Linux-Hardware Digest #231, Volume #9 Wed, 20 Jan 99 18:13:34 EST
Contents:
Re: xf86Elo.so module / for Elo touchscreens (Harald Arnesen)
Re: Good Server MB Super 7 or PII? ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: Funny error from 3COM 905B on warm boot ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Problem with modem and ethernet cards on Gateway Solo 9100 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fdisk partitioning > 8GB drive (Jose Urena)
Re: AMD K6 3Dnow cpu with m590 motherboard supported in linux 2.0.36 ? ("Michael Lee
Yohe")
Re: Pentium II vs K6-2 ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Help with a Digiboard Digiport PC/4 multiport card (john orrells)
Re: Voice/Fax modems and Linux (John Walstra)
Re: Cannot talk to /dev/cua1, which is a modem (and NOT a winmodem). (Christopher
Bruce)
Re: Winmodem or no?? (Peter Johnson)
Re: Graphical Recommendation (Jason McKnight)
Re: quiet CPU fans (?) (John Belew)
Re: linux viruses (Matthias Bruestle)
Re: Which AMD K6-2 is faulty (BL)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Erik Naggum)
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From: Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xf86Elo.so module / for Elo touchscreens
Date: 19 Jan 1999 11:17:22 +0100
Eric Hegstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
I _think_ this should work:
# /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "Module"
Load "xf86Elo.so"
EndSection
--
Harald Arnesen, Apall�kkveien 23 A, N-0956 Oslo, Norway
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good Server MB Super 7 or PII?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:41:39 -0600
>I kidding aside, all other things being equal. Will an AMDK6-2 or K6-3
>make a good server? Should I still invest in the Pentium II or will the
>Super 7 systems work just as well?
Processors based on AMD's K6-2 (or K6-3 when released) will make excellent
servers. Cyrix processors will also do an excellent job. If the machine is
truly going to be a server (and not a duo-workstation like many people do)
then processor speed is not the biggest issue. I/O subsystem performance
plays a key part in excellent server performance.
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Funny error from 3COM 905B on warm boot
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:48:17 -0600
>I am not sure whether that is related, but do you boot into winXX
>before?
>Because if you do, the win drivers change some register settings, which
>aren't reinitialized during a reboot.
>In my case my card claims to have a MAC of ff:ff:ff....
3com, Donald Becker, and various motherboard manufacturers have stated that
it's due to the way PnP works on PCI devices. Fortunately, the 905 series
seems to be among the very few with the problem. The solution they
recommended is turning PnP off in the BIOS and _cold_ booting the machine.
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:39:58 -0600
>Red Hat LINUX 5.2 -- I have a 3Com 3c905B-TX on a 100Mb LAN. The card
>seems to start ok as I can ping my IP address, and I see no errors
>during bootup. I verified all my IP settings with network support. I
>cannot ping anything else on my subnet (including gateway) nor outside
>the subnet. Is the card supposed to autosense the speed of the
>network? Is there a configuration setting for setting the speed to 100
>that I missed? Thanks in advance.
The 3c905B-TX is a problem-prone card that has given many network
administrators around the world fits. Solutions come like this:
-- view the web page by Donald Becker regarding the 3c509x driver (type
"dmesg" and look for the web address).
1) Turn PnP off in the BIOS
2) Check your motherboard manufacturer for any BIOS updates regarding the
card (yes - there are specific issues).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem with modem and ethernet cards on Gateway Solo 9100
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:55:25 GMT
Hi,
I have the following problem with my Gateway 9100 running linux:
I have 3Com 3c589D ethernet card and 3Com Megahertz 56K cellular modem
card (3CXM556).
If I get out this modem card, ethernet working fine, but if I have both
cards in, linux doesn't see any ethernet cards at all and says something like:
"Or you don't have the right driver, or you don't have any card installed..."
Any ideas?
PS I didn't tried to work with this modem yet, so if anybody have any
suggestion about this modem, I would greatly appreciate them as well.
Thanks in advance,
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk partitioning > 8GB drive
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:03:26 -0500
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I am assumming that you want to add
append="linear" to the /etc/lilo.conf
I know for a fact that you mean
append="hda=C#,H#,S#"
get the C,H,S values from you HD manual or from the BIOS without LBA
translation
BTW, when using this, lilo will not boot if your boot partition is beyond
cylinder 1024
Bryan McKinley wrote:
> win98 is loaded and supports my very large disk (~11GB); my bios has LBA
> support. I have
> been reading the docs & howtos and they indicate that I should pass
> 'linear' to the kernel on boot to make
> it use logical sector-like addressing rather than CHS. I don't see this
> listed among options
> available to pass to the kernel at boot time. Am I barking up the wrong
> tree? The docs
> indicate that fdisk can handle disks this large so long as the kernel
> supports the linear
> disk addressing mode. How do I set options at LILO-time to make this
> happen?
