Linux-Hardware Digest #434, Volume #9 Mon, 15 Feb 99 03:13:43 EST
Contents:
Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG (Gabriel Lau Kin Jock)
LINUX System Auction - Cheap Machine Ready to Go! (Thomas Boutell)
[Q]: PTBL and disk geometry? (Peter Bouthoorn)
Re: HP 890C Printer Driver ("Walter Harms")
Dynalink ISDN card not working with Kernel 2.2.1 (Dennis Joris)
Kodak professional digital cameras (Richard Beare)
news server ("pschless")
what's the fix for a segmentation fault in XF86Setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PPP using dip (STEVENS TRAVIS)
Re: Linux on Compaq Proliant 7000 (Yin Tan Cui)
Re: Lemarx ColorJet 1000 ("Jeff")
Re: Ensoniq soundcard problem (Jeremiah)
Re: Can't put modem to work :( (Rob Mason)
Re: Interesting modem problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [Q] printing image from commandline ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Ensoniq setup problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: zip drive trouble (Remco van den Berg)
zip drive trouble ("Chris Peters")
Re: Riva128 & Hauppauge TV (Zany Wilco)
Re: Thinking about Promise FasTrak and Netgear 10/100's (Eric Turner)
Re: 56k modems. ("karlo")
Any comments on a S1696DLUA Thunder 2 ATX? ("Tim (TJ) Snider")
Linux and Diamondmm Fireport40??? (MrFatCat)
Re: Linux & overclocked CPU ("A.G.")
Re: <Linux and Win98 Network> (Jeff Howard)
Goofy CD-ROM behavior ("Douglas C. Holland")
Re: CRU MiniRAID +Linux (John Thomas)
Re: 10/100 Ethernet SWITCH (to be used for Fast Ethernet LAN, and 10-BaseT cable
modem) (Mark Hahn)
ide-scsi emulation for ATAPI cd writing problem ("Ryan C. Stallings")
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From: Gabriel Lau Kin Jock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 18:07:31 GMT
Best way to crash a ADSL or Cablemodem network..... hookup an NT box w/ the
dhcp server enabled. :)
Robert Schratzer wrote:
> James wrote:
> >
> > My isp, mtt.ca, will also terminate adsl service if the account is using
> > anything other than windows. Apparently, MacOs has crashed some systems,
>
> This looks like typical M$-thinking! A system cannot "crash" another one
> over a network. If a system crashes (itself) it's because of poor
> implementation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Boutell)
Subject: LINUX System Auction - Cheap Machine Ready to Go!
Date: 14 Feb 1999 18:30:45 GMT
The LINUX operating system has been COMPLETELY
INSTALLED on this computer and it runs great. The system
comes complete with Netscape Communicator, the X Window
System, the gcc C compiler, and lots of other great programs.
This computer is a Dell Pentium 90 system with a 520mb hard
drive and 16mb of RAM. The system INCLUDES A 14-INCH
DELL MONITOR and an ethernet card with AAUI, 10baseT
(twisted pair) and coax connectors.
This computer is in great condition. It was purchased legitimately
from the Boeing Surplus store. Boeing has recently decided that
Pentium 90s are obsolete. Their loss is our gain.
This is a really cheap way to learn more about Linux on a
computer anyone can afford!
This machine is being auctioned off on EBay. To participate
in the auction, please visit:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=67067568
Thanks for participating!
-T
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bouthoorn)
Subject: [Q]: PTBL and disk geometry?
Date: 14 Feb 1999 17:45:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
what does PTBL stand for and how is it related to the actual
disk geometry? I checked ide.txt but this didn't make it exactly clear
to me.
I bought a 10GB HD the other day and on booting the kernel shows
2 different CHS values. First: CHS=20928/16/63 and later:
[PTBL] [1313/255/63].
If I understand things correctly the first CHS pair is the actual
disk geometry and PTBL has todo with a translation because the max
value for the number of cylinders as supplies by the BIOS is 1024.
