Linux-Hardware Digest #408, Volume #10 Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:14:27 EDT
Contents:
Problems with Diamond Viper V770 ("Iwaldi")
SCSI host adaptor and old drives (Keith Rhodes)
tnt drivers for linux ("John Smith")
Re: MCA and Linux ?!? (Bryan Scott)
Re: Linux support for WD8003E/A? (PS/2 NIC) (Su Wadlow)
Re: iomega zip drive... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mouse Problem wont go away (Clark Curtiss)
Re: Cable Modems (Grant Taylor)
Re: motorola modem... (Rob Clark)
Re: I'm *close* with my Epson 740 setup...please help! ("Andrew Wedding")
Re: Anyone know about Element-L? (Alan Nash)
Re: iomega zip drive... (TROESTLER Christophe)
Re: Cable Modems (Alba)
Re: Re: fasttrak raid controler (Ted)
Re: Cable Modems (John Strange)
Re: After install, RH5.2 claims "fs iso9660 not supported by kernel" ("Luiba")
Re: about ASUS V3400 Agp! ("Nicholai V. Christensen")
Re: MO disk files to DLT ??? (Swietanowski Artur)
SB Live! and 2.2.7 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o?= Gil)
insmod problems (Mike Kerr)
Re: Partition sizes (csjd)
Re: Need advice on what InkJet printer to buy. (Grant Taylor)
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From: "Iwaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Diamond Viper V770
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 22:02:38 +0400
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI host adaptor and old drives
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:29:38 +0200
I picked up a couple of old SCSI-2 drives:
seagate ST1480N
ibm 0663
What's a good Linux-happy host adaptor?
Preferably that will do SCSI-2 for now, but SCSI-3 or
Wide/UltraWide when I get the schekels together for another
drive...
Thanks in advance,
Keith.
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tnt drivers for linux
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 11:17:07 GMT
I was at nvidias home page and they have official tnt drivers for linux beos
and os2.just thought someone might care.
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 14:15:45 -0600
From: Bryan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MCA and Linux ?!?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have heard that it is now possible to run Linux on a PS/2 with micro
> channel architecture. Has anyone ever attempted this installation? This
> machine of mine comes without (!) CD-ROM, has 8MB of RAM and has a
> 212MB SCSI HDD. I welcome any ideas, recommendation, sites, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
> --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
> ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
Anyone done anything with the MCA AT1700 network cards? Linux can't
seem to find it, no matter which slot it's in.
I'd like to set up the box for NFS/root, as it's too small and slow for
anything else (6MB RAM, 60MB HDD, 386).
-- Bryan Scott
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From: Su Wadlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux support for WD8003E/A? (PS/2 NIC)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 06:16:24 -0500
> > Does Linux support the WD8003E/A MCA ethernet card?
> > --
>
> 3Com523 and 3Com529 are the safe choices.
>
> Everything else might, might not work.
The SMC WD8013WP works great too. I've got one of 'em
in my ADSL box. I *think* I read somewhere that the
WD8013's were supported, but not the WD8003's.
--
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Su Wadlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: iomega zip drive...
Date: 04 Jun 1999 07:33:42 -0400
TROESTLER Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No one. Works perfectly ! (There is a mini HOWTO.)
One thing to note: when you get a zip disk, its main partition
will be /dev/?d?4. That is, if it's a SCSI ZIP disk, the default
partition will be /dev/sda4, or something like that. Keep that
in mind when you're trying to mount the ZIP disk. However, you
can use fdisk to modify this. I don't know how that affects how
Windows can read it.
Jimmy
reply to jimmy at linuxstart dot com
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From: Clark Curtiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse Problem wont go away
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 17:00:05 -0500
I'm sure I can't solve your problems, because I am brand new to Linux.
I have a logitech mouse, but I think it's a mouseman+ with the middle
button being a wheel and a thumb button on the side, but it is PS/2.
Mine is working fine, it even scrolls with the wheel if I put it in the
scroll bar.
I installed the last option for a mouse, First + or something. If
nothing seems to work right, even installing it as a basic mouse, and it
is a serial mouse, maybe you should look toward your serial ports. I
think you can set the speed and such, but I don't know how. Maybe you
have some kind of conflict.
