Linux-Hardware Digest #111, Volume #9 Tue, 5 Jan 99 13:13:29 EST
Contents:
Please Help With Modem ("Brett R. Rosselle")
Re: Printers for OS/2 and Linux ("Dave Nelson")
Re: how to drive lots of serial devices (M. Buchenrieder)
crazy overclocked celeron and kernel? (Brian Gilman)
Need advice on what network cards to buy (Mars)
Divde by zero error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Enabling MPU-401 support with a SB16 sound card (Paolo Amoroso)
Re: Minimalist Instalation? No CDROM.... (Raymond Lillard)
Re: 3c905B running DHCP in Red Hat 5.1 (Mick Costa)
euro support in kernel 2.0 ("Colin Ling")
Need Integrated PCI AMD Fast SCSI 2 Driver ("Davep")
Re: Sound Blaster Live! (Peter Samuelson)
Re: AMD k-6 & external cache failure ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: Can linux handle UDMA/33? (Ron DeLorme)
Re: maxtor 17gig and rh 5.1 (joey)
Re: STB Velocity V4400 ("rhs")
Re: FAQ to this group anywhere? ("Robert J. Hansen")
Re: RC.INET???????? (Adao Santos)
Modem vs. Sound card (RH5.2) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
patch/driver for Adaptec AAA-130SA / AAA-133SA RAID controller ?? (Stefan Kluthe)
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From: "Brett R. Rosselle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please Help With Modem
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 12:20:36 +0000
Hi all,
Most of the time when I attempt to connect to my ISP with my ISDN modem,
the modem detects what it
thinks is a busy signal. It is not. The ISDN modem is picking up the
other end. For some reason it thinks it is
busy. Eventually, after about 20 tries, it will connect. In some cases,
I think the modem "detects a busy signal" before there has even been
enough time for the modem to pick up the other end.
I don't have this problem with Win98. What do I need to change with
Linux for this to work properly? I tried
searching Dejanews and ended up with over 2000 hits on ISDN and Linux,
but couldn't find this problem. I'm hoping that it is just a matter of
using the right AT commands.
The OS is RH5.1 and the modem a 3Com ImpactIQ.
Please help....Thanks..
--
Brett R. Rosselle
Bertelsmann mediaSystems
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+1.317.542.6886 Tel
+1.317.542.6550 Fax
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From: "Dave Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Printers for OS/2 and Linux
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:38:32 -0600
If color is the determining factor, then spend some big bucks for a
Postscript color printer. A more realistic and practical solution is to get
the HP 69x for $200 or less, and take any really serious color work to a
print shop. The HP does a pretty good job in all three OS's. It will do a
good enough job for you to determine if it worth further expense, and is a
very well supported and excellent machine. Color printing can get very
expensive. It will take experimentation with different papers and settings
to get any of them to realize their fullest potentials. None of the machines
you mention are professional grade. You will not necessarily get all of the
capabilities out of them because of the drivers used in the different OS's.
Windows is what they are geared for. If linux is your main concern, the
drivers for HP will do a very credible job in color and black and white. My
printouts look better using linux than they did in OS/2 or do in Win98. The
Ghostscript driver is good. If it is a really professional looking job you
want, print it to a diskette in Postscript and take it to a print shop, a
Kinko's, or whatever.
Dave Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<76rure$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Well now, I thought of this. But color _is_ important to me
>as well as reasonably good photo quality. You just can't get
>that with an older printer.
>
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J. S. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> That is the short list. The final cut will depend heavily on what
>>> Linux support is available.
>>
>>For the love of Adobe, just get a printer that's PostScript compatible.
>>It works so much more beautifully. Pricing is right for older printers
>>(which will work fine). If you need color, you might be out of luck at
>>the low end cost, but you just can't beat just shoving raw PS to a
>>printer instead of tranforming it w/ gs.
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>J. S. Jensen
>>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>http://www.paramin.com
>>
>>
>
>
>--
>Just my $0.02 worth.
>Hope this helps,
>Gordon
>
>PS:
>To reply: replace 'X.bleeb' with 'greeder'.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: how to drive lots of serial devices
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:54:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sven Koenig) writes:
>I have lots of devices with a serial interface, and only one more PCI
>slot in my PC. Are there any cards out there with several serial ports
>or cards that can multiplex several low-speed serial devices? I am
>looking for cards that are cheap and for which a Redhat driver is
>available, if possible.
Use a simple intelligent multiport serial card, like the AST 4port or
a Cyclades card .
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
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From: Brian Gilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: crazy overclocked celeron and kernel?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 07:45:44 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone!
