Linux-Hardware Digest #597, Volume #10 Sat, 26 Jun 99 12:13:32 EDT
Contents:
sysvinit (Kostis Mentzelos)
Re: Newbee needs help (Steve Rapisarda)
Re: RH 6.0 & 3C905C TXM Problems (Tom Pfeifer)
Soundblaster 16 pci ("Lineone")
Re: Hardware List? ("Jim Wetzel")
Re: Brother HL-1040 under Linux (Matthias Kilian)
Re: HELP: scsi error (Matthias Kilian)
Compaq Armada 1500C (Pedro Almeida)
Best PCI Soundcard? (Bryan)
Re: Why my Sis620 can only support 8bpp (Alan Wigginton)
Re: ISDN TA for RH5.2 (mezcal)
Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2 (Barry Smith)
Henryk Paluch's Lexmark 5700 Printer driver ("Frederik Meerwaldt")
Re: Looking for vendor for a Linux box (Brian McGroarty)
looking for an affordable colocation facility? (Allen Ahoffman)
Re: how to burn CD with IDE/ATAPI CD-RW ? ("Eirik Wilberg")
Re: IntelliStation upgrade? ("Eirik Wilberg")
Re: Modem speed measurement (Johan Kullstam)
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From: Kostis Mentzelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sysvinit
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:32:09 +0300
Hi all,
I am using SUSE linux 5.3
The default sysvinit version of my linux is 2.65f
then I decided to install sysvinit 2.76
BUT suse's version of init is calling an executable (/sbin/init.d/boot) jast
after the message:
INIT: version X booting (this is log(L_CO,bootmsg))
and before doing anything with inittab (I think)
How can I execute this file from init.c ?
Kostis Mentzelos
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From: Steve Rapisarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbee needs help
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:30:50 GMT
Do this to make Linux "mount" your windows partition every time on
boot-up
Find the file fstab usually located in /etc/fstab. And a line in the
upper part of the file. This assumes your windows partition is hda1:
/dev/hda1 /dos vfat defaults 0 0
after that make a directory /dos from "/" (root). (I.E):
# cd /
# mkdir /dos (You can name this anything you want but make
sure the dir you make matches the one in the fstab file.
Now reboot and verify it worked by doing a:
# cd /dos
# ls
You should see your windows partition directories.
Later..
Steve Rapisarda
diahedrial wrote:
>
> Just wondering, does "/mnt/win" directory exist? if not, create it
> first.
>
> Eric Sandvik wrote:
> >
> > If you are trying to mount /dev/hda1 that's your problem unless you are running
> > your linux partition on another device. Just checking the most obvious things
> > first, if you are running linux on hdb or another partition on hda ignore this.
> >
> > Gerald Ruiter wrote:
> >
> > > Some problems I have encoutered:
> > >
> > > I have tried mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win to mount my windows partition,
> > > but now I get the following message: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> > > superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file system.
> > >
> > > I have downloaded XFree86-3_3_3_1-1_src.rpm under Windows 98. I copied the
> > > file to my ZIP drive. Next, I've tried to install the file using the command
> > > rpm -if XFree86-3_3_3_1-1_src.rpm . I get the following message unexpected
> > > query source. Can somebody explain to me what this means.
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From: Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 & 3C905C TXM Problems
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:42:23 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> We just purchased some Dell Dimension machines and they come with the
> 3Com 3C905C TXM NIC cards. RedHat claims that these cards are not
> supported and neither are the Netgear FX310 TX nor the 3C905B TX. They
> claim that the best card to buy is the 3Com 3c595. Unfortunately, I
> can't find this card at our local computer stores.
>
I can't speak for the other cards, but the 3C905B TX is most definitely
supported, at least in the 2.2.XX kernels. I never tried it with 2.0.XX.
It is of course a PCI card. I compiled the driver directly into the
kernel as opposed to using the module, although that shouldn't matter -
I only did that because the card is always in use so no advantage to
using a module.
Here's the relevant portion of /proc/pci
============================================================================
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=10.Max
Lat=10.
I/O at 0x6c00 [0x6c01].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe8000000].
