Linux-Hardware Digest #428, Volume #10 Sun, 6 Jun 99 20:13:37 EDT
Contents:
Printer Lexmark 2030 inkjet ("Nuno Amorim")
Re: setserial i/o error (Andy)
Re: D-Link DFE530TX ethernet card work for anyone?? ("Murray Johnston")
Re: Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY (Chuck Cusack)
Re: K6-II/400 and Signal 11 while compiling Kernel (Konstantinos Agouros)
Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation (Volker Borchert)
Re: SCSI and mkinitrd (Rod Roark)
Re: Which modem to buy? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can someone instruct me on installing HP 722C printer? ("Gene Heskett")
Logitech FirstMouse+ (wheel) (Vinh Le)
Re: Which modem to buy? (Andrew Comech)
help with ethernet card (D-link 220pct) ("Gavin Clark")
Re: Zoom 2919L modem not detected by Linux (Andrew Comech)
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From: "Nuno Amorim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer Lexmark 2030 inkjet
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:58:28 +0100
Hello!!
I have a Lexmark 2030 Inkjet, but i can�t find it�s driver.
Please helpme
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From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: setserial i/o error
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 16:34:54 -0500
Andy wrote:
> Hello all, new to this group and looking forward to interacting with you
> all in the future.
> I tried to check the settings of my tty02 with setserial, but I recieved
> an I/O error on tty02 instead of the info I was hoping to get. Any
> ideas what this could be?
> Thanks,
> Andy...Not quite a newbie, and nowhere near a veteran...
Sorry bout that, slight correction... that would be ttyS2, not tty02... all
of my ttys for that matter...
Thanks again...
Andy
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From: "Murray Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: D-Link DFE530TX ethernet card work for anyone??
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 21:50:12 GMT
Eric Stratte wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
> Looking at www.pricewatch.com, the DFE530TX is one of the cheapest
>ethernet cards. Has any one had success with the Via Rhine driver that
>D-Link provides a hotlink to? RH6.0 indicates that the the Via Rhine
>driver is in the default kernel, but I did see a note from someone
>having trouble. Another person suggested that they should try
>re-compiling with the driver here:
>http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.c
>
>so how about it, anyone have this work for them?
>
>Thanks,
>Eric
>
I'm running RH6.0 with the DFE530TX. I had to add the driver as a module.
I did the same as Mr. Davenport. It's working fine now. I'm using it with
my cable modem.
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From: Chuck Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 17:29:31 -0500
I have the same problem, but I can't do mkfs, mkfs.ext2, fdformat., or
anything.
The drive is recognized at boot time, and when I do any of these, it tires
for
a while, and gives different eror messages depending on the command.
'mkfs.etx2 /dev/fd0' runs for a few minutes, and then gives:
/dev/fd0: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock
If I use 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0H1440' it runs for a long time, and finally
finishes output is:
mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Linux ext2 filesystem format
Filesystem label=
360 inodes, 1440 blocks
72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
360 inodes per group
Writing inode tables: done
Warning: could not erase block 0: Attempt to write block from filesystem
resulted in short write
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
But then it does not work still.
For instance, I 'do mkbootdisk' and I get
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
or too many mounted file systems
fdformat gives:
Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
Formatting ...
ioctl(FDFMTTRK): Input/output error
I have no idea what could be wrong.
Any help is appreciated.
Chuck Cusack.
Leejay Wu wrote:
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.hardware: 6-Jun-99 Can't mount my
> floppy disk... by "Andrew"@canterbury.ac.n
> > When I try to mount my floppy disk ( Only one, in dos is A:) I got the
> > following message:
>
> ...so you've a floppy disk in your only floppy drive, i.e. /dev/fd0. 'k.
>
> > VFS: can't find an ext2 file system on dev 02:00
> > mount: Wrong fs type, bad opinion, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too
> > many mounted file systems.
>
> 'k. The natural question is -- *is* the floppy disk formatted with ext2?
> Or does it use something like FAT16? I'm working here on the assumption
> that your kernel supports ext2 (extremely likely, esp. if you're not using
> umsdos) and normal floppy drives (possibly 100% odds, since it checked).