As you may already know the Intel Celeron is one of the easiest
CPU's to overclock in the world.....Having a small 2ndary cache and same
core as the PII, I decided to overclock the sucker as high as it might
go....Lo and behold, I am now writing to you on a 504 MHz machine! Using
winbench, I get a score better then a PII 450 (arount 10%
better).......I have compiled the kernel for a PII however, I was
wondering if someone knew if compiling it for another processor would
make it better? Thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
Brian Gilman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mars)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Need advice on what network cards to buy
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 05:05:32 GMT
I will be buying another computer and want to network my existing one.
The new box will mainly be running linux (debian 2.0 kernel 2.0.36)
and the old box will be running win95.
I want to use thinnet network (10base2) because I don't want to buy a
hub for a 10baseT network.
I will be using the linux box as a gateway/router/proxy for a modem
connection to my ISP (via ip masqarading (sp?)) and in a not so
distant future i'll be getting (hopefully) a cable modem connection
with rogers@home.
Having said that what is a good, cheap or mid priced NIC card that I
could use with linux with this set up. Should I go with 3com cards
(just for the brand name?) or some generic cheapo one.
Thanks,
Mars
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Divde by zero error
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 05:58:02 GMT
Has anyone experienced the following anomalies.
I am installing RED hat 5.0 on my machine which consists of a 300 Mhz
AMD with 64 Meg of Ram on a i430TX chipset motherboard. I also have a
1.2 Gig Fireball IDE HD and and 6.2 Meg WD IDE drive and a x40 IDE
CD-ROM and a IDE ZIP
The anomalies I'm experiencing is that when I try to install the OS the
systems locks up and displays a divide by zero error message and a dump
of what appears to be the contents of the stack. I have not experienced
any problems under Win95.
Could the problem be in the CPU or motherboard or a combination of both.
Does any on have any ideas.
Signed
Confused
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paolo Amoroso)
Subject: Enabling MPU-401 support with a SB16 sound card
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 12:55:41 GMT
I have an original Sound Blaster 16 Value sound card. Concerning MPU-401
support, the sound driver documentation advises to check card specific info
for supported cards. The SB16 section, however, does not seem to explicitly
discuss MPU-401 issues (or maybe I don't understand it).
Does this imply that I can configure the kernel to enable MPU-401 support?
The prompt displayed by `make config' when asking about MPU-401 support
says "MPU-401 support (NOT for SB16) Y/n", and I find it a bit confusing
given the lack of explicit suggestions in the driver documentation. Does
this mean that the question does not apply to SB16 cards? Or maybe the
answer is "no" for SB16 cards?
Paolo
--
Paolo Amoroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 21:08:40 -0800
From: Raymond Lillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Minimalist Instalation? No CDROM....
Douglas E Harmon wrote:
> If anyone can inform me of a URL I saw once on this group
> that related to a minimal install of Linux??? I have an old IBM ps2
> laptop with a 84mb drive and 2mb of ram.. I can get my boot disk from my
> main system to load. It detects the h-drive,ports, and mouse. The only
> problem it locks up loading the ramdisk. I believe it would be possible
> to install Linux after seeing this.
Off hand I'd say the 2 MB or RAM might be a problem.
You should look at the Linux Router Project at:
http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/
Ray
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From: Mick Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,rec.models.railroad,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 3c905B running DHCP in Red Hat 5.1
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 08:58:57 -0500
While I am not using Red Hat, I had a somewhat similar problem. When
you boot up your machine, check to make sure that the NIC is being
detected. I *think* you will see something like 01:33:0F:21 (or some
combination like this). If you see FF:FF:FF:FF, then I believe your
card is not being detected. My solution was to power down the computer
and then bring it back up (cold boot). When I warm boot from Win95, the
card isn't detected.
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From: "Colin Ling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: euro support in kernel 2.0
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:47:16 -0000
Does anyone know if there is a patch for the Euro support in kernel 2.0 and
will it be supported in 2.2?
Thanx
Colin
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From: "Davep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Integrated PCI AMD Fast SCSI 2 Driver
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:21:49 -0500
I am trying to install Linux on an old Compaq Deskpro XL 560. This machine
has an integrated PCI AMD Fast SCSI controller. The LILO that I am using
cannot recognize it. Does anyone know of where or if a driver has been
written to support this intregrated SCSI controller.
Thanks,
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live!
Date: 5 Jan 1999 02:37:35 -0600
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ncc1701d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> I was just wondering if anyone using any version of Linux has sound
> working with the Sound Blaster Live! sound card?
