Linux-Hardware Digest #162, Volume #14 Thu, 11 Jan 01 17:13:07 EST
Contents:
Linux on HP Pavilion 8670C ("Kent R. Frazier")
Help with the Promise Ultra100 Controller ("Ethan King")
Re: kernel question (Franz Simlinger)
Looking for BIOS (Jan Mannekens)
USR 2977 & 2976 - Comments Please ("PC Wizard")
Your Experiences with StoreAnywhere.COM (Kevin)
Strange alpha clock issue (Cameron Mulliner)
Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use? (Franz Simlinger)
Re: Module compile RH7 (Linux User)
Re: Looking for BIOS (John Peach)
Re: Looking for BIOS (Jan Mannekens)
PPP defaultroute/DNS problem ("Matt Long")
Re: Looking for BIOS (John Peach)
/dev/sequencer (Youngert)
Linksys Ethernet Card (WB3KUM/9)
Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use?
Re: Q: Multihead on 2 x Voodoo3 cards ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
2.4 and 3com 3c59x driver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Please help (Rod Roark)
Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linksys Ethernet Card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Strange alpha clock issue (Marble Head)
Re: Linksys Ethernet Card ("Matt Long")
Re: Looking for BIOS ("Guennadi V. Liakhovetski")
Re: Help with the Promise Ultra100 Controller (Gordon Pritchard)
Help !!! Drivers for USR winmodem (56.6k) and Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Value
("Micha")
Re: Linksys Ethernet Card (Lac Hao Viet)
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From: "Kent R. Frazier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux on HP Pavilion 8670C
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:25:21 -0600
Has anyone installed Linux on an HP Pavilion 8670C Desktop machine?
My Linux box has died, and I would like to make my Windows machine a
dual-boot until I can afford to replace / rebuild my Linux box.
I'm looking for a fairly easy install, as I currently don't have the time to
trouble shoot hardware right now.
Thanks,
Kent
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From: "Ethan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with the Promise Ultra100 Controller
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 02:29:47 -0600
I am trying to install Red Hat 7.0 from a CD onto a harddrive that uses the
Promise Ultra100 PCI Controller Card. I have tried the methods that this
newsgroup and others have suggested but I am running into a problem.
As the installer is loading I get the message.
ide2 ports already in use, skipping probe.
My question is how do I figure out what is using the ide2 ports that my
harddrive should use and then how do I free up these ports.
I have limited Linux experience so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ethan
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From: Franz Simlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel question
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:35:50 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I upgraded my RH7.0 kernel to 2.4.0 I am able to boot my system with
> new kernel. I followed following procedure:
>
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
======
missing:
make modules
make modules_install
======
> cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz.new
>
> and copy the new image to /etc/lilo.conf
>
> My problem is that it's not able to load some of the modules. What is
> the procudure for loading the modules during kernel compilation or
> after that?
>
> Thanks........
>
> Dale Khehra
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
Modules are installed in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/
This allows for having different versions of the kernel (including
the corresponding modules!) available.
So, if you install a new version of the kernel, you also have to
build the corresponding modules ...
Franz Simlinger
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From: Jan Mannekens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for BIOS
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:52:09 +0100
Hi all,
I'm reading in all hardware HOWTO's that my Wintech/Edom MP080/MP081 TX
motherboard requires a Bios upgrade in order to get Linux running stable
without crashing at hardware detection. It seems that all links pointing
to the places where I can download this Bios update do not exist
anymore:
> o The Edom MP080 motherboard needs a BIOS flash for Linux to work.
> Without the BIOS flash Linux will reboot during the hardware scan.
> for the BIOS flash check <http://www.edom.com/tech/tech.htm> and
> <http://www.edom.com/download>
Is there someone who can provide me the necessary BIOS upgrade for this
old (? - 1997) motherboard? Or point me to an alternative archive where
I might find it?
Thanks in advance,
Jan
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Reply-To: "PC Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "PC Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR 2977 & 2976 - Comments Please
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:58:06 -0700
I need an internal 56k pci full hardware modem for Linux and Windows. I've
have USR 2977 & 2976 recommended to me. Anyone have experiences with these
(good and bad)?
Thanks,
Keith
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Your Experiences with StoreAnywhere.COM
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:05:01 GMT
Anyone have anything to say about their purchases from
StoreAnywhere.COM? Prices look pretty good. But, I wonder
about quality, delivery, after sales support, and all that.
Comments?
