Linux-Hardware Digest #128, Volume #14 Thu, 4 Jan 01 12:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Netgear FA410TXC and Red Hat 7 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0 (Dances With Crows)
Red Hat 6.2 (Boomerang)
Re: CPU upgrade for old Intel P90 (Zappa motherboard) (Tony Hague)
Suitable NIC's ("P.H.")
lexmark z42 driver (thierry nivon)
Realtek 8029 - not using 100MBit connection - ideas? (-J=P-)
Re: Dual Xeon hangs (ekk)
Re: boot sector corrupt...maybe? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Common accounts on Windows 2000 and Linux (Mark Bratcher)
Re: lexmark z42 driver (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Step-by step to install Linux RH7 and Win98.
Re: Linux Routers/Servers (Neil Cherry)
Re: CPU upgrade for old Intel P90 (Zappa motherboard) (hac)
Re: Red Hat 6.2 ("Eric Wertman")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Netgear FA410TXC and Red Hat 7
Date: 4 Jan 2001 14:19:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 05:32:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered
into the Black Sun and said:
>I installed Red Hat Linux 7 on a Dell Latitude CPx successfully, but my
>Netgear FA410TXC PCMCIA card wasn't detected. I upgraded to pcmcia-cs
>3.1.23, but that didn't seem to fix the problem.
>When I insert the card into the slot I hear a high beep and a low beep,
>which should indicate that the card is identified, but the
>configuration fails. Running ifconfig eth0 brings back good results
>and KDE's PCMCIA utility shows "NetGear FA410TXC Fast Ethernet" under
>Card 0, but unfortuately I can't use it for some reason.
ping something, then dmesg | tail and see if there's anything about
"tx_send called with transmitter busy" in there. If so, search
comp.os.linux.portable for "fa_select" and my name, then follow the
directions. This is somewhat strange; I've had no problems of this
nature with the latest pcmcia-cs releases.
--
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: Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0
Date: 4 Jan 2001 14:19:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 03:40:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0
>I got a ATI Xpert 98 Video Card, NEC MultiSync XV17+ Screen and Redhat
>7.0 and the best I could get this config to do is 640x480?
>Can someone please tell me the best I could get this going and how
Don't multipost. You have multiposted this to this NG and c.o.l.misc at
the very least. If you *MUST*, cross-post-- i.e., put comp.foo.bar
and comp.baz.barf in the Newsgroups: line. Multiposting is considered
bad ettiquette.
The Xpert98 uses a form of the Mach64 chipset, which has been supported
forever. What sort of errors do you get when you run Xconfigurator, and
have you tried XF86Setup or xf86config? Both of those seem to work
better than Xconfigurator in many cases, but any of these will probably
do a better job than any automatic X configuration program that RH 7.0
runs.
>Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please learn how to use the powerful searching facilities which the
place you posted this from provides. http://deja.com/home_ps.shtml
Asking for CC:s is also considered bad ettiquette, since you are in
effect saying "My time is more important than yours."
--
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: Boomerang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 6.2
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:37:09 +0100
Original Message Time Is Thursday, January 04, 2001 , 2:43:22 AM
Hello,
CD-ROM : Teac CD-532E
HD : Seagate ST34321A (4,3 GB)
Grafic Card : S3 Virge-DX/GX PCI (375/385) (4 MB Video memory)
Sound Card : Yamaha OPL3-SAx Reserved
Modem : Rockwell RCV336ACF/SP ( R6741-41 )
Maintboard : SOYO SY-5BT
Procesor : AMD K6/2 266 MHz
Monitor : Daewoo 518X
Printer : Samsung ML-85 plus
is this OK to instal Red Hat 6.2 ???
--
Best regards,
Boomerang (tel.+381638050191)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Hague)
Subject: Re: CPU upgrade for old Intel P90 (Zappa motherboard)
Date: 4 Jan 2001 15:01:46 GMT
In article <931op8$fnj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Rankin <au.com.zipworld@{no.spam}rankinc> wrote:
>Hi,
>I am looking for a CPU upgrade for an old Pentium 90. The chip is Socket
>5, and the motherboard manual documents that it could theoretically
>accept a P120. (It actually describes the CPU as an "Intel P54C Pentium
>operating at 3.3 volts VCC".) However, considering the struggle I had
>finding a P200MMX over two years ago, I am sceptical about ever finding
>a P120.
