Linux-Hardware Digest #212, Volume #9 Mon, 18 Jan 99 20:13:43 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux only sees 16 megs of RAM! (John Walstra)
access to fat16 drive?? ("Paul Suurbach")
Re: 3com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card ? (Jose Santiago)
Re: Celeron 400 under OS/2 and Linux (nul)
Re: A Call To Arms ("Duncan Rose")
Weird SCSI problem ("Mark Lynn")
Linux Newbie Com 1 problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
xf86Elo.so module / for Elo touchscreens (Eric Hegstrom)
Re: Netgear FA310TX NIC ("digitalklown")
Re: cds seem to burn ok, but no sound! (Tim T.)
Re: FirePort SCSI and HP Surestore 1200E Tape Drive (Eric Potter)
Xerox Wokcentre 450c device driver (Steve Boyls)
Re: Modem detection (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Patritioning WD 8.4 GB drive and Linux and EZ-Drive/EZ-Bios (Jose Urena)
Re: Help: RH5.2 install can't find AHA1505 (aka 152x) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Modems guaranteed to work with Linux.... (Jose Urena)
Re: PC Reset system (BL)
Re: 3DLabs Permedia2 and Redhat5.2, X problems (#1) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Walstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux only sees 16 megs of RAM!
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:36:45 -0600
Erwin de Beus wrote:
>
> "Steve Z." wrote:
> >
> > I've installed Linux on a new Compaq Presario 5710 (I think that's the model
> > number... I'm not sitting by it right now). When I run "free", it only
> > reports 16 megs of RAM, when there is 128 megs in the system! Does anyone
> > know why?
> >
> > I remembered an option in the kernel to limit memory usage to the lower 16
> > megs, so I re-compiled the kernel with this option turned off, to no avail.
> >
> > FYI, it's the latest Slackware (downloaded yesterday) installed with UMSDOS
> > onto my C: drive. This is a stock Presario, nothing has been added...
> >
> > TIA for any advice!
> >
> > Steve
>
> Check your bios settings. I don't know about Compaqs, but some HP Vectra
> machines have an option that says 'Limit memory to 16 Mb y/n' and
> default to 'yes'.............
>
> Erwin de Beus
plus, you need to add the line
append="mem=128M"
to your lilo.conf, or your system will report that you have only 64M"
--
John Walstra Motorola, Inc. CIG
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phone :(847) 632-3071 Arlington Heights, IL 60004
fax :(847) 632-4164 Proud member of MotLUG
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From: "Paul Suurbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: access to fat16 drive??
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:45:55 +0100
i just started using redhat 5.2... i do like it allready.. but how to access
a fat16 (win98) partition?? from within linux???
Thanx in advance,,,
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From: Jose Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card ?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:29:24 -0600
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Patrice Bonhomme wrote:
> I am currently looking for a driver for this Card ? Any help ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pat.
I think this card is somewhat supported by the new pcmcia card services
package version 3.0.7 from ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/ and
http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html .
--
Jose Santiago
Senior Systems Analyst - Scientific Systems
Komatsu Mining Systems - Peoria Operations
2300 N.E. Adams Street
P.O. Box 240
Peoria, IL 61650-0240
Voice:309-672-7325 Fax:309-672-7753
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Patrice Bonhomme wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I am currently looking for a driver for this Card
? Any help ?
<p>Thanks,
<p>Pat.</blockquote>
I think this card is somewhat supported by the new pcmcia card services
package version 3.0.7 from <A
HREF="ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/">ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/</A>
and <A
HREF="http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html">http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html</A>
.
<br>
<pre>--
Jose Santiago
Senior Systems Analyst - Scientific Systems
Komatsu Mining Systems - Peoria Operations
2300 N.E. Adams Street
P.O. Box 240
Peoria, IL 61650-0240
Voice:309-672-7325 Fax:309-672-7753
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]$N0!SPAM$.org (nul)
Subject: Re: Celeron 400 under OS/2 and Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]$N0!SPAM$.org (nul)
Date: 18 Jan 99 17:50:33 GMT
>nul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]$N0!SPAM$.org> wrote:
>>Is anyone out there running a Celeron 400 under OS/2? The Celeron's benchmarks
>>put it in line with a PII400 when it comes to Win98, but it seems to implode back to
>>the level of a PII300 under NT (due to limited cache ram and slow FSB)....
>Who told you that? Relative performance may depend on the application
>but is generally not an OS issue. See http://www.tomshardware.com/
>for a recent article with benchmarks including the C400.
