Linux-Hardware Digest #233, Volume #9 Thu, 21 Jan 99 01:13:44 EST
Contents:
Re: Asus P2BLS Motherboard ("Ron")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Darin Johnson)
Re: Winmodem or no?? (Chris Lee)
Re: AMD K6-2 (Mark Paulus)
Re: Ram Detection ("digitalklown")
Re: PCMCIA Network card (J. Scott Berg)
Re: Booting problem after install... (w joseph mantle)
Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX (Philip Strnad)
Re: Best Celeron400 combination for LINUX? (Rod Roark)
Re: pci scsi card ncr53c810 (Stuart R. Fuller)
On Board AHA-7895 & IBM UltraStars - Booting? (Craig McFarlane)
Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Matrox Millenium G200 SD (PCI) (Jose Santiago)
Re: Which CPU to upgrade to? (Rod Roark)
HP OfficeJet 600 with Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI vs IDE (Frank Miles)
Problem setting up External Modem (Rod Gutierrez)
Re: Rack Mount Enclosures ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus P2BLS Motherboard
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:13:59 GMT
running P2BLS Pentium II, @ 400 MHz, with Matrox G-100 8meg video card,
under Redhat 5.2 (2.0.36)
it supports the SCSI just fine and also the Lan card
I had to get XFree86 3.3.3.1 to run the video card under X it runs fine as
well.
Ron
Peter Kuppelwieser wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>John Basso wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with the ASUS P2BLS motherboard
>> with Linux? Specifically, integration with the on-board SCSI and
>> LAN controller.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
>You need the newest AIC7xxx driver to support the onboard SCSI
>controller
>(now included in Distributions with Kernels 2.0.35 and newer)
>
>I installed a Dual-Pentium 350 with 256MB RAM and three 8GB U2SCSI USING
>Softraid5
>and a Matrox Millenium G100
>
>I used SUSE Linux 6.0 (german version) the international Version shold
>be out on 20.January
>
>(It all works really grat and very fast)
>
>Peter Kuppelwieser
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From: Darin Johnson <[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 18:27:32 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Festus van Landingham) writes:
> >i too use emacs. i even remapped the keys on windows nt since i use
> >emacs at work too.
>
> Do emacs users not type captial letters or does emacs not support
> capital letters?
Do you honestly use caps-lock *more* than control? You don't need to
remove it, just put the commonly used control in an easier to use
place, while putting the the vestigial caps-lock out of the way.
I've needed caps-lock maybe once in the last year. Basically
caps-lock is obsolete (now the COBOL users start flaming me). Of
course, there are occasional times when short words are all caps, but
those times are rare, and the words are short. But I use the control
key all the time.
(I'm also somewhat annoyed that alt/meta/windows/whatever keys
are so hard to typed)
--
Darin Johnson
Luxury! In MY day, we had to make do with 5 bytes of swap...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.modems
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: 21 Jan 1999 03:52:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox) writes:
>
>> Not as "incredible" a waste as an empty PCI slot. What if your serial
>> ports are full of mice, digital cameras, palmpilot cradles, etc?
>
>yes this is a valid problem. there are very few serial ports on the
>typical pc. you can get more on a card though but that takes a slot.
>also, cheap cards/uarts are irq greedy and there's only so many irqs
>to go around.
>
>> You external modem people must really enjoy diagnosing modem
>> problems.
>
>on the contrary, i got an external modem specifically to *avoid* modem
>problems.
I bought an external modem because I wanted a modem I could use with *any*
of the computers I own now or may own in the future no matter who makes the
machine. As long as the computer has an rs-232 port on it I can use my
external modem with it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Paulus)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:19:36 GMT
the K6-2 CPUs run at 2.2V, instead of 2.8V(?), so you need a
MoBo that can do 2.2V. Depending on which processor you get,
you should also have a 100MHz FSB for full benefits.
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:51:14, "Joseph Casey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> AMDs website says my motherboard and BIOS are compatible with AMD K6, but
> not AMD K6-2 3DNow. I thought that the only difference was extra
> instructions in the processor. If that is so, why does the K6-2 not work
> anywhere the K6 works?
> Does the motherboard and BIOS need extra facilities for K6-2 3DNow?
> Regards,
> J.C.
