Linux-Hardware Digest #217, Volume #11 Thu, 9 Sep 99 20:13:24 EDT
Contents:
CD Rom not working....... HELP!!! ("Louis A. Weyrich")
Modem Stupidity (Mike Heien)
Re: good 100Mb/s NIC for Linux? ( Marcelo Rodrigues)
Re: good 100Mb/s NIC for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help! I screwed up fstab kernel panics (Matthias Kilian)
Problem Mounting ATAPI CD-ROM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
unnecessary CDROM roughness? (Brenden Dawson)
Re: HELP!! Thinkpad 560z timing problem with Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 (Richard
Zach)
Re: Need guidance with Scanner type (Norman Elliott)
Help in getting HP Deskjet 500c to work under RHAT 6.0 (Christian Cabal)
Re: Imation Superdisk (Steffen Sobiech)
Re: Linux vs. Mac OS8.5/AppleShare6.1 (Sander Temme)
SCSI card help... I am not sure if it works on Linux or not... :( ("Kevin C.")
Re: Help with SCSI errors, timeouts, and resets. (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Curse this iomega zoom card! (Peter Polman)
I can Install Red Hat 6 in scsi (Rodrigo D'Almeida Ferreira)
Adaptec 1460 (APA1460A) PCMCIA SCSI (Roger Walker)
Re: Caldera 2.2 and Logitech First Mouse + (w/ Wheel) and MS Wheel Mouse (Mike
Debreceni)
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From: "Louis A. Weyrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD Rom not working....... HELP!!!
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:50:26 GMT
I have a 24X E-IDE CD Rom and I can not for the life of me figure out why
it is not working with Linux.
Can anyone help me. Linux can see the CD drive on boot up, but I do not
have access to it.
I can not find a path to my floppy drive either.
Louis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mike Heien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Stupidity
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 15:16:41 -0500
This is probably going to induce sighing and laughter and several choice
names thrown in my direction but I must ask anyway.
The Story
I am using SuSE 6.1 and I have it set up perfectly I love it, can't
imagine life without it. I had my modem setup so I could dial out, and
it to was working great. The machine I'm using has a dual boot system I
have windows(hiss) on one drive and Linux on the other, well I got a
Wacom tablet and installing it in windows I was having problems because,
for whatever reason, the bios was set up for comm 2 to be on the wrong
IO address so in windows it was showing up as comm 3 so I changed it to
what it was supposed to be. I did not realize this would kill my modem
setup in linux. My modem is external and I've tried everything that is
in the manuals. I use wvdial to connect and it keeps giving me an
Input/output error. What am I doing wrong? My Sys Admin says to just
reinstall but I've got everything setup perfect. Visually speaking all
the settings look correct. Any ideas out there? Is there a config file
that I'm missing?
Thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marcelo Rodrigues )
Subject: Re: good 100Mb/s NIC for Linux?
Date: 9 Sep 1999 17:01:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <7r7oda$rv3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Computers4You" wrote:
>
> chris stegmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > I have used d-link cards in the past and have had
> > quite a bit of success with them, both 10 base-t
> > and 10/100.
>
> I am using A Macronix MX987xx series 10/100 card at the moment (Tulip
> chipset) and it works like a dream. You might check the websote of your
> linux distro and see if they have a hardware listing of supported cards. In
> general the 3Com card will be supported but they tend to be expensive.
>
> Wally
>
I have used the Intel EtherExpress and they are pretty good. I have an
eight
machine network at home ( I live by myself ! ) and five of them are PC's. On
all of the PC's I used to use the Intel cards but I've moved over to Cogent
EM110
as I got ahold of a large supply of these high end cards ( as a matter of
fact, I
have a few extra ones for sale if anyone is interested.) They support 10Mbit
,100Mbit
and 200Mbit in Full Duplex (FDE). I have always stayed away from the 3Com
models
as, albeit they are good quality cards, the performance ( at least on the
cards that I used)
tends to be pretty low. At this point in time there are a lot of cheap cards
that work
well with Linux but are somewhat of lower quality and varying performance so
you have
a lot to choose from if your criteria is only easy configuration under
Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: good 100Mb/s NIC for Linux?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 19:27:58 GMT
I highly recommend the
3COM 905
It costs a little more, but it ALWAYS works. I have used it in RedHat,
Slackware, and I have the FreeBSD box here and it also works with that.
