Linux-Hardware Digest #50, Volume #9 Tue, 29 Dec 98 02:13:46 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux and 3c905B-TX ("Christian")
SCSI cable question 50pin -> DB25? (Keith W Sheffield)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem ("David J. Looney")
Re: Linux driver for Mustek's ScanMagic 9636P
Re: SCSI cable question 50pin -> DB25? (Shashank Misra)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem ("David J. Looney")
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem ("David J. Looney")
Re: Dual channel SCSI card for Linux? (Nick Monyatovsky)
Re: Turtle Beach Montego A3D sound cards (Dan Nguyen)
Re: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP !!!!! Ethernet Card Trouble (Glenn Valenta)
Re: Aztech Labs 336SP modem problem (Jesse McDonnell)
Diamond Viper V550? (Thomas Mullaly)
Re: 01010101 after boot (Jeffrey Bridge)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Steve Mading)
OPTi 82c391 setup (Ivan Dobrianov)
Re: Zip drive manufactured by NEC (root)
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From: "Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and 3c905B-TX
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:58:52 -0700
just unplug the machine after turning it off..this worked for me..
of course this is for ATX Mainboards.....if you don't have an ATX board,
then this probably wont work...this is especially bad for the bx chipset...
Kris Hartojo wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Steve Romero wrote:
>
>> Philip Strnad wrote:
>>
>> > I was going to post the same question today. I am having lots of
>> > problems with this card. It used to work in Redhat 5.2. I was running
>> > Win98 on the other partition, and everything was working great. Then I
>> > had to reinstall 98, and now the card doesn't work at all. Sometimes
it
>> > is detected as a "Vortex" card, although I think it is actually a
>> > considered a "Cyclone" card. In any case, the setup program then tells
>> > me that it can't find the card anywhere. There is an option in expert
>> > mode that lets you pass some arguments to the kernel (I think that is
>> > what the terminlogy was, but I am not a guru, so I can't remember the
>> > exact words). I have not been able to try this yet since I am not
>> > really an expert.
>> >
>> > Strangely enough, when Linux was working a week ago, it always detected
>> > the card as a "Vortex," and it ran without any problems. Another thing
>> > is that I recently got a static IP address, and the card stopped
working
>> > in Linux on the same day. But I highly doubt this has anything to do
>> > with the problem.
>> >
>> > Finally, I when trying this card with Redhat 5.0, I get all kinds of
>> > "PCI device not found" errors when starting the installation. If
anyone
>> > wants the exact messages, let me know.
>> >
>> > If anyone has any feedback or ideas, please let me know. Thanks.
>> >
>> > -Philip
>> >
>> > chris jackson wrote:
>> > >
>> > > has anyone gotten this card to work. according to "official" support
its in
>> > > the tier 2 (for both RH5.1 and RH5.2) hardware listing and should
work.
>> > > however, i have yet to see it work. any advice greatly appreciated.
>>
>> The card will work, but I think that you may be seeing the Win95/98/NT
effect on
>> the card. If you run windows and then attempt to boot into linux the
card will
>> not be recognized. Took me a while to figure this one out. There are
only two
>> ways that I know of to get around this; 1. wait for about a half an hour
or so
>> between boots from windows to linux, 2. start the machine in dos mode,
(f8 on
>> start-up for windows 95/98) or boot from a floppy. Then run the
configuration
>> utility (3c90xcfg.exe) and attempt to change the interupt. I say attempt
>> because you can't change the irq on a pci card from dos. But what this
will do
>> is reset the card and allow you to boot directly into linux.
>>
>> Hope this helps...
>
>Had this problem too, but I don't have to wait the half hour. Yes I do have
to turn
>of the machine, but only for a few seconds.
>K.
>
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From: Keith W Sheffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI cable question 50pin -> DB25?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 04:13:10 GMT
I have a scsi device that uses a 25 pin cable so it can be connected to
a Mac or a PC with an external DB25 connector.
At some point in the future, I'd like to have an internal SCSI CD writer
and be able to use this external device.
Since there are very few PCI SCSI controllers with a DB25 connector
(much less one with an internal connector also), is it possible to get a
card with a 50 (or greater?) pin external connector and then have some
sort of adapter cable to connect the card to the external device?
Thanks.
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Keith Sheffield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David J. Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 06:03:36 GMT
"David M. Cook" wrote:
> >[I wrote]
> >as many brands of both "full" and "winmodems" now state that they
> >require MS Windows, without any discrimination.
>
> Do they work with NT?
I think the lucent chipset winmodems do work with NT. Some others posted
that the push to NT would prevent winmodems from proliferating, but NT
drivers seem to be around ....
