Linux-Hardware Digest #820, Volume #14 Thu, 24 May 01 15:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: PCI controller card ("Justin Mahn")
Re: Mounting an NT drive on the network? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
need a video card with lots of memory! (Peter Bismuti)
Re: NVidea Geforce 2 MX (Joshua Baker-LePain)
CD Player (Mojo B. Nichols)
Re: Most Common Modem ("Moses, Joshua")
Re: Serial port expansion board recommendation? (Matt Majka)
Any distro that supports AMI HyperDisk? ("Bengt-Arne Johansson")
OS recognizes external keyboard (Andreas Heckele)
Re: Most Common Modem (aflinsch)
Re: CD Player (Louis Boyd)
Re: Most Common Modem ("¼u¤Y¦¸¦, MC")
Re: @Home setup SO SLOW (Neil Cherry)
Re: cdrecord fails only with 2.4.x kernel (Roger Lindmark)
Anyone used an Iomega Easy3200 Ditto Parallel port tape drive ? (Gary N)
Re: @Home setup SO SLOW (LRW)
Re: Add IDE CDRW to system with SCSI-host adapter AHA-1542 (Roger Lindmark)
? Max RAM allowed in Mandrake 8.0 ? (Mariusz Zaczek)
Re: Most Common Modem (Joe Pfeiffer)
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From: "Justin Mahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI controller card
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:25:37 -0500
plug an old 250meg hard drive to the original onboard controller and make
the /boot partition on it?
"Gautam Sethi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ej9ns$9ki$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i just installed a PCI controller card (ATA100) made by maxtor and
> plugged the hard drives (i have 2) into it. then i tried a fresh install
> of mandrake 7.1, but the installation process dies when it looks for the
> hard drive. can someone suggest a workaround please?
>
> best,
> gautam.
>
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting an NT drive on the network?
Date: 24 May 2001 16:24:19 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the mounting help, BTW.
You're welcome.
> I thought it was common practice to cross-post to different groups (so
> long as the topic is related and not spam.)
> I know oftentimes a question of mine may get completely ignored in one
> group but answered well in another. I thought so long as you post to the
> few selected groups at once and individually then a reply will go out to
> the thread located on each group.
Maybe I was a bit trigger happy. Too often you see people spreading stuff
all over the place with little rhyme or reason. I tend to have luck
staying with comp.os.linux.*, so when I see stuff going all over the place,
I may come down on it. You want to limit cross-posting as much as possible.
Sorry if I was a bit harsh, and thank you for showing willingness to absorb
clue!
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: need a video card with lots of memory!
Date: 24 May 2001 16:20:25 GMT
I'd like a video card that has lots of memory, but I'm not going to use it for
games, I like to open lots and lots of windows including VMWare.
Any reccomendations for a video card that will give me lots of memory at
a decent price that is known to work well with Linux?
Thanks!!
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NVidea Geforce 2 MX
Date: 24 May 2001 16:31:36 GMT
Pete Pillinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> be better? Is there any way to get the grapical interface working? DO I
I'm not familiar with Mandrake, but you'll need at least XFree 4.0.2 (IIRC)
to get support for the GeForce2MX. With the nv driver, those will do quite
well for 2D on that card. I know RH7.1 has 4.0.3, so you may want to look
at either Mandrake 8.0 or download XFree rpms -- falsehope has some up
for 4.0.2.
For 3D, yes, you will the nvidia drivers.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mojo B. Nichols)
Subject: CD Player
Date: 24 May 2001 11:43:38 -0500
I have Red Hat 7.1 I'm trying to play music on my cdrom. The cdrom
works for everything else, but if I use and of the cd rom players in
menu->programs->multimedia the songs play for one second and then
stops. With XMMS I can track to any point in the song and play one
second. I can move forward through all the tracks. ls /mnt/cdrom
returns nothing when music CD is in. Has any one had experienced this
problem? The cdrom seems to work for other CD like software etc.
