Linux-Hardware Digest #35, Volume #11 Tue, 17 Aug 99 22:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: SIS 620 in high resolution? (John Wilkinson)
Re: eiger pcmcia combo 10baset +33.6 modem card (Bob Martin)
Compaq MV400 monitor specs (Tux)
Experience with Linux on Compaq SP700 ?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Configure Diamond Viper 770 (writeme)
modem and sound card conflicting thanks to isapnp (Justin Bishop)
Re: Voodoo 3 in X and Quake (Sean)
best bet on a dozen pc (amony)
Re: DMA66 support (on the Abit BP6 dual ppga) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3com 3c905C Tornado (William B. Cattell)
Taper can't see my IOMega 400M ("mikes")
Re: Is RH 6.0 support HP Deskjet 722c printer? (William B. Cattell)
Re: printer(s) and printdeamon probs. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 2 Ppro's - 1 hot, 1 cold??? (William B. Cattell)
Re: HP CD-Writer 8100i (William B. Cattell)
Can't get 2 NIC's to work
Re: SETUP for MAXTOR 8.4 GB Diamond Max (William B. Cattell)
Re: Compaq DeskPro 575 for LINUX ? (William B. Cattell)
Re: Linux file-size limit? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Linux file-size limit? (Christopher Browne)
Looking for info on Parallel and Serial Ports and DTR ("James Wall")
Re: Can Linux override internal Winmodem? (Analyst)
Re: PCI modems that work with LINUX!! (Leonardo Herzenberg)
Re: PCI modems that work with LINUX!! (Michel Catudal)
Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W ("Carlo Leorini")
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From: John Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIS 620 in high resolution?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:45:21 +0100
Allix wrote:
>
> I have a SIS 620 Card and after downloading the xsis.rpm and configuring it
> , I finally got X to work. But I can't seem to get high resolution modes to
> work. If anyone has a SIS card and got it working please email me at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Allix,
I did the same, and I still have a lot of problems, can't see much
difference can you?
Regards,
John.
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eiger pcmcia combo 10baset +33.6 modem card
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:04:05 -0500
http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Does anyone have info on how I can get this pcmcia card to work
> in linux? both the ethernet and modem . I plan to use both.
> Joel Henry
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From: Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq MV400 monitor specs
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:44:13 +1000
Reply-To: Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi everyone...
I'm seeking specs on the Compaq MV400 monitor, included in a package with
the Presario 2276 (in Australia, at least). I've tried a number of
different newsgroups *and* Compaq tech support (both e-mail and voice),
without any avail. Specifically, I need to know:
- Monitor bandwidth
- Horizontal sync frequency
- Vertical sync frequency
- Driving clock frequency (dot clock)
- Horizontal frame length
- Vertical frame length
Anyone who could supply me with any of these figures, it would be much
appreciated. Although if Compaq themselves can't, well, who can? ;-)
- "Tuxedo" Steve - ("I'm just weird, you're a criminal pervert.") -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Experience with Linux on Compaq SP700 ??
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:09:24 GMT
I've just been given a SP700 MPS 1.4 -APIC platform with 450Mhz xeon
processor, wide ultra scsi, PowerStorm 300 pbxgdac compatible display
adpater (REALimage 2100), and assorted other goodies.
While I've installed Linux on a number of other smaller boxes, I'm
curious to learn how much trouble I can expect getting it to play on
this one. Any pointers or pitfalls to watch for??
Thanks.
Lance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (writeme)
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: Re: Configure Diamond Viper 770
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:01:06 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:30:55 GMT, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just bought a Diamond Viper 770 with the Riva TNT2, but I can't
>configure it ! I use Mandrake 6.0.
>
>Help me please !
>
>Thanx
>
>Mike Jost
Can't configure it is a very broad description. Perhaps a description
of what you have done to get it working would help. Also, if you are
experiencing what I think you are, you might like to check out
nvidia's site for an updated driver. I have posted detailed
instructions on how to upgrade the driver on linux.redhat.install and
comp.os,linux.setup.
