Linux-Hardware Digest #366, Volume #12 Mon, 28 Feb 00 20:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: More SB128 woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system ("William L. Hartzell")
fd0 wont read dos disks ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: Internal modems for linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Logitech M-S48 Mouse ("dt.")
Re: Redhat 5.x/6.x or Mandrake 7.0 and PERC 2 on Dell Poweredge 4300 (Michael Buchau)
Re: Second NIC problem - Redhat 6 ("Andrey Smirnov")
Re: fd0 wont read dos disks (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Mouse USB help. (Jeff Biviano)
Problems with DELL 4300's and RedHat (Jason Scharlach)
inexpensive *modern* video card(PCI)? (Jungshik Shin)
Re: fd0 wont read dos disks ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: Need help with SCSI CD-Rom burner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3com Impact External ISDN Modem (Chris Thornburg)
Partitions partitions partitions ("Melissa Nelson")
swap mouse buttons for lefty? (Peter Bismuti)
which CD-RW for Linux? (Peter Bismuti)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,linux.dev.sound,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: More SB128 woes
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:52:49 GMT
After some more reading I switched the SB128 to another PCI slot, and booted. Now the
boot process hung on the 3Com 3C900 ethernet card(which was now using IRQ 12 instead
of 10). I removed that card and rebooted. sndconfig worked this time! Put the 3C900
back in (in another PCI slot) and rebooted. The 3C900 was now on IRQ 11 and everything
works fine.
Funny though that SB128 and 3C900 both use IRQ 11 now... any thoughts on that???
[~]$ cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: AMD Unknown device (rev 35).
Vendor id=1022. Device id=7006.
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xd8000008].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe8000008].
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: AMD Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=1022. Device id=7007.
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=14.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: AMD Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=1022. Device id=7408.
Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: AMD Unknown device (rev 3).
Vendor id=1022. Device id=7409.
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001].
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: AMD Unknown device (rev 3).
Vendor id=1022. Device id=740b.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 7, function 4:
USB Controller: AMD Unknown device (rev 6).
Vendor id=1022. Device id=740c.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable.
Latency=16. Max Lat=80.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8002000 [0xe8002000].
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C900 10bTPO (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8.
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401].
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 10. Master
Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=39.Max Lat=25.
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801].
Non-prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xe8001000 [0xe8001004].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 6).
Slow devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
Bus 1, device 5, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Unknown device (rev 4).
Vendor id=102b. Device id=525.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Master Capable.
Latency=32. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=32.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000008].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000000].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe1000000].
[~]$
In article <KfCu4.3300$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at work I have a SB128 working under RedHat 6.1 as a breeze, so I bought one for
>home also. Problem is that when I insmod the proper module (ES1371) or let sndconfig
>do it, my system just crashes.
> After reboot I see the following message in /var/log/messages
>
> Feb 28 22:34:37 cable-195-162-215-30 kernel: snd: Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard #1 not
>found or device busy
>
> At work the card uses the ES1370 module. I tried to insmod that, but no luck. After
>reading some postings on deja.com I found out that SB128 PCI has recently changed.
>The model I got is CT4810. Anyone have this baby working??
>
> PS. on an old computer with W95 it works perfectly...
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From: "William L. Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:13:47 GMT
Kenneth Crudup wrote:
> In <88t2kv$788$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/23/00
> at 05:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> >>As for why you are getting Win2K with Linux and OS/2 available to
> >>you .... :-)
>
> In article <38b467d5$2$ovryyvat$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>
> >There's some professional stuff that will only run in Win32, though.
>
> One word: "Vmware". I'm naming my first child after it. 30 days is
> free, so make sure your app runs on it, then it's $100 if you buy it.
> They're even coming up with an OS/2 version.
>
> -Kenny
>
> --
> Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
> Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
> Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
> Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
Kenny:
In Cuba they name their kids after things like this, for your kid sake try an
English name. You never said where to get this thing - VMware, nor have you said
if this thread is spam, eg what is your interest in it. We assume that you are a
user. Plus we on this OS/2 news group, which is one place that you posted this,
want to know will it run LINUX under OS/2, not the other way around.
Bill
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fd0 wont read dos disks
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:19:51 GMT
when i try to mount my floppy drive i type
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
and then whether the disk has right protection on or not i get an error
that says:
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or to many
mounted file systems"
what can i do to fix this???
p.s. what seems odd to me is that i put my linux boot disk in that i had
made at install and it read it fine.......
please help a linux Newbie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Internal modems for linux?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:20:27 GMT
I havent seen any PCI modems that run in linux... winmodem or not.
ISA modems emulate a serial port, PCI modems don't. Linux dosnt like
that for some reason. Best Data makes a old school ISA modem with
jumpers for the IRQ and Com Port settings. it retails for like $29 or
so. compusa (hate to say it, i shop there sometimes) carries them
sometimes. they come in a red and black box, and have a sticker that
says controler based modem on them. anyway, cool.
