Linux-Hardware Digest #561, Volume #9 Thu, 4 Mar 99 02:13:50 EST
Contents:
de-660 PC-Card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux on Mips Wince hardware? (Bill Broadley)
Re: Maxtor 8.4 Gig Drive. (Allen)
Re: Support for Mustek parallel scanners (Jane Hill)
Re: Which graphics card for OpenGL? (Eric Lee Green)
Re: Are you new to Linux? Thne read this (Allen)
Re: -Help- In NIC hell ("Shrubhumper")
Toshiba T4800CT parallel port problem ("Victor A. Grinberg")
Re: Buying a Soundcard. SB128 Pci or ? (Christopher James Smith)
Re: Is the are a TV tuner program that will work with linux? (Christopher James
Smith)
Re: Modem configuration problem, I've all tried, HELP!!!! (Allen)
Re: Linux and Multiprozessing (Bill Broadley)
Re: Creative Lab 3D Booshee 16M (VGA Acc Card) (Dan Eble)
serial link is not 8 bit clean (Shirish Rai)
Re: Boca 33.6 and ppp problems (Andrew Comech)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: de-660 PC-Card
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:18:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I do to configure a DE-660 PC-Card from DLINK. I have a SUSE
distribution installed on may laptop, a Toshiba 490CDT.
Thanks
S. Dossou-Gb�t�
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From: Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Linux on Mips Wince hardware?
Date: 4 Mar 1999 05:23:06 GMT
I was comparing the new compaq and the new palm pilot:
Compaq aero 2100 palm V
Ram MB 8/16 (24 max) 2
resolution 320x240 color 160x160
Size 5.27x3.34x.78 in 4.5" x 3.1" x 0.4"
Cpu 70 Mhz mips 16 Mhz 68k
Audio record/playback none
expansion compact flash none
Battery life 10 hours max [1] 20-30 ish real [2]
Alarms led, chirp, vibrate beep
backlight 2 levels on/off
Misc. One handed scrolling (dial)
[1] from compaq specs
[2] from usenet posts
Pretty amazing difference, 4-12 times the ram, 3 times the pixels, color,
vibrate alarms, compact flash support etc.
Seems like it would be easier with 16-24 mb ram+compact flash that it would
be alot easier/direct then squeezing it into a 8 mb ram, no compact flash
pilot.
Anyone know of a project to get linux working on one of these things?
Is this a bad idea to lend support to microsoft spec'd hardware?
Thoughts?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: Maxtor 8.4 Gig Drive.
Date: 4 Mar 1999 05:31:29 GMT
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:11:37 GMT, Stephen La Joie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Allen wrote:
>
>> The software that comes with the drive is going tocause you much more grief down
>> the road , even under windows 9x, and I would recomend losing it in a hurry.
>
>Yeah. The instructions that came with the drive said that EZ-Drive wouldn't
>beinstalled if my BIOS didn't need it. I disabled it, and was able to read my drive
>just fine with my BIOS set to LBA mode for this drive. Then I removed EZ-Drive.
>Now DOS fdisk works, so I can set my dos partitions the way I want them.
>The software that came with the disk made the whole thing DOS, want it or
>not.
>
>
>> you will be much better off in the long run upgrading your OS's to later
>> versions, (If this isn't at least win95b with native FAT32 support, go to win98,
>
>Why? Isn't Win 98 incompatiable with SAMBA?
(If this isn't atleast win95b, with native FAT32 support, but an upgrade version
of win95 from win3.x, then you won't have FAT32 support, as the win95A versions
that Microsoft shipped as upgrade retail product didn't include FAT32 support,
and one would have to either have an OEM version, or win98 to enable large hard
disk support) I hadn't heard that SAMBA was not compatible with win98, and
haven't gotten that far in my journey toward Linux bliss, but the Server Message
Block format is a standard that I would find hard to believe Microsoft would
violate, as they would lose much backward compatibility with older systems????
