Linux-Hardware Digest #379, Volume #10 Tue, 1 Jun 99 04:13:53 EDT
Contents:
INTERESTED IN AN AWESOME WEBSITE? 9727 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: making linux go away ("adam howard")
Re: Netscape is black&white? (somebody)
Tape Drive Advice-Help! (Brew)
Re: How do you set up 2 network cards? (somebody)
Re: IDE RAID - Promise Fasttrak ? (Mike Tancsa)
Re: Tape Drive Advice-Help! ("Donald E. Stidwell")
Ordering Linux CAD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: rvplayer (Mircea)
How do you install LNEPCI2 Ethernet drivers? ("Xaragon")
Re: help! Can't find which video card i have. (Brett Neely)
Re: more winhardware?!? (Mircea)
Re: How do you set up 2 network cards? (Gary Helbig)
Problems with Parallel Port ZIP100 ("Josh Highley")
Re: Scanner & SANE with 2.2 Kernels - anyone managed it? (James Tappin)
HP5100C under Linux ("graeme")
Re: Linux Newbie trying to install SCSI adapter (Yvonne & Oliver Maag)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: INTERESTED IN AN AWESOME WEBSITE? 9727
Date: 1 Jun 1999 02:12:49 GMT
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From: "adam howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 17:06:37 -0500
talk about a waste of bandwidth....do we really need a few dozen people to
give the same answer?
> How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
> is) once and for all?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (somebody)
Crossposted-To:
alt.netscape,alt.netscape.buggy-products,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.madrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Netscape is black&white?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 04:37:31 GMT
Try having netscape install it's own colormap by typing 'netscape -install' you
want to use netscape.
Harland
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>I'm using Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, and Netscape Communicator(browser, mail,
>news reader, etc..) is all black&white. It displays web contents in color,
>however the program's own buttons and menus are all black&white. I can't
>recognize them unless there are popup help.
>
>Is this normal? How do I fix this?
>
>Thank you.
>
>BTW. My video card is Matrox G200.
>
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From: Brew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tape Drive Advice-Help!
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:28:29 +0400
Hi,
In the office I have an HP9000 -755 model workstation. Its got
a SCSI tape drive of the following info:
Surestore tape 5000 (HP)
4mm DDS
/dev/rmt/0m /* this is the device file it's
using
and the comments
says;
Berkeley,
autorewind,
uncompressed */
I would just dump files into it using the tar command.
At times, I would need to continue my work at home and I have a
Linux box without a SCSI controller and a tape drive.
I need to put one in my Linux box. Please anyone can advice which
one is most suitable for my Linux box.
I've heard that some tape drives now are available for Linux and
they are quite well supported. Which brand and model should I
choose -one that would be compatible with my HP tape drive?
I would like it also to do a high capacity backup- at least 10 Gigs.
Thanks in advance.
Ferdinand
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (somebody)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How do you set up 2 network cards?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 04:41:03 GMT
Maybe you should try moving the cards to different pci slots. Perhaps the most
inelegant solution at all, but worth a try. I've got two 3c905b nics in my
machine and they work just fine...they are the first two pci cards on the mobo.
Harland
In article <7ijmm4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Anybody know how to get 2 3Com Etherlink XL cards to work in the same box?
>I can't seem to force Linux to put the 2 cards on different IRQ/ports.
>The cards come up on IRQ 9 base 0xb800; This append does nothing:
> append="ether=5,0xb800,eth0" (eth0 will still be on irq 9)
>
>Or, if I put this into conf.modules, eth0 will never come up:
> options 3c59x irq=5
>
>Playing around with the BIOS to force a PCI slot to a particular IRQ has
>yielded nothing...
>
>Any ideas?
>
> - Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Tancsa)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE RAID - Promise Fasttrak ?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 04:14:05 GMT
On Mon, 31 May 1999 19:47:14 -0700, Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>"S�ren Schmidt" wrote:
>>...
>> It will work on FreeBSD >= 3.0, preferably uner 4.0-current with the new
>> ata driver. You will have to do the RAID by software though (so does the
>> Fattrack under winslows), use cdd or vinum for that.
>> I know of at least a handfull of such installations that "just works".
