Linux-Hardware Digest #26, Volume #14 Thu, 14 Dec 00 00:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: GeForce2 with any distro - any success? failure? anybody? (Tony Spinillo)
Help adding second hard drive ("michael thomas")
Crystal audio (AC_97.o) on SMP, linux02.2.16 ("Robert L. Klungle")
Re: Help adding second hard drive (Graham Wilson)
Re: dial up modem on demand? (Graham Wilson)
Re: cdrecord & Creative CDRW8432 (RW8435E) (Andreas Mohr)
Re: Help adding second hard drive ("michael thomas")
modem busy (Ilya Sterin)
Re: LOADLIN memory problem. (Tony)
Re: CDRW/cdrecord media/type determination problem... (Dances With Crows)
How to read hardware information in Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need help installing old Sound Blaster 16 card ("Schuylar Marshall")
Re: Problem reading tar tape between two similar machines (John Taylor)
Re: What is the command to . . . ? (Herb Stein)
Re: LOADLIN memory problem. (Cabal)
Re: SOUND: Vortex1 on RH7? (Cabal)
Re: modem busy (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: pluy and play modem (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Question abt Xeon cpus ("D. Stimits")
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2 (James Richard Tyrer)
Dell/Perc 3/Linux/Recovery Capabilities? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: How to read hardware information in Linux? ("D. Stimits")
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From: Tony Spinillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GeForce2 with any distro - any success? failure? anybody?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:22:05 GMT
Steve,
I have a Geforce Ultra (just a cranked-up geforce2). No major problems
with
RC2 of X4.02. Quake3, Soldier of Fortune, Unreal Tournament and Shogo
demo
play well (for the 5 or so hours I play a week.)
Be sure to follow their documentation to the letter, or you will have
problems.
Tony
Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
> > So, does anybody have a GeForce2 card working in 2D and 3D? How well are
> > the OpenGL drivers working? What about the DRI thing?
>
> Dirty Rotten Imbeciles? I didn't know that anybody else listened to them
> any more...
>
> steve
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From: "michael thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,it.comp.linux.setup
Subject: Help adding second hard drive
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:24:25 GMT
Hi group. Would be real grateful for some advice from you more experienced
linux users.
The situation is that I have Redhat installed on its own hard drive, but the
hard drive is small and I have run out of space. I want to increase this
space by adding a new hard drive. The pc has a second hard drive with
Windows 98 on it. What I want to do is to either use part of the windows 98
hard drive for extra space or buy a new drive and use that. But I don't want
to mess with my existing linux installation. So basically, I want to format
the new drive or part of the Windows 98 drive and be able to access it from
the existing Linux hard drive. Is that possible?
Thanks everyone
Mike
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From: "Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Crystal audio (AC_97.o) on SMP, linux02.2.16
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:53:06 GMT
Has anyone gotten the audio on the Crystal decoder to work?
Works fine under Windows2000, but no joy from linux.
Using GNOME or KDE, keep getting message "/dev/dsp No such device".
All audio was set up as modules and audio enabled.
Been working on this for a year now.
cheers...bob
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From: Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,it.comp.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help adding second hard drive
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:25:57 -0800
michael thomas wrote:
<chomp>
I want to format the new drive or part of the Windows 98 drive and be able to
access it fromthe existing Linux hard drive. Is that possible?
> Thanks everyone
> Mike
Yes. You can do either. With a new drive, all you have to do is partition
it and initialize the partitions. Then you mount the partitions onto your
filesystem.
The best way to partition the drive is to use cfdisk (although fdisk will
do it too, but it's a little less user-friendly -- that's the Linux fdisk, not
the windog version). Look at the man pages to find out how to use mount; there
are a few simple rules, depending on the name of your new drive (hdb, etc) and
where you want to mount it. Once the new partitions are mounted, no one will
know there are two disks.
The simplest method is to use a new drive, but if you have enough room on
the one with the other os on it, you can rob some space by dividing up the disk
into more partitions -- you will probably lose all the data though, unless you
know what you are doing.
Good luck. G.
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From: Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: dial up modem on demand?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:36:22 -0800
Darren Welson wrote:
> Can someone tell me where I can find info on setting up my dial up modem to
> dial my ISP when I have a client request to access the ISP?
Use pppconfig. Go to the `Advanced Options', select demand. You'll need to
`Add-user', too. Should work. Good luck. G
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord & Creative CDRW8432 (RW8435E)
Date: 14 Dec 2000 01:50:26 GMT
Jacek Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some problems with writing CD-R under Linux (RedHat 7.0) using
> 'cdrecord' & Creative CDRW drive.
