Linux-Hardware Digest #29, Volume #11 Tue, 17 Aug 99 05:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: IDE-SCSI (Carl Fink)
Re: [Q] Parallel port access program permission (Kaz Kylheku)
Newbie Modem Problem, looking for suggestions? ("The Phone Man")
Re: cdrom mounts but comp acts like nothings there. (Jeff Fernandes)
[Q] Parallel port access program permission (YANAGIHARA)
Re: [Q] Parallel port access program permission (Kaz Kylheku)
Problems using Soundblaster 64 AWE in RH Linux 6.0 (A Solution!) (Prasanth Kumar)
Finally Got My SIS 620 to work. Thanks all for your help. ("Allix")
Asus P2B-N motherboard compatability ("Robert S. Nasby")
Re: Need help with Ethernet on Sharp A250 notebook (Edwin TAM)
Re: DMA66 support (on the Abit BP6 dual ppga) (Thomas Kochak)
Re: Newbie Modem Problem, looking for suggestions? (Thomas Kochak)
Re: DSL Modems... (Greg Leblanc)
Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W (J.M. van der Kolk)
error writing CD with Plextor-CD-writer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: drivers (Tim Moore)
Re: Gigabit Ethernet cards (Tim Moore)
Re: problems with Matrox ("Mathieu Glachant")
Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W (J.M. van der Kolk)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI
Date: 17 Aug 1999 02:32:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 07:22:55 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to use IDE-SCSI emulation for the CD-R drive in Debian 2.1
>(2.0.36), but I can't find that module and think that I need to
>re-compile it,
>but I can't find any information on how to do it. Do you know how? Thx!
I'm also using Debian (slink) and kernel 2.0.36. It's easy. You
install the Kernel-source package, and then follow the instructions
in the Kernel-HOWTO (should be in your /usr/doc/HOWTO directory).
Also see the CD-Writing HOWTO, likewise.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] Parallel port access program permission
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:03:46 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:32:15 +0900, YANAGIHARA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello, everybody.
>Please tell me about Parallel port access.
>
>I made parallel port access program. When ueser is root, I
>can successfully read and write binary to parallel port.
>But when ueser is not root, ``Segmentation Fault'' occur at
>inb/outb function. Tell me how to change this program's
>permission ? Or, do I have to do another action ?
You change the ownership to the root user and enable the setuid bit which will
cause it to execute with root permissions.
Because you are cross-posting, I won't tell you how that's done. Read
the chmod man page.
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From: "The Phone Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie Modem Problem, looking for suggestions?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:00:03 -0500
Mandrake Redhat 6.0, Gnome and Kde, Smart Rapid Transit 56k modem on com 1.
For example in KDE's kppp the modem is recognized when I run a query, then
it runs a set of ATI checks and they all come back blank! Same in Gnome
modem is recognized but will not do anything. Checked to make sure I'm
using the right setting S01 and no I don't think it's a winmodem, but
maybe... it came installed in a computer from Quantex.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
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From: Jeff Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: cdrom mounts but comp acts like nothings there.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:15:18 GMT
seth wrote:
> i installed linux with redhat 5.2 and at first my cdrom worked but now all
> of a sudden for no apperant reason it acts like nothing is there. the
> cdrom shows no errors and is mounted properly. i know a cd is in the drive
> (RedHat 5.2) and the drive is hdc but i doesent show up. when i "ls" it
> shows nothing. thanks. -Seth
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
try using the usermount command ,unmount cdrom ,then when you cd /mnt/cdrom
the ls command should showyou the files...there is proably a better way but
this
worked for me...or if you can figure out the path try glint ...ps these work
under x windows.
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From: YANAGIHARA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: [Q] Parallel port access program permission
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:32:15 +0900
Hello, everybody.
Please tell me about Parallel port access.
I made parallel port access program. When ueser is root, I
can successfully read and write binary to parallel port.
