Linux-Hardware Digest #644, Volume #9 Fri, 12 Mar 99 20:13:33 EST
Contents:
update rh5.0 to rh5.2 (Rick Luna)
How do I get my soundcard working??? (David Orlow)
Re: ATX Power Off problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Modem: no luck w/simple AT cmd (Nigel Stratton)
acessing Linux Drive from NT (Vibor Paravic)
3Com Courier I-Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
EtherExpress PRO/100 PCMCIA config (Ken Hughes)
Re: ATI RAGE IIC AGP (Rod Roark)
Disk Striping ("Hon N. Tam")
HELP! Mouse not working in Xfree86 (Med Bennett)
Hardware Raid Solution (Erik Horn)
Re: Corel Linux (Dale Pontius)
Re: Modem setup problems - no DTR except in MINICOM (Colin)
information (Parvez Ahmed)
Re: Linux and 486 ("Tom Emerson")
Re: How do I get my soundcard working??? (Mike Schenk)
Re: V.90 ISA Modems!?!?! (Colin)
more than 64 megs. (John Linley)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (wizard)
mesa3d and riva tnt (Tomasz Lukasiak)
Re: Linux, mac and a cable modem (Raffael Cavallaro)
Re: information (David Kirkpatrick)
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From: Rick Luna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: update rh5.0 to rh5.2
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:37:33 -0500
i've looked around rh's site for info, and there doesn't seem to be an
easy way to upgrade to rh5.2 from 5.0.
the only hing i can find that may qualify for an "upgrade" is some stuff
in the errata for 5.0. but, that isn't in an easy rpm package.....
how can i update my kernel to rh5.2?
-rick
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From: David Orlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I get my soundcard working???
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:43:40 -0500
Hey, I just got Linux 5.2 up and running again. The last time I had it
on my computer for about 2 minutes and got frusterated and then formated
and went back to Windows. This time I am going to try and be more open
minded and figure out things. Well I am to my first problem. I am
trying to get my soundcard to work. And probably to make things more
complicated I am running this on a laptop. They have you set up the
soundcard in soundconfig or something like that, but you have to know
the address of the card. For instance you have to know the I/O Port,
IRQ, DMA1, DMA2, and the MPU I/0. I have always set things up in
Windows and it is always plug and play so I never need to worry about
these things. What do I do now???
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATX Power Off problem
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:33:50 GMT
In article <3TEhWT$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (star) wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I have a dual-CPU motherboard with ATX power <cut>
>
> One big problem is that whenever we have a power loss
> and when the power is back, the server doesn't power on. I have to
> go right ahead to the machine and press the power button to wake it up.
<cut>
> Is there any software or hardware solution to this problem
> or should I drop this motherboard away?
Hi,
I had a similar need to reconfigure my ATX power to my Abit TX5 system, to
auto-start up on mains power. I tried a resistor / capacitor arrangement in
place of the power switch, but found that there was no way to discharge the
capacitor during power off (I think the battery was somehow connected
through). Anyway, the solution I used was to cut the ATX PS_ON lead (see ATX
spec at http://www.teleport.com/~atx/spec/index.htm) and connect the ATX PSU
side to ground (using a spare floppy disk power lead). This now works fine,
just like an AT PSU in fact!
HTH,
John
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:30:27 -0500
From: Nigel Stratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Modem: no luck w/simple AT cmd
Make sure that the modem is set to repond with message codes. You can turn the
response and error codes off. Your modem manual will tell you how to do this.
>Once I typed something and got a dialtone and some activity on the
>line which I heard from the speaker on the modem but I typed another
>key and it stopped.
You probably typed ATDT <Enter> to get dial tone. Every modem will hang up when you
hit another key. You wanted to type ATDT2341234 <Enter> where the numbers are who
you are calling.
Allen wrote:
> Sounds like you have a resource conflict, and your board is old enough to have
> onboard jumpers that you will need to use to disable the onboard port. (or DIP
> swithches?)
>
> Remove the modem, and when you boot up, pause the system at the BIOS banner
> screen, and read what serial ports are detected at boot. if you see 2 different
> ones, then you will have to find that pesky jumper or header that needs a jumper
> to disable, that is if the board manufacturer decided to let you disable it.
> even a 14.4K modem is new enough to almost certainly have a 16550A UART, so I
> think that you are seeing the on-board port.
