Linux-Hardware Digest #642, Volume #9 Fri, 12 Mar 99 15:13:46 EST
Contents:
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed (Greg Lindahl)
X25, frame-Relay ISDN adapter under Linux. ("Fran�ois KREBS")
Re: Gigabit Ethernet Cards (Chris O'Donovan)
Re: fat32 problem ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Help with ghostscript (Grant Taylor)
Re: Is there any way to find out if I have a win modem? (egray7)
Re: bad superblock? ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Rockwell PCI Modems (Rob Clark)
What do I have: PPP or LOOBACK? ("Igor Raznatovic")
Re: [Q] Recommend 56k v90 V/F/D Linux + Windows modem ("James Kosin")
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (doole)
Audiotrix Pro: anyone using this card under Linux? ("Adrian R Cook")
Re: linux + cheap pport color camera (Radical NetSurfer)
Re: Inputing and outputing bytes to serial port (Daniel Robert Franklin)
Re: Modem and PPP config??? ("Randy McLin")
Re: 3c509b/RH 5.2/DHCP (Don Baccus)
Dual Monitors in linux (Samuel Earl Williams)
Re: SCSI Problem (AIC-78xx) (Kimon Berlin)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Lindahl)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: 12 Mar 1999 15:07:52 GMT
"Jeffrey J. Potoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Because the price/performance is better? DU costs money. NT costs
> > money. Digital Fortran costs money. Do the math and see how it works
> > out for you.
>
> But is it better than Linux on a 450 MhZ PII with g77 ?
I don't know what the answer is on your code -- why don't you run some
comparisons?
-- g
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From: "Fran�ois KREBS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X25, frame-Relay ISDN adapter under Linux.
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:57:51 +0100
Sorry if my question disturb you !
I'm searching for an X25 / Frame-Relay PC Card vendor with an IP software
Driver in order for routing IP stack over Wan connexion (ISDN X25 or
Frame-Relay).
Is it exist ?
What is the PC Card's manufactufer ?
Are the software drivers free ?
Do you believe in a Software Router like that ? Is it a competitive offer
(vs CISCO or 3COM) ?
Thank's to give us/me your suggestions / remarks
Kind Regards
--
Fran�ois KREBS
CIREL
T�l : +33 (0)5 56 75 54 75
Fax : +33 (0)5 56 89 14 05
Email : <Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web: http://www.cirel.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris O'Donovan)
Subject: Re: Gigabit Ethernet Cards
Date: 12 Mar 1999 16:53:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have spent 4 days trying to find a gigabit ethernet card that is
>supported under RedHat 5.2 and have been utterly unsuccessful. Any
>assistance would be greatly appreciated.
See:
http://www.beowulf.org/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/100mbps.html
--
Chris O'Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fat32 problem
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:56:18 -0500
The original poster has provided conflicting information.
He says he has RH5.2 installed but his kernel version is
2.0.32.
RH5.2 is shipped with kernel version 2.0.36, which is
compatible with FAT32. Kernel 2.0.32 is NOT compatible
with FAT32.
Rodney Beede wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>What was the exact message of the error?
>Make sure that the /mnt/disk directory exists, usually the /mnt directory
is
>just alone so try a command like:
>mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
>
>Also try typing in just "mount" and see if the Windows partition is already
>mounted (probably by your /etc/ftab file"). Also double check that you got
>the correct HDD, if Windows is on /dev/hda1 then the 6.4gb is the primary
>master HDD.
>
>mesut wrote in message <7c7ri5$7m4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>I have two hardisk. one is 6.4 gb other is 1.7 gb. Redhat 5.2 is installed
>>on 1.7 gb hardisk. windows is insalled on other disk. i have tried to
mount
>> windows drivers. i used;
>>mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
>>mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
>>mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
>> those command. but every time i took same mistake. i use 2.0.32 kernel.
>>if you help me i pleased.
>>
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>> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with ghostscript
Date: 12 Mar 1999 13:04:05 -0500
"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>Hi, I'd like to use ghostscript to print in linux with my Epson printer.
> Version 5.50. Yeah, I'm trying to setup a Stylus 600. It works
> okay with the linux drivers but I was hoping I could use the
> ghostscript drivers.
What Linux drivers? The only drivers Linux has are those inside
Ghostscript (plus a few filters like pbm2ppa).
I think the latest Red Hat printtool and rhs-printfilters support the
Ghostscript uniprint drivers. I know the latest apsfilter does.
Failing that, read the Printing HOWTO and Ghostscript's Uniprint
documentation.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: egray7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there any way to find out if I have a win modem?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:22:12 GMT
Rodney Beede wrote:
> If you are using a Win modem (software based modem) >it probably won't work under
>Linux at all.
Or DOS, or OS/2, or the BeOS, or Solaris, or FreeBSD,
or well, you get the point. Aah, well, it makes Intel
happy. More CPU usage is good for them.
>(which is sad since my 28.8 modem will connect up to >115,200).
