Linux-Hardware Digest #275, Volume #14 Tue, 30 Jan 01 16:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Correl Draw files (Bill Lee)
Re: Unwanted Power Saving Under 2.4.0 (Jim Newton)
Re: ATI Radeon Driver (Linux Newbie)?? (Jim Newton)
Re: Adaptec 2100s - Nightmare (Giulio Orsero)
Driver TA+USB?? ("Sjoerd Venema")
Re: Video Card Advice (Shannon Hill)
Re: Video Card Advice ("Keith Wheeler")
ide-tape problem (was solved: Promise IDE on Dell PowerEdge 1400) (Eric R. Jorgensen)
Re: A new driver for Netgear fa311 netcard working on RedHat Linux 7 + kernel 2.4
("Yan Deng")
Re: SuSE 7.0 and 2 NIC's ("Don Kupsch")
Re: Redhat 7.0 and SCSI, xinetd, and apm shutdown (Paul Fox)
Re: ATAPI ZIP-100 PECULARITIES? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: USB mouse, Kernel 2.4.0 and XFree86 4.0.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
video *capture* card advice? (Mike Edwards)
Re: SuSE 7.0 and 2 NIC's ("Keith Wheeler")
Re: Cheap PCI Hardware Modem (Andrew Schulman)
Re: suitable backup hardware? (Florian v. Savigny)
Re: video *capture* card advice? (Quivis)
Re: Cheap PCI Hardware Modem (Josh Stern)
Re: CD Writer for Linux
Re: suitable backup hardware?
Re: Problems with CDRDAO (Thomas Zajic)
Re: suitable backup hardware?
Re: WinTV PCI-FM
Major Problem ("Dan Neef")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Lee)
Subject: Re: Correl Draw files
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:20:36 GMT
On Tue,30Jan2001 16:04:23 +0000, David Hassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bill Lee wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of an application that will read/process Correl Draw
> > files on a Linux system?
>
> Errr... how about CorelDraw? ;-)
>
> http://linux.corel.com/products/draw/index.htm
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave. :-)
>
> P.S. Why did you automatically assume that it wasn't available for
> Linux? Hmm? :-)
>
Errr.... because that's how I've seen it referenced. (Lot's of Google
hits, etc...)
Thanks for the pointer.
Regards,
Bill
P.S. Why did you automatically assume that I automatically assumed it
wasn't available for Linux? :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Newton)
Subject: Re: Unwanted Power Saving Under 2.4.0
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:41:56 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:51:45 -0700, Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The mainboard has both APM and ACPI onboard and I tried a
>> kernel with both compiled in. APM appears ok but the ACPI
>> table signatures were bad so it wasn't used. The problem
>> persisted with APM so I took it out.
>>
>> The problem I now descibe is with a kernel with NO power
>> saving features compiled in or loaded as modules! I
>> therefore wonder if this is desired behaviour or not.
>
> Try disabling the power saving in the BIOS.
>
Thanks for that, I'll try that though why it didn't occur to
me before ...
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Newton)
Subject: Re: ATI Radeon Driver (Linux Newbie)??
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:46:47 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:35:03 GMT, Joseph Dadamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i need some help. i know that the 4.0x version of Xfree86 has support for
>this video card, but i dont know how to download it here in windows and
>install it in Red Hat... could anyone help me with that?
>
>
>
I take it you are dual booting Windows and Linux.
You can configure linux to mount the windows partitiion of
your harddrive by editing /etc/fstab. In there already
you'll see a number of entries. There's probably a graphical
tool for this. Also consult man fstab about the filesystem.
(It's probably fat or vfat?). I believe the windows partition
is usually the first on the drive which helps in identifying
which one it is.
Maybe some others here can help some more a I don't have a
dual boot myself.
Cheers,
Jim
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From: Giulio Orsero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2100s - Nightmare
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:51:51 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
>I'm working with the 2100s on a RH6.2 box also,
>using 2.2.18 kernel with patches from the sources
>4:28:33 trixie kernel: scsi : aborting command due
>to timeout : pid 77338, scsi2
>l 1, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 71 fd ff 00 00
>80 00
>4:31:37 trixie kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for
>host 2 channel 1.
