Linux-Hardware Digest #352, Volume #12 Sat, 26 Feb 00 22:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Win modem & Linux (Rod Smith)
Linux Drivers or Directions for information on chipset ("Ozemail")
Microtek ScanMaker X6 (USB) & Mandrake 7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
A4Tech Winbest 4D+ mouse. (jesper)
Re: USB on VIA MVP4 (Compaq Presario) (Hamid Misnan)
Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks) (Yury Donskoy)
Re: top (or other) for SMP? (Chetan Ahuja)
Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks) (Yury Donskoy)
Re: IDE tuning (Mike Castle)
Re: hardware questions - Please help (KC)
Redhat 5.x/6.x or Mandrake 7.0 and PERC 2 on Dell Poweredge 4300 (Charles Baker)
USB ports (Ioulian)
Re: DTK (Robert Dwiggins II)
HP 9600 compatable??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Burned system!? (ajam)
Re: Burned system!? (ajam)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Win modem & Linux
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 23:14:25 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Douglas Bayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Everything I've heard about Linux and Win modems states that you should forget
> it. If you wrote hardware drivers for a living would it be possible but Redhat
> out of the box does not support winmodems. Also, there doesn't seem to be any
> tools out there to help you either.
The situation's not quite that dire, although it is for some products. A
couple of manufacturers have actually released binary-only drivers, and
there are open source projects working on some others. More information
can be had at http://www.linmodems.org. I've actually tested the software
modem in my new Compaq Presario 1200-XL106 notebook, and it works fine
under the 2.2.14 kernel included with Mandrake, after loading the driver
from Lucent. My need for a modem on the laptop is limited, so I've not
used it much, but it passed the test without too many problems. (I plan to
put up a web page on this notebook soon, with a few more details, FWIW.)
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: "Ozemail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Drivers or Directions for information on chipset
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:20:46 +1000
I have been able to lay my hands on a VIVID Technology's Netwave Mx Card
(V.34/ISDN) Internal ISA Modem Card.
This card has two chips by Phylon which should be the control chips. They
are a PHY212 and PHY118.
I requested information from the manufacturers and recieved no assistance.
Has anyone had any experience with this card on Linux, or know of another
brand of card that is using the same controller chip.
Regards
Kent Berry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Microtek ScanMaker X6 (USB) & Mandrake 7
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 23:30:37 GMT
Hello I have Microtek Scanmaker X6 (USB). I have recently installed
Mandrake 7 and I have no idea how to get it to work and even if it can
work. And help would be great.
Thanks,
Ben
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Before you buy.
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From: jesper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A4Tech Winbest 4D+ mouse.
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 23:30:32 GMT
Hello.
I'm having a A4 Tech Winbest 4D+ mouse model: www-11.
I'm a dos-convert and I miss the cool scrolling wheels of my mouse.
Have anybody experience with configuring the wheels of this mouse?
Thanks in advance
Jesper
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamid Misnan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: USB on VIA MVP4 (Compaq Presario)
Date: 26 Feb 2000 15:16:38 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:03:41 GMT, Rod Smith wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I recently acquired a Compaq Presario 1200-XL106 notebook computer. This
>machine uses a VIA MVP4 chipset. I've been trying to get USB working on
Have you tried loading ohci instead of uhci? From the config help, it is listed
as Compaq machines use OHCI instead. I'm still having hard time to get backport
to work on my notebook.. something about IRQ wasn't assigned by BIOS etc.. work
OK using dev kernel tho'.
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From: Yury Donskoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 00:04:31 GMT
"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> %% John P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> jp> I also find the current documentation for Linux and the various
> jp> programs very poor.
>
> jp> Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, but it has a long long way to go
> jp> before it can be a mainstream OS. It's a great toy to tinker with
> jp> and I will plug away at it, but unfortunately I have to use
> jp> Windows based OS's for my important computing.
>
> I don't want to argue the merits of computing platforms (although I will
> say I've been using computers of various types since ~1976 and UNIX
> variants since 1984, and I can and do trust Linux over Windows-based
> OS's for my "important computing" any day of the week--but I still do
> dual-boot my Linux box to Windows... to play games :).
>
> But I would like to know what you consider "good documentation". You
> appear to be giving Linux documentation poor marks compared to Windows
> documentation, and I just can't fathom it. I'm wondering whether I'm
> just looking in the wrong place for Windows docs... can you help?