I misread the report (http://www.bxboards.com/cel400.shtml) a little. The reviewer
is actually comparing a PII300 overclocked to 504mhz with a C400 overclocked to
500. In this context the Celeron core seems to be about 5% slower than a similarly
clocked PII core, which is about what the other benchmarks stated.
Mea culpa...
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From: "Duncan Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: A Call To Arms
Date: 13 Jan 1999 11:35:56 GMT
PHIL SMITH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Anderson wrote:
> >Why not market to that sector that is *growing* the fastest?
--->8--- snip --->8---
>
> Uh, I must disagree here. Windows has a *MUCH* bigger market and thus,
> a higher potential profit. Besides, how many people have actually paid
> for software under Linux (be honest, now)? I have not, and probably will
> not ever pay for anything under Linux, the free stuff so far has filled
> my needs.
>
> I guarantee you that game developers have made more money with Windows
> than with Linux. Linux simply is not going to be a big revenue producer
> for most developers because of the nature of Linux. Its free, so why
> pay hundreds of dollars for software for it? At least, that's my
attitude
> towards it and I bet I'm not alone.
>
> Most Linux users want free software, after all, that's spirit of it to
> begin with, open and free. I just don't think the market is willing
> to spend enough money to lure a lot of commercial developers. Yes, I
> know the list of commercial developers is growing for Linux, but for
> every one, there are probably hundreds for Windows.
Not sure about this. I'd guess if you asked the VAST majority of home
users using windows on their PCs (and since we're talking about games
I guess the market is almost 100% home/personal) how much they
paid for their OS they'd say "My machine has windows preinstalled. It
was free, I didn't pay a penny for it". Wrong, of course, but that's their
perception.
Most users ONLY spend money on buying games, and I don't see why
this could not be the case for Linux, if the high-quality games were out
there in sufficient diversity (sure, we have some cool games now, but
how long can you play the same 4-5 games? Sooner or later you'll want
a new one and that will push you back in the direction of windos).
-Duncan
>
> Just my humble opinion...
>
> Phil
>
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From: "Mark Lynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Weird SCSI problem
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:49:19 -0500
Greetings.
I have two Micropolis 3243 drives connected to channel A of an
Adaptec 3940. Channel B has a bunch of other devices all of which
are working fine. The two drives are set to ID 0 and ID 1 with ID 0
being the end of the chain and thus the terminated drive.
Recently, drive 0 has been disappearing during boot so that
I get a boot error since this was the bootable drive. This happened
every so often and got periodically worse until I could rarely get the
machine to boot. I figured some sort of cable or connection
degradation and opened the machine to investigate.
I reseated all the connections and swapped to different cables -
all to no avail. So, I started checking the drives themselves, and
here's where it gets weird.
When drive 1 (meaning ID 1) is removed from the setup,
drive 0 appears every time no problem. How could removing
drive 1 which was in the middle of the chain without termination
suddenly allow drive 0 to work ok?
To test drive 1, I reinstalled the termination packs and placed it as the
only drive in the system (at the end of the same cable used to
test drive 0). The drive could not be seen. I tried this with termination
power supplied by the host adapter (the recommended Adaptec
setup) and by the drive. No difference. Finally, by accident, I
discovered that the drive would work with the termination packs
removed (i.e. no termination at the end of the chain). With the
termination packs installed it is not recognized unless of course
it is in the middle of the chain. Then, it is recognized, but not the
other drive. What is up with this drive?
Based on the above, I have concluded that there is something
wrong with drive 1 (remember drive 0 works by itself with the
expected termination).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Mark Lynn
Sabado Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Newbie Com 1 problem
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:51:55 GMT
Greetings All,
I recently installed Redhat Linux 5.1 on a 486DX4 100 machine, and couldn't
get COM 1, (Serial port 1) to work. The serial port is on a VLB DTC 2278E
controller card. I also have a Teac55A CDROM on an interface card, using port
address 230. I don't think it uses an IRQ, and I have had the system running
Windows 3.11 once with both the CDROM and the mouse port (Com1) working. I
tried switching to a new serial mouse, but no luck. When I ran the setserial
command with autoirq, autoconfig, etc on ttyS0, I get the message, "resource
or device busy", (or something similar, I don't recall). The other serial
ports (ttyS1, ttyS2,& ttyS3) relayed relevant information when I ran
setserial -a. Also during LILO boot, it indicates that no Serial driver 4.13
option enable or something similar. Unfortunately someone told me to remove
ttyS0 and cua0. Now I have no way of testing if its a hardware issue or
software. How should I approach this problem? Should I disable the serial
port 1 on the DTC controller card and install an old serial card I have lying
around? And how hard would it be to install and configure the serial card
under Linux? Is there a way to see what resources are being used in Linux?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-James
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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:06:39 -0700
From: Eric Hegstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: xf86Elo.so module / for Elo touchscreens
Hi all:
I just received an Elo LCD touchscreen (kiosk type device) that I am
going to hook up to my linux box.
