Linux-Hardware Digest #50, Volume #11 Thu, 19 Aug 99 16:13:55 EDT
Contents:
Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound, (David Scott
Copus)
Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound, (David Scott
Copus)
Ultradma problems with RedHat 6.0. Please help! (Luciano Kahn)
Re: Video Card Problem (LhD Administrator)
Re: Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: hardware problems (QuestionExchange)
Re: Problem on CDRECORD (QuestionExchange)
Re: [Q]: Modem acts up (Kevin Farrell)
Re: DMA66 support (on the Abit BP6 dual ppga) (Eddie Corns)
Re: need a driver for AM33C93 SCSI Chip (LhD Administrator)
Re: pppd and c-kermit problems surfing after ISP connection ("tha D")
Re: TV Tuner in Linux? (Nicholas Pappas)
Re: hardware report (LhD Administrator)
Re: buying a new computer, here's the hardware (Mark Wyatt)
Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound, and video?
(Greg Weeks)
Direct ethernet connection under Linux (Lian Shen)
Re: Need some advices with buying ZIP drive (David C.)
i hate DIALD ("Marco")
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From: David Scott Copus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound,
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:33:56 -0500
Exactly Jon. and thanks for the "support". :>
I have an LCD output module that is working great. I am working
on an input device. I don't know what to go with... infrared remote
style or a custom serial keypad interface. And I'm looking for a
slim case now.
I don't know if this is feasable yet, but I think I may try to use DOS
for the operating system and place it on a bootable CD-ROM with
all the MP3s on it--to avoid using a hard drive which might be
susceptable to the heat. I'll probably have to make a large RAM drive
if any of my programs will need it.
I didn't know if it is even possible to *run* Linux from a read-only
media and just let it use a RAM drive for it's logging, etc. If anybody
knows if Linux can be ran on read-only medium... let me know!
thanks all!
Scott.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon Akers wrote:
> Simple. He probably wants to build an mp3 player for his car, and this sort
> of board would work quite well for playing and updating the mp3's.
>
> As for boards, I know that PC-100 is notorious for making these kinds of
> boards. I know that right now they also have a board that you can use
> either a Sockey 370 or Slot 1 chip in that has all of these features. I
> would go with a low end Socket 370 chip and go to town for this sort of
> application.
>
> Shawn Green wrote:
>
> > OK, I need to ask. Why/how are you going to put a computer in your car?
> >
> > BTW, go to www.atacom.com or www.astak.com. You may be able to find the
> > board at one of those places.
> >
> > Shawn
> >
> > David Scott Copus wrote:
> >
> > > I'm looking for a Socket 7 (preferable Super 7) that has *onboard*
> > > sound, ethernet, and video. Does anybody recommend any
> > > motherboards that have all these features... and can work
> > > with Linux?
> > >
> > > Or... if you know where I can look to find motherboards with all
> > > these features... I will gladly accept any suggestions!!
> > >
> > > Just curious... but would an Intel 166 MMX (socket 7) run _cooler_
> > > or _warmer_ than any Pentium II chip? I want to put a computer
> > > in my car... and am concerned about heat. :>
> > >
> > > thanks!
> > > Scott.
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Scott Copus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound,
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:36:32 -0500
Exactly Jon. and thanks for the "support". :>
I have an LCD output module that is working great. I am working
on an input device. I don't know what to go with... infrared remote
style or a custom serial keypad interface. And I'm looking for a
slim case now.
I don't know if this is feasable yet, but I think I may try to use DOS
for the operating system and place it on a bootable CD-ROM with
all the MP3s on it--to avoid using a hard drive which might be
susceptable to the heat. I'll probably have to make a large RAM drive
if any of my programs will need it.
I didn't know if it is even possible to *run* Linux from a read-only
media and just let it use a RAM drive for it's logging, etc. If anybody
knows if Linux can be ran on read-only medium... let me know!
thanks all!
Scott.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon Akers wrote:
> Simple. He probably wants to build an mp3 player for his car, and this sort
> of board would work quite well for playing and updating the mp3's.
>
> As for boards, I know that PC-100 is notorious for making these kinds of
> boards. I know that right now they also have a board that you can use
> either a Sockey 370 or Slot 1 chip in that has all of these features. I
> would go with a low end Socket 370 chip and go to town for this sort of
> application.
>
> Shawn Green wrote:
>
> > OK, I need to ask. Why/how are you going to put a computer in your car?
> >
> > BTW, go to www.atacom.com or www.astak.com. You may be able to find the
> > board at one of those places.
