Linux-Hardware Digest #837, Volume #14 Mon, 28 May 01 21:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux and Visor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and Visor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: home web/file server specs? (Scott Alfter)
Re: home web/file server specs? (Scott Alfter)
Mandrake 8 on Sony Vaio 505 ("John McCabe")
Upgrading BIOS? (Leonard Evens)
Settung up Panasonic KXL-RW10A CDRW in LM 8.0 (FUNG WAI KEUNG)
CalCamp table for Linux RedHat (Cristian Marinescu)
Re: ZIP drive (ferrante)
Lexmark Z12 printer with Mandrake 7.2 (Sreeni)
Re: My Redhat Linux 7 box and this little networking card I have just (Jim Jones)
Re: Upgrading BIOS? (Nils Holland)
Check IRQ/Memory Conflicts How? ("Bret Jessee")
Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card? (Andreas Kohl)
Re: Lexmark Z12 printer with Mandrake 7.2 (Nils Holland)
Re: My Redhat Linux 7 box and this little networking card I have just bought ( how
to install? ) (Dave Uhring)
a smartlink linmodem driver problem (Manfred Vogelgesang)
IDE Plexwriter/ nothing in /mnt/cdrom fstab? (sleepy)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux and Visor
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:49:46 GMT
It seems there is some thing I have'nt checked and answers to question's
that I need to provide so you guy's can help me further. Thank you for
replying and It is good to know that it will work, This will further help
me get away from windows. I really like the 8.0 version of Mandrake. It
seems to be quite stable and fast. Hope I can be of service to you guys in
the future.
GOD Bless You
Jonathan S.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux and Visor
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:53:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard spouting:
seems that I do get a pi_bind error. My kernel is the 2.4 version. What is
a pi_bind?. When I run the ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/visor, it says the
file already exsist.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: home web/file server specs?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 18:10:26 -0000
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In article <praQ6.2216$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am fairly new to linux but quickly becoming a total convert... Could
>someone please give me some advice on what type of hardware I would need for
>a home based web/file/ftp server? It would probably have an avg of 3 users
>from the lan side with a rare max of 8 or so users and maybe 5 - 10 users
>accessing it from the outside at any given time.
I do fine with a K6-III-450 with 256MB RAM and 10GB disk. That provides
SMTP and POP3 servers, HTTP and NNTP proxy servers (the former with
ad-filtering), and a web server with a site set up to use server-side
includes for on-the-fly page generation and activity logging to a SQL
database. A slower processor would handle the load about as well (used to
run a K6-2-300), but the extra memory is nice to have (NNTPCache is a memory
hog) and is cheap nowadays.
>What kind of lag would people experience if someone was using the server as
>a workstation?
Ideally, you wouldn't use the server as a workstation...it's a server, after
all. Mine sits in a coat closet with a UPS and a TTL mono (not even VGA)
monitor; nearly all my interaction with it is through ssh over the LAN or
through the Internet. Nevertheless, with most people still on dial-up
Internet connections, people probably won't notice the lag from your system
unless it's under heavy load.
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(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: home web/file server specs?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 18:15:45 -0000
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In article <kadQ6.3808$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is SCSI a must for even a low traffic web page, or will IDE RAID do? I was
>thinking of two 75GB IBM Deskstars with a promise fastrak pci Raid
>controller doing raid 0.
"RAID 0" isn't really RAID at all...it's missing the "redundant" part. It's
also serious overkill. Maybe I should've specced it more completely in my
earlier post, but I'm running a 10.2GB Quantum Fireball EX, which is an
ordinary 5400-rpm ATA33 hard drive from a couple or so years ago. For low
traffic (I get maybe a couple thousand hits in a good month), it's enough.
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From: "John McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 8 on Sony Vaio 505
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 19:21:33 +0100
Has anybody had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on the Vaio 505?
I'm passing the following to the kernal at boot (linux=0x180,0x386) which
is sufficient to have the installation program pick up the pcmcia cdrom,
but when it gets as far as probing the Pcmcia setup the whole thing
hangs, (kernal panic I think).
I'm keen to get Mandrake installed instead of RH7.1 as I've moved my
desktop system over to Mandrake from RH.
Thanks,
John
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Upgrading BIOS?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 12:54:48 -0500
In order to fix a problem in using an external USB hub, I have to
upgrade my BIOS. I've participated in doing this on a new laptop
and I think I understand the process, but I'm a bit nervous about
it. I can of course use the same process to downgrade to the
previous BIOS if need be, but if something really get's messed up
during the upgrade, I assume I am in real trouble. Does anyone
have any experience or advice?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: FUNG WAI KEUNG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Settung up Panasonic KXL-RW10A CDRW in LM 8.0
Date: 28 May 2001 18:14:52 GMT
Hi,
Does anyone have experience on setting up Panasonic KXL-RW10A CRRW drive in
Linux-Mandrake 8.0 or other
linux distribution? Does the drive compatible with linux? where can I get the
workable driver for the
drive or the PCMCIA SCSI card?