>
>
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From: "digitalklown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Ram Detection
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:23:21 -0500
I have the manual in front of me. In order for the file to be edited
properly it needs to be detected first by entering linux mem=64M before you
can edit the file.
Jim Adams wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The RH 5.2 install guide gives the following remedy.
>In lilo.conf add this line at the end of the Linux boot section:
>append="mem=xx" xx being the amount of RAM you have installed on your
system.
>
>digitalklown wrote:
>
>> I have had 64M of RAM for quiet sometime, and with the old install of
RedHat
>> 5.1 it was detected when I upgraded, however when I did a clean install
of
>> 5.2, only 16M was detected.
>>
>> Through my minimal research I have found that by entering at LILO:
>>
>> linux mem=64M
>>
>> however only 16M is only still loaded....
>>
>> any suggestions......
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Scott Berg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Network card
Date: 21 Jan 1999 03:11:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Moulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have everything up and running on my Dell lattitude CPi except
>networking. It came with a 3Com LAN CardBus PC Card. This apparently has
>a 3c575 in it. I have gotten the card manager to recognize this, but
>then the kernel bags later in the boot. Here is the sequence in the
>messages file:
>
>Jan 19 21:34:33 localhost kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5
Get version 3.0.7 of pcmcia-cs; see http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/
It works (3.0.5 did not); I have one.
-Scott Berg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (w joseph mantle)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Booting problem after install...
Date: 20 Jan 1999 16:09:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Paulus) writes:
>If you can boot from the rescue disk, then do so. Once you
>are in, run fdisk, do a p (print table), and make sure of where
>your /root and /boot partitions are (if they are different). Then,
>check /etc/fstab and make sure they are the same. Then,
>check /etc/lilo.conf and make sure those entries match and
>rerun lilo (assuming you do). If you are using loadlin, make
>sure your /root entry matches what fdisk says.
Mark,
Thanks for your suggestions. I followed your instructions. The
/boot directory is in the root partition, and the root partition
is the bootable partition. boot and root are both /dev/hda1
in the lilo.conf file. I ran "lilo -m /mnt/etc/lilo.conf"
and got the following message which I don't understand:
Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0100
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:03:31 -0500
From: Philip Strnad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX
I have been struggling with this NIC for a couple of weeks now. I am
not that familiar with Linux, but I have tried a bunch of things to get
the card to work, and nothing ever works regularly. The cold boot
solution worked once after I unplugged my machine for half an hour.
Today I left it unplugged for 6 hours, and when I tried connecting to
other machines on the Internet, the card didn't work again. I have PnP
OS disbled in my BIOS as well. The strange thing is that the machine
can be pinged from other computers. Another strange thing is that when
I try to install Redhat 5.2 via FTP, I usually cannot install Linux
using the static IP configuration. However, if I use Bootp instead,
everything works fine. I do not understand this, because I know that I
have a static IP address.
If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Btw, I have an Asus P5A
motherboard. I don't know if that will make a difference. Thanks.
--
-Philip
PJ wrote:
>
> 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.
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Celeron400 combination for LINUX?
Date: 20 Jan 1999 16:12:29 GMT
Daryl Stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ST :-D wrote in message ...
>>What's the best combination of components for a Celeron400 system to run
>>LINUX?
>I don't know the answer to your question, but the Celeron is not the
>greatest processor. It may be a 400 MHz but I believe it has no cache - as a
>result it's not nearly as fast as it sounds. It is cheap, however, as a
>result of the lacking of a cache (easier to manufacture).
Not true. The Celeron 300A and above all have 128K of on-chip cache
that runs at the core CPU frequency. It's fast. See
http://www5.tomshardware.com/releases/99q1/990114/cpu-overview-07.html
for benchmarks.
-- Rod
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: pci scsi card ncr53c810
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 05:00:03 GMT
Bryan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: Hi All
:
: I have a NCR53C810 Scsi card and no matter
: what i have tried I can not get linux to see the host i always get the
: message on startup saying:-
:
: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 13, function 0
: ncr53c8xx: not initializing, both I/O and memory mappings disabled
: scsi : 0 hosts.
: scsi : detected total.