We have some 2100S configured in RAID1 on linux rh61 systems running
with rh70 kernel + dpt-i2o-2.2.16_1.14.diff.
Never tried installing from rh media.
No problems so far.
Just to be safe, we use
--- drivers/scsi/sd.c.orig Fri Nov 24 17:39:30 2000
+++ drivers/scsi/sd.c Fri Nov 24 17:39:53 2000
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
* Time out in seconds for disks and Magneto-opticals (which are
slower).
*/
-#define SD_TIMEOUT (30 * HZ)
+#define SD_TIMEOUT (120 * HZ)
#define SD_MOD_TIMEOUT (75 * HZ)
#define CLUSTERABLE_DEVICE(SC) (SC->host->use_clustering && \
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From: "Sjoerd Venema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver TA+USB??
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:13:24 +0100
Hi,
I have a Stollmann TA+USB isdn adaptor. Is their a Linux driver available
somewhere??
Thnx, Sjoerd
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:26:04 -0500
From: Shannon Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Card Advice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am planning on building a Linux machine using
> the Redhat 7 distribution. My question is: What
> video card would you recommend, for around $90 to
> $100? I do a little of everything, my main
> concerns with a video card are compatibility,
> stability and resolution/refresh rate. (BSD
> compatibility would be nice too) I am not a big
> gamer so performance isn't a big deal, but I run
> my desktop at least at 1280 by 1040, so
> resolution may be an issue. I was thinking about
> the Matrox 400, but it seems to be rather pricey,
> for what appears to be an older card.
>
> So far this is what I have planned:
> Redhat Linux 7.0
> ASUS A7Pro No Audio
> AMD T-Bird 1.0GHz
> 128MB PC133 RAM
> IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB HD
> ???Video Card???
> SB Live Value
> Toshiba 48x IDE CDRom
> Linksys NIC
>
> What do you think? Is this going to work?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
For good value, I like the Diamond Viper II,
works well in both win98 and linux.
--
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Tenor Networks, Inc.
100 Nagog Park
Acton, MA 01720
Ph: 978-206-5107 Fx: 978-264-0671
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Theatre is Life; Film is Art; Television is Furniture.
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From: "Keith Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Card Advice
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:40:44 -0700
Tim,
I'm using the 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP, which is significantly more than your
price range allows. I have had no problems with it whatsoever. But perhaps
you could get the 3dfx Voodoo3 card as it should fit into your range. You
didn't say whether you preferred PCI or AGP. The AGP card will be
significantly faster.
Check http://www.spartantech.com/ for good prices on 3dfx video cards.
Good Luck,
KW
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:956opb$7lh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am planning on building a Linux machine using
> the Redhat 7 distribution. My question is: What
> video card would you recommend, for around $90 to
> $100? I do a little of everything, my main
> concerns with a video card are compatibility,
> stability and resolution/refresh rate. (BSD
> compatibility would be nice too) I am not a big
> gamer so performance isn't a big deal, but I run
> my desktop at least at 1280 by 1040, so
> resolution may be an issue. I was thinking about
> the Matrox 400, but it seems to be rather pricey,
> for what appears to be an older card.
>
> So far this is what I have planned:
> Redhat Linux 7.0
> ASUS A7Pro No Audio
> AMD T-Bird 1.0GHz
> 128MB PC133 RAM
> IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB HD
> ???Video Card???
> SB Live Value
> Toshiba 48x IDE CDRom
> Linksys NIC
>
> What do you think? Is this going to work?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric R. Jorgensen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ide-tape problem (was solved: Promise IDE on Dell PowerEdge 1400)
Date: 30 Jan 2001 18:43:28 GMT
Hi all,
Thanks to everyone who responded. To get the promise card working, I
downloaded the 2.2.18 kernel along with Hedrick's
ide.2.2.18.1221.patch.gz file. It turns out that even though I was
getting the "Ultra100 BIOS not installed" during boot, Linux would
still find the controller and configure it. Subsequent reboots showed
that the promise controller found the devices and displayed them and
configured the BIOS.