> I made iso : 'mkisofs' - everything OK.
> I mounted it - looks OK.
> I tested (-dummy) : 'cdrecord' - everything OK.
> I wrote (speed=4) : 'cdrecord' - everything seems to be OK.
> But I can't mount this disk.
> $ mount /dev/cdrom
> .... wrong fs type, bad option, ... - standard error message.
> I have no idea what's wrong.
> Is it my fault? or cdrecord don't support RW8435E? (I did not found it
> in compability list, but Creative CDRW8432 is in FAQ [5-1-26(or 27)])
Oh no, not another one ;)
Many newer Acer drives have a firmware incompatibility that causes cdrecord
and some Windows software (I think it was Adaptec 3.0) to fail.
(they don't switch back from simulation mode when explicitly being told so)
The new cdrecord alpha releases have a fix.
cdrecord triggered the problem by switching into simulation mode,
but ultimately it's the firmware that has a flaw.
I tried to contact Acer about a firmware correction in several ways, no reply.
I won't buy Acer again (also caused by the fact that the drive
has some very strange vendor "ATAPI", model "CD-R/RW 8X4X32" ID)
It's really about time for them to fix that problem !!
(I reported that problem about a month ago)
Andreas Mohr
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From: "michael thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,it.comp.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help adding second hard drive
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:51:44 GMT
Thanks Graham, appreciate the help
M
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From: Ilya Sterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem busy
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 02:14:37 GMT
I installed a PCI modem USRobotics pro modem (not winmodem and linux
compatible). In the hardware configurations the modem shows up
properly, but when I try to dial out or query the modem it says that
the modem is busy. When running setserial -g /dev/modem it displays
IRQ 2 eventhough I try setting to 9. When I set to anything else it
works but when setting ttyS1 to IRQ 9 and linking to /dev/modem it goes
back to IRQ 2 ??? But my main concern is how do I get my modem to work?
TIA
Ilya Sterin
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Subject: Re: LOADLIN memory problem.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 02:30:54 GMT
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdaX mem=128M ro
where X is the number of the partition.
I actually have 256 MB and have had to modify both my lilo.conf and my
LoadLin batch file.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (root) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>When I installed RH7 from the CD, it properly recognized my 128MB RAM.
>After installation, I started using LOADLIN to boot into Linux. Since
>then, my system only sees 64MB RAM. If I boot from the emergency disk,
>it sees the full 128MB...
>
>Anyone have any ideas on how to fix?
>Thanks.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CDRW/cdrecord media/type determination problem...
Date: 14 Dec 2000 02:40:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13 Dec 2000 15:41:34 -0600, Oleg Krivosheev staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>i changed (RMA and got "upgraded") my CDRW from Memorex 2x2x16 to
>Memorex 2x2x24 and found following problem:
>
>- before cdrecord was able to determine the media type/manufacturer,
>something like
> Media type: Phthalocyanine (Type 5)
> Manufacturer: Inmation
>- now looks like it is unable to get
> media type/manufacturer. Something like
> Media type: unknown, not in database
> Manufacturer: unknown
> writing looks ok too, i'm able to read cd back
>the funny part of the story is i'm still using the same spindle of
>Inmation media ;) where i should look in order to correct this
>problem?
The drive firmware. From the man page of cdrecord, "Only a limited
number of drives support to read the ATIP info", which is where the
information about media type and manufacturer are stored on a CD-R(W)
blank. It seems odd that a newer drive would give you this problem, but
there it is. "cdrecord -atip" or "cdrecord -prcap" may give you more
information on what your drive can and can't handle. HTH,
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to read hardware information in Linux?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 02:29:44 GMT
Dear all,
I'm now writing a program running in Linux. However, i need to read
hardware information like harddisk serial no. and\or ethernet card
ethernet address. How can i do that? My language platform can be C,
perl, PHP, etc.
Thanks.
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Schuylar Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need help installing old Sound Blaster 16 card
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:44:00 -0700
Actually, there is a built in modules.conf or conf.modules hack listed in
that file. just don't edit the linked file, and know the pertinent info
first(i.e IRQs, DMA's, etc.)
Look in /etc/modules.conf -- its pretty self-explanitory-- its labeled and
sectioned as soundblaser.
Hope it helps. Sky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:918862$1g0q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Someone gave me an old SB16 sound card (really don't know that much more
> about it)
> I am running TurboLinux 6.0.7 and I have tried finding information on
installing
> this card at sites like linuxdocs.org and linuxnewbie.org but both sites
seem
> to deal with newer models of sound cards.