Probably not. SBLive! only came out, what, last summer? Linux hasn't
caught on yet as a gaming platform, so gaming hardware generally
doesn't get as much priority from developers as other hardware (SCSI
adapters, for example) considered more essential to a system.
And yes, I believe Creative Labs redesigned the SBLive! with only its
own native API, so you can't really retrofit it with an existing driver
to a similar chipset.
> So the next question is.... Anyone working on it?
Dunno. Check on comp.os.linux.hardware (I'm crossposting), or ask
Creative Labs. It sounds odd to expect driver support from hardware
manufacturers (what are we, Microsoft?) but the Linux bandwagon is
getting bigger and bigger these days; it's only a matter of time before
a given vendor will start to figure out just how many of us take the
Hardware-Compatibility-HOWTO seriously, and start wanting to be on it.
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD k-6 & external cache failure
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 00:42:46 -0600
>>I've just heard a rumour that amd k6-2 (fsb 100mhz) has problems on
various
>>mobos, with external cache - i.e. it should be disabled in linux (and
>>**win95**).
>>
>>Is this TRUE??? ;-((( If so, which mobos are the bad ones?
Non PC100 compliant motherboards barely tolerate 75 and 83MHz - let alone
100MHz. Make sure that the motherboard is a "Super 7" or better yet - that
it supports PC100 SDRAM.
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From: Ron DeLorme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can linux handle UDMA/33?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:37:40 -0600
Lyndon F. Bartels wrote:
> -------------
>
> Anyway, my question is, if I were to build a computer with UDMA/33 compliant
> disk drives and motherboards, would linux be able to "handle" it? Or does it
> even matter?
>
For what its worth, I added a second non-UDMA33 hard drive to my UDMA33 machine
which runs Win95 and Linux. I was unable to get Windows to work properly with
both drives on the same channel. I had to move the non-UDMA drive to the second
channel before W95 would work.
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From: joey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: maxtor 17gig and rh 5.1
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:59:58 -0500
I just thought I'd let you and the group know that this bug has not been taken
care of in win95 osr2 running fat16. I just ran a check by copying much more
than 2 gigs of stuff to the drive in question and the windows machines still
report 2 gigs of empty space along with a few very large data sets. I guess,
maybe, you have to be running fat 32 to see the true size of the samba
export. But, since there are currently no machines running fat 32, I can't
check this theory. Thanks for the information. It saved me lots of time
trying to figure out what was wrong with my Linux configuration when the
problem was "elsewhere." If anyone out there has a Samba directory larger
than 2 gigs exported to a win95/98 machine with fat32, drop me a line/email
and tell me if, when mounted as a network drive, the Samba directory is the
correct size......just curious.sendto<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>thanks
Chris wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 18:52:07 -0500, joey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> comp.os.linux.hardware:
>
> >However, when I mount the drive
> >on a windows machine, the drive appears to be 2 gigs.
>
> This is a bug in the original Microsoft DOS/Windows filesystem code, which
> not only had the FAT16 filesystem size limit but also assumed that the
> network servers had the same limit.... It was not fixed until Win95-OSR2.
> Pre-OSR2 operating systems will allow you to read and write to the entire
> network filesystem, but will not report the remaining space correctly
> unless (until) there is less than 2Gb free.
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From: "rhs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: STB Velocity V4400
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:00:04 -0800
Check the XFree86 site for info on supported chips regardless of the actual
bus PCI or AGP.
Tess Lusher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Damien,
>
>I have the same questions. Please keep me informed of what you find.
>
>Thanks, Chris
>
>Daminou wrote:
>>
>> Hi all .....
>>
>> Before i buy it .. can anyone tell me if the STB Velocity V4400
>> works under Xwindows (redhat 5.2). If so, what is the max
>> resolution i can get ?
>> Same question with the Diamond Viper V550 ?
>> Is it possible to use the AGP bus on those 2 cards ?
>>
>> Is the yamaha CDR-W 4416 (scsi) (4x 16x) usable under
>> the redhat (5.2) and if not can anyone give me the name of a
>> good CDR (scsi) that works under linux ?
>>
>> thanx
>>
>> Damien
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From: "Robert J. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAQ to this group anywhere?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:48:13 -0600
> Good luck - I am also a Linux newbie, and in a similar place to you - actually
> I am trying to decide if Used Windows boxes are suitable for a home Linux
> workstation. I carry the RedHat list with me to the store!
