Linux-Hardware Digest #8, Volume #9 Tue, 22 Dec 98 01:13:31 EST
Contents:
Re: Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI card (Henrik Carlqvist)
Linux w/z PCMCIA *Ethernet+DigitalCam* ("Sven Burgener")
Re: SCSI Seagate TapeStore 8GB not coming close to 4 GB (Bruce Barnett)
Re: 2.1.131 & PS/2 (Dan Nguyen)
Dell Ultra ATA controller? (Chris Deiss)
Re: My PnP soundcard hates my PnP modem.... ("Nate Cull")
Compatible tape backup systems? (Bruce Barnett)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Bruce Barnett)
Re: Modem Initialisation under RedHat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Connectix VC and Linux (Christian Brideau)
Re: d-link pcmcia ethernet adapter??? (Raj Singh)
help with SCSI/Samba (Raj Singh)
Xfree and old toshiba (Sir Merdaillon 1er)
Re: OPTi931 sound chip supported? (Shmulevich Mikhail)
Networking Question (Paul Triolo)
Re: 2.1.131 & PS/2 (Eugen Dueck)
Re: NVidia TNT performance ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Creative SBLIVE & Linux (Jan-Bart de Vreede)
Re: Linksys Ether16 LAN Card and Artisoft AE-2 or AE-3 (JunkDTectr)
Re: printing with HP 870cSE (Geoff Allsup)
Re: ISDN cards on LINUX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mouse won't work properly! (Jonathan Wurtz)
Re: Turtle Beach Montego AGP sound card ("Alan Davies")
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI card
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 19:11:59 +0100
Mircea wrote:
>
> Get the ALSA drivers. I can't remember the address,
It's at http://alsa.jcu.cz/
regards Henrik
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From: "Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux w/z PCMCIA *Ethernet+DigitalCam*
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:51:04 +0100
Hello there,
have you had any experience in using Linux on a notebook with PCMCIA cards.
One of them being a Ethernet card **which works fine** and the other one is
of my Sony PDR-2 digital camera.
If so, suggest any FAQs / HOWTOs / READMEs??
Thank u!!
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From: Bruce Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Seagate TapeStore 8GB not coming close to 4 GB
Date: 22 Dec 1998 01:30:15 GMT
Ed Soniat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am not able to get anywhere near the advertised data on this drive.
> If I tar to it it gets an error and stops, no mention of eot.
> If I dumpt 0 to it it asks for a new tape even tought the partition
> has much less 250Meg on it
Doesn't Linux have the equivalent of the dump/restore utilities of
BSD?
These have always been much faster that tar. Besides, it supports
incremental backups, uses the raw disk for performance, and has a
better interactive restore. I'd be disappointed if it didn't have dump/restore.
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.1.131 & PS/2
Date: 21 Dec 1998 19:03:03 GMT
Eugen Dueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I patched my 2.1.116 kernel up to 2.1.131 and after that my ps / 2
: (logitech oem) mouse doesn't run, neither with gpm nor under X.
: How can I fix this?
If you don't know what your doing perhaps you shouldn't be using the
development kernels. But it sounds like you may have forgotten to
compile support for you PS/2 mouse.
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http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Deiss)
Subject: Dell Ultra ATA controller?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:35:49 -0800
I'm considering buying a Dell Dimension XPS R, and I'm wondering if anyone
has successfully installed Linux on one of these systems.
In particular I read on the RedHat 5.2 hardware compatibility list that
some Ultra ATA controllers are not supported. I then noticed that some
Dell's have an 'Enhanced EIDE S.M.A.R.T. II Ultra DMA' blah blah blah HD
controller. I'm not sure this even applies to the Dimension series . . .
Any know compatibilities/incompatibilities?
TIA,
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Nate Cull")
Subject: Re: My PnP soundcard hates my PnP modem....
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:52:54 -0800
>I tryed recompiling my kerenl with sound support as a module. Everything is
okay until I type "make
>module".
