Linux-Hardware Digest #937, Volume #13 Fri, 24 Nov 00 19:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner? (Alexander Neumann)
Re: help with Linksys etherfast LAN Card (Jerry Houston)
Newbie needs help with video card config.... ("bigtiny")
Geforce2 + X (David Coulson)
Only 640x480 with Sax and Elsa Erazor II ("Tobias Dresbach")
Re: Thanks guys... ("wisaac")
Netscape flexibility? (Jerry Houston)
Re: Only 640x480 with Sax and Elsa Erazor II ("Tobias Dresbach")
Re: Thanks guys... ("Jeff")
Re: Thanks guys... (wisaac)
Re: Netscape flexibility? ("Alexis")
five NICs (PCI & ISA) with Linux 2.2.17 (Jurrien)
Re: Help - compiling driver for network card ("Jerry Segers, Jr.")
Partitioning ("Tomas Andersen")
Re: five NICs (PCI & ISA) with Linux 2.2.17
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Neumann)
Subject: Re: Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:44:05 +0100
On 24 Nov 2000 12:36:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> not burning a CDR nor a CDRW media, what media were you trying to
>> burn?
>A CD-R.
>
>Reread what he wrote.
Thanks!
ALex
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From: Jerry Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with Linksys etherfast LAN Card
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:33:30 GMT
Peter Bismuti wrote:
>
> I'm trying to setup a new Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card Model LNE100TX.
> It is working with Win98 so I know that the hardware is OK.
>
> There were instructions that said to build a new tulip.o file, but I'm
> running RedHat 7.0 so I'm assuming that I have the latest.
>
> When I try to insert the module I get:
>
> #insmod tulip.o
> tulip.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_Rsmp0a3fcdc4
> tulip.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_Rsmp02771567
> tulip.o: unresolved symbol skb_over_panic_Rsmp4f682074
> tulip.o: unresolved symbol init_etherdev_Rsmp3808c591
> ..
>
> Anyway get this card working?
Yup ... got it working with SuSE v7.0. The instructions in the
README.TXT file packed with the adapter explain how to go about it for
TurboLinux 6.0.x, and when I had an earlier question, someone told me
that Redhat uses the same files/instructions. For full details, I'd
refer you to that README.TXT, but I think the core of your problem may
be that there's a dependency on pci-scan.o as well. Not just tulip.o.
Try this from the directory where you compiled the driver files:
insmod pci-scan.o
insmod tulip.o
depmod -a -q
Then initialize the eth0 adapter with:
ifup eth0
or whatever other initialization your systems uses to start the
network. If that works, you'll probably want to automate it, and you
probably already know how to do that. I think the only thing that's
missing is probably the pci-scan.o dependency.
(Note that this is from the first set of instructions in the README.TXT
file. The later section on Redhat 5.x doesn't mention the pci-scan.o
module. Maybe it's already there?)
Jerry in Seattle
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From: "bigtiny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie needs help with video card config....
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:37:26 GMT
Hi all,
I am trying to install Linux using a Dell P70 monitor and an ASUSv7100 video
card.
The install routines (Red Hat 6.2) run from the CDROM using Xwindows in VGA
mode. I let the system detect what it can during the installation.
The installation ends, I boot Linux and the command line/black screen comes
up fine. When I try to startx it fails saying it cannot connect to the
server. When I try to configure (Xconfigurator) the video stuff, I can't
seem to hit onthe right combination to make my stuff work. I know that the
install routines are getting X in VGA mode, so I'd like to be able to AT
LEAST do that!
Also, while there don't seem to be any drivers for my card in Red Hat, I did
find an RPM on the NVDIA site for this chipset (the ASUS uses the NVDIA
chipset).
If I install these drivers, should I then be able to select an NVDIA card
type during installation and have things work?
