Linux-Hardware Digest #513, Volume #9 Sat, 27 Feb 99 07:13:33 EST
Contents:
Re: PCI 128 ("Beno�t Durand")
Re: Does Cyrix support linux ("Steven King")
Re: Linux on Microchannel: Please help! (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: Iomega ditto easy 800 (Michael Meyer)
Re: Writing and reading floppys ("Rene")
where to find a multiprocessor 486 motherboard??? (g)
Re: settle a CPU debate (Tyson Richard DOWD)
Re: Small pump for liquid cooling... (Michael Hazarian)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (David Magda)
Re: Parallel port zip (Kyle Dansie)
Linux on single-board computer for embedded application ("Gregory Lepere")
Re: HELP: Collisions slowing down network to Linux file server ("Tom Emerson")
AcerLan ALN-101 PnP ISA problems (Joe MacDonald)
Re: PCI modems in linux? ("John Hardin")
Re: A more complete and well-formed question. (Jim G)
Help with Intel 740 Chipset (Richard Latter)
RE: Dual Pentium II 300MMX Processor swap? (Patrick Lanphier)
Advice on System. (Michael Phillips)
Re: Linux hardware support (or lack thereof) ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Linux on a Compaq whith a Smart+ Card ? (Michael Phillips)
Fujitsu ATAPI MO (Gerber van der Graaf)
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From: "Beno�t Durand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCI 128
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:41:25 +0100
Does anyone here know the way to hear a midi sound with that soundcard ? What
shall I do with the waveset file ?
Jose Urena a �crit:
> Assuming you mean AudioPCI128 and Compatibles
>
> the drivers are part of the linux 2.2.x files, you might have to toggle
> on/off the prompting for new drivers
> use AudioPCI or Creative Labs AudioPCI
> there is no distinction between the 64 and 128 intrument card, Why? because
> the intruments are software based and that is not part of the driver
>
> David Buckley wrote:
>
> > Has any one got any idea where to get drivers, and how to get a PCI 128
> > working? I've got it working in windoze 95 & NT, but would like to get
> > it working in linux.
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From: "Steven King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Cyrix support linux
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:46:31 -0000
Reply-To: "Steven King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've run Linux on a Cyrix PR300MX without any problems too.
Steven
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Steven King
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South Northants,
England.
rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>I ran linux on a pr233+mmx for a while without any problems.
>
>rob.
>
>Kishore wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> I fear,
>>
>> And Is it easy to load on Cyrix does it have any problems?
>> Thanks for the input.
>> -Kishore
>>
>> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
>> http://www.searchlinux.com
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Linux on Microchannel: Please help!
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 01:50:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:13:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Bennett)
wrote:
>I need a definitive answer. What version of Linux, slackware or
>whatever will run on a MCA machine? I have a 486 that I bought for
>$20, and I want to try it out.
I've successfully installed Slackware 3.3 on an IBM MCA system.
It was a Pentium with a SCSI controller and an IBM TokenRing card.
Lew Pitcher
Joat-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 01:53:09 GMT
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:13:33 -0500, David A. Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>Robert Krawitz wrote in message ...
>>Job mixes that are more memory/IO than computation intensive (which is
>>the case for a lot of commercial data processing) would benefit
>>greatly from the availability of large memory on commodity hardware.
>
>Why would anyone do commercial data processing in large pools of main
>memory? Seems awfully risky. Actually large memory systems and heavy
>computation base apps go hand in hand.
If you have a *HUGE* amount of memory, the whole database can sit in
cache. Updates get written through and logged immediately, but mere
queries of data can be serviced "instantly" without a need to resort
to reading from disk.
So long as there's reliable copies on disk, having huge memory pools
is AOK...
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to free software today?..."
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From: Michael Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega ditto easy 800
Date: 26 Feb 1999 23:33:04 GMT
Tobias Elfert wrote:
>
> Hallo allerseits,
> wie kann ich meinen Iomega Ditto Easy 800-Streamer, der an den
> Parallelport angeschlossen wird, unter Linux (Suse 6.0) ansprechen?
> FTaper ist ja leider nur f�r den Anschlu� an den Floppy-Port gedacht.
> :-(
>
> MFG Tobias
Zumindest das README zu ftape-4.x.1998_11_28 sagt aber, das Iomega
Streamer auch am Parallelport betrieben werden k�nnen. Du mu�t Dir halt
nur die aktuellen Sourcen zu ftape holen (+ ftape-utils), das Modul
kopieren, installieren und konfigurieren. Ich benutze keinen
Parallelport-Streamer, habe aber aus der Mailingsliste positive
Erfahrungen im Ged�chtnis.
