Linux-Hardware Digest #55, Volume #9 Tue, 29 Dec 98 22:13:36 EST
Contents:
Re: Human based computers (Was - Fruit-based computers) (Marc)
Re: LaserPrinter suggestions, please (Ashok Aiyar)
Processors? (Bill Pitz)
Re: winmodems (Jason Dixon)
Re: modules, noyau, configuration et compilation (Hashi)
Re: When will kernel 2.2 be released? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mat=EDas?= Orchard V.)
Sharing my UMAX Astra 610s scanner w/ UMAX Scan Manager v1.2, using SANE (Redhat
5.2 Linux) ("SCSI")
Re: Can linux handle UDMA/33? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Stand Alone External ISDN TA's (recommendations plz :) ) (Bill Pitz)
Re: Insmod doesn't like Module NE2000. (Kaz Morishita)
Hercules Terminator 3D (Ben Taylor)
Re: AOpen fm56pvs-t, any luck with this? (Jeffrey Bridge)
Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am stuck
in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (THE DUNGEONS OF
DOOOOOOOOOOM)
Re: Corrupt partition table and only L when booting. (Andries Brouwer)
Monitor Setup for Laptop ("Peter")
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Matthias Warkus)
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,bionet.plants
Subject: Re: Human based computers (Was - Fruit-based computers)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:48:29 GMT
I think I saw somthing like this,,wasn't Homer Simpson the first recipient (PII)
*grin* :)
Patrick Jelinck wrote:
> these math coprocessors will never work...
> because the human cpu and the ram can not be overclocked, not even at
> 100mhz
>
> silicium based fpu's are inaccurate for low speed bio-cpu's
>
> and an fpu bus buffer would not have the necessary capacity ( ~ 1 GB )
>
> 9 Oct 1998 23:04:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
> wrote:
>
> >William Justice Black schrieb:
> >>
> >> gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> : Larry Smithmier wrote:
> >> : > Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> >> : > > Frampton Steve R wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> : Firstly, the concept:
> >> : "Bio-interactive computational entity for additional analytical
> >> : abilities for humans" In laymans terms, a device inserted in to a human
> >> : which will allow previously impossible calculations to be performed
> >> : "internally". The concept specifies that this bio-compatible computer
> >> : will provide an additional support role for for the computational and
> >> : analytical processes of the human brain. It will not supercede the brain
> >> : as a processing unit. The brain will still be most important, otherwise
> >> : we have an andriod, not a human.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> Honestly, I'd be happy if I just had a decent mathco ;-)
> >
> >There's an SF book where humans have got mathematical coprocessors
> >implanted in their brain (as well as pagers etc.).
> >IIRC, it's _A_New_Proteus_, I don't recall the author.
> >
> >mawa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashok Aiyar)
Subject: Re: LaserPrinter suggestions, please
Date: 30 Dec 1998 01:15:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:35:05 +0100,
Norbert Goebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>I am planning to buy a new LaserPrinter for homeuse.
>What I need is a laserprinter working with Linux and Windows (sorry, I
>have to use it for a few things) with good grayscail printing and good
>overall printing. Postscript (if I am right, every postscript printer
>works with Linux?) would be nice but is not a must.
>My limit is somewhere at $700.
>
>I searched a while and found some printers which sound interesting:
>- Kyocera FS-800
>- Brother HL-1070
>- Brother HL-1050
>
>Any opinions on these printers (ease of use, overall printing costs,
>failures, limitations) or other printer suggestions are very welcome.
I have no experience with any of those printers, but do have two
recommendations.
a) Lexmark Optra K 1220
1200 dpi , 8 ppm , 2 megs RAM standard
Postcript Level 2 and PCL 6 compliant
MSRP $805.20
street price
b) Lexmark Optra S 1255
1200 dpi , 12 ppm , 4 megs RAM standard
Postscript Level 2 and PCL 6 compliant
MSRP $1018.80
The lowest mail-order price for the Optra K 1220 is $639.00
(quoted from http://www.shopper.com), and the lowest mail-order
price for the Optra S 1255 is $842.00 (quoted from the same source)
I have an Optra S 1255 at home, and it has worked flawlessly. I
know of someone who has a Optra K 1220N (the network version of
the Optra K 1220) and she too is very satisfied with the printer.