> >
> > Shawn
> >
> > David Scott Copus wrote:
> >
> > > I'm looking for a Socket 7 (preferable Super 7) that has *onboard*
> > > sound, ethernet, and video. Does anybody recommend any
> > > motherboards that have all these features... and can work
> > > with Linux?
> > >
> > > Or... if you know where I can look to find motherboards with all
> > > these features... I will gladly accept any suggestions!!
> > >
> > > Just curious... but would an Intel 166 MMX (socket 7) run _cooler_
> > > or _warmer_ than any Pentium II chip? I want to put a computer
> > > in my car... and am concerned about heat. :>
> > >
> > > thanks!
> > > Scott.
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Luciano Kahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ultradma problems with RedHat 6.0. Please help!
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:20:30 GMT
Hello,
I'm having some problems with my system and RedHat 6.0. I have an Asus
P2B-F motherboard (intel BX chipset), Pentium II 400 with 128Mb RAM.
My hard disk is a Seagate ST36421A.
With ultra dma enabled in the bios, I have the following errors:
free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 00008000
swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00008000)
hda:status timeout:status=0xd0 {Busy}
hda:no DRQ after issuing WRITE
ide 0:reset:SUCCESS
When I disable ultra dma, the last error (hda: status....etc) doesn't
show up.
Thanks
Luciano
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Card Problem
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:30:54 GMT
Dragos wrote:
> there?!? I've heard of others having this same problem. So, what can I
do
> to get this to work?
>
Look at http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?133
At least one user thought quite highly (4.0/5.0 overall) of this card, so
it does work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:02:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark McComb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Grizzard wrote:
> >
> > and I have to ask, "Do you have a file in /var/lock called something
like
> > 'LCK..ttyS1' or 'LCK..modem'?"
> >
>
> >
> > Not permissions; if you do have the LCK.. file then the modem is
actually
> > flagged as being in use by some other program and none other may
access it.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Rob
>
> I am getting the "modem is locked" message. I checked and I do have
> a LCK..modem file. Now what? Do I delete it? The file contains
this:
>
> 00798 kppp user
>
> I am trying to set up my modem for use with KPPP. If it's the user,
why
> won't it unlock the file for itself?
>
I am awaiting a reply to this question myself, as I am a lurker with the
EXACT same problem.
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hardware problems
Date: 19 Aug 1999 18:4:17 GMT
What brand are your network and sound
cards? 'Soundblaster Compatible' is a misnomer,
as a lot of cards have a windows-only driver
for dos stuff that fakes a soundblaster.
Rudementary plug and pray play
support is available in Linux, but it
is usually not needed.
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem on CDRECORD
Date: 19 Aug 1999 18:4:28 GMT
> As I want to run cdrecord as cron job, I did not use any X
shell
>
> together with
> cdrecord.
>
> I burn CD as the man page of cdrecord suggested:
>
> 1> mkisofs
> 2> mount ISOimage to check if it is correct
> 3> cdrecord from the iso image
>
> The problem is .. I can run mkisofs without problem,
> fail to mount ISOimage coz I didn't build "loop" support, so
I cannot
> check,
> the cdrecord process goes smooth.
Post the command-line arguments to cdrecord and
mkisofs. Since you can't test the ISO image, something
might be wrong with it.
>
> But finally, the CD format cannot be regonized in either
Linux or
> Windows.
> Although Linux can mount it, but cannot see it is iso9660
format.
> What is the problem?
>
> And .. where is that "loop" device in menuconfig? Thank you
On 2.2.11 it is under 'Block Devices'.
If you can't find something, you could
always grep the .config file for 'LOOP'
> (I am using Debian 2.1, 2.0.36)
>
>
>
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From: Kevin Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: [Q]: Modem acts up
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:54:05 -0500
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Alan M. Shih wrote:
>I have a PC running Redhat Linux 5.1, using a Motorola Modemsurf 56K
>external modem. It was working well until one day it dialed up, seemed to
>be connected, and then after 5-10 seconds, it disconnected. The script
>automatically redial, but it just kept on and off ....
>
>I bought another 56K external modem (Modem Blaster) and it did the same
>thing. I then upgrade the PC to Redhat Linux 6.0, did not help. I even
>moved the whole thing to another Dell PII-233, and still the same. These 2
>modems work fine under Win98 and WinNT off the same network I have at home.
>
>I am running out of ideas, please help.
