Linux-Hardware Digest #734, Volume #13 Sun, 15 Oct 00 18:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: dma errors (Cristian)
Re: Sorry for the extra messages ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI Initio INI 9100UW (hac)
Re: redhat 7.0 where i can get it? ("Niklas Krumm")
NIC cards? ("Micer")
Re: Linux and PRIMAX USB 9600 (Christian Ordig)
Re: failure detecting ESS Maestro card (rehan)
Re: hard drive problems (Mark Dickie)
Re: Nvidia 0.9-5 & Xfree86 v4.0.1 (Mark Dickie)
Help!: BTTV + Hauppauge ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: optical mouse for RedHat? (Larry Ebbitt)
Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? (B'ichela)
Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? (B'ichela)
Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Cristian <c{ristian}h{umberto}[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dma errors
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:10:30 GMT
Osugi Sakae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Got a minor problem I hope someone can help me out with. Every now and
> again I get messages like the following:
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Hi. I used to get the same two errors for my hard disk until I
recompiled the kernel with the "multi-mode" option for DMA. Take a look at
kernel compilation and the help for this option; they precisely speak
about errors 0x51 & 0x84. They stopped and I am happy now! Regards,
C.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sorry for the extra messages
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:16:07 GMT
"Justin T. Reese" wrote:
> Hey,
> Anyone know of a brand/model of optical mouse that has drivers available
> in Redhat linux (6.0 or 7.0?
> TIA,
> -jr
>
> Justin Reese
> Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
> University of Virginia
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry about the multiple messages. Everytime I was sending a message I was
getting an error saying that I was not connecting to the mail server. This
has never happened before, but they have been having problems with their
mail servers at AT&T. It appears that AT&T is set on doing for the intenet
what they did for the phone service.
Philip
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Initio INI 9100UW
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:52:41 GMT
Tino Langer wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to install Suse Linux 6.3 on my computer. But there is a problem,
> the SCSI-board
> Initio INI 9100UW. There is no modul available to load by installation.
> Booting with the bootdisk
> from Suse Linux 6.2, I can choose a modul, but the system holds after it
> finds the first device.
> Is there any known way to use Linux with this SCSI-board. Would Suse
> Linux 7.0 help?
>
It's been in the kernel for some time. What version kernel are you
running?
Here's an excerpt from dmesg, kernel 2.2.17:
i91u: PCI Base=0xD000, IRQ=5, BIOS=0xFF000, SCSI ID=7
i91u: Reset SCSI Bus ...
i91u: PCI Base=0xD400, IRQ=5, BIOS=0xFF000, SCSI ID=7
i91u: Reset SCSI Bus ...
scsi0 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision: 1.03g
scsi1 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision: 1.03g
Mine's an INI9520UW, thus dual channel plus ethernet.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Niklas Krumm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 7.0 where i can get it?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:04:45 -0700
You can get it at the redhat store , redhat.com or at most computer outlets-
online or not.
Nik
Salvatore Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:wLiG5.18915$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hallo i'm searching for it
> anyone can say me where to get it?!
>
>
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From: "Micer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIC cards?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:25:13 -0700
I have Linux RH6.0 and will be setting up a firewall system for a customer.
They have Pentium 150 style egg-beater boxes that are perfect for the
occasion, however they need to buy two NIC's for each box (the choke
firewall and the dual-homed Bastion Host, with a perimeter network
inbetween).
Currently I use a 3COM 3C509, so I know it is good. Can anyone suggest other
good NIC's for RH6.0? Only mainline, "works like a charm" variety
suggestions please.
OFF-HARDWARE TOPIC:
Also, I am debating whether to set them up with my current RH6.0 (because it
works so good) versus getting a copy of RH7.0. It would be nice to give them
a newer version, but someone told me that the ipchains packet-filtering tool
is not available in new versions - that it has been replaced with something
else. That would meaning learning something new, which I don't have time for
right now. Can anyone comment on this? And on reliability of RH7.0?
Thanks a heap,
Micer
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From: Christian Ordig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and PRIMAX USB 9600
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:57:54 +0200
dudulle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to know how to install this peripheric under Linux
You don't, because, it's not supported yet. There is a project for the
Primax scanners (Colorado Direct and Colorado D9600 and compatibles), but
at the moment only for parallel port devices.
We don't have any USB support, yet. SCSI support will never come, at least
not from us.
You're *very invited* to support us, if you really want to use your scanner.
Come to: http://thor.prohosting.com/~chrordig/Primax/ to find out more.
