Linux-Hardware Digest #480, Volume #9 Mon, 22 Feb 99 00:13:31 EST
Contents:
Re: P2B-DS: Severe Linux system time problems? ("Rick Lindsay")
Re: ISA/PNP card in a PCI bus (Andri Saar)
Re: SCSI setup (Pavel Greenfield)
Re: AMD k6 2 350 (garv)
Recomendation for an affordable tape drive(minicart or dat) for linux (Douglas E
Harmon)
CD changer 18x - out of luns? (Patrick Sibenaler)
Re: Need hint about diamond-modem... (Rob Clark)
Re: Newbie help with install (Jim McIntyre)
SCSI and Sound (Pavel Greenfield)
ethernet problems ("Mike Zowacki")
Re: EIDE Hard drive weirdness ("Charles Sullivan")
Printer setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is this system Linux-friendly? (Destrius)
Mouse problems with XFree bundled with RedHat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: U.S Robotics 56K modem setup... (zstrawn)
SiS 6326 not recognized?? (Jim Moser)
Wireless networking by Zoom ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NetGear network cards (Jim Kannengieser)
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From: "Rick Lindsay" <lcs@"jump".net>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: P2B-DS: Severe Linux system time problems?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:45:27 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: "Lindsay Computer Systems" <lcs@"jump".net>
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:12:06 GMT, Andrew Leahy wrote:
>We recently purchased a P2B-DS with dual Pentium II 400Mhz chips. The
>problem we are having is that the system clock under Linux is nowhere
>near accurate--it can be off by as much as several minutes per hour.
>The CMOS clock is not affected.
How close to spec are the voltages as read by the BIOS?
Sounds like a bad power supply....
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:54:56 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA/PNP card in a PCI bus
David wrote:
>
> My question is will an ISAPNP card on a newer PCI bus work?
As the name suggests, ISAPNPTOOLS is dor _ISA_ PnP cards. PCI has PnP in
specs,
it does not need additional software.
> Do I have to use ISAPNPTOOLS to configure?
PCI is usually automagically configured. No need to do anything.
> When I recompile the kernel should I set the cards as modules?
Yes... I perfer modules to a monolithic kernel...
> I heard that you can use loadlin instead of lilo to configure the cards.
Nah, that trick is needed if you have a very stubborn ISA card.
> What about my pci modem card. How do I configure?
You can't. It's a winmodem. You can't use it.
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From: Pavel Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI setup
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:36:59 -0500
Could this be why my CD-ROM wouldn't work when the scanner was on?
Also, it's surprising to me that the system can sense the external SCSI cable
even though the scanner is off...
What is the real termination? My scanner is properly terminated (I mean it's got
that terminator thingy in the right place) but what good does it do if the
scanner off?
Thanks!
Pavel
brian moore wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:28:57 -0500,
> Pavel Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I haven't read the SCSI howto. What does the following (output of dmeg)
> > mean?
> > (I have aha2940UW, 2 scsi drives, toshiba scsi CD-ROM, and a Nikon
> > scanner).
> > What is setup incorrectly and what should I change?
> >
> > (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 11/0
> > (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=6, 16/255 SCBs
> > (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
> > (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
> > (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
> > (scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
> > (scsi0) during machine bootup.
>
> Do just that. When your machine boots, you'll see it loading the SCSI
> BIOS. At that point in the process hit a control A and you'll go into
> the SCSI setup. Tell it the real termination.
>
> Or don't. (Mine happened to guess right and I'm too lazy to change
> it... besides, that system doesn't have a monitor. :))
>
> > (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 YES)
> > (scsi0) Illegal cable configuration!! Only two
> > (scsi0) connectors on the SCSI controller may be in use at a time!
>
> That's a limit of that model of Adaptec. There are three connectors,
> but you're only allowed to use two of the three. With the proper
> cabling (daisy-chaining the internal drives and ending the chain with
> the external connecter) you can yank the external connector cable from
> your board and life will be peachy.
>
> SCSI is great and I won't buy a system without it. It's also weird as
> hell despite the intentions to make it a standard.
>
> > (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
> > scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.4/3.2.4
> > <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
> > scsi : 1 host.
> > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST32155W Rev: 0362
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: 0360
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> > Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-5401TA Rev: 3605
> > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> > scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
> > (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
> > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4197405 [2049 MB] [2.0
> > GB]
> > (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
> > SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496960 [4148 MB] [4.1
> > GB]
>
> That's a handy-dandy list of what it saw.
>
> Just make sure it's right is all. (Note it's missing your scanner,
> since it can't do all three cables as mentioned above.)
>
> --
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD k6 2 350
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:33:09 -0800
Alistair P Furnell wrote:
> Hi I have read what you are doing with the boards sounds like a good ider
> but would this work on a GA-5sg100 mother board with k6 2 350 on it as i
> updated it weeks before finding out that AMD dose not work to well with
> redhat 5.2.
> Alistair Furnell.
