Linux-Hardware Digest #472, Volume #9 Sat, 20 Feb 99 19:13:38 EST
Contents:
ISA/PNP card in a PCI bus (David)
Re: is 2.2.1 kernel SMP-compatible? (Eric Lee Green)
Re: Old ISA ethernet card - Recomendations? (Jason Clifford)
Re: Sound Blaster Problems (Eric Lee Green)
Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0 (Jose Urena)
Re: sharing a modem in windows to linux (David Ripton)
tpconfig and gps/X (Bruce Kall)
SCSI Zip Zoom card (Jose Carlos Machado)
Re: how do I change resolution? (Bill Unruh)
Re: drivers for Opti 82C924 (To: Joachim Thiemann) (Galt)
Symbios Logic C810 SCSI controller (Douglas Dickerson)
Linux deadlock? (Bao Lichun)
OPTi 82C925 setup (sound) (William Robison)
Re: _Good_ (support 5+ systems) Monitor/Mouse/Keyboard switch for pc... (Frederic
Faure)
How to set up ACER MAGIC S22 on Red Hat 5.2. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCSI CD-ROM (Pavel Greenfield)
Toshiba MK6409MAV cashe (Oscar Y Takeshita)
Re: X and diamond stealth II S220 video card (C. C. McPherson)
SCSI TMC-950 problem - please help (Thomas Hoetzel)
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA/PNP card in a PCI bus
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:23:54 GMT
I have two network cards in my computer for cable modem access and my
internal network. both cards are ISA PNP.
Network: D-Link DE220 ISA PNP Lan Adapter i/o = 02a0-02bf irq = 12
SMC EtherEZ (8416) i/o 02C0-02DF irq 11
My question is will an ISAPNP card on a newer PCI bus work? Do I have
to use ISAPNPTOOLS to configure? When I recompile the kernel should I
set the cards as modules? I heard that you can use loadlin instead of
lilo to configure the cards. Where should I start???
What about my pci modem card. How do I configure?
I am using RedHat 5.2.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: is 2.2.1 kernel SMP-compatible?
Date: 20 Feb 1999 20:24:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:51:54 +0300, Alexander Bortok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got a weird problem trying to boot SMP kernel on Intel SC450NX box.
>The most amazing thing is that
>- 2.2.1 kernel w/o SMP boots quite fine
>- 2.2.1 kernel w/SMP boots from floppy but
>- booting SMP kernel from HD via LILO produces the following result:
>
>| LILO: smp
>| Loading smp........
>| Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
>
>I would not be confused if SMP kernel would not work at all
>but I don't see any reasons why it doesn't boot _only_ from HD.
Sounds like a lilo.conf problem. Make sure your initrd is set up correctly,
or compile the SCSI support directly into your new kernel.
I, too, find your dillema confusing, because I just shipped a dual
Xeon 400 out the door with the 2.2.1 kernel with no problem. Stock Red
Hat 5.2 w/updates from their updates site, only specialness I did was
compiling the SCSI support directly into the kernel rather than using
the initrd mechanism.
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
"Microsoft views service as what a bull does to a cow." -- Unknown
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Old ISA ethernet card - Recomendations?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:27:33 +0000
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> I am going to network 2 computers. The other one already is a PCI
> full-duplex 100Base-TX/10Base-T with Reltek 8139 chip (ne2000 for PCI).
That is the wrong driver - you should be using the Realtek 8129/8139
driver (and getting the updated version from the authors site which is far
more stable than the one included in the kernel source even though they
show the same version number)
> What transmission speeds do you suppose I will be able to get out of it? I
> know 100Base is capable of 200 Mbps in full duplex mode. Any ISA cards match
> that?
To my knowledge only 3Com produce a 100baseT ISA network card as the ISA
bus is not ideal for such high bandwidth. I know nothing about the card
per se.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Problems
Date: 20 Feb 1999 20:31:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:01:36 GMT, deaddog <dead^[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having problems getting my sound card to work. I am new to Linux so I
>will give you all the details i can understand and system config..
