Linux-Hardware Digest #806, Volume #14 Mon, 21 May 01 11:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Realtek 8139 adapter under RedHat 5.1 (Walter Francis)
Re: How do I "Kill" Netscape? (Walter Francis)
Re: 16MB on Compaq Proliant 2500 with 256MB? ("Aalderd Bouwman")
Re: Efficient ENI3060 or Virata ATML drivers? ("Cameron Kerr")
Alcatel Speedtouch ADSL Redhat 7.1 (John McCabe)
io performance WRT CD burning. (Stuart Summerville)
Re: nvidea GeForce DDR (Sascha Bohnenkamp)
Re: Multiple SCSI controllers? (Juergen Wille)
Why is it so hard to get a parallel port to work? Help! (jwhiteak)
Re: Xconfigurator alternative? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: 16MB on Compaq Proliant 2500 with 256MB? (Ya!Right!)
Re: Trouble using CDROM + CDRW in xcdroast (Steve Wampler)
Re: Is an optical mouse different? (Steve Sivier)
Re: Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please (Steve Sivier)
Re: dual athlon (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= David)
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 adapter under RedHat 5.1
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 05:10:09 -0400
Jim vh wrote:
>
> Very frustrating trying to get this adapter to work.
>
> Realtek RTL8139(A) PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
>
> There is a Linux driver on the disk however it is an object file and is
> for the wrong kernel version.
As other posts have mentioned, the rtl8139 drivers have been in the
kernel for quite a long time.. I have two SMC 1211TX cards which use
the rtl8139 driver and they're very, very stable, and work quite well
for me..
wally@cygnus 5:05 ids> ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:5F:29:1C
inet addr:208.32.55.31 Bcast:208.32.55.127
Mask:255.255.255.128
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:249142376 errors:11 dropped:708 overruns:2 frame:8
TX packets:235904521 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2
collisions:1406579 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6c00
There are a few errors, more dropped packets, a few other misc stuff,
quite a few collions, but that is my server on DSL. Yes, that is 249
and 236 million packets.. :)
Anyway, just look around in your kernel menu/xconfig, under Network
device support, then Ethernet (10 or 100) and then select the RTL8139
driver, as a module or compiled into the kernel. You might have to say
Yes to a flag or two to enable the option, but it's obvious. This is
for the 2.4 kernels, 2.2 kernels should be very similar.
It took me a few days to get the cards working because I read a page
that was talking about a similar SMC card which used a tulip driver, but
as soon as I figured out what the real driver was the card worked
immediately.
Good luck! Hope you get it going.
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do I "Kill" Netscape?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 05:15:20 -0400
And just to add, killall -12 netscape is even better, as it signals
Netscape to exit but it is able to save your bookmarks and history,
killall -9 just nukes it.
I have a netscape button on my taskbar, and a lil ghost icon beside it
that kills netscape.. It's kinda annoying but I'm used to it; Netscape
locks up fairly frequently. It is usually associated with java, but
sometimes through experimentation I find that disabling CSS will prevent
a lockup on a certain page, but sometimes regardless NS will lock up
predictably on a page.
Most of the time it's a damn annoying popup that kills NS on my
system.. That's *twice* as irritating. Usually only happens every few
days or so, and I leave NS running all the time.
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: "Aalderd Bouwman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 16MB on Compaq Proliant 2500 with 256MB?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:38:06 +0200
Hello,
When you install Red-hat I think the install asks for how much memory the
system have.
When you have (I think) more than 64 MB the install don't see the right
value so you can change it.
Add the following line within the image section or global section to your
/etc/lilo.conf and run lilo
append="mem=256M"
Hope it works
Aalderd
Philip Choy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9eak23$l1d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi.. i hv recently installed RedHat Linux 6.2 in Compaq Proliant 2500
(with
> dual Pentium Pro 200 and RAM of 256MB).
>
> Upon successful installation of it, and after upgrading of kernel to
2.2.19,
> and various rpms, I realise that I keep seeing less than 16MB instead of
> 256MB of total memory whenever I do 'free' to show memory statistics.
