Linux-Hardware Digest #761, Volume #14 Sat, 12 May 01 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
RH on Compaq Deskpro or Prolinea ?? (Mike & Terri)
PPP Newbie Question ("Alexander G. Haley")
Re: What is sendmail? (Dean Thompson)
Re: dual boot problem, I think ("Glitch")
Re: How Could i disable a device... ("Glitch")
Re: Will this system support linux? ("bowman")
USB - modem (GunnarH)
Re: RH7.1 kernel fails on dual Asus motherboard (Greg Trounson)
Iwill SIDE-RAID 100 (cistron)
undo raid5 and and mk2fs (rokoe)
Re: is amd's trilevel cache supported in linux? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help ("Harvey Braun")
Joysticks? (David Findlay)
lpr command (Homer)
turtle beach tahiti midi drivers ("Florian Schmidt")
Re: PPP Newbie Question ("Florian Schmidt")
serious bug in raidtoos (Armin Ollig)
ZoomAir 400 wireless lan card ("Ian Brooks")
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From: Mike & Terri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH on Compaq Deskpro or Prolinea ??
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:49:09 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have 2 Compaq Deskpro's and a Compaq Prolinea all with Intel
Pentiums at different speeds. I have installed RH V6.2 and RH 7.0 on
these but cannot 'see' any cards plugged into the buss ( pci or isa,
jumpered or plug/play). All of the systems have a serial and parallel
port that is seen along with the HD and CDrom drive. One system has an
onboard network card which is also seen by RH and functions. Anybody
have any clues or fixes to get access to cards plugged in the buss??
TIA Mike
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From: "Alexander G. Haley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP Newbie Question
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:39:46 -0400
Ok .. I'm new at setting up PPP. I have compiled 2.4.4 with ppp support,
have done 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1; route add 127.0.0.1 lo', and i know all
about chat scripts, pppconfig (I'm using debian), and /dev/ttyS2
So,
In the end, I connect to my BBS, the last two system messages I get are:
serial connection established
Couldn't attach tty to PPP unit 0: Invalid argument
then it hangs up ...
Anyone know why? i have a /dev/ppp (180, 0 {major, minor})
if you need more info, let me know ... I'm connected through BeOS right
now ! (rock on Be!)
--alex
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What is sendmail?
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 14:01:20 +1000
Hi!,
Tuomas Airaksinen wrote:
> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:11:12 +1000, Dean Thompson kirjoitti:
>>
>>Hi Lamar,
>>
>>> I am new to Linux and I am coming from the "Windows" world. We are
>>> thinking about moving our "MS Exchange" e-mail server over to Linux and
>>> sendmail. Right now with "Exchange 5.5" we can do POP3, SMTP and Web
>>> e-mail access. Can we do any of this with sendmail? If not, what do we
>>> need to make it happen? We well be running RedHat 7.1. Thanks for any
>>> input.
>>
>>Sendmail is merely a program which is responsible for receiving mail and
>>forwarding it to the correct user. It handles incoming mail hosts and the
>>processing of aliases and so forth.
>>
>>It isn't a fully integrated solution like MS Exchange. You will also need
>>to install the "imap" package onto your Redhat box to provide you with imap
>>and pop mail services (this is a very simple thing to do). As for the real
>>beauty of Exchage (the Web Mail), you will have to look around for a
>>product which does it. I know that there are a few out there which are
>>capable of doing the task, but their names and URL's escape me. However, I
>>would be interested in any web front ends that you did manage to find.
>
> I just got a mail from a guy at helsinki university, and his User-Agent was
> IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.2-cvs. I guess that's something you're
> looking for.
