Linux-Hardware Digest #510, Volume #10 Thu, 17 Jun 99 03:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Re: SB Live driver does SB Live Value? (Daniel Bruce Lynes)
Exabyte EXB-4200 (JeroenHoppenbrouwers)
Re: Floppies for installing? ("Michael Faurot")
Xircom Pocket ethernet III adapter ("peter sandretto")
IBM Keyboard (tod)
Re: Good AT MB for Cel Processor (PhilD)
Re: Is it possible for a brand new 4.3 GB SCSI-3 to be sold at US$40 ? ("Witch
Burner")
Re: Sound Blaster 128 and ALSA (Yves Dionne)
Re: Linux and Diamond Rio MP3000 (Jim Harvey)
Re: Iomega ZIP and second parallel port? (Steven Martin)
alpha personal workstation's problem (goo)
bttv/xtvscreen problems (Chuck Cusack)
Tyan S1830S / SL Tsunami AT Motherboard? (Greg Aeschliman)
Re: S3 TRIO 3D Video card and Red Hat 6.0. Help! (Bryan Yates)
Post compile tweaks........?? (Danie in Oregon)
"HCL" ("John Coyne")
Retraction ("John Coyne")
Re: Iomega ZIP and second parallel port? (Ian Tester)
Re: Strang sound problem! (David Fox)
Re: Strange problem with my RH6.0 box... (Dan Scott)
Re: can i run linux on amd's Elansc400 (nukoon phimsen)
AmbiCom 10/100 Fast Ethernet CardBus PC Card (AMB8100) (Stephen Tsai)
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From: Daniel Bruce Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live driver does SB Live Value?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:25:48 GMT
Andrew de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: does anyone know if the linux soundblaster live driver works for sound
: blaster live value? the driver is at:
: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
Yes, it works just fine. I'm using it on the 2.0.6 kernel. You'll have to open
up vim, and edit the install script and the module, so that it installs on 2.0.6
and higher, as well as rename the module to the appropriate kernel version.
Otherwise, you're stuck with using kernel 2.0.5.
Just make sure that when you edit it, you type 'vim -b <modulename>', or you'll
change some bytes in the file you didn't mean to. If you need to add any
digits, replace one of the following NUL bytes with the extra digit, or if
your version has one less digit, change one of the existing digits in the file
to a NUL byte (r, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-@).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JeroenHoppenbrouwers)
Subject: Exabyte EXB-4200
Date: 15 Jun 1999 11:19:49 GMT
Hi,
I have acquired an Exabyte EXB-4200 4mm DDS-1 DAT drive. I have seen this exact
same drive working on another machine, where I had installed it under OS/2
using GNU tar for OS/2 without any single problem whatsoever. When I bought the
drive from the owner of the OS/2 machine, it was working perfectly.
However, I cannot get it working properly on Linux using an on-board SCSI
controller (ait777xxx driver or something very close to this). My disks and
CDROM hang off the same controller and work 100% okay. The drive is recognized
correctly and reacts to all commands, mt status, mt rewind, everything. But
tar operations to /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 have a 90% chance of failure.
Writing usually starts fine, but as soon as the buffer is full and the tape
starts spinning, the whole circus blows up and after endless waiting, tar comes
back with an IO error. Reading of a previously written tape has worked once,
but is extremely unreliable. Sometimes it starts fine but hangs half way.
I suppose the drive is fine and there's something screwed up in my setup
somewhere. But the SCSI chain works correctly.
Where to start?
--
dr.ir. Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, Senior Researcher at | Stop recycling code;
Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands | start recycling ideas!
http://infolab.kub.nl/people/hoppie
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppies for installing?
Date: 17 Jun 1999 00:09:37 GMT
Louis Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can I get 3 1/2 floppies to install Lenux 5.2? I do not have a CD drive. If
: so, where? Thank you?
Let's do a little math here . . .
Assuming for the moment that you could get a copy of the RedHat
distribution on 1.44M floppies, let's see how many that would be . . .
The current copy of RedHat v6.0 takes up 561M on the cdrom.
It would require at least this many 1.44M floppy diskettes:
561M / 1.44M = 390 (diskettes)
Let's assume that each diskette costs about .30c
390 * .30 = $117
Pretty damned expensive when you figure that you can get a new IDE
CDROM drive for about $30-$50 and a copy of the distribution for as
little $5-$10. If you look hard enough you could probably even find a
used IDE CDROM drive. I recently bought a used 16X Toshiba from a
local forsale newsgroup for $15.
--
==============================================================================
Michael | mfaurot | BAD CRAZINESS, MAN!!!
