Linux-Hardware Digest #250, Volume #11 Tue, 14 Sep 99 10:13:23 EDT
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Re: how2print? Brother hl-720 (Tomasz 'tsca' Sienicki)
ATA66, BP6 (MAX)
Linux box set up without modem or cd rom, only ethernet ("Blacka")
Running Debian on Compaq Proliant 3000 & 6500 Servers (Aaron Daniels)
Re: Creative 3D Banshee AGP 16 - Can't get setup. (Antonio Contreras)
Re: Modem Question. ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Is 128K ISDN hopeless?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Running redhat linux on a second hard disk (Stevan Popovic)
Floppy won't mount ... ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: How to I remove Lilo ("Steve Lau")
Re: SB PCI 64 and Suse 6.2 (Detlef Gaisser)
SCSI tape error with NCR810 and ASUS P3B-F ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What to buy for kick-ass system upgrade ? (Thomas Brinkman)
Re: Underclocking CPU (Thomas Brinkman)
Re: need help with epson 440 ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Running redhat linux on a second hard disk (Timothy Dixon)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomasz 'tsca' Sienicki)
Subject: Re: how2print? Brother hl-720
Date: 14 Sep 1999 09:20:40 GMT
rob wrote
[in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]:
> > # ----------------------------------------------------
> > Auto detection found the following:
> >
> > /dev/lp0 : Not detected
> > /dev/lp1 : Not detected
> > /dev/lp2 : Not detected
> > # ------------------------------------------------------
> <snip>
>
> I'm not familiar with that autodetection tool, but I'd start
> there. Do you have parallel support in your kernel?
Must be! It's the default kernel (2.0.34) from RH 5.2.
--
tsca
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From: MAX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATA66, BP6
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:38:59 +0800
I am using a BP6 mainboard which has build in a ATA66 controller. I have
a ATA66 drive connected to it.
When I start to install Linux (Redhat 5.2), the installation program
report that it can't reconize any harddisk, how can I solve the problem?
Thanks for help.
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From: "Blacka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux box set up without modem or cd rom, only ethernet
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 03:06:31 -0700
Hi, I currently have a windows 98 machine, and a pent 90 with DOS. I was
wondering if it was possible to install linux on the DOS computer through a
network. Does the network have to be set up first? The hub and all the other
stuff are set up, but stuff like samba are not in place since linux isnt
installed yet.
My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has no
modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
Orrin Jolly
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From: Aaron Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Running Debian on Compaq Proliant 3000 & 6500 Servers
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:15:01 +0000
Hi,
I have recently purchased some Compaq 3000 & 6500 Servers and am in the process of
putting
Debian Linux on each of them.
The base system installs fine and all seems to be working, until I try and install the
ethernet
card. The Compaq comes with a Tlan dual 10/100 ethernet adapter which is fine and and
half
recent kernel has a module for it, but my problem is that it tries to put it on IRQ 15
where the
SCSI card is already sitting.
Does anyone know why this is doing this and how to fix it?
Also is there any way to control the LCD screen on the front of the Server and/or the
server
utilities such as pre empting a hard disk failure and those kind of things.
Thanks,
Aaron
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From: Antonio Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative 3D Banshee AGP 16 - Can't get setup.
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:20:33 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have been trying to get my Creative 3D Banshee 3D AGP 16eg video
> card to work on linux. Through research I have found out that its not
> completely compatiable with linux (that's my luck). I have already
> tried: http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
> And manually configuring XF86Config (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11) but neither
> worked.
> So far I can get Gnome and KDE (<- I think) in 320x200 mode, but I
> would really like a higher screen res. Do you have any suggestions about
> how I might be able to fix this?
>
> Thank You,
> Cody P.
Hello, ... and, Have you used the X-server on a distribution disk? I've
heard there is a new server for that card at Creative web pages. If you
think that can be the problem you can also contact M. A. Cotes
([EMAIL PROTECTED]), because he had the same problem, and he has
solved.
Bye,
Antonio Contreras.
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Question.
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:57:14 -0400
Try using Minicom at the console - it's a lot easier to get
working and will hopefully allow you to determine if everything
is connected properly.
