Linux-Hardware Digest #497, Volume #9 Thu, 25 Feb 99 05:13:37 EST
Contents:
Re: Monster Fusion AGP Model Z100 (Dan Eble)
Installing Linux on an ASUS P2B-S (Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez)
Re: Modem on COM5? (Jim Hill)
HOW TO INSTALL A SCSI ZIP ON REDHAT5.2 ?? (Christophe Brajon)
monitor refresh rates??? (Matt Wilson)
Re: Help! Over 8.4G disk!
Re: Help! Over 8.4G disk! ("Charles Sullivan")
KWinTV won't configure ... "No video4linux device found"
Re: Printtool doesn't see /dev/lp1 (Loren Brookes)
Re: SoundBlaster PCI64 and Linux 2.2.1? (MikeM)
Re: AMD k6 2 350 (Jerry Gardner)
Re: Modem for linux (John)
Book on x86 and PC architecture? (Keon-woo Hong)
Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36 (Jose Urena)
linux mca 3c523 support (Thomas Lemm)
Re: Un-PLIP-able Laptops? (Arthur Corliss)
Re: how do I change resolution? (MS)
Re: Primary master hard disk fail (Paul Hovnanian)
Re: AGP Graphics card? (Stephan Skrodzki)
Re: Booting without a keyboard (Phil Snowdon)
CPU/mainboard anti-bug test (Pawel Sakowski)
Re: Linux on an E-Machine... ("Jeff D. Robertson")
MCA Ethernet 3c529 2.2.1 not seen ("Barry Titmarsh")
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From: Dan Eble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monster Fusion AGP Model Z100
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:12:13 -0500
Reply-To: Dan Eble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Jerry Lam wrote:
> Would anyone know what a Monster Fusion AGP card's equivalent is when I
> upgrade from RedHat 5.1 to 5.2? Was using an ATI Rage Pro II AGP
> before. I think the Monster Fusion AGP card is too new to be supported
> *an assumption*. If this is to be the case, then where can I start to
> unravel this mystery?
IIRC, the Monster Fusion has a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee chip. Go to
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/status.html and try the X server that's
available there. Alternatively, assuming the card has a VESA 2.0 BIOS,
you could upgrade to kernel 2.2 and use the frame buffer console with
XF86_FBdev (see http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/fbdev.html).
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From: Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux on an ASUS P2B-S
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:45:26 +0100
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Hi colleagues:
I have been trying to install Linux on a new brand Pentium II 400
MHz system with partial success.
The machine has an ASUS P2B-S mortherboard (which includes and
Adaptec 7890 SCSI chipset), an IBM DDRS-34560 UW SCSI disk, a Traxdata
CDR 4120, a 3Com 905B Cyclone 100base Tx, an ATAPI/IDE CD-Rom and 256MB
of RAM in 2 simms.
I installed RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36-0.7). Everything proceeded all
right: autodetection of SCSI host and devices, partition and formatting
of the HDD, installation of packages. However, the kernel only detects
15M out of the 256M of RAM!!!
The booting message goes:
======================
Loading Linux............
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Memory: sized by int 13 088h
(...)
pcibios_init: BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f9ce0
pcibios_init: BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf0520
pcibios_init: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 enty ant 0xf0720
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok- 400.59 BogoMIPS
Memory: 13448k/15360k available (748k kernel code, 384k reserved, 572k
data)
...
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I tried to enforce the recognition of more memory thorugh the "mem"
parameter at both the LILO boot prompt and at the lilo.conf. Both
procedures lead to immediate crashes during the booting process.
I have also recompiled the kernel, both the 2.0.36-0.7, which comes
with RedHat and the las version , 2.2.2. With recompiled kenel the
system boots ok, recogniing all hthe memory, however, it DOES CHASH
sometime afterwards.
Could you give me any hint as to what else to try?
Thanks in advance.
Greetings!
Jos� Manuel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hill)
Subject: Re: Modem on COM5?
Date: 25 Feb 1999 06:38:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Cerberus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a 56k V.90/K56flex winmodem that is hardwired to COM5 under
>win98.
