Linux-Hardware Digest #308, Volume #14 Wed, 7 Feb 01 00:13:10 EST
Contents:
scsi timeout on PIIIDM3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PCI: "the same IRQ is used by device" problem (Trevor Hemsley)
Asus motherboards (Barry Keeney)
Re: modem problems ("rosemary.kidd")
No Dialtone, Please help ("Tor Harald Thorland")
Suggest a modem (Andrew)
Re: No Dialtone, Please help ("Dan Kulpa")
Re: Suggest a modem ("MadCat13")
Re: ati or matrox (Marcus Lauer)
Re: AMD Duron 750 Problem??? (Marcus Lauer)
Xi Graphics Accelerated X 4 sale (Michael Corrieri)
Re: Adaptec 2100s - Nightmare (henk van der knaap)
Re: Using old PC's (Marcus Lauer)
Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat (Luc Leblond)
Re: Can't umount (Marcus Lauer)
Re: Running Linux (Marcus Lauer)
Re: Asus motherboards (hac)
Re: Having Windows98 and Linux on the same HD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat (Robert Redelmeier)
Filesystem transfer to new disk (Jeff Moore)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: scsi timeout on PIIIDM3
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 00:01:25 GMT
I have a Supermicro PIIIDM3 motherboard w/ Adaptec AIC-7892 ultra 160
Its running Redat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.18)
The machine keeps crashing because of SCSI timeout.
This is happening to all the machines with PIIIDM3
Anyone has encountered this problem?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCI: "the same IRQ is used by device" problem
Date: 7 Feb 2001 00:13:53 GMT
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:28:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My PCI subsystem (kernel 2.4.1) issues "the same IRQ is used
> by device..." message when I try to use, for example, my network
> card running the adsl-start script. The IRQ in question is 9 and
> it's shared by my network card (3Com 3c905B "Cyclone"), the sound
> card (SB 256 Live!) and the USB controller (VIA chipset); my
> motherboard is Asus A7V.
>
> Any suggestions how to get the PCI working? Thanks.
That isn't an error message, it's just information. eg,
ThunderLAN driver v1.12
PCI: Found IRQ 14 for device 00:09.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2
TLAN: eth0 irq=14, io=e400, Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP, Rev. 16
TLAN: 1 device installed, PCI: 1 EISA: 0
but my ethernet card works perfectly. PCI interrupts are shareable (allegedly) ;-)
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Barry Keeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Asus motherboards
Date: 6 Feb 2001 23:53:42 GMT
I'm thinking of upgrading my current system to a Asus
A7v133 motherboard with audio and a 1ghz Athlon processor.
question is has anyone used this motherboard under linux
and have they gotten the built in audio to work? any other
gotchas with this motherboard/processor?
--
Barry Keeney
Chaos Consulting
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rap is Square Dancing gone terribly, terribly Wrong...."
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From: "rosemary.kidd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.newbie,linux.redhat.ppp,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: modem problems
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:27:55 -0000
The problem is that your modem is a pci Winmodem. These are not true modems
as they require Windows software to operate, thus linux does not detect
them. This is true for all pci modems. Your best bet is to use an external
modem, which are all compatible with linux.
Dougie
"David Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am having a problem with my modem. I am using redhat5.2. I am also
> using afterstep as an Xwindow. I dont know what kind of modem I have
> other than it is a USR (both modems), and it works on my windows
> machine. I have made a pppscript and put it in /etc/ppp, it looks like
> this:
> #!/bin/sh
> mesg n
> stty -echo
> exec pppd -detach silent modem crtscts
>
> I have also made a chatscript in my home directory that looks like this:
> "" ATZ OK ATDT9725600506 CONNECT "" ogin: ppp word: guessme
>
> and I call it with the command:
> chat -f chatscript
>
> I used the modem config tool from the control panel in afterstep to make
> the link to /dev/modem. I have tried to put the modem in pci slot 1 and
> then set the port to cua0,1,2,3 respectivley. Then pci slot 2 and port
> to cua0,1,2,3. Then pci slot 3 etc.
> I then did the whole process again with a different modem. In all
> instances I get the same results. I call the chatscript (which only
> works from the dir /etc/ppp ??) and I see ATZ on the screen, but it
> never gets an OK response from the modem before it times out. According
> to the book Linux Unleashed I have done everything I need to. Am I
> missing something? How can I check to make sure the modem is configured
> properly? I bought these machines from a company auction, so I have no
> manual to go with them. How can I find out what kind of modem I have?