AMD works just fine with Red Hat 5.2; I am using k62-300 and am very happy!
Go for it!
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From: Douglas E Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Recomendation for an affordable tape drive(minicart or dat) for linux
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:02:43 -0500
Hello all again......
After boring you with the last two bandwith killers, this is
simple. Any recomendation for a tape drive ( mini cart or dat) that
works with linux. I would really like to use the scsi adaptor on my
pas16 soundcard, but atapi will do fine. Looking in the sub $200.00
range. Sony are on sale for $149.00 but can't find compatibility info.
Same for the iomega ditto max($189.00). Any info on dat? I don't see too
many in this price range but you never know....
any help
much appreciated!
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:06:31 +0100
From: Patrick Sibenaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD changer 18x - out of luns?
I just found an antique pioneer cd changer (DRM 1804x) in our
storage and would really like to hook it up to a AHA1530.
It takes 3 magazines of 6 CD's which leaves me with a total
of 18. The problem as it seems is that the maximum luns that
can be allocated per SSI-ID is 8.
Does anyone know how to map more than 8 disks to one ID? -
Or any other workaround...
greets,
patrick./
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Subject: Re: Need hint about diamond-modem...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:36:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[GateMaster] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've bought a Diamond Supra-Express 56i V Pro, internal
>PCI-Modem, and can't get it working.
It's a winmodem:
http://www.diamondmm.de/diamondde/eng/products/comm/56ipro2.htm
It won't work with Linux because it emulates a modem in (Windows)
software. That's why they require a Pentium 166 MHz or higher.
Unfortunately, if you want to use this modem, it will have to be
in Windows 95 or 98. Diamond does not supply this modem emulation
software (or the specs to write it) for Linux.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie help with install
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:19:25 -0400
Your 486 board probably won't recognize a HDD larger than 512 Mb. However,
some drives come with a formatting utility that will allow you to format
the drive to their specs, so you will see all of the space. Quantum makes
a good utility, (DM.exe) for this purpose. I used it for the same problem
two weeks ago.I don't know if this formatting will be good for Linux purposes. I guess
you won't know for sure unitl you install.
A better solution would be to find out what type of board you are using,
and see if there is a jumper you can set to make it recognize larger
drives. For this, you will need a hardware person, or a hardware
troubleshooting package, such Micro Houe Technicial Library, or Support on
Site for Hardware.
Someone at the campus helpdesk might be able to point you in the right
direction.
Hope this helps.
Jim McIntyre
On 19 Feb 1999, Philip M Ravenscroft wrote:
> Date: 19 Feb 1999 19:30:14 GMT
> From: Philip M Ravenscroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
> Subject: Newbie help with install
>
> I inherited an old 486DX tower system with a 201 MB hard drive. I want
> to turn it into a Linux machine and would like to install a CD-ROM and a
> bigger second hard drive. I have heard that my card may not be able to
> handle a drive larger than 512 MB.
>
> However, i have no experience with PC hardware and don't know how to tell
> what motherboard/IDE (I assume the drive is IDE) card I have. The bus
> seems to be PCI because I bought a PCI NIC card which works.
>
> Are there any ways to tell which motherboard/card combo I have? Any
> resources on the net?
>
> thanks,
>
> philip ravenscroft
> infosculpture
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Pavel Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SCSI and Sound
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:46:08 -0500
You've configured everything correctly (i.e. compiled all the necessary
support in), but still can't play your CD's? Generally having problems
with SCSI configuration?
The problem may be this (which is what I've experienced). The problem
that I will describe caused for me a great number of other subtle,
seemingly unrelated problems.
If you have a SCSI card and a SCSI CDROM and all three cable are
occupied (for instance, you have a harddrive or two on Int-50, you CDROM
on Int 68, and an external SCSI device on Ext 50) it is against the
rules. You should disconnect one of them. The kernel will alert you that
you have this problem at startup.
First of all, one of the SCSI devices will not be detected. In my case,
the scanner was not detected. So I thought that everything was fine with
my CDROM since it was detected correctly. That was apartently not the
case.
Second, I could mount the SCSI CDROM and read files from it but couldn't
play CD's. Since I've disconnected one of my SCSI devices the problem
went away so I believe that this problem was related to the SCSI setup,
as well.
Third, every once in a while the CDROM wouldn't get detected. Instead of
tinkering with the kernel (which was fruitless for there was nothing
wrong with the kernel) I should've observed that this happened only when
the external SCSI device was on!
The solution to the problem that I personally would recommend: get an
ATAPI CDROM. It's much cheaper than getting another SCSI card and more
convenient than constantly pulling the cables in and out.
My only hope is that this post will save someone some time and
frustration.
Thanks.
Pavel
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From: "Mike Zowacki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ethernet problems
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:14:41 -0500
I have just installed linux on my pc and am trying to get my ethernet card
to work with it. The ethernet card is an SMC 8416 Ether Ez...I have it on
IRQ 3 at 0x300 and am running the SMC-ULTRA module which will work with
it...linux finds it just fine. I then input all my ip, gateway, nameservers
etc...this i have checked a million times...My problem is that Netscape wont
work and when I try to ping I can ping with real address' ex.
