Linux-Hardware Digest #857, Volume #12 Sun, 14 May 00 10:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: backup problem (Volker Apelt)
Re: Mouse detected but not working properly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Scanner HP Sane SCSI (Bruno)
2 nic (TomC)
Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-R config confusion (A Guy Called Tyketto)
als4000 soundcard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
phone calls with voice modem (Rene Windiks)
Re: ISP/modem performance (Steven Fosdick)
Mouse Does Not Work In X Windows (mike)
Re: HDD keeps spinning (Steve Martin)
Re: Scanner HP Sane SCSI (Marcel Pol)
3c503/16 won't work (David Masters)
Re: phone calls with voice modem (Young4ert)
SMC-ULTRA not responding !! HELP !! (Iqbal Husain Thaker)
Re: RHat Linux with IMES CDROM drive ("Gene Heskett")
Re: sound card... ("Gene Heskett")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Apelt)
Subject: Re: backup problem
Date: 14 May 2000 11:11:20 +0200
"ChemSoft GmbH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all,
> i try to realize an incremental backup for our servers on an dds tape-drive.
> i have made the following script:
[snip ]
>
> # first rewind the tape
> mt -t /dev/st0 rewind
You know that /dev/st0 is the _rewinding_ tape device ?
What you need is the NON_rewinding_ tape device!
--
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]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Mouse detected but not working properly
Date: 14 May 2000 01:42:01 -0700
In article <nprT4.12524$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "T0talcha0s" says...
>
>During the installation of RH6.2, my cursor (Microsoft Optical Intellimouse
>PS/2) seems to stay on the right side of the screen, and moving it anywhere
>just makes it go crazy... I tried hooking up my Logitech mouse (the basic 2
>button PS/2 model), and that mouse did the same thing! And it still does it
>in X. The same thing occurred when I installed the latest version of Corel
>Linux... any ideas?
>Thanks
>
>
strange. When you do
ls -l /dev/mouse
what do you get?
run xf86config again, or you could also try xmseconfig to see if that helps.
it looks like your mouse device was not configured ok somehow...
Nasser
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From: Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Scanner HP Sane SCSI
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 12:11:06 +0200
Hi everybody... I have a little problem with my scanner (HP Scanjet 4P).
I've installed all packages for Sane
It should work when i type
xscanimage
but it tells me that i have no aviable device...
So, I tried to add SCSI module for my kernel...
But when I type
make xconfig
or
make menuconfig
It tells me something like
no rule to make the target xconfig Stop
What shoud I do ?
Could u explain me these error.
Thanx a lot and sorry for my bad enlgish.
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From: TomC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 nic
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:21:54 +0800
Hi, I have a question.
I already have a network card in my redhat 6.0 box. Later, I added a new
3com 3c509 network card in that box. After the system had restarted, I
could not find any eth1 by type dmesg|grep eth and just find eth0 that
is the existing one. So, I type insmod /lib/modules/net/3c509.o to load
that modules. Then, I can find eth1. However, that module seems not
exist after reboot and I need to type insmod /lib/modules/net/3c509.o
again.
How can I make that new card available forever?
Thanks
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From: A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-R config confusion
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 10:26:18 GMT
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am running Mandrake 7.0 taken from a PCPlus CD
> the kernel is 2.2.14-15mdk
> My system is pci scsi (Buslogic: two HD and a PD drive) with 64 MB
> and Voodoo3 2000 with no IDE stuff except the HP CDwriter
> I have just done a comlplete re-format and re-install, and without
> *any* fiddling with source code etc., I did:-
> make xconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> and got the following warnings:-
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From the linux-kernel mailing list, on Apr. 3rd:
* To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.15pre17
* From: Alan Modra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:10:09 +1000 (EST)
* Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 2 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Compiling it on an i386 (CONFIG_686) gives a couple of assembler
> warnings that I haven't seen before, at the very end of compilation:
You have a new assembler, presumably.