Faurot | atww.org |
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From: "peter sandretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xircom Pocket ethernet III adapter
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:31:50 -0400
I posted this query a long time ago but haven't found one yet. Does anyone
have or know where to get a driver for a Xircom pocket ethernet combo
adapter III (parallel) that works with Linux? Please e-mail me a
esponse. -Peter Sandretto
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From: tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM Keyboard
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:38:50 -0400
Hi Linux users! I would appreciate some opinions on the following
keyboard problem:
Duel boot 95/ Linux Red Hat 5.2. I have an Intel P5 motherboard (2/3
baby AT)
(233MMX) with an 82430HX chip set. I would like to use a classic IBM
keyboard model "M", dated 1991. The touch is great and I can type much
faster on
it. The following happens when I try:
1. numlock light comes on after caps lock and scroll lock; computer will
not boot; no beep and just hangs;
2. hitting reset; all three lights come on, beep and the machine boots
perfectly; keyboard works perfectly
3. doing another cold boot and #1 is repeated.
This keyboard works perfectly with a friend's new ATX motherboard and a
486/DX33. A new Chicony works perfectly with the P5. The only
assumption I can make is that there is some kind of timing error with
the chip on my motherboard. Is there a fix or workaround for this?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Tod
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PhilD)
Subject: Re: Good AT MB for Cel Processor
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 03:30:20 GMT
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:18:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+Pablo+) wrote:
>On 16 Jun 1999 17:30:48 GMT, PhilD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
><snip>
>>upgrading the MB, CPU, Ram, and vid. Since my funds are limited, I have
>>decided a Cel 300A or 333A would be my best bet for a cheap upgrade. The
>>problem with this is that I need a AT board. Looking around, I have found
>
>>information you can spare. would like to keep the total upgrade to around
>>$250. I have a 15" Sony monitor and was planning on 64MB PC-100 DIMM and
>>a ATI Xpert 98 8MB vid card (looks to be well supported). So that only
>>leaves about $140 or so for a MB/CPU combo.
>
>check out www.shoppingplanet.com
>
>This is only my opinion:
>they have amd k6/2 - 350 for $69 (less than a Celery 333)
>they have 64MB PC-100 DIMM for $50
>choose any M/B with 1MB cache for around $75
>the ATI card is $51
>----------------------------------------
>$241 + shipping
>
>also try www.pricescan.com for each item on your shopping list, watch
>out for hidden "handling" charges though...
>
>usual disclaimers, no affiliation, blah, blah, YMMV..
>
>+Pablo+
Oh yeah, one of the reason I was going Cel is that the 300A overclocks
so well. I realize that you have to have a decent board to do this
with though. I checked out those sites and again thanks.
PhilD
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From: "Witch Burner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.scsi,misc.forsale.computers.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.periphs.cdr,alt.iomega.zip.jazz
Subject: Re: Is it possible for a brand new 4.3 GB SCSI-3 to be sold at US$40 ?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:16:24 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|Is it possible for a brand new 4.3 GB SCSI-3 to be sold at US$40 ?
|
|http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=117730901
|
|please help
This drive will probably end up going for almost what you can buy it from a
mail-order vendor! I have noticed that most of the bidders on eBay tend to
get carried away when bidding and end up paying as much or more than retail.
Buying on eBay is kinda risky too. I haven't been burned yet but it's
unsettling to send someone a money order and then wait to see if the
merchandise you bought is D.O.A.
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From: Yves Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 128 and ALSA
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:35:11 -0400
Claude Chaudet wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have installed ALSA sound drivers for my sb128 PCI cound card. It works
> great except for MIDI. When I try playmidi, it tells me `can't open
> /dev/sequencer`.
>
> Does anybody know how to get this work ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Claude.
The sequencer is under development. The only way to make it work is to
contribute code. :)
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From: Jim Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Diamond Rio MP3000
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:45:04 +0000
Camille Keeler wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I was wondering if anybody has gotten one of those mp3 players to
> work under linux (download files to the player). I can't seem
> to find any help on the web about this.
Search for Snowblind Alliance. http://www.world.co.uk/sba/rio.htm
You will find programs for uploading to and downloading from the Rio. I
havn't tried it yet, please post your results if you get it to work.
--
Jim Harvey, Naperville, Ill. Amiga person - Linux person - WB8NBS/9
This message came from Netscape running on a LINUX machine!
He who dies with the most software wins.
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From: Steven Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Iomega ZIP and second parallel port?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:59:59 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rene Grothmann wrote:
>
> I have a second parallel port (separate card). The printer connects to
> this card, and the IOmega parallel port version to the first card. The
> printer is configured for lp0 (using YAST from SUSE) and works. Both, lp
> and ppa, are modules.
>
> But the ppa module still reports a busy device. So, how can I tell it to
> use the other port?