For those that are interested the web page can be found here:
http://www.horde.org/imp/
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual boot problem, I think
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 01:08:33 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "leslie joyce"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> At work yesterday,, I installed redhat 7.1 on an existing machine that
> had
> winnt 4.0 on it. I installed a second hard drive , western digital 20
> Gig. I did a custom install and installed LILO in the MBR . Everything
> went well till
> I booted into the linux partition and I only saw L, instead of LILO. I
> did make a boot
> floppy so I could book into the linux partition. How do fix LILO so I
> can access the winnt
> partition and the linux partition? I did try to run the command
> "/sbin/lilo", but
> still I only get the L of LILO. I have since changed in the bios the
> configuration for the
> hard drives from USER to AUTO. I now get LIL- upon bootup. I can boot
> with floppies
> both the winnt partition and the linux partition. This is not the most
> efficient method of using
> this PC, but it now works and I can get some work done on it. I really
> want to dual boot both
> winnt and linux. Any and all help would be appreciated.
>
post the contents of /etc/lilo.conf
as a possible solution, make sure the root= parameter is set to a drive,
not a partition, such as /dev/hda or /dev/hdb but NOT /dev/hda1 or
/dev/hdb1(or any other number)
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Could i disable a device...
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 01:09:14 -0400
In article <9deoq3$50k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andrea [Akira] De Pirro"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...in linux mandrake 8, kde 2 ?
> Thanks
>
>
u want to specify what type of device?
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will this system support linux?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 23:13:35 -0600
"Trevor Hemsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Perhaps he's talking about a whole *system* based on a 1GHz Athlon?
I should imagine so. I just paid US$800 for a Compaq 5004 with a 1 ghz
Athlon.
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From: GunnarH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB - modem
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 05:45:08 GMT
I have a Minivigor 128 TA, and I am running SuSE 7.1.
Can I use this "thing" on my box, YaST2 did not find it.
Gunnar
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From: Greg Trounson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.1 kernel fails on dual Asus motherboard
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 18:15:05 +1200
The Asus CUV4X-D (can't speak for the CUV4X-DLS) is a VIA 694XDP based
board.
The situation you mentioned is a known problem with this board, with
several people reporting the same symptoms. Seems to be particular to
this board, rather than the chipset (other board with same chipset work
fine).
I would not recommend leaving the APIC off, as this will (as I
understand it) severely cripple your interrupt handling performance.
The kernel 2.4.4 does a quick fix by disabling by default a particular
option (that I can't recall off the top of my head), and gives about a
75% successful boot-up rate.
Also disabling MPS 1.4 in your BIOS settings can help a lot too
(although this may result in performance loss, so is less from
optimal). According to Alan Cox, they're 'working on the problem'.
Greg
"D. Stimits" wrote:
>
> Hannu wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to install RedHat 7.1 (comes with kernel 2.4.2) into this
> > box, Dual Pentium III 933 Coppermines on a Asus CUV4X-DLS motherboard.
> > The RH installation runs well, but when it comes time to boot, the
> > following error messages come up,
> >
> > and the booting sequence stops righ there:
> > Total of 2 processors activated (374210 BogoMIPS)
> > Before bogocount - setting activated=1
> > Boot done.
> > ENABLING IO-APIC psysical APIC ID to 2 ...ok
> > Synchronizing Arb IDs
> > ...TIMER vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
> > testing the IO APIC
> > WARNING: Unexpected IO-APIC please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ....done.
> > calibrating APIC timer ....
> > .... CPU clock speed 937.4845 MHz
> > ..... host bus clock speed is 133.9260 MHz
> > cpu: 0, clocks: 1339260, slice: 446420
> > ..... CPU0<TO: 1339248,T1:892816,D:12,S:446420, C: 1339260>
> > CPU: 1. clocks: 1339260, slice: 446420
> >
> > This is where the system dies. Looks like it cannot get the second CPU
> > going. I did include kernel-smp package when installing.
> > I know that my hardware works, Win2000Professional runs fine, uses
> > both CPU's.
> > Any help appreciated.