>
>I want to use this on RedHat but I'm not sure how to set it up(or if it
>will even work) My availible'COM' ports(whatever that linux term was)
>only go up to COM4. What do I enter in the modem config?
Enter nothing. Your winmodem will not work under Linux. Period.
Finis. End of story. There is no config file, no 3rd-hand utility, no
patch, no fix. Your winmodem under Linux is dead weight. Sorry.
(Had you checked Deja News prior to acquiring this device you would
have seen, oh, about a billion messages covering this.)
Jim
--
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"Visualize world peace...good.
Now wake up and smell the coffee."
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From: Christophe Brajon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HOW TO INSTALL A SCSI ZIP ON REDHAT5.2 ??
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:11:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bonjour,
Hi,
I have Redhat 5.2 and I want to install a iomega zip (SCSI).
The zip is OK and well detected by linux but the system tries to read or
boot from the zip in place of the harddisk.
So I get a kernel panic.
The problem is: Linux attributes to the zip disk a wrong filesystem
name:
"sda" which is the name of my main filesystem where is all Linux so lilo
trie to boot on the zip disk!!
It must be "sdb" but I do not know how to do this.
I tried to change the SCSI id ( from 6 to 5) of the zip but it is worse:
the hard disk (SCSI) is not even detected!
Thank you for your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Wilson)
Subject: monitor refresh rates???
Date: 23 Feb 1999 14:06:27 GMT
Hi, I'm trying to get xwindows configured properly. My problem is that I
don't know my Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates. I've tried to locate
the info on the manufacturers web site but I couldn't find it. I've
emailed them asking for the info, but they haven't gotten back to me yet
(yes I am impatient!:) I'm using a Mag Innovision DX15F. Anyone out
there using this know the settings? Or can anyone suggest another place
to look for the info?
thanks a bunddle
Matt wilson
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From: <>
Subject: Re: Help! Over 8.4G disk!
Date: 23 Feb 1999 13:59:46 GMT
"Itchie Whitemore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreibt: > I got 10G hard disk in my
computer.
> But Linux (Slackware 3.1, kernel 2.0.32) only find the 8.4G.
> Anybody knows how to do that?
You should update your Kernel to 2.0.36 (get the new kernel sources). It
recognizes your hd with the full 10GB.
Bye
Armin Kaiser
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Over 8.4G disk!
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:43:50 -0500
The following works (and is necessary) with kernel 2.0.36. It will probably
work with your kernel. Note: if you also have Win98 with a FAT32 partition,
you will need at least kernel 2.0.34 if you want to read the FAT32 partition
from Linux.
Go into the 'expert' menu of fdisk and set the correct number of LBA
cylinders.
It ought to be around 1240 (with 255 heads/63 sectors). If you don't know
the
exact number, download the free DOS program PARTINFO.EXE from the
PowerQuest website (publishers of Partition magic).
Then return to the fdisk main menu to partition your drive.
Itchie Whitemore wrote in message <01be5f30$4946d3c0$0100000a@itux>...
>I got 10G hard disk in my computer.
>But Linux (Slackware 3.1, kernel 2.0.32) only find the 8.4G.
>Anybody knows how to do that?
>
>Please Help!
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: KWinTV won't configure ... "No video4linux device found"
Date: 23 Feb 1999 12:31:44 GMT
An interesting problem I'm having here with kwintv:
I run ./configure --enable-kernel, the configure script gets as far as
"checking for video4linux device..." then it errors out with "error: Oops!
No video4linux device found!".
I have an STB PCI / Brooktree Bt848 TV card installed, which is duly
recognized by the kernel (2.2.1) on startup.
So, the kernel believes the card is there, but kwintv configure doesn't.
Obviously something is missing here, but I can't tell what.
Configuration:
Pentium 133, 128 MB RAM
Slackware 3.6
Kernel upgraded from 2.0.35 to 2.2.1
I have read the FAQs, READMEs, documentation, and done several Dejanews
searches.
Any ideas?
Responses either here or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] appreciated, and I'll
summarize any e-mail replies.