>
> If it has no filesystem, make one first (unless you're just going to
> overwrite it w/ tar or whatever). An ext2 filesystem can be built using
> mke2fs, a.k.a. 'mkfs.ext2'.
>
> If it's a dos floppy, try something like (as per the mount(8) man page;
> see 'man mount'):
>
> mont -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> subbin' as apropos for /mnt/floppy, and possibly vfat for msdos.
>
> > Plese tell me what I need do, thank you very much in advance.
> > (I can mount my cd-rom however).
>
> --+-- Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---+- <lw2j@[andrew|cs].cmu.edu> -+--
> | No electrons were harmed in the making of this message. |
> --+-- CMU SCS, '98 ----------------+------------------------------+--
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+-------------------------------------------------+
| Charles A. Cusack |
| Graduate Student |
| Department of Computer Science and Engineering |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros)
Subject: Re: K6-II/400 and Signal 11 while compiling Kernel
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:44:12 GMT
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed a K6-II/400 in my P55T2P4S and it does not look so good.
>> In trying to compile the kernel I get a signal11 very fast and one a sig6
>> Anybody has an idea?
>>
>German c't mag had a test last month of most socket 7 board. They
>checked various processors and your combination got a '-', i.e. not
>supported or not stable. OK.
>That's what you knew. But now you know that it's not your fault. Look at
>the asus site to check if there are simple workarounds, else check out
>if someone in
>news:alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
>knows a hardware manipulation to make it run.
Well the manipulation you talk about is the shortening in the CPU-Socket to get
other Multipliers. Since the 400 gets around with a X2 I don't need it \:)
Anyway thanks to a tip I now got the correct voltage (formerly I had 2.0 Volts)
and now the system seems to run fine.
While surfing to solve my problem I noticed, that there is a patch for 2.0
and 2.1 to enable the write-allocation-feature since my Bios does not turn it
on. Is there something like that available for 2.2?
Konstantin
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"Captain, this ship will not sustain the forming of the cosmos." B'Elana Torres
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Borchert)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation
Date: 1 Jun 1999 10:22:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
|> I have personally used SunOS 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.6 on an IPX. It was
|> annoyingly slow with 32M of RAM. Still slow, but acceptible at 64M.
Well don't expect too much bang from a 40 MHz RISC CPU. I have
worked on a Sparc 1 with 12 M running SunOS 4.1.3 and MIT X11R6
and found it tolerable. But I second the recommendation to max
out memory.
|> Netscape was painfully slow with any amount of RAM.
It is slow even on an Ultra 1/300 with 256 MB.
|> installing and configuring SunOS is a pain-and-a-half.
I don't think so. Admittedly you can't install it "point&click"
but I have never had problems. You should work out your disk
partitioning scheme in advance, however.
|> I would recommend a larer hard drive than 1G if you choose to go with a
|> Sun OS. Most of that 1G will be consumed by the system. Fortunately,
|> 2G and 4G drives are pretty inexpensive these days.
Not really. I have a 500 MB system disk and it is big enough
to hold pre-formatted man pages and about half a dozen kernel
build directories and still has ample space in /var/tmp etc.
Nevertheless, I recommend that you should have at least four
gig available, since you'll want a few hundred megs each for
/usr/local and /usr/X11R6, and at least one gig for GNU and
X11R6 sources.
One thing to keep in mind is that SunOS 4.1.x does not support
local file systems larger than two gig, though it can NFS mount
almost any size.
--
"I'm a doctor, not a mechanic." Dr Leonard McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"I'm a mechanic, not a doctor." Volker Borchert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI and mkinitrd
Date: 6 Jun 1999 21:56:20 GMT
Daniel Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
>I tried the following
>/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/newinitrd-image 2.0.36-0.7
>It seemed to take (it didn't destroy anything), but nothing changed -
>still no SCSI card. Is there something else that needs to be changed to
>possibly change pointers to this new initrd image??
Did you run lilo again? Also make sure lilo.conf has a reference to
the initrd that you built.
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which modem to buy?
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 21:47:55 GMT
I just got a 3Com USR 56k Faxmodem model #5687-03. This
model of internal USR has jumpers. It works like a charm.
Be careful though, model #5687-02 does not have jumpers.
