Linux-Hardware Digest #881, Volume #13 Sun, 12 Nov 00 19:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Netgear FA410TX problems (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linksys PCMPC100 pcmcia configuration (Dances With Crows)
Crystal 4281 sound driver ("Damien Lhomme-Desages")
Re: USB printer and RedHat 7.0 ("Jack Kaufmann")
Re: Large hard disk, old motherboard ("Neil Koozer")
Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers (Anthony Ewell)
Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers (Anthony Ewell)
Re: cdrecord and dao (siegfried eckloff)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: USB printer and RedHat 7.0 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Mouse unstable after XF86Setup - how fix?? ("Greg H.")
Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers (Steven G Blanchard)
Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers (Anthony Ewell)
Any suggested PCI-USB Cards? ("Stefan Dery")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Netgear FA410TX problems
Date: 12 Nov 2000 22:21:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:05:49 GMT, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
>I'm having problems getting my old box, a Dell Latitude laptop with Red Hat
>6.2, to talk to my new box, a stationary box with Debian 2.2.
>The new box has two 3c905s, the old one has a PCMCIA Netgear FA410TX.
>Both boxes can talk to my cable modem just fine, but apparently not to each
>other. The status for eth1 in the new box shows as 'no carrier' when I'm
>trying to get them to talk to each other. The link lights on either card
>won't light either. I suspect this is because of somewhat poor support for
>the PCMCIA NIC in the laptop. When I had it connected to the cable modem,
>it took up to a minute or so for the link light to light up, no matter what
>I did from the laptop. And during that time I had to 'ifconfig eth0 up'
>as if I did so after the link light lit up, it would go back down and
>take another minute to come back. Is there any way to improve upon this?
Poor support? I have a Netgear410TX in my laptop, and it's worked well
with every network I've plugged it into since about April '00. Which
version of the PCMCIA-cs package are you using, and are you using the
fa_select userspace program that was required to get that model of card
working until about pcmcia-cs 3.1.17?
Or, could autodetection on one or both ends be the problem? From
reading the fa_select source, autodetection on the 410TX is chancy. Far
better to explicitly set it to {10half,10full,100half,100full} and let
the other end handle things. FWIW, I always set mine to 10half, as I
have no 100Mbit network to connect to either at home or at work, and
full duplex doesn't seem to provide any speed advantages.
fa_select.c is supposed to be on the Web, but last time I checked, it
wasn't. If you want it, I posted the source to comp.os.linux.portable a
few months ago--search Deja for me and "410" and you'll find it easily.
HTH, good luck.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Linksys PCMPC100 pcmcia configuration
Date: 12 Nov 2000 22:21:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:31:02 GMT, Jukka Kumpunen wrote:
>The card works great with redhat 7.0 (it uses the pcnet_cs.o module),
>but I need to force the media to 10baseT (it autonegotiates to
>100baseT-FD). Changing media works great with windows drivers, but is it
>possible to do it in linux? Here are things that i've tried:
>http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
>- mii_diag doesn't work: "No MII transceiver present!"
>pcnet_cs.o kernel driver
>- if_port=n option doesn't work, still autonegotiates to 100baseT-FD
>ifport by David Hinds
>- doesn't work: "Operation not supported"
>ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/extras/dlport.c
>- doesn't do anything
Another option could be the fa_select userspace program. It is known to
work with some Netgear and D-Link cards that use pcnet_cs--try it out
and see? The complete source is on Deja; search comp.os.linux.portable
for author "Dances With Crows" and keyword "410". The thing was
supposed to be posted on a site somewhere, but that site has vanished.
Even if it doesn't work, it's something else to try....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Damien Lhomme-Desages" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Crystal 4281 sound driver
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:29:22 GMT
I'm looking for a (free) driver for my Crystal 4281 sound fusion. I've got
Kernel 2.2.14 and it doesn't work. Do newer version support my chip?
Thanks in advance.