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/src/linux-2.2/include -traditional -c head.S
> /tmp/ccBTSkdf.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccBTSkdf.s:109: Warning: using `%eax' instead of `%ax' due to `l'
suffix
>[etc]
Ignore them, at least for 2.2.x The newer assemblers have much better
syntax checking than older ones, and are just warning that the asm code
here isn't completely self-consistent. It's done that way for
compatibilty with really old assemblers that add a redundant opcode
prefix on certain instructions. In the case of 2.3.x and the coming
2.4.x, these warnings should be fixed. You require a fairly new
assembler for 2.3.x anyway, to assemble the x86 boot code.
You're doing fine. ignore the warnings, and you should be okay.
BL.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: als4000 soundcard
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 10:18:30 GMT
Hi,
does anyone know about sound-support for an ALS4000 based PCI-Soundcard
(Asound Express)?
alsa 0.5.7r10 as well as Kernel 2.2.14's sounddriver (3.8s) fail to
support it. Though it should work as Sb16 it won't...
Can anybody help?
Thanx,
Erik Twelker
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Rene Windiks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: phone calls with voice modem
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 12:25:09 +0200
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Hi,
is it possible to make phone calls with voice
modem (intern/extern) under linux?
I do not mean voice-over-ip, i.e. phone calls
via the internet. I mean modem-to-telephone
connections.
Please send answers also to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you.
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Rene Windiks
Phone/Fax: +49-30-6821962
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.internet.providers.uk.free
Subject: Re: ISP/modem performance
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 05:39:10 +0000
In article <8fi4ip$ohl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Brian Vallot-Lewis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2 points
> 1. the bytes are delimited by start and stop bits thus 10 or 11 per byte
> so div by 10 (or 11) or even 12 where a parity and 2 stops are used, but
> 10 is the 'norm'
I realise that 10 bits/byte is normal on the RS232 interface and the modem.
I don't know (perhaps you do) whether the start and stop bits are kept in the
channel between the modems as I though some of these standards were
syncronous.
> 2. each packet has CRC bytes added and requires an acknowledge or resend
> response, so this needs an allowance of at least 5% on top.
Well I know IP has packet checksums and I had pointed out that there was
an overhead from the IP layer, though I didn't quantify it. PPP could add
another CRC (again I don't know) plus there's whatever the modem does
in the way of error correction.
I must take issue with making allowance for acknowledgements though as a
modem is full duplex and TCP uses a window to enable a sending end to be
sending the next packet whilst the acknowledgment for the last on is
simultaneously coming back the other way.
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse Does Not Work In X Windows
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 08:15:49 -0400
Hi,
I could not start X windows with the origional configuration.
When I disabled gpm , then X windows started, but
the mouse would not work. I am having this problem
with Slackware 7.0 and I think Rdhat 6.1
I had previously had Redhat 5.1 on the machine and there
was no problems with X windows running and using the same
mouse. I believe that gpm was running there, but I can remember.
I was never able to cut and paste in 5.1, I think, but that is
not of great importance at this point.
Is there a mouse driver? Maybe the wrong one is being used.
I have tried different mouse settings with "mouseconfig", but
it seems that there is no way to test it dynamically. It seems that
I have to restart X windows. Actually I am not sure how to
restart the mouse function or daemon once a change is made.
How would that be done, with out rebooting the system?
Thanks
Mike
P.S. Are there any utilities that will check the mouse functioning
that are not x programs or help diagnose mouse problems. I
have looked for doc on how the mouse is interfaced and not
much info have I found.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HDD keeps spinning
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 12:20:30 +0000
NKL wrote:
>
> Very Occassinnally my hd would just go on spinning, especially after I
> disconnect my modem. Does anybody knwo what can cause this? Is it my OS or
> is it a hw problem.
>
> I just had to switch off the machine, as it will not respond.
