Linux-Hardware Digest #134, Volume #14 Fri, 5 Jan 01 20:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: PC133 memory in PC100 slots (Frank. N. Puppenstein)
Re: boot sector corrupt...maybe? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PCI/ISA Slots--What? ("Matthew D Thrond")
ALSA ("Maris Orbidans")
TMC 850 SCSI Card (Alexis)
Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.2? ("Chris Brightwell")
Re: two mice on a linux box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Any experience of external scsi 250MB zip *not* at end of scsi-2 chain? (Guy Maskall)
Re: Hard disk problems with Red Hat 7.0 install ("Brian Morrison")
Re: Orinoco / PCI ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: PCMCIA modem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: ALSA (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
no sound with ASOUND GOLD (alex|mc)
Re: Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.2? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.2? ("Chris Brightwell")
Re: Orinoco / PCI ("Roy B")
Re: Abit KT6-RAID & linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Grecord alternative? (Karl-Heinz Herrmann)
changing irq (Chris)
boot from PCI /dev/hde (quagly)
Re: HELP! module st.o in rescue mode (Dances With Crows)
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From: Frank. N. Puppenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PC133 memory in PC100 slots
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 12:28:55 -0800
Lee Graba wrote:
> I have a motherboard (GigaByte 71xe) that supports PC100 SDRAM, and I
> also have a 256 Megabyte PC133 SDRAM module. Should these work well
> together? Is this a situation like processors, in which you can run a
> high-speed processor at a lower clock-rate with no problem, or is the
> PC133 different from PC100 in ways other than the clock rate that can be
> handled?
>
> --
>
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>
> Lee Graba
> Honeywell Technology Center
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
Works for me too. I have one 64 mb stick of PC100 and one 64 mb stick of
PC133 on the same m/b. It works fine.
--
"Poof. You're a puppeteer."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: boot sector corrupt...maybe?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:22:10 GMT
Thanks guys, I got it fixed. I don't understand the solution any more
than I did the problem, but I flashed a bios upgrade and it fixed it.
In article <uuo56.9630$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Fabio Olimpieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes I tried but I didn't manage to resolve my problem.
>
> "Mark Bratcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > I believe Norton Disk Doctor can copy the good FAT to the bad one.
> > Did you try that? It might have saved you from having to reinstall
> Windows.
> >
> > Fabio Olimpieri wrote:
> > >
> > > I got the same problem with my computer. I could boot only using linux
> but
> > > not Windows.
> > > Furthermore I could mount and see the Windows partition from linux .
> > > I used Norton Disk Doctor to examine the boot sectors and I found out
> that
> > > there are 2 copies of FAT,
> > > one of them was corrupted. For this reason Windows was not able to
read
> the
> > > hard disk anymore.
> > > I tried to use "fsck" to repair the fat with no results.
> > > I installed Windows 98 and linux again and now everything is working
> > > properly.
> > >
> > > Fabio
> > >
>
>
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From: "Matthew D Thrond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI/ISA Slots--What?
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:48:46 -0600
And the reason they are called PCI/ISA is simply that cards of either type
are designed with a different offset. (ISA is offset upward, and PCI
downward). So by stationing a PCI slot and an ISA slot very close together
it becomes necessary for the end user to choose which one he's going to
stick a card into, inasmuch as there is only one physical opening in the
back of the case for these cards.
I'm not sure about the electronics of such an arrangement, though.
Hypothetically, it might be possible to install a card in both slots,
provided one of the cards was of an atypical configuration and did not
require access to the back of the machine (some kind of oddball SCSI card,
perhaps). Not that you'd probably want to bother; ISA slots are being
phased out in the latest series of motherboards, even though there's
probably nothing wrong with them for simple devices such as controller-based
modems (where in fact I rather prefer the internal ISA modem to the extra
clutter surrounding an external).
I understand, however, that having an ISA bus can negatively affect the
stability of a board. Is this true, and how is it possible?
"Howard Arons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> What are mobo slots designated as "PCI/ISA"? Do they fit and work with
> either type of card? Will Linux accept them?
