Linux-Hardware Digest #357, Volume #9 Thu, 4 Feb 99 22:13:33 EST
Contents:
Re: power cable or tv cable modem ("David A. Frantz")
Running Linux on a Dell PowerEdge w/ RAID (Michael Hucka)
Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug? ("Richard Sugg")
pcmcia and linux (slackware OR redhat5.2) (Jeff Taylor)
Re: A delni as a hub (Doug DeJulio)
Re: RealPlayer problems (David Fox)
Treasure!! (Jon Horner)
Re: ipfwadm and multiple registered IP's (Arthur Corliss)
Kernel 2.2 and 3Com 3c900 NICs (Shaheen Gandhi)
Re: my 'man' has lost all its entries (Todd Bordeaux)
Re: Epson vs. HP (Craig Ruff)
Re: Epson vs. HP (Carlos Wexler)
Re: Tape drive recommendation (Carsten Cimander)
Re: [Q] Win95/Linux Partition (Mark Hollett)
Re: Wheel mouse (Bruce Stephens)
two SCSI adaptors? ("Andrew Crowley")
Installing 3com 3c509 card on Linux RH 5.2 ("Marc Provencher")
Re: HELP - Installing Network Card (MRoman)
Want optical jukebox support for Linux? Read this. (Chris Ott)
Re: Epson vs. HP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: power cable or tv cable modem
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:44:42 -0500
If you live in the right town you can get a cable modem today.
Ubik(news) wrote in message <79cflm$cf5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>does anyone know how close are they(anyone) to finish power cable or tv
>cable modem?
>
>
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From: Michael Hucka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Running Linux on a Dell PowerEdge w/ RAID
Date: 04 Feb 1999 15:46:14 -0500
We're shopping around for compute servers for our lab, and one of the systems
we're looking at is the Dell PowerEdge servers. One of the options is a
"PERC 2/SC RAID" controller.
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to get Linux running on this kind of
system? I'm still new to Linux and don't know which kinds of RAID systems it
will run on.
--
Michael Hucka -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Richard Sugg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?
Date: 5 Feb 1999 00:45:09 GMT
I have Red Hat 5.1 running with an AMD K6-2 350, 64MB PC 100 RAM, and FIC
2013 board. I don't know about your board, but I think AMD is ok.
Javier Pulido wrote in message <79dcer$ifd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>��SOS!!
>
>Problems with the booting of linux in a computer AMD K6-2 (300 MHz) with
>i430TX (no AGP) and 128 MB, two hard drives and 1 CDROM. Can you help me?
>
>After many attempts of booting with several kernels (2.0.29, 2.0.30,
2.1.48,
>2.0.35, 2.0.36) through a boot-disk, LILO or LOADLIN (Symbol of System,
>option F8 of Windows95), I realize only procedure that was operating:
>
> 1. I Start Windows95/98 (graphic environment)
> 2. I restart in MSDOS-Mode
> 3. C:> loadlin zImage2_2 root=/dev/hdc3 mem=128M no-hlt
>
>If I don�t use option no-hlt, the system starts but is hung in little
>minutes, and it shown me all the processor registers, the stack and the
>message "idle task may not sleep".
>
>In the attempts rest of starting were remained hung when was ending the
>load kernel in report: Loading linux ....... (!!stop!!)
>
>My system crashes while it�s booting. I
>
>I only can boot linux in three steps:
>
> 1> loading Windows95
>
> 2> Restart in MSDOS MODE
> 3> loadlin kernel2.2 /dev/hdc3 no-hlt (root in /dev/hdc3)
>
>
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: Jeff Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pcmcia and linux (slackware OR redhat5.2)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:50:22 -0500
sorry for cross posting but here goes:
i need some help (if anyone can give it) with getting pcmcia to work on my
(notso)new laptop. i just obtained a ti travelmate 5300 133pentium laptop.
on it now i have dos/win3.11 and slackware. i have pcmcia networking
working with my intel extherexpress pro 16 bit (redhats web page says it's
supported) in dos and win but i can't get it to work in slackware using
the defacto pcmcia utils.
the redhat install crashes right after i put in the supp. disk and it says
starting pcmcia services or support or something simlar. it freezes the
screen and locks keybaord (a hard reboot is needed)
if anyone can help me please Email me asap.
if more info is needed i'd be more then happy to supply it.
thanks
jeff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
"Then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, searching
for meaning in other human beings, rare are lucky are those who find it,
for although we may not be alone in universe, in our own separate ways
on this planet we are all alone." (the x files)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug DeJulio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: A delni as a hub
Date: 4 Feb 1999 14:06:03 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joe Linington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is it possible to use a DELNI as a hub for a small ether net.