Thanks in advance....
Mojo
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From: "Moses, Joshua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Most Common Modem
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:56:59 -0500
Thats great and all, but they aren't exactly labeled WINMODEM on the box. I
tried that. I bought a Conexant modem with a Rockford chip, according to
two websites, Linux would be able to use it. Didn't work...I took it back.
Is there any one thing I should look for on the box?
"Nils Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Moses, Joshua wrote:
>
> > what is the best and most common (cheapest) modem I can find for a linux
> > system. I have a couple of winmodems that I have been told has fixes
for
> > them for Linux, but I cannot get them to work.
>
> ALL modems that are not WinModems and can be controlled with these
> AT-command should work under Linux. SO when you're buying a new modem, you
> can probably take the cheapest thing you can find, as long as you make
sure
> that it's not a WinModem.
>
> Greetings
> Nils
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Nils Holland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> NightCastle Productions - Linux in Tiddische, Germany
> http://www.nightcastleproductions.org
> "They asked me where this earthquake would begin,
> I offered to let them feel my pulse."
> ----------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Majka)
Subject: Re: Serial port expansion board recommendation?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:03:12 -0500
Thanks! Those will work.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael F.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stallion, Cyclades and Digiboard's or Digiservers..
>
> -
> Michael
>
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2001 15:13:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Majka)
> wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >
> >I'm looking for a PCI 8-port serial expansion card that supports
> >baud rates from 9600bps to at least 115.2kbps (preferably higher)
> >with linux drivers available. Does anyone have a favorite vendor
> >for this type of card? I looked at a couple vendors listed on
> >www.linux.org, but wanted to see what people have experience
> >with.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Matt Majka
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From: "Bengt-Arne Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any distro that supports AMI HyperDisk?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:13:30 GMT
Is there any distro ut that supports AMI HyperDisk/MegaIDE RAID controllers?
I'm sort of not in for recompiling the kernel.
If there isn't any out yet then I may have to do it, so then how to recompil
to include support for the AMI HyperDisk as easy as possible.
I have been running Linux in the past but newer compiled any kernel, the
distro that I'm familiar whit is:
Mandrake
SuSE
Dragon Linux (a positiv suprice)
Corell
and
RedHat
Thanks
Bengt-arne
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From: Andreas Heckele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OS recognizes external keyboard
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:10:49 GMT
hi,
is there a possibility in Linux to detect if there is
an external PS2-Keyboard attached to a laptop?
Any suggestions welcome.
Thx,
Agent H.
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Most Common Modem
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:04:54 -0400
"Moses, Joshua" wrote:
>
> Thats great and all, but they aren't exactly labeled WINMODEM on the box. I
> tried that. I bought a Conexant modem with a Rockford chip, according to
> two websites, Linux would be able to use it. Didn't work...I took it back.
> Is there any one thing I should look for on the box?
>
Check the box and see if it supports Linux (not very common)
Check the box, if it says "controller based", then it should work, if
it is "controllerless", then assume it is a winmodem.
ISA modems are generally controller based, and should work
external serial (not usb) modems are controllerbased and will work.
Personally I prefer external modems, they save a slot in the box, and
have pretty lights.
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From: Louis Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Player
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:53:51 +0000
"Mojo B. Nichols" wrote:
>
> I have Red Hat 7.1 I'm trying to play music on my cdrom. The cdrom
> works for everything else, but if I use and of the cd rom players in
> menu->programs->multimedia the songs play for one second and then
> stops. With XMMS I can track to any point in the song and play one
> second. I can move forward through all the tracks. ls /mnt/cdrom
> returns nothing when music CD is in. Has any one had experienced this
> problem? The cdrom seems to work for other CD like software etc.
> Thanks in advance....
