Linux-Hardware Digest #217, Volume #10 Wed, 12 May 99 12:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: How to distinguish ECC memory? (steven)
X-windows on Voodoo3!!! HELP!! (Sekar)
Re: Dual M/B recommendation please (Rod Roark)
Re: Onstream Tape Drives (Johannes Niess)
Re: How do I use a tape drive???? (Johannes Niess)
Community Radio data broadcast (Brodo)
Re: making linux go away ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X-windows on Voodoo3!!! HELP!! (fingers)
Re: OSS started misbehaving (Rajmund Krivec)
Re: writing to fat32 partition (diahedrial)
Re: What is the best modem to use with RedHat 5.2? (Andrew Comech)
Re: How to low-level format a SCSI (Villy Kruse)
IBM Token-Ring (Richard van Denzel)
Re: Modem woes... (patrick)
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From: steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: How to distinguish ECC memory?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:00:25 +0200
Well, it worked in the P2B (we changed some normal with some alledgedly
ECC ram just to test this).
Mircea wrote:
>
> In my Award BIOS, it isn't (Abit BH6).
>
> MST
>
> steven wrote:
> >
> > In the bios you can select to use or not use ECC on your memory module.
> > If you have non-ECC memory, The option is "grayed-out".
> >
> > This is at least true for AWARD bios'.
> >
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From: Sekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X-windows on Voodoo3!!! HELP!!
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:02:42 -0500
Hi,
I have a voodoo3 3000 AGP card in my machine. I recently installed
Redhat linux 6.0 on the system.
During the installation, I didnt find any voodoo card in the video card
list. So I selected "Unlisted card".
Then for the x-server, I selected "SVGA server".
When I run x-windows, all i get is the 320x200 resolution with 16 color
[not 16-bit color].
I selected the monitor correctly from the list which is Nokia 447X [17"]
I tried running xf86config and tried to edit the file XF86Config
manually also...but nothing seems to help.
Any clue will be appreciated.
Thanks.
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual M/B recommendation please
Date: 12 May 1999 15:29:11 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Another question: I have seen some review sites publish numbers about
>Celeron 400 at 100MHz bus (e.g., Tom's Hardware yesterday ran a dual
>celeron article). How could they get this combination since the Cel. is
>locked at x6 multiplier. Is the locked multiplier only an upper limit,
>or in other words can you set it lower? (The lowest worthy Cel. is
>300MHz = 66MHz x 4.5 which still does not give 400/100).
400 / 100 * 66.6 = 266.4. Must be one of the old 266's, but those
didn't have any on-chip cache.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
======================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Niess)
Subject: Re: Onstream Tape Drives
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:31:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>OnStream does have plans to support our drives on Linux servers.
>Currently, we are working with Ehnahced Software Technologies, Inc. as
>part of their Linux Tape Certification program to develop and test
>support for our drives with BRU for Linux. Availability of drivers will
>be announced when they are available. Customers who are interested can
>register on the OnStream web site to be notified when this support is
>released.
>Mary Mueller
>OnStream, Inc.
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dave Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does anyone know if there is a third party or manufactuers linux
>driver
>> available for the Onstream 30Gig Tape drive?
>> <a href="http://www.onstream.com">http://www.onstream.com</a>
Amanda is my backup program of choice. It is GPL, with a very helpfull
mailing list, it handles dozends of client computers with a lot of
operating systems (Linux, other Unixes, Windows via Samba), it
distributes your load (one tape might contain a level 0 from one disk
and a level 2 from another), output of a selfcheck is mailed and it
handles tape changers. And Idiot can handle it after setup.
Volunteers for writing a GUI will get a lot of help.
I don't know about a missing feature and it is very reliable. Why
spend money for a backup program with less features?
You can find eveything about it at www.amanda.org
Johannes Niess
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Niess)
Subject: Re: How do I use a tape drive????
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:20:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson) wrote:
>Many thanks for such a complete answer and too everyone who sent me emails.
>I can now use my tape drive but probably really need to look in to buying a
>backup program.
Why? www.amada.org
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From: Brodo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.serial
Subject: Community Radio data broadcast
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 01:38:59 +1000
Sorry for the cross-post, but I think this could be pretty cool:
Hi,
I know some people involved in a community radio station who are
investigating the possibility of allocating some bandwidth to data
transmission. : ))
The idea would be to allocate ~9kHz bandwidth in a 60-70kHz sub-band
using SCA (Sub-Carrier Additional). Data could then be received using an
SCA equipped FM radio, and perhaps a sound card. I think this idea is
great, and wonder if anybody has suggestions about how to configure
suitable networking interfaces.