Yes. I've done it. It was so long ago that I won't be much help with
the particular details, but it *is* possible.
--
Doug DeJulio | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HKS, Incorporated | http://www.hks.net/~ddj/
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: RealPlayer problems
Date: 04 Feb 1999 13:01:31 -0800
Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > I am running Linux 2.2-pre6 in hte S.u.S.E. environment. My soundcard appears
> > to work fine (it is a S3 Sonicvibes compatible TurtleBeach). I downloaded
> > RealPlayer v5.0 and when I am trying to launch it it gives me Error #1
> > (described on the RealAudio's help WWW page as a "General Error") and on the
> > command line prints "audio: write error". I checked permissions on
> > /dev/audio,- they are rw-rw-rw-... I am perplexed.
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Boris.
>
> Other plugins/apps work, and other people have rvplayer5 working, but
> mine core dumps. I think I have all the paths and ldconfig.
There's a binary patch somewhere that you have to apply. Sorry I
can't be more specific, I think its in the kernel release notes.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Jon Horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Treasure!!
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:22:37 -0500
I found something neat. I think they are Cubix (Cubicks?) cards. each card is
basically 2 computers, each with a 486/33MHz processor, serial port connection,
RAM slot (72pin), and parallel connectoin. One card has all the above, plus a
hdd connection (not IDE, but it has to be hdd), a few other slots, and 2
network/modem type connectors and 2 serial plugs. If you guys have any ideas
how to use these with Linux, let me know. It would rock, making a 14 486/33
processor system.
Thanks.
--
J. J. Horner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Corliss)
Subject: Re: ipfwadm and multiple registered IP's
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Feb 1999 12:25:21 -0900
On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 08:59:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there
>
>On my Linux (RedHat 5.2 on i686) , I tried to assign multiple IP by doing the
>followings
>
> ifconfig eth0:0 x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x up
>Also put in the followings
> CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
> CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
>But doesn't seem to work although 'ifconfig' report the added logical
>interface but actually cannot talk to the outside world
>
>Anyone like to shed some light ??
>Greatly appreciate. Thanks
>
>Best Regards
>Brian
You've forgotten and important step--adding to the route table:
route add -host x.x.x.x dev eth0:0
and so on. You'll be able to talk to the outside world, then. :-)
--Arthur Corliss
Bolverk's Lair -- http://www.odinicfoundation.org/arthur/
"Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto
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From: Shaheen Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel 2.2 and 3Com 3c900 NICs
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:42:55 -0500
I use RedHat 5.2 (and this is actually a fresh install...). Under
original 5.2, my network card worked fine. It's the 3c900 (Boomerang)
card by 3Com. The network I am on requires us to connect with DHCP.
However, now that I have 2.2 installed on my system (I kept a 2.0...
backup if something like this went wrong, that's why I can post this), the
network card does not work under it.
I looked through all the configuration settings and checked the options
for the 3c900 Vortex/Boomerang NICs. Everything compiles fine, and it
even boots ok. But when the kernel gets to connecting to the network via
DHCP, it can't do it -- "failed" is the response. if I restart and boot
2.0.36-7, it works fine.
Any reason why this should happen? Are the drivers on the
cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html page any different from
those native to the kernel??
Also, it would greatly help if you would mail me at my address below since
I don't check this group that often. Thanks a lot in advance.
- Shaheen Gandhi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 14:24:34 -0800
From: Todd Bordeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my 'man' has lost all its entries
Christophe MICHEL wrote:
> Hello world
> ----------------
>
> I don't know what happened but 'man' has lost all its entries. It hasn't
> lost all its pages (they are still present on the HD, I checked...) but all
> its entries, for ex.: man ls returns 'no manual entries for ls.
> I don't know where to find man's config file
>
> Please help for redhat 5.1 single user as root:me!
>
> Mucha thanx in advance
>
> Christophe MICHEL
Switch to the man directory, type "man man". This will tell you how to set up
the "MANPATH" environment variable (it is set in /etc/man.config).
