Linux-Hardware Digest #938, Volume #12 Sat, 27 May 00 12:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Any inexpensive laser printer recommendations? (Svend Garnaes)
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Help With PCnet ISA II (Jan Ericson)
Re: Setting up a 3Com NIC (Steve Martin)
Does Linux support ISDN pccard using winbond6692cf chipset? ("FreeX")
Re: Linux findet mein modem nicht (Marc De Smet)
Re: mac IIsi FPU (rimez)
Best practice clustering/failover ("Leo J. Squire")
Re: Linux findet mein modem nicht ("Peter T. Breuer")
Linux does not recognize lp ports ("Reinhold Benedik")
Re: [Q] Okidata 810e & large files (Bill Unruh)
Re: [Q] Okidata 810e & large files (Bill Unruh)
Serial Ports ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Serial Ports ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
audiotrix pro midi (Andy Ford)
Newbie: Sound Blaster 16 {no sound} ("The Chief")
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. (JEDIDIAH)
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From: Svend Garnaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any inexpensive laser printer recommendations?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:00:43 +0200
I use the Brother HL-1250 and it's highly recommended.
It sits on my Linux/Samba server and works wonders for
Linux and Windows clients.
It outputs the RH A4 test page complete with 1cm borders;
something I haven't yet persuaded the HL-1660 or HP-2100
to do.
Its Windows printer driver behaves well when the device
is installed as a network printer.
It emulates sufficient legacy printers for it to be useful
from DOS boxes and DOSEMU as well.
It is quiet. And the closed paper tray is a gift from heaven
when you have many cats ...
In short ... I love it.
--
Svend
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Date: 27 May 2000 09:12:13 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: On 26 May 2000 20:22:21 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: wrote:
: 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.
That's nice. Do you want everyone in the universe to be able to print,
or just you? Do you want to print to just that printer, or to others
too? Do you want to print postscript? Text? Graphics?
Your "print" concept is rather fuzzy. The truth is that you don't know
exactly what you want to do. That's normal.
What you need to do is configure your system to "print" to your printer
in a sense that you will later recognize. I suggest you read the
Printing-HOWTO and get to 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.
Printers don't usually need an irq. The OS can poll for them. CPUs
are so fast and printers are so slow that checking a print buffer
every so often is no hassle.
: The Windows world does not speak Postscript, and judging by the size
: of Ghostscript for Windows, it's a good thing.
Then that's windows problem. The rest of the world has always spoken
the STANDARD page layout language. If you have a printer that does
not understand it, translate the postscript into what your printer does
understand using the appropriate filter. Ghostscript probably has it.
:>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.
Then you have no experience. Mine extends to hundreds of machines and
installations.
: Plug in card (Linksys PCI) and away it goes. Check off printer sharing
: and instant network.
Same in linux. Except somewhat faster, since you don't have to check
off printer sharing. That would already have been enabled in your
smb.conf. Or not. Look at ksamba and check it on if not.
Peter
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Subject: Help With PCnet ISA II
From: Jan Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 03:39:49 -0700
Hello
I am trying to install a second NIC in my 486 with RedHat5.2
My first NIC 3Com 3c509 works but I can�t get the second one to
work.
It is a Fujitsu Etherteam ISA card with a PCnet -ISA II
AM79C961AKC.
Where can I find drivers for this card??
The closest I get is
http://www.amd.com/products/npd/software/pcnet_family/drivers/lin
ux.html
but this one seem to be for a PCI card. My card is a ISA.
/Janne
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up a 3Com NIC
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 07:47:30 -0400
Brandon Barnes wrote:
> I'm setting up Redhat 6.1 and it won't see my network card. I have a
> 3Com 3C509B set for IRQ 11 and port 300. How can I tell Linux that there
> IS an eth0 device, it should use the 3C509B driver, and the IRQ and port
> listed above? Is there a configuration file I can add an entry to? The
> hardware detection program fails to find it.
Branndon:
Since you describe yourself as being new to Linux, I'm assuming that you
have not yet run into the process of rebuilding your kernel. Don't
worry;
it's not as scarey as it sounds.