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From: Justin Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
Subject: modem and sound card conflicting thanks to isapnp
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:30:49 GMT
At first when i install my mandrake 6.0 distribution the modem works fine
because i haven't activated isapnp or tried sndconfig yet...my modem is a
zoom56k (not a winmodem) and my sound card is a SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA...in
windows the two work fine..the modem is on com1 on irq4 and the sound card
is on irq5...i know the modem works fine..and if i take the modem out and
run the sound card then the sound card works fine too...but when i try to
run them both i am told in sndconfig that the io conflicts with other
resources and Kppp says my modem is busy! i would be ecstatically grateful
if someone could help me out..this problem has been plaguing me for a
while...please send any help you have to my email address and we can
communicate that way...i'm assuming i'm going to have to shut off isapnp
and configure things manually using setserial or something like that but
i'm just way too ignorant right now to figure that out... :) thanks
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 in X and Quake
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:30:49 GMT
Sam Black wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm thinking about buying a voodoo 3 for linux, and I wanted to know
> about other people's experiences under X and Quake 3 Arena. Any
> response will be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Sam Black
> To reply via email, remove the dash and the underscore from my email
address.
I have the latest Voodoo3 Linux drivers as of now and I installed Q3Arena
Test 1.07 and it worked perfectly with Mesa3.1beta2 except I couldn't
change graphics options. This is probably just one of my stupid mistakes
(I'm a linux newbie). But even without changing graphics options it worked
and looked perfect. 3dfx have the best supported cards under Linux lots of
games support glide and Mesa is free OpenGL for the 3dfx and it's great.
Voodoo3 is the way to go in my mind. The only downside is not beig to play
games at 32bit color, but there isn't much of a difference between 16 and
32bit color. And the Voodoo3 is king of 16bit. It's 16bit output is much
better then any other cards. I like my Voodoo3 and under Linux there isn't
anything better.
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From: amony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: best bet on a dozen pc
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:30:49 GMT
I was thinking about getting a dozen pentium III-450/64 Mb RAM/6.4 GB HDD/
8 Mb AGP Video/ 56 K/44x/15" Monitor If you have any information on this
thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DMA66 support (on the Abit BP6 dual ppga)
Date: 17 Aug 1999 23:45:14 GMT
Gert van der Knokke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Just yesterday I stumbled upon this problem at a friend of mine.
: He just bought this shinign enw dual Celeron system and wanted to install
: Linux on it. He had connected the HD to IDE3 (=ide2) on the board but Linux
: install could'nt find the drive.
: I added:
: ide2=0xd800,0xd807,11
: to the command line of the linux boot floppy. It then detected the ide2
: interface as it should. Of course, the irq number, 11 here, can vary
You mean that you didn't have to use the development kernel or
patch the stable kernel to get HPT-366 to work, but a simple boot
kernel option could also do the trick? I find this pretty hard
to believe. Could you elaborate?
On the other hand, if you turn out to be right, this kind of
information will definitely save lots of people's ass..
-- Chuan-kai Lin
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From: William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com 3c905C Tornado
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:17:59 GMT
To get the drivers compiled couldn't you do the make config, make bzImage amek
modules again after making sure you tell the system you want the 3Com drivers
in make config? You wouldn't really need to use the kernel - just copy the
modules to the lib/modules/x.y.z/net directory.
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The drivers are supplied with RH. I wouldn't know how to install them
>after the fact, but they can be installed during installation of the
>OS (expert mode).
>
>On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 21:50:30 -0500, Fiendzero
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Anyone know how to get a 3c905c Tornado up on Redhat 6.0??
>>
>>Or, Where can one obtain the drivers??
>>
>>please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>--
>>Extensive change comes only from sustained effort by numerous people with
>>aligned goals. Unless there are people who mature the project without
>>interruption, these efforts at change wither and become of no
>>consequence.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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From: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Taper can't see my IOMega 400M
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:38:44 -0500
Reply-To: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm running RedHat 6.0, kernel 2.2.5 on a my SMB server. I have recently
added an IOMega 400M tape drive. I connected the tape drive according to
IOMega's instructions: floppy drive on the end of the cable, tape drive on
the secondary connector. The computer's BIOS has only one of possible two
floppies enabled for 1.44 3 1/2 floppy (aka /dev/fd0 on the SMB server). The
IOMega tape drive has it's jumper set to the default setting, which worked
fine for my Win95 machine (where I pulled the tape drive from). I have tried
to enable taper with the following command lines:
taper -T zftape
taper -T ftape
These didnt work. So, I "guessed" at mounting my tape drive: mount
/dev/qft0, and reran taper. This also failed. I kept getting an error
message from taper stating: " No such device " any time I try to access the
drive.