HTH...Todd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Ruff)
Subject: Re: Epson vs. HP
Date: 4 Feb 1999 15:26:39 -0700
Since I'm upset at HP's attitude about not releasing programming information
for the PhotoSmart scanner, I decided I would look elsewhere for a color
ink jet.
Epson directly supports lpd spooling to its printers with their Ethernet
card. That and the nice (at least to my eyes) print quality of their
1440x720 printers, led me to their 850Ne. It is rated at up to 9 ppm black,
and 7 ppm color. The Ethernet card will support AppleTalk, Netware, TCP
and Windows* protocols simultaneously. It was very easy to configure.
--
Craig Ruff NCAR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(303) 497-1211 P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307 Amateur Call KI0NO
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos Wexler)
Subject: Re: Epson vs. HP
Date: 4 Feb 1999 21:38:30 GMT
The one thing I really like about the HPs is their paper handling. When
the page comes out it rests on two rails and then these rais open and the
page drops to a tray. This way each page stays up while it prints, far
from the drying pages. Also, all printed pages are kept in this tray.
Pity other manufacturers have not copied the idea. I think that Epsons,
Cannons, et al. just spit the page out, and eventually they fall on the
table, floor, etc...
Carlos
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From: Carsten Cimander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape drive recommendation
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 03:02:18 +0100
Reply-To:
Mr. Glenn Bunton wrote:
> I need a quick recommendation for what tape drive to order for our linux
> intranet server. We're running slackware 3.6
>
> Please email any recommendations or warnings as soon as possible.
> Thanks!
>
> --
> =======================================================================
> Mr. Glenn Bunton
> Systems Librarian for Internet Technologies
> Old Dominion University
> Norfolk, Virginia
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (757) 683-5952
> =======================================================================
I only have experience in using HP-DAT drives (DDS-3 24GB HW-compressed)
(SureStore) and Sony DAT drives.
I think they do not differ much altough the HP DAT is delivered with more
SW (for WinTel clients).
If you need more speed and higher capacities in you backup perhaps try the
HP DLT (SureStore) or the
DLT library...
regards
Carsten
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From: Mark Hollett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Q] Win95/Linux Partition
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 14:38:08 -0800
Hi there!
Well, here's what I would do if I were in your boat. You said all your
partitions were ~2G, and you wanted ~3G for Windows, and the rest for
Linux, right? Take your favorite partioning software, and delete D E
and F, leaving C alone. Slap another 1G primary behind it, to complete
your windows space. For some reasone the thought occured that swap
partitions have to be primary as well(someone please correct me if I'm
wrong), so use the third primary slot for your swap(256M should be good
for 128 of memory). Then place an extended partition in the last slot,
and tack on logical partitions as you need them.
HTH
mark h
Tae-Yeoub Jang wrote:
>
> Hi guys!
>
> Bear once again with a boorish newbie.
>
> A new PC has just arrived and it's model is DELL Optiplex Gx1 400MHz,
> with 128M RAM, 10Gb IDE HD. I intend to use on it, both Windows95 and
> Redhat5.2.
>
> The disk already has 4 partitioned areas C, D, E, F, each of which has
> around 2 Gigs capacity and total 8 Gigs usable. (AFAIK, 2 Gigs are
> lost because of the "FAT16" file system restrictions. Am I right?) C
> is primarily partioned and the others are logically partitioned
> preceded by an extended partition from C. Currently, in C, around 500
> Mb has been occupied with Windows stuffs, and D-F are empty.
>
> Now what would be the best or easiest way of reshuffling these
> partitions for my own purpose? I would like to use 3 Gigs for Win95
> OS area, 7 for Linux. Is there any way to get it done without
> touching anything on C?
>
> Another question is: how much space do I need to reserve for SWAP
> memory for Linux? Is 256MB reasonable when the RAM has 128MB? No
> doubt, I need to run lots of memory-guzzling programs.
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Tae.
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wheel mouse
Date: 04 Feb 1999 21:33:31 +0000
Brian Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I originally configured RedHat with a generic 3 button mouse. Is
> there any way to switch this to Microsoft Intellimouse without
> reinstalling Red Hat?
Yes. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config, as described on the web page.
As well as the previously mentioned applications, rxvt supports
wheeled mice out of the box too.
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From: "Andrew Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: two SCSI adaptors?
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:24:11 -0000
I have two SCSI adaptors on my machine, do I have recompile the kernel or
something to be able to access both cards (advansys)?
help AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
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From: "Marc Provencher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing 3com 3c509 card on Linux RH 5.2
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:37:52 -0700
I'm trying to get my 3C509 card working with Linux RH 5.2.