It is almost universally excepted in all linux distributions and is made
rock solid.
Andy
ps, I went to school down the street from you at wlu
In article <vzAB3.8845$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm planning to buy a Fast Ethernet card, but I want to make sure it
works
> well with Linux. It should support (10Mb/s as well, for
compatibility). Can
> somebody recommend me a card to buy? I heard Intel Etherexpress is
pretty
> good. Is that true?
>
> Please post your success / horror stories.
>
> thanks,
>
> Eugene
>
> eestrulyov AT uwaterloo DOT ca
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Kilian)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help! I screwed up fstab kernel panics
Date: 9 Sep 1999 17:59:05 GMT
John Doe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> If rescue disk is broken make another. Red Hat for instance
> has rescue image on cd and their ftp site.
Why use a recue disk? Just type
linux root=xxx single
at the lilo prompt, with `xxx' replaced by the new (shifted up) root partition
and `linux' replaced by the boot image name lilo normally uses (if this
differs from `linux'). Unfortunately, I don't know wether you can say
`root=/dev/sda7'. If not, you have to use major/minor notation, i.e. `08:07'
(or whatever device your root partition is located on).
In single user mode, it should be possible to edit /etc/fstab.
Kili
--
de: Signaturen erzeugen Krebs.
en: Signatures cause cancer.
Please send other translations.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem Mounting ATAPI CD-ROM
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 19:53:37 GMT
I am trying to install Redhat6.0 but I can't get
the OS to mount and read my CD. I got the error
'Mount failed-- Medium not found'. I checked that
the device /dev/hdc -> /mnt/cdrom existed and is
listed during the boot-up sequence.
Does anybody know what might be wrong? I am new
to Linux.
Thanks,
Yakub
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From: Brenden Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unnecessary CDROM roughness?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:48:46 GMT
Quick question...
I'm wanting my CDROM to be accessible, either automatically (autofs), or
always mounted. It's a mild pain to mount it to browse when my file
manager doesn't have a "mount this" feature.
My apprehension to autofs is that I've only seen it in conjunction with
NFS... I'm not (mentally) prepared to go through round three in the
rigors of NFS installation and configuration.
So my question: Does mounting the CD at boot (and leaving it mounted)
cause any unnecessary roughness to the physical drive?
Are my assumptions about autofs wrong with relation to NFS?
Is there a daemon out there similar to autofs that will mount devices
when needed?
TIA,
Brenden Dawson
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From: Richard Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: HELP!! Thinkpad 560z timing problem with Intel EtherExpress Pro/100
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 11:03:58 -0700
Xyloplax wrote:
> may be a timing problem with the bridge. The bridge is a Texas Instruments
> PCI1250 Cardbus. What parameters do I set?
You may have better luck at the PCMCIA forum at
http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/cardbus.html
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From: Norman Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need guidance with Scanner type
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:53:15 +0000
Peter Hill wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I know I need a scanner with a SCSI interface to use it with Linux but
> other than that I don't know what else to look for. I am going to use it
> with either an Adaptec 1542 or a Future Domain 950 or a Tekram 390U.
>
> I am considering either a UMAX 1220S or a Mustek Scanexpresss 12000SP.
> Does anyone have any comments about either, or any recommendations ?
>
> I suspect that there is very little to choose between the UMAX or Mustek
> or any other scanner at this price (�100 - �150), am right ?
>
> TIA -
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter Hill
I have a Mustek ScaExpress 6000SP which works fine with a
Side 2930U PCI SCSI Adapter.
best wishes,
norm
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From: Christian Cabal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help in getting HP Deskjet 500c to work under RHAT 6.0
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:31:13 GMT
I just bought a refurbished HP Deskjet 500c printer and am having trouble
getting it to work correctly.
I dualboot windoze95/Linux and so just to make sure the printer does work,
I was able to install it in Windoze and print a test page that did print
out correctly. Anyway, under linux, I had previously gone through RedHat's
installation procedure, and selected the correct printer drivers and
printer setup.
I ran 'printtool' and it everything seems correct there. The filters for
my printer are being used.
When I do a command "lpr file.text" the simple text does print out, but
at an angle, and it does chop off the first line. More disturbingly when
I tried to print out a ps file I get total garbage. The printer puts out
strange characters, and sits at the edge of the sheet making an extemely
dark ink puddle.
Under printtool, I can get the text test page to print out, but that is
also slightly angled. The postscript test page just prints out garbage!