>
>Also for linux. Fasttrak BIOS v102 and earlier are recognized by linux
>as a Promise Ultra/33 and will function as an Ultra/33. v103 was not
>recognized as anything, indicating higher revs will not be recognized.
We had pretty crappy luck with the FastTrak under _NT_. We tried it from
about Feb to April of this year and gave up on it. Our SQL server was far
too unstable, and the performance gains were just not there. After each
freeze or BOD, we were able to reboot, go through the RAID fixup, and keep
on going. But on 4 6GIG drives, this was quite time consuming. Compared
to our other servers, it was far more productive to restore from tape when
necessary. It seemed like a load issue, because it would crap out at the
busiest times of the day. Of course, YMMV, but our experience as quite poor
on an supposedly 'well supported platform'... Perhaps it was a driver
issue, perhaps the card itself. But it was just not worth our time then to
keep on pissing around with it.
---Mike
Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sentex Communications Corp,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Drive Advice-Help!
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:40:57 -0400
Brew wrote:
> they are quite well supported. Which brand and model should I
> choose -one that would be compatible with my HP tape drive?
> I would like it also to do a high capacity backup- at least 10 Gigs.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ferdinand
I use an HP SureStore Tape 6000 on my Linux box with either BRU or
Taper. Works great. You may be able to find at a discount as HP has
discontinued this model. Uses 4 mm DDS2 tapes. Only problem is capacity
- 8 Gigs. I think you have to go to DDS3 to get more than 8 gigs.
Don
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rvplayer
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:59:42 -0400
The rpopen patch worked for me. Make sure in the rplayer script, that
the "dir=..." line indicates correctly the directory where the main
program (rvplayer) is, and that you have the open.so library in the same
directory.
MST
george wrote:
> Has anyone had success with rvplayer 5 on the 2.2.5 kernel.
>
> I am using suse6.1 and 2.2.5 kernel and while it worked on suse 5.3 and
> 2.0.35 kern I can't get it work on the newer kernel/dist.
>
> I have tried open.so and the patch that is supposed to help but no good.
>
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From: "Xaragon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do you install LNEPCI2 Ethernet drivers?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:15:44 -0400
This is my first time installing linux and I've got linux installed but i
haven't been able to find how to install my ethernet card. I have a p.o.s.
Linksys Ethernet PCI 2 card in the machine and i'd like some help, thanks...
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From: Brett Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help! Can't find which video card i have.
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 22:45:32 -0700
The reason for the bare gray screen is that you haven't loaded a window
manager. The choices are things like fvwm, fvwm2, fvwm95, kde, gnome,
enlightenment, afterstep, etc. One of these is usually launched from
your $HOME/.xinitrc file. If you don't have one, try looking in your
distribution's /etc/skel directory for a .xinitrc file.
If you have a stock HP Pavilion, try looking on http://www.hp.com for
the video hardware specs. This will help you provide X with a more
precise hardware description.
jerseyboyz wrote:
>
> I installed linux on my computer along with windows 98 and i'm having
> problems with the getting the linux gui up and running. When I try type
> startx nothing happens but a grey screen. Also, i chose No Clockchip
> Setting but it couldn't automaticallly detect the proper clockchip.I
> think i need to enter my video card into linux, but i can't find the
> make and serial number. If it's any help, i have a HP Pavilion.. Any
> help would surely be appreciated.
> Thanks alot,
> Mike
--
Brett Neely, Technical Support Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc.
415.354.4878 x505 tel, 415.701.7457 fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com
Linuxcare. At the center of Linux.
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: more winhardware?!?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 01:09:05 -0400
Derek W. wrote:
> (..)
> So now I've resorted to finding a place to mail order a new modem.
>
> Anyone have any recommendations on a good one? :-)
>
Go for an external. I have a Phoebe V1456VQE, got it from Micro-Pro
(www.mpipc.com) for $58. I'm very pleased with it, my average
connections are at 50kbps.
MST
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From: Gary Helbig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How do you set up 2 network cards?
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:23:23 -0700
Matthew,
There should be no problem with them on the same interrupt, but on
the same port is a problem.
The BIOS _should_ set up the cards before Linux has a chance to look
at them.
