Linux-Hardware Digest #493, Volume #9 Wed, 24 Feb 99 04:13:38 EST
Contents:
US Robotics Message Modem and Linux (Jan Olivier)
Re: Socket7 mainboard with on-board networking? (Todd Bordeaux)
LinuxWorld Expo? ("~The Seventh Sign~")
Re: Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI problem (Peter Ludwig)
Linmodems.org -- Winmodem Linux Support (Russell Nelson)
Re: What generic SCSI II card for 2.0.9 and DAT ? (brian moore)
Re: For experienced linux lovers (Curt Wuollet)
Re: P2B-DS: Severe Linux system time problems? (Simon Karpen)
Re: dec TULIP NIC not running with 100mbit ? (Mark Johnson)
CD-Writer GVC XR-W2010 ("beavisb")
Re: Help with PS/2 mouse connector. (Rick Brice)
Re: Can't find 2 GIG on HD. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: AMD vs. Cyrix vs. Pentium MMX (BCD User)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW w/RH5.2 (Robert Schiele)
RH 5.2 & IDE RAID ("Mac Leod")
Re: Can't ping my Gateway (but I can ping my own IP address) ("Quiney, Philip
(EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)")
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From: Jan Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: US Robotics Message Modem and Linux
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:18:11 +0100
Hello !
Is it true that I've spend a lot of money for something that will never
work with linux? ( I bought an external UsRobotics Professionell Message
Modem!)
It's not true, isn't it ?
ciao ... joo
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:18:41 -0800
From: Todd Bordeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Socket7 mainboard with on-board networking?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I am about to start construction on a Beowulf class system, but
> first I would like to know if anyone knows of a board manufaturer that
> makes a Socket7 or Super Socket7 mainboard that has networking built
> in, so far I have only been able to locate an Intel PII board with
> this feature, but I would like to use AMD K6-2 350 cpu's clocked at
> 380Mhz.
I HIGHLY suggest that you do not purchase a motherboard with any features
other than IDE, Floppy, SIO (serial) and PIO (parallel). If you get
video, network,
etc it makes it that much harder to upgrade (10 -> 100 MB ethernet as an
example).
Todd
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From: "~The Seventh Sign~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.2600,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: LinuxWorld Expo?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:03:07 -0500
Reply-To: "~The Seventh Sign~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
March 1 - 4 ,1999
San Jose Convention center
San Jose, CA
Is this great news or what?
Forwarning this is Cross posted!
--
~The �eventh �ign ~
Life on this planet has such limited visions.
If aliens in outerspace tapped into the Internet what would they say?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Ludwig)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI problem
Date: 24 Feb 99 04:45:48 GMT
In article <7aphac$ejq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Olipra wrote:
>I installed RedHat 5.1 using an IDE CD-ROM drive, and since upgraded to one
>SCSI CD reader and one SCSI CD re-writer. I run these on an Adaptec
>AHA-1542 host adapter. I've had no luck getting Linux to see this card.
I had a lot of problems with my AHA-1542 as well, have you tried enabling
the BIOS of the card and then running it's internal test suite?
I couldn't get linux installed (as I run SCSI HDD's) at first until I found
an IRQ/DMA/IOPORT setting that worked completly in the internal test. Now
it works like a dream.
I have the manuals here, and even though they mention that for scsi devices
that are not hdd's you did not need to run the cards bios, linux may be
trying to find a specific recognition code (unsure, not actually checked
the source code for the AHA-1542 driver).
Also which sort of 1542 do you have? Is it the AHA1542, the AHA1542C, or
the AHA1542CF? As I said I have the manuals, so I can check them for extra
info on your particular card.
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From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linmodems.org -- Winmodem Linux Support
Date: 24 Feb 1999 00:12:37 -0500
No, there's no code, just a gathering place for like-minded people.
Hey, I agree -- a Winmodem isn't a real modem. But it makes a dandy
telco interface for a CID box, or an answering machine, or a phone
number database.
http://linmodems.org. Even if you only subscribe to the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, it's worth a visit.
--
-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | There is good evidence
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | that freedom is the
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | cause of world peace.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What generic SCSI II card for 2.0.9 and DAT ?
Date: 22 Feb 1999 18:57:48 GMT
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 08:04:26 GMT,
Andy Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Help - What generic SCSI II card for 2.0.9 and DAT
>
> I need to put a SCSI card (only need SCSI II) in a machine
> running 2.0.9 ELF (pre glibc) to drive a DAT drive. Soon I shall
> be putting Redat 5.2 on there but not yet.
2.0.9?? Um, upgrade. There are serious nasty bugs in that kernel.
(And no, you don't have to move to glibc2, just get up to 2.0.34 or
later.)
> When I ask our technicians to order a card they can only
> come up with the latest whizz-bang do everything 90mph
> ultra-wide SCSI III device which isn't quite in the hardware list
> (at least for 2.0.9) for example "Adaptec 2940UWOF Ultra Wide Open
> Firmware SCSI Card Kit" because that's what people want to sell.