>Sound blaser 16 model CT2230
>According to Creative this sound card is not pnp but the only jumper for
>config is for the port addy witch I have set to 220 and useing a diagonstic
>program i found the irq and dma and cheecked for conflicts and found none
This sound card has its irq and dma programmed via the driver once the
address is known.
What IRQ and DMA are you trying to use? It may be something as simple as
trying to use IRQ 7 or IRQ 12 for the sound card (IRQ 7 is used by the
printer port, IRQ 12 by the PS/2 mouse, neither is registered as "in use"
by the kernel but they're eaten by the respective driver).
>I have RedHat ver 5.1 installed with 2.0.35 kernel
>The problem is the sound config utility will allow me to set this but when
>it goes to play the test sample it gives me an error that "an error was
>encounterd running the modprobe program"
Try looking in /var/log/messages for the exact error messages. Report back
to us and let us know.
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you.
Then you win." -- Ghandi
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:22:19 -0500
Did I said NFS?, I meant NLS (National Language Support)
thanks for noticing
Tom Emerson wrote:
> Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > is the Windows 95 filesystem part of your kernel?
> > you might need to rebuild your kernel with all the MSDOS file System
> options
> > plus NFS support
>
> and "codepage" support (NLS) -- often overlooked because it's in a
> different area of the kernel config script/menuconfig, but needed to
> support the characterset that makes up the filename [or some such nonsense]
> >
> > Paches wrote:
> >
> > > I tried:
> > > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /doze (thanx to help from readers)
> > > but I got this:
> > >
> > > [MSDOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16, check=n,conv=b,vid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> > >
> [me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=32,f1=0,ds=32,de=0,data=32,se=0,ts=12578832,ls=512]
> > >
> > > Transaction Block Size = 512
> > > VFS:Can't find a valid msdos filesystem on dev 03:01
> > > mount:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on dev/hda1, or too many
> > > mounted filesystems
> > >
> > > Hmmmmmmmm
> > > -Paches
> > >
> > > >
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: sharing a modem in windows to linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:24:22 GMT
In article <01be5b8e$c069dec0$320deec3@portable>,
Lode Van Doren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anybody know how to share my windows modem to my linux box ( to access
>the net from linux)?
>
>The modem is located on a PC with windows 95 which is connected to my linux
>server via ethernet
>
>I 've allready tried Sygate, but I can't set it up properly. It says it
>should work, but I'm a novice linux user.
There are several other Windows NAT products out there; maybe one of
them is easier to set up.
IMO, the best method for someone who uses Linux is to put the modem on
the Linux box (I'm assuming a real modem, not a junky WinModem) and use
IP masquerading. Works really well (except for a few network games and
such that make some bad assumptions about everyone having a real IP
address with all ports wide open), and it's free, but it's non-trivial
to set up. If you want to try it, first read the PPP HOWTO and get to
the point where you can connect your Linux box to the net. Then read
the IP Masquerading mini-HOWTO and web search for the Linux IP
masquerading help page, and follow the directions.
--
David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamgard(tm): To email me, put "geek" in your Subject line.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Kall)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: tpconfig and gps/X
Date: 19 Feb 1999 19:23:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I currently support the tpconfig utility (Synaptics
Linux touchpad driver -- www.compass.com/synaptics). Anyway
I just released the latest version to fix a problem with
the 2.2.X kernel. The next enhancement I would like to
add is to make it work while either gpm and/or X is
running. From what I know from the initial author of
tpconfig, the PS/2 port does not support sharing and
this is the reason why tpconfig hasn't support running
itself while gpm and/or X is running.
What I'm looking for is suggestions/pointers on how to
add this functionality to tpconfig (run on top of X).
