Linux-Hardware Digest #475, Volume #9 Sun, 21 Feb 99 03:13:44 EST
Contents:
Re: Best CD Writers (Jim Zubb)
Any update on SoundBlaster Live drivers? (Ditisha)
Re: Sportster Internal ISDN Configuration (roel niesen)
Re: Help with Dell - Integrated Sound ("Michael J. Bahr")
Re: Sportster Internal ISDN Configuration (roel niesen)
Re: Any update on SoundBlaster Live drivers? ("The InkFreq")
Problems with NE1000 (STLim)
Re: Adaptec 2930 U2 (Pete Liiva)
Re: Problems with NE1000 ("The InkFreq")
Re: Startup prgrams Red Hat (Jerry Christopher)
Re: CD-ROM Permission denied.. ("jason p")
486DX2 - BIOS - Big HD (Internet Real Estate)
Re: Hardware to recommend? For state of the art Linux box? (Rod Roark)
More scsi problems... (Stephe)
Non Techy Alert...Re: Where to get an internal V.90 modem ("Bob Fahey
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]")
More than 8 LUN-selectable CD-ROM drives? (Mark Tumbrel)
Re: USRobotics Modem ("Bob Fahey [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]")
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From: Jim Zubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best CD Writers
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:46:45 -0500
Jim Zubb wrote:
>
> Eric Lee Green wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 09:04:59 -0800, Robert Brown
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Can anybody tell me the of some good CDROM writers for Redhat 5.0?
> >
> > I've had good luck with the Teac 4x12 CD writer. That's what we use to
> > make our updates disks with never a coaster. Sorry, I don't have the model
> > number handy :-(.
> >
> > One hint: SCSI works MUCH better than IDE here. We got plenty of coasters
> > with IDE. Even reading the image off of an IDE hard drive resulted in the
>
> I have found that IDE 2x writers work nearly flawlessly,
> with some load to the system even (I usually read newgroups
> while burning a CD). 4x writers suck on IDE unless you have
> the system dedicated to burning only. They work fine if you
> put no other load on the system.
Oh yeah, I use a HP 7200+ 2x/2x/6x rewritable. i haven't
made any coasters yet.
--
Jim Zubb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ditisha)
Subject: Any update on SoundBlaster Live drivers?
Date: 21 Feb 1999 05:33:20 GMT
I read a month ago that Creative was going to develop Linux drivers for its
Sound Blaster Live soundcard. I was just wondering if anybody would have any
update on that. Would sure like to hear some sound from my otherwise cool
Linux machine here.
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From: roel niesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sportster Internal ISDN Configuration
Date: 20 Feb 1999 02:12:55 GMT
Craig Pishock wrote:
> Anyone know how I can setup my Sportster Internal ISDN adapter.
>
> I have seen KISDN but I am not sure I want to use KDE as my Xwindows
> interface.
>
> Any and all help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig
Hi,
Same question here.
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From: "Michael J. Bahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with Dell - Integrated Sound
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:12:13 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK - a little more detail. I upgraded to sndconfig-0.27-3 and it worked
as far as locating my sound card but I still getting the following error
when it tries to play a sample:
***
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 4' on or around line 265 --- further
action aborted
***
What script is it talking about? Ive been looking but can't find anything
on it. I also noticed this LD setting error at boot.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Mike
"Michael J. Bahr" wrote:
> I have a Dell Dimension XPS R400 w/ Crystal 3D integreated sound. Has
> anyone had any luck in getting this to work. (RH5.2 & newbie)
>
> Using sndconfig fails to detect and manual setup ends with an error.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Mike
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From: roel niesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sportster Internal ISDN Configuration
Date: 20 Feb 1999 02:13:42 GMT
Craig Pishock wrote:
> Anyone know how I can setup my Sportster Internal ISDN adapter.
>
> I have seen KISDN but I am not sure I want to use KDE as my Xwindows
> interface.
>
> Any and all help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig
Hi,
Same question here.
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From: "The InkFreq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any update on SoundBlaster Live drivers?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:40:51 -0700
The last I had heard was that Creative had hired a Linux codeslinger, and
was hoping to have binary drivers available by the end of the year, but had
no hard projection dates. I wish the guy or gal luck though.
Ditisha wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I read a month ago that Creative was going to develop Linux drivers for its
>Sound Blaster Live soundcard. I was just wondering if anybody would have
any
>update on that. Would sure like to hear some sound from my otherwise cool
>Linux machine here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (STLim)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems with NE1000
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 05:46:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have an NE1000 on my card after having swapped a 3C503 out of it.
After the swap, I did a simple recompilataion of the kernel, by
setting the options for the experimental NE1000 to "Y". However,
after restarting the system with this new kernel, I was unable to find
the device with ifconfig.
Advice?? My kernel is 2.2.1
Ciao
ST Lim
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From: Pete Liiva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2930 U2
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:49:45 -0500
G G wrote:
>
> I am new to Linx and would appreciate if anyone cold give me some assistance
> with this problem.
