Linux-Hardware Digest #399, Volume #9 Wed, 10 Feb 99 01:13:37 EST
Contents:
help needed for PCMCIA ethernet (Martin van Nijnatten)
Re: Adaptec CLONE ISA SCSI, RH5.2? ("Lewin A.R.W. Edwards")
Compiling modules (Christian Aasland)
Re: Seagate ST118273n 18gig locks up Linux 2.0.36 (John Wilkie)
AOpen 3d sound card (Adam Jenkins)
Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG (Joel Shellman)
Re: Linux Driver for Compaq ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What means: Can not load interpreter (Evgueni Tzvetanov)
Re: wow! 32bpp and 12 gb (Harry McGregor)
Re: NT Convert needs security help! (Lyle Taylor)
Does Linux really need BIOS ? (mkk)
Re: Linux on an E-Machine... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Network performance 3c589c ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't ping my Gateway (but I can ping my own IP address) ("Gary Spivey")
Re: I need specific PCI Modem usage info. (Allen)
Re: Linux Redhat 5.2 with Compaq proliant 1500 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Must I run /sbin/initrd to attach Zip drive? ("Chris Jones")
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From: Martin van Nijnatten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: help needed for PCMCIA ethernet
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:22:01 +0100
- Compaq Armada 1700
- TDK Global networker 3410 PCMCIA (ethernet + modem)
- slackware, kernel 2.0.34
- pcmcia-cs 3.0.0.
Cardservices are loaded correctly but the network card isn't recognized.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Martin
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From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adaptec CLONE ISA SCSI, RH5.2?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 03:14:09 +1100
Don't bother to think about this, fixed it myself by using
append="aha152x=0x340,10" in lilo.conf and commenting out a couple of
checks in drivers/scsi/aha152x.c. Zip at least is working AOK and CD-R
is at least detected, time to play with cdwrite now.
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
> This is an ISA SCSI card shipped with my CD-R drive, it is totally
> unbranded, and the chips have had their identification filed off :-(
> Win9x detects it as "Adaptec AHA150X/1510/152X/AIC6X60" but Red Hat
--- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards <http://www.zws.com/>
Realtime & Embedded HW/SW Engineer
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From: Christian Aasland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compiling modules
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 04:07:16 GMT
Recently compiled the 2.2.1 kernel then did make modules ; make
modules_install but now I get a bunch of errors regarding modprobe
couldn't find moules pf-5 etc... Everything (except the 3c509b which I
compiled the kernel with support for) seems to be working, but I'm kind
of concerned with Linux complaining about this...
--
Christian Aasland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ#: 30268555
AIM:caasland
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From: John Wilkie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seagate ST118273n 18gig locks up Linux 2.0.36
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 16:12:03 +0000
David Maris wrote:
>
> I have a AHA2940 Scsi Controller running a Seagate ST118273n Ultra
> drive. I am trying to create a single Partition .
>
> this procedure locks up my system.
>
> The scsi bus is correctly Terminated
> I have 2 Seagate ST34371n drives at scsi id 0 and 1
> I have a HP 1533a at SCSI 2
>
> This drive is at SCSI id 5
> ULTRA Speed is disabled in the bois and Drives >than 1g is enabled.
>
> Any Suggestions.
>
There are a lot of drives on the bus - what is your chain length ?
I have great trouble with more than 3 drives on a bus with external
connectors.
John
--
School of Chemistry
The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
Tel. 0121 414 7189 Fax. 0121 414 7871
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Jenkins)
Subject: AOpen 3d sound card
Date: 9 Feb 1999 16:11:01 GMT
Can anyone tell me how well this card (AW37, Crystal cs4235-based)
runs under Linux please? Will I get better performance playing
back mp3's say with a different ISA card?
--
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
- Mark Twain
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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 21:16:17 +0000
From: Joel Shellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG
Michael Powe wrote:
> >>>>> "Bob" == Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bob> having windows. I have heard in newsgroups that GTE has
> Bob> terminated ADSL service when they found out somebody was
> Bob> running linux.
>
> Probably true and justified since they tell you up front that Windows
> is required (at least, the signup information I have seen stipulates
> as much). If you want to play games & not use Windows (after signing
> such a contract), that's fine but don't cry if you get caught.