>
> On 11 Mar 1999 19:33:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brett russ) wrote:
>
> >I'm running RH5.2 on 486/66. There is one serial port on back of
> >machine which I am using for my mouse. It is mapped to /dev/ttyS1
> >(COM2) and is IRQ 3. I am installing a Gateway (USR) Telepath 550
> >14400 internal ISA modem with jumpers configured for IRQ4, COM1. My
> >BIOS does not provide access to serial port info (enabling/disabling)
> >so I assume I can use this port. It's a SystemSoft BIOS and the PC is
> >a VTech.
> >
> >My problem is that I've followed all of the instructions I've found in
> >the modem manual, PPP HOWTO, and serial HOWTO to simply issue an AT
> >command to talk to this modem and I have no luck. Nothing shows up on
> >the screen when I type and nothing shows up from the modem in
> >response. It feels like I'm talking to a wall. I have used both
> >Kermit and minicom, setting it to look for the modem at /dev/ttyS0, to
> >no avail. In Kermit I've tried setting modem type to both usrobotics
> >and telepath. I'm running them as root so permissions shouldn't be
> >the problem. I've run setserial on the port and it reports a 16450
> >UART and the address and IRQ look fine. Neither Kermit or minicom
> >complained when initializing/connecting to the modem. I've looked at
> >/proc/interrupts before and during the modem programs. Before nothing
> >was shown for IRQ 4, during it showed activity for this interrupt.
> >
> >Once I typed something and got a dialtone and some activity on the
> >line which I heard from the speaker on the modem but I typed another
> >key and it stopped. I had some hope for a second but I could not
> >repeat it. And once I got "trapped" in Kermit while connected to the
> >modem and could not issue the escape sequence to get out to the Kermit
> >prompt. I did Ctrl-z to suspend, and when I typed 'fg' to return, I
> >saw an "OK" as if the modem had replied. This too happened only once.
> >
> >I am wondering if the modem takes forever to reply, but why wouldn't
> >my commands show up? At this point in the installation, does it even
> >matter what the modem's settings are? I tried 'stty <the string to
> >enable CTS/RTS HW flow control> < /dev/ttyS0' but this changed
> >nothing. My modem has all dip switches in default locations. Next
> >I'll try a different COM port/IRQ (I suppose I could use 5...) but I
> >don't know what's going on with my current config. Is the modem
> >toast? I've tried swapping ISA slots.
> >
> >Thanks--
> >br
>
> 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.)
> PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie--(how DO you exit vi?)
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From: Vibor Paravic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: acessing Linux Drive from NT
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:30:10 -0600
I have a dual boot machine Linux/NT 4.0
Under linux I can see the nt partion however I cannot see the linux
partion under NT
If I go to the disk manager it knows that the other disk is there and it
correctly guesses the size however it does not give me access to it!!!
How can I see my Linux partition under NT ... clearly I also want to
access the data stored there....
Thanks in advance : Vibor Paravic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3Com Courier I-Modem
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:16:46 GMT
What is the correct init string to get a Courier I-Modem to work with Linux?
I can dial-in to my ISP using minicom and I get a CONNECT 64000 message. I
can't dial-in using CHAP with the I-Modem (COM 1). The scripts, however, work
with my analog modem (COM 2). Any ideas?
Thanks,
Amit
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Hughes)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: EtherExpress PRO/100 PCMCIA config
Date: 12 Mar 1999 20:48:08 GMT
I've had no success getting either a 3Com 3CCFEM556B 10/100:56K or Intel
EtherExpress PRO/100 working on a IBM Thinkpad 770 laptop. cardmgr
(with pcmcia-3.0.6) recognizes each card and seems to configure eth0
but I can't get packets out of either. All I can figure is that I've
got the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts set up wrong for the cards but I can't
see what it is.
If there's someone with either of these cards working out there, would you
send me some e-mail so I can ask you a few questions? Thanks much in
advance.
Ken
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University of the Pacific
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI RAGE IIC AGP
Date: 12 Mar 1999 23:38:16 GMT
Glen Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Martyn Beer wrote:
>> I'm a newbie with Linux, and I cannot get X to work with the above card and
>> a CTX 1569SE monitor- the best I can achieve is a very wobbly 1024x768
>> resolution with duplicated menus which is completely unusable. Every other
>> res is always black. When I exit the server there are no obvious errors in
>> the server output apart from deleting unsupported modes. The only other
>> anomaly I can see is that Windows reports 2mb of RAM for this card, whereas
>> X always shows 4mb.
>
>I downloaded X server version 3.3.3 which has AGP support for the ATI Rage IIC
>video card but couldn't get it to work.