Well, usually when I run into a case of excessive disk activity
and non-responsiveness, it turns out to be disk thrashing due to
excessive swap activity. How much physical RAM do you have in
the machine? Perhaps some process is allocating large amounts
of memory, which might cause the system to hit the swap hard.
(Of course, I don't know what that might have to do with using
a modem, but you try the familiar things first :)
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From: Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scanner HP Sane SCSI
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 12:31:48 GMT
Bruno wrote:
>
> Hi everybody... I have a little problem with my scanner (HP Scanjet 4P).
> I've installed all packages for Sane
> It should work when i type
> xscanimage
> but it tells me that i have no aviable device...
> So, I tried to add SCSI module for my kernel...
> But when I type
> make xconfig
> or
> make menuconfig
> It tells me something like
> no rule to make the target xconfig Stop
> What shoud I do ?
I think you are not in the right path.
With SuSE the kernel sources are in /usr/src/linux.
So then I should do;
cd /usr/src/linux
And then become root with the su command.
Then make xconfig.
I do not know which distribution you use, but if it is not in the
same directory, it will be somewhere nearby.
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From: David Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c503/16 won't work
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 15:07:12 +0930
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: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: phone calls with voice modem
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:02:40 -0400
Rene Windiks wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to make phone calls with voice
> modem (intern/extern) under linux?
> I do not mean voice-over-ip, i.e. phone calls
> via the internet. I mean modem-to-telephone
> connections.
>
Phone calls via the Internet is different from modem-to-phone
connection. What you want is to make a regular telephone conversation
using your modem through the microphone and speaker outlets from the
modem.
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PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
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From: Iqbal Husain Thaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMC-ULTRA not responding !! HELP !!
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 15:37:53 +0200
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Hi,
Using a RH6.1 fresh install (dual-booting with Winbloze 98) on a 15Gig,
Intel Celeron 466 with a smc-ultra ethernet card. The card works
perfectly in winbloze but during booting into linux gives an oops and
then a lot of errors while saying bringing up interface lo ... etc etc
etc ...
If an interactive startup is done and then after depmod -a and modprobe
smc-ultra returns the proper IRQ, base address etc ... ( the same
settings as used by winbloze) ... but if the network is started through
the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start command ... the process just hangs
after giving a "UNABLE TO HANDLE KERNEL PAGING REQUEST AT VIRTUAL
ADDRESS ... blah blah blah"
anyone can point what could be done to make it funciton properly ...
also tried with another NE2000 clone (Realtek) and had the same problem
... have checked the modules and see that they r present ... this is a
totally fresh installation ... a KDE workstation installation ...
any ideas ?? ...
thanks a million in advance ...
Iqbal.
--
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Hi,
<p>Using a RH6.1 fresh install (dual-booting with Winbloze 98) on a 15Gig,
Intel Celeron 466 with a smc-ultra ethernet card. The card works perfectly
in winbloze but during booting into linux gives an oops and then a lot
of errors while saying bringing up interface lo ... etc etc etc ...
<p>If an interactive startup is done and then after depmod -a and modprobe
smc-ultra returns the proper IRQ, base address etc ... ( the same settings
as used by winbloze) ... but if the network is started through the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network
start command ... the process just hangs after giving a "UNABLE TO HANDLE
KERNEL PAGING REQUEST AT VIRTUAL ADDRESS ... blah blah blah"
<p>anyone can point what could be done to make it funciton properly ...
also tried with another NE2000 clone (Realtek) and had the same problem
... have checked the modules and see that they r present ... this is a
totally fresh installation ... a KDE workstation installation ...
<p>any ideas ?? ...
<p>thanks a million in advance ...
<p>Iqbal.
<pre>--
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Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition
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Date: 14 May 2000 8:54:26 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RHat Linux with IMES CDROM drive
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to aherrgott ;
Please do not use html for usenet postings. Repost this in normal text
mode only please.
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> <html>
> Hello.