>
> mp
Just had a thought and so I had to pipe up. Local phone
companies are government regulated entities. I know that our
local phone company does not support anything but windows
for DSL service, also. I wonder if this could have any
bearing on a Microsoft Antitrust case. If all government
regulated local phone companies were shown to restrict users
to only one operating system...
--
Joel Shellman
knOcean Interactive Corporation
http://corp.knOcean.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Driver for Compaq
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 04:28:01 GMT
Hi
Are you having ProLiant 1600 only or how many Compaq Desktop/Deskpro/Server
connected as clients to this server. As you need a Fibre channel Driver how
many Pegasus box connected to this server.
As Compaq might also be monitoring the formus I will try to help you out in
getting a Compaq Fibre channel driver. Please can you forward the
above information at the earliest for me.
Mail me back if you have any other Linux issue on Compaq hardware. I will help
you out in solving those issues.
Thanks N Regards
In article <79jvjk$gsh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (C. F. Lee) wrote:
> Is there linux driver for the Compaq PCI bus fibre channel adapter?
> We are considering to convert our Compaq Proliant 1600 server with a
> fibre cahnnel disk array to run Linux instead of NT server.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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From: Evgueni Tzvetanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What means: Can not load interpreter
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:21:01 -0600
It probably means that something is eating your memory and you have no free
memory for the bash interpreter to load.
It sometimes happened with me long time ago, whan I start replicating a
laaaaarge database and I haven't optimized the proces, but used the fast way
- RAM to dump the records there and then to load them to the replication
palces.
Don't worry about the message - it is OK. The memory is your problem!
Something is EATING it!
Norbert Goebel wrote:
> Sorry to ask this question in this group, but I think it�s a hardware
> problem.
>
> Sometimes trying (trying because it hangs) to reboot my linux box, which
> worked nice before, the shutting down process gets awfully slow and than
> shows the message:
> "Can not load interpreter"
> and some other error messages (but these change almost randomly
> everytime this happens) about not beeing able to shut down eth0 or scsi
> timed out, or something other hardware related.
>
> But what does "can not load interpreter" mean?
> What does linux try to load?
>
> I realize that this happens not regularily, but sometimes and seems only
> after I mounted a FAT32 drive and worked on it for some time, or if I
> used my Fritzcard for some time.
>
> I am using Suse Linux 6.0 (kernel 2.0.36) on a
> Tyan Thunder 100 S1836DLU Dual PII mb with onboard 3940UW SCSI
> Celeron 300A
> 128MB PC-100 SD-RAM
> 2 SCSI Hdd
> 1 SCSI CD-ROM
> Creative Riva TNT
> SB 128PCI
> AVM Fritzcard Classic
> DIGI32 PCI (without drivers for Linux)
> NE2000 PCI clone
> Hauppauge Win/TV card
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Norbert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry McGregor)
Subject: Re: wow! 32bpp and 12 gb
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 04:32:21 GMT
Ok, I am a 17 year old geek that has been building computer since I
was 9. Just finished building an elementary school computer lab,
running slackware Linux and StarOffice. Any repectable computer user
either builds, or get's custom built, a computer. Parts I recomend
*against* (price/performance, etc):
Big Foot Hard disk drives
TX Pro (almost any of the "pro" boards are pc chips junk)
S3 video card (very low performance/$, though they do work).
My current low end unix (FreeBSD or Linux, $600-$700 range, with or
without monitor) system is:
K6-2 400MHz (~$150)
Soyo 5EHM super7 motherboard (~$60-70)
64MB PC100 SDRAM (~$80)
SiS 6326 (4MB or 8MB) AGP Video Card (~$25)
IBM DeskStar 8GB Hard disk drive (blows the socks off any of the Big
Foot drives, they are slower than slow!). (~$150)
all prices in USD
Harry
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From: Lyle Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: NT Convert needs security help!
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 21:43:06 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I don't know how wise I am, but you might try this: Set the
permissions of directories such that only the user can read, execute or
write in that directory. Change all other directories so that the world
doesn't have access to them. If the users don't belong to any groups
other than their own, that would effectively keep them from browsing
around.
For example, User1 belongs to group User1, and no others. Set his
directory permissions to 770. No other UserX will be able to CD to or
view anything in his directory.