Linux, unlike Win95/98, does not attempt to detect every piece of
hardware
known to mortal man. It only attempts to detect and configure hardware
that the kernel is "told" exists in your computer. You "tell" the kernel
what you have in your system by configuring and re-building your kernel.
The 3C509 is supported in the Linux kernel, but not by default. You have
to build support into the kernel, either directly or as a module.
(Once you build support for the card into the kernel, the bootup
process will indeed automagically detect and configure the card.
Make sure the card is configured so as not to conflict with any other
card in the system, regarding I/O addresses and IRQ setting. This
can be done from DOS *(shudder)* with the 3C5X9CFG program that
is included with the card's driver diskettes.)
Read the Kernel-HOWTO, it explains the process very well. You should be
able to find it under /usr/doc/HOWTO on your system (if you installed
documentation when you installed your system). If it's not there, try
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html on the Web.
Basically, the process breaks down like this:
(1) Make sure you have the kernel sources and the C development
package installed.
(2) Change directory to /usr/src/linux
(3) make config
(4) make dep clean
(5) The last step depends on how you're booting the system. See the
HOWTO.
Hope this helps!
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From: "FreeX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Linux support ISDN pccard using winbond6692cf chipset?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:44:43 +0900
And, does such card support IRQ sharing under NT4 or WIN2000?
Best Regard,
FreeX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc De Smet)
Subject: Re: Linux findet mein modem nicht
Date: 27 May 2000 14:28:34 GMT
I have the same problem with mandrake. I just installed linux.
My modem is a Rockwell HCF Speakerphone. In windows it runs
on COM3.
Now, first I found it rather strange that the file /dev/modem
didn't exist on my system. I have made it and linked it
to ttyS2,/dev/ttyS3,/dev/tty2,...
They all didn't work.
What should it be linked to??
What's the story with the winmodem? I suspect my modem
is a winmodem :(
Is it still possible to get connected with a winmodem?
Marc
Tony Curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: >> On Sun, 21 May 2000 22:30:03 GMT,
: >> kiopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
: > ich arbeite mit mandrake 7.0 alles l�uft gut,doch linux
: > findet mein modem nicht,b.z.w. meldet es sei
: ^^^^^^
: bzw. (that's ironic :-)
: > besetzt.unter windows l�uft alles normal wie ihr seht
: > und hoffendlich auch lesen k�nnt. please help me!!!!
: > kiopo
: (Summary: modem doesn't work with linux, does with windows
: though).
: What kind of modem is it? [antenna twitches] It's
: probably some kind of Winmodem (= Pech, maybe).
: Take a look at
: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
: you might be lucky and have a supported one.
: Alternatively, can you talk to the modem using "minicom"?
: Is /dev/modem pointing at the correct device?
: hth
: t
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From: rimez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: mac IIsi FPU
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 14:30:48 GMT
Apparently I do not have one. I tried looking up the price and could not
believe
how much they want for it ($199). I think I'm going to just try and use
fpu emulation.
Anyone ever try it? Should i not waste my time? This box will be
console only... no X.
thanks all,
rimez
Paul Colquhoun wrote:
>
> 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
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From: "Leo J. Squire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Best practice clustering/failover
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 14:34:58 GMT
Greetings all,
Background:
=============
We run a small hosting business with our Linux RedHat server. When we
started, we didn't have many clients-- but we did drop in a decent server
with an ICP Vortex array controller for at least disk-based hardware RAID
protection (by the way, we were so impressed with the ICP controller, we are
now an authorized reseller for them and use them when deploying Linux and NT
solutions all the time without a hitch-- if anyone wants pricing/info let me
know, they are rock solid).
Now that things are progressing, we're hosting more business-class sites.
Our server is co-located at a datacenter so all management is done
remotely.
Although we are protected from a disk based failure, we have single points
of failure at the server level itself. I know at some point (its not if,
it's when) a motherboard, disk controller, CPU, NIC, something... is going
to die and require us to try and quickly repair/replace the server.
I'd rather avoid that headache and downtime for our users.
Seeking:
=========
I want to increase our availability by introducing some form of clustering.
Whether it be true load balancing, or just failover-- either would be better
than what we have today.
I've looked at some products like Understudy, but have not evaluated them
yet.
