Linux-Hardware Digest #935, Volume #12 Fri, 26 May 00 21:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: insmod msg: init_module: Device or resource busy (Phil Reardon)
Re: HP T20 Tape drive ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: AGP &Xfree86 3.3.6 (Dances With Crows)
SuSE 6.4 install on adaptec 39160 scsi card (Matt)
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mac IIsi FPU (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: gateways - ethernet cards ("jemmons")
Re: are asus reliable? ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. (Steve)
USB WebCams (Monty the Mooch)
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From: Phil Reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: insmod msg: init_module: Device or resource busy
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:31:57 -0600
Phil Reardon wrote:
> What does this message imply? I am trying to set up the dmfe_rh61.o
> module for my XpressNet DM9102 PCI NIC. dmesg | less after boot gives
> :Warning can't find DM910x board or resource error.
I am answering my own message here! I pulled the card out and replaced
it with my other DM9102 and all is now well. I think it was a seating
problem with the other card. Thanks for reading, though!
Phil Reardon
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP T20 Tape drive
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 18:33:09 -0400
> Does anyone know if this drive work in linux? If so can you point me
> in the right direction to getting it working. Thanks.
If it's a SCSI, just plug it in and MAKEDEV st0 nst0. Then you're ready
to go.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: AGP &Xfree86 3.3.6
Date: 26 May 2000 19:04:06 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 26 May 2000 18:51:26 GMT, Mikhail Kuzminsky
<<8gmh3e$gs4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> Could you please inform me about AGP cards
>which can work w/XFRee86 3.3.6 (RH 6.2 has,
Almost anything ATi. Xpert98, Xpert99, Rage 128-based, 3D Rage Pro, ....
Matrox G200/G400.
nVidia TNT/TNT2 (this chip is in a lot of cards Diamond makes... Diamond
Viper 550 and 770 as well as others.)
Voodoo 3
Trident and S3 cards seem to give people more trouble than others. Watch
out and search the hardware compatability list before buying. The
definitive guides are usually at
http://xfree86.org/3.3.6/
under the "information for $FOO users" where $FOO is the name of the
chipset manufacturer. If the card doesn't show up in the "supported
hardware" list there, don't buy it. HTH,
--
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 \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.4 install on adaptec 39160 scsi card
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 23:30:04 GMT
how do you get it to let you install without problems halting comp on
parameters for module?
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 23:48:11 GMT
On 26 May 2000 20:22:21 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>: This is exactly what makes Linux so hysterical. You have to
>: "experiment" with a piece of hardwre to make it work.
>
>Of course. How else would you get it to? It's not intelligent! It
>can't figure out what you want to do with it, because it can't read
>your mind. You're in charge, not it!
I want to print. Very simple concept. Blank paper goes in this nice
little tray and comes out with all of this writing on it.
Very simple.
>: Shit under Windows youplug it in, Windows prompts for a CD, prints a
>: test page and that's it.
>
>Uh, no. Plug it in, windows prompts for a driver, you put in cd or
>floppy, and windows says it can't find driver on cd or floppy. You
>point it at exact file as nearly as you can guess, and it refuses.
>So you try to choose some other nearly-right driver. After a few days
>of this, it finally occurs to you that maybe the cd is out of date, or
>your bios has tricked windows into a corner on something. OK. After a
>bit more downloading and trialling, you disable the help installation
>wizard by fauir means or foul, take charge of whatever the pnp thing was
>trying to do to you, and tell it where it should put its damed irqs (the
>pcmcia card manager was ON the irq it was trying to get me to use,
>once!). Thereby freeing up an irq for what's needed. Then you get the
>thing going partly, but you accidentally reboot, and windows loses
>track of the thing .... After about a week you get to half way
>understand the trick about "aggregate new hardware", enabling/disabling
>the net from both sides of what windows insists is some kind of
>ms network device, and you maybe also find the snuggling hidden option
>in the printer setup that means "produce standards conformant
>postscript" instead of the illegal MS stuff that needs dynamic font
>downloads.
Printers irq7, pretty standard.
The Windows world does not speak Postscript, and judging by the size
of Ghostscript for Windows, it's a good thing.
>: Tell me again how Linux is easier to use?
>
>A lot. I remember my struggles with the 3c589 under windows. A 10s
>operation in linux. As for the ne2000 I have currently stuck in the
>slot, windows just tells me that the driver on the manufacturers floppy
>won't do for it.
Obviously I can't speak for your experiences, but mine have differed
greatly.
Plug in card (Linksys PCI) and away it goes. Check off printer sharing
and instant network.
>Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 23:50:07 GMT
I prefer to have the latest driver. Most hardware is supported out of
the box under Windows anyway. I like to be able to switch paper trays,
switch resolutions, clean the nozzle, switch landscape and portrait
easily without having to set up 15 different printer ques to do it.
On Fri, 26 May 2000 20:46:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
wrote:
>On Fri, 26 May 2000 20:02:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>This is exactly what makes Linux so hysterical. You have to
>>"experiment" with a piece of hardwre to make it work.