>
> I mean, sure, Windows docs are more polished-looking and they typically
> have much better writing (grammar, spelling, etc.)--but the _content_ is
> so pathetic as to be laughable!
>
> I haven't once, _ever_, found _any_ answer to _any_ question about
> Windows I've _ever_ had in the Windows documentation. Not _once_!
> I obviously don't have the magic documentation key.
I think I'll have to disagree with that. I managed, once, to find an actual answer
to a Windows problem in the Windows manual, of all places. Right there, on page
42, I believe was the answer to the annoying problem of Windows seizing up when
going into Standby mode. Don't use Standby mode, it said, with certain types of
SCSI drives and FAT32, FAT32, of course, being the one of the key selling features
of Win98.
>
>
> Where does one go to find this wealth of useful, informative answers?
> Every time I do a search or look in the index of the Windows help for a
> subject I get a brief paragraph that merely restates what any nincompoop
> with eyes can readily see by looking at the screen. If that! And this
> is not just Windows itself, but that attitude seems to permeate all
> Windows apps, Microsoft or not.
>
> I had a problem where my external removable disk kept appearing as drive
> D: when it was on, and displacing my internal CDROM to drive E:, but
> when the drive was powered down or not attached (I got an external SCSI
> drive explicitly so I could take it with me easily) my CDROM would move
> to drive D:, then all my apps would get confused about where their
> multimedia files were (drives! Ugh! What unutterable braindamage!).
> I eventually resorted to USENET for help; is there some documentation
> that would have helped me? I couldn't find it.
>
> I still have a problem where my CDROM keeps spinning down after about 10
> seconds where it's not used, then programs freeze waiting for it to spin
> back up again, which takes a few seconds. This doesn't happen under
> Linux, only Windows. Is there any way I can keep it from "timing out",
> or increase the timeout? Is there anything in the docs about that?
> There're no CDROM driver settings for this.
Wow! I'd love for my Linux box to not spin my CD drive down. How'd you do that?
>
>
> I still have another problem where the system keeps probing all the
> disks every 15 minutes or so; this is OK but it keeps probing my floppy
> drive which is invariably empty and it makes an extremely annoying noise
> (I jumped out of my seat and thought my harddisk heads were walking
> through the platters before I realized what was going on!) Is there
> documentation anywhere on how to remove the A: drive from the list of
> drives periodically checked by whatever is doing the checking?
You probably have the MS Office file indexer turned on. Turn it off, it's a silly
feature. Take it out of your Startup folder and reboot.
>
>
> And if anyone knows how to rebind the CAPSLOCK key to CTRL in Windows98,
> I'd be very grateful (I had a little "kernel tool" from some Microsoft
> development group that did it for Windows95, but it doesn't appear to
> work with Windows98).
>
> Really, I agree that Linux docs are haphazard and technical, and often
> not well-written, but at least they _tell_ you something--maybe you
> can't understand it, which is unfortunate, but the answer's usually
> there! I'd rather have that than the bland, generic non-information
> that seems typical of Windows documentation [1].
>
> -----
> [1] Of course, it could be that there's so little ability to customize
> and configure Windows that there's no _need_ for anything more
> detailed! But, then, is it really fair to compare their docs? :)
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development
> "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
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Lettuce Pray!
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From: Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: top (or other) for SMP?
Date: 27 Feb 2000 00:08:55 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ktop from KDE works for showing how much is processed on each CPU,
> at least for PIII's. I would like to find something that reports what
> process is running per processor
That may be a little bit more complicated than you think. Even
impossible in the context of top. Because the processes are not
usually bound to a single processor in linux. So everytime a process
is schieduled to run ( ie. gets a timeslice) it could start on a new
processor. This could happen several times a second. And since top
gives some "averaged" statistics from the past few seconds, this kind
of information would make no sense.
Chetan
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> David Topper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I can do a cat /proc/cpu and see my CPUs ... but top doesn't seem to
>> report usage as such. How can I monitor the load on each? I remember
>> top on an SMP Solaris box reporting stats for each CPU.
>>
>> Are there some other utils I can use?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dave Topper
>> --
>> Technical Director - Virginia Center for Computer Music
>> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djt7p
>>
>>
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> Before you buy.
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From: Yury Donskoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 00:15:03 GMT
lf11, at, @linuxstart.com wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John
> Jordan) wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH) dijo a todos por la internet:
> >
> >>On 24 Feb 2000 14:32:30 GMT, David Magda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:07:45 GMT, John Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>However, with Windows you have numerous, mature, texts from Microsoft
> >>>>and third parties. Furthermore, Microsoft has a well-organized
> >>>>KnowledgeBase. All the information for Linux is out there in just as
>
> Ever tried to navigate the KnowledgeBase intelligently? Ugh!