============================================================================
And the relevant portion of /var/log/kern.log
============================================================================
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux
/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x6c00, 00:10:5a:a6:2c:da, IRQ
10
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
============================================================================
Tom
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From: "Lineone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundblaster 16 pci
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:36:28 +0100
Hi
Has anyone managed to get a Soundblaster 16 PCI soundcard to work in linux
kernel 2.2.2. If so please can you let me know how cuz I just cant get the
darned thing to work.
Thanks
Bryan
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From: "Jim Wetzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Hardware List?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:56:10 -0400
Reply-To: "Jim Wetzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Try: http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/index.html
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:37746e4e.2165634@news-server...
>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone has a list of compatible hardware for RedHat 6.0? Thanks.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Kilian)
Subject: Re: Brother HL-1040 under Linux
Date: 26 Jun 1999 10:10:34 GMT
> I run a Brother HL-1040 laser printer under Linux using HP Laserjet IIP
> emulation - but it is sooo slow! Does anyone know where I could get hold
> of the control codes for this printer to write a filter for it?
Just look around the brother website (www.brother.com?). There you should find
a technical document (control.pdf) which describes several printer languages
(pcl, pjl, diablo 630, epson fx-850, and others) used by the brother series.
The documenent is entiteld "Brother Laser Printer HL-Series, Technical
Reference Guide, Revision C".
Note that you have to know which emulations your printer supports. The best
way to get this info is to use the pjl commands described in the reference
guide.
Note also that you first should check wether it is indeed the printer that's
slow. Since printing is done via ghostscript, it may be that your computer is
too slow. It may also be the parallel interface (interrupts enabled?).
Good luck,
Kili
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Kilian)
Subject: Re: HELP: scsi error
Date: 26 Jun 1999 10:16:30 GMT
> i recently received the following error message:
> (host name) kernel: scsi: aborting command due to timeout : pid
> (###), scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (6) 06 2a dd 02 00
> what could be the cause of this and what should i do to prevent this
> error from happening again.
You should tell us about your kernel version, the SCSI driver (and which
parameters), the SCSI hostadapter you're using, the devices that are
connected to your hostadapter.
Kili
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From: Pedro Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Armada 1500C
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 14:19:53 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I hae a Compaq Armada 1500C laptop and I want to configure XFree on it!
I already can run Xfree on 800x600 resolution, but in a 40Hz Vertical
refresh rate!
Anyone knows/have a better XF86Config file?
Please reply to my email too.
Thanks in advance,
Pedro
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best PCI Soundcard?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 09:57:18 -0400
I'm looking into getting a new sound card and want one that is good and
will work with Linux and Win98, but I want it to work with the drivers
that are already supplied with linux, not commercial drivers. Could you
all please post your sound cards that worked with no problems under
linux? Thanks, Bryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Wigginton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Why my Sis620 can only support 8bpp
Date: 24 Jun 1999 20:45:20 +1000
In article <7ks0ja$noh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> The X Window displays well, but it can only support 8bpp(256 colors).
> The README file of XFCom_Sis said that in no_linear mode, only this
> depth is supported, but if I comment out the no_linear line, then the
> texts in X will all display as underlines.
Try Option "no_bitblt".
It worked for my SiS 6326
Good Luck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mezcal)
Subject: Re: ISDN TA for RH5.2
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 14:05:56 GMT
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:08:14 -0600, "Jason Thompson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for advice on an internal ISDN TA that supports TA type
>commands. Specifically, I'm looking for a card that I install just as
>easily as an analog modem, that doesn't require me to rebuild the kernel, or
>rewrite my chat/pppd scripts (other than changing some AT initialization
>strings), create or install different drivers, or even deal with the
>isdn4linux utilities and drivers. Does such a thing exist?
>
>Requirements:
>Internal card
>RH5.2 - the 2.0.36 kernel out of the box
>
>Thanks for any suggestions (other than "get DSL" or "get an ISDN router" or
>"get a life" :)
>
>Jason
>
Hi Jason. I use a USR Courier I-modem for linux.
Upside to this one is both analog and ISDN capable, AT style commands
under linux, no drivers needed to use; all you have to do is make
linux think the com port its on is a serial port (all done with 1
line), has multilink capabilities, POTS ports.
Downside is no longer in production, but is still supported by 3Com (
just downloaded the v.90 flash update so my friends can call in at 56k
to my dialup server).