> Is this already happening unbeknownst to me? Kernel logs CHS-style disk
> info on boot, not
> linear info--at a cursory glance. I've done my homework, which has
> included trying a couple
> of beta tools that did not work. I need a clue here.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Bryan McKinley
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I am assumming that you want to add
<br> append="linear" to the /etc/lilo.conf
<p>I know for a fact that you mean
<br> append="hda=C#,H#,S#"
<p>get the C,H,S values from you HD manual or from the BIOS without LBA
translation
<p>BTW, when using this, lilo will not boot if your boot partition is beyond
cylinder 1024
<p>Bryan McKinley wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>win98 is loaded and supports my very large disk (~11GB);
my bios has LBA
<br>support. I have
<br>been reading the docs & howtos and they indicate that I should
pass
<br>'linear' to the kernel on boot to make
<br>it use logical sector-like addressing rather than CHS. I don't
see this
<br>listed among options
<br>available to pass to the kernel at boot time. Am I barking up
the wrong
<br>tree? The docs
<br>indicate that fdisk can handle disks this large so long as the kernel
<br>supports the linear
<br>disk addressing mode. How do I set options at LILO-time to make
this
<br>happen?
<br>Is this already happening unbeknownst to me? Kernel logs CHS-style
disk
<br>info on boot, not
<br>linear info--at a cursory glance. I've done my homework, which
has
<br>included trying a couple
<br>of beta tools that did not work. I need a clue here.
<p>Anyone?
<p>Bryan McKinley</blockquote>
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD K6 3Dnow cpu with m590 motherboard supported in linux 2.0.36 ?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:49:54 -0600
>Planning in buying one shortly
>when i now it's supported by linux
Just be sure that the motherboard is PC100 compliant (supports 100MHz FSB).
If it only support 66MHz - look for another motherboard.
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pentium II vs K6-2
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:54:48 -0600
>I am considering to buy a new computer, and am wondering which
>processor to use. The machine will mostly be used for architecture
>CAD (ARCAD from www.arcad.de). I am currently considering an
>ASUS P2B board with a Pentium II at 350 or 400 MHz. AMD-based
>motherboard/CPU combinations are a lot cheaper, but there seem to be
>more reports about trouble with these boards/CPUs around than about
>the Intel variety.
Let's put all the "hardware"-savvy things aside. The Pentium II processor
is going to be your best bet. AMD's math coprocessor is much slower than
the Pentium II - already a caveat that will hurt you in your CAD
application.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john orrells)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help with a Digiboard Digiport PC/4 multiport card
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:29:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I have obtained the above serial card for my linux
machine ( the card is actually a clone made by Brain Boxes),
linux distribution is Slackware 3.5 (kernel 2.0.34).
I have configure the board itself (I think so!).
I would now like to know how to set it up under linux.
Do I just alter rc.serial or is anything else needed.
Thanks for any help I need it!
John
--
john orrells
... FLATTERY: telling a person exactly what he thinks of himself.
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From: John Walstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voice/Fax modems and Linux
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:20:30 -0600
Andrew Slough wrote:
>
> I've searched around on the web a bit and found lots
> of info on how not to buy winmodems, but I wants to buy a
> 55.6k modem that can handle incoming calls on voice, data
> or fax and do appropriate things. The faq I found was really
> old. Does anyone have a recomendation for an external
> 55.6k modem for use with mgetty to do this?
>
> Andy
Hi Andy, I also want my modem and Linux to handle voice calls and like
you have questions about the hardware. I found the following site with
results of using mgetty/vgetty.
http://alpha.greenie.net/modembase/html-data/
The ZyXEL looks the best, but are rather expensive ($250-350 US) and the
1496 won't do more than 19.2K bps. I did a serach at
http://www.pricewatch.com for the Elsa modems and couldn't find them, so
you might have to contact the company directly. The USR Voicepro is not
on their product website, so I don't know what it can all do.
That's all the info I have right now, but I will keep searching.
--
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fax :(847) 632-4164 Proud member of MotLUG
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From: Christopher Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot talk to /dev/cua1, which is a modem (and NOT a winmodem).
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:29:44 +0100
zentara wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:53:48 +0100, Christopher Bruce
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Problem of a major kind with my Compaq Presario 1805 in the sense that
> >the pnpdump doesn't find the modem and the configuration tells me that
> >the modem is busy when I set everything by hand!
>
> Pnpdump will usually find a winmodem, but it gives an outlandish
> isapnp.config file with about 20 registers listed.
> If you are on Com 2, I would check to make sure your
> onboard com2 is disabled in bios. If not, you
> will get a conflict with your modem.
Thanks again guys!
Looks like I will 'invest' in a PC modem!
Regards
Chris
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From: Peter Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.modems
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:54:26 +1100
External modem is by far the simplest solution of them all. Personally I can't
understand why anyone would want to have an internal modem in the first place.
They waste internal slots, and for what purpose??? We all know the addium "works
as fast as the slowest component", so then why put and I quote from Mike here "a
56K or slower modem in a 33MHz PCI slot is an incredible waste of resources".
Pete
Mike Burger wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:04:16, d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d
> u (David Fox) wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Chipman) writes:
> >
> > > General comment:
> > >
> > > PCI Modem == Winmodem.