I started Linuxconf, and I can see that it found the module name (3c509),
for eth0. I gave it an IP address via linuxconf as well, and made sure the
adapter was enabled.
When I run ifconfig -a I can't see anything but 'lo', which I think is just
the loopback.
Must I do something special to the kernel so it detects my card? I just
upgraded to 5.2, and I already had a few surprises, like I no longer have
ppp in my kernel, but I had it in my 5.1 version...
How can I get the kernel to detect my card?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Marc Provencher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: MRoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: HELP - Installing Network Card
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 17:13:21 -0600
Be careful with the security....
Then again samba's _sample_ config has stronger security than ur average NT
config...
never mind...
"Michel A. Lim" wrote:
> It works! at least, i think it works. Now, I just have to config the
> computer to see my Windows NT/9x hosts. Easier said than done for this
> network-challenged newbie, but I suppose that's where the fun lies.
>
> I've started reading the Samba HOWTO's. I'd welcome any suggestions or help
> you could offer. Thanks again.
>
> Regards,
> Michel A. Lim
> Associate
> Wong Hobach Lau
> Consulting Engineers
> Structural/Civil/Construction Management
> www.whl-international.com
>
> network configuration details:
> booting Linux - messages
> eth0: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ ISA
> at 0x320, IRQ=7, 10 Base T
> set Rx mode to 1 addresses
>
> GNOME - LINUXCONF
> Basic host configuration > Adapter 1
> Config mode: DHCP
> Net Device: eth0
> Kernel Module: eepro
> I/O Port: 0x320
> IRQ: 7
>
> /var/log/samba/log.smb
> standard input is not a socket, assuming D-option
> bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (address already in use)
> /var/log/samba/log.nmb
> Samba name server LOCALHOST is now a local master browser
> for workgroup WONG on subnet 127.0.0.1
>
> /etc/dhcpc/hostinfo-eth0
> LEASETIME=86400
> RENEWALTIME=43200
> REBINDTIME=75600
> IPADDR=10.0.0.15
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> BROADCAST=10.0.0.255
>
> I have configured my NT 3.51 Server to issue IP addresses using DHCP. I
> randomly chose our network number as 10.0.0.0. The NT Server IP address is
> 10.0.0.1. I can ping the NT Server from the LINUX Server using "ping
> 10.0.0.1."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Ott)
Subject: Want optical jukebox support for Linux? Read this.
Date: 4 Feb 1999 20:49:35 -0500
A few times a month I've been seeing posts from people asking if there
is optical jukebox support in Linux and the answer always seems to be
"Not really." Well, now may be your chance to get it.
Recently, I got to spend a few days with a couple of engineers from
Kofax, the company that makes "Ascent Storage." It's a pretty impressive
product: it makes an optical jukebox look like one huge disk drive. All
optical platter management is handled transparently. All the operator
needs to do is add a new platter whenever the jukebox runs out of blank
ones.
The problem is, they only support Windows NT, right now. However, when I
discussed Linux with them, they said they had a few developers who hate
NT and would love to port Ascent to Linux. The only thing they need is
the go-ahead from management. Obviously, for that to happen, management
needs to believe it would be worth their while.
So, if you are serious about optical jukebox support for Linux, I would
recommend you send Email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and tell them you want a
Linux port. Make sure you mention "Ascent Storage", since there is also
"Ascent Capture", a high-volume hardware/software solution for scanning
documents.
Since the volume in comp.os.linux.hardware is so high, I'll post this
message a few more times over the next few weeks, so everyone gets a
chance to see it.
Thanks,
Chris Ott
--
Chris Ott Are you children clinging tenaciously to my buttocks?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powdered Toast Man
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Epson vs. HP
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:35:07 GMT
In article <79d1rh$81c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Go to http://enuchs.org/epson/index.html for a good article on Epson Stylus
u\
I already been there, but didn't found the answer for my two questions:
1) from the mechanical point of view, how reliable is the Stylus?
2) what does it mean "Stylus B/W printing result not as good as the HP one"?
I intend to print in B/W most of the time, therefore the color quality is in
my case less important. And being scared of the really poor HP697 mechanical
quality (and it's so slooow!), I'd like to know if the Epson does have such
problems as feeding multiple pages at once.
Serban
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