1000 = 640,04 MB. I should then make sure to
install the "kernel" or \boot bellow this MB limit. My first primary
partition will be about 400 MB, for Win98. My second one should be
for Linux.
What I do not understand at all is that other models, all with
different capacity values, all have the same C/H/S numbers. Another
paper, this one for the manufacturer's Web site, says 3 heads for my
drive instead of 16 !?
Anyway, if we forget this for now, I'd like to know if the cylinder
1024 means relative to the physical disk or to a primary partition, ou
even to a logical drive within a primary partition. For exemple would
it be possible to have /boot (Linux) beginning at cylindre no. 2048,
at the beginning of the second primary partition, with the first
partiton going from cylinders 0 to 2047. This cylinder would then be
no. 0 relative to the second partition.
Thanks.
Marc Galipeau
--
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no "_puff", no "_woo", no nothing, just plain fluffy.
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