>
> No matter how i tried to change SDRAM (64 + 64 + 128MB) modules, or remove
> one or two, or recompile kernel, i still consistently getting less than
16MB
> for total physical memory. I was wondering why.
> As below free program shows,
> %free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 14416 11060 3356 5580 552 4644
> -/+ buffers/cache: 5864 8552
> Swap: 1043080 3880 1039200
>
> Other linux boxes show correct total size, except this box. Weird.. Any
idea
> to solve this?
>
> Pls email. i hardly read in newsgroup.
>
> Thanx million.
>
> Phil.
>
>
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Efficient ENI3060 or Virata ATML drivers?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 21:47:46 +1200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hal Burgiss"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001 03:45:26 GMT, Ronnie Corny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>I think this might have been asked some time ago, but I was wondering if
>>any drivers for these cards exist?
>>
>>has anyone gotten these cards to work with anything other than Windows
>>95/98/ME/NT/2k ?
>
> http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/docs/drivers/Linux/0.84/
>
> I know nothing about them. I suspect this is an Alpha project that was
> abandoned. Nobody seems to be talking. I would strongly suggest an
> ethernet modem for Linux (and the other better alternative Os's).
>
If not PPPoE, than get a PPPoA standalone unit. These are just a unit
that plugs into your ethernet network. They often have an inbuilt hub (I
would suggest not using the hub if you get a Nokia M1122). They are more
expensive, however.
--
Cameron Kerr -- cameron.kerr @ paradise.net.nz
Praise Slackware, our baud and saviour!
--
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From: John McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Alcatel Speedtouch ADSL Redhat 7.1
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:52:40 +0100
Has anybody got this working?
I've been getting errors when patching the kernal, something to do with
usb.. (tried a few days ago but did not keep notes).
I'm hoping someone has got this setup working successfully and can help
me..
I've tired the howto on www.linuxdude.co.uk but have not been
successful..
/John
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From: Stuart Summerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: io performance WRT CD burning.
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 20:06:42 +1000
Hi all,
I recently upgdarded an old P120/96MB from NT4 desktop machine to
Linux fileserver. (Its stress levels are now way down..!!). Both
systems have been used to burn CDRs on a SCSI 6X CDR drive, on a
dedicated (to that drive) Adaptec 2910 (??) PCI SCSI controller. The
mobo is Abit IT5H, which has onboard ide controller.
Under NT4 it couldn't cope with burns of any kind at 6X, and sometimes
couldn't cope at 4X, leaving me to run it at 2X for reliability. Now
under Linux (Mandrake 7.2, K2.2.17) it seems to be able to cope with
6X for burns where the iso fs is generated on the fly from HD based
dir trees, but only 4X when pulling from the 40X IDE cdrom drive. I'm
using cdrecord V1.9, and mkisofs V1.13.
The symptoms of this bottleneck is that cdrecord shows the buffer
utilisation steadily falling to 0% on writing from CD (using the
-isosize option) in a few minutes at 6X - presumably increasing the
ring buffer (fs=6m) size above the specified 6MB will just delay the
failure point.
In past times I was able to burn CD->CDR @ 6X no probs under NT4 with
a faster CPU in the same machine (don't ask - failed overclocking
attempts).
So - given all this, it seems to me that the bottleneck isn't the cpu,
but more likely the ide interface on the abit mobo, or somewhere
between IDE CD and PCI->SCSI CDR (non inclusive).
Thoughts?
sTu.
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From: Sascha Bohnenkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nvidea GeForce DDR
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:53:15 +0200
Rob George wrote:
>
> Is there a driver for this video card?
what do you need?
The SVGA-X11 runs fine with it.
Or do you want OpenGL?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Wille)
Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:25:22 GMT
On 18 Jan 2001 20:09:38 -0500, Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Note, 2.4 changes the order in which is considers which scsi adapter is the
>first adapter, which might need some finessing when you move up to that
>release, particularly if you have scsi adapters that use different drivers.
>What I do is build the drivers for the TekRam as modular drivers, and build the
>Adpatec drivers into the kernel, so the first driver it encounters is an
>Adaptec.