On 16 Feb 00 11:27:07 MDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JONATHAN DINERSTEIN)
wrote:
>Can anyone point me to an internal modem that works with Linux? I know that
>PC-Tel and Lucent have written drivers, but to my knowledge they OEM their
>chips. What specific modems use this technology?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jonathan Dinerstein
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "dt." <otallste*nospam*@pp.htv.fi>
Subject: Re: Logitech M-S48 Mouse
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:27:31 +0200
disarm wrote:
>
> how can i get it to work ? is anybody here who have it working on is
> box?
>
> please respond, thanks
Try this place, http://www.physics.wm.edu/~norman/Mouse_Diag/index.html
--
Push to test, release to detonate.
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From: Michael Buchau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.x/6.x or Mandrake 7.0 and PERC 2 on Dell Poweredge 4300
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:04:39 +0100
Charles Baker wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Have a close look at your RAID controller board. If it has "Adaptec
AAC-364" printed on it somewhere, I'm afraid you're definately out of
luck. There currently are no linux drivers available for this beast.
Maybe you can try to trade it in for an earlier Perc 2 board which is
based on AMI hardware, and which works flawlessly under linux.
Cheers
Mike
--
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Michael Buchau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Erlangen, Germany
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Second NIC problem - Redhat 6
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:44:42 GMT
If you can't see the second NIC during boot message, than you have a
hardware problem (since your first NIC is fine!). If you do see both NICs,
then you need to add the second card in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
Create another script ifcfg-eth1.
Good luck!
..... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:884kcc$ruq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does someone maybe know an answer to this problem?
> Please help me, i've been struggling with this for awhile, getting crazy
of
> it.
>
> I just installed redhat 6. My box has 2 NIC's both 3com 905b PCI.
> I can't seem to get the 2nd NIC to work.
> I've heard something about that you have to add them directly in the
kernel
> or something, but as i'm new to redhat and never done something like this,
> can somebody plz help me out here.
>
> Don't even know if this is the answer.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: fd0 wont read dos disks
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:48:29 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:19:51 GMT, Melissa Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>when i try to mount my floppy drive i type mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>and then whether the disk has right protection on or not i get an
>error that says:
>"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or to many
>mounted file systems"
>
>what can i do to fix this???
>
>p.s. what seems odd to me is that i put my linux boot disk in that i
>had made at install and it read it fine.......
You have to specify the filesystem type. If not, it will use what, if
anything, is spedified in /etc/fstab. See man mount and man fstab for
all the many possibilities.
If it is a DOS diskette:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Make sure /mnt/floppy exists.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jeff Biviano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Mouse USB help.
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:12:09 GMT
Kevin Walter Rogovin wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I recently got a USB Logitech mouse, and had wanted to know if it
> was posiible to use it under LINUX, specifically RedHat V6.0.... I was
> hoping to use it as a USB device, rather than setting up the mouse as a
> ps/2 mouse... I was under the impression that if a mouse could be used as
> USB, or ps/2, one should go for USB (atleast for Win9x) so I was wondering
> if I could get the mouse to work under Linux/Xfree86 using the USB
> interface... anyone know if this is possible, and if so how? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> -Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What's so bad about PS/2, it should work under windows just fine (There is no
USB support for NT4). There is not going to be any performance enhancement
or anything. The advantage of USB that one single interface can be used to
attach a multitude of devices, so in the future only one interface is
necessary instead of all seperate interfaces we have today (ie ps/2, serial,
parallel, joystick, ....etc) .
- Jeff
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From: Jason Scharlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems with DELL 4300's and RedHat
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:21:18 -0500
I've been having problems with a recently purchased DELL 4300
preinstalled with RedHat 6.0. In an attempt to resolve these problems I
have been in contact with DELL and have attempted to contact RedHat but
they don't seem to read their e-mail there so I figured I'd ask out
here.
Firstly, is there anyone out there who has actually successfully
gotten a response from RedHat on an e-mail support contract? If so, let
me know how you managed to get to somebody.
Anyways, here's the message I sent to RH. If anyone has any ideas
please let me know.
=========================================
I've been fighting with this problem for the past week and after going
through DELL tech support they told me to contact you guys.
Here's the problem.
We recently purchased a DELL Poweredge 4300 server pre-installed with
Redhat 6.0. Incidently, the 4300 is on the list of Certified Hardware
for RH 6.0. The system was working fine until we installed and
attempted to use a second hard disk in the 8x1 backplane. As soon as
you attempt to access partitions on both hard disks at the same time
corruption occurs - usually trashing the partitions you were just
accessing and forcing a re-install of the OS. This is 100%
reproducable. Infact, if you attempt to perform an install of all
components and have it automatically mount partitions on both disks the
install will fail 100% of the time. It does not matter what hard drives
you use - I have performed installs on both disks and they work
perfectly
until you attempt to access the second drive (ie: by mounting it or
using fdisk to modify the partition table).