Next problem. :-)
I have an Travan NS20 IDE tape drive that I can't seem to get going.
I'm running a heavily updated RH6.2 system with a 2.2.18 and Hedrick's
1221 patch for it. When I do an insmod ide-tape, I get a divide
error:
ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0: TECMAR TRAVAN NS20 rev A245
divide error: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<d0089848>]
EFLAGS: 00010206
eax: 01312d00 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 01312d00 edx: 00000000
esi: c02756b8 edi: ccd52000 ebp: ccd5336c esp: ccd81ef0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process modprobe (pid: 796, process nr: 41, stackpage=ccd81000)
Stack: ccd52000 d008c1c0 cfcfa6e0 c022d8dc 00000000 0003d090 cffd4c06 ccd52000
000081c0 d0089c0f c02756b8 ccd52000 00000000 d0083000 00000000 d0083051
00000000 00000000 00000001 d0089c9d c011868b ccd80000 080836f8 08074148
Call Trace: [<d008c1c0>] [<d0089c0f>] [<d0083000>] [<d0083051>] [<d0089c9d>] [<c
011868b>] [<d008bfc4>]
[<d008c210>] [<d007c000>] [<d0083048>] [<c0109394>] [<c01e002b>]
Code: f7 7c 24 18 89 c3 89 9f b4 13 00 00 89 9f b8 13 00 00 89 d8
- The version of the ide-tape module that I'm using is ide-tape version 1.16f
- This happens regardless if I have the tape drive on the promise
controller or the on-board IDE controller
- the drive shows up on boot: "hdb: TRAVAN NS20, ATAPI TAPE drive"
- if I cat /proc/modules, it looks like "ide-tape 37448 (initializing)"
Can anyone provide me with some insight on how to track this error
down?
Thanks!
Eric
--
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University of Colorado, Boulder http://spot.colorado.edu/~jorgy
"A lot of people may not know this, but I'm pretty famous." -- Sam on Cheers
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From: "Yan Deng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A new driver for Netgear fa311 netcard working on RedHat Linux 7 + kernel
2.4
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:02:13 -0800
Hi Keith,
I do not have the FA312 netcard and did not test my new driver with FA312.
I know FA311 is very different from FA310, but I do not know if FA312
is "similiar" to FA311.
If you still want to try to test my new driver with your FA312, please tell
me( then I will send it to you )
Yan Deng
Keith Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:956pa2$10gi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Yan,
>
> I assume the answer to this is "yes", but would this also work with the
> FA-312? I'll test it if you think it will work with FA-312's. That's what
I
> have.
>
> Thanks,
> KW
>
>
>
> Yan Deng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I bought a Netgear netcard fa311 and installed it and its dirver on my
> > RedHat Linux6.0. It worked well.
> >
> > After I upgraded RedHat Linux6.0 to RedHat 7.0 ( whose kernel
> > is 2.2.16-22 ), it did not work. Then I upgraded the linux kernel
> > from 2.2.16-22 to 2.4 , and modified the source file fa311.c that
> > Netgear company provides with the netcard and made a new driver
> > for the fa311 netcard working on RedHat Linux 7.0+ kernel 2.4.
> >
> > Does someone who needs a new driver for fa311 want to try to
> > use it(free)?
> >
> > If you have questions, please feel free to ask me.
> >
> > Yan Deng
> >
>
>
>
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From: "Don Kupsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0 and 2 NIC's
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:05:56 -0600
THnaks all it was an IRQ problem which I went into the BiOS and reset to
make them different these were 2 PCI cards. now I just need to figure out
ROUTING in general and FIREWALL
Wish me luck!!
"Chris Elvidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Kilian A. Foth" wrote:
> >
> > Don Kupsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have SuSE 7.0 and am having trouble getting it to reconizze 2 NIC's
and
> > > use them both . I want to turn this box into a firewall . If I
look at
> > > the IRQ's they are using it seems that both network cards are on IRQ 9
.