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From: Loren Brookes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Printtool doesn't see /dev/lp1
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:43:58 +1300
I don't know what your problem is, but have you tried to set up your
printers with 'tunelp' ? This package comes standard with RH5.2
Hope this helps
Loren
Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I have to printer ports, one at 0x3BC and one at 0x378. On Windows, they
> come up as LPT1 and LPT2 respectively. On Linux (RH 5.2) I expect to see
> /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1, respectively.
>
> /proc/ioports shows both lp's at the expected I/O addresses. I can copy
> a text file to /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1 and see results on the attached
> printer.
>
> However, when I run printtool to add a printer, it only shows /dev/lp0
> as detected. It does not 'detect' /dev/lp1. Why not?
>
> Other possible clues: lp0 is ECP, lp1 is 'standard' (SPP). Don't know if
> that's the issue or not.
>
> Any ideas why printtool doesn't detect /dev/lp1?
>
> Please email responses... :-)
>
> Mark
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From: MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI64 and Linux 2.2.1?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:38:46 GMT
Jose,
all I know is what I did...and it works perfectly fine for me....One
thing I couldn't do is have the auto detect on because it screws up my
printing....so obviously I had to do it manually.... So it's not completly
wrong...
mike
Jose Urena wrote:
> Wrong,
> If you have the Creative AudioPCI64 you do not need IRQ, I/O nor dma
> settings
> it is all autodetected and assigned by the PCI chipset.
> Linux 2.2.1 has support. but you need to enable 'prompt for new drivers'
> within the 2 first menus
> of:
> 'make menuconfig'
>
> if you have the AWE64 PCI,
> do a search in www.dejanews.com for more details
>
> MikeM wrote:
>
> > Markus,
> > you need to go to windows and get the irq dma and io info, then when
> > you are doing the configuration, try and run "make xconfig" from
> > xwindows, it makes it alot easier to configure the sound. Once there do
> > not select plug in play, it just screws you up. Go to the sound, and
> > only select for sound blaster 16,64....there are a couple more things
> > there. It will give you a list of things for IRQ etc.... even if it
> > says your numbers are there, retype them exactly from what was in
> > windows. You probably won't have to change the IO. If you do it's only
> > the first number for example, it would be the 200 from 200,xxx00 etc....
> >
> > mike
> >
> > Markus Grabner wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Does Linux 2.2.1 support the SoundBlaster PCI64 soundcard, and if
> > > yes, how do I have to configure this card (IRQ, DMA, IO, ...)?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Markus
> > >
> > > --
> > > Markus Grabner
> > > K�r�sistra�e 166/VI/29
> > > A-8010 Graz
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jerry Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD k6 2 350
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:25:42 GMT
"Alistair P Furnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
Say what?
% cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 586
model : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
% uptime
10:58pm up 58 days, 2:03, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
--
Jerry Gardner | "Bill Clinton has all the steely resolve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of a kamakaze pilot on his 37th mission."
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From: John <{news}@i-zone.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Modem for linux
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:22:16 +0000
Reply-To: John <{news-reply}@i-zone.demon.co.uk>
In article <7arrl2$9h6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wouter Graef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>Can anyone tell me what kind of modem is the best choice for use with linux ??
>
>Thanx in advance & greets,
>
>Boch
>:
anything that is *not a winmodem*
if I were you, I'd go for any well known external. pace modems are nice,
and last time I looked, had a lifetime guarantee.
Expect to pay anything up to UKP90 (I think) the last time I looked -
try http://www.pacecom.co.uk
They may have come down in price since then.
John
Reply-to is broken. Please use news-reply (at) i-zone
dot demon dot co dot uk if you wish to reply via email.
You have spammers to thank for this. Sorry.
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From: Keon-woo Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Book on x86 and PC architecture?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:56:51 -0500
Hello. I need to know the following things: the x86 processor behaviour,
its basic instruction set, and the general PC architecture. Can someone
help me find a book that will describe these three things in learning
style? Thanks!