The 1200 dpi resolution is spectacular.
Later,
Ashok
--
Ashok Aiyar, Ph.D.
McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
http://ebv.oncology.wisc.edu/~aiyar
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From: Bill Pitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Processors?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:29:08 GMT
I know this is off-topic, but I'm having a heck of a time finding what
I'm looking for.
Does anybody know of a good place online to buy processors?
Specifically, I am looking for a Pentium 200 (mmx or no mmx...makes no
difference) or an AMD K6/200.
Thanks...
Bill
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From: Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.unix,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,at.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: winmodems
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:14:59 -0500
If anyone has any questions concerning the compatibility of their modem,
or the purchase of a new modem without the winmodem specs, I highly
recommend the following web page by Charles Clark:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
If only I had known before.... ;)
David Fox wrote:
>
> d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox) writes:
>
> > Henry Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Two observations:
> > >
> > > 1) I've been doing a bit of research now looking for an internal V.90 modem
> > > that will plug into my PCI bus as I don't have any ISA slots
> > > free. It appears that all PCI bus V.90 modems (Please correct
> > > me if I'm wrong) are "winmodems" or need special drivers to work
> > > either under Winblows or DOS.
> >
> > The Multitech MultiModemZPX-PCI (Model number MT5634ZPX-PCI) *appears*
> > to be a PCI bus "realmodem" (tm). Someone should try it in a Linux
> > box. I see it at www.mcglen.com for $145.84.
>
> According to another thread in this group ("RedHat 5.2 Compatible
> 56K Voice/Data/Fax Modem") the modem seems to work under Linux. If
> the modem the poster is talking about is indeed the PCI model, as it
> seems to be.
> --
> David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
> UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:33:40 +0000
From: Hashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: modules, noyau, configuration et compilation
salut,
malheureusement je ne sais pas parler Francais tres bien, desole.
mais si je t'ai bien compris (et tu sais parler un peu Anglais), je
pense que tu peut trouver tout que tu cherches ici:
http://www.linux-howto.com/
a bientot et bon chance,
Hashi.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mat=EDas?= Orchard V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: When will kernel 2.2 be released?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:06:57 -0400
TODAY was released pre1!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi=F3:
> By December 1999?
>
> -----------=3D=3D Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network =3D=3D--=
========
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own=
--
Mat=EDas Orchard V.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 460589
why reboot? use Linux.
Red Hat 5.2 ~ kernel 2.0.36 ~ KDE 1.0
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From: "SCSI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sharing my UMAX Astra 610s scanner w/ UMAX Scan Manager v1.2, using SANE
(Redhat 5.2 Linux)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.scanner,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.graphics.apps.gimp,linux.samba
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:02:12 GMT
How do I get SANE on my Linux workstation to be configured to use my UMAX
Astra 610s over the network when it is being served by the UMAX Scan
Manager v1.2 (part of VistaScan v3.1)?
THIS TOPIC HAS STUMPED ME FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW, AND THE SANE
DOCUMENTATION SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THIS.
How can it be done?
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can linux handle UDMA/33?
Date: 29 Dec 1998 12:01:27 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyndon F. Bartels) writes:
Kernel 2.0.36 (and some 2.1.xxx ?) is supposed to.
Do try one before buying a box of them, tho. I may have
something misconfigured (I haven't done much investigation),
but my tests with "hdparm -tT /dev/xxx" didn't show
any improvement over my non-UMDA disk or with UMDA
disabled on the MB.
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From: Bill Pitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stand Alone External ISDN TA's (recommendations plz :) )
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:33:30 GMT
Hi:
I might be needing to setup an ISDN connection or two in the coming weeks. How well
does this router work for true "routing" of real IP addresses? For example, I would
like to have the router connected on one IP address, and route one or two other IP's
through it for mail services, etc. Does it also support something similar to the
Linux IP Masquerading?
Also, how easy is remote maintenance? Does it support telnet-in access?
Thanks,
Bill
Jason McKnight wrote:
> "Henry T. Nettles" wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:35:00 -0500, "Winter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >I was wondering if anyone here was using a stand alone external ISDN
> > >Terminal Adapter.