I'm confused. If someone could help me out....even point me to some reading
material, I'd appreciate it!
thanks in advance,
keith
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From: David Coulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Geforce2 + X
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:44:36 +0000
I'm busy designing a new machine and am looking at the Creative Labs
GeForce2 Ultra DDR (no, I don't know what all that stuff means; I just
want a decent video card) for my primary head. The nvidia documentation
isn't particularly clear as to which chipsets it doesn't work with.
Has anyone gotten a Geforce 2 to work correctly under XFree86 4.0.1, or
can anyone reccomend a decent video cards to use as a primary head?
(Needs to be fast for X; I won't be playing QIII on this thing).
Thanks.
--
David Coulson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tobias Dresbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Only 640x480 with Sax and Elsa Erazor II
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:05:06 +0100
Hi all,
i have an Elsa Erazor II connected to an 17" Highscreen MS1775P.
Under SuSE 6.4 there was no problem to switch to 1024x786, 79kHz and 16bit
color, but
under SuSE 7.0 SAX2 let me only change to 640x480.
What can i do?
thanks in advance for your help
tobi
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From: "wisaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Thanks guys...
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:04:05 GMT
With the newest version of lilo installed, did you make sure that "lba32"
exists in the file /etc/lilo.conf (without the quotes of course)? Also, it
should be set to boot from /dev/mbr. As long as your motherboard/bios was
made after 1998 (I think), Lilo should work.
"The infamous "Brian"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:TvzT5.31196$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> The infamous "Brian" wrote in message ...
>
> There must be a way!
>
> Thanks for your thoughts and experiences.
>
> I have the very latest lilo and it's a no-go!
>
> I believe it has more to do with W2K than problem with +1024 cyls. Lilo is
> unable to find W2K boot app.
>
> Anybody else have some thoughts?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brina
>
>
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From: Jerry Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape flexibility?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:12:53 GMT
I've recently converted one of three computers here at home to SuSE
v7.0, removing the Win2000 that was formerly on this machine. That
means I've changed from IE v5.5 to Netscape (v4.73, I think) on this
machine, and it's been pretty much a non-event so far.
One constant irritation, though is the big waste of screen real estate
between the KDE window captions and Netscape's huge button bar. I keep
the navigation toolbar turned off, because it's nearly three times as
tall as the menu bar, which I think is also bigger than it needs to be.
IE offers flexibility in these areas that I haven't been able to find so
far in Netscape. For example, I can choose to use large buttons or
small. And I can choose to have text displayed with the buttons, or
buttons without text. (With tool-tips, of course, there's little need
for text under the buttons.)
Since I've turned off the navigation toolbar, there's no convenient back
button or reload button on the UI. I need to open a menu to select
Back, or drop the mouse and use <Alt-Left> to do it with the keyboard.
That makes the whole Netscape experience somewhat less enjoyable for me
than the IE experience, because these little irritations are constant.
I'm hoping that there's some kind of configuration file somewhere that
offers more control over Netscape than the Preferences dialogs built
into the UI. Any chance of that?
Jerry in Seattle
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From: "Tobias Dresbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Only 640x480 with Sax and Elsa Erazor II
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:29:10 +0100
hi,
sorry peoples... have solved the problem yet!
i had to start sax by typing it on the console and not through yast....
why everybody says sax2 is better?
hope suse won�t kill it...
tobi
"Tobias Dresbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:8vmkrp$556l9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
> i have an Elsa Erazor II connected to an 17" Highscreen MS1775P.
> Under SuSE 6.4 there was no problem to switch to 1024x786, 79kHz and 16bit
> color, but
> under SuSE 7.0 SAX2 let me only change to 640x480.
> What can i do?
>
> thanks in advance for your help
> tobi
>
>
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From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Thanks guys...
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:28:09 -0500
wisaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9JAT5.26581$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> With the newest version of lilo installed, did you make sure that "lba32"
> exists in the file /etc/lilo.conf (without the quotes of course)? Also,
it
> should be set to boot from /dev/mbr. As long as your motherboard/bios was
> made after 1998 (I think), Lilo should work.