Clark
Dr Death wrote:
>
> Mouse Problem wont go away
>
> Firstly thanks for everyones previous advice. Ive now reinstalled Linux (Red
> Hat) and have disabled gpm from the start up. But guess what? Mouse still
> not cooperating so it seems it isnt down to gmp as everyone keeps
> suggesting.
>
> Recap;
> Device - Logitech pilot mouse + (3rd button/wheel)serial on com2
>
> Problem - Pointer on screen moves 10 secs after I move the mouse
>
> Solutions Tried - Different options in mouseconfig tried, Kill gmp before
> starting X, changed values in X11/XF86Config, and now disabled gmp.
>
> What else in linux is involved in controlling the mouse?
>
> Anyone have any further suggestions or knows a man that does
>
> Thanks Ian
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Modems
Date: 03 Jun 1999 18:05:51 -0400
Alba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Cable modems are always attached to a network interface card (NIC),
> normally a standard ethernet card.
Actually, there are internal cable modem cards, and these are not
generally supported. External boxes seem to be more common at the
moment, though.
I would guess that in most cases where you would be offered an
internal card there is a choice of an internal card or an external box
so as to support Macintosh and other platforms; if you have this
choice, go external.
--
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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Subject: Re: motorola modem...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 11:52:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, csjd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey,
>
> I'm thinking of picking up a new
>modem. One of the ones i'm considering for
>my Linux box is the Motorola v.90 56K ISA
>modem. I believe the model number is SM56.
> Anyone know if/why this modem won't
>function with Linux?
Stay away from that one-- it's a (S)oftware (M)odem which requires Windows
software to work at all...
That particular modem is sold under several generic names, and is rarely
marked as "Windows-only."
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <--- Linux/modem compat. list
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From: "Andrew Wedding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I'm *close* with my Epson 740 setup...please help!
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 21:25:51 +1000
Please find following a message that I posted to a different group some time
ago. I too had trouble printing on my Epson Stylus 740 Colour, below are
the methods that I used to fix the problem. I hope this helps you.
---
For those still having trouble printing:
Since last Christmas have I been trying to print using Linux. Last night I
finally managed to get everything working properly with my Epson Stylus
Colour 740. If you are still having trouble printing, I strongly recommend
the following URL.
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~zdw/uniprint.html
Before you start all of this type cat /proc/devices You should find the
device lp listed amongst others. If not, type insmod lp If this doesn't
work you need to re-compile your kernel with lp support.
Please note though, when it asks you to download the latest version of
ghostscript the URL that it suggests won't work (or didn't for me). So when
you need to download the latest version of GhostScript (5.50) go to the
following URL.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get550.html
If you scroll down that page you will find 2 RPMs for RedHat, one is
GhostScript, the other Ghostscript fonts. Download them both and install
with RPM using the -U switch (to upgrade).
Step two took me a really long time, but if I RTFM first I guess it would
have been quicker. So when you get to step two, ensure that you read,
/usr/doc/ghostscript-5.10/devices.html
NOTE: that the HOWTO asks you to read devices.txt, that file doesn't exist
it is an html file.
When you get to step 5, if you get some sort of error message saying that
the job is queued but it cannot start the daemon go to /usr/sbin and type
./lpd this should start the daemon.
Good luck, if this doesn't work - stick with it. Or keep asking for help.
Sometimes the old adage "The squeaky wheel gets the most oil" is very true.
--
Kind Regards,
*************************************
Andrew Wedding
Final year BIT student
Central Queensland University
http://users.bigpond.com/awedding
*************************************
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From: Alan Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone know about Element-L?
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:55:35 -0700
I just got a "Hadron" system from them. The machine arrived to me
amazingly soon after the order, and it did work right away. This was less
than a week ago, so I am still tweaking it. So far, I am happy. I am
still trying to get my ATAPI ZIP drive to work, but when I ordered it,
they were quite clear in that they would not preinstall the ZIP drive, so
I have no complaints with them so far.
The only frustrating aspect so far is that I have not received the RH CD
and manual yet. According to them, this is a problem on the RedHat site.
Ask me again in a week or two and I will have a clearer idea.
On 3 Jun 1999, Kevin Theobald wrote:
> A company called Element-L sells low-cost preconfigured linux boxes.
> Can anyone tell me if they've have good or bad experiences with them?