Then set all other directories so that the world can't read or execute
them (750 or something like that). That should also keep them out of
other unwanted areas.
I'm sure there is a better way to do this, but it's an idea.
Good luck,
Lyle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello all... Yes, another NT --> Redhat convert. :)
>
> I have been successful in setting up our site and Apache; we have multiple
> sites running well, both under shared IP's and individual IP's.
>
> I do have one question though regarding FTP "security".
>
> What we want to do is this:
>
> Have a "home" partition, 50 (or so) users, each with their own directory and 2
> subdirectories: html & cgi-bin, set up like this:
>
> Home
> Home / User 1
> Home / User 1 / html
> Home / User 1 / cgi-bin
> Home / User 2
> Home / User 2 / html
> Home / User 2 / cgi-bin
> Home / User 3
> Home / User 3 / html
> Home / User 3 / cgi-bin
>
> ... etc ...
>
> We are defining users OK, giving them their own group (by default) and
> pointing their "starting" directory to, for example, HOME/USER3/HTML. This
> is working fine. Each user can FTP in to their HTML directory (this is set
> in the user profile). However, we write proprietary scripts & don't want
> them to access either the cgi-bin or other client's sites. Basically, we
> can't let them click on a "directory up" link in FTP allowing them out of
> their directory or a "change directory" option that lets them go somewhere
> else on the server.
>
> So basically, we want User1 to get to
>
> Home/User1/html
>
> but we don't want them to get to:
>
> Home/User1/cgi-bin
>
> or
>
> Home/User*
>
> or
>
> Home
>
> or any other partition on the system.
>
> Is there a straight forward way to configure this? This is the last
> impediment to us going forward, as our scripts are proprietary & we can't let
> our clients have access to them or to the other clients' sites.
>
> Thanks in advance. I look forward to some wise words...
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
> Please post a response to the group and email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (remove the ".nospam")
>
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From: mkk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Linux really need BIOS ?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:44:51 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody
My understanding is that Linux only needs BIOS so that it can get
loaded and never after that. I've two drives the first one accessible to
BIOS the second one not, so if I put LILO and /boot partition on the
first drive and / on the second drive I should be OK. I've RH 5.1 ( on
disk one ) now and going for RH 5.2 . BTW how much space do I need for
the /boot partition assuming I may have upto 3 kernal versions.
TIA
Khalid
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on an E-Machine...
Date: 9 Feb 1999 16:26:12 GMT
According to Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Uh-oh.....hope I'm not in for a big headache. I just bought an etower 333i
> (celeron 333....should I have gotten the AMD? well, that's another question)...
> after reading the specs on it it seemed it would be linux-friendly, except I
> can only hope the modem is not a winmodem (haven't opened box yet to see). I'll
> let you guys know once I start setting it up.
> Rob
Please keep me posted...I'm looking at buying in within the next couple of weeks
and don't want to get locked into something that I won't be able to use.
~ELH~
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Network performance 3c589c
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 16:39:26 GMT
I have a gateway 9100 with a 3com 3c598C network card. I am getting a lot of
errors and dropped packets. Is this common? After ftping a 1M file to my
machine I report 40000 errors and 800 dropped packets. This seems excessive
to me.
My question is: Is the driver for this card buggy and bad or is it in my
network???
Please e-mail me replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
Just some background info. I am running kernel 2.2.2 with pcmcia 3.0.8
tools. I am on a switched network and I am doing my timings on a quite
network w/ only 5 idle machines on the subnet. Here is some other info.
{localhost 28} /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by 3c589_cs 5792 1 opl3
10252 0 opl3sa2 3400 0 ad1848 14344 0 [opl3sa2] mpu401 17656 0
[opl3sa2] ds 5460 2 [3c589_cs] i82365 19212 2 pcmcia_core 29260 0
[3c589_cs ds i82365] {localhost 29} /sbin/ifconfig lo Link encap:Local
Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP
LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:168 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 TX packets:0 errors:21448 dropped:168 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:A6:BF:21
inet addr:128.160.119.9 Bcast:128.160.119.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:97046 dropped:1446 overruns:0
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
Thanks in advance.
Matt
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From: "Gary Spivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can't ping my Gateway (but I can ping my own IP address)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 05:33:59 GMT
Yes,
everything is physically connected. If I take linux down and bring up
Windows 95, everything works fine.