>>
>>Shit under Windows youplug it in, Windows prompts for a CD, prints a
>>test page and that's it.
>>
>>Tell me again how Linux is easier to use?
>
> Easier would be not needing the 'extra' CD to begin with.
>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 26 May 2000 09:05:42 -0600, Chris Webster
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Is there any way to make a Poscript "hello world" file to experiment with?
>>>> I'm sure a Postscript guru could hand-make a "Hello World" file.
>>>
>>>
>>>%!PS-Adobe-1.0
>>>% Print Hello world in lower left corner, portrait
>>>/Times-Roman findfont 20 scalefont setfont
>>>10 10 moveto
>>>(Hello, world) show
>>>showpage
>>>
>>>
>>>--Chris
>>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: mac IIsi FPU
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:13:26 GMT
On Thu, 25 May 2000 17:05:06 GMT, R.H. Mezger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Can someone point me to a website that has photo's of the IIsi
|with an FPU installed.
|I'm trying to install Linux on this machine but have no idea if this box
|has an FPU installed already or not. There are no available chip slots
|as far as i can see.
|Any help would be most appreciated.
I still have one of these in a cupboard somewhere here. The FPU
lives on an expansion board that plugs vertically into the connector
on the extreem left hand side (looking from the front) of the
motherboard. This board also has connectors for additional
expansion boards.
--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Universal Life Church http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-
xenaphobia: The fear of being beaten to a pulp by
a leather-clad, New Zealand woman.
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From: "jemmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gateways - ethernet cards
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:12:26 GMT
I have been told that to use one computer as an access point to the internet
for additional computers
on your home local net, the computer connected to the internet needs two
network cards.
That is all I know about this. Hope it is accurate and helpful.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:MseX4.8128$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I recently installed two ethernet cards , one each in two different
> computers. They work fine and I can ping
> each computer just fine.
>
> One of the two computers is attached to the internet using a static line.
I
> have the second computer pointing
> to that computer with the internet connection, and of course I can ping my
> provider from either machine.
>
> Now, here is the problem. From the second computer - the one without the
> internet line connected to it, I can't
> go anywhere. I try and telnet out and no sir. I try to bring up a web
page,
> and nothign like that works. I simply
> can't get out to the 'world' from the second computer.
>
> I thought if I had routes installed that pointed to the main computer and
I
> could ping that computer (vice/versa) then why can't the second computer
use
> that internet line??
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated..
>
>
> --
> Ted Gervais *Coldbrook. NS Canada*
> 1-902-679-2253
>
>
>
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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: are asus reliable?
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 19:08:16 -0500
I've found the Asus P2BF and P3BF series to be excellent. As for Via, I've
seen a lot of references to them having problems with various hardware in
other forums.
--
Brett I. Holcomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft MVP
AKA Grunt<><
Remove R777 to reply
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> lindoze 2000 wrote:
> ---
> > are asus reliable?
> > anyone have any problems with them?
> ---
> I've been using an ASUS P2B-S motherboard for nearly two years,
> and have had no problems using Linux (RH 6.0). The P2B-S is the
> motherboard with the 440BX AGPset, which supports Pentium II
> processors from 233MHz to 450MHz. (At least when I bought it. I
> don't know if you can upgrade to PIII's or not.) The ASUS P2B-S has
> an Adaptec AIC 7890 SCSI adapter built in.
> Although I've had no troubles in Linux, I've see some problems in
> Win98. Lately, Win98 will hang after an hour or so of almost non-stop
> CDROM reading The problem seems most pronounced when I have my
> external SCSI zip drive attached. I Don't know whose fault (CDROM
> drive, the zip drive, or the adapter) it is, though.
>
> ---
> > what about VIA?
> > are they a good alternative to Intel? and are they reliable?
> ---
> I don't know a thing about this.
> --
> Bernie Hoefer
> (Change my address to fname.lname@company to e-mail me.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:29:38 GMT
On Fri, 26 May 2000 23:50:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I prefer to have the latest driver. Most hardware is supported out of
What's so 'complicated' about driving a printer that you would have
to worry about having the most 'bleeding edge' one. Besides, if your
OS vendor were less stingy about distribution, you wouldn't have to
worry about your drivers being 'old'.
>the box under Windows anyway. I like to be able to switch paper trays,
Most isn't QUITE good enough. All it takes is one driver disk to
confound some novice end users.
>switch resolutions, clean the nozzle, switch landscape and portrait
>easily without having to set up 15 different printer ques to do it.
OTOH, having to constantly futz with the printer configuration
is annoying rather than having several easy pre-canned configurations
that one could use.
Nevermind, why would you bother 'manually' cleaning the nozzle anyways.
That's just sooo 70's...
>
>
>
>On Fri, 26 May 2000 20:46:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 26 May 2000 20:02:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>>This is exactly what makes Linux so hysterical. You have to
>>>"experiment" with a piece of hardwre to make it work.