>
> Mojo
What CD are you playing? Perhaps the RH 7.1 kernel has sufficiently
good taste to shut it off. ;-)
--
Lou Boyd
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From: "¼u¤Y¦¸¦, MC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Most Common Modem
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 01:29:16 +0800
Have you tried to change the winmodem to the modem that can be used in
Linux? Miracle may occur, particularly, your winmodem is Lucent. Lucent
winmodem is now increasingly supported.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: @Home setup SO SLOW
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:35:57 GMT
On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:26:38 -0500, LRW wrote:
>I'd ask the @Home newsgroups, unfortunately you have to be connected to
>@Home to access their newsgroups, and the following problem is
>preventing me from doing so. =P
>
>I can get connected to the @Home service, and can even ping out and
>resolve addresses, etc, but my x-fer rate is no more than about 2kbps!
>And stalls out constantly.
>
>There's a GREAT reference page at
>http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html
>which I followed, but it doesn't help.
>No change in performance from when all I had was a host name a default
>gateway to when I put in all the rest of the info.
>
>Can anyone who has a good connection using cable modem give me some
>pointers?
>Like for Host, go ahead and use the full c123456-a.xxxx.mo.home.com or
>just use c123456-a, use DHCP or BOOTP, etc.
>There are some odd discrepancies too. My IPCOFIG /ALL under WIndows
>(before Windows crashed) gave me my default gateway etc...and it ends in
>a .1. But the network settings has my domain set as ending in .0 and no
>way to change it.
I'm using RH 6.x (upgraded over 10 years from Slackware 1.x, don't
ask).
Here's my /etc/resolv.conf
search x.xx.home.com
nameserver 01.2.3.4
nameserver 01.2.3.3
and here is my nsswitch.conf
passwd: files
shadow: files
group: files
#hosts: db files nisplus nis dns
hosts: files
services: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
networks: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
protocols: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
rpc: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
netmasks: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
bootparams: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
netgroup: files
publickey: files
I also have a firewall in place (which is why I dont' clean my junk up
a little better) and TCPD and IP Chains.
--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: Roger Lindmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord fails only with 2.4.x kernel
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:30:45 +0200
Chris Sherman wrote:
I have an AHA-1542B SCSI-card with a scanner connected and an IDE-CDRW
Philips CDD 3610. I have compiled a 2.4.4 kernel with the SCSI-card and
SCSI-emulation driver integrated. The scanner works very well with XSane,
but the IDE-CDRW with CDRToaster and compiled CDRecord results always in a
lockup of the system after burn and I have to reboot. XCDRoast is not
usable at all due to permission problems and probably a bug in this program.
Sincerely Yours
Roger
--
Roger Lindmark
OS/2 Warp 4.06
RedHat 7.1
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From: Gary N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone used an Iomega Easy3200 Ditto Parallel port tape drive ?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:30:39 -0700
I'm curious whether anyone has had success trying to use the above
parallel tape drive with Linux. I'm currently trying it on Redhat7.0.
It uses the travan tapes.
The Hardware-howto seems to say that no parallel port drives are
supported but I see people have been able to use zip drives ok, so I'm
curious to see if I can get this old drive to work.
Any ideas as to what driver I should be using, in the kde backup utility
it defaults to /dev/tape, but not sure what other one to try.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
lsmod does show parport and parport_pc
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From: LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: @Home setup SO SLOW
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:32:24 -0500
Obviously the IP and the x's in domain are changed and I'll use mine,
but where you have "files" it actually says "files"?
I'm not in front of the machine in question to look at it, but shouldn't
there be more under hosts at least? Or whatabout where you put in your
host name (c12345-a) or IP? Don't you need the host name somewhere
whether you're static or DHCP?
Oh I'm still going to give this a try when I get home! I'll try anything
that doesn't involve small woodland creatures.
I'm just thinking that there's so much more that might be needed...but
then, that might be part of my problem.
(But I still can't imagine that you don't have to tell it the gateway at
least.)