What distribution are you using? If you're running Red Hat 5.x, you do NOT
need to recompile your
kernel, it already has pretty much everything (including sound support)
modular. Ignore the old HOWTOs
that mention recompiling, they're just a red herring. (I don't know about
Slackware or Debian or the other
popular distributions).
Again, with RH5.x, try sndconfig. This *might* work, but doesn't for me.
I'm pretty much in the same
boat at the moment - I got my PnP modem working by hacking isapnp.conf, but
now I've plugged in an
ESS1868 PnP and it's not detecting. (And no, it *doesn't* like the Windows
settings).
Nate
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From: Bruce Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compatible tape backup systems?
Date: 22 Dec 1998 02:12:32 GMT
I have a IBM Thinkpad 385XD running Redhat 5.1.
I'm looking for a backup system, and was thinking of a low-cost tape
system. I have two questions.
Which tape drive is suitable, without being too expensive?
A parallel port system around $300 seems to fit the bill.
I saw a HP Colorado tape unit for $279 at CompUSA.
Where is dump/restore? I've search my system, and I didn't
find it. Is there an optional package that has this? (dump is
much better than tar). I don't need compression, because I'm
backing up a 1GB partition.
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From: Bruce Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Date: 22 Dec 1998 02:03:56 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kyler Laird) writes:
> It requires root
Make it setuid root (or use sudo).
>....and uses sockets.
What's wrong with sockets? Pipes are implemented on sockets.
Don't you want remote access?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modem Initialisation under RedHat 5.2
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:32:26 GMT
What type of moddem is it ? if it is a WinMODem then you have a problem. is
it external or internal and what brad etc ? on what com and IRQ does it work
under DOS ?
In article <75f3kf$6b7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Frank Giannini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm running RedHat 5.2 and am trying to connect to my ISP. It seems my modem
> isn't initialising when it tries to connect. the modem definitely works
> becuase I've used it on an NT box and it works fine.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
>
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From: Christian Brideau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connectix VC and Linux
Date: 21 Dec 1998 20:40:04 -0600
No, it will probably work when Logitech will release its specs or that
some bright person will reverse engineer it. Mine's going back to the
store...
ChrisB
Remove obvious string from email to reply.
J Laycock wrote:
> Anyone got any info on getting a Connectix VC camera up and running on
> linux?
> I'm running Redhat linux 5.0, kernel 2.0.32 at present.
>
> Cheers
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From: Raj Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: d-link pcmcia ethernet adapter???
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:35:09 -0500
I sent email to D-Link and (a couple weeks later) someone emailed
me a driver! It wasn't for the PCMCIA card, so I won't forward it
along to you, but the moral is try the company.
-Raj
Volker Bretschneider wrote:
>
> Hello,
> has anybody experiences running a linux notebook with the
> D-link NIC PCMCIA 10/100 RJ45 ethernet adapter card.
>
> Or maybe experiences with the non pcmcia ethernet products from D-link.
> More specifically are there drivers available etc...
>
> Thanks,
> volker
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From: Raj Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with SCSI/Samba
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:46:26 -0500
I'm getting the following error message when copying files on my Samba
mixed Linux/WinNT/Win98 network:
aborting command due to timeout : pid nnnnn, scsi0, channel 0, id 9, lun
0 Write (10) 00 00 f9 45 60 00 00 02 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid nnnn) time out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi:0:0:6:0) Commands queued exceeds queue depth, active=254
(scsi:0:0:9:0) Commands queued exceeds queue depth, active=255
Does anyone have any clue into this?
Is this a termination issue?
Here are some of my specs:
OS: Redhat 5.1 Linux
Samba 1.9.18p10-51.4
Adaptec 2940 scsi adapter card
internal scsi HD
external scsi tower w/ 2 disks in it
external 4mm DAT tape drive connected to that
no scsi ID conflicts
all 50pin connections inside the cases,
but some 68pin external connections.
thanks,
Raj ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sir Merdaillon 1er)
Subject: Xfree and old toshiba
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:17:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I own a toshiba 1950CT and have RH51 installed on with no problem
exept that i cant get XF86 work : the computer apparently have a
western digital grafix card but i cant determinate what server use ?