If I ifconfig down the lo interface, I can no longer ping myself or the
broadcast address. So it appears that the problem may be somewhere in the
card setup rather than in the network setup.
Thanks for the input.
Cheers,
Gary
Andrew Comech wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I see nothing wrong in your routing table...
>Did you try PINGing other computers on the network?
>Or your own computer from the neighbor's machine?
>(Hate to ask that -- are you sure you are physically connected
>to the ethernet?..)
>Andrew
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: I need specific PCI Modem usage info.
Date: 10 Feb 1999 05:21:15 GMT
No, you don't have a "WinModem", the manufacturer can't call it that
because that is a trademarked term from 3com? I believe, but that
dosen't mean the other manufacturers can't make "host controlled
modems, or software controlled modems, and sell them as modems... I
think your modem is unusable under Linux, and BTW, I just returned a
PCI Acer modem today too for that same reason.
As per the hardware compatiblity list, any modem that uses
shared memory (usually at some really high memory address) is not not
supported under Linux. Even the non "WinModem" PCI modems that I've
been able to find are guilty of at least that, if not also requiring
some win API to simulate the UART that would be on a real modem...
I'd bet you have a WinLemon from the info that you posted so far...
Allen
p.s. one other tip: If you don't need either of the built-in serial
ports, and end up getting an internal modem, try disabling something
like your COM 2 on your motherboard in the CMOS setup, and then that
port address and IRQ will be available for the modem to use even if it
is a PnP jobby, but I don't think that will help that PCI one you have
now... OR, get a good external one and plug it into one of your
built-in serial ports? If you use a PS2 mouse or trackball, plugged
into a PS2 port, then that will default to IRQ 12, and if you don't
have any other external serial devices, then you can disable BOTH of
your on-board ports, and free up the IRQs and port addresses.
Check first to make sure whether or not you have a serial mouse,
usually on COM 1? before you disable that port in CMOS.
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of
nospam.)
fight spam everywhere!!!
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to making a
stable operating system and
Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world.
Linux; The Official OS of the New Millennium
http://www.linuxlink.com
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:02:08 -0500, Seth Kingsley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...snip...
>The modem that I bought is an Internal IDEMA PCI FaxModem (Is this a
>no-name brand or what?).
>
>excerpt from /proc/pci:
>
>Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
> Communication controller: Cirrus Logic Unknown device (rev 1).
> Vendor id=1013. Device id=4000.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 10.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2000000.
> I/O at 0x6000.
>
>setserial reports this:
>
>/dev/cua0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
>/dev/cua1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
>/dev/cua2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
>/dev/cua3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
>
>I made sure to ask the vendor if it was a Winmodem or not, and they told
>me that it wasn't. Was I lied to? I figured that they must have some
>idea what they were talking about given that they were selling FreeBSD
>there. Please at lease mirror all responses to my email address --
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] And thanks in advance for anybody who is
>willing to go over this...
>
>-Seth Kingsley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Redhat 5.2 with Compaq proliant 1500
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 05:30:34 GMT
Hi
You need to select the option "linear addressing mode" at the end of
installation after you select the MBR option. This will solve your problem.
Your feed back is appreciated.
Let me know if you have any other problems on Compaq hardware with Linux.
Regards
In article <78npee$e7j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Laurent CASTELLANI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trynig to setup a proliant 1500 with a Linux redhat 5.2
>
> The setup works perfect execpt that when I rebot the LILO boot does not work
> (it stops after printing two letters LI)
>
> I tried to change the hard drive to a smaller one 4Gb and make sure the do
> small partitionning like under 1Gb but it is the same problem.
>
> I also cleanup the entire Hard drive to make sure there was no Compaq stuff
> remaining on the MBR.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Laurent C.
>
>
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From: "Chris Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Must I run /sbin/initrd to attach Zip drive?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:59:32 -0000
Reply-To: "Chris Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi
AFAIK, and from memory (since I am not a SCSI user), you only need to use
the mkinitrd if you are planning on booting from the SCSI disk.
??
---
Chris Jones
Black-Sun Software
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.black-sun.co.uk
Team *AMiGA*
Mitchell Maltenfort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:wfRv2.1394$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>I'm trying to figure out if this command is trivial, vital, dangerous or
>negligible.
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