--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:09:07 +0000
From: Cameron Mulliner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Strange alpha clock issue
For weeks now I've been scouring the net and reading the man pages
regarding setting the hardware clock of my alpha but with little
success. I have a 600mhz LX164 alpha running Suse 6.4 and booting from
the SRM console. I've tried using the hwclock and clock commands but
although I can set the time and year successfully when I reboot the time
and date displayed by the SRM console is totally wrong. The alpha used
to use the ALPHA BIOS I don't have to go back to using that to change
the hardware clock do I?
Any ideas or hints would be great
rgds
Cameron
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From: Franz Simlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:08:40 +0100
bjrosen wrote:
>
> I've just built a 2.4 kernel, it recognizes my 3Com card but not my
> DLink 530TX ethernet card. When ran the configurator the 3Com's card's
> driver was obvious, but the Dlink's driver isn't. What chip does the
> Dlink use?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
do:
cat /proc/pci
Find the Ethernet controller.
It should give you more info on which driver is apropriate.
If this does not produce enough information, see
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/*.
There is lot's of info ...
I use a DLink DE-530?? which has a DEC DC21041 chip. The tulip
driver works for this card as well as the de4X5 driver.
Franz Simlinger
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Module compile RH7
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:58:53 -0800
Hello,
If you could post the last 10 or 15 lines of output from the compiler when
the error occurs and the kernel version you are trying to compile it would
help.
Cheers,
Jim H
Jeff Moore wrote:
> I am compiling modules and kernel with the stock RH7.
>
> I have used this:
>
> make mrproper xconfig dep clean bzImage modules modules_install
>
> The kernel compiles fine but the modules quit after a few minutes with
> error 2.
>
> I have changed the makefile to kgcc from gcc.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Jeff Moore
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Peach)
Subject: Re: Looking for BIOS
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:18:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jan Mannekens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>Hi all,
|>
|>I'm reading in all hardware HOWTO's that my Wintech/Edom MP080/MP081 TX
|>motherboard requires a Bios upgrade in order to get Linux running stable
|>without crashing at hardware detection. It seems that all links pointing
|>to the places where I can download this Bios update do not exist
|>anymore:
|>
|>> o The Edom MP080 motherboard needs a BIOS flash for Linux to work.
|>> Without the BIOS flash Linux will reboot during the hardware scan.
|>
|>> for the BIOS flash check <http://www.edom.com/tech/tech.htm> and
|>> <http://www.edom.com/download>
|>
|>Is there someone who can provide me the necessary BIOS upgrade for this
|>old (? - 1997) motherboard? Or point me to an alternative archive where
|>I might find it?
Wim's BIOS page is always a good starting point......
http://www.ping.be/bios/
|>
|>Thanks in advance,
|>
|>Jan
|>
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From: Jan Mannekens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for BIOS
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:23:28 +0100
Thanks John,
I already checked on Wim's pages and he also mentions the referred pages...
snif.
Regards,
Jan.
John Peach wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jan Mannekens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |>Hi all,
> |>
> |>I'm reading in all hardware HOWTO's that my Wintech/Edom MP080/MP081 TX
> |>motherboard requires a Bios upgrade in order to get Linux running stable
> |>without crashing at hardware detection. It seems that all links pointing
> |>to the places where I can download this Bios update do not exist
> |>anymore:
> |>
> |>> o The Edom MP080 motherboard needs a BIOS flash for Linux to work.
> |>> Without the BIOS flash Linux will reboot during the hardware scan.
> |>
> |>> for the BIOS flash check <http://www.edom.com/tech/tech.htm> and
> |>> <http://www.edom.com/download>
> |>
> |>Is there someone who can provide me the necessary BIOS upgrade for this
> |>old (? - 1997) motherboard? Or point me to an alternative archive where
> |>I might find it?
>
> Wim's BIOS page is always a good starting point......
> http://www.ping.be/bios/
>
> |>
> |>Thanks in advance,
> |>
> |>Jan
> |>
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From: "Matt Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP defaultroute/DNS problem
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:31:53 GMT
Everytime I've set up PPP, I've been able to do it without a problem,
however, I am having a problem now. I am able to dial successfully, however,
domain nam resolution seems to be hanging. I think that it may be related to
an error message I get in /var/log/messages. Has anyone ever seen this error
pop up right after the IP address is assigned by the ISP. (From
/var/log/messages ):
pppd: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [192.168.0.1]
I have specified the defaultroute directive in my options file. When I
remove it, the above line disappears, but I still cannot get the domain
names to resolve. Any help would be appreciated.
-Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Peach)
Subject: Re: Looking for BIOS
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:38:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jan Mannekens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>Thanks John,
|>
|>I already checked on Wim's pages and he also mentions the referred pages...
|>snif.
OK - try:
http://www.windrivers.com/?e/edom_win_technologies/
|>
|>
|>Regards,
|>
|>Jan.
|>
|>John Peach wrote:
|>
|>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
|>> Jan Mannekens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>> |>Hi all,
|>> |>
|>> |>I'm reading in all hardware HOWTO's that my Wintech/Edom MP080/MP081 TX
|>> |>motherboard requires a Bios upgrade in order to get Linux running stable
|>> |>without crashing at hardware detection. It seems that all links pointing
|>> |>to the places where I can download this Bios update do not exist
|>> |>anymore:
|>> |>
|>> |>> o The Edom MP080 motherboard needs a BIOS flash for Linux to work.
|>> |>> Without the BIOS flash Linux will reboot during the hardware scan.
|>> |>
|>> |>> for the BIOS flash check <http://www.edom.com/tech/tech.htm> and
|>> |>> <http://www.edom.com/download>
|>> |>
|>> |>Is there someone who can provide me the necessary BIOS upgrade for this
|>> |>old (? - 1997) motherboard? Or point me to an alternative archive where
|>> |>I might find it?
|>>
|>> Wim's BIOS page is always a good starting point......
|>> http://www.ping.be/bios/
|>>
|>> |>
|>> |>Thanks in advance,
|>> |>
|>> |>Jan
|>> |>
|>
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From: Youngert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev/sequencer
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:36:49 GMT
Hi,
My Athlon 500MHz system on an Asus K7M mobo running a SuSE-7.0 Linux distro
is complaining "write /dev/sequencer failed" when trying to use Rosegarden.
The following error is printed out on the console when I tried to play
some midi songs:
Rosegarden OSS Mapper: write /dev/sequencer failed: Input/output error
and the /var/log/messages file shows:
Jan 11 15:32:31 kernel: Sequencer Error: Unable to open Midi #0
The /dev/sequencer and /dev/mid are r/w for all as shown here:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 1 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/sequencer
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 8 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/sequencer2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 13 15:02 /dev/midi -> midi0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 0 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/midi0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 2 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/midi00
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 18 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/midi01
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 34 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/midi02
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 50 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/midi03
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 1 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/midi1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 2 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/midi2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 3 Jul 29 08:48 /dev/midi3
What else could go wrong? Any help will certainly be appreciated. TIA.
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From: WB3KUM/9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Linksys Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:59:15 GMT
I have Red Hat V7.0 Lynix installed on at Intel Pentium machine. The
installation does not recognize my Ethernet card. As a post Red Hat
installation exercise, I am unable to install a Linksys 10/100 Network
card, Model NC 100, PCI interface.
Has anyone been successful installing this card? If so, please explain
the procedure.
Many Thanks In Advance!
Please reply here or to this e-mail address
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:05:02 GMT
Franz Simlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bjrosen wrote:
>>
>> I've just built a 2.4 kernel, it recognizes my 3Com card but not my
>> DLink 530TX ethernet card. When ran the configurator the 3Com's card's
>> driver was obvious, but the Dlink's driver isn't. What chip does the
>> Dlink use?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com
>> http://www.deja.com/
> do:
> cat /proc/pci
> Find the Ethernet controller.
> It should give you more info on which driver is apropriate.
> If this does not produce enough information, see
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/*.
> There is lot's of info ...
> I use a DLink DE-530?? which has a DEC DC21041 chip. The tulip
> driver works for this card as well as the de4X5 driver.
The 530TX uses the Via-Rhine chip. It sounds like you have the newer 530+.
Nick
--
=============================
Florida? Is that near the
Bermuda triangle?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: 3dfx.glide.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.dev.x11
Subject: Re: Q: Multihead on 2 x Voodoo3 cards
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:55:33 GMT
I have a similar configuration, and I had the same
problem you did. There are two things to
consider:
1) Which card is as the primary VGA controller?
This is set in BIOS. I have a SuperMicro board
and have to use the PCI card as the primary.
2) Which card is listed first in XF86Config?