--
Christian Ordig | Homepage: http://thor.prohosting.com/~chrordig/
Germany | eMail: Christian Ordig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: rehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: failure detecting ESS Maestro card
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:10:05 -0000
Mark Ferraretto wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I just bought a Gateway Solo 5300. It has a ESS Maestro card. The
> doco says it's a ESS ES1980 Maestro-3, ESS ES1921 Audio CODEC
>
> When I run sndconfig, it tells me it found a 'ESS Technology|unknown
> device 125d:199a' which it says isn't supported.
>
> Fair enough if it isn't but can't I get sndconfig to set it up as
> a soundblaster compatible or something similar?
>
I have turbolinux 6 and what i had to do is install the Alsa-library. Then
it shoudl work. i think the site is www.alsa-project.org
(i'm still new at linux, sorry if this doens't help)
rehan
> I'm running Mandrake 7.1
>
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From: Mark Dickie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hard drive problems
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:21:13 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been having difficulties with my hard drives during boot up on
> both of my systems. I have one system where it will fail saying it
> can't mount /dev/hda6 , but if I reboot one or two more times it will
> finally be able to start up. On another system it appears that today
> it is giving up the ghost. It doesn't really give me an error message
> it just says.
> Checking root filesystem
> /dev/hda5 is mounted. Cannot continue, aborting.
>
> [Failed]
> *** An error occurred during the file system check.
> *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> ** when you leace the shell.
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D for normal startup):
>
>
> What should I be looking for in a failure like this
>
> This is the first system which I have had a hard failure but the third
> where there seems to be problems with the hard drives. I have also
> built a system with for my brother and he seems to have problems with
> the systems not mounting drives correctly on the first or second time.
> I suspect that there is something I am doing incorrectly during the
> setups.
>
> Thanks Philip
>
The system that is complaining about a mounted root filesystem can be fixed
by giving your root password and then typing 'emacs /etc/mtab' and removing
the line referring to hda5 then re-booting.
As for the rest are you using Mandrake with the hard drive optomisations?
If so switch them off or re-compile the kernel with support for your
motherboard IDE chipset. It's not a CMD640 or RZ1000 I hope or any kind of
Western Digital drive with ATA-66/ATA-100 as some of them are buggy I hear
under Linux. If you run dmesg it should say.
==============
Mark Dickie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ#82716937
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From: Mark Dickie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nvidia 0.9-5 & Xfree86 v4.0.1
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:24:17 +0100
David Stretch wrote:
> Ummm,
>
> Thanks for the advice Cameron, I indeed didnt have the full linux source
> installed which the drivers seemed to require. It now wont install
> though coming up with the error
>
> Unresolved Symbol Tqueue_lock
>
> WTF is that?????
>
> I am running a single P!!! 550
> Asus P3V4X
> 196MB RAM
> Diamond Viper V770 32MB AGP TNT2
> Xfree86 v4.0.1
>
> How can I check the X version Im running. Im still not 100% sure about
> it?
>
> cheers
>
> Dave
Try running emacs /var/log/XFree86.0.log
That should say.
==============
Mark Dickie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ#82716937
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help!: BTTV + Hauppauge
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:25:57 GMT
Hi,
I'm getting crazy trying to have a Hauppauge WinTV PCI working under
SuSE 6.x / Linux 2.2.7
Under win95 Hauppauge support asked me to change both base memory audio
& video address
to the following, and it's working:
video: 78000000 - 78000FFF
audio: 78002000 - 78002FFF
IRQ9
my graphics card is a Diamond S3 Vision 968 PCI at IRQ11:
000C0000 - 000C7FFF
000A0000 - 000AFFFF
000B0000 - 000BFFFF
F8000000 - F9FFFFFF
Under Linux the card is detected but the base address seems bad (see
below).
the channel scans work but kwintv or xawtv show distorted images.
triton1 did'nt help
I've recompiled the module, I've also tried to use the vidmem parm but I
get an
"invalid parameter parm_vidmem"
any hints? thanks.
Olivier.
=============================================================
modprobe of bttv 0.6.4h:
================
Oct 15 22:48:44 texavery kernel: i2c: initialized
Oct 15 22:48:44 texavery kernel: i2c: driver registered: tuner
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: Linux video capture interface: v0.01
ALPHA
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: bttv: Host bridge 82437FX Triton PIIX
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: bttv0: Brooktree Bt878 (rev 17) bus: 0,
devfn: 72, irq: 9, memory: 0xfbfff000.
^^^^^^^^^ ?????
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: PCI: Enabling bus mastering for device
00:48
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: bttv: Enabling 430FX compatibilty for
bt878
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found.