Michael
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Michael Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ICQ #17940628
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From: "Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Writing and reading floppys
Date: 24 Feb 1999 16:02:24 GMT
If you already able to mount the disk thzen you are done. You can access
the directory to which you mounted the disk like any other directory in the
filesystem. Everything you're doing in that dir you are doing on the disk.
That's all.
good luck,
Rene
Mlblum65 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Beitrag
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I'm have SuSe 5.3 installed on my machine. I've learned how to format and
mount
> floppy disks. But i can't find any information about reading and writing
to
> floppys. I'm interested in saving files from Applixware to them. Am very
new to
> this system and it takes me days to figure out how to do something, so
please
> keep it simple.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (g)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: where to find a multiprocessor 486 motherboard???
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:14:43 GMT
i've decided that i want to build a SMP linux box. i have about 10 old
486 chips lying around with some other parts and pieces. my problem is
i cant find anywhere to get a multiprocessor motherboard. can anyone
help??? i'd appreciate it. feel free to email me or post back here.
gary
gmr2048@**REMOVE**yahoo.com
please remove "**REMOVE** to mail me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tyson Richard DOWD)
Subject: Re: settle a CPU debate
Date: 26 Feb 1999 02:05:18 GMT
arav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am putting together my first Linux system. I want to use the Celeron
>300A as the CPU, but a friend said that it isn't supported. I say it
>is, because its based on the Pentium II architecture, only with 128K of
>L2 cache instead of 512K. I say "Linux doesn't care about the L2
>Cache!"
> Am i right?
All x86 processors will run Linux.
The only things that might be problems are
- chip identification (big deal)
- motherboard chipset configuration issues (not really a
CPU problem, but often accompanies a new CPU).
- chip irregularities/bugs (usually fixed very quickly)
All portable x86 software is basically compiled with the same
set of instructions that shipped with the 386
Tyson.
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From: Michael Hazarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small pump for liquid cooling...
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 23:20:49 -0800
How about an auxilary windshield washer pump from your local auto parts
store. Some are solenoid type and some are rotary vane so be careful
when you pick one out or you will have one noisy pump.
Michael Hazarian
douglas shawhan wrote:
>
> I am scouting around for a small dc pump for a liquid-cooled cpu project.
> The water jacket and radiator are trivial to build... but most fishtank
> pumps are too big and don't like to have their speed varied.. 8-/
>
> Any sources? My linux box begs for this useless add-on!
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Magda)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: 26 Feb 1999 00:56:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
>I'm looking for an OS platform which will handle these large memories.
>NT addresses the >4GB range as a sort of "cache buffer" accessible only from
>user more. Normal NT kernel code will be able to access the lower 4GB only.
Linux on the Alpha? Sparc64? 2^64 is more than I'll ever need, that's for
sure.
--
David Magda <dmagda at acs.ryerson.ca>, 2nd Year Electrical Eng.
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best--" and then he had to stop and think.
Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a
moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were,
but he didn't know what it was called. -A.A.Milne,The House at Pooh Corner
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:28:31 -0700
From: Kyle Dansie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel port zip
A320 Systems wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me if the Printer port Zip drive has support in Linux and if
> possible where to get the driver???Stewart..
In the 2.2.x series of kernels there is support for ppa(older drives)
and imm(newer zipPlus and zip250). The older 2.0.x only has ppa, but you
can add imm yourself to the 2.0.x series. Details are in the HOWTO
Cheers
Kyle
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From: "Gregory Lepere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on single-board computer for embedded application
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:07:27 +0100
Hi,
Is anybody know about Linux running on half-size single-board computer ?
Did it works ?
What are the problems ? With Ethernet capabilities ? Running without video &
keyboard ?
I plan to use a PCM 5862 from Advantech.
Thank you for advance.
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From: "Tom Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Collisions slowing down network to Linux file server
Date: 26 Feb 1999 20:14:54 GMT
Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article <7b6srh$un1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Greetings all, I hope someone can offer a suggestion on the problem I'm
> having...
[severe collision rate between win9x and linux/samba server]
I'm running into the same problem -- only noticed it the other day when a
large file transfer took well over an hour [ok, it WAS a big 1.5 gig file,
but it shouldn't take THAT long] As it was transferring, my eyes drifted
over the hub [which is usually buried] and sure enough, the collision light
was going crazy -- just a WAG, but I'd suspect over 80% collision rate...
