Linux-Hardware Digest #440, Volume #9 Mon, 15 Feb 99 19:13:37 EST
Contents:
Re: USRobotics Modem ("~The Seventh Sign~")
Re: 56k modems. (Jonathan Adams)
Re: Modem - I want a good solid and easy setup suggestion (Rob Clark)
Re: Matrox Millenium MGA (Graham Ashton)
Re: Network help!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LINUX BOX (Chetan Ahuja)
EIDE Hard drive weirdness ("Peter A. Koren")
WTB: Software from all Manufacturers 17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64 (Graham Ashton)
PD Drives ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Silicom Ethernet PCMCIA Linux Drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sound Blaster PCI 64 (Ray Hernandez)
Re: How can I make my linux machine beep with internal speaker? (Klaus Kocheisen)
Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64 (Dana A Levine)
Re: 3c509 + 3c59x = Barfff ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: good UPS? ("Michael Faurot")
Re: Dual booting.. ("E. Robert Tisdale")
Re: Matrox Millenium MGA (Graham Ashton)
Re: CDROM problems in Windows after Linux installed (Jason Kane)
Yamaha OPL3-SA2 in Dell XPSH266 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "~The Seventh Sign~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USRobotics Modem
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:20:30 -0500
Not on the USR 56K modem it locks onto IRQ 10 or 11 for the most parts.
BTW Try setting the modem to COM 4. My plug and pray modem are set to COM 4
IRQ 10 by default.
--
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Life on this planet has such limited visions.
If aliens in outerspace tapped into the Internet what would they say?
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:John,
:
: Is your mouse on COM1 by any chance?
:
: By default, COM1 and COM3 share an IRQ line, that means that
:only one port (either COM1 or 3) can have the CPU's attention at any
:one time... I'd suggest turning off COM2 and setting the modem up
:there...
:
:
:On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:03:58 +0900, "John E. Hagensieker"
:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
:>Just installed Red Hat 5.2. Have an internal 56K USRobotics modem and
have
:>it installed to the "Com3" port. When I query the modem with an AT
command
:>in minicom it takes about 15 seconds to respond with the modem string.
It
:>comes back at me with just a couple charachters and it takes a while.
:>
:>I can dial out and connect to my ISP but the login prompt comes in just a
:>few charachters at a time also. Normal login can take minutes instead of
:>seconds.
:>
:>Would appreciate some help....If I get this figured out Windows will be
that
:>much closer to being gone.
:>
:>John
:>
:>
:
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From: Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 56k modems.
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:21:20 -0800
karlo-
> I see you are still used to microcrap winslop.
No offense my friend but,....
I've been using LINUX on my home system for over a year now.
Professionally I am a UNIX sys admin (Solaris, IRIX and LINUX).
I do appreciate your input though. The reboot was just to check that
"all was well" with the new changes. NOT because I'm a total green-horn
stuck in Windoze mentality. I've learned to assume nothing and check
everything.
No hard feelings, take care!
-Jonathan
--
NAR #72925 HPR Level 1, BayNAR Secretary
http://idt.net/~jfadams/roc/
http://www.baynar.org/
http://www.lunar.org/
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Subject: Re: Modem - I want a good solid and easy setup suggestion
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:30:39 GMT
In article <7a9d9l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Beecher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Any modem suggestions that would require minimal thinking on my part would
>be a first choice regardless of price. Fax and voice options are not needed
>or wanted.
Linux/modem compatibility list:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
If you insist on internal, do yourself a favor and get one with "legacy
jumpers," so you can set it manually.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graham Ashton)
Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium MGA
Date: 15 Feb 1999 16:40:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Charlebois wrote:
>
>I have a Matrox Millenium MGA video card with a HP-P1100 monitor.
>I've installed slackware 2.0.29 and run the xf86config while
>providing the appropriate card settings.
what version of X do you have? I believe your card has been supported for
quite a while, but your kernel version suggests that your version of X might
predate it.
>Any suggestions?
I think the card is supported by the XF86_SVGA server.
--
Graham
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Network help!!!