>
> TIA,
> Howard A
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From: "Maris Orbidans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALSA
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:55:59 +0200
> I just installed a sound blaster live! in my linux box. I use the Alsa
> drivers and everything
> seem to work fine, exept for the recording.
Where can I get Alsa drivers for SB Live ?
Maris
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From: Alexis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TMC 850 SCSI Card
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:28:07 +0000
Hello all,
I have a Future Domain TMC 850 ISA SCSI card that I was given, which has
BIOS 950 V8.40 on it, and would like to use on my machine, a Celeron 400
winputer, running mandrake linux 7.2 (magazine coverdisk version),
alongside win98, but I cannot locate any module for it, or at least not
one that is obviously for this card, in fact I can locate hardly any
literature about it at all, or rather I can, but it's in foreign so I
can't read it. Not an urgent situation but I would like to able to use
this piece of hardware. I have another (1502) SCSI card supported by
linux and barely supported by windoze, but I want to put that in my
other machine, an old 486 running RH6.0 Linux.
Any help would be appreciated,
Alexis Corder.
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From: "Chris Brightwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.2?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:22:33 GMT
I'm a somewhat newbie - I've installed several stand-alone and
networked machines for schools with spare parts, and done alot of
after-install configurations, as well as using walk-throughs to setup
BIND8/DNS, IPMasq, IPChains, Apache, and atdot.
But now I'm using Mandrake 7.2 on my own computer, and I have an
evil Linksys LNE100TX NIC, which has "TESTED WITH LINUX" and a pic of Tux
printed right on the box. The website even provides how-to's on kernel
compiling and what-not, but I'm still having problems.
Is it easier to go thru the hassle of fighting the RPM package (or
figuring out how to recompile tulip.c into the kernel) or go buy anoter ~$25
NIC from 3Com or some other highly-compatible distributor?
Thanks.
- Chris Brightwell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: two mice on a linux box
Date: 05 Jan 2001 13:27:06 -0800
john green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "David Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi there, has anyone ever tried running two mice on a linux box at once?
> > I'm not worried about pointers on the screen, just as long as I can pick up
> > the input from the second device in my program.
> > (I've been trying to do this on mac but without any success so far)
>
> Newer versions of Xfree86 have facilities for multiple
> pointers, in addition to the "core" pointer. This is
> principally used in the Gimp to support graphics tablets,
> but perhaps could be used for extra mice too. Search for
> "Xinput" "GTK+" "extended pointers" & good luck!
>
> -j
> --
> J.J.Green, Dept. Applied Math. University of Sheffield, UK
> http://www.arbs.demon.co.uk
Yes, Xfree86 4.0 at least supports this. I use it on a laptop to
allow me to use both the built-in touchpad (which looks like a PS/2
mouse) and an external USB mouse. You add some lines to
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4. It's quite nice, handles plugging and
unplugging the external USB mouse while X is running with no problem.
I don't know if gpm support two mice, but who needs gpm when you have X?
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http://labejb.lks.agilent.com/
(425) 335-2495
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From: Guy Maskall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any experience of external scsi 250MB zip *not* at end of scsi-2 chain?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:38:14 +0000
Having just bought a 250MB zip drive (external scsi), I find in the
electronic manual that it is only a scsi-1 device and should be placed
at the end of any scsi-2 chain (threatening data loss).
I have an adaptec aha1542CP card and HP scanjet 6200c already. The
scanner is self-terminating it *has* to be the last in the chain (no
scsi-out connector).
Does anyone know if the zip drive will sit happily in the middle of this
scsi chain or am I looking at having to get another scsi card for this
one scsi-1, 25 pin sub-D connector zip drive?
I'll try and get hold of the appropriate cables/convertors but in the
meantime any info would be much appreciated.
Regards, Guy.
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From: "Brian Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard disk problems with Red Hat 7.0 install
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:16:27 +0100 (BST)
Reply-To: "Brian Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 20:21:56 +0800, gataway wrote:
>If i have a new Linux RH 7 install does that mean i have kernel sources installed?
