Linux-Hardware Digest #860, Volume #12 Mon, 15 May 00 02:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: lilo configuration ("T0talcha0s")
Re: External SparQ drive? ("Andrew Crane")
Re: modem confusion (Mark Bratcher)
nic problem (TomC)
TJNET ISDN Modem (Adam Messer)
My computer locks up... (Jason Dixon)
Re: My computer locks up... (Jason Dixon)
How to disable on-board video card to add another one? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ReHat 6.1 / PS mouse + Ethernet card / IRQ conflict ("José A. Rodriguez H")
Re: 3c503/16 won't work (Roland Krause)
Re: 3c503/16 won't work (Roland Krause)
Re: 3c503/16 won't work (Roland Krause)
SCSI Controller with Asus notebook (Antonio Chiarottino)
Re: ecrix VXA-1 tape drive, experience reports? (Rico Tudor)
Re: ecrix VXA-1 tape drive, experience reports? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: MTRR, what's that? SMP question. Abit BP6 2*400MHz Celeries
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD Re-Writer ("Dallas Releford")
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From: "T0talcha0s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo configuration
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:30:36 GMT
That is only the configuration file... you want to edit that with emacs, vi,
or whatever...
emacs /etc/lilo.conf
then after having made the changes, you want to execute lilo so that the
changes are actually made...
"SpeedFreak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to do a duel boot system and I cant get into
> the lilo.conf file and it gives me gives me permission
> denied error
>
> here is what I put in
>
> [root@localhost/root]# /etc/lilo.conf
>
> and it printed out
>
> bash:/etc/lilo.conf:permission denied
>
> and I was logged in as the root
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
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From: "Andrew Crane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: External SparQ drive?
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:07:44 +0100
Hmm, Im a total newbie and this goes over my head..
Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Andrew Crane wrote:
> >
> > How can I use my 1GB External (parallel) syquest SparQ drive with Linux?
>
> Use it with the paride drivers (
> http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html)
> --
> Markus Kossmann
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem confusion
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:04:19 -0400
jesse l nowells wrote:
>
> i have a home network where one machine is hooked up to the telephone & i
> need to have another modem-less machine to use that modem. the machine
> that i want to have access to the other machine's modem has a directory
> into the outgoing machine so it has direct access to the phone machine's
> /dev directory but minicom on the modem-less machine gives me a "you're
> already online & please hang-up" message. the phone machine running
> slackware 3.6 & the modemless machine is running slackware 4.0.
That's not going to work if the machine with the modem is already using
the device.
What it sounds like you want to do is set up IP Masquerading and
Firewalling on the machine that has the modem (ie, set it up as a
gateway), and use diald to automatically bring up the link when you need
it. I set my network up that way to share a 56K modem with a Windows 95
client and it works great.
HTH
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: TomC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nic problem
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:11:38 +0800
Hi, I have 2 nic. When the linux boot up, eth0 & eth1 are showed ok.
However, I type ifconfig, I can't find eth1. Then, I type ifconfig eth1
up but it shows "Resource temporarily unavailable". Why?
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From: Adam Messer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: TJNET ISDN Modem
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:32:53 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone out there had a driver for a TJNET 128K
PCI modem for Redhat Linux 6.2. If you have one, or know where I could
get one please let me know!
Thanks in advance,
Adam Messer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My computer locks up...
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 02:00:57 +0000
My X sessions have been locking up, usually once/twice a day, for the
last coupl
e of months. I'm not sure when it first started occurring, and have not
been ab
le to narrow down the processes which might be causing it. It happens
*primaril
y* when I'm using something that has audio, particularly mp3's. In
fact, I've q
uit playing mp3's at all on this machine because of this problem. It
doesn't se
em to occur with the CD player, though.
In addition, it doesn't just lock up X... it crashes the entire box,
usually lea
ving it in a state of "looping" some audio. The machine can't even be
accessed
via network. I'm using an Ensoniq Audio Pro (ESS 1371) which has been a
wonderf
ul sound card, but I think might have something to do with this. I'm
using the
default ESS1371 driver with this.
