Linux-Hardware Digest #605, Volume #9 Tue, 9 Mar 99 04:13:40 EST
Contents:
Re: Tone activated Tel Exchanges ("Duane Smeckert")
Re: Are you new to Linux? Then read this ("Gary J. Weiner")
Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2??? (James Gray)
Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project (David Fox)
Re: Kingston KNE-40T (David Fox)
Re: Newbie -- Iomega Ditto Max Tape Drive (Left Hand of Xenu)
Re: Inputing and outputing bytes to serial port (Carlos Vidal)
Re: Linux & SPARC (Morten Sickel)
Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project (John Winters)
Re: Problems with parport. (Michael McConnell)
yamaha opl3-sax sound system under turbolinux (Shawn Reed)
kernel 2.2.2 and ftape (Mike McLean)
y2k hardware scanner? (Jason Englander)
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (Wildman, the Cuberstalker)
Re: CHEAP HW For Linux NoteBook Project (Jonathan A. Buzzard)
RedHat 5.2 & ITK Columbus World ISDN Card. (Bakelaar)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info ("Gary W. Sandvik")
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info ("Gary W. Sandvik")
Re: Banshee Server and X (James McBoyle - Sun Ireland - SunSoft ELC [Student])
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Reply-To: "Duane Smeckert" <postmaster@localhost>
From: "Duane Smeckert" <elmer at ptw dot com>
Crossposted-To: uk.telecom,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Tone activated Tel Exchanges
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 22:58:52 -0800
If you mean a menuing software, most of the voice modems come
with a windows version already. I don't know if anyone has done a Linux
voicemail system yet, but I would be surprised if not.
You should try comp.hardware.sound or the equivalent and ask there.
Graham Shepherd wrote in message <7c1no0$f83$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Matt wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> Hi,
>>
>>Could someone mail me with the name of the software or hardware that is
>>used
>>by a telephone then the user is asked to enter a tone to activate a
>>service.
>>
>>ie..
>>
>>ring, ring...
>>Welcome..
>>If you are using a tone telephone press star (*)"
>>Press 1 to acivate service x...
>>
>>Also can this this work under linux or can it activate scripts or code
>>to activate services
>>so that a PC can use them or is it a hardware only activation ?
>>
>>Many thanks
>>
>>Matt
>>
>The autoanswer software is usualy part of the telephone switch software and
>is supplied by the equipment manufacturer. If you're talking about software
>to generate tones after dialling to one of these systems - I hope you're
not
>thinking of trying aht I think you are...
>
>GS
>
>
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From: "Gary J. Weiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Are you new to Linux? Then read this
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 20:29:00 -0500
Cyberspace Buddha wrote:
>
> Ken says \"I like dsl\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >shtml allows you to use cgi for a page counter and some other stuff I think.
> >My ISP requires it for those things.
>
> Interesting. Must be an optional thing, as io.com doesn't require
> .shtml for pages with cgi on them.
>
You specify that in your .htaccess file (Apache web server).
Some people like to keep their server parsed (CGI) pages seperate from
their non-server parsed ones, so they use the .shtml extension. You can
make all .html files server-parsed, but it adds to the load on the
server.
--
Gary J. Weiner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.hatrack.net
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From: James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2???
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 07:08:53 +0000
No I don't *really* need the 2.2.2 kernel and since posting have ditched
it (including the source tree) :-). I recompiled a 2.0.36 kernel that
works fine. I was really looking to get APM installed and the new PPP
which I have done now. The 2.2.2 kernel was just me being curious. I
have also compiled a *very* late developement kernel and it is exciting
to see what people are working on (even if it is a little unstable)!
Cheers,
James
Cronin B. Vining wrote:
> BTW, RH doesn't recommend the upgrade, unless you actually need some new
> driver or something. Do you really <need> it? I only went through it
> to gain the experience and help me learn the big 'L'.
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project
Date: 08 Mar 1999 23:19:03 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Damerell) writes:
> David A. Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi Robert;
> >Robert Billing wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >>David Fox wrote:
> >>>You could get a Pentium 233MMX thinkpad 560X from Micro Warehouse for
> >>>$1299.
> >>Look, chaps, if you are going to crosspost to uk.comp.os.linux, could
> >>we have the prices in sterling as well please? Btw I have just picked up
> >>a Libretto, that runs Linux very well, for �600 (that's about $1000).
