Linux-Hardware Digest #59, Volume #10 Sun, 18 Apr 99 23:13:51 EDT
Contents:
Re: winbook laptops ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: any1 from Canada will sell or burn linux cheaply ? (Jacob Mull)
Re: Moving and resizing partition under linux (Laurenz Widhalm)
Re: Off-topic: AMD processors ? (Alpine)
Re: Aztech labs soundblaster pro (Tom Michiels)
Re: HDB boot config (John McKown)
Re: Where can i get i740 AGP chipset driver???? (Mike Topper)
Re: Linux kernel 2.2.5: support for UMAX UDS-IS-11 SCSI Controller Card
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
YAMAHA XG192 WaveForce Installation ("MAUDET Michel-Marie")
Q: PCMCIA Token Ring, IBM ThinkPad (Reece Kimball Hart)
Windows is trying to read my linux hd? (Emily Slocombe)
Server test ("Miragent")
Access server ("Miragent")
Re: parallel port (Mattt)
Re: multiple serial port card and terminal (Cokey de Percin)
floppy disk ("D0uG")
Re: Suse 6.1 beta (Robert Schiele)
Re: Suse 6.1 beta (Robert Schiele)
Re: FREE Computer Documentation (jik-)
Re: Configure 2 ethernets SMC Elite 16( WD8013) with RH 5.2 (Tom)
lp problem when upgrading from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.6 (Rhys Ulerich)
Re: RH 5.2 and Matrox g200 agp (Jacob Mull)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: winbook laptops
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:48:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christian Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just saw an add for a sub $1000 laptop, the "Winbook" in New
> Scientist. Has anyone tried putting Linux on one of these? The name is
> scary, but for $999....
I've had very good luck with the two that I've owned (XP; now FX) The only
problem I've had has been with the keyboard (failed and replaced under
warranty on the XP and impending on the FX - long since out of warranty). I
can't complain though as they've had unsheltered lives. The FX hit the floor
(not enough velcro) of a patrol car during some evasive maneuvers and showed
no ill effects.
I'm considering putting Linux on it now that work has finally issued me a
laptop. I'll be curious to see the responses to this. I'm waiting on a reply
from Winbook Techsupport to see if the sound, video, mouse, modem, pcmcia
subcomponents will be problematic.
Marc.
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From: Jacob Mull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: any1 from Canada will sell or burn linux cheaply ?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:15:11 -0400
>
Have you looked at some Linux books that come with a CD?
> any1 from canada can sell linux cd's or burn then very cheaply ?
> i want to change my linux OS, but all dists are located in US, and i hate to
> pay shipping and hand.
> I know it's cheap from cheapbytes.com or linuxmall or lsl.com, but u know,
> if some1 is cool, then all i have to do is send him a blank cd and a floppy,
> and he's burn it for free or small fee :)
> if any1 here has any books etc.. mail me
> UnKnOwNn
--
In an insane society, a sane man must appear insane -- Star Trek
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From: Laurenz Widhalm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moving and resizing partition under linux
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:03:25 +0200
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Valerio Farruggio wrote:
> Hi, I've a ibm 10,1GB where i've installed WinNT, Win98 and Linux.
[...]
> Does anyone have a Linux
> program similar to Partition Magic able to move and resize partitions or help me
> in other ways ( write me how make a new linux partition and move the contents
> of the first boot into it). I really need and help.
I'm not (yet) a Linux expert, but I installed Linux only two days ago
beside Win95, then rearranged some partitions using Partition Magic under
W95, moved files under Linux using "cp -r *", edited fstab - and it
worked!
Laurenz
[Frigschneck]
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From: Alpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off-topic: AMD processors ?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:18:17 -0400
look at megamicro on line
http://www.megamicro.net/one.htm
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From: Tom Michiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Aztech labs soundblaster pro
Date: 18 Apr 1999 17:46:00 GMT
Torjus Gaaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it supported in any kernel version or is there any way at all I can
> make it work (compatibility with another soundcard)?
I think this card is compatible with microsoft sound system.
An easy way to find out the correct settings for you sound card,
is loading the demo version of the 4fronttech drivers, and looking at
the /dev/sndstat to find out how to do it yourselves.
Good luck!
Tom
--
Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: HDB boot config
Date: 18 Apr 1999 19:27:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am relatively sure (>90%) that MS products (DOS, Windows) are written so
that they MUST boot from the first IDE drive. I don't think that they will
boot from /dev/hdb? no matter how hard you try. They're brain dead.
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:16:24 +0059, Neil Steadman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm currently gnashing my teeth trying to get my second IDE drive (of 4) to
>boot MSDOS. Needed purely to get my parallel port scanner working. The
>thought of using Win3.1 as a scanner driver kind of appeals actually.