Dave Looney
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Linux driver for Mustek's ScanMagic 9636P
Date: 28 Dec 1998 22:18:03 GMT
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:26:48 +0100, Thomas Gattinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there!
>
>A good idea to write mustek-drivers!
>btw I have a mustek scanexpress 12000SP.
>
>FOX
Hi there! Please respond below the previous article, and only leave
in what you think is relevant. :)
The Mustek ScanExpress 12000SP actually IS supported by SANE.
Check it out at http://www.mostang.com/sane
Bas Vermeulen
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I really thank Microsoft(TM) for encouraging manufacturers to label their
products this way, so I know what to AVOID.
I stick to quality software:
Linux 2.0.36 | IBM OS/2 Warp (TM) v4.0
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From: Shashank Misra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI cable question 50pin -> DB25?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:20:48 -0600
Hello,
Yes, it is. For example, the tape drive at work is connected using a 68
ultrawide to 50 pin Centronics cable. In fact, most any combination can be
found. External cables, particularly ones that go from one type of
connector to another, are expensive (that one ran $40 methinks)
s
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From: "David J. Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 06:06:13 GMT
Bruce Thornhill wrote:
[r.e. why winmodems won't win]
> AFAIK, they work ONLY on Win9x machines. The
> direct-hardware software drivers violate NT architecture so they won't
> even work there.
The PCI Lucent 1646 based ones are still, AFAIK, winmodems, but are
advertised as working on Win95, Win98, AND NT.
Dave Looney
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From: "David J. Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 06:11:28 GMT
John Thompson wrote:
[ r.e. winmodems and NT]
> I think this will be the real test. As Microsoft trys to move
> people to WinNT v5/Win2000/Whatever will they further compromise
> NT by allowing direct hardware access for devices like Winmodems
I think 'tis done. At least Lucent 1646 based PCI modems, which have
been labeled by sales and tech support people as "winmodems", are
described as having "operating system support" (including V.34 and V.90
drivers) for Win95,98, AND NT. Besides, I wouldn't count on anyone
being driven towards NT by MS to care about compromise ....
Dave Looney
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Monyatovsky)
Subject: Re: Dual channel SCSI card for Linux?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:32:50 GMT
On 27 Dec 1998 13:35:51 GMT, Tim Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>> "Ben Goble, Lakewood Colorado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>> >
>>> >I an trying to find a dual channel wide SCSI controller
>>> >that will work with Linux. I purchased a Mylex (BusLogic)
>>> >KT-952 but have had no end of problems with it.[CHOP]
>>>
>>> Linux runs well on my Adaptec AHA-3940 dual channel board...
>>> it's not a wide board, but I suspect that this means that the
>>> 3940UW dual channel wide SCSI card ought to work...
>>>
>>> -Tim
I have 3940UW. Had a lot of problems with the older motherboard, but then
bought a new one, and everything is fine. I have only one channel loaded
though, but am happy that it works. When I was buying it the dominant opinion
was that it would not run under linux at all -- Adaptec was changing the specs
on the boards and would not share the information. I knew this, but still
bought it (for NT). Turns out, it works under linux just fine using the
2940/..... drivers. Maybe I just got lucky.
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach Montego A3D sound cards
Date: 29 Dec 1998 02:38:04 GMT
Alan Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: From looking around various sites, it would seem that my PCI sound card is
: not yet supported on RedHat. It uses Sound Blaster Pro compatibility under
: DOS for games - can I set this card up to produce even basic sound
: capability in Linux such as playing an audio CD?? Please help me if there
: is something I can do as working mute is depressing :o((
You can't. TB Montego loads drivers to emulate SB. None exist for
linux, and will probably never exist. Wait a few more months until
OSS (www.opensound.com) release the driver.
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http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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From: Glenn Valenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP !!!!! Ethernet Card Trouble
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 06:18:28 GMT
T1 wrote:
>
> I am trying to install Redhat Linux 5.2 onto my system via FTP since I
> am sick and tired of buying Linux by the time a new version always
> comes out. Besides, I don't have anymore hard drive space although I
> formated a hard drive for RH linux. I am using an SMC PCI 10 Ethernet
> card and I have a direct connection via Cox@home. I downloaded both
> the supp and boot images and placed them to two floppies, booted via
> my floppy, chose FTP as installation option, inserted supp disk, and
> then I had no problem choosing NE2000 PCI. However, when I got to the
> autoprobing option, I got that annoying and irritating error message
> saying "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable." Anybody got a
> solution to this error message?