Here is my current build.. I've also listed my previous build below;
unfortunate
ly, this happens with both- upgrading didn't help.
[current]
AMD K6-2 350
RedHat 6.2
XFree86 3.3.6
ESS 1371
[previous]
...same hardware...
RedHat 6.1
XFree86 3.3.5
ESS 1371
Thanks in advance,
Jason
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From: Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My computer locks up...
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 02:12:29 +0000
Sorry for the jumble... bad formatting from cut-n-paste. Here it is
again...
-Jason
> My X sessions have been locking up, usually once/twice a day, for the
> last couple of months. I'm not sure when it first started occurring, and have not
> been able to narrow down the processes which might be causing it. It happens
> *primarily* when I'm using something that has audio, particularly mp3's. In
> fact, I've quit playing mp3's at all on this machine because of this problem. It
> doesn't seem to occur with the CD player, though.
>
> In addition, it doesn't just lock up X... it crashes the entire box,
> usually leaving it in a state of "looping" some audio. The machine can't even be
> accessed via network. I'm using an Ensoniq Audio Pro (ESS 1371) which has been a
> wonderful sound card, but I think might have something to do with this. I'm
> using the default ESS1371 driver with this.
>
> Here is my current build.. I've also listed my previous build below;
> unfortunately, this happens with both- upgrading didn't help.
>
> [current]
> AMD K6-2 350
> RedHat 6.2
> XFree86 3.3.6
> ESS 1371
>
> [previous]
> ...same hardware...
> RedHat 6.1
> XFree86 3.3.5
> ESS 1371
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jason
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Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 23:00:15 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to disable on-board video card to add another one?
Hi,
I have a on-board 2MB ati video card.
Is it possible to disable this card and a new one?
If so, how? and what would you recommend for a new card to use with 19"
monitor? (not for gaming purpose)
Thanks.
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From: "José A. Rodriguez H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ReHat 6.1 / PS mouse + Ethernet card / IRQ conflict
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 23:28:20 -0400
My dream was very close to be true... now I have a pretty new "cool" PC, so
what´s the first thig to do? -> Install Linux
But dreams used to becomes nightmares..
When RedHat 6.1 starts the install program (GUI) my mouse dont work, it
simply does not move.
So I think: "deam!, theres a IRQ conflict"
I check up all the IRQ and forced all the Plug & Play PCI card to a diferent
IRQ. ( IRQ12 is -always- reserved to PSmouse)
Start over again and... the same thing...
I have tried many things, like use a serial mouse.. it makes no diference.
I think that the conflic its mith the network card (I know that some cards
uses IRQ12)
Well "guru" guys.. I hope there´s a solution...
Thanx
RGUEZ
PD: MotherBoard P3V133
Realtek 8139 Ethernet
Netmouse Pro
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From: Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c503/16 won't work
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:41:38 -0500
Here some tips...
Do you have a module for the 3c503? It should be in /lib/modules/net.
If so first put the following line in /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 3c503
then type modprobe eth0
Did it load? Check w/ lsmod. If not whats the error message?
3c503 needs a paramter for the IRQ something like irq=10 or so. Try to find
out which IRQ it runs on the put options 3c503 irq=10 in /etc/conf.modules.
Get linuxconf it does all this for you.
Read the ethernet Howto if you cant make sense of all this.
Get a better distro - RH6 is ancient.
Get linuxconf if you dont want to spent the time to learn all this.
Again read the howto's
Btw. what has all this to do with SCO?
Regards
Roland
David Masters wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using RedHAt6.0 with a 3COM Etherlink II/16 network card.
>
> I keep getting the message "Could not locate 3C503"
>
> I got this bit of information below from the 3COM website about problems
> with SCO/SUN and AT&T Unix versions that had problems with the card.
>
> ------------------------
> Question: Loading the SCO driver for the 3C503 returns the error: "could
> not locate the 3C503 adapter".