So.. is it just me, or is my configuration wrong? What command can I use to
tell me whether or not I have support in my kernel for my tape drive? Is my
IOMega 400M a supported device??? Note: The IOMega 400M is not a SCSI
device, as far as I know...
Any help appreciated, Thanks in advance....
-Mike
According to the FAQ.txt for Taper 6.9:
" 4.2. I get a No such device error when trying to backup or restore.
You have not enabled support for your tape drive. If you have a SCSI
tape drive, make sure your kernel was compiled with support for CSI
devices, support for SCSI tape drives, and support for your interface
card, enabled. Also make sure that you have edited the Makefile and
removed the '#' in the line '#DEFINES=-DHAVE_SCSI' and then re-compile
and re-install.
Also, if you have a SCSI drive, make sure that it is turned on when
you boot Linux. If it isn't turned on when you boot, Linux won't
register its presence, and even if you turn it on after, it may still
not work.
If you have a floppy tape drive, make sure you have ftape, and you
have installed it with "insmod ftape.o". "
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From: William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is RH 6.0 support HP Deskjet 722c printer?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:29:02 GMT
orry for the piggyback but please check out my Linux page at
http://members.home.com/wcattell/linux.html. I have a link to Tim Norman's PPA
site.
Bill
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Unrot13 this;
>Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Kevin Wong;
>
>The 722c is a windoze only printer. However, by sheer experimentation,
>a black and white capable driver has been reverse engineered.
>
>I don't have the URL, but I'm sure you will either get another reply, or
>a previous one can be found on deja.news.
>
> KW> Is RH 6.0 support HP Deskjet 722c printer?
> KW> It seem like it doesn't work at all!
> KW> I did try printtool and lp and lpr!
> KW> Thanks!
>
>
>
>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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.windows.x.kde,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: printer(s) and printdeamon probs.
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:24:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"WarpKat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some printers nowadays are Windows-only printers, much like you have
> Windows-only modems. HP 812C's I think are Windows-only printers...if
> someone has a
> list of them, could you please post them?
The HP 812C is *NOT* a Windows printer. I've been using an 812C with
Linux for several weeks now and it works fine. The quality of photos is
incredible!
Sorry, I don't know which of the latest printers are Windows only, but
if the printer says it also supports the Mac or some old version of DOS,
then chances are it is not a Window-only printer.
john
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From: William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 Ppro's - 1 hot, 1 cold???
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:15:03 GMT
More than likely you'll need a new motherboard. If the system is sensitive to
heat its time to swap some components. If you want to verify whether it's the
motherboard or not then take a can of air, shake it up and spray some of the
areas on the board that seem to be the hottest. If the system can be rebooted
and work well for a time (until it gets hot again) then you've identified the
failing component. I use to use this trick during component level
troubleshooting days (when we swapped chips - not boards).
Bill
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Paul Nelson wrote:
>Hello Folks,
>
>I having trouble with a Dual Ppro computer with two 180 cpu's.
>
>The machine started crashing as the weather got warmer. I thought it might
>be a cooling problem. I found that when touching the heat sinks, one is warm
>(not hot, just warm) and the other is cold. I tried switching cpu's and heat
>sinks/fans but it seems that it's the slot that determines which one gets
>warm (secondary). I even tried a different VRM module and this makes no
>difference.
>
>Both cpu's are working and my Linux SMP kernel runs just fine until things
>get warm.
>
>Any suggestions appreciated,
>
>;-) Paul
>
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From: William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP CD-Writer 8100i
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:26:55 GMT
To start, read the CD Writing HOWTO. After you've read that and have gone
through the steps come on back and ask away. It's always easier to get answers
to specific questions IMHO. The HOWTO is the best place to start though.
Bill
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Terence Chung wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm new to Linux. I just installed RH 6.0 and wanna get my
>CD Writer (HP-8100i) working.
>
>Can somebody share some experience with me?