> > > Is this my problem as to why i can not get both to work at the same
time??
> >
> > It almost certainly is. Reprogram one of the cards to use a different
> > IRQ. (Depending on your type of card, this can involve messing with
> > the BIOS, fiddling with jumpers, running DOS-only setup programs...
> > but sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.)
> >
> > --
> > Disclaimer: everything I told you might be wrong.
>
> Do you tell it you've got 2 NICs? Try ifconfig eth0 ....... and ifconfig
> eth1 ..........
> with alias eth0 ethernetcard1 and alias eth1 ethernetcard2 in
> /etc/modules.conf
>
> I have 2 tlans on IRQ11 (also aha7xxx and es1371); works perfectly!
> Chris
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From: Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 and SCSI, xinetd, and apm shutdown
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:29:18 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Martin Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Also, in the old days I could disable services by hand by editing
: inetd.conf, but the obvious root in rh7.0 is via linuxconf which doesn't
: actually seem to change anything, is it my incorrect use of it or is
: linuxconf very flaky?
edit the files under xinetd.d -- change from "disable = no" to "disable = yes".
then "/etc/init.d/xinetd reload" .
paul
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paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATAPI ZIP-100 PECULARITIES?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:16:48 +0100
andy, Warkentin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Some Pecularities of the ATAPI Zip Drive...
>
> 1)Unlike the PPA or the SCSI model, when you do fdsik on a disk inside the atapi drv,
> and type in 'p', id prints out the part. table + it says that logical bad physical
>start/end
> do __not__ correspond... This behavior is indifferent which partitions you have...
> Now, if you put the same disk into a PPA drive, and do the fdisk... everything is
>fine...
> Iomega sure messed this one up...
>
You might have a look at
http://www.win.tue.nl/%7Eaeb/linux/zip/zip-1.html
Maybe the undocumented jumper described there causes that.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: USB mouse, Kernel 2.4.0 and XFree86 4.0.1
Date: 30 Jan 2001 11:39:00 -0800
Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm running Mandrake 7.2, kernel 2.4.0, and XFree86 4.0.1. I have a
> > Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop, and have a USB mouse attached. I'm able
> > to use both the built-in touchpad and the USB mouse. The USB mouse
> > uses /dev/input/mice, at least on my machine. I assume you know to
> > use /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, not /etc/X11/XF86Config, right? But you
> > must have had it right for it to work with kernel 2.2.x.
> >
> > I guess I can't help you, other than to say that it CAN work, it does
> > for me, so keep trying. Maybe you're missing some kernel module?
>
> I'm pretty sure I have the right kernel config. Yes I'm using
> XF86Config-4. Tell me, what are the permisions on /dev/input/mice on your
> box?
>
> At least I know I'm on the right track.
>
> Thanks
I checked last night, but didn't write it down so I'm working from
memory, but I think the file was:
crw-rw---- root sys 13 63 /dev/input/mice
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From: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: video *capture* card advice?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:03:34 GMT
I have never used a video capture card on any platform, but since we
recently purchased a camcorder, I thought it might be interesting to
hook it up to my Linux box. For that , I will need a video capture
card. Right, then on to my questions:
Do some video cards double as capture cards?
What do you guys recommend for use with Linux?
I should add that, while I am willing to spend as much as US$200, I'd
like to keep it under $150.
Thanks!
Mike
--
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From: "Keith Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0 and 2 NIC's
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:12:15 -0700
Don,
Depends on whether this is on PCI or ISA bus. On ISA bus, you bet big
problem. On PCI should (note, should) be no problem. My personal experience
is this tends to be NIC specific. Intel NIC's, as an example, have no
problem running with shared interrupts.
If you're concerned on a PCI bus just go into the BIOS setup and exclude IRQ
9 from the PCI bus. Then force the system to reallocate PCI resources in
BIOS and exit saving changes.
Good Luck,
KW
Don Kupsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:93ud6.3398$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have SuSE 7.0 and am having trouble getting it to reconizze 2 NIC's and
> use them both . I want to turn this box into a firewall . If I look
at
> the IRQ's they are using it seems that both network cards are on IRQ 9 .
