Linux-Hardware Digest #313, Volume #10 Mon, 24 May 99 13:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: "Drive Size To Big" When Installing RedHat 5.2 (HAC)
Re: Kingston KNE100TX Ethernet cards and Linux (Rod Smith)
Re: Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) Switchbox problems (Mark Davis)
Problem routing from cable modem (was "Can't communicate with 2nd NIC") ("Steve
Snyder")
Re: Modem and Sound (Vinh Le)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Osvaldo
Pinali Doederlein")
Re: 3c509b: How to turn off PnP? (Don Baccus)
Re: 3c509b: How to turn off PnP? (Frank Sweetser)
dev/lp0 (or lp1 or lp2) not detected for printer ("John Zbesko")
Re: Problems using CD-RW with cdwrite (killbill)
diagnostic software (Steve Feil)
Best tape drive? (Brian Bergstrand)
Re: 3D card with Video TV output ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Simple Tech's SN180 network adapter Linux compliant? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: CDRecord problems? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Hard disk error (Matt Starnes)
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From: HAC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Drive Size To Big" When Installing RedHat 5.2
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:51:31 GMT
Stuart Krivis wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 May 1999 09:23:26 -0700, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Try creating a "/boot" partition first, and make sure it's below
> >the 8Gig level of the drive or else Linux won't be able to boot.
>
> >program like that. 20MB is plenty of space for the "/boot" partition
> >and Linux should be able to use the rest of your drive, it just
> >needs to have the kernel located below the 8gig level of the drive,
> >it's a limit of the BIOS.Hope this get's you going...
> >
>
> The limit is actually 1024 cylinders. Creating the /boot partition first in
> fdisk will take care of this nicely. The /boot partition only needs to be a
> few MB; 10 should be overkill. (I think my /boot has about 750K used.)
But the Red Hat 6.0 install wants about 2.5MB. Caught me by surprise,
made me back up and adjust partitions. Never have gotten Disk Druid to
work, but fdisk worked just fine.
I still have no clue why they put an uncompressed kernel image in /boot.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Kingston KNE100TX Ethernet cards and Linux
Date: 24 May 1999 14:33:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <7i8ees$6fn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters) writes:
> Somebody asked the other day about Ethernet cards but I'm afraid I've
> lost the message. A word of warning about Kingston KNE100TX cards.
> I've been using these for some time and they were great under Linux.
> However, the latest pair I've received have had one of those nasty
> hidden upgrades, and it seems they no longer work at either 10 or 100
> Mbit.
>
> My working cards identify themselves as:
>
> DEC DC21140 (Rev 34)
>
> and the new non-functional ones are:
>
> DEC DC21141 (Rev 65)
>
> If anyone's got any pointers on how to get these going I'd be very
> grateful, but in the meantime I would avoid Kingston's Ethernet cards.
My original KNE100TX used a DEC 21140 (I don't know the board revision
number), but it failed and Kingston replaced it under warranty with one
that uses a 21143 (again, I don't know the board revision number
offhand). That board doesn't work with the drivers that come with any
Linux kernel I've tried to date (through 2.2.3), but it *DOES* work with
more recent drivers from the Linux Tulip driver website,
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip-devel.html (I'm currently
using 0.90q, but I gather more recent drivers are available).
As a general comment, I'll say that not many current new "Tulip" boards
work with the drivers that come with the Linux kernel. This is because
the original DEC Tulip chips are no longer available, so these board
manufacturers have switched to other chipsets (the Kingston you got must
have been old, or perhaps they had a stockpile of original DEC chips or
reached some agreement with Intel to get a few more after Intel acquired
the rights to the Tulip chip). The Tulip drivers available from the Linux
Tulip driver site have been upgraded to work with most of these new
chipsets, but these drivers haven't yet worked their way into regular
kernel distributions. Fortunately, it's just a matter of replacing one
file in the source tree and recompiling to get the new drivers working.
So, I wouldn't advise avoiding Kingston's cards specifically. Since most
of the 10/100 PCI Ethernet boards these days are based on Tulip clones,
this is a VERY common problem, not just one with Kingston products.
