Linux-Hardware Digest #820, Volume #12 Mon, 8 May 00 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Still going *&%@ nuts with NIC.. ("JJR")
Re: SmartArray 3200 with distinct drives - how? ("Antony Platt")
Re: Redhat on compaq prosignia vs ("Antony Platt")
8390-based NIC w/DMA?? (Andrew Daugherity)
router/firewall recommendations? (Ujwal Sathyam)
Re: Promise Ultra-66 on Intel PR440FX motherboard? (Markus Kossmann)
Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!? ("Brian")
Re: router/firewall recommendations? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Which of these Ethernet Cards? (Marcio Gomes)
How do you mount a second CDROM (CDRW) drive? (David Megnin)
how more than 3 CDROMs? ("David Murray")
Re: can only see 31G of 40G hard drive (macabre)
Re: About SMC cards (macabre)
Re: how do i get my eisa mylex dac960 raid going ? (macabre)
Problems: Joystick and SCSI CDRW (Jaideep Tibrewala)
Re: router/firewall recommendations? (Ujwal Sathyam)
Re: How do you mount a second CDROM (CDRW) drive? ("Brian")
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From: "JJR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Still going *&%@ nuts with NIC..
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 08:16:29 -0500
IT WORKED! I didn't see a jumper but removing the battery and replacing it
reset it back to defaults.
Thanks.. I really appreciate the help.
Brian Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
J.Read,
You may try removing and reinserting the CMOS battery after a minute
or two. Or,
if you're lucky the pc may have a CMOS clear jumper on the
motherboard. Either way,
if you haven't done this before, check with either the manufacturer's
tech support or
the manual for the pc. It's not overly difficult but care should be
taken to insure
that the pc is unplugged and that the battery's contacts are still
clean on reinsertion.
You will have to restore any modifications that you have made to the
BIOS. Usually,
big brand machines restore to their default and work correctly
(barring any new hardware
that required modifications to the BIOS.
Good Luck,
BP
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 5/5/00, 10:03:22 PM, "j.read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding Re: Still going *&%@ nuts with NIC..:
> Now I'm in trouble...
> sorry for the double post. I posted as new then, decided I should
add
> this to my original thread..
> Please help so I don't have to take my PC to the shop.. In order to
> shake loose my NIC IRQ's, I took the advice of turning off PnP and
> really screwed things up.. I changed all BIOS settings for IRQ and
> IO to "reserved" instead of "available". Now the computer doesn't
seem
> to boot at all. It actually may be booting but the monitor is OFF..
> The computer beeps a few times but no monitor output and nothing
> doing..
> Help.. is there a way to restore the BIOS PnP settings back to
> "available"? Did I shoot myself in the foot?
> ouch..
> -jr
> ps.. I am obviously writing this from another machine..
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 May 2000 20:24:28 -0500, JJR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Ok.. Now I've tried everything unless you guys can help.. I am
> > >running Rhat 6.1 on HP Pavilion 8570c.
> > >
> > > My tulip NIC simply won't activate. I am getting "resource temporarly
> > >unavailable" no matter which PCI slot I put it. I tried modifying
> > >/etc/conf.modules in the following manner and that did have an
> > >effect..... now the error is "device not found" whenever I try to
> > >activate eth0. I've recompiled the tulip.c driver in both module and
> > >kernel method.. Clean installs before recompiling..
> > >
> > >I tried the following different /etc/conf.modules entries: :
> >
> > Have you tried turning off PnP? Worth a shot ...
> >
> > --
> > Hal B
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > --
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From: "Antony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
Subject: Re: SmartArray 3200 with distinct drives - how?
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:09:49 +1000
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8ev8f1$kfq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Compaq Proliant 1600R with a SmartArray 3200 which I want to
> install RedHat Linux 6.1 on. I don't want to use RAID; I need the
> drives on the SmartArray to be distinct and separately accessible. Is
> there a way to do this with the Compaq SmartStart cd or is it better to
> get rid of the Compaq utilities and use cpqarray directly? Any help
> would be appreciated. TIA.
>
> Jennifer.
Jennifer,
Just setup the drives on the controller using smart start.
Assign them as individual logical drives.
ie
port 1 - id0 => logical drive 1
port 2 - id1 => logical drive 2
if you have drives on port 2 then
port 2 - id0 => logical drive 3
etc
etc
etc
until you have used up all your drives.
DO NOT leave any drives UNASSIGNED as this will cause problems with linux
install.
This should give you good performance still (over using the onboard scsi
controller) as you will be using the array accelerator & caching part of the
3200 controller.
But no raid config = no reliability
If you get stuck give me a yell
Antony Platt
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From: "Antony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat on compaq prosignia vs
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:16:56 +1000
"Tomasz Fas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:EMQQ4.28249$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi.