(svga, vga and mono didnt work). if s/b know what server use or what i
have to do please tell me... thanks
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From: Shmulevich Mikhail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OPTi931 sound chip supported?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:25:27 +0200
Reply-To: mash@tx
Dmitry Poplavsky wrote:
> Hi.
> I have OPTi931 sound card ,but
> I haven't been able to make it work under RH 5.1 yet.
> If you find solution of this problem, mail me please.
>
> Dmitry Poplavsky.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes there is a way. Find it on
http://www.physics.mun.ca/~jwoodfd/opti931.html
Thanks goes to Jason Woodford!!!
Regards,
Michael
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From: Paul Triolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Networking Question
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:17:07 -0500
Has anyone set up a peer to peer network using a Linux box
as a client?? I have a home network with an NT Workstation
as the main "server" with a WIn95 box and an Win98 box that
I run Linux on. Use Sygate as a gateway/proxy to access the
Net through the NT machine. My Linux box just has a network
card, no modem. I want to configure the Linux box so I can
run Net apps over the network as I do in Win98. I am having
a real hard time configuring Linux on the network. I assume
I will need to log onto the WinNT machine with a user ID and
password but am not sure how to set this up on under Linux.
Do I need to use netbios feature of Samba? Most of manuals
talk about either straight LAN setup or dialup, neither of
which is my case...any thoughts would be helpful....so far
when I run ifconfig, I cant seem to get the eth0 interface
started (I have an NE2000 Niccard which seems to be
recognized during Linux boot)...
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From: Eugen Dueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.1.131 & PS/2
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:44:06 +0100
> If you don't know what your doing perhaps you shouldn't be using the
> development kernels. But it sounds like you may have forgotten to
> compile support for you PS/2 mouse.
Maybe it sounds like that but I'm not stupid (the first thing I looked
for after the problem occured was of course the PS/2-option in the
kernel config) and I NEED the development kernels to do thing which are
impossible with stable kernels.
Thanks for your "help".
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NVidia TNT performance
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:49:57 -0500
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Use the entry for the Nvidia TNT chip set, there is no entry for STB card
specifically but the NVidia chip set entry works fine.
<p>Josh
<p>GURU meditation wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Can you inlighten me on how you got your card running
with X?
<br>I could not find an entry for that card when I was trying to setup
X.
<br>I do have 3.3.3 I would greatly appreciate it.
<p>On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 02:22:27 -0500, "B. Joshua Rosen"
<br><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<p>><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<br>><html>
<br>>I'm using an STB NVidia TNT card on a 450 MHz Pentium II and the performance
<br>>is pretty mediocre, for example dragging windows is visibly slow.
My understanding
<br>>is that the driver in XFree86 3.3.3 is not at all optimized. Does
any one
<br>>know if an improved driver is in the works?
<br>><p>Josh</html>
<br>></blockquote>
</html>
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From: Jan-Bart de Vreede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative SBLIVE & Linux
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:40:57 +0100
Hi,
Does anyone know of a way to access the SBLIVE (from Creative)'s
features in Linux, I am trying to get the Digital IN port turned on for
the CD player.
Thanks
JB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JunkDTectr)
Subject: Re: Linksys Ether16 LAN Card and Artisoft AE-2 or AE-3
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:44:47 GMT
In article <75m42p$qf0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> I am using Debian 2.0.29 on a 48633 clone.
>
> I have two network cards to choose from, Linksys Ether16 LAN Card that includes
> a setup disk for Windoze or an Artisoft AE-2 or AE-3 (auto detected by Windoze).
>
> Is there any support for these ethernet cards under Windoze? (I am assuming the
> Artisoft is ethernet, just not positive, an old card laying around).
>
> If there is no support for these under Linux is it possible I can write a device
>driver
> for one or the other? I would guess the Linksys Ether16 LAN Card since I have
> the most documentation on it (the Windoze setup disk) that I can probably figure
> out what it's doing.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, since I'm trying to connect my 2 boxes together
> (Win95 and Linux box).