My SMC card at work was not a NE2000PCI, I was able to pick what it was from
the number on the chip set though.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse McDonnell)
Subject: Re: Aztech Labs 336SP modem problem
Date: 29 Dec 1998 04:48:55 GMT
If you can do so, try disabling PnP in the BIOS. Is cuaX/comX+1 (the com port
on which you have the modem) being identified correctly at bootup as
UART type 16550A or as UART type "unknown?" If it's being identified as
type "unknown" disabling PnP should work.
Good Luck,
Jesse McDonnell
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On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:53:11 -0500, kofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i have an aztech plug and play modem-sound card that linux rh5.1 wont
>work with
>it is not on the incompatible devices lits in the hardwere howto
>i have tryed to setserial all the possible combinations and to use
>the isapnp program, but still it doesnt work.. any ideas ?
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From: Thomas Mullaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond Viper V550?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 06:49:52 +0000
Any one ever heard of Diamond's Viper V550 working under RedHat?
thanks,
-tom
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From: Jeffrey Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 01010101 after boot
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:52:56 -0600
Villy Kruse wrote:
> In article <756k1q$4an$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Andrew Rothstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Try clearing the boot sector (fdisk /MBR), disk booting linux, and
> >reinstalling lilo(/sbin/lilo).
> >
>
> You should put the boot sectors on either hda or hdb where bios can
> read it. By boot sectors I mean the lilo itslef, the contents of /boot
> and the kernel file 'vmlinuz'. This can be accomplished by making a small
> ext2 file system on hda size one or two MB and contained entirely below
> cyl 1023. This file system should be mounted as /boot and the contents
> of the current boot directory should be trnaferred to this file system.
> Of cours you need to mount this file system on another directory while
> transferring the contents. When all this is done and the kernel is also
> copied to the new /boot file system run lilo and install it either in
> the /boot partition on hda or the MBR on hda.
>
> If you have official redhat read FAQ E.6.18 in the Installation Guide
> (rel 5.2) page 324.
>
> Villy
>
> >Drew
> >Rodolphe POLLET ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >: Hello everybody,
> >
> >: I'm in serious trouble. I used to have Linux on hda (on a WD HD) and everything
>was fine. Then somebody asked me to put W95 so i bought an IBM HD.
> >: I decided first to put W95 alone on hda and CDROM on hdb. After i installed W95,
>at reboot, i saw 010101001... on the screen, printing infinitly.
> >: Thinking that it was a problem with my IBM HD, i changed it for a new one (a
>Seagate). Everything seemed to work so i brought back Linux and my new configuration
>was :
> etc.....
I also got this error before when I had overlapping partitions on the same drive, an
ext2 and a swap. However, I assume it could occur with any two overlapping partitions.
Tilde,
Jeffrey :j
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Mading)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: 29 Dec 1998 00:42:57 -0600
mlw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: David M. Cook wrote:
: >
: > On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 23:52:51 GMT, David J. Looney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > wrote:
: >
: > >as many brands of both "full" and "winmodems" now state that they
: > >require MS Windows, without any discrimination.
: >
: > Do they work with NT?
: >
: > >important to get one of the major manufacturers to release their specs
: > >so that at least a minimal driver can be written.
: >
: > Short of industrial espionage and sit ins, I don't see what can be done
: > about it.
: >
: > Dave Cook
: My suggestion is buy Modems that don't call themselves Winmodems, when
: they don't work -- return them and complain, call the manufacturor and
: complain. Bean counters count the cost of this stuff. The margins are so
: slim, the cost of making a Winmodem will grow beyond the cost of stock
: modems. We win.
At the very least it might get them to start labelling them correctly.
(Most of them are starting to think that saying "works on windows 95"
is enough, not realizing that "is capable of working on windows 95" is
very different from "can *only* work on windows 95 and nothing else.")
I avoid the problem by refusing all internal modems and only getting
externals. If there's no physical connection to the motherboard other
than through a standard rs232 port, then I'm guaranteed that there's no
way in hell it can offload some of its responsibility to the CPU no matter
what it says on the box in the store. Granted it costs about $10-15 more
than an equivilent internal modem, but then you get Dasblinkelights on the
modem. You can never have too many blinkenlights.
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From: Ivan Dobrianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPTi 82c391 setup
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:10:06 -0500
Problem: I have an OPTi 391 based sound card and after fiddling with
"isapnptools" and direct
register setup, I can only barely get it to work --- just play sound, no
microphone, no MIDI.
I have spent a few days now wondering what I did wrong (assumig there is
a way to do it right,
that is).
At the end of this posting I attach sample of the setup/diagnostic
sequences.
I'd appreciate any help, suggestions, samples.
Here are some questions that I have:
1) When I "make config" the sound driver, what is the correct model.
I say "yes" to
"MPU-401 support" and "MS Sound System support" only. Is this right?
("no" to MAD16 supp)
2) Has anyone gotten the microphone to work? It "functions" for me, i.e.