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:23:13 GMT
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:56:08 -0600, "Aaron Dershem"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK, after reading stuff all day and looking all over the web, I'll say it:
>I have no freakin' idea what I'm doing!
>
>Could someone out there outline the steps I need to do in order to get my
>network card to work? I downloaded the via-rhine.c file from the Internet
>(using my Win98 box :-( ), but no clue as to what happens next. Do I have
>to compile a new kernel, compile the driver (.c file), or what?
>
>Thanks, I'll be waiting for an answer.
what kind of ethernet card do you have. you may need to do nothing
but insmod an existing driver then config the ip address.
more infomation please...
>Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Aaron Dershem
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chetan Ahuja)
Subject: Re: LINUX BOX
Date: 15 Feb 1999 20:49:35 GMT
Rod Roark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Richard Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >OK, Say I decide I want a Linux box, what is the main benefit of buying on
: >pre-built with the OS installed, for example 'The Netwinder' by Corel
: >http://www.corelcomputer.com/products/linux/netwinder_gs.htm or buying a
: >PC for less, one that has Linux compatibole hardware and installeing the
: >same server version and hardware specs?
: Shop around. There's considerable variation in pricing for equivalent
: hardware, with or without Linux pre-installed. Pre-installation is
: *very* helpful if the vendor will listen to your needs and customize
: accordingly.
: -- Rod
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
: Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
: http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ Starting at $499
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
In my mind, pre-cofigured "appliance" machines like netwinder/cobalt are great
for offices which need a cheap and stable server but don't want to mess
with a lot of installation/support issues. You buy the server, plug it in
the network and viola you have an inranet and internet server. Pre-installation
is also useful for casual home user who is ready to ditch Windows but is not
sure what hardware etc to buy to make best use of Linux. But before buying
one of the pre-installed machines make sure you are not being shortchanged on the
hardware. Its true that linux can run on very low-powered machine but that doesn't
mean you HAVE to run linux on a low powered machine.... So it can save
you a lot of hassle if your vendor is good.
Just MHO
Chetan
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From: "Peter A. Koren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: EIDE Hard drive weirdness
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:43:31 -0600
Hi,
This is really weird. I have a 4 Gig EIDE UDMA Western Digital Drive
(Caviar 34000). It has a seriously defective ROM (my guess) so that
BIOSes and OSes don't get the correct geometry from the drive.
Windows insists that it is a 504M drive and my BIOS re-maps it under LBA
to something close but not quite right so it is not handled properly
under Linux. Linux fdisk sees it as a small disk with incorrect CHS
values (No these are not the LBA re-mapped values).
I am not using this drive for any booting. It is set up as the Primary
Slave, hdb drive.
I used Linux fdisk and selected x (advanced features) and manually set
the cylinders, heads, and sectors to 7752, 16, and 63 as per the
manufactures spec sheet. I then went back to the main menu and
partitioned the whole drive for an ext2 filesystem. I saved the
configuration and then quit fdisk, formatted the drive, mounted it, and
added a bunch of files to it. It works fine.
But when I rebooted the geometry was lost and Linux hung hard when I
tried to mount the partition. I had to hit the reset button on the
computer.
So I changed my append clause in lilo to read
append="mem=128M /dev/hdb=7752,16,63"
and ran lilo and sync. I rebooted to check that my command line stuff
actually worked. I ran fdisk to verify the geometry and it had the
proper values and quit without saving. I mounted the partition and used
it for work and it all works.
***BUT HERE IS THE WIERDNESS***
The trouble is that it ONLY WORKS IF I FIRST GO INTO fdisk TO LOOK AT
/dev/hdb. Otherwise the system hangs hard. Apparently the geometry info
is not transferred to where it needs to be used until fdisk takes a
peek. This is very repeatable.
Any ideas? Any solutions?
Regards,
Peter Koren
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impeccable
logic." -- Santayana
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: WTB: Software from all Manufacturers 17
Date: 15 Feb 1999 22:19:31 GMT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graham Ashton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64
Date: 15 Feb 1999 18:37:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ray Hernandez wrote:
> I have a Sound Blaster PCI 64 sound card. I know it is really an
>Esoniq something or other, and I was wondering if anyone knows how to
>get it to work? Thankyou.