I need to list the AGP card first. Here is the
snippet from my XF86Config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "voodoo3agp"
Driver "tdfx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
VideoRAM 16384
Option "SWCursor"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "voodoo3pci"
Driver "tdfx"
BusID "PCI:0:20:0"
VideoRAM 16384
Option "SWCursor"
EndSection
-Tony
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi I am running SuSE Linux 7.0 on a Pentium 3. I
have two graphics cards
> - both Voodoo3's, one AGP and one PCI. I have
X-Windows running very
> nicely on the AGP card (using SaX2 XFree 4), but
when I add the second
> card, both cards initialise but the monitors
stay black and I am forced
> to hard reboot.
>
> Can anyone give me some guidance?
>
> Reply by e-mail appreciated
>
> Thanks
> tigs
> Sydney
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2.4 and 3com 3c59x driver
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:00:11 GMT
I have a PII with 2 network cards. The first one
works, which is on my local lan. The second one
is a 3com 3c900 10Mb that was provided by road
runner. The card works under 2.2.12 with the
3c90x driver provided by 3com and is set up to
use dhcp. I know that the 3c59x driver provided
with the 2.4.0 distribution is supposed to work,
but I have been unable to get it to function. If
anyone has any experience with this, please help.
I have in modules.conf:
alias eth1 3c59x
Thank you,
JJ
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:33:14 -0800
Cubic Meter wrote:
> ...
> Redhat comes with a utility called SNDCONFIG that should make it easy
> to set up your sound card. You have to tell it the IRQ, DMA and
> Address settings, but it is a whole lot easier than installing the
> ALSA drivers from a command line.
Well, OSSFree is great except when it doesn't work, which in my
experience setting up systems with different kinds of sound cards has
been disappointingly often.
ALSA is excellent. It's not hard to install, but you have to take your
time and read the docs.
-- Rod
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:26:58 GMT
I'm using a DE-530TX and it autodetected it.
In article <93jm8r$117j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Len Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> there are two possible answers to your question.
>
> The D-Link DFE-530TX uses the via-rhine driver (I have this card and
it
> works well).
> The DE-530TX board uses the Tulip driver. You'll need to check the box
to
> find out
> which one you have. One of the things that makes hardware under Linux
so
> exciting (not)
> is that hardware manufacturers have a nasty tendency to call very
different
> products
> very similar names.
>
> Both drivers are part of the standard kernel distribution. If you
build
> them, they should
> autodetect the card.
>
> The information about ethernet cards comes from Donald Becker's site:
> http://www.scyld.com/network/. Check this for more details.
>
> Good luck,
> Len
>
> "bjrosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:93jef9$8k1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've just built a 2.4 kernel, it recognizes my 3Com card but not my
> > DLink 530TX ethernet card. When ran the configurator the 3Com's
card's
> > driver was obvious, but the Dlink's driver isn't. What chip does the
> > Dlink use?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Josh
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com
> > http://www.deja.com/
>
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linksys Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:35:00 GMT
I personally have had nothing but trouble with Linksys devices, however
they have gotten high ratings - go figure.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
WB3KUM/9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Red Hat V7.0 Lynix installed on at Intel Pentium machine. The
> installation does not recognize my Ethernet card. As a post Red Hat
> installation exercise, I am unable to install a Linksys 10/100 Network
> card, Model NC 100, PCI interface.
>
> Has anyone been successful installing this card? If so, please
explain
> the procedure.
>
> Many Thanks In Advance!
>
> Please reply here or to this e-mail address
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marble Head)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Strange alpha clock issue
Date: 11 Jan 2001 21:36:16 GMT
Cameron Mulliner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <3A5E12E3.B36F6462
@camrix.com>:
>For weeks now I've been scouring the net and reading the man pages
>regarding setting the hardware clock of my alpha but with little
>success. I have a 600mhz LX164 alpha running Suse 6.4 and booting from
>the SRM console. I've tried using the hwclock and clock commands but
>although I can set the time and year successfully when I reboot the time
>and date displayed by the SRM console is totally wrong. The alpha used
>to use the ALPHA BIOS I don't have to go back to using that to change
>the hardware clock do I?
>Any ideas or hints would be great
...
date
...
not much more need be said.
Perhaps...
man date
Sorry you went to so much trouble for something so easy.
Now just to be sure I haven't jumped the gun...
If you set the time using date, and the time gets scrambled when you
reboot, you have some other problem. You are setting the hardware clock
correctly.
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From: "Matt Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Linksys Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:47:23 GMT
You may want to try determining the IO address and IRQ from dmesg (type:
'dmesg' at the command line and grep for irq and io addresses). You can then
just specify those in linuxconf under your network adapter settings. Then
you don't have to specify a module to use (e.g. 3c509, tulip, etc..).