>
>Thanks a lot!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Can't get 2 NIC's to work
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:30:47 GMT
I have 2 identical 3com 905b NIC's. When I use just
one to connect my machine to the outside world
everthing is fine. As soon as I try to put both cards
in nothing works. On bootup I get a delaying
initialization message for both eth0 & eth1. Also adm
takes forever to start when this happens.
thx,
Ryan
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From: William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SETUP for MAXTOR 8.4 GB Diamond Max
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:33:25 GMT
You may be SOL. A 486/50 is (by technology standards) an ancient machine. The
motherboard's BIOS may not be able to handle the larger drives. Refer to the
HOWTO on using large hard disks but again - older computers may not be able to
use LBA or other schemes to use large hard disks.
Bill
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, George/Jorge wrote:
>I just purchased a MAXTOR 8.4 GB Diamond Max IDE hard
>drive.
>
>I need the setup parameters for fdisk so that I can get
>it to run with linux.
>
>Computer: Generic 486 50mhz
>
>Linux: 1.2.8
>
>fdisk complains when the number of cylinders is greater
>than 1024.
>
>EMAIL TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>TIA George
>
>.
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From: William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq DeskPro 575 for LINUX ?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:20:36 GMT
I've run Linux on old Compaq Deskpro/33 without problems. Granter, I used the
vga-Xserver but it wasn't too difficult as long as I didn't try to fancy.
Bill
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Mark Freedman wrote:
>A local off-lease liquidator has Compaq DeskPro 575's with 16 meg RAM
>and 600 meg HD for C$99 (U$66). Seems a better candidate for LINUX than my
>ancient 386 (8 meg RAM, 200 meg HD). I'm concerned about Compaq-itis, e.g.
>the BIOS on HD (minimal bootstrap in ROM, as I understand it), Compaq
>QVision video, possible nonstandard RAM or IDE problems. I'd like to hang
>an IDE CDROM off the existing IDE controller. I'd probably shuffle my
>Motorola internal (it was cheap) 28.8 voice modem across as well (Sierra
>chipset).
>
> Is this likely to be more aggravation than a generic clone ? Anything
>other problem areas ? Is 16 meg RAM / 600 HD a reasonable configuration?
>
> Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux file-size limit?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:47:12 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:50:15 +0100, Jon Skeet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> 5. Changing to a new filesystem, whether ext3, XFS, or Reiserfs, will
>> do nothing to resolve your issue. They are all quite capable
>> already of handling Very Large Files; the problem is that FILE *
>> can't, and memory mapped I/O can't.
>
>That's what I thought. The XFS pages I was looking at the other day
>(sorry, I've forgotten the URL - it was off /. though) seemed to imply
>otherwise.
<mode="Moderate Sarcasm">
That tells you how seriously you should probably take /.
</mode>
>> 6. Big files on Linux at present requires using a 64 bit
>> architecture, or writing applications to be "large file" aware
>> using the LFS API that is included with GLIBC.
>
>Right. So does XFS support this, or is it independent of the filesystem?
>
>(I asked about this recently in a post titled "XFS: What would it mean
>for us?" but I got no replies...)
The code hasn't yet been released, so any claims would be premature.
IRIX, the OS on which XFS is already in use, has been doin' the 64 bit
thing for some years now, which suggests that they had already coped
with the issue.
We can't know for sure until the sources are available, but if XFS is
integrated atop the Linux VFS, it is liable to inherit any limitations
of VFS.
--
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hallucination ..." -- B. K. P. Horn 6.866/6.801 Lecture
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linuix.setup
Subject: Re: Linux file-size limit?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:47:15 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:50:51 +0200, Michael Grabowski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Linux has a file-size limit of 2 GBytes.
Not true.
>There were some rumours that
>SGI would release her FS as open source, so that it can be adopted by
>Linux, but by now there is no way to extend thos limitation.
SGI XFS would not resolve the issue.
The *actual* issue is that the standard struct used for referencing
files on 32 bit platforms provides only 32 bits to indicate position.
There is a LFS API based on the one designed for the UNIX Large File
Summit; you must recompile programs to use that API, and are likely to
lose on performance on IA-32 if you do so. Some FSF/GNU tools make it
fairly easy to do that recompile when the software was specifically
designed to be portable; Milage Will Vary.
--
I just removed the instructions in MC:COMMON;LINS > which specify that it
should be installed on AI. We'll certainly miss that machine, and probably
spend the rest of our lives fixing programs that mention it.
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From: "James Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for info on Parallel and Serial Ports and DTR
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:08:47 -0400
Hi all!