You might have luck with http://www.evertech.com, their spectra line
claim to be able to squeeze a K6-II 400 into a socket 5. I can't
say whether it would give linux any problems, but I expect not.
I have used the 486 -> AMD 586 upgrade without problems.
If you are really looking for something cheap, you might try their
discontinued stock at
http://store.yahoo.com/evergreentechnologies/discontinued.html
On the other hand, you might be better just upgrading the motherboard
to also get a faster bus, disk controllers etc.
Tony.
--
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From: "P.H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suitable NIC's
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:16:54 +0100
hai,
I'm looking for NIC's without having any troubles working with linux aswell
with Windows 2000. I'm tol that the NIC's with Intel chipsets are having
trouble with Linux.
Thanks in advance
P. Hendrix
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From: thierry nivon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lexmark z42 driver
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:33:45 +0100
Hi
I'm looking for linux drivers for a lexmark z42 driver
or the best skeleton to implement il
and where I could find the z42 protocol specification
Thanks for your help
Thierry Nivon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (-J=P-)
Subject: Realtek 8029 - not using 100MBit connection - ideas?
Date: 4 Jan 2001 09:36:22 -0600
I have this card connected to a 100MBit hub, and the hub is showing it
connected at 10MBit/sec.
I presume the card can do 100MBit, anything I could be missing here?
(Other machines connected to the hub are at 100MBit/sec).
Thanks
jp
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Dual Xeon hangs
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:25:23 -0500
Thanks, but no, it is the 440GX chipset. I'm pretty confident it isn't the
CPUtemp. I did notice a lot of nmbd error messages in /var/log/messages, so
I turned of smb. Hopefully that will help . . .
Ken
"D. Stimits" wrote:
> ekk wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for the duplicate post - I noticed I hadn't changed the subject
> > line.
> >
> > ekk wrote:
> >
> > > Hello
> > > I have a dual Xeon 550 machine that hangs often, somewhat randomly when
> > > I'm doing some CPU intensive stuff. In the most recent crash, I was
> > > heavily using only one CPU, It doesn't seem to be CPU temp related,
> > > becuase just before it crashed, the temp was 45.5 deg. C. I'm running
> > > RH 6.1, kernel 2.2.14 - configured pretty much the same way as another
> > > dual 650 Pentium III which has no trouble. /var/log/messages contains
> > > little helpful info. I am running all the same daemons as the 650.
> > > Anyone know what's going on? In the meantime, I'm going to put 2.2.16
> > > on there to see if that helps.
> > > Ken
>
> What chipset does it use? If it is i840 your problem is the broken
> IO-APIC of the i840 chipset. In that case boot with kernel option
> "noapic". You'd lose performance since hardware interrupts would be
> serviced by only one cpu under that option, but stability will go up
> dramatically.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: boot sector corrupt...maybe?
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:48:56 -0500
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Just an aside: MicroSoft has been known to ship software on CD with a virus
included.
But... (unless you consider Win98SE itself a virus) I don't think it's the case
here. :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> "Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If it will boot using Linux but not windows, I might suspect a virus.
>
> Can't be. I doubt the 98SE CD shipped with a virus on it, which is
> the only way it could have one. Read-only medium, you know.
>
> --
> Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Luckily I have the fashion sense of a colorblind street pimp
> freebasing cocaine through a gunpowder funnel, so it all works out."
> - Something Awful, 12/19/2000
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Common accounts on Windows 2000 and Linux
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:53:33 -0500
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Eric,
Have you considered making the Linux server your PDC? I'm not sure PDC is
supported for Win2K clients, so it may be a manual task to keep the passwords
synchronized between these clients and the server, but I have it working fine
here with Win9X clients. I just publish a procedure to the users for changing
passwords depending upon what client they have.
HTH.
Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a way to have a single Linux server which has account
> information for all users of the network. Users should be able to log
> on to a Windows 2000 Professional machine, the Linux server, or any
> other Linux box using the same login and password.
>
> There's also going to be shared storage between the computers on the
> network. I'd like there to be a way for permissions to carry over
> between all the different computers. For example, if I login to a
> Win2K box as emccoy and create a file on the (SMB) shared disk, I
> should be able to login to the file server and see myself as the
> file's owner. I don't need all the security features of NTFS, but I
> may need all the security features of e2fs.
>
> The file server is also going to be a Linux box, which probably makes
> e2fs the only real choice of file system.
>
> How much of this is possible? (Any of it?)
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Luckily I have the fashion sense of a colorblind street pimp
> freebasing cocaine through a gunpowder funnel, so it all works out."
> - Something Awful, 12/19/2000
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lexmark z42 driver
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:56:16 -0500
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Try http://www.linuxprinting.org
thierry nivon wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm looking for linux drivers for a lexmark z42 driver
> or the best skeleton to implement il
> and where I could find the z42 protocol specification
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Thierry Nivon
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Step-by step to install Linux RH7 and Win98.
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:35:31 -0500
The original message seems to have disappeared , hence I am using this
message to reply.
Further to Mr. Evan's suggestion :
here's what my hdd looks like . It's a single 27 gb ata 66 drive, on an amd
Slot A tbird 700, 128 Mb of ram.
hda1 /boot 50MB ext2, contains lilo
PRIMARY ACTIVE
hda2 win2000 2GB NTFS 5.0
PRIMARY
hda3 win98 2GB fat32
PRIMARY
hda4 Extended (Remainder of hdd) hda5 onwards are in this
extended region
hda5 / 500MB ext2
( the root file system )
hda6 swap 128MB swap my
first swap partition
hda7 swap 128MB swap my
second swap partition
hda8 /var 200MB ext2
the "var " partition
hda9 /home 1GB ext2
Home partition that I do not format if I reisntall.
hda10 /usr 3GB ext2
All user programs go under here . Also the kernel source, the X server
system
hda11 win98Data 2GB fat32 a 2 gig
place for putting files I need quite often
hda12 Games 4 GB fat32 all
my windows games
rest of the drive is empty.
How did I do it ?
1) use partition magic 5 or higher ( Use the floppy disks ) to create the
partitions ( create hda2 as a fat32 partition- win2000 will convert it
later to ntfs). Then mark hda3 as active, reboot and install win98. As far
as it is concerned, it is being installed into a PRIMARY ACTIVE partition.
2) Set hda2 as active, and unhide hda3, ignoring all those warnings.
3) reboot, and install win2000. Don't forget to convert hda2 to ntfs.
4 ) go back into partition magic , set hda1 as active, and unhide hda2 and 3
if they were hidden.
5 ) Proceed with linux install, and when it asks you for fdisk or diskdruid,
just hit "done" and come to the mount point definition
hda1 is "/boot" and so on as indicated above.
6 ) After copying over the files, and taking care of X, it will ask you
where to put lilo .This is where a lot of beginers set themselves up for
trouble . So save yourself the hassle and put lilo into /dev/hda1 , and DO
NOT overwrite the MBR . Lilo will find win98 and win2000 partitions and
give them some labels. you are free to go in and edit them .
7 ) Finish installation.
At boot prompt ("LILO" )hit TAB . you will see
linux win2000 win98
LILO:
This is if you labeled hda2 as "win2000" and hda3 as "win98" during setup.
If you did not, you will see "dos", and "win" or something similar.
Type the label to boot that particular partition .
If something went wrong, use partition magic and set ( hda3) win98 as
active.Or if you prefer win2000, hda2 Upon rebooting, win98 (or win2000 )
will start booting up , and you never see lilo. If you want lilo back
assuming you took care of the problem using win98 (or win2000) ) , set
hda1 as active.
At this point, if you feel the need to reinstall either os ( win98 or
win2000 ) , just set the interested partition as active, and proceed with a
reinstall.
