Linux-Hardware Digest #461, Volume #9 Fri, 19 Feb 99 05:13:29 EST
Contents:
SCSI CDROM Problem (Pavel Greenfield)
Re: SCSI CDROM Problem (Gerald Willmann)
FS: 7 Sun 3/50 and 3/60's (Kent Rankin)
Re: ISA SERIAL PNP, NO JUMPERS (Dan Nguyen)
Re: installing sound card prevents ethernet card detection ("Patrick Berge")
Peoblem with samba!!! ("kiho wong")
FS: Eight NEC 5D 21" monitors. Some $250, some $200. (Kent Rankin)
FS: 307 VT320-G2 Terminals $50 each. (Kent Rankin)
FS: 3 DEC VT-340 Terminals <Make Offer> (Kent Rankin)
Compaq Proliant 1000 & NCR 53c710 (Yann Saint-Jalmes)
Which scsi card for scanner? (Stephe)
XFree86-3.3.3.1==upgrade?? ("jump98")
Re: TV tuner bt848a - sound volume too low (Diederick van Dijk)
Mastrox Millenium G200 AGP and XFree ("Christian Tagtachian")
Re: HP Vectra IDE hard disk cable wierdness (Erwin de Beus)
Re: Mastrox Millenium G200 AGP and XFree (Erwin de Beus)
io conflict with ethernet card (3com 3c509b) (Justin C Miranda)
USR Modem magically disappears from system (Dan)
Re: printing a header (David M. Cook)
Stb Mpact DVD3D ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Matrox G200 AGP: sporadic dark screen (Michael Waldor)
Re: HELP - - - Secondary IDE jumper settings (M. Buchenrieder)
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From: Pavel Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SCSI CDROM Problem
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:14:19 -0500
Hi,
I can't seem to get my SCSI Toshiba CDRom to work. (It's Toshiba
XM-5401TA.)
My SCSI adapter is the Adaptec 2940UW. Everything works under Windows
(i.e. hardware is OK). The two harddisks work perfectly fine under
linux.
Now I just installed the new linux system (Slackware 3.6) which tells me
that the supplied bootdisk had an adeqate kernel. However I still
could't mount my cdrom drive.
(I tried >>>mount /dev/hdc /cdrom, and mount would respond /dev/sdc is
not a valid block device). But it did recognize the drive at boot time
saying something like "SCSI CDROM sr0 .. ID:5 detected".
Since then I've rebuilt my kernel. I definitely enabled the SCSI CDROM
option. Now, it doesn't even recognize the drive at boottime.
What else can I try?
How do I know which device it has to be?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Pavel
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI CDROM Problem
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:27:11 -0800
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Pavel Greenfield wrote:
> I can't seem to get my SCSI Toshiba CDRom to work. (It's Toshiba
> XM-5401TA.)
> (I tried >>>mount /dev/hdc /cdrom, and mount would respond /dev/sdc is
try /dev/scd0 - it's definitely not hdc if you have a scsi cdrom
Gerald
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From: Kent Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.sun.wanted,misc.forsale.computers.workstation,alt.folklore.computer
Subject: FS: 7 Sun 3/50 and 3/60's
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:16:32 GMT
Please MAN! For the love of god... won't someone take at least
one?!
Hopefully there are a few college students out there... somewhere,
that would give a few dollars for the lot of them. I doubt that there
will be, but perhaps there are some collectors. Or maybe someone that
needs a VME housing. =)
Anyhow, there are 5 3/60's and 2 3/50's located in Knoxville, TN,
37922-3449.
I don't have room for them to sit in my garage any longer. They are
about to become cannon fodder.
-Kent Rankin
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA SERIAL PNP, NO JUMPERS
Date: 19 Feb 1999 06:58:16 GMT
ComFuMasta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I got my modem to work in windows. it is on com2.
: irq3. i have tried minicom, seyon, and even manually. when i try minicom it
: goes to initialize and it doesnt give me the ok.
of course com2 is /dev/ttyS1 (/dev/cua1 is old). It sounds like you
have a winmodem. You'll need to buy a real modem.