I've had the Ether16's running in Win31 and Win95, now Linux RH
5.0 (2.0.??)(386/25) and 5.2 (2.0.36)(486/66), Win31 and Win95
used the drivers that came with the card or from Linksys WWW and
Linux uses the ne2000 driver. Use the Linksys setup program to
set the IOaddr and IRQ on the board, I'm using 300, 5. I just
picked up another one tonight for $19 at CompUSA (in case I can't
get the Linksys 10/100 to work) along with a HP 333 Celeron
(refurb) in which I plan to install RH 5.2.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Allsup)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: printing with HP 870cSE
Date: 21 Dec 1998 21:48:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 21 Dec 1998 07:58:13 -0500, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have redhat 5.2 installed and have an HP 870cSE connected to a Lantronics
>print server. I can print ASCII just fine to the printer (except that I
>need to hit the page feed after/before each page).
>
>Anyhow, I can't do dumps (prints) from netscape. The printer just locks up
>with the orange light flashing.
>
>I'm using the HP 550 driver - should I use something else? Or, is it not
>possible to print graphics to my 870cSE?
>
FWIW, using RedHat, I can print to my 870 using the 550 driver OK;
text, graphics, color,
whatever, works fine; but it's a local printer on /dev/lp1. So, the 870
can do it - could it be your network setup that's the problem? I used
to use apsfilter to handle printing and have this vague recollection that
it wouldn't work with network printers....
Anyway, good luck,
geoff
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Geoff Allsup Upper Ocean Processes Group
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA, USA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ISDN cards on LINUX
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 05:22:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> from my Suse Kernel 2.0.36:
>
> Supported cards
> ---------------
>
> Eicon.Diehl Diva 2.0 ISA and PCI (S0 and U interface, no PRO version)
> Eicon.Diehl Diva Piccola
> Hope this helps. Well maybe not ;-(
> Marcus
Marcus,
That was very useful, thanks very much. The whole list !! WOW. It was
actually the Eicon Diva or the RACAL one that I was looking for. The EIcon is
on the list but I could not find the RACAL. Eicon is made in Germany so I
would expect Linux to support it. Racal I think is made in USA. But maybe it
has another name that I will find out.
Anyhow, one more question. With the linux drivers for this ISDN card, I
presume that this gives normal TCP/IP connection such that one is able to
access it from a remote site using FTP and telnet? Or does the driver give
COM port emulation? Also, does it support channel bonding or MPPP?
TIA
Phil
> Phil Segall wrote:
>
> > From what I have seen so far, Linux supports ISDN cards that have the
> > Siemens chip. Which chip is this? I have an EICON Diva Pro card that I
> > use under NT that has a Siemens chip. The markings on it are "Siemens
> > PSB 2186N V1.1, ISAC (R) - S.TE, GERMANY"
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From: Jonathan Wurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse won't work properly!
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 05:30:45 GMT
The intellimouse apparently doesn't use the standard PS/2 interface,
check
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
to set up an X-server with intellimouse support.
Kuokai Shyu wrote:
>
> Hi, I have installed the RedHat 5.2 packages on Dell PC, but the mouse
> won't listen my command. The mouse is Microsoft PS2 IntelliMouse.
> The left and right click buttons are not working well. Sometimes I
> can highlight text, but can absolutely Not paste the text.
> and it will mess up the window.
>
> Will anyone help me this matter?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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From: "Alan Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach Montego AGP sound card
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:22:24 -0000
Sorry, my mistake, confused it with the video card (which is AGP and works
fine, although I'm having some trouble getting it to run in high colour
under X - it's an STB Velocity128). Is there not some way I can at least
get the CD music playing with my card without needing manufacturers drivers?
I would have thought if anything, midi would be the problem. Any ideas ??
Al
Dan wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Your sound card is not an AGP card. Its a PCI card. I have the same one and
>someone told me that currently, there is no driver available fo the chipset
>that the Montego uses but one is supposedly under develpoment.
>
>Dan
>
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