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks,
Bruce
--
====================================================================
Bruce Kall
Mayo Foundation
Rochester, MN
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: (507) 255-4768
====================================================================
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From: Jose Carlos Machado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Zip Zoom card
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:38:29 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
I'have RedHat Linux 5.2 with Kernel 2.2.1
Ican't have my Zip Zoom scsi card recognized by the system.
scsi support and scsi disk support are built into the kernel but I get
the following message during boot:
SCSI: 0 HOSTS
SCSI: Not Detected
The driver aha152x with proper parameters is loaded as a module.
If I use insmod aha152x.o I get a message saying:
init_module: device or resource busy
Hepl will be really appreciated. Thanks a lot!
ZC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: how do I change resolution?
Date: 20 Feb 1999 21:26:35 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "TomWolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have just installed redhat 5.2 but I cant open xwindows because I got the
>wrong resolution. How do I change the resolution?
Do not understand what you mean. What error message do you get when you
try to open Xwindows (eg startx)? The controlling file is
/etc/X11/XF86Config.
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From: Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: drivers for Opti 82C924 (To: Joachim Thiemann)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:21:47 GMT
No, that didn't work. By the way I'm running RedHat 5.2.
>: Can't get my Opti 82c924 sound card configured. It's soundblaster
compatible
>: but during install Linux doesn't find it. Configuring by hand doesn't
seem to
>: be working either.
>No, it's not soundblaster. Take out all the soundblaster config, and
>enable the MAD16 (but not the old MAD16) setting.
>
sndconfig enables me to change setting easily. I have 2 choices for
MAD16 soundcards. Both don't work. Got message: settings in use or
something like that. I checked all the settings under Windows (sorry),
MAD16 config doesn't show the correct I/O for my device (should be
103-107, 220-22F or 380-38D). Soundblaster 16 does have all the correct
settings and I don't get error message, but then it asks me if I heard
the sound....NO! What kind of sound file is it, midi?
(Don't know if any other systems have sndconfig.)
>Only 2 weeks ago I was just as confused... :-)
>
>--
>------------------------------- cut here
======================================
>Joachim Thiemann
joachim"at"ece"dot"concordia"dot"ca
>E-Mail addresses are modified to foil spambots. Please make the obvious
changes
>to reply to this message.
>
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From: Douglas Dickerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Symbios Logic C810 SCSI controller
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:32:16 -0700
I've got a Compaq PWS 5100 that has an embedded SCSI controller. The
docs that came with the system are of no help identifying the controller
type. Windows NT setup probe reports it as a Symbios Logic C810. Any
idea if there's a Linux driver for this controller or if I'm going to
have to ante up for a supported adapter?
thanks
Doug Dickerson
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From: Bao Lichun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux deadlock?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:06:12 -0800
It has frustrated me that whenever I use Xwindows and do with
graphic application much, the computer will die at some point.
It seems my video card is not set well or monitor. I am a newbie,
can someone help?
Lichun
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From: William Robison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPTi 82C925 setup (sound)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:02:39 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I seem to remember seeing a post
recently pointing to someones
web page describing configuration
and setup for '925 based sound cards.
Anyone remember this (and the URL)?
regards
-Willy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Re: _Good_ (support 5+ systems) Monitor/Mouse/Keyboard switch for pc...
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:04:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 07:04:26 GMT, "Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I currently have a two-computer vga/serial/kb switch that is made by PC
>Concepts that I purchased from Fry's Electronics for ~$35. Now, I am
>looking to add another computer and would still like to have control over
>all three boxen from my single monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Could anyone
>suggest a better one than the one I have now, possibly one that just just
>push a soft button instead of turning a large (0.5") switch for each
>computer...
Watch out: "passive/manual" switches are no good if you use higher
resolutions (eg. 1024*768, 1200*1024, etc.). You'll get a ghosting
effect, where all windows will be doubled. Casper at work.