I'm using Rh 6.0 with XFree86 4.0.1 . GeForce 2MX card needs 4.0.1 with the
nvidia module from NVidia, or just get the 4.0.2 XFree86 package, save
yourself some trouble.
Since you say you're a newbie, here's some lilo help:
LILO: linux single
boots into run level 1 , with no network support , so that you can fix
problems ( sendmail hanging ? ) .
once at a command prompt,
type "init 5" to switch to run level 5, where x windows comes up.
init 3 to go to the Command line level (3) . Note that at 5, the command
line is available also .
Also while at a command prompt, ( after login, of course ) , type "startx"
to get into X .
You have atleast 5 consoles Alt-F1 to Alt-F5, on which you can log in, and
do command line stuff.
While in X, to get to console 1 , it is Ctrl-Alt-F1.
To kill the X server abnormaly ( you can't see anything!! )
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This will cause a core dump.
/var/log/xfree86.log is generated by 4.0 and above X servers. It might help
you in figuring out X problems.
HTH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Subject: Re: Linux Routers/Servers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:43:42 GMT
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 16:59:14 -0500, Mark Bratcher wrote:
>Matt O'Toole wrote:
>>
>> Neil Cherry wrote:
>[snip[
>> > BTW, I'm going to be working on an article on how to build diskless
>> > Linux boxen to perform routing functionality. I guess my price may be
>> > a bit better as I'm only selling the article to a magazine and all the
>> > code and such will be free (I'm not in business).
>>
>> Great!
>[snip]
>
>Have you seen the Linux Router Project (LRP)? They have a web-based
>config page where you type in a bunch of info about your system
>(NICs, IPs, etc) and the email you a floppy image that you can boot
>from a floppy and, voila, you have a router without a hard drive.
I will be experimenting with the LRP stuff but this router will be
totally diskless when completed. I'll be using Etherboot to get it
started then switch to and NFS based kernel. I haven;t made any
progress on anything yet as I've been a bit more than busy. :-) I'll
make sure I mention both groups in the article. Most people will
probably use the LRP as it's quick and easy. My router needs to do
bunch of fancy filtering and tracking (for my own use).
--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU upgrade for old Intel P90 (Zappa motherboard)
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:47:02 GMT
Chris Rankin wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am looking for a CPU upgrade for an old Pentium 90. The chip is Socket
> 5, and the motherboard manual documents that it could theoretically
> accept a P120. (It actually describes the CPU as an "Intel P54C Pentium
> operating at 3.3 volts VCC".) However, considering the struggle I had
> finding a P200MMX over two years ago, I am sceptical about ever finding
> a P120.
>
> Fortunately, Intel are no longer the only game in town. Does anyone know
> of any compatible AMD, Cyrix or other CPU manufacturers' chips which
> might realistically be considered upgrades from a P90?
>
You've missed the time window by several years. PC hardware is only
cheap while it is in mass production. Once the market has moved to
the next generation, the older stuff actually goes UP in price. The
amount that would be worth spending on upgrading a P90 - no more than
$20 - is not enough for anyone to keep such upgrades around. Spend
any more, and you've wasted money that would much farther towards a
newer motherboard, processor, and memory combination.
Companies are throwing out Pentium I systems, not upgrading them. You
may find something looking through a friendly vendor's junk box, but
that's about it.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Eric Wertman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.2
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:31:07 -0500
Should be fine, although I'm not sure if that modem will work (Is it a
winmodem?)
Eric
"Boomerang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Original Message Time Is Thursday, January 04, 2001 , 2:43:22 AM
>
> Hello,
>
> CD-ROM : Teac CD-532E
> HD : Seagate ST34321A (4,3 GB)
> Grafic Card : S3 Virge-DX/GX PCI (375/385) (4 MB Video memory)
> Sound Card : Yamaha OPL3-SAx Reserved
> Modem : Rockwell RCV336ACF/SP ( R6741-41 )
> Maintboard : SOYO SY-5BT
> Procesor : AMD K6/2 266 MHz
> Monitor : Daewoo 518X
> Printer : Samsung ML-85 plus
>
> is this OK to instal Red Hat 6.2 ???
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Boomerang (tel.+381638050191)
>
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