> > Hannu
>
> Some of the i840 chipset boards have problems with the IO-APIC (I don't
> know if the Asus board is i840 or other, concept might still apply). Try
> the kernel argument "noapic". For example, at the LILO prompt, to test,
> you can hit the "tab" key to get a list of images it can boot...assume
> one is called "linux", you could then type:
> linux noapic
>
> If that works, then it means only cpu will be able to handle hardware
> irq's, and thus only one cpu will handle hardware such as drive
> controllers, network cards, sound, or video cards, but otherwise it will
> work with both cpus. In the past I've found out that some i840 boards
> contain up to three of these broken IO-APIC's, while others might have
> only 1. The ones with only 1 seem to do ok, mostly; the ones with 3 are
> a real problem. It seems that all i840 chipset boards that have 64 bit
> pci busses have several of the bad IO-APIC's, at least one tied to the
> 64 bit bus...which means pci activity there risks failure.
>
> D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: cistron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iwill SIDE-RAID 100
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:39:29 +0500
Any experiences with IWill SIDE-RAID 100 with Redhat 7.1 and 0
stripping. Can anyone kindly share his experiences.
Thanks and Regards
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 08:59:35 +0200
From: rokoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: undo raid5 and and mk2fs
we had a problem with our raid-5-system (software raid with suse 7.0
with 3 ide-hd on promise ATA-100 controller). two of the hds couldn't be
read by the raid-system. so we formatted the two hds and let linux
configure a new raidsystem. as we tried to write back the data from our
backup-system the latest tapes got read-errors. now our last backup is
about one month old.
here are my questions:
does anybody now about tools to undo a new configured raid5-system?
is it even possible to undo a raid5?
are there any tools to undo an mk2fs?
rokoe
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is amd's trilevel cache supported in linux?
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:02:18 +0200
Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry about the extra long subject-line, but thats it. Is AMD's trilevel
> cache supported; in other words, can linux recognize the 2 on die caches on
> a K6-3 and also the motherboard cache? I looked at /proc/cpuinfo and that
What would it do with them if it did "recognize" (what does that word
mean?) them? It's the cpu's business to look after its caches. And
it's the mobos business to look after its cache.
> file only makes reference to one of the caches.
Shrug. Which? (out of interest).
Peter
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From: "Harvey Braun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 08:56:49 GMT
I was wondering if anyone can help me out with the following problem I am
having with my Geforce 2 card and AGP with Linux. I do not seem to be able
to get any type of AGP working on my system. I do have a working
installation with xwindows and opengl but according to the Nvidia
instructions checking the card reveals that agp is disabled.
My details are as follows:
Redhat 7.1 - new install
AMD 900mHz cpu
256meg Ram
Asus A7V133a motherboard
Asus Geforce2 32meg video card
I have used the src rpm's from the nvidia site and have followed all their
instructions. Everything seems to work but when I check the agp status
using "cat /proc/nv/card0" I get the following;
===== Driver Info =====
NVRM Version: 1.0-769
====== Card Info ======
Model: GeForce2 MX
IRQ: 11
====== AGP Info =======
AGP status: Disabled
AGP Driver:
Bridge: Via Apollo Pro KT133
SBA: Supported [disabled]
FW: Unsupported [disabled]
Rates: 4x 2x 1x [-]
Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000000
Using the Nvidia instructions I have tried the "NvAGP" for the
XFree86Config-4 file with the following results.
"NvAGP" "0" disables AGP and a check of the XFree86 log file shows the
following:
(II) NVIDIA(0): AGP is disabled
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA driver enabled successfully
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(II) NVIDIA(0): - Pixmap Depths set up
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
"NvAGP" "1" still allows xwindows to start but the same section reads as
follows:
(II) NVIDIA(0): AGP is enabled
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure to allocate DMA push buffer using AGP
memory...attempting to use PCI memory
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure to allocate DMA pushbuffer using AGP memory...
attempting to use PCI memory
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA driver enabled successfully
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(II) NVIDIA(0): - Pixmap Depths set up
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
"NvAGP" "2" using the agpgart does not allow xwindows to start
The "cat /proc/nv/card0" always produces the same result.