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:52:54 -0500
I think that you need to give the hda=c,h,s at the lilo prompt, right after the
kernel image
not at the linux prompt before intalling
if you want the proper spelling of the kernel images
then type a question mark '?' at the lilo prompt or or hold down the shift key
while booting
as in:
Wait for: Lilo
Type: ?
Wait for: anything
Type: anything hda=16883,15,63
am I wrong?
Dann Church wrote:
> That sounds great, but is there a way to work around this when you are doing a
> fresh install from the RH5.2 CD. I've seen references to using the parameter
> hda=C,H,S but when I give this option (as well as expert) from the installboot
> prompt, it doesn't seem to help. I'm a little leary of using fdisk to muck
> around with the sectors on the FAT32 partition as I've recently had to
> reinstall Win98 (what a joy) after experimenting with such things.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
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From: Thomas Lemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux mca 3c523 support
Date: 25 Feb 1999 08:29:27 GMT
Hi!
Yes I know - 3c523-card for linux is __experimental__ BUT: on my ps2/model
80 it used to work for linux without problem on 2.0.35 with mca-patch while
the esdi driver did not work on this card. Now with 2.2.1 the esdi driver
and the hard disk seems to be recognized by linux but the 3c523 works but
with many errors.
Is there anyone who knows something about this problem? I would like to send
some bug reports but where to?
Yours
Thomas Lemm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Corliss)
Subject: Re: Un-PLIP-able Laptops?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Feb 1999 00:11:45 -0900
On 22 Feb 1999 23:03:57 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Is there a list of laptops known to have problems of this sort? I have
>a Tecra 700CT, can't get PLIP connection up, wondering if I'm
>attempting the impossible.
Every Toshiba I've used has been able to do PLIP, I'd be surprised if the
Tecra series is any different. I'd look to software or cable configuration
problems, instead.
--Arthur Corliss
Bolverk's Lair -- http://www.odinicfoundation.org/arthur/
"Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MS)
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: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:34:07 GMT
When the calendar showed "Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:59:12 +0100", the lazy ""TomWolf"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" pressed the following keys on the keyboard:
>I have just installed redhat 5.2 but I cant open xwindows because I got the
>wrong resolution. How do I change the resolution?
>Please email me the answere at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Wtih love and respect
>Tom
usually you set the resolutions at the end of the xconfigurator process, but
only if you don't select the chipset. Once you set em, you can switch between em
while in the X using "CTRL" + "+(num.keypad)". When you've found the most
correct reslution, I suggest you to set that as the only one to load at the
startx process. (gotta be at least 800x600, or you'll experience problems with
big windows).
hope I was helpful,
bye
MS^tCF98/BL98/ICE98
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ UIN:20712139 (theEraser)
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From: Paul Hovnanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Primary master hard disk fail
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:09:26 -0800
James Mitchell wrote:
>
> Just built a system w/ an Award BIOS dated 07/02/1996 and a IBM
> DTTA-351010 disk... I get a 'Primary master hard disk fail' message
> from the POST, but I can mount the disk using a "rescue" disk. I ran
> lilo and e2fsck on the IBM disk, but to no avail. Is it a BIOS problem?
This may be because the kernel on your rescue disk can figure
out your HD configuration (sectors, heads, cylinders) but your
BIOS cannot. I'm not familiar with that HD model, but it might
not support your BIOS auto-configure probe. Does your rescue
disk have any boot parameters for 'forcing' the HD configuration?
You might try to enter these manually into your BIOS setup and see
if this clears the problem. On the other hand, the inability of
a recent BIOS to autoprobe the HD indicates either an old or failing
HD.
> --
> ^-^ - James Mitchell
> (O O) 713/630.8310 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ( v ) JIBA! http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jwmitch/
> ---m-m---------------------------------------------------------
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Matter can not be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned
without a receipt.
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From: Stephan Skrodzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: AGP Graphics card?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:16:57 +0000
Kyle Fink wrote:
>
> Don't buy new hardware get Xi Graphics, Accelerated-X Display Server. It
> will double the performance of the hardware you already have. Try our free
> demo to see for your self: http://www.xig.com/support/demo2.html.
