Linux-Hardware Digest #124, Volume #10 Fri, 30 Apr 99 07:13:32 EDT
Contents:
How install 2 3C905 PCI on a router ? (frederic pont)
Re: Booting from an AIC7890 SCSI Controller (diahedrial)
Re: How to disable BlackList on generic K56 modem? ("Tiamat")
Re: PS/2 and USB (Ben Janssen)
dtc_3181e and g_NCR5380 (Stuart Midgley)
Re: WINMODEM and BANSHEE (Digital Wokan)
Good Recomdations for a Linux Laptop (Matt -Lenky-)
Re: Naive Beowulf Question (Tomasz Korycki)
Re: making linux go away ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI Xpert 98 AGP problems in Xwindows (Robert August Vincent II)
Re: Calibri Firewall/Router on Ebay. ("Gideon le Grange")
Re: Lexmark Optra E310 (Mark Hahn)
Re: HP LaserJet 1100/1100A performance (Maxim Bazhenov)
Help Installing Linux 5.2 on Dell PowerEdge SP 5166 (Leslie Smith)
IBM PS/1 Monitor (Andrew Winterburn)
Re: Backup admin tools for Linux. (Greg Ercolano)
Re: Offline mail with ISDN Dial on Demand Router ("Leopold Toetsch")
Re: Calibri Firewall/Router on Ebay. (John Navas)
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From: frederic pont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How install 2 3C905 PCI on a router ?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 04:27:30 GMT
Hi all,
I try to install 2 PCI NIC (3C905+3C905B) on my Linux (RH5.2 2.2.4) router.. I
tried everything to avoid irq conflict :
- driver compiled with the kernel (3C59x)
- module driver, with options lines in conf.modules
- append="ether=10... in lilo.conf
- try to change irq with 3c90xcfg.exe from 3com (irq is read only)
- disable PnP in bios
but both irq are still 9.
I can run both NIC separetly, but obviously not together.
and I still need to install a third NIC.. Is somebody running a router with 2
PCI NIC ? Can somebody explain me how irq works on PCI ?
Please, please, please help me.. any advices, experiences or comments welcome.
Thanks
fred
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From: diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting from an AIC7890 SCSI Controller
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:41:24 -0700
Jay Ribak wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am building a new Linux box and I am having a little trouble getting
> the system to boot from a SCSI drive. Here are the system specs: ASUS
> P2B-S motherboard with built in AIC7890 Ultra2-SCSI Chipset (AHA 2940
> compatible). /dev/sda is an IBM 9.1 GB SCSI disk with SCSI ID 6.
Why ID 6, I would recommend using ID0 for the boot drive...
>IDE CD-ROM is on /dev/hda, although I am thinking of moving this to a
> different IDE chain to make it /dev/hdc.
Shouldn't matter...
> I installed Linux via a bootdisk for the AIC7890 chipset. The install
> went fairly smoothly, although it had trouble detecting the IDE CDROM at
> a few points during the install. /dev/sda1 is marked as an active
> partition, and I tried installing LILO first to the MBR and then to the
> superblock of the bootable partition--neither worked.
So what happened, was there an error message? how far did the boot
proceed?
> The BIOS of the
> system is setup to allow booting from the SCSI chain first, and ID 6 is
> set as a bootable device in the SCSI BIOS. The system, however,
> refuses to boot from the SCSI disk. I can boot from the boot floppy and
> do a mount /dev/sda1 to bring the system up that way, but that is not
> ideal for this situation. Does anyone have any suggestions for
> resolving this issue?
I would try installing with the SCSI boot drive at ID0, and when
the install gets to the point of installing LILO, install it in the
MBR, and use the "linear" option. If your install gives you an
option of creating a boot disk, take it. It's worked for me using
a 2940UW with an 8Gig drive...
> Also, the SCSI controller is using IRQ 10. The 3c905 network card
> seems to want to use IRQ 10 as well. I have tried changing the IRQ of
> the NIC but it doesn't seem to want to choose a unique IRQ. Will there
> be problems with the two devices sharing the same IRQ? (I haven't yet
> tried swapping the slot the NIC is in...that may help).
Probably won't hurt, but if you can get the nic to use a different IRQ
that's better, esp. if it's going to be a server.
> Thanks
> Jay Ribak
That's my suggestions, hope this can be of some help,
-diahedrial.