>
>Alan
Talk to your ISP, if you've tried diff modems and even different PCs! Then
it's very likely your ISP.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eddie Corns)
Subject: Re: DMA66 support (on the Abit BP6 dual ppga)
Date: 19 Aug 1999 17:30:23 GMT
"Jason Ziegler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Eddie,
>I just ordered BP6-based system like yours. How goes it?
>Jason
>>>blah blah
OK so far. Part of the problem here is that from the tone of discussions I
implied that UDMA66 drives wouldn't work at all but of course people that do
these things regularly know that any new drive will be backward compatible with
IDE so it should always be possible to build a system, just not necessarily one
going at its full potential. Having cleared that up...
I spent a while getting X to work on the ancient 14" screen I have to use
until I can afford a proper 17" job. This was made more challenging by making
an ambitious first choice which also enabled xdm, the final result being I
could only see a tiny part of the desired picture, thus I was trying to guess
what input it was expecting and trying to click buttons that were off screen.
What fun! Anyway having sorted that out, I now need to work out exactly which
packages I have/need in order to get the kernel sources ready for
recompiling/patching. Then I will apply the UDMA patch and see what happens.
I hope to get this done by Monday at the latest and will post results.
Eddie
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need a driver for AM33C93 SCSI Chip
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:30:50 GMT
Andreas Schuldt wrote:
> This card is fitted with the AMi AM33C93 chip.
The chip is originally a Western Digital design, the venerable WD33c93.
Code for it exists in "wd33c93.c" to drive Amiga and Always IN2000
(in2000.c) adapters. You may be able to use those drivers, find another
driver that uses the wd33c93 base to run your particular card or modify
the code slightly to work with that SCSI controller.
The 33c93's are very straightforward, so it shouldn't be too much of a
problem.
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From: "tha D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: pppd and c-kermit problems surfing after ISP connection
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:39:23 +0200
I'll just hack kppp and recompile it with my own special option (if i can).
D
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From: Nicholas Pappas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: TV Tuner in Linux?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:28:19 -0400
There are a couple of programs that allow you to use TV Tuners under Linux
-- check out www.linuxberg.com.
Most of the programs use video4linux (I think that is right) -- their
homepage lists the type of cards that are supported.
Nick
Sean wrote:
>
> I have a Diamond DTV2000 TV tuner card and I'd like to know if there is
>
> anyways to make it work under Linux? Anyone?
>
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hardware report
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:30:49 GMT
being wrote:
>
> this is being posted soley for archival in search engine databases.
>
> I recently installed the following in my system:
>
> QDI LegenX 7 series motherboard, an Intel 440LX 370 Pin Socket
> processor based motherboard.
>
> 400 MHz Celeron PPGA processor.
If you get a chance to contribute this to LhD http://lhd.datapower.com,
that would increase the chances of people finding it later.
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From: Mark Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: buying a new computer, here's the hardware
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:01:30 +0100
AFAIK, this is partly correct. Yeah, Intel are going to release a socket
version of the P III. Yeah, the process technology has moved on enough to get
this all on chip, rather than forcing the clunky and expensive slot
technology if you need a reasonable size of cache (and we could have a
discussion of whether any of this is due to competition with AMD).
On the other hand, from what I remember, Intel were still not definitive
about the exact details of the packaging. There was some talk of the package
being expanded by roughly another 48 pins (for some SMP applications with
more than two CPUs??).
So, at this point, which of the various standards gives you the best chance
of getting an upgrade out of an upgrade in, say, a year's time, out of a
motherboard that you buy now is debatable. (Now this isn't an attempt at
'flame bait', just a summary of how I see the market right now. Which is in a
state of flux.)
Slot 1 is well established, but is going away. Slot 2/Xeon isn't in
contention, for me at least (cash!). And anyway the new P IIIs look set to
overtake it on cost/performance for affordable numbers of CPUs.
Socket 7 has been kept alive so far by AMD, but surely their attention is
going to slot A (unless they have in mind Athlon 'overdrive-style' parts, but
I have never seen anything announcement of anything like that).
Slot A/Athlon is nice but not yet well supported with motherboards. And is
AMD going to be successful at pushing their process technology to keep ahead
of Intel at get these parts down to low prices? And are those motherboard
prices going to be reasonable, or get so quickly?
PPGA 370 Celeron. Good 'bang per buck' in single CPU mode. But if many people
use a dual CPU trick (either something like a BP6 dual mobo or two slotkets
in a dual slot 1 mobo) aren't Intel going to change the chip so this won't
work anymore? I mean the entire Celeron project looks like an attempt to stop
AMD, and others, having a complete free ride in the low end of the market
while, er, 'protecting their margins' (and you know what that means for us
punters) on the higher end.