--
Rod Smith
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From: Mark Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) Switchbox problems
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:59:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Barry Carson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone had any success finding a KVM switch
that works between Win98 and
> RedHat 6.0 machines? (ps/2 mouse and keyboard) I
have tried 2 manual
> switches. Took them both back because they would
lose the keyboard or mouse
> after a few switches. Just bought a Belkin
OmniCube 2-port electronic
> switch. It seems pretty nice and works fine with
the Win98 box but only the
> keyboard works for the Linux box. After startx,
neither the keyboard or
> mouse will work. All I can do is telnet in and
shutdown.
>
> Has anybody else seen these problems, found
solutions, or have any ideas?
>
>
I use a ConnectPro 4-way switch. Check out
http://www.connectpro.com/cs_114.html. I run Win98,
RH 5.2 with 2.2.7 kernel and OS/2 Warp 4 off of it. I
am able to run at 1600x1280x16M on the boxes that
have cards that support this. One thing to check is
to make sure your keyboard and mouse are as generic
as possible. I could not get my Kensington Expert
Mouse to work with this setup and had to switch to an
IBM Trackpoint II keyboard.
--
Mark Davis
San Angelo, TX
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From: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Problem routing from cable modem (was "Can't communicate with 2nd NIC")
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 11:10:54 -0400 (EST)
Reply-To: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks to all who responded to my post "Can't communicate through 2nd NIC".
I actually *can* communicate through the 2nd NIC; it's the routing of
packets through it to the cable modem that's screwed-up.
In that original thread I passed along some bad information. I claimed
that the IP address of the cable modem (a 3Com USR CMX) was 24.4.162.173.
In fact, according to @Home's tech support:
10.71.5.44 = The IP address of the cable modem itself.
24.4.162.173 = The IP address assigned to me for use by my NIC.
Given those numbers, what, if anything, is wrong with this configuration:
# /sbin/ifconfig -a
===================
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:9A:82:E5
inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1047 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:C8:01:C8
inet addr:24.4.162.173 Bcast:24.4.162.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1391 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1043 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
============================
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=false
HOSTNAME="corona.snydernet.lan"
DOMAINNAME=snydernet.lan
#GATEWAY=
#GATEWAYDEV=
GATEWAY=24.4.162.173
GATEWAYDEV=eth1
Please bear in mind that I'm not trying to do name resolution at this
point, but just to ping static IP numbers outside my local subnet.
My goal now is simply to get a response when I ping the IP address of
@Home's name server.
Thank you.
***** Steve Snyder *****
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vinh Le)
Subject: Re: Modem and Sound
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 15:15:04 GMT
Vinh Le ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I just installed Red Hat 6.0 on my new system. Everything
: installed happily, except for the modem and soundcard.
: After chatting with a friend, I found that I needed to
: disable one of the internal serial ports to have the
: modem configure as com1 or com2. com1 was left at 03F8
: IRQ4. The modem became 02F8 IRQ3, presumably on com2.
: I started up minicom and everything worked! Since then,
: I've used sndconfig to setup the sound card, which
: configured fine, i.e. I could hear the samples. Now,
: however, every time I start minicom, I get
: minicom: Cannot open /dev/modem: No such device
: /dev/modem is linked to /dev/ttyS1. This happens when
: /dev/modem is linked to /dev/cua1 as well, which used to
: work also.
: I don't know if the soundcard config has any interference
: problems with the modem, but it's the only major change
: in my config.
: Can someone shed some insight?
: The modem is a USR Sportster 56K FAX ISA ( non-Winmodem )
: and the soundcard is a SoundBlaster ViBRA 16X PnP ISA.
: Each card has worked, but the modem part is currently not
: happy.
Well, it looked like I just needed to do a little more
experimentation...
Here's what I found:
1. The modem was working before I configured my soundcard.
2. When I configured my soundcard with sndconfig, it created
/etc/isapnp.conf, which is used by isapnp on system
startup.
3. On system startup, isapnp tries to configure both the
soundcard and the modem. The modem was already
configured by the hardware to com2 02F8 IRQ3. The
second configuration by isapnp failed.
4. The FIX: I edited /etc/isapnp.conf and commented out
*all* lines dealing with the configuration of the
modem. In my case, the modem was Card 2, so I
commented all lines from "# Card 2:..." to
"# End tag..." ( Commenting out just "(ACT Y)"
does not work! )
:)
Vinh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Vinh Le
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:50:43 +0200
westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ibjv2$ual$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The bytecode can avoid type errors and stack corruption; it can't
> prevent the code from producing problems.