>
> I could not even get it to work, when I removed the lp module (plus the
> parport_probe, parport_pc and parport). Funny thing is, that I was able
> to use that configuration with Suse 6.0. Now I have installed 6.1 (new
> install).
>
> Rene.
>
> Please mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
According to the mini-HOWTO ZIP-Drive, you can only run with the ppa
module OR the lp module loaded; not both. Also, do you have the right
parallel port address as an option for ppa in conf.modules?
HTH or at least gives you a clue.
=======
Steve Martin, NR7P
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: goo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alpha personal workstation's problem
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:43:44 +0800
Hi All :
Does anybody know about (alpha personal workstation 500a) 's network
card config.
I have already install RH 6.0 for alpha inside. It can't connect to
network card.
I ping it's own Ip and found some problem on it.
The screen display:
ping 202.148.23.5 (202.148.23.5):56 data bytes
64 bytes from 202.148.23.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
wrong data byte #8 should be 0x8 but was 0x25
c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b
2c 2d 2e 2f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
If anybody know about this problem .pls mail me .........
Thanks.
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From: Chuck Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bttv/xtvscreen problems
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:42:58 -0500
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I just got a hauppauge WinCast/TV, and am trying to get it to work.
instead of displaying anything in the nice little window, it places 4
copies across
the screen. Is this a common problem.
I am assuming I haven't set it up properly, but since I have both the
version that came with the distribution (RedHat 6.0), and I downloaded
one so that I would have xtvscreen, (which apparently doesn't some
with RedHat 6.0), I'm not sure which documentaion to follow, and
depending
on which files you read, it says different things.
Any Ideas?
Chuck .
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| Charles A. Cusack |
| Graduate Student |
| Department of Computer Science and Engineering |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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| e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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I just got a hauppauge WinCast/TV, and am trying to get it to work.
<br>instead of displaying anything in the nice little window, it places
4 copies across
<br>the screen. Is this a common problem.
<br>I am assuming I haven't set it up properly, but since I have both the
<br>version that came with the distribution (RedHat 6.0), and I downloaded
<br>one so that I would have xtvscreen, (which apparently doesn't
some
<br>with RedHat 6.0), I'm not sure which documentaion to follow, and depending
<br>on which files you read, it says different things.
<br>Any Ideas?
<br>Chuck .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Aeschliman)
Subject: Tyan S1830S / SL Tsunami AT Motherboard?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 03:41:18 GMT
Does anyone have any comments on this board. Is anyone using it with
Linux? I'm thinking about this or a Tyan Trinity AT 100... Thanks for
any guidance.
Greg Aeschliman
Osaka, Japan
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From: Bryan Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 TRIO 3D Video card and Red Hat 6.0. Help!
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:01:53 -0500
Carlos Lacasa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've installed Red Hat 6.0 but I'm not able to configure my S3 TRIO 3D video
> card (except the VGA mode). Does anyone how to do it?
>
> Thank you.
Sorry Carlos, The only support in X for your card is currently vga16, unless
you can find a commercial version that supports it.
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From: Danie in Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Post compile tweaks........??
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:56:49 -0700
I put the 2.2.9 source tree in....and took out 2.2.5-15
I recompiled the kernel to bzImage and placed that in my Dos
linux(loadlin dir).
I copied the new system map from /usr/src/linux to /boot.
I removed the /lib/modules/2.2.5-15
What exactly else do I need to do the make it complete....there are
still some residual traces of
2.2.5-15 left in /boot....
System.map-2.2.5-15
boot.b
chain.b
@module-info
module-info-2.2.5-15
Os2.db
*vmlinux-2.2.5.15
@vmlinuz
vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
Where can I find the module-info for 2.2.9?
can I just cp my vmlinux file from /usr/src/linux to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.9
then symlink it to vmlinuz?
Should I copy the bzImage file to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9.......and link it
to vmlinuz?
Any help would be appreciated...
And just what IS THE KOSHER way
to do a compile on a VIRGIN source tree...
I asked three different people got three completely different answers...
The first said...
do make mrproper, then make menuconfig, then make dep, then make
bzimage, then make modules
then make modules_install.
The second said
DONT do make mrproper......just make menuconfig, then make dep,
then make CLEAN,
then make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install.
The third said
It doesn't matter if you do a make mrproper or make clean on a
virgin source tree...
He said to make menuconfig, make dep,make bzImage............then he
said to reboot with the NEW
kernel............THEN to make modules then make
modules_install....he also said no need to make clean.
I have three different books...on linux.........
Mark Sobell A Practical Guide to Linux
Mat Welsh and Lar Kaufman Running Linux
and
Mat Welsh linux Installation and Getting Started....
They also were different...