>>>
>>>Shit under Windows youplug it in, Windows prompts for a CD, prints a
>>>test page and that's it.
>>>
>>>Tell me again how Linux is easier to use?
>>
>> Easier would be not needing the 'extra' CD to begin with.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Fri, 26 May 2000 09:05:42 -0600, Chris Webster
>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Is there any way to make a Poscript "hello world" file to experiment with?
>>>>> I'm sure a Postscript guru could hand-make a "Hello World" file.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>%!PS-Adobe-1.0
>>>>% Print Hello world in lower left corner, portrait
>>>>/Times-Roman findfont 20 scalefont setfont
>>>>10 10 moveto
>>>>(Hello, world) show
>>>>showpage
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--Chris
>>>
>
--
In what language does 'open' mean 'execute the evil contents of' |||
a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:41:50 +0100
Here I was, minding my own business, and wouldn't you know it?
BEN BulleT. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just had to go and say:
>Physics really has sunk to these depths. Jewish physicists claim that
>the names of the heros of the Torah are encrypted in the Old Testament
That's nothing. That Son Of God dude said, "By me all things consist,"
consist from the literal Greek translation meaning "held together." Then
along comes some physicist claiming that the force that holds atoms
together (like charges attract, unlike charges repel) closely resembles
mind control. What does mind control look like (besides seeing the look on
the faces of children watching Barney the Purple Dinosaur)?
>I may return to physics someday but only if Stephan Hawkins contacts me to
>invite me into his circle. (Ask him how he likes it in soft pillow hell.)
I've always wanted to ask Jeri Ryan (aka: 7 of 9) if the Borg would
really *want* to assimilate someone like Tom Peris. Hell, ask him if light
is just a byproduct of heat, what's gravity a byproduct of, because if you
don't want to become two-dimensional as you approach the speed of light,
you have to be able to calculate the speed anti-light.
- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
GNUke The Planet!
The GNUclear Network�
ID# 177869 Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:42:30 GMT
Typical lost cause jedi reply. No wonder even the
Linux camp wants you to quit advocating for them.
1.Have not seen a printer that is not supported
under Windows and that includes 1985 variety dot
matrix Epsons.
Same for Linux? I think not. Maybe the 1985 model
but nothing modern other than PS printers.
2.Select a check box and the nozzle is cleaned.
3. select a check box and diagnostics are run.
4, Print a document and the box that comes up
prompts you for pages size, portrait/landscape,
resolution and paper tray. Nothing to remember.
What que was the high resolution que I set up
under Linux? Oh gee, I forget...
Give me a break..No comparison...
Stop trying to diffuse the obvious...
On Sat, 27 May 2000 00:29:38 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH) wrote:
>On Fri, 26 May 2000 23:50:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>I prefer to have the latest driver. Most hardware is supported out of
>
> What's so 'complicated' about driving a printer that you would have
>to worry about having the most 'bleeding edge' one. Besides, if your
>OS vendor were less stingy about distribution, you wouldn't have to
>worry about your drivers being 'old'.
>
>>the box under Windows anyway. I like to be able to switch paper trays,
>
> Most isn't QUITE good enough. All it takes is one driver disk to
>confound some novice end users.
>
>>switch resolutions, clean the nozzle, switch landscape and portrait
>>easily without having to set up 15 different printer ques to do it.
>
> OTOH, having to constantly futz with the printer configuration
>is annoying rather than having several easy pre-canned configurations
>that one could use.
>
> Nevermind, why would you bother 'manually' cleaning the nozzle anyways.
> That's just sooo 70's...
>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 26 May 2000 20:46:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 26 May 2000 20:02:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>>>This is exactly what makes Linux so hysterical. You have to
>>>>"experiment" with a piece of hardwre to make it work.
>>>>
>>>>Shit under Windows youplug it in, Windows prompts for a CD, prints a
>>>>test page and that's it.
>>>>
>>>>Tell me again how Linux is easier to use?
>>>
>>> Easier would be not needing the 'extra' CD to begin with.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Fri, 26 May 2000 09:05:42 -0600, Chris Webster
>>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any way to make a Poscript "hello world" file to experiment with?
>>>>>> I'm sure a Postscript guru could hand-make a "Hello World" file.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>%!PS-Adobe-1.0
>>>>>% Print Hello world in lower left corner, portrait
>>>>>/Times-Roman findfont 20 scalefont setfont
>>>>>10 10 moveto
>>>>>(Hello, world) show
>>>>>showpage
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>--Chris
>>>>
>>
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From: Monty the Mooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB WebCams
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 01:01:49 GMT
Has anybody gotten the Creative Video Blaster II USB webcam to work
yet? I've got one, but can't do anything with it. I'm considering
getting a parallel port version in the interim, but I'd really like to
get the USB one working.
All of the pages I've found so far for the CPIA cameras use the parallel
port version.
TheMooch
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