A driver for the serial interface is included in the RedHat distribution
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Elo.so
my question is how do I get this driver loaded or what do I need to do
to make it work. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
Please also copy me on email 'cause our news server can be flacky.
Thanks,
Eric
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From: "digitalklown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX NIC
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 09:23:36 -0500
I setup Linux at work Redhat 5.3 and it was detected at boot and it worked
fine in the enviroment you are inquiring about.
Jim Snyder wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:13:03 -0600, "James Knoch Jr."
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>anyone have any experience with this card in Linux? I'm thinking about
>>buying a couple for my computers at home to setup a Linux/WinNT Lan so I
>>can proxy through my ISDN internal TA card.
>>
>>
>
>I bought a couple a few weeks ago. Installation is a breeze in
>NT/Windows but I have not got mine to work with RH 5.2 yet. They did
>not autoinstall. They do work apparently. I did get the following
>advice from a Red Hat Apollo list:
>
>>If you don't need the network card for the install, you can upgrade
> to kernel version 2.0.36, or copy the tulip.c file from the linux
>directory of the driver disk to the drivers/net directory of the
>kernel source and compile it. The help program on the driver disk
>tell how to do it. I think it will run under dosemu...
>
>>I assume you have the Netgear FA310TX. If I remember correctly,
>the newer Netgear cards have switched to using the LiteOn chipset,
>which
>is a cheaper clone version of the dec chipset. Since I'm running
>kernel 2.2.0-pre5, I don't remember what version of the tulip driver
>ships with redhat 5.2, so you might want to try a newer version of
>the tulip driver. I think it was recommended that anyone with a
>LiteOn
>chipset should try using at least tulip 0.89K or later. The version I
>have is 0.90f.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>
>Jim Snyder
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.mother.com/~jsnyder
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim T.)
Subject: Re: cds seem to burn ok, but no sound!
Date: 18 Jan 1999 17:43:08 GMT
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok I finally got my cd writer working...or so I though. using xcdroast and
>cdrecord, I try to copy an audio cd, and everything seems ok. The tracks come
>up correctly when I try to play it (same # of tracks, track length is ok). In
>fact everything is fine...except I get no sound! I have wasted 2 discs
>already. Do I have to prepare the disc with a filesystem first?
You wouldn't be using an IDE CD-rom player by any chance ? That's
what cost me the first CD I burned.
Standard XCDroast can't read audio from an IDE CD-Rom player, that's
the problem. There is a version of XCDroast which uses cdparanoia,
which should be able to record audio, but I haven't had time to play
around with that, yet.
I usually rip the CD using cdparanoia, and use XCDroast to burn the
CD.
TimT.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Potter)
Subject: Re: FirePort SCSI and HP Surestore 1200E Tape Drive
Date: 18 Jan 1999 18:41:00 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
Charles M. Vance enlightened this group thus:
> Does anyone know if the Fireport 40 SCSI controller made by Diamond
> Multimedia will work under Linux? I am contemplating buying one to to
> install on my Linux Internet server.
Absolutely. I am using a Fireport 20 myself, and it's a good inexpensive SCSI
card. It uses the NCR53C8XX driver.
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* ^ \ ___@
*^ / \ \ | \
/ \/ \ \__| \
/ / ^ \ \
/ \ \ Eric Potter
/ ^ ^ \ \
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From: Steve Boyls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xerox Wokcentre 450c device driver
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:19:37 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm looking for a Xerox Workcentre 450c device driver for Linux.
Does anyone know if one exists and where to get it if it does?
I'd really appreciate the help.
Steve
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/*****************************************************
Steve Boyls
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem detection
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:29:12 +0100
Sunil Thulasidasan wrote:
> How can I get Linux (RH 5.0) to detect my modem?
External modems don't have to be detected, they are ready to use out of
the box from the communication program. Internal modems are detected as
a serial port. For both of these you will need support for standard
serial ports compiled into your kernel.
> Its a Commwave V.34 PnP , manufactured by Multiwave.