The docs from Redhat 5.2 are different from RH6.0...on the kernel
build...RH6.0...says nothing about
make clean.
Just need to know these things folks...
Thanks for the time.....
Danie (in Oregon)
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From: "John Coyne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "HCL"
Date: 17 Jun 1999 06:09:03 GMT
I am new at the linux bandwagon... is there a known Hardware compatability
List for Red Hat 5.2 & UP?
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From: "John Coyne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Retraction
Date: 17 Jun 1999 06:24:16 GMT
Disregard the last message... Ifound it. Thank you!
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From: Ian Tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Iomega ZIP and second parallel port?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:35:56 +1000
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Steven Martin wrote:
> Rene Grothmann wrote:
> >
> > I have a second parallel port (separate card). The printer connects to
> > this card, and the IOmega parallel port version to the first card. The
> > printer is configured for lp0 (using YAST from SUSE) and works. Both, lp
> > and ppa, are modules.
> >
> > But the ppa module still reports a busy device. So, how can I tell it to
> > use the other port?
> >
> > I could not even get it to work, when I removed the lp module (plus the
> > parport_probe, parport_pc and parport). Funny thing is, that I was able
> > to use that configuration with Suse 6.0. Now I have installed 6.1 (new
> > install).
> >
> > Rene.
> >
> > Please mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> According to the mini-HOWTO ZIP-Drive, you can only run with the ppa
> module OR the lp module loaded; not both. Also, do you have the right
> parallel port address as an option for ppa in conf.modules?
This is incorrect. Kernel 2.2 (and since 2.1.x) has a new system to allow
sharing of parallel ports with the pass-through ports on the back of
devices like the Zip drive. It sounds like this HOWTO hasn't been updated
for 2.2.
That said, Rene has the Zip and printer on different ports anyway. From
what I can tell, the ppa driver (SCSI for the Zips parallel interface)
doesn't have any parameters. It seems to just scan all the parallel ports.
Perhaps Rene should check the configuration of the parallel ports. Does
the printer work on the second port?
bye
--
8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
Ian Tester *8)# \7\ LINUX: because geeks will find a way
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy
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Subject: Re: Strang sound problem!
From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Date: 16 Jun 1999 21:01:45 -0700
Wang Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think I have configured my sound card well. But after starting Linux,
> logging on and trying to test the sound, it doesn't work. And there are
> some items of the same message:
>
> Sound: DMA (input) times out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
>
> However, if I stop the sound modules by "rmmod" and restart them by
> "modprobe sound", or just run the redhat's "sndconfig" without changing
> any parameters again, the sound works well!
If it were a desktop I'd suggest going into the bios and marking
IRQ 5 as ISA or legacy. Or unmarking it, or something. Can you
do that on a laptop?
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Dan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Strange problem with my RH6.0 box...
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:08:36 GMT
Robert Nickel wrote:
> So, there I sat, happily plinking away in my KDE window. I needed to
> leave the room and decided that I would log off. Doing so, my Linux
> machine obediently charged toward respawning kdm an BOOM, purple
> vertical lines on the screen and a locked up machine. Ack! I thought.
> I guess it's time to drop back and kick. So I hit the reset button
> expecting to be told all about how a check is being forced since I
> didn't shut down correctly. However, as I watched the machine go
> through the BIOS and start to ramp up I notice that I don't have LILO:
> on the screen, but I get LI and a locked up machine! Now the box that
> has been my trusted companion for the last year is suddenly taken ill.
> I don't understand exactly what's going on.
>
> Ok, so here are the facts:
> The crash was sudden. Although I had seen a similar crash in the
> past, a reboot and patient
> wading through fsck usually fixed it.
>
> The LI portion of LILO: shows up whether booting from the hard drive
>
> or a bootable floppy.
>
> No hardware changes have been made for at LEAST 6 months.
>
> Has anyone else seen this type of problem before? I'm fairly certain
> that it is some type of hardware issue, but I just can't seem to finger
> it out.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --Robert
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (remove the no_spam and .no.spam irritation avoiders to get email to
> me)
>
> p.s. e-mail responses are preferred, but I check the list often enough
> if you simply post it here.
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From: nukoon phimsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can i run linux on amd's Elansc400
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:20:48 +0700
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> I want to developt single board use Elansc 400 and
> i want to run with linux
> it is possible ?
>
> thank you very mush for any information
>
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From: Stephen Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: AmbiCom 10/100 Fast Ethernet CardBus PC Card (AMB8100)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:25:42 -0700
Thanks to Mr. Donald Becker's effort, AmbiCom 10/100 CardBus PC card now
supports Linux.
Please refer to http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html to
get the latest tulip.c (V0.91)
Stephen S. Tsai
AmbiCom, Inc. USA
01-408-727-6877
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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