Also, there's the problem of turning connections on and off through
the switch: Remember to switch to the right PC when booting it,
otherwise it will complain it can't find a keyboard, and the OS won't
load the mouse driver.
Finally, although NT allows your "unplugging" mouse/keyboard during a
session (ie. switching to another PC), 9x will disable the mouse if
you do this -> you'll have to reboot or switch to DOS to have the
driver reloaded. Uncool.
"Active" switches cost a lot more (eg. 8-port OmniView costs over
$500), but they don't suffer from the problems above.
FF.
--
The system required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: How to set up ACER MAGIC S22 on Red Hat 5.2.
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:54:19 GMT
Hello,
I've a sound card Acer MAGIC S22.
I could not set it up on Red Hat 5.2.
For windows95, readme file recommended:
IOAddress = 530
IRQ = 10
DMADAC = 0
DMAADC = 1
I do not know why but set as
IOport 220h
IRQ IRQ5
DMA DMA1
in sndconfig tool,
I selected MAD16 and gave options as aboves.
But the sound card does not work.
Does anybody have any idea?
Ed.
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From: Pavel Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SCSI CD-ROM
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:05:39 -0500
Hi,
I've asked something like this before and got great answers but now the
problem has changed a bit.
I'm fine-tuning my kernel and now it stopped recognizing my SCSI CDROM
and I can't for my life figure out why. It recognizes my SCSI card and
the two harddrives that are on it, but not the CDROM.
I definitely have the following things enabled:
1. SCSI Support
2. SCSI Support for my card (this part obviously works)
3. SCSI CDROM
What else should I try enabling. (The kernel I'm tweeking with is
2.0.35)
Thanks!
Pavel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Oscar Y Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Toshiba MK6409MAV cashe
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:27:00 -0500
I have a Compaq Contura 410 laptop that I recently replaced its 2.5''
hard disk for
the Toshiba MK6409MAV 6GB disk. Linux is up and running but.... during
boot, the kernel reports:
hda: TOSHIBA MK6409MAV, 6194MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=13424/15/63 ,
i.e., no Cache, however the vendor reports 512kB Cache. This is my
sencond replacement of a hard disk. My first replacement was also for a
TOSHIBA 810MB hard disk but the kernel correctly reported its 120kB
Cache.
I was wondering if somebody knows if the kernel (2.0.36) is not reading
the value correctly from my hard disk or if my hard disk is broken. Is
there any other means of checking how much cache I have in my hard disk?
--
Oscar Y. Takeshita
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C. C. McPherson)
Subject: Re: X and diamond stealth II S220 video card
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:53:34 -0500
In article <7ahvcc$bc7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I just started linux with redhat 5.2 and I have a problem getting x windows
> to work.
> Anyone already tried to configure a Diamond Stealth II S220 video card for
> usage with X windows ?
> I'v tried a lot of configurations. None of them seem te work. The best I get
> is VGA (not even fitting properly on my screen).
> Alex
>
>
>
I have the same problem, and it appears we need XFree86 version
3.3.3, other NG's say that the S220 is supported under this
version.
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From: Thomas Hoetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI TMC-950 problem - please help
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:43:19 +0100
I added kernel params to get the seagate driver installed, but mounting
a cdrom fails:
here are the details:
linux 2.0.30 kernel runs stable for more than two years...
cat /proc/interrupts
0: 567905 timer
1: 5390 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
3: 27446 + serial
10: 4 HiSax
11: 110 NE2000
12: 0 + tmc-8xx - looks the driver never received an IRQ !?
13: 1 math error
14: 46539 + ide0
15: 244420 + ide1
cat /proc/scsi/seagate/0
TMC-8XX/TMC-950 at irq 12, address 0xC8000
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3701TA Rev: 3205
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
mount fails after some time, but
mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
or too many mounted file systems
the cd is a iso cd for sure...
AND the adapter works fine under Win95 with same config.
Does anyone have an idea what's going wrong here?
Regards,
Thomas
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