>
Hi Michael,
is the order really important? - I mean, I have two SCSI-Adapters,
one is an old tekram310, which should be served by the nc53c8xx or
the sym53c8xx driver, the other is an adaptec, which came with my
scanner and is all right with the aic(dont no yet) driver. When
I use just the adaptec driver, it works fine for the adaptec. When
I try to use the driver for the tekram, I always get a kernel
panic while booting - after the adapter has been recognized and
after there was division by 0 error. Could this be avoided
by using a module for the tekram?
(BTW. I have just installed the RH7.1; One year ago I had SUSE6.3,
2.2.13 Kernel IIRC, running, which did no problems at least with the
tekram, not sure if I had the adaptec installed)
Greetings. Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwhiteak)
Subject: Why is it so hard to get a parallel port to work? Help!
Date: 21 May 2001 07:01:03 -0700
Hello!
I certainly hope someone can help. I have been trying for days to
get Mandrake 7.2 to see my parallel port so I can simply print. Here
are the particulars:
- Asus A7V-K133 system board
- Athlon 1.1 GHz Thunderbird
- 128 MB RAM
- various kernels, I've tried 2.2.17-21mdk, 2.2.19, 2.4.4, no luck!
- installed latest modutils
- deleted/recreated /dev/lp(x) with mknod -m 666 /dev/lp(x) c 6 1
- LPD and CUPS won't work. In LPD, the job just sits in the queue.
When CUPS seems to see the parallel port device, it complains that
there is no valid software license installed!?!? Otherwise, it says
that the the selected device(/dev/lp0, etc.) is invalid.
- I have hardcoded the kernel startup parameters "parport=auto",
"parport=0x378,7", "lp=parport0", "lp=0x378" in my GRUB startup and
all to no avail.
- I have configured the requisite alias commands in my
/etc/modules.conf...can't recall exact statements as I'm not in front
of machine right now.
- I have recompiled all of the above kernels numerous times with
parallel port support both statically defined and as modules. I have
done this and rebooted so many times that I have gone through the
forced fs check twice! :-)
- When statically defined into the kernel (2.2.19), I have actually
seen the kernel display that is sees the port (I/O and IRQ), and
detects my Lexmark Z11 printer. However dmesg doesn't seem to indicate
the "polling driver" message that I have seen some documentation
indicate should be there.
- I have tried changine the parallel port parameters in my BIOS. No
joy.
- Printer works fine under Windows98.
I have tried to read the Printing HOW-TO's and NUMEROUS Usenet
postings, but I can't seem to solve this. I have my ATA100 stuff
working, along with my VIA embedded audio. I would really like to
break away to the Linux world, but I really need to print (and my wife
enjoy using Linux too, and she's not a computer person!). I suppose I
could live without printing, but I can't believe this is unsolvable.
I have burnt many hours on this and ANY help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks to anyone who can take this one on!
-Jason
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Xconfigurator alternative?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:26:06 +0200
On Mon, 21 May 2001, LRW wrote:
> I seem to remember there being a more useful GUI X-win setup than
> Xconfigurator. Gives you more control over the refresh, and the mouse too if
> I recall.
> It's not xf86config, it was graphical.
XF86Setup?
XFree86 -configure?
Rasmus
--
-- [ Rasmus 'Møffe' Bøg Hansen ] --------------------------------------
Beware of bugs in the above code;
I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
- Donald Knuth
================================= [ moffe at amagerkollegiet dot dk ] =
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From: Ya!Right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 16MB on Compaq Proliant 2500 with 256MB?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:35:52 -0700
Some BIOS don't report the right amount of memory,
append "mem=256" will do the trick, but I would suggest a BIOS upgrade if
one is available. 'Cause this is an old machine. =]
Don't worry I have ay least 2 machines that are olderthan that! =]
Cheers
Aalderd Bouwman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When you install Red-hat I think the install asks for how much memory the
> system have.
> When you have (I think) more than 64 MB the install don't see the right
> value so you can change it.