> > >I am looking for one with POTS jacks that will function when the computer is
> > >off (if that
> > >exists :) ). Any suggestions or information will be greatly appreciated..
> > >
> > >TIA,
> > >Mike
> > >
> >
> > Why don't you just get an ISDN router? The Netgear RT-328 can be had
> > for around $250, delivered, and works great with
> > W95/W98/NT4/NT5/Linux....
>
> I have the above router and love it. It is super easy to configure and is totally
> independent of your system. Get the FA310Tx card to go with it and you will have
> everything going in a matter of minutes.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:26:21 -0800
From: Kaz Morishita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Insmod doesn't like Module NE2000.
Try 'insmod 8390' before you do 'insmod yourNIC.'
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Sean wrote:
> In my experience ethernet hardware drivers do not work well as modules, compile
> it into the kernel.
>
>
> R.C. wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to get my ISA D-Link DE-220PCT working under SuSE 5.3. I
> > have already used the utility on the installation disk to turn off PnP to
> > avoid problems there. There are no conflicts with other cards that I know
> > of... But when I do an insmod ne, I get six lines of errors after it:
> > /lib/modules/2.0.35/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open
> > /lib/modules/2.0.35/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init
> > /lib/modules/2.0.35/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_debug
> > /lib/modules/2.0.35/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_interrupt
> > /lib/modules/2.0.35/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol NS8390_init
> > /lib/modules/2.0.35/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_closed
> >
> > This thing is really starting to tick me off. I have spent the last two
> > days working on this thing, to no avail. I have tried different settings,
> > recompiling, and removing other cards. Any and all help would be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > RC
>
> --
> ________________________________________________
> Sean Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Technician/Programmer Computer Gallery
> www.cgallery.com Redhat Linux Reseller
> ________________________________________________
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Ben Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Hercules Terminator 3D
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:35:02 +0000
Hi,
I'm having problems getting my Hercules Terminator 3D(GLH), (128bit AGP)
graphics card working with X. It has the 'S3 Trio 3D' chipset with 8Mb
of VideoRAM.
If I configure the Generic VGA setup it works (as you'd expect) but the
other drivers cause the X Server to crash. I tried the SVGA driver, the
screen
appears scrambled then the machine hangs.
I'm useing a clean install of RedHat 5.2 on a Pentium II with 128Mb of
SDRAM.
Any help would be much appreciated, please e-mail be at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many thanks,
Ben Taylor
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From: Jeffrey Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOpen fm56pvs-t, any luck with this?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:37:50 -0600
Jon Milliren wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I just bought this modem. It has jumpers to select the "com port"
> and IRQ. Alls well, I put it in my Linux box (5.1, 2.0.35) with the modem
> jumpered to com 2, IRQ 3 (same as the previous modem).
>
> I can dial out and use the modem using minicom (albeit calling a
> number that is not my ISP). I've studied the command set (the manual AOpen
> provided only gave a listing of the registers, I had to cop a USR manual
> for a modem that uses the same chip), but when I connect to my ISP (using
> pppd), my connection is not that fast, and I get booted. Modem diagnostics
> state for "reason call disconnected was dropped DTR. If I disable DTR
> operations, the modem cannot retrain.
>
> Now, this modem has been flash upgraded to that v90 and my ISP
> says it supports v90. The only conflict in this area is that the modem was
> originally an x2 and my ISP is a kflex/v90 ISP. I don't know if that makes
> a diff or not. ISP tech support is no help. AOpen says post to their
> newsgroup and wait. The people I bought the modem from know nothing about
> Linux (the guy actually said once they had it working under wondows 95,
> they proclaimed success), sooooo...
>
> I guess my questions are
>
> 1) Did I buy a winmodem =(
> 2) Has anyone out there got this to work?
> 3) May it be my ISP?
>
> Thanks for all your help!!!
I have had problems connecting with my V.90 (upgraded from K56flex) to an ISP
line that is labelled "X2/V.90", so I think that's the problem. Even though
it's supposedly true V.90, I've found it to not work.
