Linux-Hardware Digest #299, Volume #14 Mon, 5 Feb 01 09:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: D-Link under Linux... (Chris Elvidge)
Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
Linux + Docking Stations. Can I unmount hardware? ("Mike Dahlgren")
Re: Heeelllp Mr. Wizard!!! (Jeffrey Mulliken)
EtherExpress Pro 100 problem? ("cslim")
Re: USB Nic (Mark Shadley)
Adaptec 2100s + Intel ISP2150 (L440GX+) ("Kevin")
Re: ATI Radeon + Linux (Uwe Bonnes)
What the BEEP happened to my PCMCIA modem? (Jarmo Hurri)
Dye-Sub printing in Linux ("Colin Anderson")
Re: SCSI adapters with Linux (B N)
SCSI Adaptec 19160 drivers (Axel Bouet)
Running Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SE440BX-2 on-board sound (Mark Bratcher)
Re: SMP & CPU stepping (Stephane Carrez)
Re: ICP Vortex Array controllers... ("Leo S.")
More on ICP Array controllers for Linux ("Leo S.")
Can't umount (Dedicated to all Manson Fans)
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: D-Link under Linux...
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:24:13 +0400
Joe Umiker wrote:
>
> Radix wrote:
>
> > Hi guys:
> >
> > Has anyone ever successfully used the D-Link 530TX network card with linux?
> > If so, is this card a good choice? Somebody recommended for me to get a
> > 3COM, but seriously, what does the 3com do that the D-Link doesn't? They
> > are both 10/100 cards...They are both 802 compliant. So what is the
> > difference?
> >
> > One difference is price! I can get three D-Link cards for the price of one
> > 3com... What gives...???
> >
> > Thanks guys,
> > Trevor...
>
> Both the 530TX and the 530TX+ work fine under Linux just follow the
> instructions that came with the card. My 530TX+ cost me $6 after discount and
> rebate : ) The 530TX uses the via-rhine driver and the 530TX+ uses the
> rtl8139.
I've only had one problem with 530s. My Compaq boxes blew them up! (Not
under Linux, but that's a bye-the-bye.) D-Link don't know why, they just
know they stopped working, completely!
Chris
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 06:52:00 +0100
In comp.os.linux.help Jason Kircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The short is, can I use my existing RAID-0 setup that was configured by the
> HPT370 BIOS under Linux? I've been doing some reading here and there, and I
That's hardware raid, not software raid. But I see what you mean .. you
want to take the disks of a hardware raid set, mount them under an
ordinary controller, and then combine them using linux software raid
(why don't you SAAAAAAY so?).
This depends entirely on whether or not the hpt370 formats them
specially or not, and what kind of raid type it is. I would
imagine that yes it does format them specially, and no, you will
not be able to reuse that format under linux software raid. But suck it
and see.
> read about Software RAID under Linux, but I don't know if this will work
> since it's already been setup and works fine under Win98. (I've played with
Peter
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From: "Mike Dahlgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux + Docking Stations. Can I unmount hardware?
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:20:00 -0600
I recently picked up a Stinkpad 755CD (Pentium 75, 40 meg ram, 800 meg
HD + RedHat linux 7.0). It also came with a DOCK II (Model 9545, I think).
Anyways, if I boot with the 2.4 kernel, it will find the ISA ethernet
card(NE compatable) and it works. The problem is that it won't allow me to
undock the laptop, w/o rebooting and choosing the 2.2 kernel that came with
RedHat(I can undock when using this kernel). Could someone tell me how I
could tell linux to stop linux from even knowing that it's there? I've
tried shutting down all the kernel modules, and that wasn't enough to let me
undock the laptop. Anyone know how I can get around this?
Thanks,
Mike
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From: Jeffrey Mulliken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.ppp,linux.dev.ppp,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Heeelllp Mr. Wizard!!!
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 07:54:53 GMT
Steve,
I appreciate the suggestions, but whereas the folks that do NFS mounting over
the VPN connection do wind up with the 'NFS blah blah can't get a request slot'
errors, we have guys just using Win2K to get mail over the VPN, and THEY loose
thier connections. So, I know that it is some issue with Linux as a PPTP VPN
server that we are wrestling with here. I sure hope that someone has some ideas.
I really like Linux, but there is some issue here that doesn't exist with an NT
VPN server.
Anyone?....Anyone? (Ben Stein in Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
HEEEEELLLLLP!!!!
Jeff.