> >The GreenBack, the American Dollar, is ubiquitous. It should be as
> >familiar as the rising sun in any first world country, second and third
> >world I'm not to sure about.
>
> Er, no. Countries without strong currencies of their own tend to have more
> need for the dollar. I've only ever used dollars or even known the
> exchange rate while travelling.
>
> Leaving your stupid 'America is the center of the universe' attitude
> behind, the point is partly that US prices cannot be directly translated
> into UK prices; the exchange rate doesn't provide an accurate idea of what
> the UK price would be. In a crossposted thread like this, US specific
> prices should not be sent to UK newsgroups.
US prices can easily be translated into UK prices: in the UK you can
buy this machine from MicroWarehouse for exactly $1299 U.S. dollars
plus any associated shipping charges, duties, customs and tariffs.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Kingston KNE-40T
Date: 08 Mar 1999 23:28:01 -0800
"Stavros C. Kassinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dos anybody know if Linux has drivers for the Kingston KNE-40T ethernet
> card?
I believe the tulip driver runs this board.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Left Hand of Xenu)
Subject: Re: Newbie -- Iomega Ditto Max Tape Drive
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 Mar 1999 12:46:56 -0800
On or about Thu, 04 Mar 1999 12:25:49 -0500, John Ramser Intoned thusly:
>I am brand new to Linux. I have Redhat's 5.2 version
>installed.
>
>I have a Iomega Ditto Max Tape Drive that I would like
>to use. In looking at various docs and getting a little
>info from Redhat, it seems that I need both ftape
>support and an application program.
The ditto max needs a recent ftape version. You should look at
the ftape home page, which my bookmark file says is at:
http://iris1.math1.rwth-aachen.de/%7Eheine/ftape/
The page also has the address of a mailing list which is a good place
to ask any questions.
--
They laughed at Louis Pasteur | "finger" me | I love humanity,
They laughed at Isaac Newton | for my pgp | It's just people
But they also laughed at | key block | I can't tolerate
Bozo the clown |___________________|
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From: Carlos Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Inputing and outputing bytes to serial port
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 09:08:44 +0000
Ryan Hanks wrote:
> Does any one know of a simple way to send and recieve bytes through the
> serial port? I know it can be done in C, but I would rather be able to do
> it in Perl or some other script. I want to be able to send bytes to and
> recieve info from my TI-92 calculator link (the one from TI). Please Help.
You can start testing with 'dip -t'. This will give you a prompt where you
can write:
> port /dev/ttyS?
> speed NNNN
> term
That is, you say which device are you using (normally /dev/ttyS0 or
/dev/ttyS1),
and the speed of the link (like speed 115200). After typing 'term' whatever
you
type will be sent to the serial connection and whatever comes from there will
be printed on the screen.
Once you have a clear picture of what do you want to do with the connection
you can either write a C program or use 'dip' in a script (or other
languages).
--
Carlos Vidal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morten Sickel)
Subject: Re: Linux & SPARC
Date: 9 Mar 1999 08:07:38 GMT
>
>Paul Braun wrote:
>
>>
>> I know that Red Hat makes a SPARC-flavored version.
>>
>> www.redhat.com
>>
The RedHat sparc is available form cheapbytes (as well as a lot other places)
I bought an unofficial RedHat CD from cheapbytes and have now two
SPARCclassics and one SPARCstation 10 running Linux quite happily.
Morten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project
Date: 9 Mar 1999 08:15:10 -0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Fox <d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Damerell) writes:
[snip]
>> Leaving your stupid 'America is the center of the universe' attitude
>> behind, the point is partly that US prices cannot be directly translated
>> into UK prices; the exchange rate doesn't provide an accurate idea of what
>> the UK price would be. In a crossposted thread like this, US specific
>> prices should not be sent to UK newsgroups.
>
>US prices can easily be translated into UK prices: in the UK you can
>buy this machine from MicroWarehouse for exactly $1299 U.S. dollars
>plus any associated shipping charges, duties, customs and tariffs.
Which rather neatly demonstrates why US prices are no use in UK
newsgroup. There are so many variables to add on or knock off
(and H.M. C&E are so abysmal at calculating them right) that the
only meaningful price for a UK user is one quoted in GBP with all
the relevant taxes paid.
John
--
John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
The Linux Emporium - a source for Linux CDs in the UK
See <http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html>
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From: Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with parport.