>
> Add the following line within the image section or global section to your
> /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo
>
> append="mem=256M"
>
> Hope it works
>
> Aalderd
>
> Philip Choy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9eak23$l1d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hi.. i hv recently installed RedHat Linux 6.2 in Compaq Proliant 2500
> (with
>> dual Pentium Pro 200 and RAM of 256MB).
>>
>> Upon successful installation of it, and after upgrading of kernel to
> 2.2.19,
>> and various rpms, I realise that I keep seeing less than 16MB instead of
>> 256MB of total memory whenever I do 'free' to show memory statistics.
>>
>> No matter how i tried to change SDRAM (64 + 64 + 128MB) modules, or
>> remove one or two, or recompile kernel, i still consistently getting less
>> than
> 16MB
>> for total physical memory. I was wondering why.
>> As below free program shows,
>> %free
>> total used free shared buffers cached
>> Mem: 14416 11060 3356 5580 552 4644
>> -/+ buffers/cache: 5864 8552
>> Swap: 1043080 3880 1039200
>>
>> Other linux boxes show correct total size, except this box. Weird.. Any
> idea
>> to solve this?
>>
>> Pls email. i hardly read in newsgroup.
>>
>> Thanx million.
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>>
>
>
>
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From: Steve Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble using CDROM + CDRW in xcdroast
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 07:21:01 -0700
Jaideep Tibrewala wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I have RH7.1, 52x IDE CDROM and a SCSI CDRW. I can mount the IDE
> CDROM as an ide CDROM and the SCSI CDRW as a SCSI CDRW - no problems
> with that.
>
> However, when I use Xcdroast, it only sees my CDRW. I would like to be
> able to read from my CDROM and write to my CDRW at the same time. But as
> of now, I cannot do it since xcdroast will only recognize my CDRW.
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can set the CDROM up so that it will appear
> as a SCSI device along with my original SCSI CDRW?
I'm not sure you need to make it appear as a scsi device... Have
you tried starting xcdroast *after* putting a cd into the ide drive?
--
Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Sivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is an optical mouse different?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:31:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sky Lemon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Sivier wrote:
>
> > Oh, and the silly touchpad still works (unfortunately). On my Toshiba,
> > it is disabled, but I haven't been able to disable it on my Inspiron.
> > But I haven't really played with the BIOS enough to see if there's a
> > way
> > to disable it.
> >
> > Steve
>
> Hmm... I've been reading "The New XFree86" by Bill Ball with pretty
> up-to-date
> info in it.
> I suggest it for anyway who is determined to get all their peripherals
> working
> properly. There
> are ways to disable pointers (mice) within the XFree86 config file. Do a
> "man
> XFree86" and
> checkout how the file is formatted, then either look on the net for
> specific
> problem solvers
> involving this file, or get that book I mentioned. :-) Right now I'm
> working
> on getting Linux
> to swap XFree86 files when docked vs. undocked.
Coincidentally, I just bought that book. When I get the time, I'll have
to look for mouse info in it. I actually got it to find a way to get my
Tecra to drive a 19" monitor at 1280x1024 when it's docked. I'd be
interested if you find any info out about swapping XF86Config files.
Steve
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From: Steve Sivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.laptop
Subject: Re: Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:33:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M H Bell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you can get a cable off of E-Bay for $14.95 that will hook the floppy
> drive
> to the parallel port works like a charm and it is hot swapable on the
> Dell
> Latitude PCi laptop.
That's basically what I did to get SuSE 7.1 installed on a Dell Inspiron
4000. Works great.
Steve
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual athlon
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:37:17 +0200
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Paul Ingram wrote:
>
> Anybody tried running Linux (RH or SuSe) on Tyan's new dual athlon board? I
> have tried installing RH 7.0 and SuSe 7.0 and both hang during post-install
> boot up. I think it is the place where the cpu/raid timing tests take place.
> I would be interested to hear if anyone has managed a full boot yet. My next
> step is to try to boot a previously installed (on intel) 2.4 kernel disk and
> see what happens .......
I'm not sure this helps, but have you tried adding x86_serial_nr=1 to
the kernel prompt?
--
"Share the code. If you hide it ain't good."
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