I know there is a great deal of packet support in the kernel but
don't really know how applicable it is(?).
The goal would be to broadcast data, not just datagrams, so reliable
delivery should be available. I envisage the data server would be on the
internet and clients could provide feedback above IP. Ideally clients
would include windows machines, so the interfacing must be implementable
under that gagged and oppressive atmosphere.
Is it possible to implement a uni-directional multicast broadcast on
one interface under linux (maybe a SLIP connection to the Tx?), using a
different interface for feedback? Or would one need to write low-level
drivers for the broadcast (or even 'cat file > /dev/ttySX' for
datagrams?), and implement feedback at the application level over
tcp/ip?
Thanks in advance!
Dave
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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: Wed, 12 May 1999 04:28:15 GMT
install another Windows95/Dos system make work, because once I install
both windows95 and Linux, and then I reinstall Windows95, then LILO
didn't work any more until I reinstall Linux again.
Hope it works.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I did an install of Red Hat at one point, and now I just want it gone.
>
> Using FDISK to blow away the partitions though doesn't seem to do the
> trick. The LILO boot still comes up. If I disconnect the drive and put
> another one there even, then the machine just keeps asking me to
reboot
> over and over.
>
> How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
> is) once and for all?
>
> thanks,
> -mike
>
>
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From: fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-windows on Voodoo3!!! HELP!!
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:10:51 +0100
Sekar wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a voodoo3 3000 AGP card in my machine. I recently installed
> Redhat linux 6.0 on the system.
> During the installation, I didnt find any voodoo card in the video card
> list. So I selected "Unlisted card".
> Then for the x-server, I selected "SVGA server".
> When I run x-windows, all i get is the 320x200 resolution with 16 color
> [not 16-bit color].
> I selected the monitor correctly from the list which is Nokia 447X [17"]
>
> I tried running xf86config and tried to edit the file XF86Config
> manually also...but nothing seems to help.
>
> Any clue will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
It's probably too new to be supported yet, I suspect you'll need to wait
for the new server (Check out www.xfree86.org), or better still ditvh
your 16 bit card and get a decent 32bit card like a TNT (or wait for the
TNT2 ;)
Cheers
Dan.
--
Dan Alderman - Undergraduate Kings College London
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/fingers
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From: Rajmund Krivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: OSS started misbehaving
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:05:48 +0200
[Problem: KMID (SuSE 5.3, KDE) plays into only left, only right, or
into both channels, as I repeatedly press Setup --> ...]
Well, here are the bowels, for definiteness as well as for apologies to
OSS if it has nothing to do with them. Namely, I found KMID behaves as
told, while KMID plays according to its mood. Netscape MIDI plugin
palys OK, but not all files.
Also there is bad sound quality sometimes as promised by the "Warning"
below. I did not change hardware but the whole thing was puzzling at
first sight because prior to this mixing problem children were
"searching
for the ninth room" in Windows so I thought they damaged the audio
cabling.
IRQ's 5 and 7 are the only free ones to use for OSS. I tried both the
setup suggested by OSS and the setup copied by analogy from Windows
defaults on the same machine (the one used below). The only free play is
with I/O addresses and a couple of DMA channels.
devices.cfg:
============
/SECUREAUDIO OFF
/IRQEXCLUDE 3 4
/DMAEXCLUDE 2
-CSC0B35 #Crystal CSC0B35 (CS4236B)
/PNPDEV CSC0000 P534 P388 P# I5 D1 D3
/PNPDEV CSC0003 P330 I7
/PNPDEV CSC0010 P538
AD1848 OPNP P534 I5 D1 d3
OPL OPNP P388
UART401 OPNP P330 I7
-softmix #4Front Tech. Virtual Mixer (includes SoftOSS)
/CONTROL SOFTSYN parm1=6
SOFTMIX ON
PNP
OSS/Linux 3.9.2d (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-1999
cat /dev/sndstat:
=================
License serial number: [...]