Are you sure you have a real modem and not only a DA-converter between
your CPU and the phone-line? Those fake modems are also known as
winmodems or "host software controlled modems".
> Its set for IRQ11, COM3.
COM3 usually uses IRQ4, but this isn't very good as IRQ4 is used by COM1
also. Setserial should be able to detect the comport of an internal
modem. For more info, check the manpage of setserial.
regards Henrik
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Patritioning WD 8.4 GB drive and Linux and EZ-Drive/EZ-Bios
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:01:19 -0500
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have you try using the 2.2.0 Linux kernel?
It can access very large disk without the bios.
Leslie Groer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just installed a Western Digital 8.4 GB drive on my Micron machine
> with a Micronics M54Hi motherboard as the second drive. This has the
> PhoenixBIOS 4.04 which cannot support disks larger than 7.8 GB. There
> is a BIOS (v5.05) upgrade available from Micro Firmware but for $79! I
> installed the WD EZ-Drive software and it partitioned the drive in 4
> with about 2.1 GB per partition. I can see these partitions OK in Win95
> (though I do have a spurious E: drive that cannot be accessed).
>
> In Linux (RedHat 4.1 - yes, part of the reason of getting the new drive
> was to upgrade to RH5.2), fdisk sees only the first partition of the hard
> drive (as /dev/hdb1 with about 2.1GB) with the rest of the drive seen as one
> partition with unknown type. If I use linux fdisk to partition the disk
> in what I _think_ is the same partitions as EZ-Drive used then Win95 sees
> the first partition but cannot read the other three. Repartitioning the
> drive with EZ-Drive causes the original problem (i.e. can only see the two
> partitions in Linux).
>
> I know Western Digital claims that EZ-Drive does not support Unix but
> the Large Disk mini-HOWTO claims that Linux will work with EZ-Drive. I
> seem to be almost there. Has anyone got this working or have any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> Leslie Groer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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have you try using the 2.2.0 Linux kernel?
<br>It can access very large disk without the bios.
<p>Leslie Groer wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi
<p>I just installed a Western Digital 8.4 GB drive on my Micron machine
<br>with a Micronics M54Hi motherboard as the second drive. This
has the
<br>PhoenixBIOS 4.04 which cannot support disks larger than 7.8 GB.
There
<br>is a BIOS (v5.05) upgrade available from Micro Firmware but for $79!
I
<br>installed the WD EZ-Drive software and it partitioned the drive in
4
<br>with about 2.1 GB per partition. I can see these partitions OK
in Win95
<br>(though I do have a spurious E: drive that cannot be accessed).
<p>In Linux (RedHat 4.1 - yes, part of the reason of getting the new drive
<br>was to upgrade to RH5.2), fdisk sees only the first partition of the
hard
<br>drive (as /dev/hdb1 with about 2.1GB) with the rest of the drive seen
as one
<br>partition with unknown type. If I use linux fdisk to partition
the disk
<br>in what I _think_ is the same partitions as EZ-Drive used then Win95
sees
<br>the first partition but cannot read the other three. Repartitioning
the
<br>drive with EZ-Drive causes the original problem (i.e. can only see
the two
<br>partitions in Linux).
<p>I know Western Digital claims that EZ-Drive does not support Unix but
<br>the Large Disk mini-HOWTO claims that Linux will work with EZ-Drive.
I
<br>seem to be almost there. Has anyone got this working or have
any
<br>suggestions?
<p>Thanks in advance for any advice.
<p>Leslie Groer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help: RH5.2 install can't find AHA1505 (aka 152x)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:34:50 GMT
I'm having exactly the same problem, trying to install a SCSI zip drive with
the same I/O and IRQ on a Compaq deskpro 6400. During installation of RH I've
got the same behavior. After installation, during bootstrap I'm getting 0
scsi host detected, even giving the options AHA152x=... at the lilo prompt.
If you figure out a solution, please let me know.
In article <77pd6l$bel$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Wayne Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to install RH5.2 on a 486 via a SCSI
> CDROM attached to a Adaptec 1505 ISA card
> (use AIC6360 chip). Under plain dos, the system
> sees the card and the CDROm without problem
> (I used ASPI2DOS.SYS driver).
>
> I am having trouble for the RH installation to recongnize
> the card. The card is configured to use I/O=340h,
> IRQ=11 (default setting). During installation, I choosed
> AH152x for SCSI card. But the "auto probe" failed to
> find any card. So I am trying to supplied parameter
> for the module detection. I entered: 340,11,7,1
> and system indicated "scanning aha152x bus ..."