> How can I install redhat 6.0 on compaq prosignia vs. I can not started
SCSI.
> Windows 95 find: Comapq Integrated 32-Bit FAST SCSI-2 .
> TF
http://www.sleepie.demon.co.uk/ncr53c710/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/
http://www.compaq.com/support/techpubs/installation_guides/ecg5130399.html
http://forum.compaq.com/
http://www.yps.org/~whorfin/indexlinux.html
http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/
http://www.linuxstart.com/~JeePeePee/
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From: Andrew Daugherity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking
Subject: 8390-based NIC w/DMA??
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 21:23:53 -0500
Hi,
I've got a NIC, Thomas-Conrad TC5045 (16-bit ISA). It is 8390-based;
the main chip is an 83932, and it has an 8392 near the bnc port. (These
seem to identify it as 8390-based, according to the Ethernet-HOWTO).
One strange thing is that there is a jumper to set the DMA, which is not
present on NE2000 boards. Under Linux, 'insmod 8390' works, but 'insmod
ne' returns "Device or resource busy", even if I supply the io and irq.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
drewmeister
p.s. FYI, there is a TC5043 model (which I don't have) which is
NE2000-compatible. Apparently this one (TC5045) isn't. Is this
hardware worthless under Linux (well, worthless period, since compaq,
which bought out Thomas-Conrad, says they don't have any win95 drivers
either)???
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From: Ujwal Sathyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: router/firewall recommendations?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 03:04:36 GMT
Hi,
I am looking for recommendations for a router/firewall to enable sharing
a cable modem connection among several computers. I know I can set up
linux to do that, but it lives on a laptop that moves around a lot, and
it is a pain to change the IP configurations on the other machines all
the time.
Thanks for any tips.
Ujwal
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra-66 on Intel PR440FX motherboard?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 04:21:28 +0200
Joakim Langlet wrote:
>
> Promise Ultra-66 board seems to get the same interrupt as the AIC-7880
> (SCSI) on
> the motherboard. I am using the 2.3.99-pre5 kernel to get the Promise
> support.
> Is there some way to force the assignment of the interrupt to the AIC-7880
> or the
> Promise Ultra-66 board.
PCI cards should be able to share interrupts unless you have broken
drivers.
If your BIOS gives you no option to assign IRQs to slots, the only way
is to put one card in another PCI slot.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!?
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 21:01:22 -0700
Hi Douglas:
Douglas E. Mitton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have done several searches for this issue, there seem to be a lot of
>people experiencing it BUT I have not been able to find a solution
>yet.
>In kernels V2.2.14 and .15 I get random cdrecord failures such as:
>(Sorry, it wraps a little.)
>Starting new track at sector: 0
>Track 01: 175 of 311 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output
>error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
>CDB: 2A 00 00 01 5E C0 00 00 10 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: F1 00 05 00 01 5E C0 0C 00 00 00 00 10 02 00 00
>Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x10 Qual 0x02 (id crc or ecc error) [No matching
>qualifier] Fru 0x0
>Sense flags: Blk 89792 (valid)
>cmd finished after 3.168s timeout 40s
>write track data: error after 183894016 bytes
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>Writing time: 310.268s
>Fixating...
>Fixating time: 76.473s
>cdrecord: fifo had 5740 puts and 5613 gets.
>cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 5206 times full, min fill was
>95%.
I run "Slackware 7.0" "Linux kernel 2.2.14" with "cdrecord 1.8" and burn
happily all day on an aging "HP CD-Writer+ 7100 - firmware 2.02 X2" IDE
burner.
Here is what I recommend;
Go to the cdrecord site and download the latest from Joerg Schilling (very
wise and able programmer).
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/
cdrecord.html
Download version "cdrecord-1.8.1 final", build and install.
That should get you going no problem.
Best regards,
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: router/firewall recommendations?
Date: 08 May 2000 00:23:25 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 May 2000 03:04:36 GMT, Ujwal Sathyam
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I am looking for recommendations for a router/firewall to enable sharing
>a cable modem connection among several computers. I know I can set up
>linux to do that, but it lives on a laptop that moves around a lot, and
^^
>it is a pain to change the IP configurations on the other machines all
>the time.
What exactly is "it" referring to here? Linux? Do you mean that you have
Linux installed on a laptop, or what? You should probably explain your
problem more clearly; I'm a bit confused so the recommendations I'm about
to make may be completely off base.