But when ueser is not root, ``Segmentation Fault'' occur at
inb/outb function. Tell me how to change this program's
permission ? Or, do I have to do another action ?
-- My program's abstract is following...
1) include header file ``asm.h''
2) get 3 ports permission from base address of available
parallel port by permio().
3) read by inb(), or write by outb().
(root is local Linux machine's root, and other users are
NIS account which are administered by Solaris NIS server.)
--
Thank you for reading.
Yanagihara
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] Parallel port access program permission
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:05:01 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:32:15 +0900, YANAGIHARA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello, everybody.
>Please tell me about Parallel port access.
>
>I made parallel port access program. When ueser is root, I
>can successfully read and write binary to parallel port.
>But when ueser is not root, ``Segmentation Fault'' occur at
>inb/outb function. Tell me how to change this program's
>permission ? Or, do I have to do another action ?
>
>-- My program's abstract is following...
>1) include header file ``asm.h''
>2) get 3 ports permission from base address of available
>parallel port by permio().
>3) read by inb(), or write by outb().
>(root is local Linux machine's root, and other users are
>NIS account which are administered by Solaris NIS server.)
>
>--
>Thank you for reading.
>Yanagihara
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From: Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems using Soundblaster 64 AWE in RH Linux 6.0 (A Solution!)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:29:43 GMT
I finally figured out how to get my SB 64 to work in RH Linux 6.0. The
solution may help others out...
The problem I observed is that running "sndconfig" to configure the
soundblaster didn't finish properly. It would play the linux.au sample
properly but choke on the sample midi file. Canceling and rebooting
resulted in sound initilization failures.
The root cause seems to be that pnpdump doesn't recognize all the io
ports for the Soundblaster wavetable device. In the kernel source
documentation in file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/AWE32 it shows
how to resolve this by modifying the resulting /etc/isapnp.conf file.
> Then WaveTable goes. For some reason Plug-n-Play detects only one I/O
> port,but the wavetable needs THREE! My working string is:
> "(CONFIGURE CTL044/1132685 (LD 2 (IO 0 (BASE 0x0620))
> (IO 1 (BASE 0x0A20)) (IO 2 (BASE 0x0E20)) (ACT Y) ))"
> Resources 0x0620, 0x0A20 and 0x0E20 should work. Other on-board
> devices: Gameport and StereoEnhance are not required to be inited.
So in short, I run "sndconfig" as normal, then exit on failure and edit
the /etc/isapnp.conf file as above. Then on reboot everything works
great.
Also, from browsing the isapnptools homepage, I think this problem is a
bug in pnpdump as there was a patch there which seems related to this
problem. However I have not tried recompliling isapnptools yet as the
current solution seems to work...
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Allix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Finally Got My SIS 620 to work. Thanks all for your help.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:41:11 -0400
I finally got my SIS 620 Card to work under X. Thanks all for your help.
Surprisingly I found the answer on an Indian Linux page at
www.linux-india.com/sis/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Robert S. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Asus P2B-N motherboard compatability
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:51:19 -0500
I am putting together a Linux box to act as a DNS server/Mail server. I am
thinking of using the Asus P2B-N board with onboard ATI Rage Pro video and
Intel 82558 10/100 Ethernet (also onboard). Has anyone used this board, or
know if the onboard components will work. I have used Intel 82558-based
ethernet cards before, and the Rage Pro chip is supposed to be XFree86
compatible. Any thought?
Shnaz
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From: Edwin TAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Need help with Ethernet on Sharp A250 notebook
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:33:40 +0800
Hi there,
I finally manage to get rid of the SIOCSIFFLAGS error, and brought the
interface up, however, the LAN port is not sending or receiving
anything, kernel reported TX error.
Apparently, the SIOCSIFFLAGS error comes from the PCI probing routine
(rtl8139_probe1) in the driver that it cannot determine the correct IRQ
for the LAN interface, traces from kernel debug showed that it found an
IRQ 0, which from Windowze reported it should be IRQ 9. So I hardcoded
(yes, cause the irq=9 kernel module option is not working, too :-) it
into the driver and recompile the kernel module.