Also, make sure that you've set your system to a non-pnp OS in the bios.
I know it's not specific to your NIC, but this has worked for me in the past
with cards that weren't detected during install.
-Matt
"WB3KUM/9" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have Red Hat V7.0 Lynix installed on at Intel Pentium machine. The
> installation does not recognize my Ethernet card. As a post Red Hat
> installation exercise, I am unable to install a Linksys 10/100 Network
> card, Model NC 100, PCI interface.
>
> Has anyone been successful installing this card? If so, please explain
> the procedure.
>
>
> Many Thanks In Advance!
>
> Please reply here or to this e-mail address
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "Guennadi V. Liakhovetski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for BIOS
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:31:37 +0000
Try http://www.ping.be/bios/
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jan Mannekens wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm reading in all hardware HOWTO's that my Wintech/Edom MP080/MP081 TX
> motherboard requires a Bios upgrade in order to get Linux running stable
> without crashing at hardware detection. It seems that all links pointing
> to the places where I can download this Bios update do not exist
> anymore:
>
> > o The Edom MP080 motherboard needs a BIOS flash for Linux to work.
> > Without the BIOS flash Linux will reboot during the hardware scan.
>
> > for the BIOS flash check <http://www.edom.com/tech/tech.htm> and
> > <http://www.edom.com/download>
>
> Is there someone who can provide me the necessary BIOS upgrade for this
> old (? - 1997) motherboard? Or point me to an alternative archive where
> I might find it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jan
>
>
___
Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Help with the Promise Ultra100 Controller
Reply-To: Gordon Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Gordon Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Jan 2001 13:53:55 -0800
>>>>> Ethan King writes:
Ethan> I am trying to install Red Hat 7.0 from a CD onto a
Ethan> harddrive that uses the Promise Ultra100 PCI
Ethan> Controller Card. I have tried the methods that this
Ethan> newsgroup and others have suggested but I am running
Ethan> into a problem.
I have a Promise Ultra100 too. The only solution I've found
is to use SuSE 7.0 distribution. If you go to their site,
download the boot-floppy images. This way, you only download
1.44MB, and you can see if the kernel will auto-detect and at
least begin the installation. After successfully seeing that
my system was detected correctly, I aborted 'til I could get the
Eval-CD image.
Here are the floppy disk images:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.0/disks/
Oddly, although they have an eide image, I found that it
wouldn't work with the Ultra100; I had to use the yast2 image.
You will need to look up a level or two, in dosutils, to obtain
the DOS executable "rawrite"; this special tool will copy a
floppy image to a DOS-formatted floppy (I tried an unformatted
floppy, but that doesn't work with rawrite!).
That should at least let you know that there _is_ hope,
without investing an atrocious amount of time. I bet you'll meet
with success, in <30 minutes!
Here is the single-CD image, which I've only just finished
downloading and burning today:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/evaluation-7.0/
I've booted off the floppy, and checked that indeed this CD
is "good" - the installer will change from the text-like YAST to
the graphical/GUI YAST2. So, I can't comment any further about
a "real" installation.
HTH,
-Gord
--
Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng.
VA7GP
White Rock, B.C. Canada
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From: "Micha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help !!! Drivers for USR winmodem (56.6k) and Creative Sound Blaster AWE64
Value
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:00:32 +0200
Hi all
Help !!!!!!
I'm a new comer in Linux (Actually, I've installed it today) and i'm
searching drivers for
1. My modem. It's a USR winmodem (56.6K).
2. My Sound Blaster. Creative AWE64 Value.
I hope that someone can help me.
10x
Micha
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From: Lac Hao Viet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linksys Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:53:23 GMT
Yes! I do. I use all this kind of NIC for my network :). It uses tulip
driver.
Compile tulip module
in /etc/modules.conf put:
alias ethX tulip # where X is the ethernet interface device number
and .. that's it :)
In article <93l8u3$rsp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I personally have had nothing but trouble with Linksys devices,
however
> they have gotten high ratings - go figure.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> WB3KUM/9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have Red Hat V7.0 Lynix installed on at Intel Pentium machine.
The
> > installation does not recognize my Ethernet card. As a post Red Hat
> > installation exercise, I am unable to install a Linksys 10/100
Network
> > card, Model NC 100, PCI interface.
> >
> > Has anyone been successful installing this card? If so, please
> explain
> > the procedure.
> >
> > Many Thanks In Advance!
> >
> > Please reply here or to this e-mail address
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
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