Dan Price wrote in message <7rkibf$a22$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Ok, Dan gives up ! I bought a Creative Labs Modem blaster model DI5601
>because it was reported to work under a website listed in this group. I set
>it to non PNP mode using the jumpers and Com 2 irq 3 (also using the
>jumpers). Windows took it fine and I am using it to post this message.
Limux
>is another story. At bootup, my SuSe 6.1 executes Setserial (i think) and
>the message displayed indicates that ttys01 is at address 0x2f8 irq 3
which
>matches what is set physically on the modem.
>
>So i go to use the Kppp dialer under KDE and set the device to ttys01. When
>I try to dail the program hangs on the "setting modem volume" message and
>eventually times out. I have tried the faq's but they dont seem to be of
>help. Is there perhaps a more approiate FAQ or webpage for me ? Or can
>anyone here help me ?
>
>I have been using linux for 2 days now. I am picking things up quickly, but
>have hit a snag here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Dan
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is 128K ISDN hopeless??
Date: 14 Sep 1999 08:32:34 GMT
You're using setserial on ISDN ???
You'll probably have to use isdnctrl for that !
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From: Stevan Popovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Running redhat linux on a second hard disk
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:12:05 +0000
I have just installed redhat 5.2 on my second hardisk and the install
went well.
However when I tried to boot linux from boot magic it gets as far as the
lilo prompt then a succession of zero & ones appear.
As a result it will not let me boot anything at the lilo prompt.
Has anyone had this problem before?
I think that it could a hardware problem?
--
Stevan Popovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"In complete darkness we are all the same it is only our knowledge and
wisdom that separates us"
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Floppy won't mount ...
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:30:43 GMT
Hi , I'm new to this, and tying to find my way through HOWTO's, and
other help facilities. However, i did not yet find the reason why my
floppy won't mount.
Here is the scene :
IDE 1 master : HD Dos partition (win 95 boot)
IDE 1 slave : CDRom
IDE 2 master : HD Linux partition
Whenever I want to Linux, I use a LILO from a bootable floppy (I have
not yet the LILO with multiple OS on 1st HD ... problems 1 by 1 ... :-)
So I get the Mandrake (6.02, KDE) thing, and it works alright, except
that the CD Rom mounts alright, but not the floppy.
I get the error :
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too
many mounted files systems
(Though I booted on a floppy !)
Any thoughts ?
TIA
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From: "Steve Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.help,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to I remove Lilo
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:27:56 +0800
fdisk /mbr can remove the LILO if you installed the LILO in the master boot
record......
Steve
MBr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Christopher B Stank wrote:
>
> > You can use a windows xx boot disk, with the fdisk program on it, and
then
> > run the command fdisk /mbr to rewrite the master boot record. This
> > removes lilo. If you wish to reinstall lilo at any time in the future
you
> > will nedd a linux boot disk to reinstall it.
> >
> > Reguards,
> > Chris
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Christopher B. Stank == [EMAIL PROTECTED] & @rcn.com == Senior CompSci
Major
> > Lockheed Martin SS&TS Unix Systems Administrator == [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, BD wrote:
> >
> > benny9>I recently installed linux 5.2 and installed lilo. Well today I
booted
> > benny9>up my computer and linux partition and everything else (bar my C:
drive
> > benny9>for windoze) was gone.
> > benny9>So now im stuck with lilo at bootup. How do I delete it?
> >
>
> If you don't like to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file, just use fdisk and make
your
> Windows
> partition active (and your Linux partition not active, this isn't like
msdos
> fdisk) and reboot
> your system, in order to start Linux again, reverse the process...
> MBR
>
> > benny9>
> > benny9>
> > benny9>
>
> --
> "It may hurt my pride to be wrong once in a while, but I
> rather be flamed with better information than to be left
> blissfully ignorant." /-- Manuel Beunder, maintainer of:
> http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme - The SB Live!-Linux page
>
>
>
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From: Detlef Gaisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB PCI 64 and Suse 6.2
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:44:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Luckydaze1 wrote:
>
> I'm a newbie and I need some help settings up my sound card. Can someone please
> give exact steps on how to setup up the sb pci 64? I went into the conf.modules
> file but don't know what lines to add to it or which module I should load for
> it or even how to load the module. Thank you.