Never heard of that one, but I have a plain old 2940UW on one of my home
systems that's worked great for a couple years.
> What I want is something generic that works
> (PCI slot or ISA - I don't care as lonmg as its fast enough
> for the DAT).
Adaptec cards are pretty generic, as in common. They're fine cards,
though, and Adaptec has been good to the kernel developers.
> What card should I tell them to get that you can still get easily
> and will work with 2.0.9 PCI bus machine and a DAT ?
> (It has to work *before* I put rh5.2 on).
>
> Will the 2940UWOF work with kernel 2.0.9 (re-compiled of course) ?
I wouldn't trust it. 2.0.9 had lots and lots of SCSI problems. I think
it was 2.0.28 or so that I actually trusted it enough to switch from
1.2.13.
You should upgrade to a recent kernel anyway, though. There are some
serious denial of service attacks against that kernel (from "f00f" on
Pentiums to nestea......).
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: Curt Wuollet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: For experienced linux lovers
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:17:34 -0600
Serge Lambert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When my Linux R.H. 5.2 OS starts, the screen displays the following
> message in the end of the starting process : "xxx login: FATAL:
> ipcache-init: DNS name lookup tests failed"
> I simply press enter and the boot process comes to an end without any
> viewable problem.
> Has anyone an idea of what it means?
Sounds like you've got a nameserver running without networking set up.
Or it's something with
the new stuff. Take a look at etc/hosts. if that's set up it shoud
resolve.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Karpen)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: P2B-DS: Severe Linux system time problems?
Date: 22 Feb 1999 04:11:47 GMT
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:45:27 -0600 (CST), Rick Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote:
>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....
Also, make sure you compile "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support" into
your kernel.
This is especially important in SMP.
(not saying it isn't a bad PSU, but saying it could be multiple problems)
--Simon
--
Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#include <std_disclaimer.h> My opinions are my own.
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
-- Ferenc Mantfeld
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From: Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dec TULIP NIC not running with 100mbit ?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:32:34 -0700
Reply-To: markj*nospam*@gilanet.com
I am new to linux, and having much trouble trying to get one of the"D1" type Netgear
FA310TX's working under RH5.1. The card's properly installed, because it works when
the box runs windows95 or os/2.
When I used tulip.c driver that came with RH5.1 (compiled as a module) the card was
recognized at boot and I could ping it locally; but I couldn't ping any other host.
Next I downloaded a version of tulip.c from Netgear's website; but now the card is
not
recognized at boot (eg, /sbin/ifconfig just shows loopback), regardless whether the
driver is a module or in the kernel.
Do you have a "D1" (contrast "C1") card working? Any suggestions?
Hopefully, Mark
jeff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was using a Netgear 10/100 in my RedHat box and decided to wipe it and try the
> Caldera distribution, (I have a Netware server, so I thought the Caldera NW
> utils would work better on a Caldera install). Caldera won't use the Netgear
> nic. ifconfig says that all of the packets transmitted and received were error
> packets. I downloaded the source for the new driver and diags and compiled, but
> the same results. Then I reinstalled the RedHat distribution and everything
> works fine. Has anybody else had similar experience? I would still like to run
> the Caldera.
>
> Jeffrey Small
>
> david parsons wrote:
>
> > In article <79ce1d$iji$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Michael Glauche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > > I have some trouble getting my dec tulip card to work with 100 mbit/sec.
> > >Running 2.0.36 (redhat 5.2).
> > >
> > >/etc/conf.modules :
> > >
> > >alias eth0 tulip
> > >options eth0 options=5 (5 should be 100 mbit FD)
> > >
> > >The NIC is connected to a 100 mbit FD, switch.
> > >
> > >any suggestions ?
> >
> > I was running a pair of 100mbit SMC tulip cards for a while, and not
> > only did I have to set the options (I believe I had options=11, for
> > what it's worth) but after the machine booted I would have to unplug
> > and replug the cable to the switch before the stupid thing would
> > toggle to 100mbit full duplex. I upgraded to the el-cheapo netgear
> > tulip-clone ethernet cards later, and those WOULD (with the version
> > of tulip.c that netgear provided on their driver disk. I [heart]
> > Netgear) automagically roll up to 100mbit and full duplex without
> > setting options.
> >
> > In a nutshell, older cards don't work as well with the Linux device
> > drivers.
> >
> > ____
> > david parsons \bi/ 2 100mbit SMC etherpowers rotting away, waiting for
> > \/ an NT machine that WILL properly do 100mbit. Sigh.
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From: "beavisb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-Writer GVC XR-W2010
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:07:08 +0100
Driver for this one?
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From: Rick Brice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with PS/2 mouse connector.
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:16:29 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not all ports are created equal, but.....
you should find:
PS/2 Mouse Port...
1. MSData
2. N/C
3. Ground
4. +5 VDC
5. MSClock
6. N/C
Rick
Rodney M. Bates wrote:
> My motherboard came with a PS/2 mouse port on board, but not
> connected to the back of the case. It came with a serial
> mouse. I want to use the PS/2 mouse port to free up a serial
> port and because I have a better PS/2 mouse.