Steve Davies wrote:
> Linux NFS out-of-the-box is complete pants, and will often freeze its
> networking subsystem. (I like Linux BTW, just not its 2.2.x NFS
> implementation.)
>
> You might find that upgrading to a 2.4 kernel fixes this, but this is
> non-trivial. Otherwise the only real workaround I've found is to reduce the
> rsize and wsize parameters on the NFS mount to 1024 or less (1024 works for me
> on a LAN) This slows nfs down a lot, but over a CM link, you'll probably not
> even notice.
>
> Let me know if this helps.
> Steve
>
> "Jeffrey S. Mulliken" wrote:
> >
> > My company is really having a serious problem, and I'm pleading for
> > anyone who can, to help us.
> >
> > Here's the situation:
> >
> > At the Corporate H.Q.:
> >
> > RedHat Linux 2.2.17 Kernel machine as a gateway / VPN (via PPTP)
> >
> > server
> > RedHat Linux 2.2.17 Kernel machine serving NIS and Sendmail
> > services
> > A Sun Ultra 2 as a file server, serving NFS mounts on Solaris
> > 2.6
> > A couple of Sun Enterprise 3000's used as compilers and
> > ClearCase view servers.
> >
> > At the Developers Homes:
> >
> > RedHat Linux 2.2.17 Kernel machines running PPTP VPN tunnels
> > Linksys 4 port Router/hub's
> > Win9X or 2K machines also behind the Linksys boxes
> > Throug a variety of ISP's to the net...i.e. @home/Sprint
> > DSL/PacBell DSL...etc.
> >
> > Everyone is able to boot their Linux machines up successfully, and
> > the PPTP sessions get established,NIS connects to the remote domain, and
> >
> > NFS mounts happen. All seem ok, until any large amount of data is moved
> >
> > via the NFS mounts. Performance is VERY slow. Even if NFS mounts are
> > not used, at random intervals, the PPTP connection will just drop,
> > causing the NIS domain to lose it's bind. The recovery is to init 1,
> > and then init 5.
> >
> > The Linksys boxes have a limitation that restricts you to only one
> > VPN connection through the router, so the remote Windoze machines can't
> > be VPN'ed in while the Linux boxes are, but with the Linux box down,
> > they can establish VPN with their Windoze machine, but it will also lose
> >
> > it's connection after some period. We have tried eliminating the
> > Linksys boxes from the equation, and it does not seem to buy us much, if
> >
> > any, improvement. We don't have the VPN with IPMasq. patch on the
> > kernels anywhere, because we aren't doing the IPMasq. stuff.
> >
> > Any 'gurus' out there who have any ideas as to what the problem
> > might be here?
> >
> > Help us Obiewan Kenobe, you're our only hope!
> >
> > Jeff Mulliken
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Feel free to email me your response
>
> --
> Steve Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.one47.demon.co.uk
> PGP Fingerprints:
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> RSA : 4E2E E60F 3D76 9E7E 70F9 901B 70FA 56C8
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From: "cslim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EtherExpress Pro 100 problem?
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:54:51 +0800
Hi guys,
We've a Intel 1U server running RedHat 6.2. The server comes with two
integrated Intel EEPro 100 ports. The server is supposed to serve many
concurrent users from Internet, connecting via a well-known port.
Recently we noticed from the /var/log/messages file that there seemed to be
some problems with the ethernet port, as shown by the following messages ...
<only two shown; there are a lot more messages cut>
Feb 5 12:16:46 myserver kernel: eth0: card reports no resources.
Feb 5 12:16:46 myserver kernel: eth1: card reports no resources.
Can anyone please shed some light as to why the kernel would log the
messages. Does it imply any attempt of DoS?
Please help.
cslim.
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Subject: Re: USB Nic
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Shadley)
Date: 05 Feb 2001 08:27:06 GMT
The Linksys USB100TX works with the pegasus driver.
Mark
According to Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Anybody know of a Linux-friendly usb nic? I have a Starband 180 satellite
> modem and would like to avoid yanking its USB daughter board to activate
> its ethernet rj-45 port. I have in mind to make one of my firewall nics
> usb with the inside nic ethernet.