I want a solution that would protect us from a total server failure. Say
one server is on power grid A, the other on B.. Power grid A goes down and
the UPS runs out of juice-- the server on power grid B for example should be
able to continue servicing ALL hosting clients. I guess I'm seeking true
"server mirroring", including all services and data.
Do any of you with more experience with this have some recommendations?
Perhaps even some hardware based solutions-- like Compaq I believe offers
some form of hardware based solution for failover that keeps all data in an
external mass storage system and performs server failover from a hardware
level (independent of the OS).
I'm looking for some form of proven blueprint we can implement here in the
lab, setup, test, then migrate our production data to over the wire and then
plan a night to go out and drop it in for a smooth migration.
I look forward to any and all feedback, Visio diagrams, etc.
Thanks all!
Sincerely,
Leo
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux findet mein modem nicht
Date: 27 May 2000 14:37:18 GMT
Marc De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: What's the story with the winmodem? I suspect my modem
: is a winmodem :(
: Is it still possible to get connected with a winmodem?
No.
Go to
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
for more details.
Peter
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From: "Reinhold Benedik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux does not recognize lp ports
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:38:12 +0200
Hi all,
i configured a printer queue on an Red Hat 6.1 installation with the Red Hat
printtool utility. On trying to test the printer in text mode the print job
goes well in the queue, but after that lpq reports a printer offline status.
I tried out all three possible devices lp0 to lp2. If i attempt to add a new
queue, the printtool does not recognice any lp device. The lpd service is
started properly. If i boot windows 98 on the same machine, there are no
problems with parallel ports. This behavior seems to be a hardware problem,
but i cant imagine how to fix this. The same problem occurs on two different
machines with different gigabyte boards.
My test printer: Canon BJ 200 ex (should work), irq 5 is reserved for a isa
lan adapter on both machines, parallel port 1 378h, irq 7.
printcap:
lp|bj|bj200ex:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] Okidata 810e & large files
Date: 27 May 2000 14:48:30 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vladik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]no matter what I do I cannot get
]Okidata 810e (not PS) to print large files
](like 2MB).
Is this a single page, or is it multiple pages?
]I know it is the problem with
]ghostscript. I used StarOffice to create a
Sould be. Could also be a problem with the okidata. Just because they
claim to support PCL does not not mean that they actually do so
properly.
]large presentation and I have the program installed on linux
]and windows computers. So the same file can be printed from
]star office on windows but not from star office on Linux.
]The printer displays "Memory overflow". I even spent
]$210 bucks to by more memory for my printer (just so
]I can print from Linux (it was printing fine with 2MB
]from windows, but now I have 4MB).
??? Aaargh. Do they really charge $200 for 2MB of memory? It should be
more like $10 or $20! Is this "official" memory? Does it not just take
standard SIMMS?
]The only difference between my windows and linux machine is
]the printer driver, on Windows it is native Okidata
]drive, on Linux it is ghostscript. Not only ghostscript is slow
]but also it cannot apparently convert from PS to PCL (I tried
]laserjet and ljet4 drivers).
It converts fine. I use the ljet3 driver, ( and have also used the
ljet4) and they work fine on a Canon 430 PCL based printer.
If you try to print the tiger.ps page, does it print?
/usr/share/ghostscript/4.03/examples/tiger.ps on my system
So, if it is a PCL printer, choose say the ljet3 driver from ghostscript
in setting up your printer, and choose the postscript output in
Staroffice.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] Okidata 810e & large files
Date: 27 May 2000 14:53:07 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vladik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Okidata 810e (not PS) to print large files
..
>The printer displays "Memory overflow". I even spent
>$210 bucks to by more memory for my printer (just so
Just a follow up: Kingston Memory (www.kingston.com) lists 4MB upgrade
for the 810e at $23 MSRP. I am almost certain this is standard Simm
memory, which you can pick up from your local computer store
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Serial Ports
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 14:48:05 GMT
Hi all,
I'm trying to build my own drivers for the serial ports of my
computer, and even when I�m using a PS/2 mouse the 2 main port ranges
and one of the classical IRQ lines are occupied. Does this mean that the
kernel itself is aquiring them for their own use? Do I have to recompile
the kernel to be able to use the ranges for my module?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.kernel
Subject: Serial Ports
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 14:46:25 GMT
Hi all,
I'm trying to build my own drivers for the serial ports of my
computer, and even when I�m using a PS/2 mouse the 2 main port ranges
and one of the classical IRQ lines are occupied. Does this mean that the
kernel itself is aquiring them for their own use? Do I have to recompile
the kernel to be able to use the ranges for my module?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Ford)
Subject: audiotrix pro midi
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 05:03:25 -0500
I have a MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro that I have nearly got working.