Correct? But then why does the IDE drives use the BIOS information???
greetings,
Peter
--
Peter Bouthoorn | "We will encourage you to develop the three
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | great virtues of a programmer: laziness,
Linux addict | impatience, and hubris"
| L. Wall & R.L. Schwarz
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From: "Walter Harms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 890C Printer Driver
Date: 14 Feb 1999 18:45:07 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manfred Ram) writes:
>In article <79s2jl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>>>"Paul Stephenson" <pauls#austin.rr.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>hello all, i have just got done installing linux on my system, and i was
>>>>wondering if anyone knows the best place to find drivers for my HP 890C
>>>>printer, and for what its worth, a good place to find a compilation of linux
>>>>drivers.
>>>
>>>>Paul
>>>
>>>look at the ghostscript homepage. the driver works fine.
>>>
>Which one would you suggest then ? I've been trying to install various
>drivers but none does really good/nice printing. I have installed gs
>5.50 but cannot get cdj890 to be shown in the selection when working with
>apsfilter. ??
>--
>herzl. Gruesse / best regards
> Manfred Ram / Kisdorf (Hamburg/Germany)
simply add the hp850 driver from uli wortmann and recompile
you may need the remove the ^M
from the readme:
A printer driver for the HP670, HP690, HP850, HP855
HP870, HP890, HP1100 and HP1600 color printers.
To be used with the ghostscript printing system.
These drivers are currently not in the official distrib.
Please report all problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CREDITS: Much of the driver is based on ideas derived
from the cdj550 driver of George Cameron.
The support for the hp670, hp690, hp890
and hp1600 was added by Martin Gerbershagen.
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Copyright (C) 1996-1998 <Uli Wortmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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"...to seek new life, to explore strange new worlds, to boldly go
where no particulate entity with any sentient characteristics
whatsoever has gone before."
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From: Dennis Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dynalink ISDN card not working with Kernel 2.2.1
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:55:20 +0100
Hi,
I installed the 2.2.1 kernel on my PC, and now my Dynalink
ISDN adapter is not working anymore. It worked flawlessly
on the 2.0.36 kernel. I complied the HiSax drives as a module,
as stated in the docs, but when I try to load the module, the
driver tries 3 times to see the card and then fails. I didn't
change anything in the isapnp.conf file and if I boot the
2.0.36 kernel, everything works again.
Thanks,
Dennis.
PS: why is there no linux ISDN newsgroup?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Richard Beare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kodak professional digital cameras
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 04:44:32 GMT
Hi all,
I'm investigating some alternatives for a lab imaging application, and
I'd like to find out whether there is any support for the Kodak DCS
series of professional digital cameras (e.g. DCS 315) under linux. Some
of the cameras have SCSI interfaces, but most of the newer ones have
firewire. Has anyone had any success getting them to work under linux.
For this application it will be necessary to be able to control the
camera as well as download images.
Any advice welcome.
--
Richard Beare
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "pschless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.applixware,linux.redhat.axp,linux.redhat.development,linux.redh
Subject: news server
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 23:33:18 -0600
I have just installed Red Hat 5.2
Could anyone tell me how to set up a news server, or point me to a how-to?
thanks!
Patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: what's the fix for a segmentation fault in XF86Setup
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 05:40:25 GMT
tried an upgrade of the XFree*6 server and now when I try to tweak XF86Setup
it gives a segmentation error at the command line and just sits there under
X, what is the fix to this?
============= Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ============
http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:46:40 -0700
From: STEVENS TRAVIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP using dip
it seems i am having trouble getting linux to recognize my modem.
using dip i select the port by
port cua1
speed...
then if i do a reset, it freezes.
or if I skip the reset, put in the init string,
it will freeze when i ask it to dial.
any suggestions would be appreciated
-TRav
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From: Yin Tan Cui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Compaq Proliant 7000
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:18:42 +0000
David Moore wrote:
>
> I have a Compaq Proliant 7000 that I would love to migrate from NT to Linux.