> network card? etc. I have had a hell of a time getting anything to work,
> mostly because I dont have a clue about what kind of hardware I have.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Contact me via email if you'd like: augustwest81469 <@> yahoo <.> com
> David
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From: "Tor Harald Thorland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: No Dialtone, Please help
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 01:36:59 GMT
Hi, I have a ASUSCOM ISA card, and are running mandrake 7.2.
I had a problem with setting the MSN, but sorted it out with the AT&E####
command.
But now, kppp reports No Dialtone, when i try the ATDT21312064, which is the
phone number to my ISP.
What can be wrong? the card works perfect under Windows.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suggest a modem
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:36:34 -0800
I'd like to purchase an external 28.8 baud or better (hopefully cheaper)
modem online somewhere (yes, I have a notorious "winmodem" right
now...grrr.)
If anyone has any suggestions as to where to look online for a Linux
compatible modem, please help out -- computer stores haven't been too
accomodating, so I thought I'd look online.
Thanks a ton.
Andrew
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From: "Dan Kulpa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: No Dialtone, Please help
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:52:16 GMT
>From what I've heard, ISA cards can sometimes cause problems under Linux.
Try a PCI card.
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From: "MadCat13" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suggest a modem
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:55:10 -0500
"Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'd like to purchase an external 28.8 baud or better (hopefully cheaper)
> modem online somewhere (yes, I have a notorious "winmodem" right
> now...grrr.)
>
> If anyone has any suggestions as to where to look online for a Linux
> compatible modem, please help out -- computer stores haven't been too
> accomodating, so I thought I'd look online.
>
> Thanks a ton.
> Andrew
>
If you've got a serial port, I'd recommend one of the Best Data external
modems. The one I have works great under linux. I just don't have the
serial port (See my earlier post).
MadCat13
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ati or matrox
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:19:51 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting a new graphic card but I cannot decide on ati or matrox for
> my linux/win9x box
>
> Questions:
> 1. which card gets better linux support, 2d/3d support?
This one's pretty easy. Matrox. The OpenGL drivers for Linux are as
good as the ones for Windows, and they've got an additional binary module
(written by Matrox) for DualHead support and the like.
Marcus
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD Duron 750 Problem???
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:20:52 -0800
Henk wrote:
> When I install RH6.2 and it reboots i get this:
> CPU: AMD AMD Duron(tm) Processor Stepping 01
> Disabling CPUID Serial Number...General Protection Fault 0000
> And systems PANICS!!!, what can i do now???
>
> GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT??? Isnt that a Window$ mssg???
>
> CPU: AMD Duron 750
> Motherboard: MSI K7T Pro2-A
>
Check out RedHat's website. This is an old, well known problem, and
I know there's a solution out there (a new boot disk?)
Marcus
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Subject: Xi Graphics Accelerated X 4 sale
From: Michael Corrieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 03:19:49 GMT
On ebay, I am selling both the desktop and laptop versions of Xi Graphics'
Accelerated X display server.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1212460576
Go check it out, and have fun!
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From: henk van der knaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2100s - Nightmare
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 04:27:27 +1300
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would love a copy of i2orh70.zip if anyone has it. I'm trying to
> install RH 7.0.
>
> Please send it to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Remove the nospam and the
> quotes.