So, at the moment, I see the situation as being sufficiently confused that
you can make out a case for almost any strategy to give yourself a shot at
one upgrade down the road, and still be wrong. 'Course, in a years time,
we'll all be saying, of course, it was obvious that standard X didn't have a
future. Price of rapid progress, I guess.
Mark
Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Sonny wrote:
>
> > Some thoughts:
> > Do you really want to be stuck with a socket 370 board?
>
> You do know Intel has announced plans to release a Socket 370 version of
> the PIII sometime late this / early next year? Seems the problems with
> fitting a large, fast cache on die are being taken care of, and the lower
> production costs of the Socket 370 make it a nice choice for the next
> generation pentiums.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Weeks)
Subject: Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound, and
video?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:35:32 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Scott Copus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I didn't know if it is even possible to *run* Linux from a read-only
> media and just let it use a RAM drive for it's logging, etc. If anybody
> knows if Linux can be ran on read-only medium... let me know!
Sure it is. Look at http://www.toms.net/rb/ for a single floppy
distribution that you remove the floppy after the boot. I use it as a
rescue disk, but there's no reason you couldn't set up something
similar that boots from a cdrom and then mounts the cdrom ro. CD rom
booting uses a floppy image after all.
Greg Weeks
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 20:29:15 +0200
From: Lian Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Direct ethernet connection under Linux
Hello everyone,
I get a problem with ethernet connection under linux:
I want to connect 2 laptops, both equipped with PCMCIA 10/100BaseT
ethernet card (cardbus 3C575, both with RJ-45). So I took a cross-over
cable (not the normal twisted-pair one)
My setup is the following:
IP=130.60.93.222 resp. 130.60.93.223 Mask=255.255.255.0,
Broadcast=130.60.93.255 (for both hosts)
Under Windows98, it's no problem, both cards detect a 100Mbit/s mode.
(The actual transfer rate is lower.)
When I booted ONE host to Linux, ethernet cards can still detect
100Mbit/s mode, but there is no connection available, ping reports 100%
package lost. Then I pulled out this crossed-over cable from the linux
host, connected this linux host with normal twisted-pair cable to our
switch, (without reboot and changing any network information, actually I
didn't do anything as root), it can problemlessly connect to internet
(ping, ftp, telnet...).
When both hosts booted to Linux, there was still no improvement, ping
showed no response from the other host.
/var/log/messages tells me kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on
MII #0 link partner capability of 41e1.
The ifconfig command tells me
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:B5:73:E2
inet addr:130.60.93.222 Bcast:130.60.93.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:99 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2
TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:44
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x100
A friend suggests me that the problem could be caused by half-duplex or
full-duplex mode of my PCMCIA Ethernet cards. He suggested me to tune
this parameter. But I don't know
how to do it under Linux. It is highly hardware dependent, so I ask
your help.
Does anyone have an idea what I configured wrong under Linux?
BTW, Linux version I use is Mandrake6.0 and Redhat6.0.
Thanks a lot!
Lian Shen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Need some advices with buying ZIP drive
Date: 19 Aug 1999 15:00:54 -0400
Roy Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Richard Kr." wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>> I'm interrested in buying 100MB ZIP drive, and i have no idea about
>> which one to buy :(
>> I need some advices about this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance, richard kr.
>
> Internal IDE drives are easy to set up. They work much like a CD ROM
> and do not usually require an additional card in your machine. Most
> modern systems come with support for up to 4 IDE devices on the
> motherboard. I have a 100M Zip and it gets detected by the IDE
> drivers of the kernel as just another ATAPI device. Pretty much plug
> and play.
The internal SCSI model comes with a cheap SCSI card (Using adaptec's
1502 chip, I believe. It's 1510/1520 compatible.) I wouldn't recommend
using this card for anything faster than a Zip drive, and its
configuration options are limited, but it works.
Of course, if you already have a SCSI card, you can use the SCSI insider
driver with that instead. It'll probably work better as well.
-- David
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From: "Marco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i hate DIALD
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:52:53 +0200
I hate diald
I use SUSE 6.1 and have connected my 5 lan PCs via a linux masq box to the
isp. everything is fine. but i hav to dial in manually. ok diald should do
it so i adjusted the attach files to fit my wishes. ok
than i typed in at the console
diald
to start that programm and went to one lan pc and opened the
internetexplorer. but nothing happend?
Why.
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