>
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Kevin B. Theobald, Ph.D. - Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Lab. |
> | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware |
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Read about Caesar Rodney, the guy on the back of the new Delaware quarter: |
> | http://prodhp.state.de.us/facts/history/rodnbio.htm |
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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Alan Nash--Chief Scientist, Systran Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: TROESTLER Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: iomega zip drive...
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 22:42:16 GMT
csjd wrote:
> I'm thinking of picking up a used Iomega Zip
> drive really cheap but wondering if any one
> has had problems with these drives under RH
No one. Works perfectly ! (There is a mini HOWTO.)
Cheers,
Christophe
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 22:27:23 +0200
From: Alba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Modems
Cable modems are always attached to a network interface card (NIC),
normally a standard ethernet card.
LINUX supports since its origin the ethernet protocol, therefore it
supports cable modems.
You don't tell LINUX that you are using a cable modem, just configure
the network card.
I'm sending you this with a Linux box connected to the Internet with
cable modem !!!
Bye,
Alberto
Anthony DeLuca escribi�:
>
> Does LINUX have support for cable modems? If not will it? Thanks in
> advance..
>
> Tony
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From: (Ted)
Subject: Re: Re: fasttrak raid controler
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 20:46:14 GMT
Reply-To: *paree*@usa.net
I have the Fasttrak controller already and want to know if it would
work under Linux? (I want to swap Linux and NT - Linux to my fast
machine and NT to my old machine)
On Fri, 28 May 1999 00:53:50 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas
Waldmann) wrote:
>> Does anybody know if Linux supports this EIDE raid controler?
>
>Sorry, don't know.
>
>But as you seem to be looking for a somewhat "inexpensive" RAID:
>
>Did you look at Linux' software RAID ? ftp.kernel.org/.../daemons/raid/
>
>The latest stuff is likely to be in the "alpha" directory.
>
>You don't need a special controller for SW RAID, a standard SCSI controller
>will do it, maybe you could even use EIDE (if performance is not the main
>goal).
>
>If you have a fast system (P-II/K6-2 300+ or even SMP), CPU load is no problem.
>
>Hope that helps.
--
You need to remove * * to reply!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Strange)
Subject: Re: Cable Modems
Date: 4 Jun 1999 11:59:00 GMT
You could look around here:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~mcumings/cablemodem/
http://edge.fireplug.net
http://larkin.nuclearwinter.com/rros2/LoginSoftware.html
http://members.home.com/nickoljt/networking.html
http://members.home.net/adaviel/Upgrade.html
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html
http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/
http://smaug.fammed.ohio-state.edu/shane/rr/
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html
http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/modems.html
http://www.cablemodeminfo.com
http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html
http://www.monmouth.com/~jay/Linux/
http://www.vortech.net/rrlinux/
Anthony DeLuca ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Does LINUX have support for cable modems? If not will it? Thanks in
: advance..
: Tony
--
While Alcatel may claim ownership of all my ideas (on or off the job),
Alcatel does not claim any responsibility for them. Warranty expired when u
opened this article and I will not be responsible for its contents or use.
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From: "Luiba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: After install, RH5.2 claims "fs iso9660 not supported by kernel"
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 20:02:08 -0300
Hi, again
Try "insmod" install module command. Syntax is in man pages.
Bye
Luiz Antonio
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From: "Nicholai V. Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: about ASUS V3400 Agp!
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:50:51 +0200
Hi Peter
Well I'm running RH6.0 with an ASUS v3400TNT AGP-card and it works fine for
me.
Nicholai
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MO disk files to DLT ???
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 15:30:01 +0200
"Bill R. King" wrote:
> I have a Sony magneto optical disk model EDM-1DA1s, 512 bytes/sector
> that was written on a PS-2 with AIX 1.3.0. I need to TAR the files out
> to a DLT cartridge.
>
> (...) Can I simply install something like RedHat and a TAR utility,
> mount the MO and DLT drives and copy the MO files or is there a lot
> more to it than that?
Well, kind of. The filesystem. When you mount the drive, you need to
specify the filesystem (explicitly on the command line of 'mount',
or implicitly, in the /etc/fstab file). If the AIX filesystem is one
of those supported by Linux, you're in business, otherwise you need
to think harder.