> Is this my problem as to why i can not get both to work at the same time??
> or is there a different problem. I can get one or the other to work at
> any given time and it is fine just not both at the same time. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated!!!!!
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
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From: Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cheap PCI Hardware Modem
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:18:07 GMT
> I know this issue comes up a lot, so I just wanted
> to report that http://www.mwave.com is
> selling these http://www.archtek.com/pcv.html
> for $38 USD and the one I got works great connecting
> to several different sites. The chipset is
> made by 'Topic'.
Thanks for pointing this one out. I'm looking for a replacement for my
current ISA modem, a Smartlink 5634BTS, with a TI chipset. The one
you found is the Smartlink 5634PCV-- wonder if it's the same modem,
configured for PCI? Not sure who "Topic" is.
My ISA modem has worked very well, but alas those ISA slots are getting
harder to find on the newer mobos.
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian v. Savigny)
Subject: Re: suitable backup hardware?
Date: 30 Jan 2001 23:29:20 +0100
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I bought mine several years ago and paid about US$180 for the
> drive. I've seen them on ebay for about US$40 at times lately.
> Media goes for US$20-25 per cartridge, depending on where you buy
> it.
Hey -- thanks! :-)))
Florian von Savigny
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From: Quivis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video *capture* card advice?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:36:17 +0100
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:03:34 GMT, Mike Edwards had this to say...
-> I have never used a video capture card on any platform, but since we
-> recently purchased a camcorder, I thought it might be interesting to
-> hook it up to my Linux box. For that , I will need a video capture
-> card. Right, then on to my questions:
->
-> Do some video cards double as capture cards?
->
-> What do you guys recommend for use with Linux?
->
-> I should add that, while I am willing to spend as much as US$200, I'd
-> like to keep it under $150.
I know that Hauppauge sells a card ("WinTV Pci," inexpensive, very
good quality under Windows, hopefully under Linux, too) that can be
run under Linux. Check out their site:
http://registration.hauppauge.com
/support/Linux/Linux_Support_Start.htm
(beware of line break in URL!)
Home page: www.hauppauge.com
HTH
Quivis.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cheap PCI Hardware Modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Stern)
Date: 30 Jan 2001 20:48:40 GMT
Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I know this issue comes up a lot, so I just wanted
>> to report that http://www.mwave.com is
>> selling these http://www.archtek.com/pcv.html
>> for $38 USD and the one I got works great connecting
>> to several different sites. The chipset is
>> made by 'Topic'.
>
>Thanks for pointing this one out. I'm looking for a replacement for my
>current ISA modem, a Smartlink 5634BTS, with a TI chipset. The one
>you found is the Smartlink 5634PCV-- wonder if it's the same modem,
>configured for PCI? Not sure who "Topic" is.
That sounds plausible, because there is also an external
model with a similar numbering scheme.
>My ISA modem has worked very well, but alas those ISA slots are getting
>harder to find on the newer mobos.
That's true in general, though recently there have been a second
wave of decent motherboards for AMD T-bird/Duron that do feature
1 ISA slot - e.g. Soyo, Epox, etc. Proably there are similar
for PIII platform.
-= Josh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: CD Writer for Linux
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:51:25 -0000
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:53:04 -0000, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:06:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>What kind of CD Writer works best with Linux. I am thinking about
>>buying one....I would prefer it to be an external.
>
>IMHO usb and parallel port cdrw's are more trouble thatn the're worth (even
>under Win9x). That said if you really must have an external and you're
>already comfortable setting up USB stuff on Linux then I'd suggest a deja
You can get PCI SCSI2 cards for 30 bux these days.
So, there's really no reason to avoid external SCSI
peripherals anymore.
>search of this group to find out which particular models are known to work.
>You could also go with SCSI but the price for external SCSI units might be
>more than you want to pay.
As far as burners go, SCSI externals seem to be cheaper and faster
than anything else with the exception of firewire.