>p.s.-- I use RedHat 5.2
have you tried the sndconfig utility that comes with red hat?
--
Graham
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PD Drives ?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:33:52 GMT
Hello to all.
I was just wondering if anyone either has a PD-Drive (Panasonic drive
that read/writes PD cartridges and reads CDs) or knows if they function
under Linux? They are available as either internal IDE or SCSI. Do the
IDE ones work? Do the SCSI ones work? If both, then which is better? If
anyone has information on this or pointers as to where on the Internet or
elsewhere the answer can be found then please reply. Any info would be
much appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Silicom Ethernet PCMCIA Linux Drivers
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:37:29 GMT
I would like to inform you regarding our new drivers for the Linux Operating
System.
The Linux driver Revision 1.0 Beta 1998/1.28 contains drivers for the
following products:
1) SPE - Silicom Ethernet PC Card
2) SEM- Silicom EtherModem PC Card (network part)
3) SES - Silicom EtherSerial PC Card
The driver package can be downloaded from our FTP site:
ftp://ftp.silicom.co.il/pub/prod/linux/silpcmcia-1.00b.tar.gz
* The Silicom Linux drivers are distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation.
* You have to install the pcmcia-cs package version 3.0.6 or later in order to
work with Silicom network drivers. You can download the latest pcmcia-cs
package from:
1) ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia
2) ftp://silicom.co.il/pub/prod/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.8.tar.gz
If you discovered a bug or made some improvements in the driver, please send
E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ray Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Sound Blaster PCI 64
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:29:53 -0500
Dear All,
I have a Sound Blaster PCI 64 sound card. I know it is really an
Esoniq something or other, and I was wondering if anyone knows how to
get it to work? Thankyou.
Ray
p.s.-- I use RedHat 5.2
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From: Klaus Kocheisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How can I make my linux machine beep with internal speaker?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:01:53 +0100
Gerd Roethig schrieb:
>
> Hello,
>
[ snip ]
>
> So maybe it helps if output of the script is redirected to something
> like /dev/console in the commandline invoked by crond?
> I mean a line like
>
> /where/your/script/is/testscript > /dev/console
>
> or
>
> /where/your/script/is/testscript 2> /dev/console
>
> if you want to catch output to stderr.
>
> Just a suggestion, but I am interested in the results, too :).
>
> Cheers
>
> Gerd
I don't think of redirecting stderr or stdout of a program or script to
/dev/console being a good thing, because it's output interferes with any
programs run at the console, which may annoy your system adminstrator.
Better the scripts itself echo just the beep (\a or ^G or whatever) to
/dev/console.
Note, that this will work as long as the device u are using for beeping
(/dev/console) has an active terminal associated with it, which is
almost always the case with /dev/console. Also note, that programs that
beep to /dev/console will not beep at your terminal, if they are run
intercatively in a remote session (e.g. xterm session with remote
display or rlogin session).
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From: Dana A Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:19:27 -0500
Graham Ashton wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ray Hernandez wrote:
>
> > I have a Sound Blaster PCI 64 sound card. I know it is really an
> >Esoniq something or other, and I was wondering if anyone knows how to
> >get it to work? Thankyou.
> >p.s.-- I use RedHat 5.2
>
> have you tried the sndconfig utility that comes with red hat?
>
> --
> Graham
There are two ways to do this. One is a little utility called OSS. You
download a version for your kernel and run it and it enables sound. This
utility, however, is commercial. The other thing that works (I just did
this yesterday) is to get the newest kernel source (2.2.1) and build your
own kernel. This release adds support for lots of new sound boards. Just
configure it for your sound card and compile.
