Linux-Hardware Digest #571, Volume #9 Fri, 5 Mar 99 08:13:31 EST
Contents:
ES 1888 Sound Card ("Kory W. Koziar")
Re: ISDN Modems (alainq)
Re: Q: tv tuner on a remote xterm? (Trent Piepho)
Harmony Modem (Alessandro Giachino)
Sound support question (John Sarapata)
Re: How compatible is my Win9x system (newbie) (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: EVERYONE DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT'S A VIRUS !!!! (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: SCSI CDROM work with Solaris 7 & Linux (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Question about accessing the PCI boards under Linux ("Rene")
Re: 3Com 3C905B-TX runs at 10M instead of 100M ("Till Mommsen")
Re: Supported IDE RAID controllers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and a 8088 (Andreas Jung)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Johan Kullstam)
Crashing Software RAID with mdutils (Wolfgang Ganzert)
MPEG and linux (David Garcia Dolla)
links.. (Henrik Malmgren)
driver needed for netelligent card (Sandro Rabitti)
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From: "Kory W. Koziar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ES 1888 Sound Card
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 01:44:52 -0700
I am having problem setting my ES1888 sound card up with RH 5.2
There is a setting for ES 1868 and SB compatable, but neither work.
Has anyone else had this problem (and fixed it), if so, please help
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From: alainq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN Modems
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:31:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i have a usr sportster internal TA and i can't get it to work with the
hisax driver for some reason.
is there any difference between kernel 2.0.35 and 2.0.36 ?
i read that 2.0.36 is only 2.0.35 with some patches applied.
if anyone has some recommendations on usr sportster plz lemme know
greets
Alex Rier wrote:
>
> Andrew Gregory wrote:
> >
> > I am due to get an ISDN line put in this week. I am currently connecting my
> > small LAN to the Internet through my Linux box using IP masquerading through
> > a Motorola 28.8kbs modem.
> >
> > I would like to continue doing this using the ISDN modem. I will create two
> > ppp-up scripts, one for a 64kbps connection and one for a 128kbps
> > connection.
> >
> > Does anyone know which ISDN modems work well with Linux and should I go for
> > an Internal or external modem.
> >
> > I am running a pentium overdrive on a VLB motherboard with RedHat 5.1 with
> > all the current updated packages on it.
> >
> > Andrew
>
> Hi,
>
> External ISDN modem is called "ISDN Terminal Adapter".
> Theoretically it works exactly as a regular modem, you shouldn't
> feel any difference. May be just modem INIT string should be changed.
>
> I've installed Teles 16.3c under Linux.
> It works fine.
> It has "Dial-On-Demand" built-in to the Kernel driver.
> You don't need Diald!
>
> Good luck,
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trent Piepho)
Subject: Re: Q: tv tuner on a remote xterm?
Date: 4 Mar 1999 14:01:50 GMT
In article <7bi23v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris O'Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Can someone tell me if a 10mbit ethernet network is fast enough to
>>support a pci based tv tuner in a linux server (p233 128 meg) to allow
>>running a reasonable tv window on a remote xterminal (tektronix or
>>hds) or is the video data so extreme it needs to be hard wired and
>>available only on console?
>
>A 640x480 window with three bytes per pixel is just under a megabyte
>per frame. A 10Mb/s ethernet will transfer a bit less than a megabyte
>per second so if you try this you should, theoretically, get about one
>frame per second.
In 8 bit mode, with a 320x240 window it should be possible to get around 12
frames/second. You could also run the connection through LBX, which uses zlib
to compresses ximages, but I've found that zlib doesn't compresses tv captured
images very much, or very fast. A much better solution would be to JPEG
compress the images on the fly. A 640x480 TV frame usually compresses to 40k
or less.
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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 06:39:00 -0800
From: Alessandro Giachino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Harmony Modem
anyone heard of this company?
good modem?
works under linux?
any feedback appreciated,
AG
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From: John Sarapata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound support question
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 10:31:01 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to get sound support with version 2.0.35 of the kernel, and
a SoundBlaster Pro compatible card. (I can't get 2.2 until my modem card
comes). RedHat's sound setup fails in modprobe. I have seen that sound
support has gone from requiring a kernel recompile in 1.2, to being
completely revamped in 2.2. I was planning to recompile the kernel for
fun \b\b\b performance anyway.
With kernel 2.0, do I need to compile sound support into the kernel, or
is it likely that I have to track down a missing .m file?
Thanks,
John
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: How compatible is my Win9x system (newbie)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:15:30 GMT
[col.setup removed from Newsgroups: line]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Kirkcaldie) writes:
>In article <7bnd7l$92b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen) wrote:
>>>Generic 56k internal PCI modem
>>one glaring exception... your Modem will most certainly
>>not work at all under Linux.