> Unfortunately, I have never installed Linux before. I know I will need to
> patch things up to recognize the Smart Array II controller, as well as
> recompile for SMP. My problem is that I cannot finish the boot process from
> the diskettes (RedHat5.2). It appears that the kernel is looking for a hard
> drive, but doesn't recognize a disk attached to the imbedded SCSI. Just for
> grins, I dropped an Adaptec 2940-UW card into the machine, added a 9Gb drive,
> disabled the Smart Array controller, and the two imbedded controllers. I
> figured this would allow me to install on the machine and apply the patches.
> Unfortunately, it still won't boot. Does anybody have any suggestions?
> Error messages encountered during boot:
> VFS: cannot open root device 08:18
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:18
This error is due to that you don't have RAM disk support in the
instllation disk you used.
> David Moore
> Summit Electric Supply
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lemarx ColorJet 1000
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:07:07 -0700
Lexmark printers are Windoze only printers. They will not work under linux.
Nic Holbrook wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a lexmark 5700 series, and it doesn't run under linux, either. I
>called the company, and they it uses the same sort of driver setup as a
>winmodem.....???? WinPrinters??? I think so. If i'd known this, I
>wouldn't have bought the damn thing..........
>
>Nic Holbrook
>
>Mark Hollett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>Has anyone managed to get one of these working properly under linux?
>>I've been playing with mine for months now, with no luck. Any hints or
>>suggestions would be welcome. TIA
>>
>>mark h
>
>
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From: Jeremiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Ensoniq soundcard problem
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:00:39 -0500
Mircea wrote:
>
> Well, the only thing I can say is my ES1371 works great with the drivers
> in the 2.2.1 kernel.
I'm still using the ALSA drivers with 2.0.36, and I have no
complaints, either.
>
> > I agree. I went sound card shopping today. Got a shuttle PCI with
> > this 1370 chip and a generic ISA card with the crystal CS4232
> > chip and tried both. The 1370 chip sounded REAL bad while the
> > card with the crystal CS4232 chip sounds great! Have no idea if
> > linux just doesn't like PCI sound cards or if the driver for this
> > chip is just lame..
The driver that ships with RH5.2 is just lame... there was a
post to USENET about two months ago quoting the author of the drivers
as saying they weren't very good, and recommending 2.2.x. ALSA is a
good option as well.
Brian
--
email to bmeloon at netscape dot net. evilquaker is a spam collector.
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From: Rob Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can't put modem to work :(
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:01:53 +0000
I had a similar problem with RH5.2. I solved it (eventually) by setting
the jumpers on my modem to 'hardwire' the IRQ and I/O settings. My
modem has a pnp jumper setting (like yours) which I disabled.
I disabled COM2 in my computers BIOS and set the modem jumpers to make
it sit in the vacant COM2 position (I also ensured that the IRQ's and
other settings had no conflicts with other devices).
Hope this helps - best of luck
"M�rio Gamito" wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm new at Linux.
> I'm trying to put have SuSE 6.0 running, but i am not able to put my
> modem to work. I wonder if you can help me with this. I'd appreciate.
>
> I have a SupraExpress 56i SP (intl). It's an internal modem, ISA, PnP.
> And i also have a genius Netmouse. I have no other PnP card or "strange"
> hardware.
>
> In windows, i use to have mouse on com2 and modem on com3. They both
> worked perfectly. Currently i only have Linux in my HD.
>
> In my BIOS setup i used before to have the following information:
> COM1 : 3f8
> COM2 : 2f8
>
> Now, with Linux i can only install my modem (with pnpdump and isapnp) if
> i set COM1 disabled in BIOS. Otherwise i get an error while running
> isapnp.
>
> So, in the end, i still get mouse on com2 and modem on com3, just like
> on windows.
>
> Next step, if i open kppp in kde and test the modem, i get the message
> "can't open modem".
> If i then set link /dev/modem to com3, i will instead have the message
> "modem busy" on kppp.
>
> I've searched several docs, ngs and books and i didn't manage to solve
> the problem.
>
> will someone help me, please? I'd really like to become a Linux user,
> but i also want to put this thing to work.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> M�rio Gamito
> Portugal
--
Regards,
Rob Mason, M.C.P.