Anyway, the canonical way to do what you want is to get a 486 or an old
Pentium, put two NICs in it, install Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD, and configure
IP-Masqing and basic firewalling on that system. A 486 or old Pentium
should cost about $150 or so... you'll need a small hard drive and some
RAM; 200M HD and 16M RAM or so would do since this is going to be a very
minimal system. Once the box is up and running, you won't need a
keyboard, mouse, or monitor for it, so just borrow a keyboard, mouse,
CD-ROM (if necessary) and monitor from another machine for the install and
configuration. There are a number of HOWTOs at http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO
that you should probably read, specifically the NET3, Firewall,
IP-Masquerade, and IPchains HOWTOs.
If you don't want to manually change the other machines' IP addresses all
the time, then you should probably have a look at running a DHCP server on
the Linux box you're going to build. "man dhcpcd" for starters.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
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: Marcio Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Which of these Ethernet Cards?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 00:39:33 -0300
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> I have also seen this happening to 3c90* cards. However, the problem
> seemed to dissapear when some old machines with ne2k isa clones where
> removed from the network.
>
I have also see that, with two 3c905b cards. We remove it from systems
and network hangsup stops.
I think there are relations about the nic traffic and the hangups.
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From: David Megnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: How do you mount a second CDROM (CDRW) drive?
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 21:37:23 -0700
I've just installed a SCSI CDRW drive and can't figure out how to mount it.
It's a Yamaha 8424 on an Adaptec AHA 2940UW controller. The drive ID
is 3. I already have an ATAPI CD-ROM mounted as /mnt/cdrom.
I've tried adding a second line to the /etc/fstab file like:
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
just a guess more than anything else.
My system is running Redhat 6.2, kernel 2.1.14-50
I've searched HOW-TO's and manuals to no avail. Thanks for any help
you could give a newbie.
Thanks,
David Megnin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how more than 3 CDROMs?
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 23:34:39 -0500
I have a SCSI tower connected to my linux box. However, I can only get 3
CDROMS to work.. here is the configutation:
Sun Sparcstation LX running RedHat 6.2
Internally, there is one SCSI device, a 2.1 GB harddrive. It is device #3
Then, the external SCSI box has 6 CDROMS (only 4 connected) and 1 harddrive.
When at the open-boot prompt or after booting into Linux I can go to the
scsi info under /proc/scsi and see that the kernel recognizes all 4 SCSI
CDROMs and tells their device numbers. Now.. I go to mount them using a
command like:
mount /dev/scd0 -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom0
this works fine until I get to /dev/scd3 and it tells me this special device
does not exist. So I am stumped.. here the kernel sees the 4 devices but I
can only mount 3 of them. What could be the problem?
--DavidM
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From: macabre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can only see 31G of 40G hard drive
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 04:46:29 GMT
http://www.utter-macabre.com
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vince Waldon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running a ASUS P5A-B motherboard, RedHat 6.2, and attempting to add
> a Maxtor Diamondmax 40G hard drive. Unfortunately I can only get Linux
> to recognize 31G.
>
> The motherboard has been flashed and properly recognizes all 40G.
> hdparm reports CurCHS of 16383/16/63 and CurSects=66060037 with LBA on
> and LBAsects=80041248. fdisk recognizes the actual drive geometry
> (4982/255/63) which works out to the correct number of LBAsects, but
> after a mke2fs du reports only 31G on the drive.
>
> I've read thru the Large Drive HOWTO and tried all the tricks including
> removing the drive from the BIOS, trying NORMAL and LARGE along with
> LBA,etc. A scan thru deja suggests halving the cylinders and doubling
> the heads, but this is not possible as this drive has 255 heads already.
>
> I see lots of people talking about how they've added 10G to their
> system... anyone got any tricks on how ???
>
>
> Thanks in advance !!
>
> Vince
>
>
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From: macabre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About SMC cards
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 04:46:50 GMT
http://www.utter-macabre.com
In article <iVVQ4.27017$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "SiliconSmaq"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi i have two smc cards installed on my pc
> ill be running bigslack
> anyone know how i can get it to recognise them?
> maybe a sugestion on a file to pick up.
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
> thanx
>
> SiliconSmaq
>
>
>
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From: macabre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do i get my eisa mylex dac960 raid going ?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 04:47:11 GMT
http://www.utter-macabre.com
In article <8f0hku$nm4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
> <this may be a repost - my cmos battery died and this may have been sent
> with a 1980s date last time... two days ago. only noticed the date error
> this morning>
>
> ok, i have done a stupid thing and bought a secondhand server. this big
> box is a digital prioris hx 590dp. it contains an adaptec 1542cf scsi
> card and a digital branded mylex raid card. as the subject indicates,
> this is an eisa card.
>
> naturally i have blown my budget buying this computer, so i don't want to
> got out spending any more money. i wish to use the raid card already in
> residence.