Anyone have any idea what this could be?
Please help!!
Christian Cabal
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From: Steffen Sobiech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Imation Superdisk
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:33:19 +0200
Brian wrote:
>
> I have had to reinstall Linux and now I it won't recognize my Imation
> Superdisk. Even when I had the floppy modules loaded, I could type the
> mount command but it still wouldn't recognize a 1.44M floppy or the 120M
> Superdisk.
Is it internal or external?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sander Temme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. Mac OS8.5/AppleShare6.1
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 20:12:35 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Petty) wrote:
> Your company is small. Attempting to administrate three different -- very
> different -- platforms is a strategy that you will certainly one day
> regret.
Chime in. ASIP is the easiest to administrate server platform I ever came
across, and for a small network like yours it will do the job very well.
Learning linux from scratch isn't rocket science, but it will take you a
lot of time.
S. Sander de Sybersurfer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Public Key.
"Never ask a man what sort of computer he drives. If it's a Mac,
he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
-- Tom Clancy
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From: "Kevin C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI card help... I am not sure if it works on Linux or not... :(
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:45:30 -0800
HI there..
I have a Promise fast SCSI-2 card... I am wanting to know about
weather the card can used with mandrake 6.0 or not? It mentions that it can
be installed onto SCO UNIX and what ever UNIXWARE Drivers are... Well if
anyone has ANY good info on this, please help.. :)
Thanks for your time...
Kevin in Alaska...
P.S. You can even e-mail me if you want.. thanks again..
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The above address should not contain the NOSPAM in the address... I do this
to TRY to keep the junk mail down... :( Stupid Junk Mail...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Help with SCSI errors, timeouts, and resets.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:10:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I have a computer with a built-in Adaptec AIC-7895 and recently I have
: been getting a bunch of SCSI errors after a few minutes of use of my
: SCSI drives. The AIC-7895 is dual channel and I have 7 SCSI devices on
: one channel (all external) and 1 SCSI HD on the other channel
: (internal).
:
: At first I thought that the problems might be due to one or more dying
: HD in the external group since a few of them are quite old (more than 5
: years). BUT, then I started to see that sometimes I also get errors on
: my internal drive with a HD that is only 1.5 years old. Also, even
: odder, is that I sometimes get an error where it can't access a device
: that is described as (-1,-1,-1). Often this error will appear many
: times (hundreds) very quickly and will sometimes end with a kernel
: panic.
:
: So, how can I diagnose this further? I already turned on verbose SCSI
: message from the kernel configuration and that didn't really tell me
: any more info. I have also unmounted all of my drives except for the 1
: internal (the root drive) and one of the externals. I don't know if
: this will make a difference and I don't know what it will tell me if it
: does make a difference.
:
: Finally, I also ran all of my disks through the Adaptec BIOS verify
: disk media check utility. They were all clean.
:
: Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Try posting the errors you're getting. "I get errors" is not terribly useful
for troubleshooting.
Stu
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From: Peter Polman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Curse this iomega zoom card!
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 13:47:28 -0700
I dodn't know if we're talking about the same card but it sounds like it.It is
an Adpatec 1502 which should work with the AHA152X driver. Whats worked for me
with several different kernels is rebuilding the kernel with SCSI support and
the AHA152x selected. Before doing a "make bzImage" or "make zImage" go into
the /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi directory and edit the Makefile. In the
Makefile a short way down you'll see a line regarding the AHA152x with some
info saying "-DAUTOCONF...." remove that info and put in its place
"-DSKIP_BIOSTEST -DSETUP0="{0x340,11,7,1}". Go back and compile your new
kernel and when you reboot the card and drive (with a disk in it) will be
recognized. Create a directory for the drive, something like "/Zip" and edit
your fstab file adding the proper device line pointing to the mount point. You
should be functional from then on. Once you've done this procedure once or
twice you'll begin to remember this procedure. The problem is that the stock
kernel is trying to automatically set up a SCSI card that in this case can't
talk back because unlike a true SCSI contoller this one has no EEPROM.
BTW Use your own card parameters for the -DSETUP0 info.
Dave Nejdl wrote:
> wow, this is exactly what I am dealing with now, exept I only have the zip
> drive, not the jazz. I have been asking this question alot lately and I've
> gotten two answers:
> 1) you don't need boot parameters in the first place, it should be
> recognized automatically (I don't believe it but thought I'd mention it).