C.M Informatics Partnership
http://www.cmiweb.co.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Interesting modem problem
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 06:15:07 GMT
Chris Leow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The exact output from setserial /dev/ttyS2 -a is:
> Line 2, UART 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4, Baud base 115200, close
Is there any particular reason that your modem is on /dev/ttyS2? I assume you are
aware that
it is sharing IRQ 4 with /dev/ttyS0? What is on /dev/ttyS0?
> delay 50, divisor 0, closing_wait 3000, closing_wait 2 inifinite
> flags: spd_normal skip_test
You might try setting spd_hi or spd_vhi, although I shouldn't think spd_normal would
produce
the kind of delays you spoke of.
--Bill Davidson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Q] printing image from commandline
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 06:15:06 GMT
Vachi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I print out image file like JPEG from command
> line? I tried lpr filename.jpg but it does nothing. it
> does not put the file in printing queue. Is the only way
Did you check with lpq and lpc?
> I'm using Canon BJ-240 on linux 2.0.36. The printcap
> is as follow:
> (I'm using aps filter 4.91)
>
> #
> lp|lp2|bj200-a4-auto-mono|bj200 auto mono:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> :sd=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-auto-mono:\
> :lf=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-auto-mono/log:\
> :af=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-auto-mono/acct:\
>
> :if=/usr/lib/aps-4.91/filter/aps-bj200-a4-auto-mono:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:
Is that extra blank line really in your printcap? If so, then you don't have an input
filter
defined for lp. There must be no whitespace after the backslashes and no blank lines
in a
printcap entry. If these entries were automatically generated by the apsfilter
install process
then you should report it as a bug to the apsfilter maintainer. If you made these
entries
yourself then you should re-read the section of the printing Howto called "The Sytax
of
/etc/printcap", and the following:
3.9 An `/etc/printcap' gotcha
=============================
Two `/etc/printcap' files can look identical and yet one works and
the other doesn't.
See if `lpc stat' reports a printer called ` :'. The last character
on a continued line must be a backslash. If there are whitespace
characters after the backslash then it doesn't register the next line
as a continuation.
--Bill Davidson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ensoniq setup problem
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:16:04 GMT
I am a Linux newbie and am having difficulty configuring my sound
card. The machine is an old Gateway P5-133. The sound card is an OEM
Ensoniq Soundscape 16bit ISA PnP. I don't know the exact
model...maybe someone could tell me how to determine the model of the
card.
Anyway, I have installed RedHat 5.2. I ran sndconfig and it detects
my sound card and sees all the correct interrupts, dma settings, etc.
Everything looks fine. When it tries to play the sample sound,
however, I get the following error.
ISAPNP Error
LD setting verify failed, this may not be a problem. Try adding
(VERIFYLD N) to the top of your script.
Error occurred executing request 'LD 3' on or around line 166 ---
further action aborted.
I don't really know how to interpret this. Any ideas/suggestions?
K
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:10:09 +0100
From: Remco van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers
Subject: Re: zip drive trouble
Chris Peters wrote:
>
> whenever i type "mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip" it says either "fat16 is
> not a recognized file system" or"no such directory as /mnt/zip"
> whats wrong?
Does your kernel support fat16 ?
% cat /proc/filesystems
ext2
nodev proc
iso9660
msdos
nodev nfs
ntfs
vfat
Does the mountpoint exist?
% ls -ld /mnt/zip
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 13 1998 /mnt/zip/
-Remco
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From: "Chris Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers
Subject: zip drive trouble
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:47:06 -0800
whenever i type "mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip" it says either "fat16 is
not a recognized file system" or"no such directory as /mnt/zip"
whats wrong?
linux is like a wigwam--no windows, no gates, apache inside!
btw, im running Redhat 5.2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zany Wilco)
Subject: Re: Riva128 & Hauppauge TV
Date: 14 Feb 1999 23:31:57 GMT
Hi,
i do have the same problem.
Windows98 works fine but xtvscreen/xawtv only show monochrome.