No, it isn't. Not to the other modems anyway. That
speed is the connection from your computer to your modem, nothing more.
Why that number shows up, I don't know, but it does.
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bad superblock?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:40:37 -0800
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:27:47 -0500, Rick Luna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The file system must be vfat, since win98 is there. fstool shows the
> >partition type as being "unknown".
>
> Is it, by chance, a FAT32 partition? AFAICR, Linux doesn't yet have FAT32
> support, and cant read such filesystems.
That is plain wrong. FAT32 support for Linux was available just a couple of
weeks after Win95 OSR2 was released (which was 2 years ago).
Obviously you didn't read this newsgroup (this used to be the most FAQ) nor
checked dejanews nor visited
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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Subject: Re: Rockwell PCI Modems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:16:16 GMT
In article <7cbc0s$mg2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, je <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does Anyone know if the rockwell PCI modems are winmodems?
>
>No I don't have a model all I have is:
>Rockwell PCI V.90 ITU FAX Modem
Rockwell doesn't make retail modems-- they only make chipsets. Please
find the FCC ID or registration number that is printed on the modem card
and check this list:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
If your modem is not listed, please follow-up with the FCC number-- most
56K PCI modems are winmodems, but some are not.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Igor Raznatovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What do I have: PPP or LOOBACK?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:02:00 -0600
I' trying to set up PPP and I know these questions come up often so I'll be
concise:
1. My server uses PAP
2. It is (they say) a Linux Server
3. When I dial in through minicom I get a welcome message and "System
Password:" prompt
4. I set up my /etc/resolv.conf like this:
domain intersatx.net
nameserver 207.235.95.4
nameserver 207.235.95.5
5. I set up /etc/host.conf like this:
order hosts,bind
multi on
6. My /etc/ppp/pap-secrets:
# Secrets for authentication using PAP
# client server secret IP
addresses
<my username> * <my password>
7. My /etc/ppp/options:
-detach
modem
lock
crtscts
defaultroute
asyncmap 0
mtu 552
mru 552
name <my ISP user name>
8. This is what I get when I leave minicom without resseting and when I run
pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS0 115200 &
ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
WHY?IT SHOULD BE UP POINTTOPOINT RUNNING!
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From: "James Kosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Q] Recommend 56k v90 V/F/D Linux + Windows modem
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:25:25 GMT
Dear Matt,
Stick with external they are easier to support. If you do get
internal stick with NON-PLUG&PLAY types with plenty of jumpers for
what com port address and IRQ. The more selections the marrier...
Thanks,
James Kosin
Matt wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|Hi
|
|
|Over come with info on rob Clarks home page which is very very good.
|I still have not made the choice of a modem.
|
|http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
|
|I need a 56k V90 Voce/Fax/Data modem either Internal or External easy
|config
|that will work in Linux and windows95/98/NT and be reasonable.
|
|Anyone have any views ?
|
|
|Many thanks
|
|Matt
|
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (doole)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:27:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Tremblay) apparently said this:
>If you think that you had privacy before this, boy you live in a
>bubble. Look at cell phones, ISPs, Credit card companies, Banks.
>
>Cell phone companies can tell what block you are standing on and what
>you are saying. This info is accessible by police.
>
Unless you're committing a crime, so what? And if you are, the game is
your own, so live with it...
I've never quite understood in concrete terms what all the concern is
about this issue.
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From: "Adrian R Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Audiotrix Pro: anyone using this card under Linux?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:28:39 -0400
Hello,
I have a Mediatrix Audiotrix Pro sound card and I'm trying to get it
working with my Linux installation (Caldera OpenLinux 1.3), so far without
success. I tried recompiling the kernel using the "old" sound cofiguration
method (via "make menuconfig" or "make config") which is apparently required
for the Audiotrix Pro, but neither aproach worked: the former refused to use
the old method at all and the latter caused compilation errors in the sound
drivers.
I even tried using pre-compiled sound modules (as suggested on Caldera's
website) but that caused errors as well.
Is anyone out there successfully using an Audiotrix Pro under Linux? If
so, how did you get it working? I'd appreciate hearing all the nasty little
details.
Thanks,
Adrian Cook
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Radical NetSurfer)
Subject: Re: linux + cheap pport color camera
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:12:10 GMT
I have downloaded the QSeeMe and have managed to get it
working properly in the KDE Desktop (desktop icons and all)!
I have the Connetix Color QuickCam (which works perfect in
WFW 3.11 and Win95.
But when it comes to the Parallel Port Drivers cqcam files,
I feel intimidated.
Has anyone already tried this out?
Just what is involved exactly in getting the parallel port
color quickcam going?
using the package called cqcam from
virginia.edu
THANKS!
On 08 Mar 1999 17:16:43 -0500, Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> What cheap parallel port camera can I buy for linux and what
>drivers do I use? I don't need super-fast grabs and the only software
>I need is something to grab an image from the command line and spit it
>out in some standard format. It's for a remote monitoring application
>via the web.