>
> During installation the system reports the following
> " PCI Probing SCSI Devices"
> "PCI Probe found 1 SCSI Device"
> "Module unknown not in install table"
>
> and
> "SCSI : 0 hosts"
> "SCSI : Detected Total"
>
> As my hard drive is not detected i can not get beyond the SCSI card
> detection stage of teh install process.
> I have tried installing both Red Hat 5.2 and SUSE 6.0.
>
> I have tried the following without any success.
> Setting the "no probe" options and entering aic7xxx='no_reset.extended' and
> various other options containd within README.aic7xxx.
> Downloading the latest boot images from Red Hat and booting from them.
>
> My system has the following configuration
> Gigabyte GA-5AX MB, AMD K6-2 400MHz, 64MB PC100 RAM, ADAPTEC 2930U" SCSI
> card(SCSI ID 0), Quantum Viking II 9.1 GB HD (SCSI ID 0). The SCSI card
> bios is set up to default and bios enabled.
>
> Grant
A quick answer that I hope will help. I had a problem working with an
Adaptec 2940 wide scsi card, until I disabled what I remember to be the
"wide negotiation" option on all of the 16 scsi channels, through doing
a ctrl-a to access the bios before the formal "boot up." I disabled
*all* of the channels in this way, although only three were being used
(one hard drive, one tape drive, and one CD-R) and was able to boot
linux using loadlin out of DOS (haven't yet used lilo as a loader yet.)
Please tell me if this works for you, as I am rather tempted to buy the
2930 u2 card for my personal system but don't know if it will work under
the present linux state-of-the-art, as far as scsi drivers are
concerned.
Best o' luck,
Pete Liiva
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From: "The InkFreq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems with NE1000
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:51:18 -0700
use the command "dmesg | more" and look to see if the card was found by the
kernel. If not, then your card was not detected due to conflicts, chip
problems, etc...
if you can see the card was detected, but can't see it with ifconfig, then
try using:
ifconfig eth0 up <ip address>
and then see if you can see the card with ifconfig
STLim wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have an NE1000 on my card after having swapped a 3C503 out of it.
>After the swap, I did a simple recompilataion of the kernel, by
>setting the options for the experimental NE1000 to "Y". However,
>after restarting the system with this new kernel, I was unable to find
>the device with ifconfig.
>
>Advice?? My kernel is 2.2.1
>
>Ciao
>ST Lim
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From: Jerry Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Startup prgrams Red Hat
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 05:46:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fabrizio Albonico
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > When i
installed my Red Hat version 5.1 on my laptop everything went OK. But
> >
when i want to start pcmcia service by typing 'pcmcia start' it doesn't work.
> > It only works when i execute it by using 'sh pcmcia start' When i create
a
> > file name DODO and change it to executable by typing 'chmod +x dodo', I
can
> > only run it by typing 'sh dodo'. I would like to know what am i doing
wrong.
> > In what way can i change 'sh pcmcia start' to 'pcmcia start'. I
don't want to
> > execute sh all the time. Currently i'm running bash as my
shell.
>
> Matijn,
> one common thing in Linux is its ability to surprise
users coming from
> DOS/Windows environments. Executable programs are one
interesting point!
> In order to execute a program under Linux it is
necessary either to pass its
> full path, or include the directory in the
PATH environment variable. Refer to
> your manual for setting the path, I
currently don't remember the entries for
> bash. Another way of doing this is
>
> ./programname <return>
>
> (I don't know if bash supports it
though, csh and tcsh do).
> This tells that a program wants to be executed
in the current (.) directory... a
> little bit complicated.
The bash shell
does support this, and I'm betting the ./programname works.
To add the
ability to call programs/scripts by name in your current directory
(rather
than having to type ./programname), you can edit your PATH
environment
variable in your .bashrc_profile
In your home directory, type: ls -a to show
"hidden" files. You should find
.bashrc_profile listed. If not, you can
edit a new file with this name.
If you have the file, it should contain a
line similar to the following:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games
Append
to the line so that it looks like:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:.
All
that is added is a ":." (colon period), where the colon is the separator
between each path name (directories to search for executable files)
The $PATH
on the right hand of the = sign stands for the path that is already
set by
the system. You want to keep these directories in your path, so in effect,
you are saying, "keep my path as it was, plus add /usr/local/bin, /usr/games,
and now . (period, or "the current directory I happen to be in")
Note that
the above is for adding the current directory to only your path. No
other
accounts on your laptop are affected.
To add the current directory to the
search path for all bash users that have a
login for your laptop or other
linux box, then you would (as the root user), edit the
file /etc/profile.
This file contains the "global" environment settings, those that
are applied
for every user (using bash) of the system. You should find a line that
sets
the $PATH environment variable in this file. Append a :. (colon period) to
the end of this line and you will set the current directory into the path for
all bash
users.
> To avoid having sixtyfour-thousand directories in the PATH
variable, I created a
> directory called "shortcuts" and every executable
file goes in there. Adding
> "shortcuts" to the PATH variable is a quite
simple task.