>
> J
>
snip
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
>
>
Here are some places where you can get above mentioned files:
1 -r--r--r-- 2.2M 2000 Jun 29 ftp.wnt.uni-duesseldorf.de /Mirror/ftp.adapt
ec.com/raid/dpt/SRV/software/drivers/linux/i2orh52.zip
2 -rw-r--r-- 2.2M 2000 Jun 29 ftp.fee.vutbr.cz /pub/drivers/adaptec/ra
id/dpt/SRV/software/drivers/linux/i2orh52.zip
3 -rw-r----- 2.2M 2000 Jun 29 ftp.uni-magdeburg.de /pub/mirror/ftp.adaptec
.com/raid/dpt/SRV/software/drivers/linux/i2orh52.zip
4 -rw-r--r-- 2.2M 1999 Sep 29 ftp.dpt.com /pub/techsup/SRV/softwa
re/drivers/linux/i2orh52.zip
5 -r--r--r-- 2.2M 2000 Jun 29 ftp.tuwien.ac.at /z4/hw-related/adaptec/
raid/dpt/SRV/software/drivers/linux/i2orh52.zip
6 -r--r--r-- 2.5M 2000 Jun 29 ftp.wnt.uni-duesseldorf.de /Mirror/ftp.adapt
ec.com/raid/dpt/SRV/software/drivers/linux/i2orh60.zip
7 -rw-r--r-- 2.5M 2000 Jun 29 ftp.fee.vutbr.cz /pub/drivers/adaptec/ra
id/dpt/SRV/software/drivers/linux/i2orh60.zip
8 -rw-r----- 2.5M 2000 Jun 29 ftp.uni-magdeburg.de /pub/mirror/ftp.adaptec
.com/raid/dpt/SRV/software/drivers/linux/i2orh60.zip
9 -rw-r--r-- 2.5M 1999 Sep 29 ftp.dpt.com /pub/techsup/SRV/softwa
re/drivers/linux/i2orh60.zip
10 -r--r--r-- 2.5M 2000 Jun 29 ftp.tuwien.ac.at /z4/hw-related/adaptec/
raid/dpt/SRV/software/drivers/linux/i2orh60.zip
_________________________________________________________________
The file is a bit too long for me to download.
Regards
Henk van der Knaap,
Christchurch 8003,
New Zealand
My e-mail address is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using old PC's
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:38:13 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Let me explain my idea a bit more...
> Once everything is installed on the basic pc the graphics card,
> keyboard, mouse and monitor would be removed.
> I basically want to be able to use the basic pc's:
> 1) Harddrives
> 2) To run applications on (Using it's processor only)
> 3) To use it's devices (serial ports + any extra pci cards)
>
> The overall system:
> The main pc would run windows98/NT (With Dual boot Linux if
> needed?).
> The basic pc's would run linux only.
> The main pc would then use exceed (or similar) to login to any of the
> other basic pc's and from one to the other (rlogin?).
eXceed would let the windows of XWindow programs running on the basic
PCs be displayed on the main PC. You need to use another program to connect
to the basic PCs and actually start programs (e.g. rlogin, telnet, ssh),
unless eXceed has some sort of terminal built in. Even then, it's probably
just an rlogin or telnet client.
> The main pc would then have the harddrives of the basic pc's mapped
> under windows explorer.
As someone else suggested, this should work if you use samba.
> The basic pc's could then ideally have applications installed via the
> main pc, using the floppy and CDROM etc and then ftp the data onto the
> basic pc before installing it.
Sounds doable for simple programs (copying a .tar.gz file or a
package from a CDROM, then installing), much messier for complex programs
(installing ApplixWare on the main PC, then trying to copy every file and
configuration change over to the basic PCs).
> The idea is that each basic pc would have add-on devices that would all
> be accessable via the main pc via ethernet.
Explain? Do you mean you want to access, say, the basic PC parallel
ports via ethernet?
> Is this all configurable under linux/windows or is there some big
> problem in my theory?
If you just plan to make a network of 3 PCs (say, connected by a
hub), it should work.
Marcus
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
From: Luc Leblond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Luc Leblond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 22:40:09 -0500
Hi Ezra,
actually, if you got time to recompile your kernel,
enable that option :
#
# Kernel hacking
#
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
You'll be able to get your kernel's crash messages if it's the case.
Check out you logs too ;)
Hope that will help.
btw, what's the size of your drive ?
show me a : fdisk /dev/hdX or /dev/sdX
-L
--
===========================================================
Luc Leblond ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Administrateur System Administrator
===========================================================
NB: Ce courriel ne contient pas d'accent afin d'etre compatible avec tous
systemes d'exploitations. ( Linux, Unix, MacOs, BeOs, OS2 )
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Ezra N. Harrington wrote:
> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:35:55 -0500
> From: Ezra N. Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware, alt.os.linux.slackware, alt.linux,
> alt.os.linux
> Subject: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat
>
> I'm having quite a problem with linux on my personal machine (a dual
> boot with win98 and linux). I have basically no idea what the problem
> is, so any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Here is what is
> happening:
>
> I tried to install RedHat 7 on my machine, but, after successfully
> installing, it would always hang on boot. It never crashed in the same
> place either, but it was always when the daemons were getting started
> (sometimes during the starting of the at daemon, sometimes when pcmcia
> services were started, etc.). I just kind of attributed it to some
> RedHat 7 bug, and tried Slackware 7.1 instead.