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX but I can't ping say something.somethin.com. It seems like
the nameserver is not right but it is...Also I don't know if this is right
or not but when I type "route in the terminal under destination it doesn't
give my right gateway...but in the settings i have the right one...can
someone please help me. Thanks all.
Mike Zowacki
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EIDE Hard drive weirdness
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 04:12:07 -0500
If your BIOS has LBA enabled, but you've configured the drive as non-LBA
it sounds like Linux is getting mixed signals.
What versions of kernel and fdisk are you using?
Peter A. Koren wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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
>--
>Remove the '.zap-this' from the email address to reach me.
>
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>logic." -- Santayana
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Printer setup
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:16:05 GMT
Hi all!
I am having a problem setting up a printer under Slackware 3.5
It is a LaserJet 6L, and I have set up the /etc/printcap and filter files, but
when I print, nothing happens. lpq shows that the job is in the queue, and in
lpc, stat shows that the it is "waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)"
The printer is on, and plugged into lp0, and I have parallel port support
compiled into the kernel. I can also print in Windoze 95 to the same printer
on the same system. If I do a ps aux | grep lpd, it shows that lpd is
running. What could I be forgetting??????
Thanks in advance!
Jeremy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Destrius)
Subject: Is this system Linux-friendly?
Date: 16 Feb 1999 09:11:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings.
I will be assembling a new computer in a few weeks time and I would
appreciate if somebody would look through my list of parts and check if any
won't work in Linux. I'll install Debian 2.0 with the 2.0.34 kernel first,
and then upgrade to 2.2.1. XFree86 3.3.3 too. So I need to be able to at
least use the console before downloaded the new stuff.
Okay, here's the specs:
Intel P-II 400 MHz CPU
DFI P2XBL Mainboard
64 MB 100 MHz SDRAM (may upgrade to 128)
Seagate 12.7 GB harddrive (or anything above 10 GB)
Matrox Millenium G200 graphics accelerator
Creative PCI 64 sound card
Some reasonably-priced CD-ROM (brand suggestions, anyone?)
Ditto for floppy disk drive.
Philips 17"/107E monitor
Yup, that's about it. I've looked through the web for information regarding
these items, and tried to make sure all of them can work in Linux
(hopefully without any commercial software, although OSS/Linux is still
within my budget), but I'd like to get a confirmation.
TIA...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mouse problems with XFree bundled with RedHat 5.2
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 03:43:14 GMT
I keep getting strange behavior when running X. I'll move the mouse and it
jumps around the screen, with no rhyme or reason. When I quit X, there is an
error message that reads:
Warning: /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl for
device)
I have tried other mice (PS/2 and serial, Microsoft mice and non-MS mice) and
I get the same behavior.
Any ideas?? I haven't had this problem before, I may try RedHat 5.1 just to
see if it does the same thing <shrug>...
Thanks,
Michael
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From: zstrawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: U.S Robotics 56K modem setup...
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 04:26:05 GMT
Ed Jones wrote:
> Hi, I purchase a robotics ISA internal 56k modem. I could not get it to
> work, probably because of its plug and play behavior..
>
> I traded it in on an external robotics 56k dualmode modem and it worked
> without a hitch.
>
> Lesson here is if you are not sure about the modem.. get an external
> modem for linux.
I did what Ed did, got an external 56K Zoom modem and have had no
problems. Besides with an external you can watch the progress of the
transmission negotiation, and RX/TX with all those indicator lights.
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From: Jim Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS 6326 not recognized??
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 04:23:41 -0600
I got the new package tonight..XFree86-3.3.3.1-1.i386.rpm..from redhat's
ftp
site. I ran xf86config and wrote a new XF86Config file to /etc/X11. When
I started
X it came up in some sort of wierd 16 color 320x200 mode. After quitting
the X
server I noticed that the screen had the following message.
(--) SVGA: PCI: SiS Unknown chipset (0x6326) rev 11, Memory @
0xf7000000,MMIO @ 0xf79f0000, I/O @ 0xcc80
It then switched to a generic VGA server and used a 320x200 screen.
When I downloaded the new XFree package (above) doesn't that include the
matching 3.3.3.1 SVGA server?
Confused in Tennessee
Jim M.
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Crossposted-To:
biz.comp.hardware,biz.marketplace,biz.comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking
Subject: Wireless networking by Zoom
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 03:27:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out http://www.sellcom.com for the latest Zoom wireless networking
products as well as the new Siemens 2.4Ghz cordless phone system.
Steve
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From: Jim Kannengieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NetGear network cards
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:49:04 -0500
Are NetGear nics compatable with Linux? I'm running Red Hat 5.2 with
kernel 2.0.36. These cards are very inexpensive, but I haven't seen them
listed as being supported anywhere. Any info will be appreciated.
Thanks.
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