>
> Answer: The SCO initialization code for locating the
> adapter contains a
> parse to the Ethernet Address chip to verify that it is a
> 3Com card. SCO
> included the original range of Ethernet addresses for
> 3C503's
> "02608cxxxxxx" but not "00608cxxxxxx" or "0020afxxxxxx". A
> patched
> version of the driver is available from SCO.
> -------------------------
>
> Is it possible that the Linux driver suffers from the same problem. If
> not can anyone else suggest another cause for the problem.
>
> Please note that the card worked OK when I have NT installed and no
> hardware config has changed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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From: Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c503/16 won't work
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:41:44 -0500
Here some tips...
Do you have a module for the 3c503? It should be in /lib/modules/net.
If so first put the following line in /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 3c503
then type modprobe eth0
Did it load? Check w/ lsmod. If not whats the error message?
3c503 needs a paramter for the IRQ something like irq=10 or so. Try to find
out which IRQ it runs on the put options 3c503 irq=10 in /etc/conf.modules.
Get linuxconf it does all this for you.
Read the ethernet Howto if you cant make sense of all this.
Get a better distro - RH6 is ancient.
Get linuxconf if you dont want to spent the time to learn all this.
Again read the howto's
Btw. what has all this to do with SCO?
Regards
Roland
David Masters wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using RedHAt6.0 with a 3COM Etherlink II/16 network card.
>
> I keep getting the message "Could not locate 3C503"
>
> I got this bit of information below from the 3COM website about problems
> with SCO/SUN and AT&T Unix versions that had problems with the card.
>
> ------------------------
> Question: Loading the SCO driver for the 3C503 returns the error: "could
> not locate the 3C503 adapter".
>
> Answer: The SCO initialization code for locating the
> adapter contains a
> parse to the Ethernet Address chip to verify that it is a
> 3Com card. SCO
> included the original range of Ethernet addresses for
> 3C503's
> "02608cxxxxxx" but not "00608cxxxxxx" or "0020afxxxxxx". A
> patched
> version of the driver is available from SCO.
> -------------------------
>
> Is it possible that the Linux driver suffers from the same problem. If
> not can anyone else suggest another cause for the problem.
>
> Please note that the card worked OK when I have NT installed and no
> hardware config has changed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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From: Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c503/16 won't work
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:41:47 -0500
Here some tips...
Do you have a module for the 3c503? It should be in /lib/modules/net.
If so first put the following line in /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 3c503
then type modprobe eth0
Did it load? Check w/ lsmod. If not whats the error message?
3c503 needs a paramter for the IRQ something like irq=10 or so. Try to find
out which IRQ it runs on the put options 3c503 irq=10 in /etc/conf.modules.
Get linuxconf it does all this for you.
Read the ethernet Howto if you cant make sense of all this.
Get a better distro - RH6 is ancient.
Get linuxconf if you dont want to spent the time to learn all this.
Again read the howto's
Btw. what has all this to do with SCO?
Regards
Roland
David Masters wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using RedHAt6.0 with a 3COM Etherlink II/16 network card.
>
> I keep getting the message "Could not locate 3C503"
>
> I got this bit of information below from the 3COM website about problems
> with SCO/SUN and AT&T Unix versions that had problems with the card.
>
> ------------------------
> Question: Loading the SCO driver for the 3C503 returns the error: "could
> not locate the 3C503 adapter".
>
> Answer: The SCO initialization code for locating the
> adapter contains a
> parse to the Ethernet Address chip to verify that it is a
> 3Com card. SCO
> included the original range of Ethernet addresses for
> 3C503's
> "02608cxxxxxx" but not "00608cxxxxxx" or "0020afxxxxxx". A
> patched
> version of the driver is available from SCO.
> -------------------------
>
> Is it possible that the Linux driver suffers from the same problem. If
> not can anyone else suggest another cause for the problem.
>
> Please note that the card worked OK when I have NT installed and no
> hardware config has changed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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From: Antonio Chiarottino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Controller with Asus notebook
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 04:35:56 GMT
I am going to by an ASUS L7251V Notebook, and since I will need a SCSI
controller for external devices, the suggestion they give me for that is
the Adaptec APA 1460B as PCMCIA SCSI Controller.