--
Dan Nguyen | There is only one happiness in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | life, to love and be loved.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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From: "Patrick Berge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing sound card prevents ethernet card detection
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:19:59 -0500
No need for anyone answer this... I noticed there was a
/etc/conf.modules.bak and it contained the options I needed for my NE2000
ethernet card. I really don't know why but the RedHat sndconfig did not let
the ne options in the /etc/conf.modules file after it added the soundcard
??? Anyway I just added the options to the bottom of the /etc/conf.modules
files and now both cards work! Yea!
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From: "kiho wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Peoblem with samba!!!
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:13:26 +0800
Hi,
I'm using Redhat5.2 and I know that samba service is running while
installation finish.
I've setup my DNS server and it work, how can I connect my win98 PC to the
Redhat server....
Please help...
Thx.
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From: Kent Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: misc.forsale.computers.monitors
Subject: FS: Eight NEC 5D 21" monitors. Some $250, some $200.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:40:27 GMT
These monitors are 21", and quite pretty. =) Pretty... isn't that
a technical term?
They have PC(HDB-15), Mac(DB-15), and Workstation(5-BNC) inputs.
They are Multi-sync, so they'll work with just about any workstation
you slap onto them, too.
They have digital controls, as well. Another goodie.
None have any burn-in, or tube scratches.
They are located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449.
----
Now, as to the price. This is where they become so inexpensive.
Three of them are in perfect condition.
Three of them are in perfect condition, but are missing faceplates.
And the other two have a couple of cracks in the case surrounding
the bevel. They work fine, but just aren't perfect cosmetically.
All, however, function perfectly. They have been checked inside and
out, and run through a number of tests.
----
They will move fast, as I have already sold a large quantity of them
like this. These ones were left over from the buyers that couldn't come
through. Which, unfortunately, seems to always happen, no matter what
the deal. =)
----
The perfect, pristine models will go for $250. The models without
faceplates(to cover the digital controls) will go for $240. And the
models with case damage will go for $200.
-Kent Rankin
P.S. - If I remember correctly, shipping via UPS ground runs ~$45 in the
lower 48
states.
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From: Kent Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.vms,misc.forsale.computers.workstation,comp.sys.dec,comp.terminals
Subject: FS: 307 VT320-G2 Terminals $50 each.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:45:42 GMT
The following terminals are for immediate sale from Knoxville, TN,
37922-3449:
Digital VT-320-G2
White text
LK201-AA keyboard
Printer(MMJ) and Comm(MMJ or
RS-232C) port
They are nice terminals, and always move fast at this price.
-Kent Rankin
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From: Kent Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale.computers.workstation,comp.terminals
Subject: FS: 3 DEC VT-340 Terminals <Make Offer>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:49:17 GMT
I don't know a huge amount about the following terminals, but I know
that they are quite nice(or, were in their time<grin>):
3 DEC VT-340 Terminals
LK-201 keyboard
v.1.0.1 software
ReGIS Graphics support
Screen that is much larger than common terminals
Multisession(dual)
Printer port(MMJ) and two Comm ports(MMJ)
Not really sure as to what they're worth, so make an offer.
-Kent
Rankin
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From: Yann Saint-Jalmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Proliant 1000 & NCR 53c710
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:07:19 +0100
Hi everybody,
I try to install Linux (a slackware 3.5) on a Compaq Proliant 1000. At
my work they use WindowsNT, and I hope to show us that Linux can be
better than Microsoft OS.
This Proliant 1000 has an onboard SCSI controler (not a smart card), and
the only information that I can have with Compaq Utilities is :
Onboard Compaq Fast-SCSI-2
I look on the motherboard, and I saw one chip NCR-0390784 and another
one NCR 53c710
So, I made the n_53c7xx.s boot floppy-disk, but any hard drive is found.
For information in this computer there is only EISA slots.
How can I install Linux on this computer ?