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From: "Tiamat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to disable BlackList on generic K56 modem?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 06:52:59 +0200
Ernesto Mottola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have a compatible V90 - K56Flex external modem; when I find a busy
> number, it refuses to dial again (it seems like it stops responding to
> AT commands).
>
> Is there an AT sequence in the initialization string to prevent this
> behaviour??
>
> Thank you
>
> Ernesto
>
I had that problem once, and what you have to do is reset all the internal
registers (on an USR 33.6 internal, there are six) :
ATZ0
ATZ1
ATZ2
ATZ3
ATZ4
ATZ5
You do this as long as it says OK after a command.
It worked for me, I hope it'll work for you too :)
CYA
Tiamat
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From: Ben Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PS/2 and USB
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:13:42 +0200
> If by "PS/2 connectors" you mean places to plug in the keyboard and
> mouse with mini-DIN connectors, then I'm surprised... there should be at
> least a single DIN connector (mini or full-size) for the KB. Linux
> doesn't support USB yet, but neither does Windows NT, so I'd be amazed
> if they're shipping mobos which can't boot NT.
Well there is a large DIN connector on it but where can you buy a good
keyboard with a large DIN plug? PS/2 (mini) is standard so I was amazed
there aren't any on the Asus p5a-b board.
> OTOH no problem for the mouse as long as there's at least one real
> serial port.
There is but for the mouse, too, PS/2 is standard...
> USB has a lot of promise, but I read somewhere that the biggest platform
> for USB peripherals is the iMac because only Windows 98.....
Well I think it isn't really a good idea to buy them... I'm going to use a
Linux-like OS and Win95, but to upgrade Win95 I probably have to buy a at
least $100 upgrade...
THundur--
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From: Stuart Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dtc_3181e and g_NCR5380
Date: 30 Apr 1999 05:37:26 GMT
I have a DTC 3181e scsi controller. I have managed to get it partially
working with kernel 2.2.6, I just want to get the last bit.
Anyway, I did an pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf
The card detects and gets allocated
irq=4
addr=0x240
No problem. I then
modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=4 ncr_addr=0x240 dtc_3181e=1
The 2 SCSI hards disks that I have attached get identified correctly (CDC,
312MB) and assigned to sda and sdb. Howver, the system the halts for a
while and a heap of error messages get shown (they scroll off the screen
before I can get them down). The last of these messages is
SCSI disk error: host 0 channel 0 id1 lun 0 return_code 50000
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
scsi0: warning: target bitmask 02 lun 0 not in disconnect_queue
When I search the g_NCR5380.c file, I find that this error seems to relate
to unsupported features of SCSI II. Since I am not a drivers guru, I do
not know what is going on.
Can any body help me to get the device working correctly (it works well
under DOS, I can partition and format the drive fine).
Thanks
Stu.
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From: Digital Wokan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WINMODEM and BANSHEE
Date: 30 Apr 1999 05:37:27 GMT
1. Find your local www.linuxberg.com mirror and go to servers under X11
software. You'll find links to the Voodoo Banshee XServer.
2. Not yet, but if more people would complain to the manufacturers...
(Or reverse engineer a winmodem windows driver...)
Dan wrote:
> Hello all,
> 1. Does LINUX supports BANSHEE video card.
> 2. Does LINUX supports WINMODEM ?
> 10x
> Dan
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From: Matt -Lenky- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Good Recomdations for a Linux Laptop
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:38:27 -0400
Hello I need good recomdations for a linux laptop i want to purchase and
setup in a month or so.
Please CC: via Email.
Matt
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Lenky
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From: Tomasz Korycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Naive Beowulf Question
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:30:40 -0400
News wrote:
>
> Is it possible to run Beowulf on several (three or four) somewhat
> dissimilar computers? I have several old computers (486 class)
> that are *close* but not exactly the same.
>
> Obviously, if it works, the bottleneck will be at the slowest
> computer.
>
> Is there anyone out there doing something similar with success?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Swope
Yes, it is possible. With slow CPUs You won't have to worry about
getting network-bound....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 05:40:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
P A Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> If you can get someone to make the WINNT4.0 three floppy disc set, you
> can start to install NT. You will get to a screen that asks want
> partition you want to install on and do you want to delete any
> partitions. At this point I delete the Linux as well as any other
> partitions, save this and quit. Or you might just try using NT to do a
> 16Bit FAT fdisk and format.