You don't need 3.3.3 if you use:
ChipID 0x4754
ChipRev 0x01
-- Rod
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http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: "Hon N. Tam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Disk Striping
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:15:05 -0500
Hi guys,
I am not sure if I am addressing this to the right newgroup. If I am
not, please ignore this message. I am doing an experiment using both
FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux 5.2. I am interested in creating disk striping
using both OSes. I know I can do it with FreeBSD but I am not sure if it
is possible with RH 5.2. I have 2-18.2 Gig U2W disks and I would like
to combine them to 1-36.4 Gig partition.
Any help or leads would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
... Russell
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University of Waterloo,
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(519) 885-1211. X6183 (for both)
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From: Med Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: HELP! Mouse not working in Xfree86
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:18:20 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am having problems similar to that described by Chad Dale in an
earlier post. When I start Xfree86, the mouse cursor starts in the
middle of the screen, but any movement of the mouse causes the cursor to
jump to the upper left corner and stay there, or twitch slightly, but
it's basically useless. I have a very standard Microsoft 2-button PS/2
mouse (v. 2.0A) attached to a Dell P133, 48MB RAM. I've tried various
mouse settings via mouseconfig to no avail. When I kill X with
Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, I see on the screen the message "Warning: /dev/mouse
unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl for device)".
Thanks in advance for any suggestions -
Med Bennett
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From: Erik Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hardware Raid Solution
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:54:05 -0800
I would like to get a hardware raid solution for a Dell Poweredge 2500. It
would be nice to be able to use the Dell recommended PERC/2 Raid
controller. I saw a message that mentioned that there might be a driver
available but I have been unable to confirm this.
I have also looked at the mylex and icp-vortex raid controllers. But I
found that it would cost $1600 for a single U2LVD channel which is a bit
too expensive.
All I really need is something to mirror two hard drives. Full raid
capabilities would be nice for future expansion, but not required. The
reason that I am looking at hardware raid is that in case of hard drive
failure, an operator should be able to easily replace the failed drive by
following simple instructions. From my viewpoint, replacing a failed drive
while using software would not be trivial enough.
Please let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: Corel Linux
Date: 12 Mar 1999 22:10:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Linux does have a long way util it can pass the "mother" test, i.e. "but
> can my mother use it?"
>
I would argue that my mother could use Linux, if anything, better
than Windows or the Mac.
When she had Windows, she double-clicked the AOL icon and did her
business on AOL. Anything else she did was by clicking an icon on
the desktop. Today on the Mac, she uses the "root menu" of the Mac
and starts her programs.
Other than the lack of AOL, I see no reason why Linux cannot be
set up every bit as usable for her. She would have to switch off
of AOL, and get used to a different email interface, but that may
not be a big problem.
I tried switching her to a "true" ISP a few years back, (on Windows)
but she got terribly confused with this whole thing of bringing up
a link, and THEN doing email. Plus the link-up flashed some number
of extra or transient windows on the screen, and she had to switch
to the email window afterward, and it was too confusing to her.
I see no reason why she couldn't use Linux with a true ISP, just as
easily as she uses AOL on Windows or Mac, either one. My home system
is set up so I push a button (GNOME or tkGoodStuff, take your pick.)
and it brings up the link, fetches mail, news, and web pages for the
cache, and then shuts itself down. How much easier can you get? Push
a different button, and the link comes up and stays up, until you're
ready to drop it, for interactive web use, etc.
The big difference is that she's impatient with computers and doesn't
have a sense of when it's busy or not. As a consequence, she crashes
both Windows and Mac regularly. She moved from Windows to Mac before
I had gotten very far into Linux. Otherwise, I would have moved her
to Linux.
Yes, Linux is ready for my Mom.
It just isn't ready for her to administer on her own. But some would
say Windows and Mac aren't, either.
Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)
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From: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem setup problems - no DTR except in MINICOM
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:02:15 -0500
Deus wrote:
>
> However, I still can't logon to my ISP. It dials and connects, but I never
> get a logon prompt in MINICOM, so I imagine the script in the network
> configurator isn't going through either. Tonight I'll try the SLIP
> connection.
>
Did you see anything appear on the screen? Did you hit the Enter key after
the connection was established?
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Subject: information
Date: 13 Mar 1999 00:23:39 GMT
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From: "Tom Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and 486
Date: 13 Mar 1999 00:15:45 GMT
TN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<vd1G2.442$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi
>
> Will Linux work well on a 486? I've found a sale on IBM
486sx33/8mb/270hd
> for $79.
> Is this an OK machine for me to try Linux out on or should I get the
> P75/16m/850 for $199?
At our user group meeting last night, the presenter was using two of them
to demonstrate firewalls, IP masquarading, DNS, and so on. Our area has
recently been blessed with both cable and DSL access for 75%+ of the area
residents, so everyone's been asking him "how do I..."