Haupauge WinTV/PCI w/878 Chipset
SuSE Linux / Kernel 2.0.37pre5 / Gnome+IceWM
bttv-0.6.3 & 0.5.3 / Matrox Millenium G200
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:41:52 +0100, A Lamers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Hauppauge TVcard and a Elsa Victory Erazor videocard (riva128).
>When I start a tvprogram (xtvscreen, kwintv or any other I've tried) the
>colors are all wrong. In Windows98 I run the same resolution
>(1600x1280x16bpp) and it works fine. Anybody any suggestions?
>
>Some additional info:
>Slackware 3.6.0
>Kernel: 2.2.1
>KDE1.1
>bttv-0.6.3 or 0.5.22
>Hauppauge tv-card with a bt848
>Elsa Victory Erazor (riva128)
--
cu CW
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From: Eric Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Thinking about Promise FasTrak and Netgear 10/100's
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:20:12 -0800
I have the Netgear 10/100 FA310TX network card and it works flawlessly!
(at 10 Mbps at least, haven't had a chance to try it at 100). It uses
the Tulip drivers which can be compiled into the kernel or loaded as a
module.
Eric
Michael wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I am trying to determine whether there are drivers and experience with the
> following
> cards:
>
> Promise FasTrak with multiple drives either as RAID or large partition.
> Bay Networks Netgear 10/100BaseTX NIC FA310TX
>
> I want to get some feedback before I commit money ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance. Please reply direct, ISP news server seems to loose
> messages.
> Would appreciate a suggestions on a Linux and/or general news server.
>
> Michael
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Free PGP software is available from http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pgp-form.html
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From: "karlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 56k modems.
Date: 14 Feb 1999 23:22:49 GMT
> Set the jumpers, boot, setserial in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, reboot and
There was no need for rebooting at all after that in linux. I see you are
still used to microcrap winslop.
karlo
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From: "Tim (TJ) Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any comments on a S1696DLUA Thunder 2 ATX?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:31:26 -0800
Hi,
I'm thinking of picking up a used one to run 2.2.1 on... As both a
workstation, graphics and compute. I'm particularly interested to know if
anyone has run it in SMP mode. I have heard that earlier (PPro) Tyan boards
had some problems with the memory speed, is this indicative of their whole
line?
Granted it's a LX board as opposed to BX but I like the idea of built in
SCSI and UIDE support.
Has anyone tried anything with the built in wavetable?
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: MrFatCat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and Diamondmm Fireport40???
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 02:33:53 -0500
Anyone know how to set up the fireport40 SCSI card under linux???
I did take the NCR 58c875 driver for that but it still does not detect
at boot up???
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From: "A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux & overclocked CPU
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:33:53 -0500
>Your over clocking the chip and you don't have enough sense to make sure
you
>have fast enough RAM, so what do you think the problem is. Is it really
>that difficult to unplug the slow ram and see what happens?????
>dave
Dave:
to pull older mem. out i have to take the front pannel off the box, unscrew
cradle with the CDRom and CDR, pull the mem. out, and then re-assemble
everything back. being a lazy person as i am, i prefere to make some
research before i go into the hardware.
besides, the memory seems to work well with the M$, and it's quality SDRAM,
and i have read that some people have success using 66 ram with 100 MHz/
arcady
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From: Jeff Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: <Linux and Win98 Network>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 01:09:21 -0600
PumbaaDpig wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone knew if the Netgear NICs and the HUB are
> compatible with Linux REd Hat 5.2. I just bought two cards and a 100mbps
> Netgear Cards. The compnay that makes the stuff is Bay Networks. I want to
> network my win98 machine and my linus machine together. Do I have to use the
> tcp/ip protocol to get the tow machines to talk or can I just straight
> network them together. I am sorta lost on the Samba subject too. SO if
> anyone knows any good sitez for starting a network, please share the info =)
> Also if anyone knows of any incompatibilites with the Netgear Hardware,
> please share the knowledge too! Thanks.
> PumbaaDpig
Sounds like I've got the exact same setup. My NICs are Netgear model FA310TX.