>
I tried that and it *still* boots Linux - to a point.
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From: Robert August Vincent II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert 98 AGP problems in Xwindows
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:26:36 -0400
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Neil Steadman wrote:
>Huh? After installing RedHat 5.2 from a CD, I got 1280x1024 at anything up
>to 32bpp...
>
>What I still don't have is hardware acceleration. So there are two threads
>to run here:
>
>Is there an ATI 3D hardware accelerated XFree86 replacement?
>
>Is there an ATI 3D hardware accelerated Mesa replacement?
I'm confused. I've got an ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP, and it's strictly 2D.
I'm using the Mach64 X server with generic ATI chipset support.
Also have a 3D add-on board (Diamond Monster3d, IIRC) and got Mesa-GL and
Quake-III up with a little tweaking. (had to download and recompile Mesa).
Runs up to 1280x1024 at 32bpp, and 800x600 in 3D mode
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From: "Gideon le Grange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.dcom.modems.cable,comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.security.firewalls
Subject: Re: Calibri Firewall/Router on Ebay.
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:21:12 +0200
Idiot.
Don't use this newsgroup to draw attention to your own sutff
being sold by Ebay.
What a moron
Jack Levin wrote in message ...
>Hi all... Check out Calibri-133 firewall being sold at Ebay. (hardware)
>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=97714586
>
>-Jack
>
>
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Lexmark Optra E310
Date: 30 Apr 1999 05:34:39 GMT
> I haven't seen any reviews on this new Lexmark printer yet. Is anyone
it works beautifully. good speed and find print quality.
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From: Maxim Bazhenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 1100/1100A performance
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:24:54 +0000
I tested HP1100 (with GS filter ljet4) and got 5-6 pages/min for 300 dpi and
2-3 pages/min
for 600 dpi that is fine for my purposes. However I didn't find any
difference between GS5.50
and GS4.03. For 600 dpi I also noted the interruptions between pages. So
I'm going to buy
more memory. And here is my question. I have no any experience with printer
memory. Now
I have 2 Meg and I can get another 4 Meg for $12 only. Would it be enough to
note the difference
and, in particular, to remove interruptions between pages or I have to get
more (8 Meg for $64
is next and quite expensive option)? Thanks a lot.
Maxim
Grant Taylor wrote:
> Maxim Bazhenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Now I am thinking about buying HP LaserJet 1100A but I need to know
> > what speed can I expect to get printing PostScript from Linux.
>
> Well, one fellow reported that it was slow until he began using
> Ghostscript 5.50.
>
> I also have an email from one Rainer Kiehne reporting:
>
> > The slow printing seems to be dependent of the printer memory.
> > 300dpi printing results in fast page output. It seems like the
> > lj1100 can store only one 600dpi page at a time so it prints one
> > page, waits, prints another page, waits,...
>
> It sounds to me as if an 1100 with extra RAM added should perform more
> or less as well as an 1100 is going to...
>
> --
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Smith)
Subject: Help Installing Linux 5.2 on Dell PowerEdge SP 5166
Date: 30 Apr 1999 09:33:16 +0100
Can help me out here, I have got a Dell PowerEdge server
SP 5166 Dual CPU. I am trying to load linux 5.2 kernel
with no joy. I can build the box with 5.0 but not with
5.1 or 5.2 boot disk. Dose anyone know of a fix for
this.
Regards
Leslie...UK:-)
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From: Andrew Winterburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM PS/1 Monitor
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:41:39 +0100
Tried running XF65Setup .... settings look OK, i.e. right chipset, etc.
and it informs me that I have been successful but when I try to run
startx I get the following Error Message:
SVGA : clgd5426 : Specifying a clocks line makes no sense for this
driver
SVGA : chipset : clgd5426
SVGA : videoram : 512k
SVGA : clocks : 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.05 39.99 45.08
SVGA : option : "noaccel"
SVGA : option : "no_bitblt"
Using 8bpp, Depth 8, Color Weight : 666
Max allowed dot-clock : 45.556 MHz
There is no mode definition named "640 x 480"
Removing mode "640 x 480" from list of valid modes
There is no mode definition named "320 x 240"
Fatal Server Error : No valid modes found
Any Ideas????
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From: Greg Ercolano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.os.linux,copm.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Backup admin tools for Linux.
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 03:28:03 -0700
Nitin Mule wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> My typical backup opernations will involve backing up a fileserver
> (12GB), web/mail server (2GB), and database server (Informix SE, 5 GB).