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From: "Jack Kaufmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB printer and RedHat 7.0
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:29:25 GMT
I tried your advice. Here's what happened:
modprobe usb-uhci: seemed to work, but I didn't check with modprobe -c to
see if it was there before it tried it.
modprobe usb-core: said it couldn't find usb-core.
modprobe printer: seemed to work.
What then seemed to work in printtool was pointing the filter at dev/usb/lp0
[with a '/' between usb and lp0; that's what I found in the directory].
However, there was no exact driver (or whatever it's called in Linux) for my
HP deskjet 812C, and all I got was garbage out of the printer after
selecting various HP options, even when I tried the generic HP deskjet
choice in printtool and was simply sending the ASCII text test to the
printer. I suspect there is some deeper problem than not having exactly the
right filter, since the last choice should have produced something readable.
Two other oddities: (1) If I didn't first hit a button called restart LPD
or some such in printtool, I invariably got an error message, and nothing
went to the print queue. (2) Although dev/usb/lp0 seemed to find the
printer, the autodetect showed it as dev/dev/lp0.
Any clue why I am getting garbage and how I might fix it (other than buying
a new printer)?
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 04:02:44 GMT, Jack Kaufmann wrote:
> >I just installed Red Hat 7.0. When I tried to install my USB printer,
> >Autodetection didn't find it, and left this message:
> >"If you have a USB printer but it was not detected, make sure that the
USB
> >printer module has been inserted and is working."
> >What is the USB printer module, and how do I insert it and/or make sure
it
> >is working?
>
> modprobe usb-uhci (could be usb-ohci; depends on your machine!)
> modprobe usb-core
> modprobe printer (this is the usb-printer module. the regular
> printer module is "lp".)
>
> There should be a device called /dev/usblp0 . If it doesn't exist, do a
> "mknod -m 660 /dev/usblp0 c 180 0". When setting up your USB printer
> via printtool or whatever, point the printer filter at /dev/usblp0
> instead of /dev/lp0 . You may want to put those modprobe commands into
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local as loading USB modules on demand doesn't work
> sometimes. HTH, good luck....
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Neil Koozer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large hard disk, old motherboard
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:53:25 -0800
Phil McGachey wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I recently picked up an IBM 30 GB hard disk, and have found out since
>that my motherboard can't support it. I was able to download a disk
>management program, but it overwrites my MBR, which I need for LILO.
>Is there any way I can set up the system to recognise the full disk,
>while still dual booting windows and linux?
Make the first partition a small (10-15mb) partition to hold the linux /boot
directory. Then make the second partition for windows (any size). Then put
the rest of linux anyplace. If you use a distribution that doesn't normally
put the kernel image (e.g. vmlinuz) in the /boot directory, then you should
move it to the /boot directory.
Neil.
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:06:24 -0800
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers
Hi Matthew,
The distribution comes with a boot floppy.
The problem with the floppy is that it contains
a sample of SCSI cdrom drivers. If your SCSI
card is not one of them, such as the EATA drivers,
you need to make the additional disk.
And if you do not have a working version of
either Linux or a DOS box to make the additional
disk, you are out of luck. (No O.S. should require
another O.S. to install, this is why Red Hat should
include the disk with the distribution.)
--Tony
Matthew Haley wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 05:45:27 GMT,
> Black Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:50:04 -0800 in comp.os.linux.setup,
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Anthony Ewell' said:
> >>
> >> Editorial comment: Red Hat should include this disk with
> >>their distribution.
> >
> >No Red Hat should not. The last thing we or Red Hat needs is people asking
> >questions related to corrupted floppies. We already get enough about bad cd
>
> Strange.. my copy of RedHat 6.1 purchased at Fry's came with a boot floppy.
>
> --
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+
> + 11:53pm up 8:04, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.08 +
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:16:41 -0800
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers
Black Dragon wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:50:04 -0800 in comp.os.linux.setup,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Anthony Ewell' said:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> > Not to answer my own question, but in case anyone
> >else gets burnt with this problem, here goes:
> >
> > Red Hat 7.0's boot disk only contains a small sample
> >of scsi cdrom drivers needed to read your scsi cdrom drive.