>
>Any way, I've fdisked, formatted and 'sys'ed it using entirely MSDOS tools
>from a floppy. It's setup as one primary partition.
>
>Then I tell linux.conf -
>other = /dev/hdb, or other = /dev/hdb1, but I get a missing OS message,
>or told to insert a valid boot disk.
>(Lilo is installed on hda's MBR)
>
>The HOWTO's only appear to detail booting off a partition on hda.
>
>Anyone got this working?
>
>(EMail would be much appreciated).
>
>Neil.
>--
>A computer needs Windows like Bill needs more cash.
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From: Mike Topper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where can i get i740 AGP chipset driver????
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:20:42 -0400
Tracy Leung Wing Yee wrote:
> I am using Rehat5.2, i am looking for a driver for 8 meg AGP i740
> chipset video card. Where can i get it???
ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/XBF/
download the glibc rpm and the xf86config file....read the README and it
tells you how to install everything
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.scsi,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.scanners
Subject: Re: Linux kernel 2.2.5: support for UMAX UDS-IS-11 SCSI Controller Card
Date: 18 Apr 1999 17:58:20 GMT
In comp.periphs.scsi tota11y /<-rad el33t hax0r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: As described on <http://support.umax.co.uk/technotes/f096B.htm>, the SCSI
: card that comes with UMAX scanners is really an OEM of Domex's (aka DTC
: Technology's) DTC-3181 SCSI card.
: I was wondering if anyone knew is Linux has any support for Domex
: Technology Corporation SCSI controllers?
Add this to your /etc/conf.modules
---8<---
options g_NCR5380 dtc_3181e=1 ncr_addr=0x300 ncr_irq=254
---8<---
The 0x300 base address may vary (look at your /proc/ioports, the card will go
from 0x300 downwards in 0x20 steps until it finds "unoccupied space"). Using
the wrong base address will result in a kernel oops, so be careful.
The "modprobe g_NCR5380" somewhere in your rc.local (or wherever you want,
as long as it is before you try to scan.
One thing: THIS IS SLOWER THAN A SNAIL. This comes from the stupid design of
the card, which in standard configuration doesn't use interupts. Sadly I
haven't been able to enable interrupts on my card, so I think I'll use an
adapter cable and connect it to my main SCSI card (hope this won't pollute
Ultra SCSI too much).
Hope this helps (feel free to contact me if you have problems with it)
Bye, Nils
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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From: "MAUDET Michel-Marie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: YAMAHA XG192 WaveForce Installation
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:05:15 +0200
How to install this sound card under the RedHat 5.2 with the kernel
5.5.2 ?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Q: PCMCIA Token Ring, IBM ThinkPad
Reply-To: Reece Kimball Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Reece Kimball Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Apr 1999 14:13:28 -0400
I'm trying to get a ThinkPad 765L (p/n 9547 U9J) and an IBM "Token Ring
Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter" (p/n 92G9352) to play together with no
luck. I'm using linux 2.0.36 and 2.2.5, pcmcia 3.0.9. In particular, I
get hwaddr=000000000000, as below:
Apr 18 13:36:12 snafu cardmgr[1346]: socket 0: IBM Token Ring Adapter
Apr 18 13:36:13 snafu cardmgr[1346]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.5/pcmcia/ibmtr_cs.o'
Apr 18 13:36:13 snafu kernel: tr0: port 0xa20, irq 7, mmio 0xc4862000, sram 0xc0000,
Apr 18 13:36:13 snafu kernel: hwaddr=000000000000
Apr 18 13:36:13 snafu cardmgr[1346]: executing: './network start tr0'
Here's what I've tried so far:
1) hardwiring the MAC in ibmtr_cs.c. See the note about
"hardwiring the address for queer cards"?
2) various combinations of irqs, including turning all non-essential irqs
off using the dos PS2 command and/or the W95 ThinkPad configurator.
3) brute force memory searching for the correct MAC (which I alread know).
4) I have updated the thinkpad's bios and card's microcode, per IBM's
support website.
5) Brute force insmod'ing with a big range of mmio values, checking the
/var/log/messages for the correct MAC after each.
I work at IBM Watson labs and a few others here have token ring adapters
on thinkpads (running linux... yea!), but no one has my combination. I
can't help but feel that there's something peculiar about the combination
or specific models.
Thanks for any tips.
Reece
--
Reece Hart, http://www.in-machina.com/~reece/, PGP:0xD178AAF9
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From: Emily Slocombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Windows is trying to read my linux hd?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:11:26 -0400
Hi all!
I have been a linux user for quite some time now, and prior to last week
I only had 2 hard drives. Hda, a 6.4g Quantum Fireball, was home to
windows and my mp3's, and I had hdb, a cheap 4g drive housing linux.
Well, my mp3's outgrew my 6 gig drive, so I bought a new hard drive- a
12.7g Quantum Fireball, strictly for mp3's and linux backups.