The bytecode (plus Java's security managers, permissions...) will do that
and a lot more, and will prevent a whole category of major issues, from
crashing the host environment to accessing local files without
authorization. You still have no guarantee about application-specific
semantics, e.g. my online banking services are delivered by java applets and
I basically trust the applet to do the right thing with my money after I
enter my password and ask for some operation. Neither Java nor smart
operating systems will be able to know about apps logic. I agree that after
some point, the magic of standard and automatic security checks will cease.
Generally, security/correctness rules that can't be generalized won't be
feasible in a JVM or OS.
> It is possible to similarly restrict a machine code program running with
> an advanced operating system. If run in a non-privileged mode, the
> program can be prevented from accessing parts of the system that need to
> be protected.
This is being done by any respectable OS for a long time. It seems the idea
of Spin is making application code safe even running it on _privileged_
mode.
Java also dispenses hardware help with different "rings" for system and app
code, as the verifier and security manager mechanisms are pretty able to
prevent all issues (hmmm... with the possible exception of user-provided
native libraries). After JVMs become stable and robust enough, I guess it
would be a good idea to run them on kernel mode on protected operating
systems, bypassing lots of overhead that's useless because the JVM takes
care of the safety belts.
> Refusing to run programs written in C++ would be a worthy goal for any
> operating system.
:) To be realistic, they would need some level of C/C++ support, maybe by
emulating an unsafe environment (let's call it UglyBox, following Apple's
conventions). The UglyBox would be a user-mode VM, like those we have in
protected OSen for user apps; and it would trap all sorts of corruption by
integration of technology licensed from the likes of Purify. We would run
C++ apps inside that. It would be a fair comparision -- C++ inside the
UglyBox over a safe environment, versus Java apps inside JVMs over an unsafe
environment; both would put up with more or less equivalent overhead due to
the mismatch btw their ideal platform and the real thing. :)
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Subject: Re: 3c509b: How to turn off PnP?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Baccus)
Date: 24 May 1999 08:42:21 PST
In article <7ibr2o$3uc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am using 2 3c509b. I can't get the network working.
>I've tried adding append in lilo.conf & alias in conf.modules.
>Still not working.......... Can somebody tell me how to off
>the PnP on the card?
Use the configuration program on the floppies that came
with the card. It's named 3c5x9cfg or something similar.
--
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nature photos, on-line guides, at http://donb.photo.net
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c509b: How to turn off PnP?
Date: 24 May 1999 11:24:04 -0400
"jamal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am using 2 3c509b. I can't get the network working.
> I've tried adding append in lilo.conf & alias in conf.modules.
> Still not working.......... Can somebody tell me how to off
> the PnP on the card?
there's linux utils for this at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux
--
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paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
You're immune to both romance and mirth! you must be a.. a...
Yes, that's right. I'm an engineer.
- Dilbert
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From: "John Zbesko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dev/lp0 (or lp1 or lp2) not detected for printer
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 11:21:00 -0500
When I attempt to install a printer, I use the RedHat control-panel printer
control. It says it cannot detect any parallel ports (/dev/lp0, /dev/lp1,
/dev/lp2) and there might be a hardware error. I'm puzzled because I have
been able to use the p-port successfully for a zip drive. (I do the printer
configuration without the ppa module loaded.) I must be missing something.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Johnny Z
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems using CD-RW with cdwrite
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:53:06 GMT
You might want to take a look at cdrecord (instead of cdwrite) and
XCDRoast (a gui wrapper for cdrecord). I believe these are under more
active development then cdwrite, and will probably work better (or at
least give more helpfull error messages). Check www.freshmeat.net for
the latest versions.
If you are interested in backing up your system vie your CD-RW, you
might also want to take a look at backburner (also at freshmeat). It
works with cdrecord and allows you to capture any Unix stream to any
number of disks, so you can use dd or tar, pipe it to gzip, and pipe the
result to a series of CDRW disks.
I have nothing against cdwrite, I have not tried it, but it was my
impression that cdrecord is more or less it's successor.