Hope this helps
-Dana
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.install
Subject: Re: 3c509 + 3c59x = Barfff
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:16:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christian Aasland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, any help would be appreciated (please email too):
>
> I have a 3Com 3c509b that works great by itself. But as soon as I plug
> in a 3Com
> 3c59x (in this case 3c900 (Boomerang) or 3c905 (Vortex)) PCI cards I
> lose the
> 3c5x9 ISA card. I've turned off PnP bios on the card and mboard and set
> the card
> to a non-conflcting IRQ/ioport. Still not getting anything!
>
> Anyone care to lead me in the right direction (or at least let me know
> if it can be done) ???
>
I have the same problem as Christian, a 3c509B ISA and a 3c900B PCI which work
properly alone, but with both together the 509 receives no packets. I have
no interrupt conflicts.
I'm using Redhat 5.2, so I expect I have the latest drivers. Is this true?
Please let me know any tips.
Thanks
Mark.
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: good UPS?
Date: 15 Feb 1999 21:31:40 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Thomas Frese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Has anybody any recommendations for a reasonably cheap and good
: UPS that works well with Linux, i.e. unattended shutdown, voltage
: correction and command to shut down the UPS once the machine halted?
: Also, what is the Linux software to control these UPS's? I was
: looking at APC Back-UPS Pro 650 for example.... Any suggestions are
: appreciated
BestPower Fortress series. The Fortress series does all of the above,
and BestPower fully supports Linux and provides source and executables
for their UPS monitoring daemon.
--
==============================================================================
Michael | mfaurot | I waited and waited and when no message came I
Faurot | phzzzt.atww.org | knew it must be from you.
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From: "E. Robert Tisdale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Dual booting..
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:28:28 -0800
# /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
other=/dev/hdc1
label=win95
table=/dev/hdc
map-drive=0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive=0x81
to = 0x80
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graham Ashton)
Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium MGA
Date: 15 Feb 1999 19:38:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Charlebois wrote:
>Sorry I forgot to include it. I have the XF86_SVGA server and you are right
>that the card is supported. I selected it from the list in the database via
>xf86config and provided the hsync (30-107) and vsync (50-160) specifications
>from the monitor manual. When xf86config suggested some video modes,
>I left them as is and selected the XF86_SVGA server.
the last time I ran xf86config, it gave me about 4 different screen
resolutions for 3 different colour depths. you can switch between resolutions
with Ctrl+Alt+'+' (+ on the numeric keypad).
you can run startx at a particular colordepth. e.g:
startx -- -bpp16
or, you can go and edit /etc/X11/XF86Config to remove the bits you don't want
(keep a copy first though).
if that doesn't help, try running XF86Setup (graphical config utility) that
writes less useless junk into your XF86Config file. if it's not installed
you'll probably find it in it's own XFree86-blah-blah RPM.
HTH.
--
Graham
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Kane)
Subject: Re: CDROM problems in Windows after Linux installed
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:11:02 GMT
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:18:58 +0100, Reiner Staszewski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Similar things happened to me but it had nothing to do with linux.
>Try booting windows without any config.sys and autoexec.bat
>and see if your CDROM becomes visible. That solved the problem
>and the drive didn't vanish afterwards.
>
>
>Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
>
> Reiner Staszewski
tried it.. no luck here. I reinstalled Win98 and it seems to be happy
again. Of course it bludgened lilo. I'll see if it breaks again when
I reinstall lilo...
I suspect win98 has a problem with at least some IDE controllers or
devices when booting through lilo. For some strange reason I'm
inclined to lay the blame on Mickeysoft instead of the lilo
programmers.
Soon as I narrow down the problem I'll post the result.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Yamaha OPL3-SA2 in Dell XPSH266
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:10:51 GMT
I have a Dell Dimension XPS H266 with an on board Yamaha OPL3-SA2 Chip.
I was wondering if anyone is currently using a 2.2.x kernel with this
chip. I basically need to know what sound options to enable in the
kernel and where to find the I/O addres, IRQ, etc. The Sound-Howto's
that I have found have all been relatively out-of-date, and don't
include the newer sound options when they explain the kernel config
part.
Anyone out there had luck with this chip, and can help me get it working?
Thanks,
Buck
=================================================================
Wesley (Buck) Lemke
http://www.dwave.net/~wesley
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