Well its very simple.
First of all you should know if you have a ES1370 or ES1371 soundchip.
(written on the card)
Then go to /etc/conf.modules
change the lines
alias char-major-14 off
alias sound off
alias midi off
to
# alias char-major-14 off
# alias sound off
# alias midi off
and
# alias char-major-14 es1370
to
alias char-major-14 es1370
or the line containing es1371
if you now start a mixer programm you should see
via lsmod an output containing your soundchip and soundcore unter the
modules-tab.
Now it should be possible to hear all the good Zappa stuff on your
computer.
Best whishes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI tape error with NCR810 and ASUS P3B-F
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:01:04 GMT
Hello
Since I've upgraded my PC to the ASUS P3B-F 100 MHZ and Debian2.1
I've problmes with my scsi tape (Sony SDT 9000)
My scsi controller is a (symbios) ncr53c810. Could it be the 100MHz
bus rate? Has anybody problems with a 100MHz board and an old SCSI card?
(With my CD-R I've similar Problems)
The error looks like:
I cannot restore nor write my old tapes.
bbmpc2:/uni_daten# tar cvf /dev/st0 *.txt tape3 tape4 tape5 userdaten >
gugus.out 2>&1
ncr53c810-0:5: ERROR (a0:0) (8-0-0) (8/33) @ (script 10:721a0000).
ncr53c810-0: script cmd = 98000000
ncr53c810-0: regdump: da 00 00 33 47 08 05 1f 04 08 85 00 80 00 0f 02.
ncr53c810-0: have to clear fifos.
st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sense key Unit
Attention
Additional sense indicates Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred
st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in process of becoming ready
st0: Error on write filemark.
st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00:
sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in process of becoming ready
Unfortunally I've no idea on scsi what does it mean (in the SCSI HOWTO
I've nothing found about the regdump)
What does the st09 mean? My tape is st0.
Thanks a lot for help
Greeetings
Beat
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From: Thomas Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What to buy for kick-ass system upgrade ?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:31:55 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 9/8/99, 4:52:32 PM, "Gabriel L. Somlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
wrote regarding What to buy for kick-ass system upgrade ?:
> Hi, folks...
> Guess it's time for me to upgrade my computer, and I could use all the=
> hints
> and advice I can get...
> First of all, the bits and pieces I can/want to salvage from the old
> system:
> - BusLogic BT958 SCSI controller (PCI), with all the SCSI stuff=20
hangig
> off
> of it :)
> - LinkSys 10/100 Ethernet PCI card (sweet thing, Linux is even
> mentioned on
> the box :) )
> - Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard
> - ISA modem (old fashioned, with jumpers, slow but good for what I
> need it
> for... :) )
> I think I need to get the following:
> - Dual CPU motherboard + 2 processors. Here is where I need your=20
help:
> I
> remember reading somewhere a while ago about an ASUS board that=20
was
> capable
> of taking two 300 Celerons (or something like that) and allowed=20
you
> to use
> them both, and to overclock them directly from the bios without
> jumpers.
> Could you please tell me what I'm REALLY looking for (i.e. how to
> get a
> sales droid at your average mail-order joint to send me the stuff =
I
> really
> want :) :) :)
> - A new video card. If the mobo has AGP, should I go for an
> AGP-enabled
> videocard, and which one ?
IMO, dual cpu's just aren't the way to go, and most that have
'em (o/c'd anyhow) report the same performance levels as those with
just one. I believe it's a rare app that uses both cpu's effectively.
Currently the C366, or the PIII450 are the favored o/c'rs.
C300's that will do 450 are gettin hard to find. Most all C366 or
PII450's do 550, lot's make it to 600 mhz and higher. I have a=20
PII 350 at 467 mhz (10 months now, rock solid), ~500mhz is the=20
upper level for PII's.
I'd suggest you read alt.comp.hardware.overclocking for a
while.