> <p>I just installed Red Hat linux v6.1 and had success. After
> installation, the CDRom wouldn't mount, telling me that there is "no
> medium found". If the CDR hadn't been opened since boot, it
> would find the CDR, however.
> <p>My CDR is a IMES 8x drive. Old, crappy machine, but great
> for learning linux. (Too small for the NT giants...) :)
> <p>Installing Red Hat linux v6.2 has trouble with getting files from
> the CDR. It dies at different points.
> <p>I have read a little about treating some old ATAPI devices as
> SCSI, even though they are IDE. However, I cannot find info on
> how to do that. Any pointers?
> <p>Has anyone had success with the IMES CDROM?
> <p>Thanks for any help,
> <br>-ah</html>
Cheers, Gene
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Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |This Space for rent
RC5-Moo! 350kkeys/sec, Seti@home 16 hrs a block
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Date: 14 May 2000 8:46:32 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card...
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Aaron McGowan;
AM> Risto,
AM> thanks a lot! I am very new to linux, and now I will show my
AM> true ignorance: I don't exactly know how to compile with a new
AM> kernel. I found
AM> 2.2.15 at ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org but now that I have it I'm not
AM> sure what to do with it.
AM> Aaron
First, if you have a link in /usr/src named linux that points to your
existing kernel sources, remove it.
Then unpack 2.2.15, which will make a new one, and you don't want to do
a mix-n-match there. Once unpacked, rename that base 'linux' dir by
adding its version number to the directory name with an
mv /usr/src/linux /usr/src/linux-2.2.15.
Then
ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.2.15 /usr/src/linux
thereby establishing a new '/usr/src/linux' anchor point for all the
utils that look there.
A good starting point to configure the newer kernel would be to copy the
.config from your existing kernels source tree base to the base of the
unpacked new kernel.
Then
make oldconfig
which will convert your existing kernel setup to the newer one, asking
you questions about things that are added or different. Answer
appropriately.
When thats done, if you'd like to check out the real differences, do
make menuconfig (or)
make xconfig (if running x)
Now, the rest of it can be made into a script, and if you are cd'd to
this 'linux' dir, it goes like this:
======
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
cp -f arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15
mv /lib/modules/2.2.15 /lib/modules/2.2.15.old
make modules_install
cp -f System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.15
======
Now, I have an SBLive Value!, using the emu10k1 driver package, so the
script continues:
======
cd ../emu10k1
make clean
make
make install
======
which does the audio module install, then back to the job at hand
======
cd /boot
rm -f System.map
ln -s System.map-2.2.15 System.map
depmod -a 2.2.15
lilo -v
======
Since this all takes a bit of time, that last line *assumes* that you
have already grabbed another shell someplace and have edited your
/etc/lilo.conf to incorporate the newly built kernel as a 'label=test'
set of entries adding to the bottom of it along these lines:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15
label=test
read-only
boot=/dev/hda1
so that when lilo is run, it adds your new kernel as one of its choices.
Once thats done and there are no show-stopper errors, reboot, and at the
lilo prompt, type 'test'enter
If that works, then edit /etc/lilo.conf, put your new entry to the top
of the list, change the label= line to =linux, and the older one to
=2.2.12-05 (or whatever) and rerun lilo -v, which will make the new
kernel the default kernel.
Oh, that pressure on the front of your ears? Thats your grin, you just
learned the basics of new kernels :-)
And now, I need some help folks. I have not been able to make
lm_sensers work with kernel 2.2.15 altho they worked ok with 2.2.15pre8
So I need a checklist similar to the above that will make lm_sensers
work again.
AM> "Risto A. Paju" wrote:
>> 'SB compatible' cards are almost never hardware compatible, and the
>> apparent SB compatibility is achieved by a proprietary driver
>> which, of course, is only available for windoze. However, the
>> latest stable kernel
>> (2.2.15) includes ESS Solo 1 support - do compile it with that
>> module.
Cheers, Gene
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