I'm trying to get an Epson 740 to run on LinuxPPC, it seems to be able
to run on a x86 via a parallel port, LinuxPPC uses a serial. There are a
number of question concerning what the serial port settings should be. I was
wondering if anyone knew more about the settings that would be used in a
parallel port. It is also commented that the Epson uses DTR as a control
proto call, does anyone have any details on what this is.
--
James Wall
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From: Analyst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Linux override internal Winmodem?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:30:50 GMT
John McKown wrote:
>
> On 16 Aug 1999 03:47:10 GMT, James OReilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
> >If there is an internal Winmodem, can Linux recognize an external modem
> >and ignore the internal Winmodem, or will the presence of the internal
> >modem cause a problem?
.. Linux will not see your Winmodem - sad but true!
> >
> >Since I'd like to dual boot, I'd like also to know whether Windows 98 or
> >NT could override the internal Winmodem and recognize the external
modem.
.. In 98 you can disable the winmodem from the hardware list using your
device manager,
but the question really stands is if you have an internal winmodem and an
extrernal modem , and you don't want to use the internal for either linux
or ms-os then why don't you remove the internal modem?????
> >I'm afraid that Windows would always be scanning the hardware and
> >recognize the internal modem, and perhaps refuse to recognize the
external
> >modem. Is there any way that Windows might interfere with Linux, say by
> >erasing or modifying files it didn't like or recognize.
> >
> > Jim O'Reilly
> >
>
Regards,
Alex
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From: Leonardo Herzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI modems that work with LINUX!!
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:05:45 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michel Catudal wrote:
>
> Wilbur Killebrew wrote:
> >
> > There seems to be a lot of misinformation out about modems.
> >
> > I have an Amquest AM56HCF-SP internal (PCI) modem, which uses the Rockwell
> > HCF56K chipset. Win98 says the Amquest looks like a 16550A UART, so it
> > doesn't seem to be a WinModem. I never got Linux to recognize it.
>
> Of course it ain't a winmodem. You just said that it is made my Amquest.
> Amquest would have their ass sued if they called it a winmodem. As to
> whether it is a real modem, the answer is of course not.
>
> HCF is another nickname winmodem.
>
> >
> > The USRobotics Sportster external modem also uses the Rockwell HCF56K
> > chipset. For some reason, it seems to connect to the local ISP faster than
> > does the Amquest. I haven't tried it with Linux yet.
> >
>
> Since this is a modem, it will work with Linux
>
> --
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> use Linux for safe and quick internet access
> use Winblows to test the latest viruses
> http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
> We have software, food, music, news, search,
> history, electronics and genealogy pages.
FWIW, I have an obsolete Motorola PCI modem (ModemSurfr) that works with
Linux. It uses the Rockwell chipset.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI modems that work with LINUX!!
Date: 17 Aug 1999 20:46:07 -0500
Wilbur Killebrew wrote:
>
> There seems to be a lot of misinformation out about modems.
>
> I have an Amquest AM56HCF-SP internal (PCI) modem, which uses the Rockwell
> HCF56K chipset. Win98 says the Amquest looks like a 16550A UART, so it
> doesn't seem to be a WinModem. I never got Linux to recognize it.
Of course it ain't a winmodem. You just said that it is made my Amquest.
Amquest would have their ass sued if they called it a winmodem. As to
whether it is a real modem, the answer is of course not.
HCF is another nickname winmodem.
>
> The USRobotics Sportster external modem also uses the Rockwell HCF56K
> chipset. For some reason, it seems to connect to the local ISP faster than
> does the Amquest. I haven't tried it with Linux yet.
>
Since this is a modem, it will work with Linux
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From: "Carlo Leorini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 03:21:49 +0200
Hello,
I just found a solution:
I simply disabled "wide negociation" in the bios of the 2940U2W for my hard
disk (which is not "wide" of course).
I could install Redhat 6 and also Mandrake 6 !
Good luck !
Carlo Leorini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
7p70cq$5qp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> hello,
>
> does someone use the adaptec 2940u2w card ?
>
> I can't install linux with this controler. I loop in the very beginning,
> while mounting the scsi cdrom (in scanning the scsi bus)
>
> Every thing was ok with the simple 2940U.
>
> Does anyone use the 2940U2W under linux with succes ?
>
> Thank.
>
>
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