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where merely reusing a component, while not actually altering that
component, would be unecessarily burdensome to people seeking to
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: suitable backup hardware?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:57:16 -0000
On 29 Jan 2001 00:45:39 +0100, Florian v. Savigny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I need advice on what hardware is suitable for Linux to back up my
>stuff sequentially (here I want to say that I do not want to burn
>CD-ROMs because I would like to update the backups frequently - say
>every other week or so).
Why would this really be a problem?
You can get CDR's in bulk for ~ 30 cents apiece.
Unless you need a larger media than 700M, it sounds like
CDRs would suit you well enough.
[deletia]
>Is it more reliable to use a streamer which is directly connected to
>the IDE controller? Or buy an SCSI adapter and an SCSI streamer?
[deletia]
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The alternative only leads to destructive anti-capitalist
and anti-democratic monopolies.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: Problems with CDRDAO
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:00:14 GMT
On 30/01/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I recently started having problems burning CD's with CDRDAO.
> [ ... ]
> Im using an IDE CDRW, HP CD Writer plus Im burning with the
> generic-mmc-raw driver and using version 1.1.14 of cdrdao
> [ ... ]
I've been struggling with my HP 7200i+ for about two years, and it was
only getting worse and worse. I finally solved my problem by simply
dumping it and replacing it with two Plextor SCSI units (PX-40TS and
PX-W124TS). Now life is good again.
I've also heard success stories regarding HP IDE CD writers, but I've
had nothing but trouble with mine. YMMV.
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: suitable backup hardware?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:00:23 -0000
On 29 Jan 2001 17:53:25 +0100, Florian v. Savigny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duane) writes:
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>> Hmm... So what is the problem using CDROMs here? I back up twice a
>> week to CDROMs. At $0.40 each, that is an annual cost of $40 dollars.
>> If you are backing up "every other week or so", that is an annual cost
>> of about $10.
>
>Hmm... sounds like you are right. It's just the fact that in my case,
>backing up every other week or so propably means saving days of work,
>but only a few MB, if that (I'm working mostly text based - sgml,
>perl, tex and so), which keeps me thinking that burning a complete CD
>with maybe 650 MB capacity is somehow an (unecological? -- I'm still
Then use CDRW. The media is only a little more expensive
and most burners are cdrw capable anyways.
>wondering if and how CDs are recycled) overkill. However, maybe one
>should just view it as a backup system with massive redundancy, which
>is in itself a *very* comforting thing...
>
>Well, thanks for the tip... do you know of a device you can recommend?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: WinTV PCI-FM
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:02:42 -0000
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:09:19 +0100, Justus Bernold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
>
>I've set up a system (Kernel 2.2.16-SMP, SUSE 7.0 Professional) with a
>WinTV PCI-FM card. The kernel is the one out of the box (I do have a
>MSI694D-PRO AI with one Celeron 667 installed).
>After scanning for the different channels I do not get any image or
>sound. What I get is absolute silence on the audio channels (even though
>kjukebox is working) and some flickering on the top part of the window
>wich should show the TV image.
What you are experiencing sounds
like a problem with the tuner module.
Make sure that both "bttv" and "tuner" are loaded.
You can do this with insmod.
>I already followed the suggestions on the SUSE support database (some
>alteration in modules.conf) but to no avail.
>Is anybody out there who has further ideas where to look for a solution?
>(And, by the way... yes, the antenna cable is plugged in... :-))
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From: "Dan Neef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Major Problem
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:45:03 -0600
I am trying to install Slackware 7.1 on my old 486 DX2 Toshiba laptop. The
laptop doesnt come with a CDROM but I have a portable Kingston
CDROM(actually I thinks its a Mitsumi sold under the kingston name). Since
it didnt come with the computer the bios, doesnt give me the option to boot
to the CD-ROM disc. I have tried making several boot/root discs and am able
to get to the setup program. Unfortunatly, that's where the problem arises.
The setup program can not find my CDROM, it can find my network connection,
nor will it see any floppy disks I am trying to make. I would like to
install Linux from the cd, but am unable to even get a blink on my CD ROM..
The CD ROM is connected via my printer port.
Any thoughts on things I could try would be appreciated.
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