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong
Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cristian Marinescu)
Subject: CalCamp table for Linux RedHat
Date: 28 May 2001 12:24:34 -0700
Hi,
I am use a software wich use a SummaSchetch Tablet in Linux and works
well. But the driver for this tablet is not working with
DrawingBoardIII Calcomp tablet. Do you have any solution? The protocol
for SummaSchetch is MM and DrawingBord should have to be compatible.
Cristian
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From: ferrante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZIP drive
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 22:19:18 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marcus wrote:
>
>
> I think the info in the Mini-HOWTO is a bit old. Zip drives are
> considered to be ide-floppy drives in the 2.4 kernel. I have one, and it
> works fine even though there's no SCSI support in my kernel (not even
> modules). Is your kernel compiled with "Parallel port IDE device support"
> (under "Block devices") and "Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support" (under
> "IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices", which is in the IDE et al. submenu)?
>
> Marcus
>
That's new for me! I'm going to try it. Thanks!
Greetings
Ferrante
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sreeni)
Subject: Lexmark Z12 printer with Mandrake 7.2
Date: 28 May 2001 13:57:27 -0700
Hi,
I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.2 on my PC.
I have a Lexmark Z12 printer connected to my PC via USB. I could not
find any driver for my printer. I found out that there is no linux
driver available for my printer. Is there a driver that I could use
for this printer from HP, Epson or other drivers that are available
for linux. Or can I atleast set it up for text printing? If so, how.
Thanks,
Sreeni
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From: Jim Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: My Redhat Linux 7 box and this little networking card I have just
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:54:35 -0400
Bill;
I have gone around and around with a Linksys LNE100TX v4 card. I first
of all used the drivers on the Linksys disk. Compiled them did insmod
and depmod and ifup. It worked fine. However, when I reboot it says
there are unresolved dependencies and initialization of eth0 is delayed.
Once booted I can go through the insmod,depmod,ifup routine and it
works. How do I get it up at boot-time.
Jim
Bill Wheaton wrote:
>
> I had to recompile the tulip.o driver from the floppy that came with it. Ia
> worked after that. but then I have RH 6.2, and & is suppossed to catch
> it....
> -billw
>
> "Matt T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:l_eq6.9406$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I was wandering how I would go about installing this CompUSA bought (
> > actually, it is a Linksys with the CompUSA name on it ).
> >
> > On the box it says that it is able to be used with linux. I was wandering
> > if anybody could/would help me?
> >
> > It has documentation, just for unix and the windows, but not linux. I
> > looked through the unix readme, and tried to do what it said, but there is
> > no directory called /usr/lib/tcprt/eth
> >
> > Maybe I should just reinstall my Redhat 7 installation and it would pick
> it
> > up on install?
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> > Matt T
> >
> >
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrading BIOS?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 22:56:08 +0200
Leonard Evens wrote:
> In order to fix a problem in using an external USB hub, I have to
> upgrade my BIOS. I've participated in doing this on a new laptop
> and I think I understand the process, but I'm a bit nervous about
> it. I can of course use the same process to downgrade to the
> previous BIOS if need be, but if something really get's messed up
> during the upgrade, I assume I am in real trouble. Does anyone
> have any experience or advice?
>
Well, I have flashed BIOSes many times without any problems. As you
properly said, you can always flash your BIOS back to the old version if
problems occur. HOWEVER, if something really bad happens while you are
flashing (power failure, system crash), then your BIOS will be rendered
unusable and the actual chip on your board will have to be replaced (or
properly re-flashed by other means, as you no longer will be able to start
your system and access any FLASh utility). Luckily, this has never happened
to me, and I think that if you're a little careful, it should be possible
to flash your BIOS without any trouble.
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: "Bret Jessee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Check IRQ/Memory Conflicts How?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 21:25:39 GMT
I'm having problems getting a WaveLAN PCMCIA card working, which some have
attributed to IRQ/IOPORTS conflicts. Please let me know how I might diagnose
for conflicts. I'm already using /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts, but I'm
not sure what I'd see if there was aq conflict. Also, it seems there might
be a log file I should look at, but I don't know where. Thanks!
BRET
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:45:17 +0200
From: Andreas Kohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card?
Hi,
3com 9xx & Realtek8139 based cards should be avoided. The 3com OS/2
drivers sucks - 30% slower than the windos drivers.
For best ethernet performance on both systems I used Hewlett-Packards
100VG Anylan cards (PCI/EISA) & switches(hubs) which are no longer
produced (really expensive stuff sometimes back & with lifetime
warranty). But I think you mean especially a 100BaseTX ethernet
solution. So the Digital & Intel chipset based cards will work
excellent.
For high end needs there`s also Adaptec's networking stuff (former
Cogent) to recommend.
cheerz
Andreas
Timur Tabi wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card for my box. Requirements:
>
> 1. Fast and reliable hardware - no cost-saving short-cuts. I.e. it
> should support full-duplex, etc.