My setup is even simpler -- 10mbit cards; the win card is a 3com (I
believe) ISA card; the linux one is a Linksys using the dec chipset. Only
one other (win98) computer on the LAN, but it's idle.
I'd appreciate an e-mail of any positive solutions -- the news server I'm
using seems to have a short spool, so any replies on saturday are gone by
monday when I get back in to work... (and most of the sunday ones as
well...)
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From: Joe MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: AcerLan ALN-101 PnP ISA problems
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:53:41 GMT
Anyone,
Here is my situation. About three months ago I purchased an AcerLan
ALN-101 PnP ISA ethernet card. It claims to be NE2000 compatible. I
plugged it into my motherboard, a no-name PIIX, VX chipset board with 4
ISA and 3 PCI slots. At the time I had a Pentium classic 120 cpu and 32
megs of EDO RAM. I compiled 2.0.35 with the NE2000 generic driver as a
module and bang, everything was five by five.
So earlier this week I finally decided to upgrade my machine. I now
have an Asus P5A-B motherboard (still an Award BIOS). There are 2 ISA
and 3 PCI slots on this beast. The chip is an AMD-K6-2 350 and I've
installed 32 megs of PC100 RAM.
I tried the same kernel and then tried recompiling the kernel (and
subsequently updating to 2.0.36) trying to get my card to work again.
Everything else is fine (no sound, mouse or video problems) and the
network card works just fine under NT, but when I boot up linux (where I
do 95% of my work) I get complaints that it cannot initialize my card.
It looks almost like I don't have any ethernet support compiled into the
kernel (either as a module or as a part of the kernel itself) with the
warnings, but I know better.
I'm not sure what I should be checking for IRQ and IObases for this card
since it claims to be PnP. There aren't any "preferred settings" I can
find in the (gatefold) manual that came with it, and I can't figure out
how to get NT to tell me what I want to know about it.
Can anyone suggest what my next step should be? My linux distro used to
be Slackware 3.3, but I've upgraded quite a bit since then. I've tried
to keep current with the Slackware distro, so it is mostly 3.6, but I
have newer versions of some of the GNU tools.
Thanks,
-Joe.
P.S. I know cross posting sucks, but I don't know if this is more a
networking or a hardware issue. To avoid needless noise, I'll happily
take e-mail replies and then follow up this with any success stories.
Although if anyone wants to post to usenet, that's fine with me.
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From: "John Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI modems in linux?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:37:26 -0800
Doug wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can a PCI modem be used in linux?
Zzzzz.... *snort* Wha...?
Why in the world would you need a 60+MHz parallel bus to talk to a device
pumping bits serially at less than 60kHz?
In addition, you can't power-cycle a wedged internal bus modem to reset it.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim G)
Subject: Re: A more complete and well-formed question.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 08:28:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan
J. Maloney) wrote:
>
>I am not a programmer, nor do I wish to become one.
>
>So, given the preceeding list, and given that I've an interest in Linux,
>what are specific recommendations regarding such interest?
First of all, I agree with the Linux folks that you should get off win 9x as
soon as possible. The code in win 9x to make sure all the old software
works, makes it unstable and bulky - if MS dropped support for everything
except the win32 API, win 9x would be a lot more stable and a lot smaller.
If Linux should prove to be more difficult than you want to deal with, then
you next best choice is Win NT. Although it looks like win 9x and uses the
same win32 API, the core is vastly different. Even though the Linux folks
will swear it dies almost as often as win 9x, the reality is that is it is
almost as stable as linux (this is why virtually all the fortune 1000
companies have moved off win 9x on to win NT).
Give Linux a shot, but if you find you don't like it, give win NT a shot
before you go back to win 9x. Either linux or win NT will be a vast
improvement over win 9x.
BTW - regardless which OS you use, don't starve it for memory - all of them
will work much better the closer you get to 64 MB -- Right now, for most
folks, more than 64 MB is not worth it.
Note that I use a lot of different OSes at work and don't really have any
emotion about any of them (they all have things that are very ugly) - I am
just trying to answer what I perceive to be a sincere, honest request. You
will probably see many posting flaming me for mentioning win NT in the same
message as Linux, but just consider the sources.
Good luck,
Jim G.
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From: Richard Latter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Intel 740 Chipset
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:48:43 +0000
All,
Does anyone know how to get an Intel 740 Graphics card to work with
Linux X11 or does anyone have any drivers for it.