The /usr/local/bin directory usually serves tihs purpose, being
the "local"
directory for binary executables, scripts, etc.
> Hope this
will help solve your problems. If not, I'm available.
> - Fabrizio
>
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From: "jason p" <jp@>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Permission denied..
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:52:38 +0800
Are you logged in as root? sometimes i can't mount cause i'm not root. also,
just issue the command "mount /dev/cdrom"
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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:07:40 -0600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Internet Real Estate)
Subject: 486DX2 - BIOS - Big HD
Newbie here ... trying to get a box ready to install Red Hat on. Got a 486
DX2 66mhz, and am junking the 540 megHD and adding a Western Digital 8.4
gig. I know the BIOS will have to be updated.
So my questions are:
1) What is the best place to find the new BIOS file? I have heard too many
stories of chips being fried by running the wrong update file.
2) After the BIOS update, will I have to still run one of those separate
programs that enable the system to see the full 8 gigs, or will Linux when
I install it, handle all of it.
As you can see, I really want to understand all this BEFORE I jump in and
mess it all up. Especially with the BIOS. Can't afford to buy a new system
board if I screw it up.
Thanks for your help,
Edward
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware to recommend? For state of the art Linux box?
Date: 21 Feb 1999 07:01:07 GMT
Plinio Barbeito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My question is slightly different -- I'm trying to figure out what is
>the most *maxed-out* system for Linux I can build that will work
>perfectly ....
I hope you know there's no computer you can build that will make you
more popular with women. So the answer will depend on the intended
use. What's your goal?
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ Starting at $499
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From: Stephe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: More scsi problems...
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 02:01:45 -0500
Well I thought I was buying a supported scsi card but I didn't
realize there are 2 different 1505 adaptec cards. An "AHA" and an
"AVA". Of course I found out I had the wrong one after windows 95
installed it with no problems. The windows driver has been out
for years so am I correct in assuming this card will probably
never get linux support? I've tried disabling the pnp and
manually setting it up, making the initrd files etc. but no luck.
I'm about to give up getting a scanner to work in Linux as it's
hard finding the old hardware that is supported by linux.... Any
idea's? Am I wasting my time trying to get this card to work?
This is getting REAL frustrating..
--
Stephe
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From: "Bob Fahey [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Non Techy Alert...Re: Where to get an internal V.90 modem
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 02:32:50 -0500
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Please disregard anything TSS says. He obviously doesn't know what he's
talking about. I cringe when dumb asses give answers to questions when they
have no idea what they're talking about and have no 'base of experience' to
even begin to exude advise to other people.
Bob sends
~The Seventh Sign~ wrote in message <7ahk5o$2an$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Not possible in the USA due in part to the distance from the modem pool and
>the fact that most lines are twist-n-pair the only way you could get up to
>the max of 54K is to go optical and it is costly.
>
>--
>~The �eventh �ign ~
>Life on this planet has such limited visions.
>If aliens in outerspace tapped into the Internet what would they say?
>Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>:Hi,
>:I just received an internal AOpen FM56-ITU modem: It is an
>:internal V.90 K56Flex ISA modem, jumper configurable, no PnP.
>:It has Rockwell RCVDL56ACFW/SP chipset. It is indeed a decent
>:hardware modem which worked in Linux right away.
>:In my countryside, I connect at 44000bps. I wonder whether one
>:could get more than that.
>:
>:The modem was ordered from www.877PCPARTS.com, phone 888 993-5528.
>:Their web site sucks: it only mentions an internal K56 ISA modem
>:with no other details. Not to mention that this is just unreadable
>:with lynx. One has to call to make sure that he/she is buying this
>:particular model, AOpen FM56-ITU, with this particular Rockwell
>:chipset RCVDL56ACFW/SP. The price is $41 plus $9 for shipping.
>:
>:References:
>:http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>:http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
>:http://www.aopenusa.com/products/modem/fm56itu.htm
>:http://www.877pcparts.com/
>:
>:Please post a followup if you know where to get cheaper modems
>:which would work under Linux; AFAIK, all V.90 modems which are below
>:$30 on PriceWatch are winmodems.
>:
>:Cheers,
>:Andrew
>:
>
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From: Mark Tumbrel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: More than 8 LUN-selectable CD-ROM drives?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:04:33 -0800
I recently purchased 2 Nakamichi 5-CD changers. After turning on
LUN-probing, it found both drives just fine. I can reach the first 8
CDs just fine as scd0-scd7. However, the last two CDs on the second
changer, which would be something like scd8 and scd9, don't exist.
Modifying MAKEDEV to create them with minor numbers 8 and 9 doesn't
work. Is there another way to access these devices (like /dev/sr*)?
Or is it not possible to have more than 8 CD/LUNs on a machine? It
seems likely that it's possible, because otherwise CD towers wouldn't
work, but any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-MT
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From: "Bob Fahey [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USRobotics Modem
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 02:55:36 -0500
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Your compression is turned off, also try making sure your setserial is
working correctly. What does your console tell you about 'connnect .....'?
John E. Hagensieker wrote in message <7a53tf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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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