Good luck
mez
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From: Barry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:09:00 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Andrew J. Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Normally on board
>video (which you seem to indicate you are using) can be disabled using
a jumper
>on the motherboard and a corresponding setting in BIOS. (note: your
original
>post indicated you were using and old S3 card circa
'93.....umm......which is
0>it--motherboard video or an expansion card?
It is on the Motherboard ... I said that it was using system memory; I
suppose the hardware to drive it is also on the motherboard. I am using
S3 drivers in Windows - you need some kind of driver. Perhaps that is
how the confusion arose.
Also, I am not aware that ANY
>motherboard manufacturer in '93 was producing a board with builtin
video, so
>what motherboard are you using?)
I can't say until I open it up. It was originally a Dell 425s/L
computer. If it has a separate video board it is not on the ISA stack,
and I have not see in yet, and the video socket appears to come off the
motherboard. It is a very slimline box, with little space for extra
cards.
>
>Even without a video adapter, a machine can still produce output to a screen.
>The most common method is through a serial terminal. (You will most likely
>recognize names like VT100, VT120, VT220.....which were and still are popular
>serial terminals produced by DEC. Using one of these an individual can recieve
>text output (an on some higher end models graphics) just as if a video adapter
>and monitor were present on the system. The real advantage is that a number of
>these terminals can be connected to the same machine allowing for a multi user
>platform (if you go down to your local computer dungeon you will still see the
>mainframes with their spider web of terminals) Believe it or not, a terminal
>can often be much more useful than a high end graphics, especially when
>debuging networks or other ill behaving hardware.
Yes .. I recognise the DEC terminal types. If I can run one of these I
will be happy. Is it possible?
>
>As for running without a video card--be for warned that most machines before
>about '95 will issue a series of beeps indicating that there is no video card
>present. This is not normally interpreted as an error condition, so the
>machine will continue the boot process.
>
>My advice to you (if your goal is to do a "dry run" of the Redhat install
>procedure) is to do so on a machine with an industry standard video adapter
>which conforms to true VESA standards. This will ensure that Linux (and any
>other OS you may wish to experiment with) will communicate with it correctly.
>If your goal is really to get a working systems, then seriously consider
>plunking down the cash for some new components. Right now hardware is super
>cheap and you can build yourself a large distributed network of SMP machines
>with tremendous amounts of memory for very little money......not to mention you
>can make a kick ass Quake II box for next to nothing.
The problem is that I do not know how to switch the video from
motherboard to add-on card, but I dare say Dec support would help.
>When all else fails......read up on the various subjects. There's a lot of
>literature out there and most of it is worth the time.
Where do you suggest I look? I went through the supplied documentation
but could find nothing. And somehow Linload on SuSE made sense of my
configuration, so I doubt that it is impossible in RedHat.
>
> Andrew J. Norman
> Dept. of Physics
> College of William & Mary
>
>Barry Smith wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your long answer. The problems are: I don't have a spare
>> video card; I don't want to buy one as I intend to buy new kit soon, and
>> just wanted to practice the installation; and I don't know how to turn
>> off the video on the mother board.
>>
>> And no one has provided an explanation of why a video card is needed.
>> What does it matter whether the video electronics and RAM is on a
>> separate board, or on the main board?
>
--
Barry Smith
Email: sax (at) wychcraft.demon.co.uk <-- I don't want ANY spam!
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From: "Frederik Meerwaldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: at.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Henryk Paluch's Lexmark 5700 Printer driver
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:43:08 +0200
Hi all,
I've got the latest version of Henryk Paluch's Lexmark 5700 Printer
Driver for Linux.
I compiled as he wrote (Make (then) Make install). I'm using SuSE 6.0
Now he wrote in his readme that I have to change the /etc/printcap file.
The problem is that I'll access this printer via network because it's
connected to a remote NT machine. (It won't matter if I have to use TCP/IP
Printing or Samba (NetBios printing (I think)). What entry do I need to do
in the /etc/printcap file???
I'm a total newbie (using Linux for 4 Days ;-)) and I'm happy that I
configured X-Windows correctly. Now my only prob is the printer.
Thanks in advance for answer, (via E-Mail, too if it is possible.)