> 2)forget about it, get a new scsi controller, the zoom never works.
>
> Mark Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I'm having problems installing some Iomega hardware I was
> > given. I have a Zoom SCSI card, a Zip100 drive, and a Jaz2G.
> > This is all far too nice not to use, so I set it up under
> > Win98, no problems.
> >
> > Re-compiled the kernel with scsi support (I asked for
> > support auto-loaded rather than as modules, but I don't
> > think this is the main problem). Added
> >
> > append = "aha152x = 0x340,11,7,1"
> >
> > in etc/lilo.conf (port and irq from Windows device manager)
> > and got "device not found" messages from Redhat 6.0. Back to
> > Windows. The zoom card is now at 0x140,11. Apparently the
> > PnP routines are shoving this card around to different
> > locations.
> >
> > Can someone tell me either
> >
> > 1) (my favourite) the Zoom jumper settings to lock the card
> > in place.
> >
> > or
> >
> > 2) how to force it to be recognized at a given location and
> > irq.
> >
> > It's probably obvious that I don't have any docs for any of
> > this stuff, and the jumper settings aren't available at
> > www.iomega.com.
> >
> > Please help me before I am forced to start spamming the
> > alt.binary.huge_breasts hierarchy with this question.
> >
> > best wishes, mark s.
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From: Rodrigo D'Almeida Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I can Install Red Hat 6 in scsi
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 15:34:45 -0300
Please anybody can help me?
I'm a newbie. I don't know where can I find something about this.
It's urgent
Sorry for the multiply recipients
Rodrigo Ferreira
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> RH 6.
> Is not in conflict (I think) cause i tried another ports, IDs in scsi
> but is not detect
>
> Huub van Niekerk wrote:
> >
> > The AHA-1542 is not detected by Linux-setup? Which version do you have? My
> > RH 5.2 detects it perfectly (as I run RH 5.2 on it..)
> >
> > Huub
> >
> > Rodrigo D'Almeida Ferreira wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > > I've never installed Linux, and now I have to install it from CD in hd
> > > scsi aha1542 (it's a work for the university), but it not detect the
> > > scsi (aha 1542).
> > > What can I do? But I have another problem: I know a little bit of Linux.
> > > Please, help em with a tutor step by step or where can I find it.
> > >
> > > Rodrigo Ferreira
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > PS.: Sorry for my poor english
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From: Roger Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 1460 (APA1460A) PCMCIA SCSI
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 20:30:52 GMT
I am looking at purchasing this PC-Card scsi device 2nd hand. I can't seem
to find any specific information on whether or not this card will work under
Linux.
The pcmcia-howto is not very helpful. It only indicates that most PC-Card
scsi devices work as ISA work-alikes, and that there is some additional
pcmcia code (which I can't seem to find) to link into the driver.
What, if anything, do I have to do to get this card to work under Linux?
Thanks.
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From: Mike Debreceni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Caldera 2.2 and Logitech First Mouse + (w/ Wheel) and MS Wheel Mouse
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:33:55 -0400
Patrick Lam wrote:
>
> Sorry that I am posting this question to a few groups. I need to get the
> answer ASAP for a reason ....
>
> I am using Caldera 2.2. Somehow I can never get the wheel on my Logitech
> First Mouse+ to work. In XF86Setup, I can't find the appropriate driver for
> it. Is there a driver for it at all? However, choosing MouseManPlus PS/2
> seems to allow the mouse to work fine except the wheel is being ignored.
>
> Also, I tried to switch to the MS Wheel mouse (the cheaper one, not
> IntelliMouse), and tried to choose IntelliMouse as the driver. The mouse
> behaves like crazy! Is this not an appropriate driver for it? Where can I
> find a driver for MS Wheel mouse?
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> Patrick.
Patrick,
I downloaded 'imwheel' from
http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel. It's pretty decent (it
basically captures the mouse wheel motion and converts it into
keystrokes).
Also, check out your /etc/XF86Config. Because the mouse wheel maps to
"buttons" 4 and 5, your pointer section in XF86Config should look
something like this:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
Buttons 5
ZAxisMapping 4 5
Endsection
Comment out any lines for Emulate3Buttons.
I'm using an IBM Scrollpoint mouse, however, this config worked fine
with my MS Wheel mouse (you *might* have to change the protocol to PS/2
if IMPS/2 doesn't work).
Good luck!
- Mike Debreceni
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