Options: MIX
This copy of OSS is licensed to Rajmund Krivec
Build: 2.0.36
Card config:
Software mixing (audio)
Generic PnP support
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388
SoundPort at 0x534 irq 5 drq 1,3
MPU-401 (UART) at 0x330 irq 7
Audio devices:
0: CS4236B (CS4236) (DUPLEX)
1: Shadow of audio device #0 (DUPLEX)
2: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #0
3: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #1
4: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #2
5: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #3
6: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #4
7: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #5
8: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #6
9: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #7
Synth devices:
0: SoftOSS v1.2
1: Yamaha OPL-3
Midi devices:
0: CS4236B
Timers:
0: System clock
1: SoftOSS
Mixers:
0: CS4236B (CS4236)
1: SoftOSS
soundon.log:
============
Tue May 11 01:24:37 CEST 1999
Linux urartu 2.0.35 #15 Thu Feb 18 21:33:22 CET 1999 i686 unknown
This version (3.9.2d-990210) is compiled for Linux-2.0.36
Kernel version: Linux urartu 2.0.35 #15 Thu Feb 18 21:33:22 CET 1999
i686 unkno$Modutils version: 2.1.85
=== Running /usr/local/bin/soundon ===
Install directory: /usr/lib/oss
sndshield loaded OK
soundbase loaded OK
midi loaded OK
ad1848 loaded OK
opl3 loaded OK
uart401 loaded OK
audiobuf loaded OK
softsynth loaded OK
pnp loaded OK
Optional soundcontrib module not installed
==== About to start the driver using the following config ===
/SECUREAUDIO OFF
/IRQEXCLUDE 3 4
/DMAEXCLUDE 2
-CSC0B35 #Crystal CSC0B35 (CS4236B)
/PNPDEV CSC0000 P534 P388 P# I5 D1 D3
/PNPDEV CSC0003 P330 I7
/PNPDEV CSC0010 P538
AD1848 OPNP P534 I5 D1 d3
OPL OPNP P388
UART401 OPNP P330 I7
-softmix #4Front Tech. Virtual Mixer (includes SoftOSS)
/CONTROL SOFTSYN parm1=6
SOFTMIX ON
PNP
++ pnpres.dat ++
Resources for PnP card #0
0000: 0e 63 0b 35 ff ff ff ff 9d 0a 10 04 82 08 00 43
0010: 53 34 32 33 36 42 00 15 0e 63 00 00 00 82 07 00
0020: 57 53 53 2f 53 42 00 31 00 2a 02 28 2a 09 28 22
0030: 20 00 47 01 34 05 34 05 04 04 47 01 88 03 88 03
0040: 08 04 47 01 20 02 20 02 20 10 31 01 2a 0a 28 2a
0050: 0b 28 22 b8 0c 47 01 34 05 fc 0f 04 04 47 01 88
0060: 03 88 03 08 04 47 01 20 02 60 02 20 10 31 02 2a
0070: 0b 28 22 b8 0c 47 01 34 05 fc 0f 04 04 47 01 88
0080: 03 c8 03 08 04 47 01 20 02 00 03 20 10 38 15 0e
0090: 63 00 01 00 82 05 00 47 61 6d 65 00 31 00 47 01
00a0: 00 02 00 02 08 08 31 01 47 01 08 02 08 02 08 08
00b0: 38 15 0e 63 00 10 00 82 05 00 43 74 72 6c 00 47
00c0: 01 20 01 a8 03 08 08 15 0e 63 00 03 00 82 04 00
00d0: 4d 50 55 00 31 00 22 00 04 47 01 30 03 30 03 08
00e0: 02 31 01 22 b8 0c 47 01 30 03 60 03 08 02 31 02
00f0: 47 01 30 03 e0 03 08 02 38 79 66
++++
Warning: There are interrupt problems which may cause bad sound quality
with certain applications. See soundon.log for more info
OSS/Linux 3.9.2d (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-1999
License serial number: [...]