Video card, HDD caution. The main concern with o/c'g is non
standard pci and agp speeds. Current BX motherboards often support
pci dividers as required to keep the pci bus speed in, or close to
spec, but not the agp bus. For example, I have an Aopen ax6bc=20
running my PII350 at 133.6 mhz, FSB. The pci is =BC divided back to=20
the spec 33mhz, but the agp bus is 89mhz (66 is spec). Few agp=20
cards will run this far out'a spec (for long anyhow), so I use a=20
pci V3 (o/c'd to 178mhz in Windows, not Linux). Few HDD's (and no=20
scuzzy's) will tolerate a pci bus too far out'a spec, data loss is=20
the biggest risk. IBM and WD drives are favored, stay away from=20
Maxtor. =20
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thomas Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Underclocking CPU
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:57:11 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 9/12/99, 9:14:27 PM, Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>=20
wrote regarding Re: Underclocking CPU:
> If you buy an Intel CPU, then you're screwed. Intel is nasty about
> people running their CPUs at anything except for the rate they sell=20
them
> at, either under or over... AMD is a good choice, since they don't=20
care
> if you overclock their CPUs. Cyrix and Winchip are ok, but the=20
quality
> is inferior to that of AMD and Intel. So AMD is probably your best=20
bet,
> followed by Cyrix and then WinChip.
> Greg
-- alt.comp.hardware.overclocking --
Lot's of Celery's o/c, eg, C366 At 550mhz, best PII is the 350,
I've run mine at 3.5x133.6 (467.7mhz) for 10 months now. It and all=20
the
Deschutes PII's are the same core (PII333 thru PII450), but the 350=20
doesn't need to have the B21 pin defeated to run FSB's of 100 or more.
The best PIII is the 450, many get those to 600+ mhz, all will do=20
558mhz.
If you read the o/c'ing NG, I believe you'll find that Intel
makes the best o/c'rs, AMD the worst (that's why they don't bother
to 'lock' 'em ;) The trick is to not get a cpu that Intel's already
o/c'd, eg, the PII450, the PIII600, the C500. AMD marks and sells
theirs very near to the core's limits, often a 30 to 50 mhz increase
is all that's possible. Cyrix and WinChips aren't even worth the=20
bother to o/c.
To answer the original question, most all Intel cpu's prior to
8/98 were either not locked at all (the internal multplier), or it
was 'limited', ie, you could lower, but not raise it. All Intel cpu's
will o/c by raising the FSB frequency, often just a bios setting.
Good quality cas2 pc100 or pc133 ram is needed for the higher (>100)=20
FSB's, along with a motherboard that supports non standard FSB's. =20
CPU's (and ram) can be underclock'd, but why?
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 14 Sep 99 08:19:01 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need help with epson 440
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Miguel Reina;
MR> I have caldera 2.2 and a Epson printer model 440 and I can not
MR> get my printer to work. I have a zip drive connected to the
MR> parellel port now and I am using the pass through feature. What's
MR> wrong? Should I get a second parelle port installed?
That 440, an inexpensive printer IIRC, may also be a 'winprinter'. If
it says on the box that it requires a windoze installation with at least
a 133 mhz cpu, then it probably is. So far, such printers have had a
proprietary language because all of the rasterizing required to even
print "Hello World" has been moved from the printer into the driver on
the host machine.
Good luck, but you may be forced to replace it with a more capable unit,
or wait till 2.4 is out, I hear a rumor about partial winmodem support,
and its possible some printers may also be included.
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] (Timothy Dixon)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Running redhat linux on a second hard disk
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:08:46 GMT
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:12:05 +0000, Stevan Popovic
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just installed redhat 5.2 on my second hardisk and the install
>went well.
>However when I tried to boot linux from boot magic it gets as far as the
>lilo prompt then a succession of zero & ones appear.
>
>As a result it will not let me boot anything at the lilo prompt.
>
>Has anyone had this problem before?
>
>I think that it could a hardware problem?
Not particularly helpful, but might provide some info that might help:
I boot Linux off my second hard drive (slave on my first IDE chain)
all the time. Both RedHat 6.0 and Mandrake 6.0 (don't ask) installed
it nicely and automatically.
Might there be a conflict between boot magic and lilo? I installed
Lilo to my MBR (on my first disk, a smaller one that I keep Losedos on
"just in case").
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