First thing I would try is turning OFF all attempts to control the
IRQ & I/O. Then look in /var/log/messages to see what the kernel found
on the way up.
Try the cards one at a time. You may have one dead card. Or one
dead slot; I have found motherboards where interrupts worked in only 3
of the 4 PCI slots. The slot ordering can have an impact too; try
swapping all the PCI cards around.
3COM has some pretty good diagnostics on their web site. Download
those, and see what they think of your hardware.
Gary.
Matthew Hanselman wrote:
>
> Anybody know how to get 2 3Com Etherlink XL cards to work in the same box?
> I can't seem to force Linux to put the 2 cards on different IRQ/ports.
> The cards come up on IRQ 9 base 0xb800; This append does nothing:
> append="ether=5,0xb800,eth0" (eth0 will still be on irq 9)
>
> Or, if I put this into conf.modules, eth0 will never come up:
> options 3c59x irq=5
>
> Playing around with the BIOS to force a PCI slot to a particular IRQ has
> yielded nothing...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> - Matt
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From: "Josh Highley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Parallel Port ZIP100
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 00:05:21 -0500
I'm having trouble getting my parallel port ZIP 100 Drive to work with
Redhat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36. I compiled the scsi support as part of the
kernel and the ppa as a module. I've tried everything I can think of so
I'll try to give as much info as possible. I've tried changing to port
settings in the BIOS to SPP, ECP, EPP, ECPEPP . . . but it doesn't seem to
help. When linux loads it says:
scsi : 0 host.
scsi : detected total.
then when I log on as root:
insmod ppa returns
ppa : Version 1.42
ppa : Probing port 03bc
ppa : Probing port 0378
ppa : SPP port present
ppa : ECP with a 16 byte FIFO present
ppa : PS/2 bidirectional port present
ppa : Failed Intel bug check (phony EPP in ECP)
ppa : Probing port 0278
scsi : 0 host
./ppa.o : init_module : Device or resource busy
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0x378 is the address of my parallel port.
In conf.modules I have:
alias scsi_hostadapter ppa
I've disabled printer support when compiling the kernel.
I've read the Zip-drive HOWTO, README.ppa, the installation guide and
probably a lot of other documentation but with no luck. While looking
through some of the previous posts, someone said that for newer drives (I've
had mine for 5 months), the ppa driver won't work and to use the imm driver.
Could this be the cause of my problems? I'm somewhat new to linux, so I
suspect I might be missing something else ( probably simple). Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Josh Highley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scanner & SANE with 2.2 Kernels - anyone managed it?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 07:32:35 +0100
Harald Arnesen wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes) writes:
>
> > I had my Agfa Snapscan 310 SCSI scanner working under SANE, but since I
> > upgraded to the 2.2 kernels it has not worked. When I invoke either
> > xscanimage or Gimp's scanner interface I can select the scanner, but
> > when I go to scan, the scanner LED blinks constantly and does nothing.
>
> You are not alone. I have exactly the same problem here (same scanner,
> too). I haven't had the time to investigate yet, but if anyone has a
> quick solution...
Not too sure of a solution, I've not had a 2.2 related problem with the
Mustek SE12000SP, but an idea to try.
1) cat /proc/scsi/scsi before and after, sometimes if there is a timeout
on the bus the scanner can get taken off the device list.
2) If it has vanished, power cycle the scanner then (as root)
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 6 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
(this is device ID 6 on bus 0, I can't quite recall which 0 is which,
check the sane-scsi man page).
--
James Tappin, O__ "I forget the punishment for using
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- \/` Microsoft --- Something lingering
http://www.tappin.force9.co.uk/ with data loss in it I fancy"
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From: "graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP5100C under Linux
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:39:20 +1000
Howdy,
Does anyone know of any driver support
for driver a HP5100C Scanner under Linux.
This is one of those scanners that use the
parallel port to talk to the computer.
Graeme
email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvonne & Oliver Maag)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Linux Newbie trying to install SCSI adapter
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 05:33:46 GMT
Just install the Adaptec card, reboot and load the module for the
adaptec card. You do not need a new kernel:
# modprobe aic7xxx
Regards Oliver
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