>
> So Slackware also installed fine, and even booted fine. I was happily
> editing my lilo.conf file when my system decided to hang. Every time I
> boot, my machine will run for some amount of time (sometimes 10 minutes,
> sometimes an hour), and then hang just like RedHat did at boot.
>
> Can anyone give me any insight into this problem? The only thing I can
> think of is that Linux has somehow uncovered some bad memory that
> windows never encountered. Any ideas anyone? Thanks!
>
>
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't umount
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:40:07 -0800
Steen Suder wrote:
> Dedicated to all Manson Fans wrote:
> >
> > 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...
>
> Before shutdown, bring the system to single user mode (init 1).
Which is done by just typing "shutdown" instead of, say, "shutdown -h
now" (just so it's clear :)
Marcus
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running Linux
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:45:46 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
>
eXceed, and for that matter any XServer, just displays the output of
XWindow programs running on a Linux system. It can't run Linux programs
itself. Another system somewhere has to be running the XWindow program to be
displayed.
Marcus
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus motherboards
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 04:03:08 GMT
Barry Keeney wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of upgrading my current system to a Asus
> A7v133 motherboard with audio and a 1ghz Athlon processor.
>
> question is has anyone used this motherboard under linux
> and have they gotten the built in audio to work? any other
> gotchas with this motherboard/processor?
>
Yes, for an entire week :-)
I'm running a 1GHz Thunderbird and 512MB RAM. Works fine, very
stable. The AC97 took a bit of searching before I realized that what
I needed were the VIA drivers. Here's a snippet from dmesg:
Via 686a audio driver 1.1.8-2.2
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, vendor id1: 0x4943, id2: 0x4511
(Unknown)
via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xB800, IRQ 10
The 2.2.18 kernel came right up. I later applied Andre's IDE patch,
and that also works nicely. 2.4.1 also works, except that I get error
messages about my ATAPI CD burner. But I got those with the previous
BX board, too. Haven't had time to dig into that, yet.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Having Windows98 and Linux on the same HD
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 04:16:00 GMT
Here is how my Win98/Lin box is setup:
HDD 1:
Partition 1, dedicated to windows with windows
boot sector stuff
HDD 2:
Partition 2, for windows
Partition 3, windows scratch disk
Partition 4>, linux stuff
Then I just have a LILO floppy boot disk. And my
linux is SuSE 6.2 or 6.3
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 22:33:33 -0600
From: Robert Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat
Ezra N. Harrington wrote:
>
> I tried to install RedHat 7 on my machine, but, after successfully
> installing, it would always hang on boot. It never crashed in the same
> place either, but it was always when the daemons were getting started
> (sometimes during the starting of the at daemon, sometimes when pcmcia
[...]
> boot, my machine will run for some amount of time (sometimes 10 minutes,
> sometimes an hour), and then hang just like RedHat did at boot.
>
> Can anyone give me any insight into this problem? The only thing I can
> think of is that Linux has somehow uncovered some bad memory that
> windows never encountered. Any ideas anyone? Thanks!
A non-repeatable crash points strongly to a hardware fault.
But I presume the machine is not unusually unstable under
MS-Win98, so that points back at software. Confirm.
Bad memory is always a possibility, but it'd have to be pretty
bad to cause a crash that quickly. But check it out anyways
with memtest-86. You may also have some cursed memory hole
enabled, or Linux somehow missdetects your installed RAM size.
Those would give rapid crashes.
Slackware and RedHat should use approximately the same
excellent kernel, but do have very different init scripts.
RedHat starts more daemons and will eat RAM quicker, so
would probably crash quicker. SysV/etc/rc.d <spits>
You mention PCMCIA services. Is this a laptop? Strange things
go on inside those poxy boxen in the name of power savings and
other sprites. Disable powersavings in BIOS.
-- Robert author `cpuburn` http://users.ev1.net/~redelm
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Filesystem transfer to new disk
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 22:52:16 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just bought a new hard disk and I am wondering how is the best way to
copy my old system to it completely.
I can install the new disk as a second disk and mount the partitions,
but how do I copy the important files to it so they are intact, and in
the right place.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jeff Moore
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