Used Winboxes make *great* homes for Linux. Hardware nowadays is really
astonishingly good; it's the OSes that are awful. Put a good OS on any
sort of modern hardware and watch that puppy
**scrrrreeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaam**. I've seen 256mb Pentium II-450s
with NT and Exchange Server crash under loads of only 250 mail clients;
I've seen 32mb Pentium-120s with Linux handle that load and still have
enough leftover to play a wicked game of mahjongg. Any sort of modern
processor will sing like an opera diva if given the chance; Linux and Be
are two of the OSes that give hardware the chance.
Rule of Thumb: if it runs Win95, it'll run Linux and run it better.
An undergrad friend of mine who works as an indentured servant to
Academic Computing found out that they were throwing out a P-133 or
thereabouts, maybe a P-120, because it was "too slow" to run Win95. He
dusted it off, installed RedHat on it without a hitch, and the next
thing anybody knew their "all-NT" campus network had an unexpected
increase in reliability...
Linux has officially infiltrated Cornell as the DHCP server. :)
(Not Cornell University -- Cornell College, square in the Midwest.
We've had the name a dozen years more than Cornell University, which is
why we refer to ourselves as Cornell and wish those yahoos out in Ithaca
would do us the favor of referring to themselves as Cornell University.)
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From: Adao Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: RC.INET????????
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 17:27:31 +0000
Josef Elias Norgan wrote:
> I believe resolv.conf is located in /etc. The others might be as well
>
> "Suckers step up and want to cause friction
> But violence is for those who can't handle diction
> Competition is waning Circumnavigate the draining
> Complaining about those who are steady maintaining the jam"
> -311
>
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Vincent wrote:
>
> > I need to modify a file called rc.inet1, rc.inet2, and resolv.conf, but
> > these files are not in RedHat. Where are these files in RedHat? What
> > do these files do? How do I configure these files for an Intranet?
You are wrong,
resolv.conf is in /etc
but rc.inet1 and rc.inet2 are in /etc/rc.d/init.d but isn't called
rc.inet1/2 but inet
these names (rc.inet1 and rc.inet2) are from slackware!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Modem vs. Sound card (RH5.2)
Date: 5 Jan 1999 17:30:21 GMT
[sorry for the crosspost, but the col* FAQ didn't make it clear
exactly where I should post this. Follow-ups set to col.misc]
I've been having problems getting my modem to work....
When I first installed RH5.2, I finally got my modem working by running
setserial to set the IRQ and making sure that the serial port speed in
minicom matched the speed reported by setserial.
Then my modem suddenly stopped working and continued to be dead after
repeated re-installs.
I think I know what my problem is, even if I'm not quite sure how to fix
it.
My modem (USR Sportster V.90 Data/Fax internal) is jumpered to COM3, IRQ5.
I finally thought to look in /proc/interrupts and found that my sound card
(SoundBlaster 16 PnP) had grabbed IRQ5! I'm pretty sure my modem stopped
working *after* I ran sndconfig.
So when I ran setserial to assign IRQ5 to /dev/cua2, minicom was sending
the AT commands to the sound card...
In my subsequent installation attempts, I ran sndconfig right away. In
my first attempt, I didn't do it for a couple of days.
So now... A couple of questions..
1) Where can I look to see *exactly* which resources (IRQs, IO ports and
DMA channels) linux has currently assigned to my sound card? Will
the pnpdump program do it?
I also see a strange message during boot up about a 'missing' DMA
channel for the sound card.
2) Is it possible to *UN*configure a sound card (w/o installing yet again)
to test my theory? All I really need to do is get IRQ5 back.
3) Can I use the PnP tools under linux to coerce the various resource
settings? Under WinBlows, my sound card sits on IRQ10.
4) Just curious... Does it matter which of the alternate designations
(/dev/(modem|ttyS2|cua2) I use to access the modem with setserial
and/or minicom serial port setup? Several HOW-TOs seem to deprecate
the use of /dev/cuax and /dev/modem for reasons I don't fully
understand. After running setserial against *any* of the alternatives,
*all* of the alternatives report the IRQ I set.
I'm in the midst of reading the Sound and PnP HOW-TOs and will get to the
various PnP man pages next, but a clue (or a least a hint that I can do
what I want to do in question 3) would be appreciated.
adTHANKSvance!
Simeon
P.S. Contrary to what you might think, my address
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is actually replyable. I use it and
procmail to trap some of the inevitable spam I get when I post
to usenet. I am perfectly content to get answers on the newsgroup
or by e-mail, but please don't do both.
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From: Stefan Kluthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: patch/driver for Adaptec AAA-130SA / AAA-133SA RAID controller ??
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:40:55 +0100
Has anyone seen/found a driver/patch in the internet for the Adaptec
SCSI Raid Card Family AAA-13XSA ??
Thank you for help.
Stefan
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