>
> the adaptec card drives the cd and other external cd drives. the raid
> card is driving the hotswap drive bays with two channels - drives 0 -> 2
> on one and the remaining 3 -> 6 on another channel. there is a single
> 2 gig drive at id 0, and a pair of 4gb drives at 1 and 3 i want to use
> as a raid 0 array. or at least this is what i have set up in the cards
> non-volatile ram.
>
> unfortunately the linux mylex drivers are for pci cards. they do not
> recognise the card in my computer.
>
> does anyone know if there are some eisa drivers available that will get
> this card going for me ? beta or abandonded code at this stage would
> even be considered...
>
> hey, any ideas on changing the pci driver to work would be appreciated too !
>
> andrew.
>
> --
> if linux is like driving with the top down, then windows is like driving
> with the wheels off.
>
> mail_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> i'd rather be using RiscOS 4. but a reliable old a410/i will have to do.
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From: Jaideep Tibrewala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems: Joystick and SCSI CDRW
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 04:38:55 GMT
Current system: i386 system, Redhat 6.1, Sidewinder Freestyle Pro and
SCSI CDRW.
1) How do you get the Sidewinder Freestyle pro to work with Linux? I
have compiled the kernel with modular support for joystick and the
sidewinder joystick. I can load the joystick.o module, but when I try to
load the Sidewinder module (joy-sidewinder.o), it complains:
"./joy-sidewinder.o: init_module: Device or resource busy"
Anyone has any idea what this means and how I can make the joystick to
work (AND NO I AM NOT GOING TO BUY ANOTHER JOYSTICK)
2) I have an IDE CD-ROM drive. I recently installed a SCSI CDRW drive.
All went smoothly. Now, when I try to play music CDs from my SCSI-CDRW,
I cannot hear any music. What do I need to do to make this work? Is
there some module I need to load?
Please help !!!!
Thank you in advance
Jaideep
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Ujwal Sathyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: router/firewall recommendations?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 04:55:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 08 May 2000 03:04:36 GMT, Ujwal Sathyam
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I am looking for recommendations for a router/firewall to enable sharing
> >a cable modem connection among several computers. I know I can set up
> >linux to do that, but it lives on a laptop that moves around a lot, and
> ^^
> >it is a pain to change the IP configurations on the other machines all
> >the time.
>
> What exactly is "it" referring to here? Linux? Do you mean that you have
> Linux installed on a laptop, or what? You should probably explain your
> problem more clearly; I'm a bit confused so the recommendations I'm about
> to make may be completely off base.
I don't have a problem. All I wanted was recommendations of any
particular brand of router/firewall devices like Linksys, etc.
Yes, my Linux system is on a laptop. I am currently using it to
masquerade IP address for the other computers in my house using IP
aliasing and masquerading. But when I disconnect the laptop to take to
work, one of the other machines has take over that job, and none of them
run Linux. I want to have a small router device dedicated to that
function. I know I can achieve this using an old 486 and loading Linux
on it. But as you said, the total investment costs are about 150-200
bucks for which I can buy a small router. Physical size is also a
factor, and I suspect a 486 can be boxy...
>
> Anyway, the canonical way to do what you want is to get a 486 or an old
> Pentium, put two NICs in it, install Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD, and configure
> IP-Masqing and basic firewalling on that system. A 486 or old Pentium
> should cost about $150 or so... you'll need a small hard drive and some
> RAM; 200M HD and 16M RAM or so would do since this is going to be a very
> minimal system. Once the box is up and running, you won't need a
> keyboard, mouse, or monitor for it, so just borrow a keyboard, mouse,
> CD-ROM (if necessary) and monitor from another machine for the install and
> configuration. There are a number of HOWTOs at http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO
> that you should probably read, specifically the NET3, Firewall,
> IP-Masquerade, and IPchains HOWTOs.
>
> If you don't want to manually change the other machines' IP addresses all
> the time, then you should probably have a look at running a DHCP server on
> the Linux box you're going to build. "man dhcpcd" for starters.
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How do you mount a second CDROM (CDRW) drive?
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 22:02:44 -0700
Hi David:
David Megnin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I've just installed a SCSI CDRW drive and can't figure out how
>to mount it.
>It's a Yamaha 8424 on an Adaptec AHA 2940UW controller. The
>drive ID is 3. I already have an ATAPI CD-ROM mounted as
>/mnt/cdrom.
>I've tried adding a second line to the /etc/fstab file like:
>/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
>just a guess more than anything else.
>My system is running Redhat 6.2, kernel 2.1.14-50
>I've searched HOW-TO's and manuals to no avail.
>Thanks for any help you could give a newbie.
Try this:
dmesg | grep scsi <enter>
Let us know what it says.
Best regards,
Brian
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