SuSE 6.3 comes with an OEM verion of OSS/commercial which is
pretty much working.
The midiplaying utility that comes with OSS, mplay reports:
Possible device numbers (dev#) are:
0: Yamaha OPL-3
1: Sound Blaster Midi
2: MPU-401 UART
mplay 0 <file> works, but sounds cheesy as all get-out! OK.
mplay 2 <file> sends midi to my Keyboard. Very Cool.
But mplay 1 <file> just sits and looks at me.
Card config:
MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro at 0x530 irq 7 drq 0,3
AudioTrix (SB mode) at 0x220 irq 3 drq 1
AudioTrix MIDI at 0x330 irq 4
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388
Audio devices:
0: AudioTrix Pro (CS4231) (DUPLEX)
1: Shadow of audio device #0 (DUPLEX)
2: AudioTrix SB (2.1)
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3
Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster
1: AudioTrix Pro
Timers:
0: System clock
1: AudioTrix Pro (CS4231)
Mixers:
0: AudioTrix Pro (CS4231)
--
yours,
Andy
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From: "The Chief" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie: Sound Blaster 16 {no sound}
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 08:36:01 -0700
I have the Mandrake 7.0 Linux package! I can't get it play any sound looks
like a IRQ Conflict How do I Fix!
I have a Riva tnt2 video card I can't get it Config! Does Linux support it?
My Printer hp 882c only prints in b&w
I supposes thats why!
Please Help Thanx
My Sys: amd k6/2 500mmx
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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 15:58:06 GMT
On 27 May 2000 09:12:13 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>: On 26 May 2000 20:22:21 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>: wrote:
>
>: 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.
>
>That's nice. Do you want everyone in the universe to be able to print,
>or just you? Do you want to print to just that printer, or to others
>too? Do you want to print postscript? Text? Graphics?
>
>Your "print" concept is rather fuzzy. The truth is that you don't know
>exactly what you want to do. That's normal.
>
>What you need to do is configure your system to "print" to your printer
>in a sense that you will later recognize. I suggest you read the
>Printing-HOWTO and get to it!
Just running printtool would be sufficient if his printer
is supported. His printer being supported is the big IFF.
[deletia]
>: The Windows world does not speak Postscript, and judging by the size
>: of Ghostscript for Windows, it's a good thing.
>
>Then that's windows problem. The rest of the world has always spoken
>the STANDARD page layout language. If you have a printer that does
>not understand it, translate the postscript into what your printer does
>understand using the appropriate filter. Ghostscript probably has it.
[deletia]
>Then you have no experience. Mine extends to hundreds of machines and
>installations.
>
>: Plug in card (Linksys PCI) and away it goes. Check off printer sharing
>: and instant network.
>
>Same in linux. Except somewhat faster, since you don't have to check
>off printer sharing. That would already have been enabled in your
>smb.conf. Or not. Look at ksamba and check it on if not.
Current Linksys packages even include linux source on the
driver disks. Although, they could have packaged it a bit
more reasonably.
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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 16:01:17 GMT
On Sat, 27 May 2000 03:14:06 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 27 May 2000 01:48:57 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 27 May 2000 00:42:30 GMT, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>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
>>
>> I never claimed that there were printers that AREN'T.
>
>No that is hat you are doing implying, by omission, your usual method,
No. I'm merely pointing out the problem of "the better idiot".
Build an idiot proof system and a better idiot will come along.
>that a person can easily set up a printer under Linux but can't answer
>"ok" 4 times to do it under Windows.
>
>Sorry but you are dead wrong here.
No, you're just willing to defend Microsoft to absurdum.
>
>Proof?
>
>Comp.os.linux.setup.
Win9x has it's own share of hapless newbie traffic.
[deletia]
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