A 486-66 w/8meg, text only, is perfectly suited for this type of thing --
throw two "cheap" NIC's in it [isa slots only], and you have an instant
firewall that can easilly handle T1 speed connections
The other thought my dad had as we walked out of the presentation was that
it makes a far less expensive "print server" than a "dedicated" print
server...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Schenk)
Subject: Re: How do I get my soundcard working???
Date: 12 Mar 1999 23:57:23 +0100
David Orlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in comp.os.linux.hardware:
>Hey, I just got Linux 5.2 up and running again. The last time I had it
>on my computer for about 2 minutes and got frusterated and then formated
>and went back to Windows. This time I am going to try and be more open
>minded and figure out things. Well I am to my first problem. I am
>trying to get my soundcard to work. And probably to make things more
>complicated I am running this on a laptop. They have you set up the
>soundcard in soundconfig or something like that, but you have to know
>the address of the card. For instance you have to know the I/O Port,
>IRQ, DMA1, DMA2, and the MPU I/0. I have always set things up in
>Windows and it is always plug and play so I never need to worry about
>these things. What do I do now???
Get back to Windows, Linux is just not for you.
Mike
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From: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: V.90 ISA Modems!?!?!
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:07:37 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am using an AOpen FM56-ITU (isa) modem with RedHat5.2. This was the
> easiest thing to setup. All I had to do was set the jumper to com2
> and tell Linux where it was. Before that I had a Gateway Telepath II
> 28.8 which also worked great and was just as easy to install.
> Btw...I am using gnus to read my news these days. It seems to be
> just as good as Agent is in Windows and will be better once I get
> it customized.
I use the exact same modem and I've had no problems with it. My ISP on the
other hand...
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From: John Linley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: more than 64 megs.
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 06:03:28 -0700
Yes it is that same old question. How do I get my computer to recognize
more than 64 MegaBytes?
I have tried append with every varriation I can think of, including:
append="mem=98M"
append="mem=98304k"
append="mem=97M"
append="mem=97M ether=whatever yak I don't have with me"
even variations on:
append="mem=128m"
in the lilo.conf file,
and every other combination of the append line I can find, to no avail.
the 98 meg is read by the system at startup, and the linux version is
2.0.36. I thought this version didn't
even need the append command to detect the 98 mgs in the first place.
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From: wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:04:14 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Burton wrote:
> wizard wrote:
> >
> > John Burton wrote:
> > >
> > > They also had money! They were't *too* concerned between $4000 &
> > > $10,000...
> > > I agree..if you have the money, go for the Alpha... (the 21264 & 21364
> > > Alphas look pretty impressive...;-)
> >
> > I really don't see a huge difference in pricing here. Systems wise Intel
> > and Alpha are in the same price range.
> >
> Ummm...not quite... bottom end single processor Alpha servers are about
> the same price as top end Intel dual processor servers - single 533Mhz
> 21164 w/ 256MB ram & 9gb disk runs about $4500, dual 500Mhz Pentium III
> w/ 256MB ram & 9gb disk runs about $4500... Alpha servers go up in
> performance & price from there, Intel Servers go down in performance and
> price from there...
>
> John
Hi John;
Maybe they are not the Alpha systems you are lookin at but MicroWay has systems
starting at $2395. In the price range you mention you could have a 667 MHz
machine with high perfromance SCSI I/O. True these are single processor
systems, but for many FP applications are going to be very competitve against a
Dual P2 system. Hopefully with Compags purchase of digital the Alpha will
continue to drop in price so it is a much more viable alternative.
Dave
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From: Tomasz Lukasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mesa3d and riva tnt
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:52:37 -0500
has anyone had success with configuring their tnt card with mesa3d?
tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raffael Cavallaro)
Subject: Re: Linux, mac and a cable modem
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:17:48 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Hazarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>3) Setup Linux to act as a router with IP masquerading (~$0). Set up a
>local private network.
Specifically, how would you do this? (I'm in the same position as the
original poster)
Specific questions:
1. I now connect to my cable ISP's DHCP server which supplies a dynamic IP
address. I assume I'd need two NICs in the linux box, one to connect to
the cable modem, and one for the mac to connect to the Linux box. Is this
correct?
2. What software/services do I need to run on the Linux box to set up IP
masquerading so that the Mac net client software (mail, news, ftp, web)
can go through the Linux box to the net at large?
TIA, and please reply to my email address as well.
Raf
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: information
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:41:27 +0000
Whats wrong - need as much detail as you can to be usefull.
Parvez Ahmed wrote:
>
> can some one please help me setup linux on my pc
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