Check the serial number sticker on the side of the box
to determine what flavor it is. I've also gotten the
jumperless model #5687-02 to work via isapnp on another
pc. But given a choice, I'd go with the model #5687-03
every time.
Sean
In article <7ikqb7$jsh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> SamIam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> > this is a good excuse to upgrade to a 56k modem. Does anyone have
any
> > suggestions on a good modem to buy at a good price that will work
> under
> > Linux? I've been thinking of getting the USR faxmodem because they
> are
> [...]
>
> I'd go with an external USR modem. I use a USR Courier V.Everything
and
> have been very happy with it. When I was last shopping for modems (>1
> year ago) the Sportsters were placing nearly as well as Couriers in
> various tests, but the Couriers were significantly better at dealing
> with line noise, so I went with the Courier for about $250.
>
> I've used the modem safely and without trouble under Windows95,
> WindowsNT, and under RedHat Linux 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2.
>
> If you're looking for a U.S. vendor, I used comp-u-plus
> (www.compuplus.com) and was satisfied with their pricing and service.
> I've also bought my 3dfx accelerator cards from them as well.
Obviously
> I like them well enough to recommend them!
>
> As others have said in this thread, avoid winmodems or any other kind
of
> "software modem".
>
> Best of luck.
> --
> Paul Munn, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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Date: 06 Jun 99 17:59:55 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can someone instruct me on installing HP 722C printer?
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Dick Roth;
Unforch, about all we can do is advise you to take it back and get a
real printer. Thats a 'winprinter', and HP (and all the others maing
like printers) have refused to release the specs on what it takes to
drive a brainless printer.
All the smarts that a real printer has, have been moved into the driver
that runs on the host pc. Which is of course, a windoze only driver.
Sigh...
DR> I'm having trouble installing an HP 722C printer, which works
DR> wonderfully in w95, but is a problem under Linux. So far, I've
DR> learned that no HP driver exists for Linux. Can someone who has
DR> installed this kind of printer give me a hand with this chore?
DR> I'm running RH5.2. Thanks
The above is your message, please tell mozilla not to also generate html
when sending to newsgroups, as it triples the size of your message at
the expense of making it more or less unreadable to newsreaders in
general.
DR> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
[more html snipped to save bandwidth]
Cheers, Gene
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Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vinh Le)
Subject: Logitech FirstMouse+ (wheel)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:08:21 GMT
Hi!
I have a Logitech FirstMouse+, the two button kind with
the wheel in the middle that works as a third button.
As a three button mouse, it works great! I would like
to use the wheel too, if I can. From what I've read,
this should be easily accomplished. However, it's yet
to work for me, so I'd like some advice as to how to
debug my setup.
This is all I have in the Pointer section of XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
As you can see, the ZAxisMapping 4 5 is there.
I also downloaded imwheel-0.9.6.tar.gz and followed
the instructions for "[ METHOD #1 : XGrabButton ]"
After restarting X, I ran "imwheel -k".
I put in .Xdefaults for netscape:
!## NETSCAPE
Netscape*drawingArea.translations: #replace \
<Btn1Down>: ArmLink() \n\
<Btn2Down>: ArmLink() \n\
~Shift<Btn1Up>: ActivateLink() \n\
~Shift<Btn2Up>: ActivateLink(new-window) \
DisarmLink() \n\
Shift<Btn1Up>: ActivateLink(save-only) \
DisarmLink() \n\
Shift<Btn2Up>: ActivateLink(save-only) \
DisarmLink() \n\
<Btn1Motion>: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\
<Btn2Motion>: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\
<Btn3Motion>: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\
<Motion>: DescribeLink() \n\
<Btn3Down>: xfeDoPopup() \n\
<Btn3Up>: ActivatePopup() \n\
Ctrl<Btn4Down>: PageUp()\n\
Ctrl<Btn5Down>: PageDown()\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>: LineUp()\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>: LineDown()\n\
None<Btn4Down>: LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()\n\
None<Btn5Down>:
LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()\n\
Alt<Btn4Down>: xfeDoCommand(forward)\n\
Alt<Btn5Down>: xfeDoCommand(back)\n
Netscape*globalNonTextTranslations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>: LineUp()\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>: LineDown()\n\
None<Btn4Down>:LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()\n\
None<Btn5Down>:LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()\n\
Alt<Btn4Down>: xfeDoCommand(forward)\n\
Alt<Btn5Down>: xfeDoCommand(back)\n
This setup didn't work. The wheel didn't do anything in netscape.