>
> The motherboard has a connector with 6 pins in a line, except
> that #2 is missing. A local store sold me a connector with
> 5 pins in line, #2 missing, to connect to the motherboard,
> and a PS/2 external mouse connector on the other end. I
> plugged in in with #1 pin to #1.
>
> The mouse is apparently not recognized by the hardware at
> all. Neither bios, Linux, or W95 seem to see it at all.
> The motherboard doc doesn't say anything beyond giving the
> location and name of the internal connector.
>
> Do I perhaps need a connector with the #6 pin? Could #6 be
> an enable jumper for the mouse port? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Rodney M. Bates
--
==============
Earth is a small target suspended in space......
R dot W dot BRICE at LMCO dot COM (Only do it in lowercase)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't find 2 GIG on HD.
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:48:58 -0600
Dan Woicke wrote:
>
> I bought a new 10 Gig Maxtor Hard drive to do my first Linux install.
> First, I used the utility which came with the hard drive to create 2 5
> Gig windows partitions (D: and E: drives). I then started the Red Hat
> install and came up on Disk Druid. I deleted the second 5 Gig partition
> (the E: drive) but the "available" disk space field only jumped up 3
> Gig. I decided to continue the install and made 4 logical partitions
> (under 1 3 gig extended partition) which filled up the 3 Gig. The table
> now looks like this:
> device cylinder range type
> /dev/hdb1 1-648 Windows FAT32
> /dev/hdb2 649-1024 extended
> /dev/hdb5 649-700 logical
> /dev/hdb6 701-900 logical
> /dev/hdb7 901-975 logical
> /dev/hdb8 976-1000 logical
>
> Everything seems to be working fine in Linux except I cannot recover the
> lost 2 Gig of drive space. I run fdisk in Linux and attempt to add a new
> primary partition and it comes back and says no available sectors. I
> then ran fdisk in DOS and it shows 2 Gig of "available" sectors.
> However, when I choose to add a primary or extended partition, it claims
> that they are already there and won't allow me to add. It seems that I
> lost everything above the 1024 cylinder (through appox. 1250). At this
> point I would not mind to just capture it as a 2 Gig windows E: drive.
> Thanks in advance for the assistance.
> Dan
I would be interested to know what cylinder/head/sector settings are in
your BIOS, and what they are in Linux (you can see them at startup,
maybe with dmesg, not sure). I have two 10gig drives, and when I ran
RedHat 5.2 install, it chose to see the first drive as having 1024
cylinders, I think to avoid LILO problems. I restarted the install,
having looked at what it set the second drive to (which included the
full disk, not just 8mg of it) and when the boot: prompt came up I told
it 'linux hda=19650,16,63' which is 'linux hda=cyls,heads,sectors' and
then it was quite happy to let me see the whole disk.
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From: BCD User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD vs. Cyrix vs. Pentium MMX
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 23:43:29 -0500
Cyrix is known to have an inferior FPU. How bad will that show up in
Linux--general usage of Netscape, TeX, WingZ, FrameMaker, WordPerfect etc.
Thanks,
Trevor
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From: Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW w/RH5.2
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:32:13 +0100
Johan Kullstam wrote:
> [...]
>
> i have an adaptec 2940uw and have a problem.
>
> when i boot from power off state, everything is fine. however, when i
> try to reboot (either shutdown -r ... and/or reset button on case) the
> scsi system hangs. the card announces itself but fails to give the
> control-a message. it then fails to look for any drives, fails to
> find them and the machine just sits there failing to boot.
>
> what is going on? do i really need to toggle power to reboot? how do
> i fix this?
>
> tia
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
I also had such a problem. The problem was that the harddisk needed to
much time to initialize. Needed to set harddisk pre boot delay to 6(!)
seconds. After that system booted up perfectly.
Robert
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From: "Mac Leod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 5.2 & IDE RAID
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:45:26 +0100
Hello,
is there some info about RH 5.2 & the motherboard from PROMISE ( FT440BX)
how do they work together!
this mb included an IDE RAID for PII 450 Mhz!
thanks
MacLeod
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From: "Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can't ping my Gateway (but I can ping my own IP address)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:12:33 +0000
Gary Spivey wrote:
> Yes,
> everything is physically connected. If I take linux down and bring up
> Windows 95, everything works fine.
> If I ifconfig down the lo interface, I can no longer ping myself or the
> broadcast address. So it appears that the problem may be somewhere in the
> card setup rather than in the network setup.
You didn't mention the eth0 device which would be your physical ethernet
card. Does this exist?
Taking out the lo interface will prevent pinging yourself - looking at
the route table may help
On my box...
route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
47.101.112.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 338
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 3
lo
0.0.0.0 47.101.112.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 195
eth0
First line is the local network (via eth0) second is loopback
(localhost) via lo and third is anything else (to a gateway machine) via
eth0.
Ifconfig on my box..
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:96422 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:96422 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:F3:10:1B
inet addr:47.101.115.161 Bcast:47.101.127.255
Mask:255.255.240.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1240925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:464382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6600
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
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