No, you need to find the appropriate RPM and install them yourself, the
standard RH7 install does not do so.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Orinoco / PCI
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:45:04 GMT
Roy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone solved the problems associated with use of Lucent (Wavelan)
> Orinoco wireless lan cards in desktop PC's via the PCI adapter?
Yes. It's called "get the lates pcmcia-cs version and the latest
driver too"
> As I recall there was some sort of problem with the PCI card not
> operating correctly with pre-PCI-2.2 motherboards?
Exactly. Now solved.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:45:03 GMT
Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I know that IRQ9 is not used by any hardware. How can I configure modem to
>> use that IRQ?
> look at the setserial command
This does NOT configure the modem! Nor does it configure any hardware
at all. It configures the kernel driver to look at a specific irq and
io-address.
> thats how i configure my modem
No it isn't.
> you will need to find out the io address your modem uses as well as
> which ttyS it uses.
And YOU know it. No, you don't need to know what ttyS "it uses". It
doesn't use any. You can configure any ttyS device to connect to any
irq and io-address you like, hopefully ones on which you have a modem.
> To keep that configuration u need to put the setserial line in your
> bootup script so that its executed each time u start linux.
Try referring him to "the Serial-HOWTO" instead of messing up.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Subject: Re: ALSA
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:46:48 -0600
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:55:59 +0200, Maris Orbidans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I just installed a sound blaster live! in my linux box. I use the Alsa
>> drivers and everything
>> seem to work fine, exept for the recording.
>
>Where can I get Alsa drivers for SB Live ?
>
>
>Maris
>
>
http://www.alsa-project.org/
Wyatt
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From: alex|mc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no sound with ASOUND GOLD
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 23:02:59 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
Do have an ASOUND GOLD (Advance Logic ALS100Plus), OPTI 931 chipset).
Tried every kind of configuration with different fitting sound card types
in REDHAT 7.0.
But linux just can't find it, always some conflicts. what the heck...
thx
alex
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Alex U., Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.2?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:11:14 GMT
Chris Brightwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a somewhat newbie - I've installed several stand-alone and
> networked machines for schools with spare parts, and done alot of
> after-install configurations, as well as using walk-throughs to setup
> BIND8/DNS, IPMasq, IPChains, Apache, and atdot.
> But now I'm using Mandrake 7.2 on my own computer, and I have an
> evil Linksys LNE100TX NIC, which has "TESTED WITH LINUX" and a pic of Tux
> printed right on the box. The website even provides how-to's on kernel
> compiling and what-not, but I'm still having problems.
> Is it easier to go thru the hassle of fighting the RPM package (or
> figuring out how to recompile tulip.c into the kernel) or go buy anoter ~$25
> NIC from 3Com or some other highly-compatible distributor?
A few months ago I was tearing my hair out trying to make a tulip
card work with linux. Finally, I tried a website and found the
developer's website at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
(this is listed in the code.) But it seems to have moved to
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html now
I compiled in accordance with the instructions (the compile command
is found at the bottom of the file) and no problem.
--
Best regards,
Stephen Jenuth
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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From: "Chris Brightwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.2?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:36:02 GMT
> I compiled in accordance with the instructions (the compile command
> is found at the bottom of the file) and no problem.
I did a full-install with Mandrake and bash is still telling me that
GCC is non-existant. *sigh*
I really want to figure this out, but I'm on the verge of just
buying a new card.
- Chris
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From: "Roy B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Orinoco / PCI
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:41:22 GMT
Thanks Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Abit KT6-RAID & linux
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:06:14 GMT
Noodle78,
Please go to the below URL -
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366
and get the HOWTO briefing on the how to patch and setup the HPT366 &
HPT 370 controllers.
Jake
In article <7qg06.239513$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Daniel Chuen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you have to get the patch to the kernel in order to use the highpoint
> controller. checkout the www.highpoint-tech.com web site.
>
> You may have to plug your hard drive to ide0 during install until you
have
> the patch kernel compiled.