>I thought only WinModems caused Linux problems ... isn't that true?
[...]
Unfortunately, nearly 99% of all PCI modems are winmodems and do not
work without a Windows driver. Typical signs of a Winmodem:
The package says : "Requires Win9*" , "Requires P133/166/ or better"
and thelike.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: EVERYONE DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT'S A VIRUS !!!!
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:08:27 GMT
[Note FollowUp-To: header!]
"Robert H. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>EVERYONE DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT'S A VIRUS !!!!
[happy99.exe stuff deleted]
And of course we're dying to see this in a Linux group.
Yawn. Loser.
Michael
P.S.: A) Happy99.exe is a worm, not a virus
B) It can be easily removed - see relevant groups for details
C) It will only work on a Win* machine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: SCSI CDROM work with Solaris 7 & Linux
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:04:49 GMT
"B. Winders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does anyone have a SCSI CDROM that works with both Solaris 7 and Linux
>(Caldera OpenLinux)?
[...]
Any standard SCSI CDROM drive will work.
Michael
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From: "Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Question about accessing the PCI boards under Linux
Date: 5 Mar 1999 10:03:27 GMT
There is a good book on device drivers from O'Reilly:
"Linux Device Drivers" by Rubini, Alessandro
Rene
Sergey Gribov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Beitrag
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> Hi,
>
> We have device with P5 motherboard and up to 8 proprietary boards on
> PCI bus and
> we plan to run Linux on this thing. We'll need to access these boards
> from our programs.
>
> Could somebody, please point me to some good info on how to access the
> PCI devices,
> how to write drivers to such a devices etc.?
> Any good book on this topic?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
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From: "Till Mommsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com 3C905B-TX runs at 10M instead of 100M
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:09:11 +0100
Check for solution in comp.os.linux.networking if interested...
Till Mommsen schrieb in Nachricht <7bkiqi$u2e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I know, this problem is not new, but I would like to ask for some
experience
>with it, so I maybe don't have to install a new kernel on a Software
>bootable RAID1......
>
>I got a 3COM 3C905B-TX network adapter. It works only at 10M. Now this is
>known to be a driver problem, but (stupid as I am) when I built my RAID
>kernel I compiled the driver into the Kernel instead of having it as a
>module. Now, to my knowledge, setting any options in modules.conf doesn't
>help (options 3C59x options=12).
>
>The correct solution (I think) would be to compile a new kernel. But I am a
>little reluctant to do this as long as I am not sure whether this will
help.
>So please, encourage me... Would it help to test the option line by typing
>this line at the boot prompt?
>
>I am using SuSE 6.0/Kernel 2.0.36.
>
>Thanks for help
>
>Cheers,
>Till
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Supported IDE RAID controllers
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 15:55:06 GMT
In article <7bh4p1$h7l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Shawn Southern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to set up a Linux system as our Internet gateway for my network. Due
> to cost concerns, I'd like to use IDE hardware RAID mirroring (such as
> Promise's DriveDefender). I know I could use software RAID, but I prefer
> hardware RAID solutions. Are there any hardware RAID controllers that
> support Linux?
>
> Please reply via e-mail.
>
> Thank you.
Arco's DupliDisk is a relatively low cost IDE disk mirroring controller that
supports LINUX.
Details at http://www.arcoide.com
Donna Barron
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Jung)
Subject: Re: Linux and a 8088
Date: 5 Mar 1999 12:56:03 +0100
Frank Hahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: You can try searching the newsgroups through http://www.dejanews.com
: about this but I don't think you will be succesful. I think Linux
: requires at a minimum a 386 processor.
Yep.
: I have heard that some people are working on a possible solution
: to get it to work on a 286. Right off hand, I can't think what
: it is called.
???
: I have also seen people mention "minix" but I don't know anything
: about it or what its requirements are.
Minix is a more or less experimental Unix-like operating system
especially for educational purposes. It was written by Prof. Andrew
Tanenbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and can be found in one of his books
about operating systems.
On the web, the official Minix home page is
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html .
You can also download the complete system from there.
The hardware requirements are very liberal. Even an 8088 with 640 kBytes
of RAM is enough. A hard disk is not necessarily required, but if you want
to recompile the whole system, a 30 MByte hard drive is enough.
I haven't tested it, but from what I have read, it seems to be a fine
thing for old computer dinosaurs.