The hub doesn't care what OS you're using so that shouldn't be a problem. I
don't know about any other Netgear models, but the FA310TX works just
beautifully. Linux recognizes the chipset in the NIC as a DEC Tulip
(something to keep in mind if you want to recompile a kernel) It will probably
be best to use TCP/IP as your networking protocol . All I use samba for is
accessing the printer on my windoze 98 box, so I'm afraid I can't be too much
help there. I'm still trying to RTFM :o) (I'm not sure what you mean by
"straight network them together'. If you're talking about using netbeui I'll
stick my neck out and say heck no. ) If you want to "share" directories on
your linux box or access any shares in the windoze box you will just have to
learn samba. Sorry. Look for docs and other resources for that at
www.samba.org
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From: "Douglas C. Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Goofy CD-ROM behavior
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:35:43 -0700
I'm pretty stumped on this one, maybe someone here has some ideas.
The system:
Pentium 100
Redhat Linux 5.2
Kernal 2.2.1 (freshly upgraded)
Intel 82371 family IDE controller, 2 hard drives, one generic IDE/ATAPI
CD-ROM.
Using autofs to automount the CD on /mnt/cdrom.
When I try to play a music CD (usually I use kscd, but I've had similar
troubles with other CD players as well, I'll put a disk in the tray &
close it, but kscd just sits there saying "Ejected." I can work around
the problem by looking at /mnt/cdrom, at that point autofs kicks in and
tries to mount the CD. It errors out of course, since it's a music CD,
but after that, I can start kscd & play my music CD just fine. When I
use data CDs, autofs automounts the CDs without problems, but every time
I change music CDs, I have to go through the ritual of mounting the CD,
watching the drive spin up, wait for the can't mount this CD error, then
start up kscd to play my music.
Any way to get the CD player to behave itself?
--
Doug Holland
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From: John Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CRU MiniRAID +Linux
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:51:08 GMT
I don't know about CRU, but www.mylex.com is a good one. DAC960PG 4 meg cache
faor about $480 at www.shopper.com. I haven't run it in Linux box yet, but
the support is supposedly good, and they are FAST under Netware.
Stew Benedict wrote:
> Anyone used one of these? Comments? Just lost a hard drive on my server,
> and getting it back up in the middle of the day with users wnating to
> access the files via Samba was no joy. I'm looking at some RAID options,
> if nothing else, I was just going to have a 2nd drive which I'll put to
> sleep using hdparm and dup things to it regularly.
>
> Thanks,
> Stew Benedict
>
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,linux.redhat.misc,linux.samba
Subject: Re: 10/100 Ethernet SWITCH (to be used for Fast Ethernet LAN, and 10-BaseT
cable modem)
Date: 15 Feb 1999 07:25:57 GMT
> Before you spend for Fast Ethernet, do some tests. I've never managed to
> successfully record a CD-R across a Fast Ethernet, even when the data was
> contained entirely within the RAM cache of the server (eliminates disk
egads. I've recorded, at 4x, cdr's across a _shared_ 10bT net!
> performance as an issue). The problem appears to be latency--while the data
> rate is high, it's not consistently high for all machines--there are short
> gaps that are long enough to interrupt the stream.
right, so why not have a significant-sized buffer? cdrecord does,
and lets you set it to pretty much whatever you want.
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From: "Ryan C. Stallings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ide-scsi emulation for ATAPI cd writing problem
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 02:08:54 -0600
Hello,
I am trying to get CD writing to work properly under Linux and I am
having some problems. I know you have to use scsi emulation so I
recompiled my kernel without IDE ATAPI CD support and with both
generic scsi, and scsi CD modules. However when I try to load the
scsi modules I get the following message:
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-2801TE Rev: 1.07
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
aborting command due to timeout : pid 2,
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Request Sense 20 00 00 10 00
Then the window freezes and I can only kill the process. If I do
a lsmod the scsi-ide module is loaded but unitialized. I am running
kernel 2.2.1 with Redhat 5.1 with a Mitsumi 2801 CDR. Any help would
be appreciated.
Thanks!
Ryan
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