Options: MIX
This copy of OSS is licensed to Rajmund Krivec
Build: 2.0.36
Card config:
Software mixing (audio)
Generic PnP support
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388
SoundPort at 0x534 irq 5 drq 1,3
MPU-401 (UART) at 0x330 irq 7
Audio devices:
0: CS4236B (CS4236) (DUPLEX)
1: Shadow of audio device #0 (DUPLEX)
2: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #0
3: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #1
4: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #2
5: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #3
6: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #4
7: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #5
8: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #6
9: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #7
Synth devices:
0: SoftOSS v1.2
1: Yamaha OPL-3
Midi devices:
0: CS4236B
Timers:
0: System clock
1: SoftOSS
Mixers:
0: CS4236B (CS4236)
1: SoftOSS
++++ dmesg printout follows ++++
Memory: sized by int13 0e801h
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f6a90
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfd7a0
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9a3
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 298.19 BogoMIPS
Memory: 128108k/131008k available (500k kernel code, 384k reserved,
2016k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.35 (root@urartu) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #15 Thu Feb 18
21:33:2$Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
APM BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.2)
Entry f000:5695 cseg16 f000 dseg 40 cseg len ffff, dseg len ffff
Connection version 1.1
AC on line, battery status unknown, battery life unknown
battery flag 0x80, battery life unknown
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f
hda: ST36531A, 6204MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=790/255/63, UDMA
hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Partition check:
hda:hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda1 hda2 hda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 104384k swap-space (priority -1)
++++++++
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=1013. Device id=6001.
Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min
Gnt=4.Max Lat=$ Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0100000.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000.
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
USB Controller: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master
Capable. Late$ I/O at 0x1020.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=64. $ I/O at 0x1000.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No
bursts.
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Mach64 GB (rev 92).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 255. Master
Capable. La$ Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd1000000.
I/O at 0x9000.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0200000.
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX AGP (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=128. Min Gnt=140.
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX Host (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000.
processor : 0
cpu : 686
model : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
stepping : 4
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid : yes
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 11 mtrr pge mca
cmov mmx
bogomips : 298.19
++++
0: 2670 timer
1: 2 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
5: 1 CS4236B
7: 0 MPU-401 UART
8: 2 + rtc
13: 1 math error
14: 2646 + ide0
15: 0 + ide1
Thanks,
Rajmund
Rob Komar wrote:
>
> Rajmund Krivec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : I purchased OSS + Virtual Mixer for my SuSE 5.3 (2.0.35). It worked
> : quite OK for a couple of months, but now KMID typically plays into
> : one channel only. CD player and other sound programs play stereo.
> : /usr/lib/oss/mplay does work OK. Even KMID sometimes plays stereo,
> : after I repeatedly press Setup --> Yamaha ... (I have a CS....B).
> : Also in the process of doing "soundoff, soundconf, soundon" KMID
> : sometimes reported a segmentation fault ...!?
> :
> : I tried the Windows-like IRQ, DMA settings and another set offered by
> : OSS
> : as default, both with and without Virtual Mixer enabled. Setup is OK
> : except that in all cases /usr/lib/oss/soundon.log warns of potential
> : IRQ conflicts. I think my two sets of IRQs are about the only ones
> : available.
> :
> : How is it possible that it just quit working? I'm using KDE, but
> : played with fvwm2 recently and also run xmix in the process. I
> : don't remember doing any other silly things.
> :
>
> If you added any hardware, and the sound card is plug and play,
> then the BIOS could be configuring it differently than it used to.
>
> : Is it possible to guess anything without my showing cat /dev/sndstat
> : etc.?
>
> `cat /proc/interrupts' tells you what IRQs are currently being used,
> `cat /proc/dma' tells you what DMA channels are currently being used,
> `cat /proc/ioports' tells you what I/O ports are configured,
>
> and error messages are usually logged in /var/log/messages. If you
> know what the settings should be, then you can probably figure out
> where the conflicts are, if any. If your sound card is plug and play,
> then you should look at using isapnp to set it up if you're not doing
> that already (although the commercial OSS package should be doing that
> for you).
>
> Cheers,
> Rob Komar
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From: diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: writing to fat32 partition
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:34:49 -0700
Try it with the "user" option,
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/data vfat user 1 2
I'm not sure if you need the "defaults", I don't think so...
You might also want to check permissions to the actual device
file, "/dev/hdd1" you may need to give users write permissions,
chmod a+w /dev/hdd1
Check "man fstab" for details on options. Hope this can help,
-diahedrial.
Chris Klement wrote:
>
> Here is a relativly easy problem that i cannot figure out. Any help
> would really be appreciated.
> I want to be able to write to my data drive (a seperate physical drive)
> that is fat 32 as a normal
> user (not root). I can write to it easily as root, but when I am not I
> only have read permissions.