Greetings,
Andreas Jung.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Mar 1999 06:59:55 -0500
Mark Mokryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > >i can understand linus completely. do you remember 16 bit segment
> > >hell? i sure do. i never want to see that kind of brain damage ever
> > >again as long as i live. far pointers are a monumental crock. shame
> > >on you for even bringing it up!
> > >
> > >what would want a larger address space? most likely, it'd be a single
> > >massive program like a number cruncher or database application. you
> > >would have near and far 32 bit and 32+32 bit pointers. it would suck
> > >royally. it'd break all the assumptions that linux makes (basically
> > >all memory is accessible by a 32 bit pointer).
> > >
> > >if you need more address space, get a 64 cpu! for someone really
> > >needing the 36 bit space, the cost of an alpha or sparc is *not*
> > >prohibitive.
> >
> > It's fair enough for someone to want to build a 36 bit Linux port, so
> > long as they're willing to take responsibility for:
> > a) Writing it,
> > b) Rewriting GLIBC to use 36 bit values,
> > c) Creating a 36 bit distribution.
>
> The Xeon is not a "36-bit" machine, whatever that is...
[the pdp-10 is a fine example of 36 bits in action.]
> It merely has a
> 36-bit physical address bus. The extended address space is achieved via
> modifications to page table entries, i.e. it is a question of how the CPU
> interprets the PTE's.
the 8088 was a 16 bit machine, yet it could address 20 bits of space.
remember segment registers? they are still there.
to use a larger address space, you would need to set and restore all
the segment registers at each task swap.
how would access you over 4G in a single process? near 32 bit pointer
and far 32+32 bit pointers.
> The CPU can be switched between the different paging modes. The
> Xeon, like all x86's, is a 32-bit machine. For the large part, the
> code needing modification is kernel code that deals with physical
> addresses. Depending on the architecture of Linux (which I am not
> familiar with), this may or may not be a ton of work.
i'll bet that it'd be a ton of work. if you want to try, you are
welcome to it.
> But in any
> case, from what I've heard in this discussion, Linux cannot even
> utilize more than 1 or 2 GB (depending who you ask) of physical
> memory, on ANY architecture. Why? This will seriously hurt Linux in
> the server arena.
expanding the memory area of a 64 bit cpu doesn't seem like it would
be so very hard.
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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 17:46:45 +0100
From: Wolfgang Ganzert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Crashing Software RAID with mdutils
Hello,
I have a serious problem using my new IBM39130 U-SCSI (narrow) drives in
a software RAID system with mdutils.
SETUP, HARDWARE:
Adaptec 2940UW, 2*9GB IBM 39130 U-SCSI (8715 cylinders each), Linux
2.0.32, distribution: SuSE 5.1, ASUS P55T2P4 196MB RAM, mdutils versions
0.34 and 0.41
The boot device and the root file system is located on another adapter
AHA-2940. The RAID-system was planed for the /home system.
We have had success with this configuration on a software RAID 0 system
using 4 Micropolis 2.1GB SCSI devices. These harddisks have only 255
cylinders (?!?). Therefore we purchased two new IBM disks mentioned
above.
CRASHING:
Command mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 is successfull when looking
at /proc/mdstat
Command mdrun /dev/md0 -p0 dev/md0 leads to an instanious crash down to
BIOS (!!) boot level without any warning. What is the matter?
The disks are now working separately as two directories mounted in the
file tree. This works OK, so there is no problem with the disks
directly.
Is this problem due to the large cylinder size of the IBM devices? The
system with the four Micropolis devices is working OK.
We changed the SCSI adapter (of course using a different kernel) into an
NCR 53C810 card but the problem remains the same.
Can You please help me? I'm a little desperate since we need the two
device in one continous storage room.
Thank You in advance
Wolfgang
P.S.: I would appreciate direct e-mail answer since I have problems
accessing the news server.
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From: David Garcia Dolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.compression,linux.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.multimedia
Subject: MPEG and linux
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 13:07:04 +0100
Hi.
I am interested in finding a MPEG coder card or a parallel port plug-in
MPEG video capture unit with support for linux. Does any of you know
about any product?
Thanks in advance
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From: Henrik Malmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: links..
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 22:24:55 +0100
Linux and programming links.....
Go to : http://www.fly.to/thewizz/
NOTE: Don't forget to look under "tons of prgramming links"......it
really are tons of programming links, and it a good programmer who have
done that page.
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From: Sandro Rabitti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: driver needed for netelligent card
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 17:01:26 +0000
I bought a COMPAQ PROLIANT 800 server to mount on it Linux.
I don't know how to configure the network card (Netelligent 10/100 TX).
Linux does not recognize it. Which driver to use ?
Thank you,
Sandro Rabitti
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