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: tuner=Philips
FI1216MF MK2 (3)
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: bttv0: model: BT878(Hauppauge new
(bt878))
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: i2c: bus registered: bt848-0
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: tuner: type is 3 (Philips SECAM)
Oct 15 22:48:46 texavery kernel: i2c: device attached: tuner (addr=0xc2,
bus=bt848-0, driver=tuner)
=========================================================
Hauppauge.txt:
==========
Model 38066 Rev. B409
Serial #3938646
Tuner Formats: PAL (B/G) / SECAM (L/L')
Tuner Audio: Mono
Video Formats: NTSC ( M ) PAL ( B G H I D K M N NCOMBO ) SECAM ( L L' )
Audio Outputs: BackPanel
External Inputs: 1
S-Video Inputs: 0
Teletext: Yes (Software)
Radio: None
Decoder: BT878
Tuner Model: Philips FI1216MF MK2
EEprom Contents:
84 12 00 00 05 50 0e 7f 24 09 01 b2 94 19 44 89 00 00 00 00 04
84 0a 00 01 01 20 77 00 40 56 19 3c 00
74 02 01 00 02
79 26
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 17:40:34 -0400
From: Larry Ebbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: optical mouse for RedHat?
"Justin T. Reese" wrote:
>
> Anyone know of a brand/model of optical mouse that has drivers available
> in Redhat linux (6.0 or 7.0?
I'm using a MS Intellimouse with RH 6.1 very happily. Since I don't
care for the scroll wheel, I just plugged it in whare the old one was
and it worked fine. The wheel is supported with a couple of changes
to your X configuration.
--
Larry Ebbitt - Linux + OS/2 - Atlanta
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 17:00:51 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:23:28 +0100, David Goodenough
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There is another approach you might try. Run just one cable to each
>appartment
>and then put a slave hub in each one which you wire to all the rooms. That
>way
>you reduce the wiring going to the centre of the building and also you
>allow the
>tenants to decide how many outlets they need rather than imposing a number.
>
>Even simple(i.e. cheap) hubs like the Netgear ones offer this facilitiy.
I wouldn't know what a slave hub is to save my buns, no more
than I know what a managed switch is! However related to your idea is
to either use 6 Cat-5 or coax via a repeater (yes I found one new for
$576 from Data Warehouse) and just drop the wire into the kitches
(each apartments Kitchen ends up being the room next to the hallway
. thus tell the tenents to buy their OWN hubs.`
This would offer several advantages
1. Tennants can put their computers up anyway they please! (your
point).
2. Less expense for the management as right now only I have a computer
setup. This will change I am sure.
3. Tennants can wire their net using any topoligy they please! I still
am thinking 10base2 for the backbone. a small hub usually has a bnc
port that can be plugged into the backbone.
So far that seems to be the least expensive way to wire up. I
still have to finalize the plan and estimate the cost of materials and
labor (I will be doing the work probally for a rental discount).
--
B'ichela
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 17:13:01 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 15:33:10 GMT, James Knott
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What you have to do is compare the cable & connector costs
>for each method and add in the per port cost of a cheap hub
>for each CAT 5 run. Also, who says you have to run a cable
>for each drop to a central point. Can't each unit have it's
>own 8 port hub ($30?) and a single feed to a central
>switched hub. As for that part about the RS232/422 stuff,
>how does that enter the picture? If you run coax, you can't
>do it at all. If you don't want to support it with CAT 5,
>don't. If you do, as you say, the flexibility is there.
>Though, if you do this, you may want to use a 6 pin
>connector, rather than 8, so as to avoid confusion between
>systems. You can send an RS-232 signal over two pairs quite
>well. You do not need hardware handshaking for a terminal.
The way I envisioned it was a standard RJ45 connection that
would allow either system. Yes If I went coax I could not do it. (one
problem that I need to look into). If I were to do it that way. Which
does sound logical. I would tell the tennants to buy their own hubs as
they like to steal fence it for drugs and booze.
I did price up the coax vs cat-5 wire and all of the plugs.
the Coax is a tad cheaper. But the price of that repeater knocks the
price advantage FLAT! $576 for 8 ports! HOWEVER looking at my Data
Warehouse catalog. a 10/100 switch with 8 ports goes for $349 for a
Netgear rackmountable switch! Thus the savings are only about $200 or
so on supplies.