--
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--"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
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From: Steve Feil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: diagnostic software
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:30:54 +0000
I just got a hold of some computer hardware and I'm interested in
running a full diagnostic test on the hardware. I do not have a
Windows/DOS system, so I was wanting to know what diagnostic software
there is that runs under Linux. I'm primarily interested in programs
that test memory and hard drives.
I was able to create a new partition table using fdisk. Then I created
a ext2 file-system with mkfs. I was wondering how thorough do mkfs and
fdisk test the integrity of a hard drive?
===========================================================================
Steven Feil | Gram-pa, back at the turn of the
.~.
Programmer/Developer | century, why did people use an
/V\
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | operating system, when they were not //
\\
| allowed to see the source code?
(X_X)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Bergstrand)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Best tape drive?
Date: 24 May 1999 16:27:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need some advice on a good tape drive. We are ordering two Compaq
Prolinea 1600's,
one will be running Caldera 1.3, kernel 2.0.35 (NDS Client requires this,
bleh) and the dual
proc one will be running Slackware 4. I want to be able to backup both
boxes, preferably to
the Slackware box, but if needed, I will get a tape drive for both boxes.
The boxes have
an integrated UW-3 SCSI board, and therefore I will need a SCSI tape drive.
Both
boxes will have a single 9.1GB drive (although future expansion is
possible).
I need a tape drive that has great Linux support.
Thanks for any help,
Brian
--
Brian Bergstrand
Systems Programmer
Northern Illinois University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3D card with Video TV output
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:01:18 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Carlos Uchoa wrote:
> >
> > Please, Help me
> >
> > I would like to Know if Trident image 64 or Diamond Viper 550 cards work
> > fine with linux and XFRee86 or Motif.
> > Is it possible to get a linux driver to that graphic boards ?
> > I will use Video TV and RGB-S output. Will It work under Linux?
The Voodoo3 3000 has 3D support under Linux now
(http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html)
and it has TV outputs.
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Simple Tech's SN180 network adapter Linux compliant?
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 00:59:02 +0200
"Svante B�rjesson" wrote:
> I have a couple of network adapter ISA cards that I thought I'd try
> to get to work with a Linux - Win 98 "home network". I haven't found
> any info that this card works with Linux.
Boot your computer with the Slackware NFS installation boot disk. That
kernel is able to autodetect most network cards.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: CDRecord problems?
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 00:33:59 +0200
Martijn Valkier wrote:
> cdrecord dev=6,0 speed=4 -audio -nofix [audio file]
>
> it records an audio cd but skips about 3 to 4 minutes when it starts
> writing the data to the cd, the cd therefore isn't readable in ANY
> audio cd player.
I don't know the answer to this question and I am not very familiar with
cdrecord, but I would suggest that you try xcdroast instead. That
program makes writing CDs simple.
regards Henrik
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From: Matt Starnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Hard disk error
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 11:41:34 -0500
How old is the drive? It sounds like you have some kind of physical error
on the drive itself. SCSI has gotten popular again and the quality of the
drives has really decreased. If you have a Win9x partition you could run
Scandisk in thourough mode or just make a DOS bootdisk with the dos
version of Scandisk on it.
Matt
Ning Qian wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I often get the following error messages on the console window and the
> system log file:
>
> scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 54
> 02 5b 00 00 78 00
> Current error sd08:03: sense key Medium Error
> Additional sense indicates Read retries exhausted
> scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 1409150, absolute sector 5505725
> scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 54
> 02 bd 00 00 02 00
> Current error sd08:03: sense key Medium Error
> Additional sense indicates Read retries exhausted
> scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 1409150, absolute sector 5505725
>
> where "dev 08:03" is my /home partition /dev/sda3. I even re-created
> the partition by umounting it,
> starting over with "mke2fs -c /dev/sda3", and mounting it back, but I
> still keep on getting the
> same error message. I also tried "badblockes" in conjunction with
> "e2fsck -l" and that didn't help
> either.
>
> Could someone please tell me (1) if this is something to worry about,
> and (2) if there is a way to fix it?
> I am running Redhat 5.1 with kernel updated to 2.0.36-3. I have a wide
> SCSI Fujitsu 4.55 GB hard disk
> with a / and a /home partitions.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Ning
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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