>
> Can someone point me to a source for setup and config info on the Net?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave (please remove the spam from my email address)
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From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem reading tar tape between two similar machines
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.unix.misc,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:21:15 GMT
In comp.os.linux.help Bruce Pennypacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi all,
: I have two systems that have identical tape drives on them. Here's the
: basic setup:
: Home PC: Pentium III 500MHz, running RedHat Linux 7.0. Contains an on-board
: Symbois SCSI controller.
: Work PC: Pentium II 300 MHz, running RedHat Linux 6.2. Contains an Adaptec
: AHA-2940 SCSI controller.
: Both PC's have an Archive Python DDS-3 tape drive. If I cat /proc/scsi/scsi
: on both systems it shows an identical tape device with the same firmware,
: etc. (just located on different scsi devices with different id's):
: Home PC:
: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
: Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 715G
: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
: Work PC:
: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
: Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 715G
: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
: Both machines also have gnu tar 1.13.17 on them. My problem is that tapes
: created on my home machine using tar aren't readable by the work machine,
: and vice versa. I can create a tape on my home pc using "tar cvf /dev/st0"
: and then immediately extract the files using "tar xvf /dev/st0" without any
: problems. I've even gone so far as verifying the results with checksums.
: If, however, I take that exact same tape to my work PC and run "tar xvf
: /dev/st0" it will start to try to extract the files (I'll see the first
: filename get displayed) then after a few minutes I get the following:
: tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error
: tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error
: tar: Too many errors, quitting
: tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
: What gives? Why do these two similar systems have problems reading tapes
: from one another? I've tried specifying block sizes, cleaning the drives,
: etc. but nothing seems to work....
: Help! (banging his head against the wall......)
: -Bruce
Depending on what you need to back up, you could try using dump or cpio
instead of tar. Another option is to try something commercial, like BRU.
John
--
John Taylor
Reply to:
john
at
giffords dot net
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From: Herb Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:39:39 -0600
grep "STRING" *
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is the command to find the occurance of a string in a group of
> files in a directory?
>
> I vaguely remember it being find with a grep pipe I think.
>
> thanks
> charles
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From: Cabal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LOADLIN memory problem.
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:44:49 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
�ystein Skadsem wrote:
>
> root wrote:
>
> > When I installed RH7 from the CD, it properly recognized my 128MB RAM.
> > After installation, I started using LOADLIN to boot into Linux. Since
> > then, my system only sees 64MB RAM. If I boot from the emergency disk,
> > it sees the full 128MB...
>
> mem=128M after the other kernel options on your loadlin command line.
> Or see if there's a bios update for your mobo which fixes the problem.
>
> --
> �ystein Skadsem
Worked great. Thanks for your help.
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From: Cabal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SOUND: Vortex1 on RH7?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:47:12 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LNyT wrote:
>
> root wrote:
>
> > When I run "sndconfig" on RH7, it tells me that my model is Aureal, and
> > semiconductor is "Vortex 1". Then it tells me that it's not supported...
> > I was just wondering if there's anoyone out there who has the same card
> > and got it to work. If so, how?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I managed to get my vortex1 working yesterday :)
> 1) First step was to get the driver from http://aureal.sourceforge.net
> 2) Second step was to make the module (just read the compilation
> instructions in README - you need to use the 'make install20')
> 3) third step was to load the module, with insmod.
>
> I don't know if this matters, but I'm using kernel version 2.2.18 (latest
> in the 2.2 branch), on RH7.
>
> -LNyT
Hey LNyT, can't get the driver form the site... not replying. Could you
mail them to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Thanks a lot for the help!
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem busy
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:33:45 GMT
Ilya Sterin wrote:
> I installed a PCI modem USRobotics pro modem (not winmodem and linux
> compatible). In the hardware configurations the modem shows up
> properly, but when I try to dial out or query the modem it says that
> the modem is busy.
This "busy" signal can also mean that it (Kppp?) simply can't find the
modem.
> When running setserial -g /dev/modem it displays
> IRQ 2 eventhough I try setting to 9. When I set to anything else it
> works but when setting ttyS1
Normally ttyS2 is a better choice since most current motherboards include
two serial ports (ttyS0 and ttyS1).
> to IRQ 9 and linking to /dev/modem
"/dev/modem" is only a link. You don't need to use it. It is probably
better to use the actual name of the device you are using unless your
software will only recognize "/device/modem" or it is the only way to
specify it.
> it goes
> back to IRQ 2 ??? But my main concern is how do I get my modem to work?