> I tried changing the permissions (chmod) and setuid root... but to no
> avail. Here is my fstab:
>
> /dev/hda5 / ext2
> defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/hda6 /usr ext2
> defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdd1 /mnt/data vfat defaults 1 2
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat defaults 1
> 2
> /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto
> 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
> none /proc proc
> defaults 0 0
>
> (excuse the formating). My data drive that I want to write to is hdd1
> (/mnt/data). How do
> I write as a user??? Thanx in advance.
>
> Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: What is the best modem to use with RedHat 5.2?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 1999 11:45:29 -0500
On Wed, 12 May 1999 12:48:14 GMT, killbill wrote:
>In article <7hae78$hrl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>The Creative Labs Modem Blaster (despite it's silly name) offers a V.90
>PCI modem with jumpers to override the PNP voodoo, great documentation,
>is readily available, and probably retails at around $70. It is also
>has voice capabilities under win95 if that sort of sillyness is
>important to you.
>
>I got mine at my local Best Buy. There are doubtless other fine modems
>out there at good prices, but this one is perfect for Linux, is
>reasonably priced, is very easy to install, and you can probably find it
>locally with about 10 minutes work.
>
>It took me about an hour pouring over modem boxes in the store to figure
>out which ones were winmodems, and which were not junk. CompUSA did not
>have any non-winmodems for less then $90, but Best Buy had the Modem
>Blaster for $70.
Are you _sure_ this is a PCI modem? I am pretty sure you are talking
about ISA modem; why would not you post outputs of
cat /proc/pci
and
seterial -g /dev/ttyS* (or maybe setserial -g /dev/cua*)?
All available PCI modems do not work with Linux; I hope everything
what's known about PCI modems vs. Linux is at
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/PCImodems.html
Best,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to low-level format a SCSI
Date: 12 May 1999 09:19:23 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Remco van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>You know that most disks are not allowed to be low level reformatted?
>
>-Remco
The format is a standard scsi command you would expect any scsi disk
drive to support. If the disk unit is not allowed to do a real format
it might do something else, for example disk scan and bad track
re-allocation.
BTW, why has the word 'format' now become synonymous to 'make filesystem'.
Villy
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From: Richard van Denzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: IBM Token-Ring
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:05:16 GMT
Hi All,
I recently got Debian 1.3-1 installed on a PS/2 model 95. The only
problem I got that I got stiuck with my TR card.
It's an IBM Token-Ring 16/4 Adapter A, with io=0xa20 and irq=9.
When I try to add the options to /etc/conf.modules it complains that
there is no symbol for parameter irq was not found.
When I don't specify the irq, there are repeated messages:
first: tr0: Initial interrupt: shared RAM located at 00DC2D4
repeated: tr0: Unrecoverable error: error code = 0011
consequently the ifconfig command gets stuck.
When I specify the irq=9 in /etc/conf.modules no errors appear but the
card still doesn't work.
When I try ifconfig tr0 172.16.150.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 up the
messages appear:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
The part of conf.modules look like this:
alias tr0 ibmtr
options ibmtr io=0xa20 irq=9
Has anyone got this card working and how did he/she do it?
Thanx in advance,
Richard
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From: patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem woes...
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:18:14 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you sure it isnt a win-modem
Miramyth wrote:
> I have a Brand new zoom 56k v/f modem on a p-90 with plenty of ram and drive
> space. I have a SB 16 sound card and an old Diamond Stealth s-3 video.
>
> In windoze, my modem is on com 3.
> kernel 2.0.35 - Slackware ( but I have a developers kit and am thinking of
> switching to debian...)
>
> Dmesg reports: Serial Driver 4.13 w/no serial options enabled...
> /dev/tty00 @ 03f8 irq 4 is a 16550a
> /dev/tty01 @ 02f8 irq 3 is a 16550a
>
> setserial ( which to the best of my knowledge doesn't search a modem ) reports
> nothing... ( cept' for cuaX and so forth )
>
> isapnp reports no boards found
>
> did fuser -k /dev..... nothing happened
> And finally, I've tried to initiate and send commands in bash...
> #
> #> echo "atdt /n" /dev/modem... /dev/cuaX.... /dev/ttySX... /dev/ttyX etc..
>
> in every case nothing.. But in windoze, it runs like a champ.. ( go figure )
> any suggestions on what to look at or do? I dont think slackware has any real
> modem tools, and I only have seyon and bash to work with...
>
> Thanks fer any help....
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