Cheers
--
/trickie
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From: Patrick Lanphier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: RE: Dual Pentium II 300MMX Processor swap?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:35:17 +0000
The way to check for what type of CPU you have just run this command:
cat cpuinfo
One of you should be able to help.
Sorry mine's a model 3 step 4.
Patrick Lanphier
Advanced Information Technologies
The Pennsylvania State University
Richard Rognlie wrote:
>
> I ordered and installed a pair of Pentium II 300MMX processors back in
> September. However, at the time I ordered them, I apparently did not
> *specify* that I wanted a matched pair. As such, I got a
>
> CPU 1: Pentium II 300Mhz MMX Model 3 Step 3
> CPU 2: Pentium II 300Mhz MMX Model 5 Step 2
>
> My system (Linux 2.2.1) works fine unless I go in SMP mode. In that
> case, it works for a while (18 hours or so) and then locks up tight. At
> first, I thought it was something in the Linux kernel, but recently I've
> been informed that it is probably an incompatibility between the CPUs
> themselves.
>
> I've attempted to contact my vendor, but they are unable to assist since
> they no longer stock any Pentium II 300 MMX CPUs.
>
> Does Intel offer any form of a CPU swap service?
>
> Does anyone out there have a Pentium II 300 MMX Model 5 Step 2 they'd
> be willing to swap for a Pentium II 300 MMX Model 3 Step 3? Or vice
> verse?
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Rognlie
> Gamerz.NET Enterprises
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Michael Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Advice on System.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 05:11:33 -0600
Anyone running RH 5.x on an ASUS P2B-LS(with LAN & SCSI)?
Am debating whether to get this or just go with the lesser decked ABIT
BH6.
Suggestions, comments, advice welcome.
TIA
Michael Phillips
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux hardware support (or lack thereof)
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 03:20:24 -0500
Mike Swieton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hardware support has been a big prob for me. Nothing I have in my
>computer now (well maybe floppy and cdrom drives....) is supported, and
>it kinda ticks me off cus Windows just sucks. Anyway this is becoming a
>big problem I think (It seems only old hardware, like an SB16 i had in
>an old comp, is supported right) and getting bigger as all the new
>consumer-level hardware isn't being supported. Well mebbe not all, but
>most....
>
>Anyway, I recall reading somewhere that someone had suggested, as a
>solution to M$'s monopoly, to make M$ liscense out Windows source.... I
>have another idea: What if the Government made M$ change the terms for
>companies that intend on making hardware for windows? Like if it forced
>all the hardware companies to release the specs for their hardware so
>that 'someone out there' could write a Linux driver for it, rather than
>keeping it all secret and stuff.....
I think I'd rather have a monopoly by M$ than deal with the ramifications of
your solutions.
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From: Michael Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a Compaq whith a Smart+ Card ?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 05:15:16 -0600
Try this web link.
http://potter.ieee.uh.edu/compaq.html
Hope it helps.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Since the NCR 53c710 driver does not support EISA Controller you cannot
> install Linux on Proliant 1000.
>
> One more thing , to make Smart + Array controller bootable we need to first
> install Linux on hard disk Connected to SCSI controller. As this is not
> possible on your system you cannot install Linux unless we get a driver for
> 710 controller.
>
> Regards
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Yann Saint-Jalmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > So, as it seems that there is no driver for NCR 53c710 chip on EISA bus,
> > I'm looking for another solution to run Linux on the Compaq Proliant
> > 1000.
> >
> > If I plug a Compaq smart card "smart + Array Controleur, spare
> > 142130-001" in the EISA bus, can I install Linux ? With which
> > floppy-disk boot ?
> >
> > Best regards.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
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From: Gerber van der Graaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fujitsu ATAPI MO
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:09:56 +0000
Hi there,
I have got a Fujitsu IDE ATAPI MO (called Dynamo). During booting it was
initially not recognized. After adding a few lines in ide-floppy.c and
ide-probe.c the drive is simulated as a super floppy drive and
is now recognized during booting. Now I only can work
with disks of 512 bytes, but not with 2048 bytes per block. So 630 Mb
disks do not work. My question is: can I use the SCSI emulation for this
ATAPI drive? I tried it, but the MO is then still connected to the IDE
driver. I am afraid that this new Fujitsu model is not recognized by a
SCSI driver.
Can anybody explain me how to configure the kernel and which
modules/drivers I have to include?
Thanks in advance,
Gerber van der Graaf
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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