>
> Any suggestions baout HW, where to buy it, and what SW to use
>greatly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Robert Franklin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Inputing and outputing bytes to serial port
Date: 12 Mar 99 03:52:50 GMT
"Ryan Hanks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>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.
Just open /dev/ttySx and read from it or write to it! Linux takes care of
the rest. There are some ioctls for setting comm parameters too I think,
but again you can use setserial or stty to do that. If something is
spitting bytes down your serial port, just do a cat /dev/ttySx (x = the
serial port number) and watch! (try cat /dev/ttyS0 with a serial mouse on
that com port (and no X or GPM running) and you should see a pile of crap
- the raw characters sent by the mouse - every time you move it or press
a button).
- Daniel
--
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* Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
******************************************************************************
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From: "Randy McLin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem and PPP config???
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:58:49 -0500
First, are you using a WINMODEM? If so, give it up to charity, it's not
going to work with Linux. WINMODEMs (per the name) implements a ton of
funcitonality in Windows code. Nice, huh, for Microsoft and Intel, but bad
for Linux users. If you're using one of these, you'll need to find one that
doesn't require Windoze 95/98 for operation.
Second, look at the "statserial" command via the man pages (man statserial).
This will let you know if Linux is seeing the modem.
If you need other info/links, I've got a portal site at http://www.emuse.net
that I compiled to help me in my day-to-day work with Linux.
Good luck,
Randy
Scott M. Ortiz wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello All,
>
>I have been trying to setup up Linux to recognize my modem, and to
>configure a PPP connection to my ISP. I have read most of the man
>pages, and the HOWTOs. Not much info on setting this up. I tried using
>linuxconf, but I don't seem to get anywhere. When I say connect, its
>just quiet. Shouldn't I hear dial tone, dialing, handshaking... I
>don't think that Linux is recognizing my modem. Any advice about what
>tools and utilities I should use to get this thing rolling would be
>great.
>
>Thanks,
>Scott
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 3c509b/RH 5.2/DHCP
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Baccus)
Date: 12 Mar 1999 11:07:23 PST
In article <7c58vl$369$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now I get Mar 10 22:55:50 localhost kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995
>Caldera, Inc. Mar 10 22:55:51 localhost kernel: Appletalk 0.17 for Linux
>NET3.035 Mar 10 22:55:52 localhost insmod:
>/lib/modules/preferred/net/3c509.o: symbol for parameter io not found
>delaying eth0 initialization
Been there myself, as of about a week ago. The
3c509 driver doesn't want the "io=", though
it will take the "irq=" specification.
Despite comments in various HOWTOs about the
fact that ISA NIC drivers generally don't probe
for NICs automatically, the 3c509b driver
does.
Perhaps because the card comes in a PCI model
as well??? I dunno.
Anyway, in my system I have two 3c509b cards
configured at I/O address 300 and 310, IRQs
10 and 11 respectively.
My module configuration file simply contains:
alias eth0 3c509
alias eth1 3c509
and nothing else, and the kernal finds them both.
How do I know? If it didn't, I wouldn't be typing
to you right now, since I'm typing this on a
Win98 box using ip masquerading to talk through
the Linux box over my DSL router.
>
>when I boot up.
>
>if I run ifconfig I get the following
>
>eth0
>Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:25:23:ED
>inet addr:204.210.62.215 Bcast:204.210.62.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
I betcha if you do a "cat /proc/ioports" or a "cat /proc/interrupts"
you won't see the 3c509b card, though :)
--
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nature photos, on-line guides, at http://donb.photo.net
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From: Samuel Earl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual Monitors in linux
Date: 12 Mar 1999 19:13:50 GMT
I have been looking for a little while now and have not been able to find
much information. How hard is it to get dual monitors working with two PCI
cards in linux?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SCSI Problem (AIC-78xx)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kimon Berlin)
Date: 12 Mar 1999 16:25:21 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jean-Baptiste Jacquemard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>I have installed RedHat 5.2 on a HP KAYAK XU computer.
>The SCSI auto-probe module detects an AIC-7880 controler but at boot,
>I have this message:
>
>sqlsrv kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found
>at PCI 8/0
>sqlsrv kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
>sqlsrv kernel: (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
>sqlsrv kernel: (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are
>correct.
(...)
>
>sqlsrv kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 3965, scsi0,
>channel 0, id 0,
>lun 0 Write (6) 16 29 81 02 00
>sqlsrv kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 3965) timed out - resetting
>sqlsrv kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
>sqlsrv kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
>
>And the system blocks about 1 minute.
>What should I do???
You can set termination manually in the driver:
in aic7xxx.c, set aic_7xxx_override_term = 0x03.
At least, it removes the warnings!
I'll do some stress tests to see if any timeouts still come up.
Cheers,
Kimon.
--
Kimon Berlin - HP Kayak Bios Architect
Within HP: http://pdcobios.grenoble.hp.com/
Linux on Kayaks: http://hp-linux.cern.ch/
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