>
>> and get the cheapbytes RH 5.2)
Just a personal preference, I guess--I for one, like to always have a hardcopy
of any installation software, just in case, and I believe I'd read in an earlier
post in this group that 5.2 had better large drive support than earlier
versions. Also, I can verify that that model drive and RH 5.2 (from cheapbytes)
produced a successful install on my system last weekend. I have 5.0 too, but
waited for the 5.2 disk to arrive, because I was also led to believe 5.2 had
more recognizable network cards it supported.
>
>What do I get for my five bucks with RH 5.2?
>
>> I say this because I have already had many
>> problems with other customer's win'9x machines that had a 3rd party kludge like
>> the MaxBlast
>
>MaxBlast (thumbs down...)
>
>> that get to be real headaches and cause data corruption in some
>> cases and in some combinations of things like busmastering driver support, and
>> the like, and I did install 5.2 on the same model drive this weekend 4 times.
>> (3 re-installs)--I guess I needed the practice... Not because any of my
>> hardware wouldn't work, but 'cause I'm very new to Linux, and when I get myself
>> into a situation that I can't get out of, then it was much easier to reboot and
>> do over from scratch...
>>
...[snip]...
In short, to answer your orriginal question, if your bios correctly
supports LBA, then your entire drive will be below the 1024 cylinder limit, and
you can partition your drive as you see fit, but I won't promise that would be
so on any earlier versions of OS's than I've tried, and mine worked with RH 5.2,
and Win95b (OEM version with native FAT32)
Allen
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From: Jane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Support for Mustek parallel scanners
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:12:52 +0100
Jim Howes wrote:
>
> Jim Howes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Has anyone had any luck persuading a Mustek parallel scanner (specifically
> : a 9600P) to work with any Linux scanning application?
> Actually, it's a 9636P 'ScanMagic' Mustek scanner.
Hmm, someone told me that currently only scsi-scanners work with linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: Which graphics card for OpenGL?
Date: 4 Mar 1999 04:59:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 03 Mar 1999 15:26:11 +0100, Konrad Hinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We're planning to buy a few Linux machines soon, which will be used
>mainly for software development and number crunching, but also for
>visualization. All visualization programs use OpenGL, so we'd like
>to get decent OpenGL performance, although it's not that important
>that we want to spend $1000 on a high-end graphics card.
>
>Could anyone give some recommendations? I don't know much about the
>relative performance of the various 3D chips, nor about the expected
>performance from the drivers under development by Metro Link, Xi
>Graphics, and others.
The Matrox Millenium G200 has barely adequate 3D performance, but Matrox
has released full specifications on the 3D portions of the chip to the
Linux community.
3Dfx has recently released Linux GLIDE libraries for the Voodoo Banshee, so
that is also a good choice.
Those two cards are the only cards where the manufacturer has released enough
specs or code for the Mesa guys to add hardware accelleration. Every other
3d video card maker treats their register layouts like they were the secret
plans to the atomic bomb.
If that situation bothers you, speak out about it.
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
"Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission
critical applications..." -- internal Microsoft memo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Are you new to Linux? Thne read this
Date: 4 Mar 1999 05:34:09 GMT
Thanks, I'll take that one too...
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:07:15 -0500, "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Allen wrote in message <7bif56$bk9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Hallelujah. I'll take every resource I can get. I think I've nearly got
>voting
>>stock in O'Reilly & Associates by now.
>
>If you need a good book just to get you started I would suggest:
>A Practical Guide to Linux
>By Mark Sobell with Foreword by Linus Torvalds.
>ISBN 0-201-89549-8
>
>This book is a readable textbook to walk you through being a newbie. Its not
>a hardcore system administrators book. Its a book that you sit down at the
>terminal with and start from logging on and go from there. The truely
>remarkable thing is its readablility. And you can fly through the first part
>and get a firm grasp on the stuff you need to know down the road quickly.
>Truely a beginners guide. Well worth the money.
>
>
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
fight spam everywhere!!!
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to making a
stable operating system and
Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
Linux; The Official OS of the New Millennium
http://www.linuxlink.com
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From: "Shrubhumper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: -Help- In NIC hell
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 05:34:06 GMT
Thanks... just what the doctor ordered.....