My mbr had always been on hda windows98) and I have always used System
Commander, a third party boot manager. I had this great idea to move
around my drives. My plan as executed: hda is now the 4 gig, home to
windows. Hdb is the 6 gig, home to Slackware pre-4.0. Hdc is my Atapi
cdrom (no change here). Hdd is the new 12.7 gig- fat32, 8 gigs mp3s, and
4.5 gigs backups. I thoroughly formatted the whole lot of hard drives
before installing anything.
Now here's the stumper! Suddenly windows is assigning my linux drive a
drive letter, though it fails to read it, and it causing my windoze boot
time to be more than 10 minutes long! I have formatted my new linux
drive a million times, using all sort of drive utilities. I have used
tweakUI to dis-allow thae drive letter it assigns it, and this only
helped when opening windows explorer-- still had the painfully slow boot
time. I have re-formatted it for fat32-- it obviously has no problem
like this. I have totally removed any sort of filesystem, and partition
table (with System Commander Deluxe)-- and it boots fine this way, and
winblows does not assign a drive letter to it in this state either. If
it has ext2fs, the only way windows doesn't puke, is if I set the linux
hard drive to 'none' in my BIOS, and boot into windows that way.
I am so totally sick of formatting. Is there anyway I can fix this?
*especially* if it doesn't involve formatting? Slackware is configured
so perfectly, I would hate to have to recreate it, again.
Thanks for your time, if you have a suggestion, I prefer email but I
will check the newsgroup too. If you enjoy music, go to my website and
get some mp3's (goatrance and drum & bass primarily)
-emily
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ubermachine.com
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From: "Miragent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Server test
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:52:13 -0700
testing for botulism source
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From: "Miragent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Access server
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:52:44 -0700
botulism test
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:55:39 +1000
Subject: Re: parallel port
From: Mattt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
try using lp0 - especially if you just upgraded your kernel to 2.2.x
mattt
"RobV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:Hallo Linux users,
:
:Please who can help me with the following problem:
:
:I have my parallel port configured default at 0x278H and IRQ 7. Although=
I
:believe so, according to dmesg command. The character device is /dev/lp1
:
:A printer (HP 720 C) is connected at this port and functions pretty good
:when I print using Windows.
:
:However, when I perform a e.g. cat /etc/resolv.conf > /dev/lp1 nothing
:comes out, not a single character (it's like /dev/null). I am logged in =
as
:root at linux 5.2
:
:Who has tips? Somebody knows what I must do to be able to print this way=
?
:This should work at least before I begin configuring a nice printer spoo=
ler.
:I spent many hours already and gave it up nearly. Thank you very much
:beforehand,
:
:Regards,
:Rob Visser.
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multiple serial port card and terminal
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:24:51 +0000
Frank Paprosky wrote:
>
> If you can find an old Digiboard PC/8 it would be perfect.
>
> The Digiboard Serial I/O products is the best choice for Linux.
>
> With the PC/8 card you don't need any driver. Just use the setserial program
> to configure each port.
>
> Frank.
>
> In article <7f6ii2$f9r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Aaron Tunnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a bunch of old terminals 2-3 that I want to spread around the house
> > to use as email and news group terms. I also have a Plam sync cradle, modem
> > and tablet. I can do without the tablet but i need the modem and cradle,
> > what multiole serial port cards work with linux, are theire any cheap ones
> > out there? Used? An will this work, is it a good solution? Thanks
I would suggest www.byterunner.com. Nice boards and fairly inexpensive.
They even have PCI serial boards now if you're short on ISA slots. I've
been running a 4 Serial 2 Parallel board for almost two years now and had
no problems. I paid about $65 for it. Note that you can share IRQs; I use
one IRQ for all 4 ports.
Best
Cokey
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Cokey de Percin, DBA Email:
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From: "D0uG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: floppy disk
Date: 18 Apr 1999 19:21:22 GMT
How you can get files from a floppy. (I think I had mount it, but I'm not
sure). And if you mount you floppy drive, how can you copying files to you
harddisk from it?
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From: Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse 6.1 beta
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 21:14:19 +0200
folkert meeuw wrote:
>
> I installed with a friend today Suse 6.1 beta.
> We had at first a problem with the NIC, a NE2000 compatible Card.
> Booting the System it always put the message, that the ne NE*000 i/o = 0*300
> was not found. We tested with ping the functionality, but the card will not
> work.
Is this an isa ne2000? If so, set irqX reserved for isa in your bios
setup, where X is the number of irq your card is using.
Is this a pnp card? If so, use isapnp!
> Then I build a new Kernel with a monolithic part for NE2000 NICs.
> But the card will not work. Then I changed the i/o to 0*02df, and the system
> wasn't comming up after reboot, it stops when loading the NIC.