> > >
> > > If anyone has a counterindication to this rule, I'd love to hear it.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, from all the digging I've done, this seems to be true. If you
> > > want a "true hardware modem" that is 100% OS-independant, you've gotta go
> > > ISA (or 8-bit :-)
>
> Better idea: External modems...
>
> IMO, a 56K or slower modem in a 33MHz PCI slot is an incredible waste
> of resources.
>
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From: Jason McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphical Recommendation
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:20:48 -0500
If you can spend nearly $200, get a RIVA TNT based card. The card is excellent
and already has pretty good support under XFree86 3.3.3. I think it will get
even better in the near future.
The Riva128 is supported pretty well too and is much cheaper. I am currently
running it on my RH 5.2 system at 1280X1024 16 bit.
Mike Stone wrote:
> Hi, I'm in the process of building my first Linux box (Redhat 5.2). I'm
> using a Pentium 200MMX with 128 MB of RAM, a 3.2 GB HD and a 15" monitor.
> I'd like to put a good graphics card into it. I don't want to spend much
> over $200 if I don't have to, but I'd still like to not have to worry about
> dragging a window and my computer slowing down. I've been searching around,
> and I can find a ton of hardware compatibility lists, but I can't seem to
> find a recommendation list. If anyone could offer me some recommendations
> on a graphics card, I'd really appreciate it. Again, I want good resolution
> and color depth (at least 1024x768 with 16-bit color). OpenGL would also be
> nice, but I'm not sure that this is a big issue since I don't plan on
> spending much time playing with games on it. Thanks for any recommendations
> that you can give me.
>
> Mike Stone
>
> btw: If you are going to help me out, could you also be so kind as to CC it
> directly to my email account? I don't get on the News groups nearly as
> often as I should, and that would be a tremendous help. Thanks again.
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Subject: Re: quiet CPU fans (?)
From: John Belew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 20 Jan 1999 06:23:42 -0800
Here are my favorite noise-pollution solutions:
Put fan-speed controllers on your fans. Locate the temperature
sensor in the outgoing air stream. This provides a constant
temperature inside the enclosure (the fans only get noisy on
really hot days), but requires some electrtical skills. I
recommend "Wisp W-DC" from http://www.controlres.com (also
distributed by ? Allied Electronics or Newark).
Buy a complete power supply, and specify a quiet ball-bearing fan,
from Glitch-Master: this also provides over 0.25 seconds
ride-through during power outages. See
http://www.glitchmaster.com.
Switch to an ATX-style enclosure & power supply. The ATX power
supply fan is located deeper into the power supply (on the
interior surface of the supply, near the CPU), instead of being
located on the back wall of the PC enclosure.
See http://www.heatsink-guide.com (a review of CPU heat sinks)
I've done these mods to a series of 19-inch-rack enclosures, and
they are now probably no noisier than my IBM thinkpad laptop.
--
< John Belew >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Bruestle)
Subject: Re: linux viruses
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:21:23 GMT
Mahlzeit
Andreas Bombe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> If you can point me to some resources describing UNIX viruses (I mean
There is at least one virus, maybe two known viri for Linux. One is
called bliss. It has a switch to disinfect itself.
"The files 'infected' ;
a) grow by 17892 bytes
b) lose all of there original functionality
c) retain date/time stamp data
d) retain file permissions
e) are logged to /tmp/.bliss"
> BTW, using machine instructions doesn't give you any more possibilities
> to circumvent system security than C (or any other language) code does.
But it has the same right's as the executor and may infect his
binaries. Or it may be that root executes it or installs an
infected program.
Mahlzeit
endergone Zwiebeltuete
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From: BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which AMD K6-2 is faulty
Date: 20 Jan 1999 22:04:37 GMT
Reply-To: no.spambots.please
I believe it was the original k6-300, NOT the k6-2 version.
Pranab Nag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I was wondering if it is possible to figure out which AMD K6-2 chip is
: faulty? I have K6-2 300Mhz and there are a bunch of numbers in the back.
: Can I figure out from these numbers.
: Apparently, sometime during late 1998 some K6-2 were shipped with some
: fault.
: -Pranab
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From: Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 20 Jan 1999 22:46:00 +0000
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
| There are a great number of other ways to distinquish yourself as unique,
| but that one at least has the advantage of not making your written
| English excessively difficult to read (merely a little more difficult).
| It probably doesn't really set you aside far enough though. Why not try
| avoiding either commas or periods too, and many people think paragraphs
| are a total waste. If you work hard enough at it you will be the only
| one who _can_ read what you write.
oooh, great, sarcasm! not only does this fool have to impute purpose he
knows nothing about and could know nothing about to those he disagrees
with, he has to make fun of his own misunderstanding. gotta love that.
as I have said: change the smallest little thing about something, and you
get a lot of nutcases to wear large signs saying "I'm a nutcase!" so the
whole world knows that their thinking is based, not on understanding, but
on trivial little things that other people must get right, and they are
themselves much more upset with something people _don't_ do than what
they _actually_ do.
it is my firm position that if somebody has to make fun of or attack
something you _don't_ do, you have done _nothing_ wrong, and you are just
looking at moralistic morons in action. again, it's nice to be able to
smoke them out before they do any real damage.
#:Erik
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