Okay, here's one thing that may screw me up, my Logitech FirstMouse+
is an OEM model M-S48 without the Logitech logo on top and white
in color. I read one webpage that said this OEM model *might* work.
So, I need confirmation from you guys with this mouse or a nice
test thing I can do to see if the wheel responds as button 4 and 5.
Thanks!
Vinh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Which modem to buy?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Jun 1999 19:23:49 -0500
On Sun, 06 Jun 1999 21:47:55 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just got a 3Com USR 56k Faxmodem model #5687-03. This
>model of internal USR has jumpers. It works like a charm.
>Be careful though, model #5687-02 does not have jumpers.
>Check the serial number sticker on the side of the box
>to determine what flavor it is. I've also gotten the
>jumperless model #5687-02 to work via isapnp on another
>pc. But given a choice, I'd go with the model #5687-03
>every time.
>
>Sean
>
>In article <7ikqb7$jsh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I'd go with an external USR modem. I use a USR Courier V.Everything and
>> have been very happy with it. When I was last shopping for modems (>1
>> year ago) the Sportsters were placing nearly as well as Couriers in
>> various tests, but the Couriers were significantly better at dealing
>> with line noise, so I went with the Courier for about $250.
>>
Hey Sean,
Can you define "works like a charm"? All modems of those
which _do_ work, work just fine..
To my understanding, there is no excuse to spend extra money
or something on a modem manufactured by those who
trademark'ed the term `WINMODEM'...
Best,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
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From: "Gavin Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with ethernet card (D-link 220pct)
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 16:20:45 -0700
I just instaled RH 6
the installer didn't have my ethernet card in the list of pre configured
cards which forced me to skip the automatic network setup.
how do I get it going manually?
thanks
Gavin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Zoom 2919L modem not detected by Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Jun 1999 19:38:56 -0500
Hi Sean,
I'd try to find the modem _manually_, with setserial...
# setserial -b /dev/ttyS0 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig session_lockout
or use `irq 4' instead of `auto_irq'... The man page would tell you more.
I suspect that wvdial is "too clever" and keeps some old data, and this
prevent a new modem from being configured.. Well I never tried wvdial to
know the source of your troubles for sure, but I suspect that if you
reinstall wvdial, you'd be up in the air again.
Best,
a.
On Sat, 05 Jun 1999 23:10:29 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just got a Zoom int. isa 56k dual model 2919L
>faxmodem. Before that I had a simple Telepath
>14.4k which used com1, irq4. I shut down my
>system and took out the old modem card. I modified
>the jumpers on the new Zoom isa 2919L card as follows:
>
>1) disabled pnp via jumpers
>2) selected com1 via jumpers
>3) selected irq4 via jumpers
>
>I thought it would be a simple swap, one modem
>for the other. My bios has PnP disabled by
>the way. I inserted the Zoom ISA int. modem.
>I booted the system...and...:
>
> wvdialconf tells me there is nothing there!
>
>when I look at proc/ioports I see that com1 and
>com2 addresses have been assigned to serial(auto).
>I'm using kernel 2.2.7.
>
>Any reason why when following the above procedure
>wvdialconf fails to even see anything on com1?
>My old modem used com1, irq4 via jumpers. The new
>Zoom isa int. 2919L likewise has been set to com1,
>irq4 via jumpers. I've also disabled pnp in both
>the bios and the Zoom modem.
>
>By the way if this is of any help, my system is
>running SuSE 6.1 only. It's not a dual boot system.
>I've seen posts by people using this particular
>Zoom modem in a dual boot configuration. So I'm wondering
>does this Zoom 2919L int. isa modem have to setup to
>use isapnp in order to get the dang thing to work?
>I'm about ready to go out and by an external USR 56k
>modem
NEVER! These days, 128MB of memory is cheaper than that.
>
>Many Thanks,
>
>Sean
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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