> All three servers are on redhat 5.2 and I want to back them all through
> NFS at one place. Occassionally, I may have to backup some windows
> machines on the network. I've samba running on the fileserver. I've an
> Exabyte mammoth tape drive with AdvanSys Ultra wide SCSI card.
I have a similar situation where I use a linux machine
with a 14 tape Quantum DLT tape robot to do daily incremental
backups of both unix machines via NFS, and and NT machines
via samba.
In my case, two of the disk servers are 70GB raids, both
hovering at 90% full. One is an NT, one linux.
And a few other unix machines, a mixture of SGIs and linux.
It sounds like you don't mind 'rolling your own' backup script,
so you might want to investigate my technique.
I use gnutar to backup the NFS volumes, and samba smbclient(1)'s
tar abilities to get the NT server. This way all the data is
backed up using tar archives.
The gnutar command line is basically:
nice tar -c \
-v \
-f /dev/nst0 \
--same-order \
--new-volume-script ./next-tape \
--label ${tapename}_${magazine_name} \
--multi-volume \
--one-file-system \
--listed-incremental ./snapshot_${tapename}_${magazine_name} \
$dirs >& $error_log
..and the smbclient command is (basically):
nice smbclient //ntserver/files \
$backup_passwd \
-U $backup_user \
-W $our_workgroup \
-TbcS 20 /dev/nst0 ./next-tape $dirs >& $error_log
Note: You won't see the smbclient 'S' flag in the man page;
I hacked that into smbclient so that I could tell it to run
my './next-tape' script to load the next tape when the end of
a tape is encountered. I need to publish the diff(1)s I made
so that other people can use that. I love open source ;)
But it doesn't sound like you have a tape robot to worry about,
so that's probably a non issue for you.
Also note: I found that gnutar has a subtle bug with
incrementals, where after a full backup is made, files that
are *renamed* are not caught in the incrementals. In our case,
this was a negligable enough problem, so we ignore it, but
anxiously await a fix from the gnu maintainers (I reported it
in fall 98).
My backups script has alot of crap around the above commands
to make sure the directories are mounted, the tape is properly
positioned relative to the last time the script was run, keeping
track of which magazine/tape number, etc. Simple admin-y stuff.
If you want to roll your own, I can say the above has been working
for me the last 3 or 4 months now. And yes, we've had to do a few
restores, including a complete raid recovery 8^O which actually
worked, thank god.
> [..] BRU [..]
No opinion on BRU, sorry.
Hope the recommendations above help.
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|o,o|
\/ )
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3dsite.com/people/erco/
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From: "Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: Offline mail with ISDN Dial on Demand Router
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:13:29 +0200
Hi,
David Travers wrote in message ...
==SNIP
>How can I prevent sendmail from making the unnecessary connections. If you
>have a copy of the sendmail.cf that you could post me and other system
>settings, I would be most grateful.
Don't mess around with sendmail.cf. Have look at the .mc files:
activate in sendmail.mc
define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE�, `True�)dnl
define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS�, `e�)dnl
FEATURE(`nocanonify�)dnl
define(`confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE�, `/etc/service.switch�)dnl
And /etc/service.switch:
hosts files
aliases files
Have a look into /usr/share/sendmail/ or locate cf.m4 or look at
SuSE support-database
http://www.suse.de/sdb_e/smt_sendmail.html
or Mailverkehr mit Linux
http://www.toetsch.at/de/tips/linux/99/16.htm
(in German, config files in Linux)
HTH
leo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Navas)
Crossposted-To:
comp.dcom.modems.cable,comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.security.firewalls
Subject: Re: Calibri Firewall/Router on Ebay.
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 07:04:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[POSTED TO comp.dcom.modems.cable]
"Jack Levin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[SNIP]
Please do not post eBay or other auction ads here. This is not even a
forsale newsgroup, much less a newsgroup for auction ads. (Ads of any kind
generally belong only in newsgroups that specifically allow them; e.g.,
misc.forsale.computers.* -- for more information, see
<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/misc.forsale.computers.discussion/Misc.FS+Biz.Mktplc_ADVERTISING_FAQ--INFO_FOR_NEW_USERS>.)
Thank you for your consideration.
--
Best regards,
John mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/
28800-56K Modem FAQ: http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/modem/faq.html
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