Freddy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian McGroarty)
Crossposted-To: chi.general,chi.internet
Subject: Re: Looking for vendor for a Linux box
Date: 26 Jun 1999 14:17:09 GMT
"Chris L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hey! What's wrong with my Intellimouse? :-)
Have to agree there. Microsoft makes a damned fine mouse. It's the only
thing MS on any of my systems.
Hopefully MS will someday be known as the damned fine mouse company.
--
Brian McGroarty - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MASSIVELY filtered. Prefix subject with [NOTSPAM] if posting via AOL.
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From: Allen Ahoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: looking for an affordable colocation facility?
Date: 26 Jun 1999 14:30:11 GMT
If you need a place to connect your server to the net for dedicated
colocation, check into Announce Communicaitons Inc.
http://announce.com
Starts as low as $50/month.
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From: "Eirik Wilberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to burn CD with IDE/ATAPI CD-RW ?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:33:51 +0200
You have to add scsi emulation support into kernel, and scsi cdrom support
William Park skrev i meldingen <7l23m7$gci$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to burn CDs using Mitsumi CR-2600-TE which is IDE/ATAPI cd
>reader/writer.
>
>1) ISO-9660 image is made with
> mkisofs -r -D -o /tmp/local.iso /usr/local -x /usr/local/lost+found
> which produces CD image file 'local.iso'.
>
>2) 'SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices' is loaded
> during boot with
> /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
> as 'CD-Writing-HOWTO' says, since I don't have SCSI machine or
> kernel.
>
>3) But, I can't seem to get my CD-RW recognized by the system. Trying
> cdrecord -scanbus
> produces
> Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
>
>If anyone successfully used IDE/ATAPI cd-rw device with basic
>IDE/ATAPI kernel (+ whatever modules), I would appreciate very much if
>you could give me some pointers.
>
> Yours truly,
> William Park
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From: "Eirik Wilberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IntelliStation upgrade?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:35:43 +0200
Try to get the second ppro processor elsewhere, they cant deny you from
doing that, that also goes for the ram
Steve Thompson skrev i meldingen ...
>I have an IBM IntelliStation Z Pro, model 6899-12U, with a single 200 MHz
>Pentium Pro processor, and 64MB memory. The second processor slot is not
>occupied at present. I run Linux (RH 6.0) as host OS and, recently, NT 4.0
>w/s in a virtual machine using vmware.
>
>I'd like to upgrade this to something a little (ok, a lot) faster, and up
>memory to at least 256MB; maybe 512MB. I'd appreciate it if anyone who has
>been through this can give me some pointers as to where to proceed. For
>example, what are the fastest processors I can run in this system, and a
>source for those processors, both primary and secondary. I've been to
>IBM's web page, but cannot find sufficient information there (and they
>want more $$$ for a second 200MHz processor than I paid for the entire
>system). TIA,
>
>Steve
>
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Subject: Re: Modem speed measurement
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 Jun 1999 11:04:47 -0400
"Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> killbill wrote in message <7krpgc$l8u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> <snip>
> >If you want a real measure of the modem, try transferring a large file
> >of random data (a jpg or a gzip'd file) back and forth from your box to
> >your ISP's box. This should eliminate as many bottle necks as possible
> >and give you a best case scenario. Use the unix time command with ftp
> >from a command line, or just fire up the stop watch. Remember that baud
> >is Bits per second, and the file size is bytes. There are 8 bits in a
> >byte, so multiply the file size by 8 and divide by the number of seconds
> >for transfer and you should get the effective baud. Also remember that
> >downloads are faster then uploads for 56k modems (and ADSL, etc).
> <snip>
>
> Since each 8-bit byte transferred via RS232 serial also entails a start bit
> and a stop bit, shouldn't the factor be 10 instead of 8 ?
at higher rates, the modem does a sort of synchronous transfer and
eliminates the start/stop bit overhead. however, there is some loss
to error correction/detection. this is somewhat compensated by data
compression. the various protocols like ppp/ip/tcp also adds their
overheads.
it's hard to figure out exactly what the effective transfer rate will
be in light of random retransmissions and the varying effectiveness of
compression depending on data content.
just use a smart ftp program like ncftp which can tell you the speed
of the download.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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