:
: In windows 95 the settings are as follows:
: IRQ=11
: Memory Range= 000C8000 - 000C800F
: IO Range = 0600 - 06FF
:
: Like I say I have tried everything like different drivers etc and have
: recently even gone to Kernal 2.0.36 but still no joy. Any help would be
: much appreciated - if further info is required please let me know.
Well, you haven't tried *everything*, since it still doesn't work. So, you
need to indicate what you have tried (and be specific).
Also, what distribution are you running; an excerpt from your
/usr/src/linux/.config file showing your NCR53C810 configuration information;
other PCI hardware on your system, etc.
Here's an excerpt from my .config file:
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
[...]
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
[...]
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT=y
This is on my Redhat V5.1 system. I have one of those cards, 2 Ethernet cards
and a video card on my PCI.
And, by the way, it's "kernel", not "kernal".
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig McFarlane)
Subject: On Board AHA-7895 & IBM UltraStars - Booting?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:42:08 +1100
TWIMC,
I've got a Giga-Byte GA-6BXDS motherboard which has the Adaptec 7895
Dual-Channel Ultra Wide SCSI on board. I've attached an IBM UltraStar
4.5GB (ID0) & and IBM UltraStar 9.1GB (ID1) to the B channel.
I can install Red Hat 5.2 no problems (and it works great when I boot off
a boot floppy), but lilo absolutely refuses to start up no matter what
configuration of partitions I use.
In desperation, I grabbed my standard pentium dos boot floppy, booted off
it, fdisk'd a 128MB partition on the 4.5GB (first and only partition) and
formatted it as c: with a system. No problem.
However, the system refuses to boot even this simple arrangement. What am
I doing wrong? Is there some special option on these drives so that they
won't boot?
The BIOS settings all look OK to me (and I've tried them all by now).
cya
Craig.
--
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Craig McFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delaney & Morgan Computing Fax: +61 3 9878-3910
ACN 058 140 702 PO Box 84 Forest Hill Vic 3131 AUSTRALIA
"My opinions had better be those of the management, or they're FIRED!"
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:32:46 -0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.intel,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.arch,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450
Bjorn Lindgren wrote:
>
> In comp.sys.intel Thomas Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In comp.arch Bjorn Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > : What benchmark should i use to check that my PII-450 is a real PII-450 and
> > : not a remarked 350/400, i dont have access to other PII-450's so i need a
> > : open benchmark that there numbers for. any suggestions?
>
> > I'm afraid that's something you can't check.
>
> > You can discover whether your machine is running at 450MHz - the bogomips rating
> > correlates almost perfectly with clock speed - but you can't easily check whether
> > it's a P2/450 or a P2/400 running at 450MHz.
>
> Ok, I see, its bad that there not are any tag inside the CPU design that tells
> what modell it realy is, that whould put an end to these remark scams.
> Well, thanks everybody for all help anyway.
But there is; Intel marks all its CPUs with indentification.
The indentification specifies the type and speed of the CPU.
A typical remarker's tactic is to put a sticker over the
ID string (or part of it) that says "Warranty Void if
Removed." Intel does not do this. The remarker will do this
to discourage you from discovering that the CPU is being
run faster than Intel thought it should be run.
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From: Jose Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium G200 SD (PCI)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:24:17 -0600
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Alex Russell wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I have heard that the Millenium G200 SD (this is a PCI card, not an AGP
> card) works with XFree86. Has anyone successfully run Xfree86 with this
> card? I'd like to know before I sink any $s into it.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Alex Russell
> UC Berkeley
Xfree86 version 3.3.3.1 is supposed to support this card in the SVGA server. See
http://www.xfree86.org/
--
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
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Alex Russell wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Friends,
<p> I have heard that the Millenium
G200 SD (this is a PCI card, not an AGP
<br>card) works with XFree86. Has anyone successfully run Xfree86 with
this
<br>card? I'd like to know before I sink any $s into it.
<p>Many thanks,
<p>Alex Russell
<br>UC Berkeley</blockquote>
Xfree86 version 3.3.3.1 is supposed to support this card in the SVGA server.
See <A HREF="http://www.xfree86.org/">http://www.xfree86.org/</A>
<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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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which CPU to upgrade to?
Date: 20 Jan 1999 15:29:40 GMT
ST :-D <stay{CUT}@mitec{CUT}.net> wrote:
>How much can you overclock the Celeron 300A to ?