> >
> > To get access to the rest of the scsi drivers, you
> >have to make up your own floppy from an image
> >on CD-ROM #1. From Linux, you can use the
> >following command:
> >
> > dd if=/cdrom_mount_point/images/drivers.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
> >
> > The images directory also has a DOS method of making
> >the disk as well.
> >
> > Editorial comment: Red Hat should include this disk with
> >their distribution.
>
> No Red Hat should not. The last thing we or Red Hat needs is people asking
> questions related to corrupted floppies. We already get enough about bad cd
> images.
This problem is easily solved: don't use cheap floppies in your distribution.
This is not much of a problem anyway: how many of your customers
are using EATA drivers anyway? Most are using IDE cdrom drives.
> The subject is well covered in the installation documentation, and
> the dos method is using the supplied "rawrite" utility.
The distribution needs to be "Complete". No O. S. should require another
O.S., or another working version of itself to install.
Can you imagine Microsoft requiring Linux to make a driver floppy
before you can read the Windows 2000 cdrom?
>
>
> --
> Black Dragon
>
> Sign The Linux Driver Petition:
> http://www.libralinux.com/petition.english.html
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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:17:24 +0100
From: siegfried eckloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrecord and dao
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hi!
Eric Potter wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "siegfried eckloff"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Use the program "cdrdao" instead of cdrecord.
I did so. please find the resulting log in the attachment (I couldn't
manage to "cut & paste" from kedit to netscape - sorry for the
inconvenience).
I'd ask for an explanation, as I don't know at all what that means...
thank you very much!
yours siggi
Eric Potter wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "siegfried eckloff"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Use the program "cdrdao" instead of cdrecord.
>
> > hi, folks,
> >
> > I use cdrecord (1.8a40, as far as I remember), a cd-rw-drive philips
> > cdd3600 and an adaptec aha-2940uw. that combo works fine, but... dao
> > won't work at all. whenever I add "-dao", cdrecord refuses to start
> > roasting the disk and reports an error (some "invalid command" or
> > similar). the same happens under os/2...
> >
> > so my question is: what goes wrong and how can I get dao to work
> > properly?
> >
> > thanks ind advance!!!
> >
> > yours siggi
> >
> >
> > p.s. a friend of mine has got the same drive with the same firmware. but
> > he uses windows<xyz> and there all goes right.
>
> > hi, folks,
> >
> > I use cdrecord (1.8a40, as far as I remember), a cd-rw-drive philips
> > cdd3600 and an adaptec aha-2940uw. that combo works fine, but... dao
> > won't work at all. whenever I add "-dao", cdrecord refuses to start
> > roasting the disk and reports an error (some "invalid command" or
> > similar). the same happens under os/2...
> >
> > so my question is: what goes wrong and how can I get dao to work
> > properly?
> >
> > thanks ind advance!!!
> >
> > yours siggi
> >
> >
> > p.s. a friend of mine has got the same drive with the same firmware. but
> > he uses windows<xyz> and there all goes right.
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii;
name="cdrdaowrtest.log"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="cdrdaowrtest.log"
Cdrdao version 1.1.3 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
L-EC encoding library - (C) Heiko Eissfeldt
Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty
0,5,0: SCSI-CD ReWritable-2x2x6 Rev: 2.00
Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 1.0 (data) (options 0x0000)
Starting write at speed 2...
Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort.
Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\).
Using POSIX real time scheduling.
cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 0B 81 26 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.024s timeout 180s
ERROR: Cannot set write parameters mode page.
ERROR: Writing failed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:29:48 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: You mean they included a floppy with a driver that didn't work? I
Yes.
: of the card when I found out they were changing. Do the new ones
: work as well after you get the driver installed? And do the latest
: Linux distributions (Mandrake 7.2, RH 7.0, etc.) include the correct
: version?
Yup - once you get it working they work like a champ.
--
Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You're one of those condescending UNIX users! ...."
"Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: USB printer and RedHat 7.0
Date: 12 Nov 2000 23:30:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:29:25 GMT, Jack Kaufmann wrote:
>I tried your advice. Here's what happened:
>modprobe usb-uhci: seemed to work, but I didn't check with modprobe -c to
>see if it was there before it tried it.
>modprobe usb-core: said it couldn't find usb-core.
>modprobe printer: seemed to work.
>What then seemed to work in printtool was pointing the filter at dev/usb/lp0
>[with a '/' between usb and lp0; that's what I found in the directory].
>However, there was no exact driver (or whatever it's called in Linux) for my
>HP deskjet 812C, and all I got was garbage out of the printer after
http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=161705
could help you out with the "garbage" problem. The /dev/usb/lp0 device
exists because you have usbdevfs loaded IIRC. (I didn't bother...)
They say the cdj880 driver should work with the printer. Oh yes, it's
"usbcore", no hyphen, and modprobing printer will get usbcore
automagically. Whoops. (Yes, I got a USB HP Deskjet932c going after 1
hour's fiddling and printed exactly 2 pages; that's the extent of my USB
printer experience.)
IIRC there are actually 2 versions of the UHCI driver. Try both of
them; one of them was reported to have bugs in it.
>I suspect there is some deeper problem than not having exactly the
>right filter, since the last choice should have produced something readable.
Not necessarily. The printer is supposed to support PCL3, though
oddness can happen. Did you do "cat sometextfile > /dev/usb/lp0" as
root? If you didn't do that, it's highly likely the printer filter
sucked up the text and turned it into PCL.
>Two other oddities: (1) If I didn't first hit a button called restart LPD
>or some such in printtool, I invariably got an error message, and nothing
>went to the print queue. (2) Although dev/usb/lp0 seemed to find the
>printer, the autodetect showed it as dev/dev/lp0.
When you're changing /etc/printcap, you must restart lpd (or kill -HUP
it) before it recognizes the changes you've made--this is pretty normal
behavior for Unix daemons. Don't know what's up with the autodetect; I
stay far away from RedHat's x.0 releases since they seem to be a bit
flaky. (To me, it looks like the printer setup thing is confusing devfs
with usbdevfs and writing "dev" when it means "usb", but ICBW.) HTH and
good luck....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Greg H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse unstable after XF86Setup - how fix??
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:33:09 GMT
Sean Chivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know a utility or module procedure which my fix my problem
> that doesn't use the XFConfig utilities? They stuffed it up in the first
> place.
Try using xf86config (note the lower-case letters). It's a text-based
XFree86 configuration tool. It's not as robust as the GUI tool, but it
handles everything required.
Greg
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From: Steven G Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:38:24 -0500
Anthony Ewell wrote:
>
> Can you imagine Microsoft requiring Linux to make a driver floppy
> before you can read the Windows 2000 cdrom?
last time i checked, it took five floppies to read the win2k cdrom...
--
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"@'/ ,. \`@" Steven G. Blanchard, Jr
/_| \__/ |_\ ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\__U_/
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:04:52 -0800
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers
Hi Steve,
Yes. But did they come in the distribution or
did you have to boot up Linux to make them?
This is just a tiny lack of foresight on Red Hat's
part. My guess is that they will fix it shortly.
--Tony
Steven G Blanchard wrote:
> Anthony Ewell wrote:
> >
> > Can you imagine Microsoft requiring Linux to make a driver floppy
> > before you can read the Windows 2000 cdrom?
>
> last time i checked, it took five floppies to read the win2k cdrom...
> --
>
> \|/ ____ \|/
> "@'/ ,. \`@" Steven G. Blanchard, Jr
> /_| \__/ |_\ ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \__U_/
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From: "Stefan Dery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any suggested PCI-USB Cards?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:07:40 GMT
I'm just wondering if anyone has a legacy system that did not support USB,
but managed to get a USB card (PCI?) to get USB connectivity in Linux. I'm
thinking of getting one, but there are no specs as to what is supported in
Linux, so I don't know what to do. I need USB in Linux but I only have a
P133 with a couple available PCI slots. Any feedback would be great. Thanks!
Stefan Dery
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