That's what I thought as well, I believe my ASUS P3-BF motherboard is much
newer than that, and I had the lba32 option and it still didn't work. If
you read about the latest lilo it will tell you that it won't always work.
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From: wisaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thanks guys...
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:36:06 GMT
Damn, that's too bad. Here's what Lilo looks like on my system:
boot = /dev/hda
lba32
If something like that is not working for you, maybe a different boot
loader is what you need. I think there's one called grub isn't there?
Jeff wrote:
>
> wisaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9JAT5.26581$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > With the newest version of lilo installed, did you make sure that
"lba32"
> > exists in the file /etc/lilo.conf (without the quotes of course)? Also,
> it
> > should be set to boot from /dev/mbr. As long as your motherboard/bios
was
> > made after 1998 (I think), Lilo should work.
>
> That's what I thought as well, I believe my ASUS P3-BF motherboard is much
> newer than that, and I had the lba32 option and it still didn't work. If
> you read about the latest lilo it will tell you that it won't always work.
>
>
>
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From: "Alexis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape flexibility?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:45:56 -0000
Er, this is a hardware group. But that aside, netscape IS pretty damn
awful, but don't let that put you off using linux! Try a different browser,
there is an incomplete but functional (last time I looked) version of the
excellent Opera browser for linux, or you could try netscape 6.0. I tried a
preview version and did'nt like the look of it, but apparantly it's been
improved since then. You could of course use kfm as a web browser, or even
linux's native lynx, and I recomend trying a different desktop environment
without all those extra bars kde gives you, such as icewm for example.
Alexis
"Jerry Houston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've recently converted one of three computers here at home to SuSE
> v7.0, removing the Win2000 that was formerly on this machine. That
> means I've changed from IE v5.5 to Netscape (v4.73, I think) on this
> machine, and it's been pretty much a non-event so far.
>
> One constant irritation, though is the big waste of screen real estate
> between the KDE window captions and Netscape's huge button bar. I keep
> the navigation toolbar turned off, because it's nearly three times as
> tall as the menu bar, which I think is also bigger than it needs to be.
>
> IE offers flexibility in these areas that I haven't been able to find so
> far in Netscape. For example, I can choose to use large buttons or
> small. And I can choose to have text displayed with the buttons, or
> buttons without text. (With tool-tips, of course, there's little need
> for text under the buttons.)
>
> Since I've turned off the navigation toolbar, there's no convenient back
> button or reload button on the UI. I need to open a menu to select
> Back, or drop the mouse and use <Alt-Left> to do it with the keyboard.
> That makes the whole Netscape experience somewhat less enjoyable for me
> than the IE experience, because these little irritations are constant.
>
> I'm hoping that there's some kind of configuration file somewhere that
> offers more control over Netscape than the Preferences dialogs built
> into the UI. Any chance of that?
>
> Jerry in Seattle
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From: Jurrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: five NICs (PCI & ISA) with Linux 2.2.17
Date: 24 Nov 2000 22:31:28 GMT
Hi all,
For testing CBQ I've installed a Redhat 6.2 box with five NIC, four PCI
NE2000 clones (RealTek RTL-8029) and one NE2000 ISA clone because all the
PCI slots were full ;)
Everything works perfectly when I'm using modules, but because of the recent
exploits found in modutils I rather prefer everything build in the kernel.
I've rebuild the kernel and all the PCI NE2000 cards are detected but not
the ISA one.
I've added an append line for it in the lilo.conf
(append="ether=3,0x300,eth0") and disabled the PnP on the network card. But
still nothing happens.... I did even added the extra fprintf in the kernel
which was suggested in the Ethernet HOWTO but still the kernel doesn't even
try to detect a ISA NE2000 clone.
Here is some more info:
Snapshot of dmesg with a kernel with ne module:
ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 12.