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:43:37 +0000
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jeremy wrote:
> Hi!
> I recently changed to the 2.2.1 kernel. I had 2.0.35. I got everything
> to work BUT my LPT1 and the Zip drive on it.
> I have a printer on LPT2 on a IO card, it works fine, but for some
> reason parport sees it a /dev/lp0, and totally ignores my LPT1! Also
> ppa.o will not see my Zip drive, even if I put it on LPT2 instead of my
> printer. ppa just responds that the Device or resource is busy. LPT1 is
> the on-board parport on my motherboard, I have tried all settings in the
> BIOS (SPP, ECP, EPP, ...ect) and parport will not see it. I have tried
> many combinations of compiling support in the kernel and as modules,
> turned auto probe on and off, compiled ppa as a module, or in the
> kernel, ect.... I cannot think of any more possible combinations. Is
> there any debugging that I can turn on? Any Ideas? Both ports and my Zip
> drive worked fine in 2.0.35. - Jeremy
This caught me out at first. In 'make menuconfig' directly under the parallel
port option, there's one for PC-style hardware. You need to switch that on.
-- Michael [kick the bit-bucket to reply]
Eridani Star System -- The Most Up-to-Date Red Hat Linux CDROMs Available
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amush.cx/linux/ Fax: +44-8701-600807
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From: Shawn Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: yamaha opl3-sax sound system under turbolinux
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 03:07:32 GMT
hello all, i have a pc running turbolinux 3.0.1 with linux kernel
version 2.2.1. i have a yamaha opl3-sax sound card in my machine. i have
run turbopnpcfg, which will detect the card, and seems to auto-config it
without any problems. however, when i run turbosoundcfg, none of the sound
card settings seem to work... there is always an error of some sort, either
"an error was encountered trying to access the modprobe program", or "unable
to access /dev/audio" usually.. those are the most two common errors i get.
do i need a special driver for this sound card? do i need to do something
special to the kernel? i'm fairly new to the hardware side of linux, so if
you send a reply to this, be as specific as you can.. :) any help
would be appreciated. PLEASE RESPOND VIA E-MAIL as i do not read newsgroups
very often.
--
Shawn Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
System Administration / Technical Support,
The GrapeVine Network, Ltd. (www.grapevinenet.com)
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From: Mike McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.2.2 and ftape
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 10:07:37 -0700
I need help setting up ftape that comes with kernel 2.2.x. I've got the
modules built and loaded, but dunno where my tape is located under /dev,
and if the tape drive is being recognized. I have an Iomega ditto easy
3200 internal, with the ditto dash controller. I set the settings for
the controller in the kernel config. They are DMA 2, irq 6.
Any help is appreciated.
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From: Jason Englander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: y2k hardware scanner?
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 21:19:34 -0600
Anybody know of a year 2000 hardware
checker/scanner/verifyer/warner/notifyer for Linux? ...or one small
enough to run off of a dos/win boot disk? One to verify that the BIOS
is ok basically for production machines where I can't just get a BIOS
upgrade just in case.
Please CC my From address minus the non-existant nospam hostname.
TIA,
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wildman, the Cuberstalker)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: 9 Mar 1999 03:13:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 22:29:35 +0000, DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Well, it is a good way to break the ice and wake people up about what M$
>is doing and opening that there are "other" operating systems out there.
And posting it to Linux newsgroups is the way to do this? Talk about
preaching to the choir...
--
The Wildman ICQ# 32609427
Fight spam - http://www.spamfree.org
Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan A. Buzzard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: CHEAP HW For Linux NoteBook Project
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 19:35:02 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Sarapata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I got a refurbished 75 MHz 8M 486 for $315 from eBay.com. I have since sunk
> much more money into it, but the total cost of the system so far is:
>
> Laptop: $315
> Extra 8M RAM: $15
> Floppy drive: $60
> Microphone: $1
> Ethernet/Modem PCMCIA card: $77
>
> Total: $468 (about 280 GBP)
>
> It is a Toshiba 2150CDT, and works quite well.
About 280GBP my foot, you can expect to pay around �230 for a T2400CS, and
a Satellite Pro 2150CDT will cost about �300 for the standard specification
machine full working. You would be charged more in GBP for the extra 8MB of
RAM than you payed in USD.
Which goes to show how you can't just use the exchange rate and come up with
a sensible price in GBP.