Anybody knows if it is supported by the Linux Kernel, and in case which
is the appropriate kernel to use? I intend to install Slackware 7.0.
Thank you in advance.
Antonio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rico Tudor)
Subject: Re: ecrix VXA-1 tape drive, experience reports?
Date: 15 May 2000 04:27:34 GMT
I have a pair of drives, and they appear as ordinary SCSI tape devices
to Linux. The Sony 9000 has a write rate 1/2 the VXA-1: 1.2MB/s native
vs 2.7MB/s native. VXA media cost is higher due to the AME (evaporated
metal) tape:
media native
cost capacity
drive ($/GB) (GB)
--------------------------------
Exabyte 8mm 1 7
DDS-3 1.5 12
DDS-2 2 4
Ecrix VXA 2.5 33
The Ecrix web site (ecrix.com) has extensive documentation and demos
about reliability -- a must-read. Features for reliability:
- helical scan allows slow tape speed (no shoe shine if data
supply lags)
- simplified tape path
- packet writing tolerates misaligned heads
- extensive ECC
- read-after-write
Features I like:
- rapid file seek, forward or back
- format on-the-fly
- usage statistics written to tape
- drive temperature monitoring *
- SCSI command reference on-line
* Utility available at http://patrec.com/rico/cooling/vxa1-temp.c++
======== my e=mail domain: math.nwu.edu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ecrix VXA-1 tape drive, experience reports?
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 05:04:06 GMT
Ecrix is doing a special eval program for the VXA tape drives. The drive
is free for 30 days, and if you decide to buy it you save some money.
Check it out at http://www.ecrix.com/eval.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Apelt) wrote:
>
> Does anybody use a Ecrix VXA-1 tape drive?
> Do you recommend it ?
>
> Compared to DAT tapes with comparable write speed, it seems to be
overpriced,
> but their advertising states VXA technology is much more robust and
> reliable on restore because it is similar to DLT (as they say).
>
> I am worried about the rotating head. Isn't it the main cause for
> restore failures with DAT tapes?
>
> How reliable is it's technology really?
>
> ( data from a current magazine (ix 3/2000, page 84) )
> ####### VXA-1
> Drive: ~ 2000 DM internal
> SCSI-II
> linear recording, multi headed, rotating head
>
> write 2,3 MB/sec ~ 1GB in 7min 23sec (already
compressed data)
> read 2,6 MB/sec
>
> Media 12GB ~ 60 DM for 10 tapes (raw capacity) 5 DM/GB
> 33GB ~ 150 DM for 10 tapes 4,5 DM/GB
>
> ####### DAT Sony 9000
> Drive ~ 1500 DM
> SCSI-2 , rotating head, helical recording
> write ~ 3 MB/sec (compressed data)
>
> Media DDS-3 12GB ~ 33 DM 2,75 DM/GB
>
> --
> Volker Apelt Group of Prof. Dr. Ch. Griesinger
> Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet
> Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use va@ instead of ...@ )
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MTRR, what's that? SMP question. Abit BP6 2*400MHz Celeries
Date: 15 May 2000 05:36:37 GMT
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Abit BP6, with two 400MHz Celeron (Mendecino) CPUs, Mandrake
>>7.0 (2.2.14)
>>
>>At boot, I get a message:
>>kernel: mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
>>
>>kernel: mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
>>
>>What does this mean?
MTRR == Memory Type Range Registor
It's a registor that is found in intel 6x86 CPUs, and in some
AMDs IIRC. As far as I grasp, it can be used to improve
performance on some main memort read/write operations. Sometimes
it's used in conjuction with the frame buffer.
It looks like the BP6 bios does what you would expect of a uniprocessor
system. The kernel catches it and fixes the situation. On my system,
it appears to set one to reflect the VGA frame buffer, and the other
for main memory.
jeremy
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From: "Dallas Releford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Re-Writer
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 05:59:21 GMT
Look for cd-recorder on the internet. I think there is a freeware version
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> Does anyone know of a good application interface for burning cd's? I
> have a Plextor 12x4x32 SCSI.
>
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