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xd800, IRQ 12, 00:00:B4:B9:81:2D.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 11.
eth1: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xd400, IRQ 11, 00:00:B4:B5:CA:78.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 9.
eth2: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xd000, IRQ 9, 00:00:B4:B7:EC:F9.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xb800, IRQ 7.
eth3: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xb800, IRQ 7, 00:00:B4:B5:EA:D1.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 12.
eth4: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xb400, IRQ 12, 00:00:B4:A1:0F:7D.
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 b4 b3 68 58
eth5: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 3.
Without the ne module but compiled within the kernel:
ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 12.
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xd800, IRQ 12, 00:00:B4:B9:81:2D.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 11.
eth1: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xd400, IRQ 11, 00:00:B4:B5:CA:78.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 9.
eth2: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xd000, IRQ 9, 00:00:B4:B7:EC:F9.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xb800, IRQ 7.
eth3: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xb800, IRQ 7, 00:00:B4:B5:EA:D1.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 12.
eth4: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xb400, IRQ 12, 00:00:B4:A1:0F:7D.
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Anyone any suggestion?
Best regards,
Jurrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Jerry Segers, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux,alt.linux,alt.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Help - compiling driver for network card
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:31:42 +0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Michael J. Barber"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> I downloaded the drivers for my network card. This should be easy.
> Except, they make you compile the drivers. The readme outlines how to
> do it - make: make install. Two simple commands. I keep getting an
> error that I have no idea how to fix.
<snip>
It is polite to send folowups to one newsgroup, when you post to many.
You did, hopwever only post to groups that are relevant, thank you.
Folowups from this post are being
redirected to comp.os.linux.setup.
rpmfind.net _might_ have your driver pre-compiled in an rpm. If they do,
I reccomend you use that, they're easy to install and uninstall.
Now, it is likely that there is a configure script with the package; with
well behaved tarball distributions, the install method is:
$./configure // "./" is needed unless the current directory "." is
// the first thing in your PATH. putting "." as
// the first thing in your path opens up some
// forms of denial of service attacks, I'm told.
$make // optional frequently, but never hurts.
$make install
Configure frequently takes flags, such as where to install it, but has
defaults. if you have a configure file, view it to see what flags it
accepts. If you do not have a configure shell script with your driver
source, uh. . . I dunno, I've only been using linux about 3 months.
make sure your kernel is compiled to use modules, support PCMCIA, and
support networking (I think redhat 7.0 installs one like this, so if you
haven't messed with the kernel you shouldn't need to.) One final thought,
RH 7.0 ships with a buggy c library, see redhat's updates webpage, this might
be the problem.
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From: "Tomas Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitioning
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 23:53:23 GMT
I am tired of messing up my partitions.. please can someone explain this to
me:
I have a 45 Gb Harddrive and want to run Win98 and Linux Red Hat 7.0 on it.
I want to have a 5 Gb C: drive, 10 Gb D: drive, 10 Gb E: drive for windows.
I want to use the rest for Linux (i.e. 256 Swap + approx. 20 Gb for Root,
Usr, etc.)
I have tried to install windows first. I made C:, D: and E:.
When I installed Linux it would not boot because of the limit in sectors for
lilo.
I'm tired of using boot disks.. to much work to compile and update the
kernel..
So.. therefore I deleted D: and E: to install Linux. This worked nice..
But when I should reinstall my D: and E: windows partitions I used fdisk in
Dos and
propably overwrote the Linux installation in some kind.. After that Windows
wouldn't start
either.. aargh...
In what order should I do this, and should I use fdisk in DOS?
Tomas Andersen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: five NICs (PCI & ISA) with Linux 2.2.17
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:00:36 GMT
On 24 Nov 2000 22:31:28 GMT, Jurrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Anyone any suggestion?
Dump the ISA cards. Put more than one IP address on the PCI cards and share
them via a hub.
For example on my configuration:
[adam@C298344-A cleanup]$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:18:8E:CD:27
inet addr:24.4.228.121 Bcast:24.4.228.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:916159 errors:55 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:828657 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:13070 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd800
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:18:8E:CD:27
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd800
...
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