> Besides, all those f_s_c_k_i_n_g WindowsXX books assume you have a
> base as to WHAT EXACTLY TCP/IP REALLY IS!! And everything else.
> Microsoft's NetBEUI is NOT a replacement, since it has no routing
> control. Those books are almost completely useless, since they
> present the facts with the model. It's like ornaments without a
> Christmas tree. Or maybe leaves without a tree. Dead.
>
> >
> >>>GNU/Linux's ``KnowledgeBase'' is USENet. You can also go to <www.deja.com>.
> >>>Though I've found that since they've differsified from just a USENet search
> >>>engine it has a really confusing interface.
>
> Go to http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml and select "Deja Classic"
> from the "Results type" dropdown menu. The results will be in the
> old dejanews.com format...*thank*god*!
>
> >
> >>There are also various web sites that index the documentation.
> >>
> >>And, the desktop projects both are providing unified entry points
> >>into the installed documentation.
> >
> > But y'all miss my point. I want the information *without* having to
> > log onto the net. Web sites are slow and frustrating to find things
> > in. And the quality of the docs on the web is great if you have a
> > degree in computer science, but pretty incomprehensible to a
> > non-techie. Trust me on this -- I have degrees and consider myself
> > educated, but have had very poor luck understanding what passes for
> > Linux documentation. And besides, what if the user can't get the modem
> > working?
> >
> > There is a market for a real, paper book. People will pay for it.
> > Right now, I find the one most lacking is a "Linux for Windows Users."
> > I'm surprised no one has written one yet. (And if there are any
> > aspiring authors out there, e-mail me -- I can almost guarantee
> > getting it published.)
> >
> > And don't suggest the useless thing that Corel ships with their
> > product. It just repeats verbatim what is in the help. And even that
> > doesn't help. E.g., for what to put in the box where it says "Gateway"
> > it says, "enter your gateway here." Well, duh. That was obvious from
> > the screen. What the newcomer needs is troubleshooting and
> > explanation. What is a gateway in the first place? Why is it
> > important? Where does the user figure out where to get the address to
> > put in the box? Remember, I'm talking Windows users here -- they have
> > never heard of TCP/IP. Windows handled all that stuff for them.
> >
>
> Hear Hear! I was in the same boat for a loong time. "If you don't know X,
> see your system administrator." GRR! I WAS the sysadmin! Better than
> RedHat, "If you *are* the system administrator, and you still don't know
> the values, take up a job in food processing." Oooooh! Insulting!
>
> I wish there was a paper-and-ink dictionary for about ~$20 that would tell
> you the meanings of all this stuff, gateways, IP addresses, namespace,
> gethostbyaddr, samba (WTF is Samba???), TCP, IP, IPX, NIS, YP, DNS,
> DHCP...ad infinitum.
>
> For your information, the "Hacker's Dictionary" by Eric S. Raymond
> (look at amazon or barns+noble) seems to be a pretty good dictionary
> for "techspeak"; computer terms and slang. (I will be buying it
> within the month.)
>
> > If Linux is going to take over the desktop, it's going to have to
> > address the needs of the masses, not just the geeks.
> >
>
> No kidding. The masses who think the "Recycle Bin"
> is a place to store files......
Nah. The masses think that the best way to free up disk space is to drop the
c:\windows directory into the Recycle Bin. Wonderful thing, no security.
>
>
> -lf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: IDE tuning
Date: 26 Feb 2000 17:04:19 -0700
So, I pulled the IBM drive and moved the newest Maxtor from slave to master
on the 2nd controller. Now, according to hdparm, it gets 6.6 MB/sec, just
like the IBM did.
Any suggestions on what configurations item I might be missing here?
mrc
In article <8956ql$rhg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have to following 4 hardrives installed:
>
>hda: Maxtor 82560A4, 2442MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=620/128/63, DMA
>hdb: Maxtor 91303D6, 12427MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=25249/16/63, (U)DMA
>hdc: IBM-DAQA-33240, 3098MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=6296/16/63, DMA
>hdd: Maxtor 92048U8, 19470MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63, (U)DMA
>Now, with the IDE patch, I get:
>
>hda: 8.3
>hdb: 8.5
>hdc: 6.5
>hdd: 5.6
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From: KC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hardware questions - Please help
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 20:08:10 -0600
Simon Whittemore wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed Redhat 6.1 on my x86 PC - P200 48 mb Ram
> I do not have any other OS installed.