> and never complete the process.
>
> Could someone help me to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Wayne Huang
>
>
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Modems guaranteed to work with Linux....
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:07:27 -0500
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Please be specific,
'GET A SERIAL MODEM' + 'MODEM CABLE'
USB modems are comming, and guess what......
Michael Lee Yohe wrote:
> Since so many people seem to be hovering over Winmodems and which modem to
> pick over another - the easiest solution is to buy the modem with neat
> little lights - you pay about 20-40 extra - free up a slot (perhaps
> eliminating the ISA bus!!!) and have pretty lights.
>
> Good deal - settles many problems.
>
> ***************************************************************************
> * Michael Lee Yohe Office: TH N318 *
> * UAH ASPIRE System Administrator Office: 256-890-6904 *
> * UAH CS Assistant Administrator Home: 256-828-2667 *
> * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.aspire.cs.uah.edu/mlyohe *
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Please be specific,
<p>'GET A SERIAL MODEM' + 'MODEM CABLE'
<p>USB modems are comming, and guess what......
<p>Michael Lee Yohe wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Since so many people seem to be hovering over Winmodems
and which modem to
<br>pick over another - the easiest solution is to buy the modem with neat
<br>little lights - you pay about 20-40 extra - free up a slot (perhaps
<br>eliminating the ISA bus!!!) and have pretty lights.
<p>Good deal - settles many problems.
<p> ***************************************************************************
<br> * Michael Lee
Yohe
Office: TH N318 *
<br> * UAH ASPIRE System
Administrator
Office: 256-890-6904 *
<br> * UAH CS Assistant
Administrator
Home: 256-828-2667 *
<br> * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: <a
href="http://www.aspire.cs.uah.edu/mlyohe">http://www.aspire.cs.uah.edu/mlyohe</a>
*
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From: BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PC Reset system
Date: 18 Jan 1999 19:33:47 GMT
Reply-To: no.spambots.please
I have seen various 'intelligent power strips' that do this kind of thing.
here's how they work:
you connect one end of a phone line to the unit. that's the dialin port.
when you dialin, you can enter a password and then either remote console
(rs232) to your desired outbound port (like a linux console /dev/cua0 style
port) or you can control the power relay on the power strip inside that unit.
so, if you prefer to simply bounce the power, thus causing NT (usually <g>) to
reboot, this would be your remote reboot solution. for linux, it might be
better to try to console to it (via tty), THEN if its totally locked up,
bounce its power.
I don't have the names of these vendors handy - but a net search should show
some results. (I saw these kinds of boxes at the last Interop show but didn't
not the vendor's names - sorry).
Jan Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi Folks,
: I have a small problem that I hope for a bit of help on.
: Basically the scenario is as follow: We are going to put out a
: relatively large number of linux boxes to service a large costumer in
: the near future. However, these systems will be spread over a
: geographically large area and some will be very difficult to get to.
: We are using Linux to ensure that we will have minimum software problems
: requiring a hard reboot in order to get the system back to life again.
: However, as we might have to travel more than 1000 km to do a real hard
: reset I am looking for a solution that could prevent this becoming
: necessary. What I have in mind is something along a the lines of a
: "network card" with a separate IP address which can be "ping'ed" (using
: any suitable protocol) and as a result "presses" the reset button on the
: box effectively rebooting the PC. However, any solution that meets the
: following requirements are probably okay:
: 1) it has to be possible to do this using the network only. We will not
: be able to get a telephone line to the remote sites, for example.
: 2) it does not matter much to me whether it is a standalone system or a
: PC plugin card although a standalone system might be preferable for
: decoupling reasons.
: 3) the system must be very reliable and self-rebooting (ROM based or
: similar level reliability) in case of power down etc.
: Any suggestions ?
: Thanks in advance
: Jan
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 3DLabs Permedia2 and Redhat5.2, X problems (#1)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:14:53 GMT
> As I understand, I now have to run xf86config to configure the X server.
> This seems to be straightforward; I figured if I specify everything as
> plain
> VGA, chances ar best to arrive at some result. However, I must skip the
> X-only probe, otherwise my screen goes blank and into some undefined
> mode.
>
> Afterwards I looked at my XF86Config file (which doesn't tell me too
> much,
> I must admit), and I made sure that the path where it resides
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 is included in PATH (after /usr/X11R6/bin).
>
Martin,
Try running XF86Setup which is a nicer configurator for XFree86. It should
work. I was able to get this card going using this method. However, I am
a bit disappointed at the performance of it.
Regards,
Rick
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