I can change the
mic gain with a mixer program, but when I do
> dd bs=8k count=4 < /dev/audio > ! test.au
then
> cat test.au > /dev/audio
only gives noise! It plays fine if I "cat" any correct .au file (e.g.
downloaded from
somewhere).
3) I can't ever get the MPU401 to work with playmidi. Has anyone been
successful? Which
option is the correct one:
1. External midi synth, Ensoniq Soundscape, TB Maui, waveblaster cards
2. Yamaha 2-op FM
3. Yamaha 4-op FM
4. Gravis Ultrasound
5. SB AWE32 Synth
... fancier quesions
4) Can I get it to work in duplex mode?
5) pnpdump says (among other things)
# First DMA channel 0, 1 or 3.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed type F
Isn't this supposed to be a 16-bit DMA (it says it on the box at least
:-)
THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY ADVICE!
Ivan
PS: Relevant websites:
http://www.physics.mun.ca/~jwoodfd/opti931.html
http://www.sequel.demon.co.uk/opti.htm
======================================================================
Here is my init sequence:
#isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked
Board 1 has Identity 74 ff ff ff ff 31 09 14 3e: OPT0931 Serial No -1
[checksum 74]
OPT0931/-1[1]{OPTi Audio 16 }: Ports 0x534 0x380 0x220 0xE0C;
IRQ11 DMA0 DMA1 --- Enabled OK
OPT0931/-1[2]{Game Port }: Port 0x200; --- Enabled OK
OPT0931/-1[3]{MPU401 }: Port 0x330; IRQ7 --- Enabled OK
/sbin/opti82c931 01 0x07 03 0x21 04 0x54 05 0x30 06 0x9a
MCR1 <- 07
MCR3 <- 21
MCR4 <- 54
MCR5 <- 30
MCR6 <- 9A
opti82c931
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26
01 00 21 54 30 9A CB 80 00 11 03 00 21 00 80 00 08 09 E0 82 00 00 00 00
00 00
The various /dev and /proc files:
> cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free3.8s9-980302 (Thu Dec 24 17:47:22 EST 1998 root,
Linux d185cea5b 2.0.36 #1 Tue Dec 22 18:41:16 EST 1998 i586 unknown)
Load type: Driver loaded as a module.
Kernel: Linux d185cea5b 2.0.36 #1 Tue Dec 22 18:41:16 EST 1998 i586
Config options: 210
Installed drivers:
Type 10: MS Sound System
Type 27: Compaq Deskpro XL
Type 5: Roland MPU-401
Card config:
MS Sound System at 0x530 irq 11 drq 0,0
Roland MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 7 drq 0
Audio devices:
0: MSS audio codec (82C930)
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 0.0 Midi interface #1
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: MSS audio codec (82C930)
> cat /proc/interrupts
0: 52122051 timer
1: 171874 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
4: 1445185 + serial
7: 88 mpu401
8: 1 + rtc
11: 5272560 MSS audio codec
12: 190037 eth0
13: 1 math error
14: 297815 + ide0
>egrep \#defin /etc/soundconf
#define CONFIG_MPU401
#define CONFIG_MSS
#define CONFIG_AD1848
#define CONFIG_SEQUENCER
#define CONFIG_AUDIO
#define CONFIG_MIDI
#define MPU_BASE 0x330
#define MPU_IRQ 7
#define MSS_BASE 0x530
#define MSS_IRQ 11
#define MSS_DMA 0
#define SELECTED_SOUND_OPTIONS 0x00000210
> egrep -v '^\#' /etc/isapnp.conf
(READPORT 0x0203)
(ISOLATE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
(CONFIGURE OPT0931/-1 (LD 1
(IO 0 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0534))
(IO 1 (SIZE 12) (BASE 0x0380))
(IO 2 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
(IO 3 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0e0c))
(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 1))
(NAME "OPT0931/-1[1]{OPTi Audio 16 }")
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE OPT0931/-1 (LD 2
(IO 0 (SIZE 1) (BASE 0x0200))
(NAME "OPT0931/-1[2]{Game Port }")
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE OPT0931/-1 (LD 3
(IO 0 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
(INT 0 (IRQ 7 (MODE +E)))
(NAME "OPT0931/-1[3]{MPU401 }")
(ACT Y)
))
(CSN 1 (LD 0 (REG 2 (POKE 4))))
(WAITFORKEY)
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip drive manufactured by NEC
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:38:24 -0500
Hi,
I have solved my problem, sorry for bothering you. I have removed the
master/slave jumper. It seems that the NEC drives are jumpered
differently. Win95 does not bother about the master/slave setting.
G. Jablonski
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