> --
>
> Kirk
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From: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Adaptec 2100s + Intel ISP2150 (L440GX+)
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 08:36:16 GMT
I installed an Adaptec 2100S raid card on the riser card. I booted the
system with Red Hat Linux 6.2 CD and installed it to the 4 X Fujitsu 18 gig
Raid 5 array with no problems. I then change the boot option to "Hard Drive"
in the bios as the first priority. When I boot the system up, it goes to the
normal bootup cycle, checking the onboard Adaptec scsi card (no scsi drives
attached), then it loads up Intel Boot Agent 4.0.12, then it loads up the
Adaptec I20 Scsi Bios (Raid). Instead of booting up to the raid array, it
goes to the next screen:
Intel Boot Agent 4.0.12 Client Mac Addr: (whole bunch of numbers)
PXE-E53: No boot filename received
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE Rom
I don't want to boot to the network, just to the raid array. I bought other
brand of rack mount servers and added the 2100s card with no problems. Any
ideas? ISP2150G
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From: Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Radeon + Linux
Date: 5 Feb 2001 08:42:29 GMT
Ronald Bruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
: device, yes. I've heard there's supposed to be a Radeon driver for
: XFree, but I couldn't find it.
Try
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
Bye
--
Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
========= Tel. 06151 162516 ======== Fax. 06151 164321 ==========
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From: Jarmo Hurri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: What the BEEP happened to my PCMCIA modem?
Date: 05 Feb 2001 11:00:29 +0200
I have HP Omnibook 6000 laptop with both Linux (Redhat 6.2) and
Windows 98 on it. For modem connections I have 3Coms 3CXM756 PCMCIA
modem card.
Until last weekend I only used the modem with Linux, and everything
worked fine. Then, to speedup file transfers for some Windows
programs, I installed the modem software into Windows. And, surprise,
now the modem does not work with either Windows or Linux. It dials,
gets connection to the other end, but never seems to be able to finish
up conversations with the other end. It stays connected for something
like ten seconds, but /sbin/ifup ppp0 never returns. The error message
in /var/log/messages is fairly uninformative, something in the style
of 'failed to make connection' (those are not the exact words). I also
checked the log in Windows, there I think that the modem told it loses
the carrier.
I checked boot time information, and I think that the IRQ and address
(port?) for the PCMCIA card are the same now and before the
installation. So what could have been changed?
On a high level I think there are two ways to solve the problem
1. Reset the modem so that all the information changed by the Windows
installation program is changed back to the original state. Then I
would not be able to use the modem via Windows, but at this point
this would be fine by me, but I don't know how to do it.
2. Fix the problem so that the modem works both in Linux and
Windows. No idea how to do this at the moment.
I would surely be extremely grateful for any help in this matter.
--
Jarmo Hurri
Lic.Sc. (Eng.)
ICA Research Group
Laboratory of Computer and Information Sciences
Helsinki University of Technology
P.O.Box 5400
02015 HUT
Finland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel +358-9-451 5390
fax +358-9-451 3277
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Reply-To: "Colin Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Colin Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dye-Sub printing in Linux
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:09:26 -0000
Does anyone know if there are drivers for an Olympus P300 Dye-Sub printer
available for Linux?
Thanks.
Colin.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B N)
Subject: Re: SCSI adapters with Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:18:39 GMT
Hi!
I'm using Tekram 390u2w and 390u3w which I've installed with Suse 6.4
and 7.0 The U3W controller was a little bit tricky at first, until I
found out that Tekram have custom made startup disks which solves all
the troubles for you. But they are a little bit tricky to find. Go to:
ftp://ftp.tekram.com.tw/Storage/SCSI/PCI/DC-390X/DC-390U3W/Driver%26AP/Linux/
where you choose your Linux dist and which version. Don't forget to
read the readme file, as it contains all the instructions.
I only had to use these disks for the 390u3w installation. It says in
the readme file that you should recompile the kernel, but I found out
that I didn't have to that with SuSE 7.0. If you do recompile the
kernel, don't forget to configure it properly with e.g. make xconfig.
It is so easy to forget some modules. I did forget to add the network
module and struggled with a non-functioning nic all weekend, until I
figured out that there was nothing wrong with the hardware.
Anyhow, I'm really happy with the Tekram adapters. They work well and
they cost less than the Adaptec adapters. I've also used Adaptec 2940
which have worked equally well.
Björn
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:32:45 +0100, MONZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need info on pro's and con's about various how well various SCSI
>adapters are supported, works and performs with Linux, typical
>problems...
>
>It's not that much about high performance scsi-160 and raid controllers;
>rather about SCSI-uw and -80.
>
>Brands like Adaptec, Mylex/Buslogic, Symios, Initio, Tekram...
>Specific model/revision experiences are welcomed.