So far I have eth0 going great.
eth1 is next......
again - thanks
Shrubhumper
55F8 2527 A175 403D 07FD 84AF B60D FFAB 6066 017C
Eric Lee Green wrote in message ...
>On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 01:50:28 GMT, Shrubhumper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>conf.modules looks like this -
>>alias eth0 3c509
>>alias eth1 ne
>>options ne io=0x320 irq=4 ----------->added by me per advice
>>Nothing is happening. No transfer, no receive. They light up the hubs, but
>>not the action lights. Pinging to and from the box doesn't work. Pinging
>>localhost and local IP addresses does work.
>
>Sounds like a routing problem. Type "route -n" and see what happens.
>If it's not what you want, go into "netcfg" and set your routes to
>something else. Or add explicit "route" statements to your
>/etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
>
>How I have my routes set in the firewall machine at the office:
>
>Local network: 192.168.0.0/24
>WAN: 204.xxx.yyy.zzz (numbers deleted).
> Gateway at 204.xxx.yyy.1 (a router)
>
>Here are my route statements:
>
>route add -net 192.168.0.0/24 eth0
>route add -net 204.xxx.yyy.0/24 eth1
>route add gw 204.xxx.yyy.1
>
>
>--
>Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
> "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them having a bad
> operating system." -- Linus
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From: "Victor A. Grinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.laptops,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Toshiba T4800CT parallel port problem
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 23:53:37 -0500
I just joined the ranks of the lucky owners of the good old 486/75
Toshiba T4800CT laptops. I'm trying to install RedHat on the thing over
PLIP, and it doesn't work. So I'm wondering if anyone has used PLIP,
ZIP, scanner, or any other kind of non-printer parallel device on a
T4800CT successfully.
Also, mine fails "Parallel Port Control Register Test" (whatever that
is) in Norton Diagnostics (in DOS). Norton Diagnostics is a part of
Norton Utilities, and it doesn't explain how exactly it fails the test.
But when I hooked up a printer I was able to print OK (again, from
DOS). So I'm suspecting that either my particular instance of T4800CT
has a blown parallel port, or they all have non-standard parallel ports.
All in all, I'm puzzled. If you have any insight concerning the
parallel ports on Toshiba T4800CT, please share them with me.
-vg
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From: Christopher James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Buying a Soundcard. SB128 Pci or ?
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:15:16 +0000
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Neville Dalal wrote:
> I am running Linux 2.2.1, Redhat 5.2, with an ESS1938 or some such
> soundcard.
Ooooh nasty!
> I cannot get the ESS card to work for it has two devices on one
> interupt, so I am gonna get a new sound card.
Yep
> I want to get the SB PCI128, but I do not want a painfull time trying to
> get it to work. Does anyone out there have a working 2.2.1 setup with
> the SB card, and if so can you email or reply with how you got it to
> work.
I've tried this but I have had no luck yet. My AWE32 with manual config
(via jumpers - the old 3/4 length card job) works great though. The
PCI128 is a sod from what I hear but I'm going to mail someone I know and
I'll get him to try to post his results to you. He even tried an SBLive
for a couple of weeks but it refused to work!
> --
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> Phone - +44(0)131-557-3610
> Web - http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~nev/
>
>
Name Chris Smith
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web http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~ee98cjs
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From: Christopher James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is the are a TV tuner program that will work with linux?
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:19:31 +0000
There is an easy way round this:
Get a cheap bt848 card from somewhere. You can get them in PC World in
the UK for about 50 pounds. Then use bttv and xawtv!
I had a separate ATI TV card but the basic system is the same. It
happily coexists with the bt848 card.
I even have had two bt848 cards running in my box alongside the ATI
Try it!
Chris Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Jeff Volckaert wrote:
> There was alot of chatter a while back about ATI not releasing the specs for
> the card. I think your out of luck.
>
> I had my eye on the all-in-wonder but bought a hauppauge tuner card instead
> and love it.