HTH,
=====================================================================
Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o?= Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB Live! and 2.2.7
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 23:51:59 +0100
Hello
I'm new to Linux (although willing to learn) and I own a Sound Blaster
Live! card. I've downloaded the beta drivers, but I'm having problems
installing it with kernel version 2.2.7 (from SuSE 6.1). I go through
the steps mentioned in the readme file, including trying "insmod -f
sblive" but all I can get is half dozen of "unresolved symbols"
concerning mixer, etc. What am I doing wrong? How should I configure the
kernel, modules, etc.? Thanks for any insights...
Jo�o Gil
a.k.a. Johnny Gil
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From: Mike Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: insmod problems
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:23:45 -0400
I'm installing a 3Com 3c509b driver on my Red Hat 5.1(kernel version
2.0.34-0.6) machine. The module is sitting in the
/lib/modules/2.0.34-0.6/net/ directory, but when I try to install it I
get the message "a module named 3c509 already exists."
I tried using rmmod to uninstall the mod and then tried insmod again,
but got the same message.
Also, in a directory called /lib/modules/prefered/net/ there also
exists a bunch of modules, the 3c509.o module included. I don't know if
it's affecting(either positvely or negatively anything.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Mike.
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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:38:40 -0400
From: csjd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition sizes
"Robert M. Taylor" wrote:
>
> "Bruce G. Perrin" wrote:
> >
> > Hi - I am a new to Linux and looking a practical way to partition my hard
> > disk. MY system is a s follows:
> >
> > 1.6 gig Win98 used for network game server
> > 2.1 gig Linux disk.
> >
> > Should I partition the Linux disk into several smaller ones for user etc...
> > or just a swap disk and one large partition.
> >
> > Also Suse 6.1 gave me a warning about LILO having problems with partitions
> > with more than 1024 sectors.
> >
> > Thanks!!
> you should end up with three partitions (at least):
> /dev/hdb1 - /boot on frst partition i.e. within the first 1024 cylinder
> bounds
> /dev/hdb2 - / root partion i.e. everything else.
> /dev/hdb3 - swap
Some find it more beneficial to set up many
partitions for those directories which are
either prone to growth or access.
I currently have an updated RH 5.1 system on
a 1GB partition which includes separate small
partitions for:
/[root] -- 75MB
/usr -- 550MB
/home -- 200MB
/tmp -- 100MB
However, as you add software and updates you
will notice that space in /usr and /usr/local
gets sucked up. My /usr partition is nearly full
and as a result have had to add another drive.
With a drive such as your own its no problem
to give Linux ample partitions.
And as above don't forget the swap partition.
j.
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need advice on what InkJet printer to buy.
Date: 03 Jun 1999 18:01:31 -0400
Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I looked on the Internet, but can't find info on what is a good
> choice for a printer as far as compatibility is concerned. I have
> RH5.1, and want to buy a nonexpensive InkJet printer.
See http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?predef=CJ
or http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?predef=BJ
for fully compatible color or black and white inkjets, respectively.
Note that if you list by maker rather than with these "perfect only"
listings, there are many printers listed as "mostly" compatible which
might be perfectly fine for your purposes. Sometimes, for example,
the only thing not working is the scanner option.
> Every company I looked so far (lexmark, cannon, hp, epson) (I mean
> web pages) offeres drivers only for windows.
Quite. Furthermore, when Linux does work with a printer, the
manufacturer will be the last person to tell you this.
My general inkjet buying advice:
- Avoid the really cheap printers. Not only are they often not
supported by free software, they are quite expensive to run:
cartridges are where the money is; the printer is little more than
a plastic box to put the cartridge in.
- Corollary to the above: understand the consumables costs for a
printer before buying it; if you'll be buying a $60 cartridge every
100 pages, then that $79 printer is a terrible deal, even when
compared with $300 models.
- There are, in fact, Postscript inkjets. These are the most
compatible with Linux. The Lexmark Optra 40 can be had for $225
these days, and works perfectly for either CMYK or CMYKcm (6-color
"photo") printing. There are various HP options, too.
- You may prefer a printer with a head that can be replaced somehow;
the jets may clog, depending on humidity and dust levels in the
area. Epson heads are not replacable, HP and Lexmark heads are
part of the cartridge, and Canon heads are readily replacable, with
separate ink tanks.
--
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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