>
You have an unreferenced pronoun 'it' which appears to be the center of
your problem.
What is the 'it' that goes back to IRQ 2?
You don't set the hardware. What you set with "setserial" is the software
driver.
The hardware is either fixed by hardwiring or is (in the case of PCI) set
by the BIOS at boot.
You can tell the serial driver which ttyS? to use with your modem (if it
hasn't already decided on its own) and the address and interrupt number to
use (again if it hasn't found it by itself).
See my previous post for additional information.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pluy and play modem
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:37:15 GMT
Hong Fang wrote:
> i use a PNP modem in RH6.1, but RH6.1 can found it. who help me ????
Is yor modem PCI or ISA?
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:44:38 GMT
Jerra wrote:
> Hi!
> I have seen that Linux Red Hat does not like the ATA/66 controllers.
> After choosing "Work Station" as the choice to install I get the error
> stating that no devices(hdds) was found in the system.
> I've read some tips on how to work around this but it just does not work
> for me........
>
> In the gui installer I'm supposed to press ALT+F2 to get to a console.
> And from there read the first and second address(/proc/pci) of the
> ATA/66 controller(s). Then send some commands to the Kernel. No matter
> where I am in the installation procedure ALT+F2 is not bringing up a
> console. Nothing happens... whatsoever,,,,
Try using the text install. And, try <Ctrl><Alt><F2>
However, it would probably be easier to install using the ATA/33 controller
and then move the disk after you have the Kernel set up for ATA/66.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:54:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe his point is that there is _never_ a use for MIME on a
> non-binary newsgroup.
>
Perhaps those of us who have never used a "primative" news reader don't really
know how they work.
This message is sent in MIME.
JRT
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:55:27 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question abt Xeon cpus
Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
> > > BTW, going with a SuperMicro 8050 chassis/board for a foundation, we
> put
> > > together the entire server, including hardware SCSI RAID, gigabit
> Ethernet,
> > > and the works for around $11,000 - $12,000. Much, much less than buying
> a
> > > pre-build server.
> > >
> > > steve
> >
> > One caution when looking at SMP servers (including SuperMicro). Avoid
> > i840 chipsets at all costs. They have IO-APIC problems.
>
> Good point. This has an earlier ServerWorks chipset, not the i840. : )
>
> steve
So far everything I have heard about ServerWorks chipsets is that they
work on linux. I'm trying to find something with their new WS
chipset...not one of the hybrids like SuperMicro has, but the brand new
WS. It should have everything the i840 advertises, and more. I'd try out
some of the others for K7 or Athlon, but I actually need a 64 bit PCI
bus.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:56:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe his point is that there is _never_ a use for MIME on a
> non-binary newsgroup.
>
Perhaps those of us who have never used a "primative" news reader don't
really
know how they work.
This message is sent in 8-bit (i.e. NOT MIME)
Now, someone please explain the difference to us.
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dell/Perc 3/Linux/Recovery Capabilities?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:52:02 GMT
I'm wondering what capabilities the Perc 3 controller that ships with
Dell PowerEdge boxes offers from the linux side of the house. I've got
a box, patched the driver into the kernel, it works, but have had some
strange experiences with testing.
Before dropping it into service, I've caused failure in one of the disks
in the raid. (Raid 5) I 'recover' by adding a new drive back in, but
the box continues in degraded mode until I reboot, make sure the 'failed
disk' is wiped and the raid reconstructed while sitting in the
configuration menus. This is the first time I've worked with something
that doesn't reconstruct the raid as it sees the replacement disk come
back in. From the book of NT screenshots the box shipped with, I'm
assuming this is left to a userspace application, which just doesn't
really make sense.
If this is the case, is there an equivalent mechanism out there for
Linux? I've poked around for useful information, and really haven't
found much. TIA,
--Matt Sherer
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 05:00:38 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe his point is that there is _never_ a use for MIME on a
> non-binary newsgroup.
>
Perhaps those of us who have never used a "primative" news reader don't
really
know how they work.
This message is sent in MIME.
JRT
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:01:48 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to read hardware information in Linux?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm now writing a program running in Linux. However, i need to read
> hardware information like harddisk serial no. and\or ethernet card
> ethernet address. How can i do that? My language platform can be C,
> perl, PHP, etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
Start by looking at the files in /proc/, such as interrupts, pci,
mounts, ioports, filesystems, dma, devices, cpuinfo. Also you might want
to scan dmesg for interesting items, and the output of lspci (better
yet, find the source to lspci).
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