Thank's in advance.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stephe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which scsi card for scanner?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 02:53:40 -0500
Well I'm trying to ditch windows and am getting close! The only
major problem left is the scanner. I read the sane page, bought a
scanner that has a "stable" driver available but the card that
came with it isn't supported. I want to get a fairly good card
for possible future expansion to other scsi devices. Thinking
about an adaptec 2940? And how do I configure it? Right now I
just need it for the scanner and got lost in all the
"programming" howto's. Even a hint on where some simple
installation readme's are? Seems like there was some sort of
config program but I can't find it either. Oh and I'm using RH
5.2. TIA
--
Stephe
Having fun with Linux!
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Subject: XFree86-3.3.3.1==upgrade??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diederick van Dijk)
Subject: Re: TV tuner bt848a - sound volume too low
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:09:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Micha� Witkowski) wrote:
>
>I have a Winview 601 tv/fm tuner card based on a bt848a chip. It
>works with bttv-0.6.3 as a TV-boostar, but with a very low sound output.
>To hear anything, I have to set the volume to maximum using a mixer
>and then of course I get a lot of distortions and background noise.
>Under W95 sound is ok. My soundcard is SB AWE 32, drivers from
>kernel 2.2.1ac5.
>Does anyone know, how to fix that?
I can't help you. But there is a video4linux mailing list.
If you post your question there the odds are a lot
better that it is answered.
To join the mailling list send an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with as subject SUBSCRIBE
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From: "Christian Tagtachian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mastrox Millenium G200 AGP and XFree
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:50:25 -0300
I would like to know how well this card is supported...
I read that XFree supports it, but it doesn't state if it is the AGP or PCI
version... I am about to get
an AGP one, and wanted to be sure it works ok before I do.
By the way, it is an 8 megs one.
Thanks
Christian
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From: Erwin de Beus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Vectra IDE hard disk cable wierdness
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:11:10 +0100
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The 80 way ribbons are used with the new ATA/66 interface, This
interface doubles the speed as compared with the 'old' ultra dma 33
interface.
The cable use more ribbons to increase reliability. My guess is that
every second wire in the cable is connected to ground, but you should
check the official specs on that.
Also ATA/66 introduces better cyclic redundancy checks on the data that
travel over the wire.
So in short, it should be faster and it's certainly more reliable,
Regards,
Erwin de Beus
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From: Erwin de Beus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mastrox Millenium G200 AGP and XFree
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:14:34 +0100
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Christian Tagtachian wrote:
> I would like to know how well this card is supported...
> I read that XFree supports it, but it doesn't state if it is the AGP or PCI
> version... I am about to get
> an AGP one, and wanted to be sure it works ok before I do.
> By the way, it is an 8 megs one.
> Thanks
> Christian
I have both G200 and G100 AGP cards here. They work fine with the latest XFree
release.
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From: Justin C Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: io conflict with ethernet card (3com 3c509b)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 02:47:54 -0500
I recently installed linux on my pc and during installation I was unable
to configure my network card (3com 3c509). When I booted linux, I tried
running a few of the utilities to get the card configured. However, after
a few unsuccessful tries I went to Red Hat's HowTo's to see if I could
find the problem. I tried a few things and found out that a device was
taking up the IO port reserved for the network card. However, the HowTo
didn't explain how to resolve this problem. Now I'm trying to figure out
how to configure the "conflicting" device (busmouse) to use another io
port and to set up the network card to use its proper io ports. I can do
the second part, but I haven't figured out how to get the mouse on another
port. I know about mouseconfig, but I'm not sure about the side effects
of reconfiguring devices. If anyone has any advice or suggestions I would
appreciate them.
Justin Miranda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan)
Subject: USR Modem magically disappears from system
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:18:31 GMT
A little background. I have been using Linux for about two years now.
Until recently I had been using Slackware but switched over to Redhat
5.2. The hardware setup is the same.
I use the mgetty+sendfax package (mgetty-sendfax-1.1.14-5) with three
different modems COM 2, 3, 4
The modem I am having trouble with is on COM 4 and it is used for
outside dial up access and fax transmissions. Ever since I switched to
Redhat, my system has been loosing access to this modem.