>
> Jeff Volckaert
>
> Zane The Insane wrote in message ...
> >I have a ATI All-in-wonder video card, that has a tv tuner. I'm looking
> for
> >a program that will let me use this funcution of my video card in linux.
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: Modem configuration problem, I've all tried, HELP!!!!
Date: 4 Mar 1999 06:11:49 GMT
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:57:59 +0100, "Creal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So, I have a PCTel Inc. modem (intern) on COM4 (under Win95) :
>
How about let's start from the Win95 control panel, since, as you say,
the modem works under windows? BTW, does your mouse cursor momentarily freeze
when you try connecting under windows? In your control panel/system
properties/device manager, do you see anything that says "HCF.. or "HCD... And
the real kicker, under COM ports, do you not see an actual COM port listed for
this COM 4???
If any of these questions are yes (symptoms suggest that they all are), then
that modem will stay with windows, for that is the only OS that it will (ever?)
work under. Good luck, but it doesn't look real good from here...
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
fight spam everywhere!!!
...[rest of sig cut out for M. Buchenrieder's enjoyment:-)]...
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From: Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Multiprozessing
Date: 4 Mar 1999 06:14:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hello out there,
: does anybody have experience with Multiprozessing and Linux. The
: 2.2.1 Kernel supports it, but which software (of SuSE-Distribution)
: benefits from a second pocessor?
: Does the Kernel launch a 2nd Image of a programm (e.g. two remote
: users want to start Matlab 5.2) on the 2nd processor?
: What we intend to buy is a ASUS P2B-DS Board, two PII-350 and
: about 128 or 256MB RAM.
We have 3 seperate kinds of duals here:
256 MB ram dell workstation 410 (dual PII-400)
512 mb ram intel astor+intel server motherboard (dual PII-400)
128 mb ram asus p2ds (dual PII-233)
All 3 work great. We used redhat-5.2 and installed various 2.1 and 2.2
based kernels. Very happy with them. They load balance well (we
support a 30 xterminal matlab lab), great nfs servers (28 diskless clients)
and tons of other services (nfs, atalk, dns, www, etc. etc.)
They all pretty much just work. No problems at all.
--
Bill Broadley
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From: Dan Eble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Lab 3D Booshee 16M (VGA Acc Card)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:56:31 -0500
Reply-To: Dan Eble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Hong-Sen Wu wrote:
> Hi! friends,
>
> Is these anyone know that is any the Xserver's driver available for this PCI
> card (Creative Lab 3D Booshee 16MB Ram)? I got my S3 VGA card working
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
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From: Shirish Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: serial link is not 8 bit clean
Date: 3 Mar 1999 11:35:41 -0600
Hi all,
I configured pppd to use my boca modem (33.6). It dials fine but after the
connection is established I get a error
Connection Terminated
Serial line is not 8 bit clean
Problem: bit 7 is always set to 0
Exit
I have an old computer (Intel 486) and am running RedHat Linux 5.1.
Any ideas on what may be wrong and how I can fix it will be very helpful.
Thanks.
Shirish.
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:35:25 -0500
From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Boca 33.6 and ppp problems
Jonathan Bowman wrote:
>
> Is there any reason why my Boca 33.6 Kbps V.34 FDVSP will not respond to
> any attempts at ppp? Is it supported hardware? I have tried pppd, the
> KDE networking tool (kppp), and fvwm95 networking. The COM port is
> fine, but KDE responds that the modem is busy. In Win95, it has no
> problem, and I have checked and double checked my settings. The same
> procedures worked fine on another Linux machine with a different modem
> (Boca 28.8) and RedHat 5.1. I have RedHat 5.2 and a Pentium 166. If
> the modem is not supported, can anyone tell me about a good V.90 modem
> supported by RedHat 5.2?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan Bowman
It looks like it is NOT a winmodem:
ftp://ftp.bocaresearch.com/pdf/manuals/fdv34all.pdf
You should try talking to your modem from minicom and get
the list of its AT commands.
Best,
Andrew
PS. As to V.90 modem recommendations (and particular phones to call),
see
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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