Tilde,
Jeffrey :j
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM )
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 02:33:19 GMT
Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
you all will be able to figure out the sticky problem I'm stuck with
and may even know how to help me out of it. I currently am running
Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
that's what I have been told and eventually found out. Besides, sure I
can download 500 MB in 2 hrs without any trouble via my cable modem,
but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
install). I'm not sure if Linux will do it off my zip disks if I copy
linux to 6 zip discs. In any case, these wonderful people keep on
changing the versions of RH Linux. Therefore having got fed up with
it, I looked in the book which talked about RH Linux and how to
install. Well, I had versions 3 and 4 of RH but since some of my
crucial hardware at that time could not be recognized I abandoned RH
until I finally found out that if I had a direct connection with
Cox@home just like corporations and universities that have a direct
connection with their T1, T3, OC-3, etc... server, then you don't even
have to download RH linux. All you really have to download are the
boot.img and supp.img files and transfer them to two blank but
formatted 3.5" high density disks. So I did just that and booted up my
machine and when I got to the installation method option, I chose ftp
method. When I got to the ethernet card question, I 3c509 driver. By
the way, I still have the 3c509b PnP 16-bit Ethernet adaptor which I
obtained when I used to attend another university. Rather than sell
it, I kept it for something like a cable modem. In fact that same
ethernet card I had was part of the requirements for my cable modem
installation. Anyway, RH Linux never in the past had any trouble
recognizing my ethernet card. The only trouble was recognizing my
video cards,my parallel port zip drive, and my higher capacity hard
drive. here, in 5.2 that was not the problem. however, when I got to
the options of DHCP, BOOTP, and Static Address, I chose the Static
option and filled in my fields correctly. However, I got an error
message saying unable to connect to host. I fully verified the ftp
site address and typed it correctly. So I then went back and tried the
other two options only to get the "no response" error message from
bootp and dhcp. So the question still remains, isn't it possible to
install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
are to be made during installation?
Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: Corrupt partition table and only L when booting.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:34:56 GMT
Tobias Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: I tried to install Redhat Linux 5.2. I created two partitions. One
: native as / (root) and another on my second harddrive as swap.
: The installation seemed to work out fine. When it was time to reboot I
: did so. Then I only got the first letter in LILO boot. A "L" and the
: system crashed/hanged.
: I thought that only the LILO boot wasn't installed correctly. I tried to
: install Redhat Linux 5.2 again. Full installation again, and on the same
: partitions. But this didn't help, same result. Then I wrote fdisk /mbr
: at my two harddrives and restored everything as it was before the
: installation, without any LILO boot.
: Then I thought that the LILO boot was destroyed at the CD with Redhat
: Linux 5.2 so I decided to install Redhat Linux 5.0 and upgrade that
: version to 5.2. I created a startdisk and tried to install 5.0. When I
: came to the part where you choose to use "Diskdruid" I got a warning
: message:
: "The partition table on device hda is corrupted to create new partitions
: it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive"
: The first drive, hda is the drive which I run Win 95 from. It seem to
: work :), but something is probobly wrong.
Clearly you want to see what is there before starting installs
and the like. (By the way, be careful with "Disk Druid" - some
versions use a partition numbering different from the one
the kernel uses, which then results in an install to the wrong
partition, destroying everything that was there.)
So, I would start finding some Linux boot/rescue disk with an fdisk
(cfdisk or sfdisk are best) and look closely at the partition table.
Of course there are DOS utilities as well - I think Partition Magic
comes with a partition table lister, and there are many others.
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From: "Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.linux,comp.linux.os,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.ne
Subject: Monitor Setup for Laptop
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:57:21 +0800
Hello,
I am using a Dell Latitude CPi laptop. What should I choose in Linux
monitor setup?
Please reply directly to me.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 01:27:31 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 29 Dec 1998 16:02:01 -0500...
..and Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nico Kadel-Garcia) writes:
>
> > No. Forcing users to have another power plug on their desk and more
> > cables to cope with sucks pretty severely, even if Dasblinkelights
> > are extremely useful for troubleshooting.
>
> It's "dasgeblinkenlights".
It's "das blinkenlichten". Trust me. It's in the Jargon File.
mawa
--
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My Geek Code is no longer in my .signature. It's available on e-mail request.
It's sad to live in a world where knowing how to program your VCR actually
lowers your social status...
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