--
B'ichela
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Oct 2000 18:03:28 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela) writes:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:43:44 GMT, Bob Hauck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I really doubt that 10base2 will be cheaper, even if you can find old
> >netcards that support it. Coax is comparable in price to Cat5, the
> >installation is no easier (in fact it might be harder due to the
> >daisy-chaining requirement), and hubs are all of $30. On top of all
> >that, if you install good wiring you can upgrade 10baseT to 100baseT by
> >replacing the hub, but there is no upgrade path for 10base2. Oh, and I
> >forgot to mention that 10baseT can be switched rather than hubbed so
> >that Apt 1A can't look at the traffic for Apt 1B
> Yes but have you EVER priced some of these switches? YiYi YI!
10BT switches aren't horrifically expensive any more. You can also do
as someone else suggested and put a hub for each apartment room, then
run it through a 10BT uplink to a switch. Since 98% of the tenants
are only going to be using one or, at most, two jacks at a time in
each apartment, that should be almost as fast as a direct connection.
This way, in the comm core, you have one port for each apartment. You
could possibly use a hub for each floor, and then just run a 100BTX
uplink to the switch. You could also daisy-chain the hubs.
An 8-port 10/100 switch (which would suffice for the latter setup, but
not the former) is dirt cheap. I was tempted to get one to replace my
4-port hub; that's how cheap they are. And 24-port 10BT hubs are
relatively inexpensive; even 24-port 10/100 hubs are fairly cheap.
> Lets see if I can figure this out. If I go 10baset using Cat-5 wire
> with one jack in the kitch, 3 bedrooms and livingroom and might as
> well throw the bathrom in. thats 6 cables going to the basement
> wiring room or "core Room" as I called it. PER UNIT. there is 4 of
> these thats 24 ports right there!. Plus one One Bedroom unit (mine)
> and one 2 Bedrom unit. thats 7 more ports! for a needed switch or hub
> with 31 ports! If I were to do something like this. run a 10base2
> cable to each HUB or switch for each floor that would mean 3
> HUBS/switches (its 3 floors btw) of 12 ports EACH HUB plus the BNC
> backbone connection.
Why do you need _every_ room to have a jack? For each apartment, put
in a single jack in a central location. They can easily run their own
cat5 as needed. If they want more ports, ask them to buy a hub. If
the apartments are pretty big, you might put a jack on either end.
But why would you want a network jack in the kitchen? And the
_bathroom_?
> As for going to 100baseTX in the future. This complex is in
> the slums of Willimantic! Most people have a hard time getting
> anything fancier than a 286 machine!
I doubt that. Point taken, but still. 10/100 ethernet cards cost $30
or less. I bought an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 card, brand new, on
eBay for $7.
> If I were to play it safe. I would need to drop all 31 cables to the
> "core" and then at my patch pannel support RS422 or RS232 terminal
> connections (after all an unplugged 10baset connector can run a
> terminal via RS422 or RS232 fairly well. (thats why I wanted to have
> a "computer work area" so non-computer owners of the building can
> still access the network via terminals.
Bear in mind that many states require that you contract the wiring
work out to a specialized firm.
> >10base2 is a *really bad idea* for any new installation and is
> >exceptionally bad for an apartment situation that will probably stay in
> >place for years.
> Yet it does have its places.
No, it really doesn't. That's why nobody uses it any more.
> >If the concern is getting the wiring through walls, perhaps you should
> >look at one of the phoneline LAN solutions or some sort of wireless.
> I don't think wireless would be a very secure system the
> reasons you mentioned yourself!
I believe there are encryption solutions that operate transparently to
the user.
> Plus I have never seen a wireless lan card that works on a 286!
> (many people cannot afford much bettuer here!)
If people can't afford a computer with a PCI slot, then don't bother
with the network. They won't be able to run anything better than
Windows 3.1, which eliminates them from a large amount of Internet
content. They'd basically have email and primitive WWW access.
> >There is no such thing as a "10base2 hub". 10base2 is a bus topology
> >by definition.
> Yes there is! but they are not called hubs. These are called
> REPEATERS (I found that out after I wrote my message).
> >Yes, and it is about as easy to pull through walls as a garden hose.
> >You were saying that Cat5 was too hard to work with.
> its hard to work with as its a Star Topoligy ONLY! If you
> want to deal with 31 Cat-5 cables going to the "core" be my guest!
Sure, it's star topology only, but that doesn't mean it has to look
exactly like that. Have 3 cat5's coming out of your switch at the
core, going to a hub for each floor. From there, it branches out to
service the entire floor (big hub), or a hub which covers each room.
The latter way in particular, I don't think you'll ever be dealing
with more than 5 wires at a time.
Now, when you're complaining about getting 31 cat5 cables down to the
core, think about what it's like at Hamilton, where we have something
like 500 jacks in the library. I daresay we have a 64-port switch _at
least_. I have no idea how high they go, but that's still a buttload
of wires.
--
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