Any help or a point in some direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Harvey
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From: David Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Joysticks?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 19:29:56 +1000
I am trying to get my joystick going under linux. It is just a plain old
normal analog joystick plugged into the gameport on my sound card. I have
tried the instructions in the text file documents for joysticks in the kernel
source, but I get an unresolved symbol when insmoding the analog.o. How do I
get it to work?
I am using Debian 2.2r2 with Linux kernel 2.4.2. Thanks
David
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From: Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lpr command
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 11:42:48 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear people,
Something changed on the lpr command atfer the installation of kernel
v2.4.4, but how do I find out what?
I get the next message:
lpr: connect: Onbekend bestand of map (means unknown file or dir)
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
I included all tree necassary options into the kernel.
Does anyone know what?
Thanks in advantage!
Peter
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From: "Florian Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: turtle beach tahiti midi drivers
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 19:07:04 +0200
does anyone of u know, if there's a midi driver for my turtle beach tahiti
soundcard? i would like to use my fresh 2.4.4 kernel.. the one which is
included in the kernel sources is /dev/dsp-only. no midi support.
then there's this pinlinux-0.8.3.1a - driver, but this only works for the
2.2.x kernels.
so anyone know, if theres any hope for me to get midi working under
kernel 2.4.4?
--
florian schmidt
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From: "Florian Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP Newbie Question
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 19:07:06 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Alexander G. Haley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok .. I'm new at setting up PPP. I have compiled 2.4.4 with ppp support,
> have done 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1; route add 127.0.0.1 lo', and i know
> all about chat scripts, pppconfig (I'm using debian), and /dev/ttyS2
>
> So,
>
> In the end, I connect to my BBS, the last two system messages I get are:
>
> serial connection established
> Couldn't attach tty to PPP unit 0: Invalid argument
>
> then it hangs up ...
>
> Anyone know why? i have a /dev/ppp (180, 0 {major, minor})
did u upgrade from a 2.2.x-kernel? then u need to get the latest pppd. i
had to do the same. otherwise nuttin worked here for me. 'nother thing: u
should also upgrade your modutils to the freshest version.
most hardcore problem when upgrading fropm 2.2 to 2.4 for me was, when my
scsi adapters (adaptec aic7something and tekram dc390) chenged their
numbering in the kernel, so i had to reedit lilo.conf and fstab)..
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From: Armin Ollig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: serious bug in raidtoos
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 14:28:11 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gentlemen,
we experienced data corruption while testing the raid tools.
Here is the problem:
1. create simple raid1 md device like this:
raiddev /dev/md0
chunk-size 256k
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/hdg1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdo1
raid-disk 1
Make the device active and create the ext2fs on it (default).
2. Mount the device, then write to a file very fast like this
dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1024k count=800
repeat this several times. Make a backup copy of "file" to another
drive.
3. Unmount the md device and run fsck -f on it:
luna:/ # fsck -f /dev/md5
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19a (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 13, i_size is 86310912, should be 86312960. Fix<y>?
If fsck is done, the files you just created are corrupted (run diff
against the backup copy on the other drive).
The bug does not seem to occur with -o sync mounts, but sync is almost
useless (slow). No messages about hardware problems. All IDE disks are
connected to 3 Promise IDE ATA100 controller. No data corruption when
writing to single disks. Only occurs with software raid md.
Now what ?!
--Armin
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From: "Ian Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ZoomAir 400 wireless lan card
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 12:44:23 GMT
Hi can anyone help.
Ive been trying to get my ZoomAir 4000 card to work for ages now. Ive finaly
got the pcmcia slot to recognise and load the am930_cs.o module for the
card. The card is set up ok and the appopriate interface is added but when i
try to ping my other wireless card it fails. I can ping the local wireless
fine but thats all. The are both on the same SSID and channel. I can send
the syslog info and a wlanctl info dump if that would help.
-Ian Brooks
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