Thanks for your help!! =)
Liam
Neil Cherry wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:26:38 -0500, LRW wrote:
> >I'd ask the @Home newsgroups, unfortunately you have to be connected to
> >@Home to access their newsgroups, and the following problem is
> >preventing me from doing so. =P
> >
> >I can get connected to the @Home service, and can even ping out and
> >resolve addresses, etc, but my x-fer rate is no more than about 2kbps!
> >And stalls out constantly.
> >
> >There's a GREAT reference page at
> >http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html
> >which I followed, but it doesn't help.
> >No change in performance from when all I had was a host name a default
> >gateway to when I put in all the rest of the info.
> >
> >Can anyone who has a good connection using cable modem give me some
> >pointers?
> >Like for Host, go ahead and use the full c123456-a.xxxx.mo.home.com or
> >just use c123456-a, use DHCP or BOOTP, etc.
> >There are some odd discrepancies too. My IPCOFIG /ALL under WIndows
> >(before Windows crashed) gave me my default gateway etc...and it ends in
> >a .1. But the network settings has my domain set as ending in .0 and no
> >way to change it.
>
> I'm using RH 6.x (upgraded over 10 years from Slackware 1.x, don't
> ask).
>
> Here's my /etc/resolv.conf
>
> search x.xx.home.com
> nameserver 01.2.3.4
> nameserver 01.2.3.3
>
> and here is my nsswitch.conf
>
> passwd: files
> shadow: files
> group: files
>
> #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns
> hosts: files
>
> services: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> networks: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> protocols: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> rpc: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> ethers: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> netmasks: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> bootparams: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
>
> netgroup: files
>
> publickey: files
>
> I also have a firewall in place (which is why I dont' clean my junk up
> a little better) and TCPD and IP Chains.
>
> --
> Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
> http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
> http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: Roger Lindmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add IDE CDRW to system with SCSI-host adapter AHA-1542
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:43:10 +0200
Roger Lindmark wrote:
> I have compiled CDRTools, but not XCDRoast as I got error messages and
> compilation was not possible
>
I made a mistake with the libraries and I have now compiled XCDRoast and
CDRecord. I followed the instructions in the readmes for XCDRoast and also
the instructions after launching xcdrgtk. This resulted in that I could not
start XCDRoast and I got a Gtk+-Warning. I guess this indicates a
permission problem and still a bug in XCdRoast. I tried the frontend
CDR-Toaster 1.12 instead and it works, but after the burn I get lockups and
I have to reboot. Others have reported this for kernel 2.4.4 and CDRecord
in a thread in this newsgroup the last days.
Sincerely Yours
Roger
--
Roger Lindmark
OS/2 Warp 4.06
RedHat 7.1
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From: Mariusz Zaczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ? Max RAM allowed in Mandrake 8.0 ?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:43:47 -0500
Hi,
I have a problem with some RAM in my Mandrake 8.0 installation.
I have 1500Mb of RAM installed on the system which is recognized
at boot but Mandrake seems to only recognize 900Mb when you type
'free'. I looked in lilo.conf and I do have the
append="mem=1536m quiet"
but it still onlu sees the 900Mb
... any suggestions????
By the way, I found out that Mandrake 7.2 can only handle about 750Mb...
I get a VFS Kernel panic when I had 4x256Mb dimms in the machine... only
when I took one of them out did it boot up properly.
Thanks,
Mario
( NREMT-B ) Emergency Medical Technician - B
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From: Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Most Common Modem
Date: 24 May 2001 12:18:13 -0600
"Moses, Joshua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thats great and all, but they aren't exactly labeled WINMODEM on the box. I
> tried that. I bought a Conexant modem with a Rockford chip, according to
> two websites, Linux would be able to use it. Didn't work...I took it back.
> Is there any one thing I should look for on the box?
Take a look at http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/20010212a.html
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
SWNMRSEF: http://www.nmsu.edu/~scifair
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