>
> I cannot get some of my hardware recognised.- I have turned of plug and play
> in the BIOS.
>
> When I try to configure my printer under LP0 (it was LPT1 under Windows) it
> cannot be detected. What else can I do?
>
> Also how do I find out which COM port my modem is attached to? I have played
> with linuxconf but it just says the modem is busy under all the COM ports.
>
> Can anyone give me any advice????
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
As for the printer not being detected(known RH6.1 prob), look here:
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-6.html#ss6.19
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From: Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 5.x/6.x or Mandrake 7.0 and PERC 2 on Dell Poweredge 4300
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 21:24:17 -0500
Hey, I hope this is the proper forum for this question.
I've tried to install RH 5.2, 6.1 and Mandrake 7.0 on a Dell Poweredge
4300 w/ a Perc 2 RAID controller. Evrything I've found on the 'Net says
that during the scsi setup to choose the AMI MegaRAID driver. I do
this, but I always get a response that the device isn't found. I even
found some updated RH 5.2 install disks on AMI's ftp site, but nothing
seems to work. Has anyone gotten this to work? Any ideas or clues?
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utc.edu/~cbaker/personal/
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From: Ioulian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB ports
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 02:30:10 GMT
My question is:can I connect to Internet using a cable modem connected to
the computer via an USB port?
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From: Robert Dwiggins II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DTK
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 02:44:02 GMT
Hello Jim,
I'm typing this on an old DTK Pentium 133 computer. Right now, I'm in
Windows, but this machine has been dual-boot Windows/Linux from day 1.
I've run Win 95, Win 98, and Win 98SE on the Windows side and Linux from
kernel 1.0.9 on a Slackware release and then Redhat 3 to 6.1 on it.
Never had a problem on either side. This old DTK has been a great
machine. It's run everything I've thrown at it, which is a lot.
..robert..
Jim Taylor wrote:
>
> Are there any known issues with DTK brand computers running Linux?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP 9600 compatable???
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 02:42:38 GMT
Is my HP 9600 compatable with linux?
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From: ajam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Burned system!?
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:06:10 -0500
yes. Actually about 4 sec. does the trick! Thanks!
Cheers, ajam
Anton Deguet wrote:
> ajam wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your response.
> >
> > I know. I've run into that many times, but this is a little bit different. I
> > know, even though I haven't open it, that the power supply of the previous case had
> > a short-circuit of some kind, because of sound and smell. No question about it.
> > The motherboard is an ATX type, therefore it literally manages the power switch
> > actions internally. (That is why, it does not want to turn off).
>
> I guess you already know that if you press the on/off button for about
> 10 seconds, it will pass the software "shutdown" to really shutdown ?
>
> Anton
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From: ajam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Burned system!?
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:07:35 -0500
I tried w/out memory and even w/out the processor. No beep still. Thanks!
Cheers, ajam
Anton Deguet wrote:
> ajam wrote:
> >
> > Thanks again for the reply. Like I said before, I'm certain it is either the BIOS
> > or the board, since I disconnected all peripherals + microprocessor from board and
> > I still did not get any beeping sound from the BIOS. It is my understanding that
> > the BIOS does not need the microprocessor to boot. Although the BIOS that I have
> > is Award, which supposedly has the least amount of beeping sound configurations
> > available, I believe that something should have happened at this point. Thus, I'm
> > on my way of getting a new board today. At least for me it is really sad to loose
> > a motherboard like this, but c'est la vie!
> >
> > Cheers, ajam
> >
> > Robert Redelmeier wrote:
> >
> > > ajam wrote:
> > >
> > > > thanks for taking the time and responding to my question. I actually did all
> > > > that. The video board and everything else does not get recognized; the
> > > > speaker is not beeping; and after the power goes on, it won't off using the
> > > > switch. At this point, I'm pretty certain that the problem is the BIOS chip,
> > > > but will certainly prefer to hear other people's view on this matter. Blowing
> > > > a board or BIOS chip is not so uncommon. Thus, I wonder if anyone has run
> > > > into this problem before.
>
> I had once a memory failure which totally blocked the motherboard, not
> even a simple beep. I would bet that you also tried without memory.
>
> Anton
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