Kyle, your Xi Server does _not_ (regarding the docs
http://www.xig.com/board/ax/sis.html) support 8 Meg on Sis6326, and -
furthermore - I can't get it to work with my fixed frequency HP98754A.
And - besides all these remarks... I think a price of $125 is a IMHO a
little bit to much for the Linux world... I'd spend arund $50 for a
commercial server, not much more...
Regards
Steve
--
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| Stephan Skrodzki "Nobody expects
the |
| Mannheim, Germany Spanish
Inquisition!" |
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From: Phil Snowdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Booting without a keyboard
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:12:57 +0000
>
> Wouldn't it be easier just to leave a cheap keyboard plugged in ?
>
Probably, but where's the fun in that? It would also get in the way, I
don't have much space for it.
BTW. Still doesn't work, tried 2.0.34 and 2.2.0 kernels. Is there two
pins I can short together to make it think it has a keyboard?
The motherboard is an old ISA/VLB/PCI no-name thing with an AMI bios. I
wouldn't be surprised is that is at fault.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pawel Sakowski)
Subject: CPU/mainboard anti-bug test
Date: 23 Feb 1999 14:35:43 GMT
Since I've changed my mainboard and CPU (to A-Trend and K6/300 if relevant)
my computer started to behave weirdly. Some program (mostly make, netscape
and soffice 5.0) tend to break down with an imaginary reason. I would like
to run some comprehensive test of my hardware to figure out which part of it
is broken. Has anybody seen/got such tests? Please reply via E-mail. Thanx
in advance.
--
"We are different"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jeff D. Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on an E-Machine...
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:02:00 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the etower 333i and it *does* appear to have a Windows Modem
installed. It is a lousy piece of junk, but I wasn't buy the system for
the modem support anyway. Luckily for me, I already had a spare USR
V.Everything External.
Marco La Cascia wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm probably going to buy an etower 300c this Saturday and I plan to
> install Linux. This is gonna be my first Linux experience (at work we
> use SGI and at home a Macintosh) and I don't know anything about the
> PC/Win/Linux world.
> What's this story of the winmodem? Does it mean that to have a PPP
> connection I'll have to buy a new modem for the etower? Can I install
> Linux on the etower from the RedHat CD?
>
> Any clarification will be greatly appreciated.
>
> -- Marco
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From: "Barry Titmarsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MCA Ethernet 3c529 2.2.1 not seen
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:09:57 -0000
I need help to install MCA Network card to kernel 2.2.1 into an IBM m77i MCA
the IBM MCA bus bios see the card and remorts it. Linux boots see my fdomain
scsi but not the network card which is on IRQ9 Slot3 address 200H
Is this because the 3com MCA card are not yet supported in Linux 2.2.x
here is the dmesg out put.
Linux version 2.2.1 (root@ibmbox) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #6 Tue Feb 23
14:11:14 GMT 1999
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 33.18 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30708k/32768k available (1048k kernel code, 408k reserved, 572k
data, 32k init)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel 486 DX/2 stepping 05
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Micro Channel bus detected.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: G4KLX/GW4PTS AX.25 for Linux. Version 0.37 for Linux NET4.0
early initialization of device nr0 is deferred
early initialization of device nr1 is deferred
early initialization of device nr2 is deferred
early initialization of device nr3 is deferred
G4KLX NET/ROM for Linux. Version 0.7 for AX25.037 Linux 2.1
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
scsi0: <fdomain> No BIOS; using scsi id 7
scsi0: <fdomain> TMC-18C50 chip at 0x140 irq 5
scsi0 : Future Domain 16-bit SCSI Driver Version 5.50
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160 Rev: S65A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: MEDIAVIS Model: CDR-H93MV Rev: 1.41
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
sr0: disc change detected.
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
AX.25 ethernet driver version 0.01
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed
Adding Swap: 60476k swap-space (priority -1)
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
end result is NO ethernet device is installed.
I see that l-2.2.1 supports ne2000-MCA in the menuconfig
will there be or is there being developed an MCA driver pack for 3com
ethernet/MCA Cards
Comments directly to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to comp.os.linux.hardware
Thanks Barry
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