> 2. Well-written drivers (OS/2 and Linux)
>
> Preferably, it should also be supported by the default installations of
> OS/2 Warp 4 and most recent Linux distributions. I don't care about
> Windows at all.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations? Cost is not a factor.
>
> --
> Timur Tabi
> Remove "nospam_" from email address before sending reply
> Interactive Silicon - http://www.interactivesi.com
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark Z12 printer with Mandrake 7.2
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:22:58 +0200
Sreeni wrote:
> Hi,
> I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.2 on my PC.
> I have a Lexmark Z12 printer connected to my PC via USB. I could not
> find any driver for my printer. I found out that there is no linux
> driver available for my printer. Is there a driver that I could use
> for this printer from HP, Epson or other drivers that are available
> for linux. Or can I atleast set it up for text printing? If so, how.
Seems that your are out of luck here. As far as I know, the lexmark Z12 is
a true "Windows-only" printer. No driver currently seems to be available.
Lexmark has released Linux-drivers for the Z32 and Z52 (and maybe some
other models that I don't currently remember), but there really seems to be
no Linux support for the Z12.
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: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: My Redhat Linux 7 box and this little networking card I have just
bought ( how to install? )
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:43:54 -0500
Jim Jones wrote:
> Bill;
> I have gone around and around with a Linksys LNE100TX v4 card. I first
> of all used the drivers on the Linksys disk. Compiled them did insmod
> and depmod and ifup. It worked fine. However, when I reboot it says
> there are unresolved dependencies and initialization of eth0 is delayed.
> Once booted I can go through the insmod,depmod,ifup routine and it
> works. How do I get it up at boot-time.
> Jim
>
> Bill Wheaton wrote:
>>
>> I had to recompile the tulip.o driver from the floppy that came with it.
>> Ia worked after that. but then I have RH 6.2, and & is suppossed to catch
>> it....
>> -billw
>>
>> "Matt T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:l_eq6.9406$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > I was wandering how I would go about installing this CompUSA bought (
>> > actually, it is a Linksys with the CompUSA name on it ).
>> >
>> > On the box it says that it is able to be used with linux. I was
>> > wandering if anybody could/would help me?
>> >
>> > It has documentation, just for unix and the windows, but not linux. I
>> > looked through the unix readme, and tried to do what it said, but there
>> > is no directory called /usr/lib/tcprt/eth
>> >
>> > Maybe I should just reinstall my Redhat 7 installation and it would
>> > pick
>> it
>> > up on install?
>> >
>> > Thank you for your time,
>> > Matt T
>> >
>> >
>
Put the same sequence of commands you use at the console at the bottom of
/etc/rc.d/rc.local.
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From: Manfred Vogelgesang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a smartlink linmodem driver problem
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:54:14 +0200
Hello!
To my surprise, I finally found a linmodem driver for my aztech
mr-2800w internal modem at ftp.aztech.com (dated may 9 2001)!
It's called MR_CNR2800UW_2216.zip.
This seemed to be great news, for so far I had been unable to use my
modem riser under linux (while the smartlink as well as the aztech
drivers for this modem card work fine under windows). linmodems.org
still lists my modem as unsupported, by the way.
I looked through the "readme.txt" and found that it requires (among
others a VIA686 mainboard, which I do have), a kernel 2.2.16 or higher
(I have 2.4.3) and for instance a suse 6.4 distribution (that's what
my most recent system is based upon).
I followed the instructions to install the drivers (kernel modules
etc.), but unfortunately, I got unresolved symbols in all of the
linmodem modules (sl*.o).
So I decided on trying a 2.2.16 kernel (which the readme.txt mentions
as the system where the rpms were tested and worked!).
But although I now had a 2.2.16 kernel, a suse 6.4 system and a VIA686
mainboard, there was no success! The modules still had unresolved
symbols and could not be loaded!
I am not very optimistic that many people might be able to answer me,
but perhaps someone already knows about these new drivers
(unfortunately binary-only, of course), the problem with the
unresolved symbols etc. and may have some helpful idea?
Many thanks
Manfred
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From: sleepy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE Plexwriter/ nothing in /mnt/cdrom fstab?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:47:03 GMT
I'm running mandrake 8.0 and my Plextor IDE 8/4/32 won't even read CD's
(audio or data). I have a feeling that it has something to do with
fstab/mtab or the symlinks in my system. Below are my fstab/mtab files.
If anyone can weed through and see where my problem might lie it would be
greatly appreciated. Oh, another thing is that when I look at /mnt/cdrom
in Konquerer there is a little lock on the cdrom folder. I've chmod'ed the
permissions to include everyone and their grandma, but it is still there.
The only symlink I'm aware of is /dev/scd0 to /dev/cdrom
The Cdrom works 4.0 in Win2000. Thanks
FSTAB
/dev/hdb6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,rwx 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/hdc 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
MTAB
/dev/hdb6 / ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd0 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/plexcdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/hdc 0 0
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