Quite why this thread is cross-posted to uk.comp.os.linux I have no idea,
but the guy asking about notebook prices was from the US in the first place.
JAB.
--
Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)1661-832195
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From: Bakelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 5.2 & ITK Columbus World ISDN Card.
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:48:54 +0000
NE1 got this working?
What must i do to get this working?
Thanx in advance
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From: "Gary W. Sandvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: 9 Mar 1999 03:25:19 GMT
Wilson,
Is there a reason for posting a blank message wiith a Happy.exe attachment?
Regards and God Speed,
Gary
Gary W. Sandvik
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
309-676-0224 (fax)
Wilson Fletcher wrote in message
<01be6a0e$16472400$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Maybe you wouldn't complain so loudly if you had ever tried using a dodgy
>brothers network card on a big network. Cheaper network clones often don't
>guarantee unique MAC addresses and I have personally been burned by this.
>ie. have a look at the messages produced bu dhcpd and then tell me you want
>everyone in the world to be responsible for configuring their own MAC
>addresses.
>
>Now unique ID's in software or processors etc I can understand complaining
>about but the unique ID in network cards (forgive my naivete) seems to be
>for a very good reason.
>
>Wilson Fletcher
>
>Anthony Ord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> On 27 Feb 1999 11:31:44 -0500, Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >"David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >
>> >> There are lots of reasons to not buy Intel, but this strikes me as one
>of
>> >> the worst. Every Network CARD ever installed in a PC has a unique
>ID and
>> >> no one ever complained about them. The best thing the Linux
>community
>> >> could do is to get behind a non Intel platform.
>>
>> The K7 is going to be worth a look.
>>
>> >The unfortunate thing is
>> >> that the only other Mass produced computing platform is the MAC.
>Not that
>> >> there is anything wrong with the MAC, its just that the PowerPC seems
>to be
>> >> under performing as far as performance increases go.
>> >
>> >1) the MAC addr can easily be changed
>> >2) the MAC addr can only be retrieved directly from a local LAN
>> >3) many machines (token ring, PPP, ATM) don't have an ethernet MAC
>>
>> And modems don't have them, which is how most people connect to the
>> internet.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Anthony
>> --
>> -----------------------------------------
>> | And when our worlds |
>> | They fall apart |
>> | When the walls come tumbling in |
>> | Though we may deserve it |
>> | It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
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From: "Gary W. Sandvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: 9 Mar 1999 03:25:20 GMT
caution the above post has a happy.exe attachment!
Wilson Fletcher wrote in message <7c1idl$3bv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James McBoyle - Sun Ireland - SunSoft ELC
[Student])
Subject: Re: Banshee Server and X
Date: 9 Mar 1999 08:59:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Gabriel Mark Mains" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am having a real hard time configuring X to use my Creative Labs Banshee
>video card. I went to http://glide.xxedgexx.com and downloaded the server,
>but I can't get it to work right. I am running Red Hat 5.2. It seems, as far
>as I have found, that there are 2 symbolic links that point to 2 different
>servers. From the advice of a friend I cahnged the symbolic link in
>/usr/X11R6/bin to point to the new XF86_SVGA that is for the card. But there
>seems to be another symbolic link in /etc/X11 that points to it too. The
I presume you have moved the banshee XF86_SVGA file to /usr/X11R6/bin/ after
uncompressing and untaring it. (ok, silly question, but...<g>)
>problem is that it is still using the XF86_VGA16 server and running in
>640x480 with a virtual desktop of 800x600 (which is EXTREMELY annoying!). I
>can tell because when I close down X it say VGA16 bla bla bla, so I get that
>it is using the wrong server. What am I doing wrong? And when I use the
>XF86Config, what do i use for the RAMDAC and clock settings? HELP!?!
>
At the bottom of the page where you downloaded the banshee xserver is the
author's own xf98config file, which should help you answer your questions. In
addition try running xf86config, but don't look at the card list when it asks
if you want to, instead choose the SVGA server as the one it looks for and
then choose the video modes so that the VGA equivalents aren't selected.
I hope this helps, as this is all I did to set up my own card, until I got
SuSE 6.0 and used it's wonderful SAX graphic X setup utility :-) (while I
remember, I found that I had to use CTRL ALT + to change the video mode to
a better resolution (it was comeing up in 800x600 and I like 1024x768<g>))
Have Fun,
Jim
G'[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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