>
> Daniel
> "DjM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:r99Z5.59802$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Dude,
> >
> > What did you do to get Linux installed on your ABit? I have 6 ABit
> machines
> > to install Linux on and can't get through the installation. I
suspect
> that
> > the HPT366 controller requires some special attention (as it usually
> does).
> > Did you have to pass the kernel a directive or two?
> >
> > FYI: I'll also be setting up on a few HPT370's, too.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > DjM
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:90lfs0$5jj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm having a bit of a problem here.
> > > My system configuration:
> > > - ABIT KT7 RAID
> > > - 1 IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30 GB harddrive connected
> > > to the HPT controller, this is the bootdisk.
> > > - 2 cdroms connected to IDE1
> > > - Sklackware 7.1 with kernel 2.4.0-test11
> > > The system boots up until it has detected the
> > > cdrom on "hda" and then it hangs, the disk LED
> > > stays on.
> > > Weird this is that when i boot a 2.2.16 kernel
> > > with the hpt370 patch, everything works fine.
> > >
> > > anyone got an idea?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > > Before you buy.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Grecord alternative?
Date: 05 Jan 2001 23:37:17 +0100
Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know of a sound recording app that will also show the line-in
> recording levels? Without that, I don't see how I can adjust the levels for
> recording from line-in.
gramofile comes to mind. Text-console tool but has recording level
display for whatever you mix together with a mixing tool (like smix).
After recording it will even tell you how many samples were actually
too loud, which always seems a little bit late to me.
At some time it was at:
http://cardit.et.tudelft.nl/~card06
I don't know if this is still valid -- try search engines if not.
K.-H.
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E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: changing irq
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:35:03 -0500
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Is it possible to change the irq number of a device under linux?
My modem and my onboard video card share "pin A routed to irq 10"
according to the output of the lspci -vv command. The result of this
conflict is my real problem: my modem is always busy when wvdial or kppp
tries to access it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Chris
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From: quagly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot from PCI /dev/hde
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 00:49:45 GMT
I would like to boot from my new drive,
quantum fireball \
Promise UDMA 66 \
Kernel 2.4.0-test12
Lilo 21.4.4-10
I belive my bios may allow this, since there is an option to boot from
off board controllers.
I cannot get lilo to start. At first I only got "LI" at boot. then
hang.
Then I added
disk=/dev/hde
bios = 0x80
to lilo
Now I get "LIL-" then hang.
I can't get to a lilo prompt. I tried adding
append="ide2=0x10c0,0x10016" but I don't think lilo is getting that far.
I am testing to see if I can boot before I migrate my linux system to
the new drive.
Here is my lilo.conf as it stand. I have tried many variations.
===========
disk=/dev/hde
bios = 0x80
boot=/dev/hde
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
compact
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/bzImage2.4.0
label=linux
append="ide2=0x10c0,0x10016"
root=/dev/hda11
read-only
other=/dev/hda
============
Other than booting the drive is fine.
Thanks,
quagly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: HELP! module st.o in rescue mode
Date: 6 Jan 2001 00:58:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:17:42 -0600, Dordt College Management staggered
into the Black Sun and said:
>I am attempting to restore a RedHat 6.2 system from backup tape in the
>rescue environment that ships on the 6.2 CD. My problem is that kernel
>module st.o is not present in the rescue environment.
>I located a copy of the st.o file from another linux system, but when I
>attempted an insmod it gave me an error something like:
>" module st.o was compiled for kernel 2.2.16-3.
> It cannot be loaded into kernel 2.2.14BOOT0"
>Can anyone tell me how I can gain access to my scsi tape drive in rescue
>mode? This is critical, and time is ticking away...
A rescue system without *tape support*? WTF were they thinking?
Anyway, if you have a 2.2.14 kernel around, use the st.o from that.
("uname -a" to see the kernel version# ) Or try Tom's RootBoot,
http://www.toms.net/rb/ , which definitely has SCSI tape support.
However, it only has support for a couple of the most common SCSI cards.
HTH....
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