>Can it still run LINUX with no problem? I've read somewhere that LINUX don't
>run too good or sometimes won't run at all in overclocked machines.
>I just did a check at www.pricewatch.com & the lowest price for the
>Celeron300A is $59.
This is a good question. Overclocking the 300A is pretty much an
all-or-nothing proposition. You want to go for 450 Mhz (100 Mhz
FSB), since a mere increase from 66 to 75 Mhz FSB is hardly worth
it, and 83 Mhz puts the PCI and AGP buses way over spec.
For 450 to work you may need to tweak the CPU voltage, which means
you want the Abit BH6 mainboard. The success rate with this combo
seems to be somewhere in the 60-80% range. I actually got it to work
on an AOpen motherboard by cutting some traces on the CPU board to
increase its voltage, but that's not for everyone. My end result
seems reliable at 100 Mhz FSB, but not at 103, which leaves me a
little uncomfortable.
My suggestion? Buy yourself some peace of mind with a Celeron 400,
and if you want run it at 450 which I think should be pretty safe.
Or you can save a few bucks with a 333 clocked to 375.
-- Rod
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http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ Starting at $499
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP OfficeJet 600 with Linux?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:19:24 GMT
I'm currently without a printer and am looking at combination
printer/scanner/etc. machines. The HP OfficeJet 600 got good reviews in
Consumer Reports, but claims to work only with Windows. Will I be able to
print PostScript files on it in Linux and use it as a scanner?
I tried searching www.google.com for "hp officejet 600 linux" and the most
useful-looking hits were dead links.
Thanks for any help!
--
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readability, modifiability, and portability of its software."
-- Dennis M. Ritchie, September, 1979
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: Re: SCSI vs IDE
Date: 20 Jan 1999 15:46:40 GMT
Tom's site is nice, as far as it goes. But it's all Windows, no Linux,
IIRC.
-frank
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert M. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tried Tom's hardware guide?
>Matt Bettencourt wrote:
>
>> Is there any site that has info on the performance differences between
>> SCSI and IDE for a linux system running in pretty much single user mode
>> (i.e., not shared)
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From: Rod Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem setting up External Modem
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:13:55 -0500
I am having some serious problems setting up my USR 28.8 Sportster
External modem. I am running Red Hat 5.2 on a P133. I have set up a PnP
modem in Linux before so I figured that this would be a cinch, it's not.
I can't control my modem. I can tell that it is recieving the commands
though, because if I "echo AT > /dev/cua0" the TR light on my modem
blinks. Right now I have the 3,5,7, and 8 dip switches down.I have
included a description of what each dip switch does at the bottom, just
in case anyone has any ideas.
I have tried using the modem on cua0 and cua1. I used setserial for
both cua0 and cua1 in the form "setserial /dev/cua0 uart 16550A
port 0x03f8 irq 4". I also tried using several modem cables, I even
tested the
continuity just to make sure the cables were working. I hooked up and
tested a SupraExpress 28.8 External modem with the same results. I even
changed the COM port cable coming from the motherboard. I checked the
/dev/ioports and /dev/interrupts to see if there were any conflicts. I
read the Serial-HOWTO and the Modem-HOWTO neither of them helped.
I don't know what else to look for. Does anyone have any suggestions
as to what I should try next? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Rod Gutierrez
DIP SWITCH SETTINGS FOR USR SPORTSTER 28.8 EXTERNAL
1. UP Data Terminal Ready normal
DOWN DTR Override
2. UP Verbal result codes
DOWN Numeric result codes
3. UP Suppress result codes
DOWN Display result codes
4. UP Display result codes
DOWN Echo offline commands
5. UP Auto answer on first ring, or
higher if specified in NVRAM
6. UP Carrier detect normal
DOWN Carrier detect override
7. UP Load NVRAM defaults
DOWN Load factory defaults
8. UP Dumb modem
DOWN Smart modem
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rack Mount Enclosures
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 05:46:55 GMT
In article <785efi$4b1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Stacy D. Coil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where do you get your rack mount enclosures? Which vender do you like?
> What product do you think is the best?
Try http://web3.pcwnet.com
They offer many styles of rackmount enclosures.
> TIA
>
> --Stacy
>
>
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