>
>--
>Regards,
> Mogens Valentin
> Networking - Security - Programming
> Linux configuration and troubleshooting
>http://www.danbbs.dk/~monz - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Axel Bouet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Adaptec 19160 drivers
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:31:42 GMT
Hi,
I have an adaptec 19160 SCSI card and I want to install Linux.
The problem is that Adaptec says that it's a card for windows users... pfff...
I can't imagine an SCSI card that can't be supported on Linux and Unix systems.
There is no drivers on Adaptec site...
Is anyone have Linux drivers for this card ? Or for 160 Family cards ?
Where to find it ?
Thanks for your help.
Axel.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Running Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:03:42 GMT
Is it possible to run Linux via Exceed running in windows NT/98...
i.e.
1 PC
1 Hardrive with Linux
1 Hardrive with Windows NT/98...
On bootup you can choose either system, but when in windows can you use
exceed to run Linux?
Regards,
Rich_ard
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: SE440BX-2 on-board sound
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:20:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ephraim Gadsby wrote:
>
>Did anyone ever work-out how to access the on-board yamaha sound on
>the intel SE440BX-2 motherboard?
>
>I am using Redhat 7 and it is not working at all.
>
>I have searched online, but mostly turned-up questions. The only thing
>I found was 'Open Sound System' which is not free, and if I have to
>spend money, I would rather spend it on a new sound card.
If you check www.linhardware.com they have some notes on sound
drivers for the SE440BX motherboard. Look under "Motherboards" and
click on one of the SE440BX choices.
HTH
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove _UNSPAM from my email address
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephane Carrez)
Subject: Re: SMP & CPU stepping
Date: 5 Feb 2001 13:30:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's a good idea. But one can generally do almost anything these days.
> To illustrate, I was running with a PIII coppermine 600 and a PIII katmai
> 550 until yesterday, and the only problem I had was with the TSC clocks
> not being synchronized between the two.
I had a similar problem too. I have a PII-350Mhz in cpu0 and a PIII-700Mhz
in cpu1. With linux-2.2.17smp, it works but the kernel timers do not trigger
correctly some time (select with timeout sometimes hang). I guess there is a
too big difference in speed between the two cpus so that the linux for cpu0
gets configured badly.
Does anybody know if this kind of asymetric configuration could work
better with the 2.4 Kernel?
Meanwhile I switched to linux-2.2.17 and cpu0 is not used.
Stephane
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Stephane |Sun Microsystems |
Carrez |Network Service Provider Division | http://www.sun.com
|6 avenue Gustave Eiffel |
|F-78182, St-Quentin-en-Yvelines-Cedex |
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Leo S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ICP Vortex Array controllers...
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:54:09 GMT
Scott,
We have been using ICP Array controllers exclusively for all of our Linux
server deployments and they have been TOTALLY rock solid. They are a piece
of cake to set up, and perform like champs.
Cheers
"Scott Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3a7a08e1$0$95544$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Greetings all,
>
> Does anyone have any feedback (good or bad) regarding using ICP Vortex
array
> controllers in their Linux servers? We are looking to add a couple new
> servers and are investigating different hardware RAID products. From what
I
> understand, they have been supporting Linux long before anyone else.
>
> Any feedback would be appreciated if you have first hand experience with
> these products (no one from ICP need reply please, just real-world
> experience)
>
> Regards,
>
> -SP
>
>
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From: "Leo S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: More on ICP Array controllers for Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:58:52 GMT
FYI,
For anyone interested, I forgot to mention-- the best place I know of to buy
ICP array controllers <one of the only places I found to buy them online> is
ICP Order.
http://www.icp-order.com
=====
Scott,
We have been using ICP Array controllers exclusively for all of our Linux
server deployments and they have been TOTALLY rock solid. They are a piece
of cake to set up, and perform like champs.
Cheers
"Scott Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3a7a08e1$0$95544$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Greetings all,
>
> Does anyone have any feedback (good or bad) regarding using ICP Vortex
array
> controllers in their Linux servers? We are looking to add a couple new
> servers and are investigating different hardware RAID products. From what
I
> understand, they have been supporting Linux long before anyone else.
>
> Any feedback would be appreciated if you have first hand experience with
> these products (no one from ICP need reply please, just real-world
> experience)
>
> Regards,
>
> -SP
>
>
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 15:09:51 +0100
From: Dedicated to all Manson Fans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Can't umount
When I try try to umount /dev/hda5 (mount-point: /usr) Iget the error
message 'device is busy'. This happens anytime, on shutting down,
rebooting or manual umounting (mad sentence, sorry for my english).
Any Ideas...
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