That's it but the Rx, Tx Error problem still needed to be investigated.
Edwin
> Edwin TAM wrote:
> > However, I can't get neither the modem, sound nor Network to work. It
> > has a Realtek RTL8139A PCI Fast Ethernet NIC built-in and I have tried
> > the version 1.80a driver (written by Donald Becker) rtl8139.c without luck.
> >
> > Whenever I try to 'ifconfig eth0 up', it gives me the following message:
> >
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >
> > I can ping localhost and ping the self IP address and has no problem,
> > but the eth0 interface is never up and running.
> >
> > I can live without its sound nor modem, but the LAN is a must.
> >
--
---
Edwin TAM
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From: Thomas Kochak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DMA66 support (on the Abit BP6 dual ppga)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:45:59 -0500
http://opensource.captech.com/LinuxIDE/
dagimp wrote:
> I just bought an Abit BP6 that has both DMA33 and DMA66 IDE controllers
> on board. This would be really great for my server, as then it could
> support up to 8 IDE devices! However, I can't use the two DMA66 ports
> due to lack of linux support, or am I wrong? Anyone know of any
> drivers out for the HPT366 (HighPoint) chipset?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> jason
>
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From: Thomas Kochak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Modem Problem, looking for suggestions?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:39:18 -0500
Is it ISA or PCI or external?
The Phone Man wrote:
> Mandrake Redhat 6.0, Gnome and Kde, Smart Rapid Transit 56k modem on com 1.
> For example in KDE's kppp the modem is recognized when I run a query, then
> it runs a set of ATI checks and they all come back blank! Same in Gnome
> modem is recognized but will not do anything. Checked to make sure I'm
> using the right setting S01 and no I don't think it's a winmodem, but
> maybe... it came installed in a computer from Quantex.
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips.
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From: Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DSL Modems...
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 06:48:49 GMT
First, call your phone company and ask them about DSL. If you can get
an EXTERNAL DSL goober (that's what our phone guys called them since
they're not really modems) you're all set. If you have to go with
internal, I'm not sure but that doesn't sound good to me. The DSL
goober is usually just a bridge/router, which I want to have as far away
from being inside my computer as I can.
Greg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gary Valley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to get a DSL modem, but i'm hesitant because I don't know
> whether it's supported under RedHat or not. Does anyone know a) if
DSL
> modems are supported by RedHat and b) if so, what a good
recommendation
> for one is???
>
> -gary
>
> --
> Gary Valley
> The MITRE Corporation
> Phone: (703)-883-3359
> Fax: (703)-883-7978
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.M. van der Kolk)
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 06:36:16 GMT
Thanks,
I'll try the exact same procedure. Hope it works.
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:28:10 -0400, Jerry Craker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I had the identical problem with a 2940UW. My solution was fairly complex,
>since I could get nothing out of RedHat. I had installed 5.2 (which worked
>fine). I created a boot disk for that kernel. I then installed RedHat 6.0
>using the 5.2 installation diskette. ( I got some errors but it installed
>O.K.). I then booted the 5.2 diskette, and overwrote the kernel (2.5) with
>2.9, which I had downloaded from the net. (www.kernel.org). This kernel
>fixes all the SCSI problems, and everything works now. (I am currently
>running kernel 2.11). I realize this is fairly complex, but it was the only
>way I could get it to work, since the Adaptec drivers in 6.0 do not seem to
>function correctly.
>
>-- Jerry --
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: error writing CD with Plextor-CD-writer
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 06:53:33 GMT
I repeatedly had this problem while writing a CD.
I use a Plextor RW 4/2/20Ti, with a updrade to
revision 1.02. and an Adaptec 2904CD SCSI-card.
I think the output contains all usefull
information.
Who can help me ?
Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998
J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,4,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 4 lun: 0
atapi: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : SYNC LINKED
Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W4220T'
Revision : '1.02'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Track 01: data 506 MB
Total size: 581 MB (57:38.40) = 259380 sectors
Lout start: 582 MB (57:40/30) = 259380 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 4
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11580 (97:27/45)
ATIP start of lead out: 333226 (74:05/01)
Disk type: Phthalocyanine or similar
Manufacturer: Kodak Japan Limited
Blocks total: 333226 Blocks current: 333226 Blocks
remaining: 73846
RBlocks total: 343358 RBlocks current: 343358
RBlocks remaining: 83978
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode
for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1
seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer
... input-buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi
sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 02 36 D0 00 00 10 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 02 37 68 0A 00 00 00 00
0C 09 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of
streaming) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 145256 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.050s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 297172992 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 501.827s
Fixating...
Fixating time: 63.469s
cdrecord: fifo had 9197 puts and 9070 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 6274 times
full, min fill was 93%.
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:18:00 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: drivers
Qlogic FCAL driver in 2.2.10 and higher. Also check the ac patches.
Haven't used it yet.
> Does Linux suport a PCI/FC-AL adapters and what?
>
> vaclav
--
timothymoore "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
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com
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:16:21 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gigabit Ethernet cards
r> Has anybody had any experience running Gigabit Ethernet adaptors
under
> Linux? As far as I can see the 2.2 kernel supports Packet Engine's
> Yellowfin and Alteon's ACEnic. How do the two cards compare? Do both
> support VLANs?
I've used the Alteon Tigon I under several 2.2.x kernels. +25MB/s in
point-to-point test configs (ASUS P2B, 300MHz PII, 64MB). 8k r/w, UDP,
NFSv3. Netgear also has a 2.2.x supported GbE card. No sign of a
driver for the intel pro/1000.
--
timothymoore "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
bigfoot WS Burroughs.
com
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From: "Mathieu Glachant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with Matrox
Date: 17 Aug 1999 07:20:16 GMT
Hi!
I have the same card, and when I installed RedHat 5.2 all I got under X was
vga16, too. The problem was that the release of Xfree86 that came with my
distrib did not support this card : too new :)
>From what I remember, the G200 AGP is supported by Xfree86 3.3.3 or later.
I went to the RedHat support site and downloaded the necessary update
(checking the list of supported hardware, first), installed it, and I was
in business!
I don't know how that translates to Debian, especialy as I seem to remember
Debian doesn't use rpm? Perhaps you should try the Xfree86 site directly?
http://www.xfree86.org/
Good luck!
--
Matt
adolfo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans l'article
<01bee7c4$aedbcfc0$0c23d8d4@bertin>...
> I have a Matrox Millennium G200-AGP and when i tried to install linux
> debian it didn't work. The only way to see something in XWindow system is
> to configure it as a vga16. Does anyone know what to do?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.M. van der Kolk)
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 07:25:05 GMT
RedHat 5.2 install can't find the SCSI adaptor either. I just got word
from RedHat support. Tech. support is working on a fix. Unfortunately
it might take some time, so I'll have to wait.
Thanks,
Jean-Marc van der Kolk
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:28:10 -0400, Jerry Craker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I had the identical problem with a 2940UW. My solution was fairly complex,
>since I could get nothing out of RedHat. I had installed 5.2 (which worked
>fine). I created a boot disk for that kernel. I then installed RedHat 6.0
>using the 5.2 installation diskette. ( I got some errors but it installed
>O.K.). I then booted the 5.2 diskette, and overwrote the kernel (2.5) with
>2.9, which I had downloaded from the net. (www.kernel.org). This kernel
>fixes all the SCSI problems, and everything works now. (I am currently
>running kernel 2.11). I realize this is fairly complex, but it was the only
>way I could get it to work, since the Adaptec drivers in 6.0 do not seem to
>function correctly.
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