If I use minicom to access the modem (after loss) the only thing it
does is echo characters. The modem will not respond to any commands.
When I loose access to the modem, the /proc/interrupts file no longer
shows the interrupt the modem is set to, and the only way I know to
make it work again is rebooting the system.
The problem seems to happen randomly and only seems to happen after
someone hangs up from dial up access. Sometimes works for days
sometimes for only hours.
I don't have a printer configured so I don't think it is an interrupt
conflict.
As I am at a loss as to what and where this problem comes from, does
anybody know how to fix this?
short of switching back to Slackware.
Thanks,
Dan
--
If you choose to respond via email, remove the word NOSPAM from my
address.
======================
Modem Type;
USRobotics Sportster Vi 33600 Faxmodem with its jumper settings set to
non-pnp COM4 IRQ 5
/var/log/mgetty.log.ttyS3
--
02/17 17:40:03 ##### data dev=ttyS3, pid=8323, caller='none',
conn='28800/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd',
user='/AutoPPP/'
--
02/17 18:35:37 yS3 init chat failed, exiting...: Interrupted system
call
02/17 18:35:37 ##### failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyS3, pid=9570
/proc/interrupts
5: 432088 + serial
/proc/ioports
02e8-02ef : serial(set)
/etc/inittab
s4:12345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D -x2 -s 57600 ttyS3
/etc/rc.d/rc.serial
${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS3 port 0x2E8 irq 7 # Dialin fax/modem
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: printing a header
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 07:48:12 GMT
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:38:03 -0500, roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I print a header on the top of each page of a text file?
>I need each page to have time, date, file name.
>I can't seem to figure out how to do this.
I usually use something like
nenscript -2Gr foo
nenscript is a version of the enscript utility. This prints 2 pages a
printed page in landscape mode with a "gaudy" border with header info and
page number. nenscript -G would do just the header.
There are also utilities like a2ps which will do fancy formatting and
headers.
Dave Cook
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Stb Mpact DVD3D
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:58:40 GMT
Has any one configured this STB card in X. Iknow the card is based on
the virage gx chipset but cannot get xf86 to work even at vga. Really
need to know cycles of this chipset etc?
Help!!!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Waldor)
Subject: Matrox G200 AGP: sporadic dark screen
Date: 18 Feb 1999 13:28:55 GMT
Hi!
I'm using a Matrox G200 AGP card within an ASUS P2B motherboard
together with the current xsvga server from xfree-3.3.3.
My problem is that sometimes the monitor becomes dark for some
seconds. I believe that all screensavers are disabled (somewhere
within the BIOS, within X, within KDE). This happens really irregular
(i.e. sometimes it happens after 10min, sometimes it never happens for
some days). Of course the screen darkens while I'm happily typing or
clicking. Maybe I should mention that I'm using xfree-3.3.2 from
Suse-Linux-5.3, I only switched the version of the xsvga server to get
G200 support.
Does anybody have any ideas about that?
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Michael Waldor e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abteilung K3/EMW phone: +49-711-811-34145
Robert Bosch GmbH Fax: +49-711-811-8262
Postfach 300240 Robert-Bosch-Str. 1
70442 Stuttgart 71701 Schwieberdingen
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Germany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: HELP - - - Secondary IDE jumper settings
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:20:22 GMT
[Newsgroups: line drastically trimmed, F`Up set]
"Wilson Fletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have an IDE controller (multi io) card I want to use as a secondary
>controller.
>I need to set it's IRQ to 15 and Port address to 170h - 177h
>The problem is I don't know what the jumper settings are. Can anyone help ?
>The card has UMC controller chips on it, it has parallel, serial, game,
>FDD, and HDD connections.
[...]
This doesn't have anything to do with Linux. You'll need to find out the
specific model and manufacturer of that card of yours, then ask them
for help. If there's an FCC number, you should be able to find out
who produced that specific card, but simply telling us "it does have 10
jumpers" won't get you anywhere.
Michael
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