> And then the PC-Bios switched. No bootdisk will get the system up.
> It switched always to the defect Linux Installation.
Check the boot order in your bios setup!
> Any suggestion here, what was going wrong ?
>
> MfG Folkert Meeuw
Robert
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From: Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse 6.1 beta
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 21:17:27 +0200
Thomas Zajic wrote:
>
> folkert meeuw wrote:
> > I installed with a friend today Suse 6.1 beta.
> > We had at first a problem with the NIC, a NE2000 compatible Card.
> > Booting the System it always put the message, that the ne NE*000 i/o = 0*300
> > was not found. We tested with ping the functionality, but the card will not
> > work.
> > Then I build a new Kernel with a monolithic part for NE2000 NICs.
> > But the card will not work. Then I changed the i/o to 0*02df, and the system
> > wasn't comming up after reboot, it stops when loading the NIC.
> > And then the PC-Bios switched. No bootdisk will get the system up.
> > It switched always to the defect Linux Installation.
> > Any suggestion here, what was going wrong ?
> > MfG Folkert Meeuw
>
> I guess that they call it _BETA_ for a reason ...
The kernel in Suse 6.1 beta is a normal 2.2 kernel. As the network card
is always initialized by the kernel the "_BETA_" cannot be the reason!
>
> Thomas
Robert
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 12:56:49 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: FREE Computer Documentation
Chris Sherlock wrote:
>
> FREE Computer Documentation
>
> books, standards, specifications, source code, and more
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP - The Linux Documentation
> Project!
>
> Welcome there.
xc/doc/hardcopy - The X Window System source tree
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Configure 2 ethernets SMC Elite 16( WD8013) with RH 5.2
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:38:09 -0700
Younes:
I don't know if this will be useful to you, and I am just getting the
hang of this myself (w/SuSE 6.0), so please excuse and correct any
misstatements, but I recently set up a dual-homed machine with an SMC
80xx and a 3Com 3c509, and had some problem getting the SMC card to be
recognized as well when I compiled the kernel with built-in support for
SMC-Ultra. When I recompiled with all modules, lsmod showed that
SMC-ultra was loading a module called 8390. BTW, when I set up the
hardware I had to supply io=0x280 and irq=3 arguments on the load line.
:Tom
Younes Yajoud wrote:
> 2 ethernets SMC Elite 16( WD8013) with RH 5.2
>
> Hi I have cable modem intenet access and I have RH 5.2 with this
> configuration:
> Server Linux:
> RH 5.2
> Processor : Pentium 90 MHz
> RAM : 40 Mo
> Hard Disk SCSI : Seagate 1 Go
> IDE : Conner cp 100 Mo
> CDROM SCSI : Sony
> Graphic adapter : ATI mach 32
> SCSI adapter : Adaptec AH 2940 PCI
> Network Card :2 SMC Elite 16( WD8013) i/o =280; IRQ= 3 ;
> RAM=D0000
>
> i/o=300; IRQ=10; RAM= CC000
> Mouse : 3 butons ms-compatible
>
> 3 Clients working with Windows.
>
> The probleme is my linux doen't recognise my 2 Networks Cards and my
> mouse doesn't work in X.
> I have only 3 posibilities to configure my NIC:
> 1) i/o =280; IRQ= 3 ; RAM=D0000
> 2) i/o=300; IRQ=10; RAM= CC000
> 3) by software( in windows)
>
> I need help to configure this server.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Sorry for my english is not good, my mother tongue is french.
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From: Rhys Ulerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lp problem when upgrading from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.6
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:31:49 -0400
I've currently in the process of finishing tweaking my configuration
for the new 2.2.6 kernel (I upgraded from 2.0.36 as the subject indicates).
Under 2.0.36 my printer (a Deskjet 694C) was configured via apsfilter 5.02
(the newest version) and worked perfectly.
When I upgraded to 2.2.6 I ran into problems. At first the kernel reported
that the lp.o module needed to be compiled. So I compiled the kernel
with line printer support as a module. The printer still did not work.
Then I removed lp.o from /lib/modules/2.2.6/misc and recompiled the
kernel with line printer support included. I receive no error messages
from the kernel on bootup, and yet I still cannot print. (I cannot
redirect output to /dev/lp via standard pipes)
I am fairly certain that this problem is solely limited to how I have the
kernel setup (that was the only system configuration change I made
when the printer ceased to work). lpd does not give me any errors.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Could you please respond via email? I don't get to check usenet
as often as I'd like . . .
Thank you for your time,
Rhys Ulerich
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From: Jacob Mull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 5.2 and Matrox g200 agp
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:06:16 -0400
The G200 runs realy well on my Linux box. Just have to make sure your running
the latest XFree
to use it.
Gardoonza wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> does anyone have any information on getting a Matrox g200 agp working with
> linux?
>
> Jason
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