I went through all of the DELL provided hardware diagnostics and
everything checked out. Not conviced, I then proceeded to attempt
installing RH 6.1 which also gave the problems. I then installed NT4.0
on the system and it appears to work perfectly and access both hard
disks with no problem. So, in my opinion what is wrong is one of 2
things. 1) The DELL 8x1 backplane is faulty but NT somehow manages to
mask this or 2) Redhat (Linux) does not support the backplane
technology.
What I need to know is, has Redhat ever tested their product in a DELL
4300 with multiple hard disks? If they have and it works, I need to
know so I can get the hardware replaced by DELL. If they have never
tested this how can you possibly be including an OS with a machine that
can't scale to multiple hard drives?
Please respond ASAP.
Jason Scharlach
Quarry Integrated Communications
===========================================
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From: Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: inexpensive *modern* video card(PCI)?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 00:18:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a five and half year old Pentium 100 box with
PCI bus. Recently I replaced P100 with K6-2 366(Kingston's TC 366)
and I noticed a significant speed boost. However, Xmark(using 'x11perf'
and Xmark) result is still pretty low(6.5-7 with the baseline being Sun
Sparc 1 and Xsun server). So, I'm considering getting a new modern video
card to replace Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM(which was near the top of
the line back in 1995).
Would anyone recommend a few modern but inexpensive PCI-bus video card
that works well with XFree86 3.3.x? I may spend as much as 100 bucks,
but I'll be happy to find the one costing $50-70. It seems like PCI
cards are more expensive these days than more common AGP cards, but what
could I do as I don't have time/money/energy to replace the motherboard
of my computer? Anyway, I've been looking at cards from Matrox like
Millenium($29 w/4MB WRAM), Millenium II($78 w/4MB WRAM, $98 w/8MB),
Millenium G200(w/8MB SDRAM $109). Some other cards like Diamond Fire
GL 3000 are also available for under $100 for PCI bus, but I'm not sure
whether they work well with XF86.
I don't need the state of the art 3D acceleration and
I'm more interested in 2D performance although hardware OpenGL
support(available now or in near future with XF86) would be nice.
Besides, as my monitor is only 17", I wouldn't go higher than
1152x864(with 24/32 bpp).
Thank you in advance,
Jungshik Shin
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fd0 wont read dos disks
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:25:24 GMT
Hal B. thanks that did the trick.....
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:19:51 GMT, Melissa Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >when i try to mount my floppy drive i type mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> >and then whether the disk has right protection on or not i get an
> >error that says:
> >"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or to many
> >mounted file systems"
> >
> >what can i do to fix this???
> >
> >p.s. what seems odd to me is that i put my linux boot disk in that i
> >had made at install and it read it fine.......
>
> You have to specify the filesystem type. If not, it will use what, if
> anything, is spedified in /etc/fstab. See man mount and man fstab for
> all the many possibilities.
>
> If it is a DOS diskette:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> Make sure /mnt/floppy exists.
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need help with SCSI CD-Rom burner
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:43:25 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
> > I am having a problem with a CD-Rom burner of mine. I'm running
> >RedHat Linux 6.1 and it finds it, but when I test it with a CD (The 6.1
> >Install CD), it gives me this message:
> > mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting
> >read-only
>
> And this is a problem how? You probably wouldn't want to overwrite that
> install CD even if you could...
>
> When you mount a CD-ROM, is is always mounted as read-only. Always.
> Writing to a blank CD-R(W) is done without mounting a filesystem, done
> through the /dev/sgX devices, and done using the cdrecord or cdrdao
> programs. Read http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html and
> the man pages for cdrecord and mkisofs for more info on the whole subject.
> HTH,
I know the first part isn't a problem, but the next line down is:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
or toomany mounted filesystems
And this is on a CD that already has data on it. I wasn't trying to burn to
one that HAS data on it, I was trying to test if the Burner was working
correctly or not by mounting a RH installation CD.
Thanks,
Carl
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:51:19 -0500
From: Chris Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3com Impact External ISDN Modem
I have an external 3com Impact ISDN modem and 2 channels to play with.
Anyone have any luck in setting this modem up to work? What I need
basically is a starting point for research. I would definatly like to
use this so I can use my Linux machine (2.2.14) as the router instead of
what my room mates want to use because its easy, win2000. Its an
external modem and it says it emulates AT commands, but a couple places
i read you install it like a nic card. Ohh yeah, the other thing I want
it to do is use both channels, but drop the line when a call comes in. I
know windows has software from this but 3com hasn't released any
software as far as i can see for it. I'm not sure wether thats a feature
of the modem or the phone company yet; but i think more than likely the
modem. If you could help me out and give a few suggestions on where I
should look, the help would be greatly appreciated. Btw; I have a dialup
analog gateway at home right now so I'm familar with masq already.
-Thanks,
Chris
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitions partitions partitions
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:57:34 GMT
ok i tried for like 4 days to get win98se and linux on the same box but
after i get linux RedHat 6.1 loded i go to install win98se and it gives me
the error "this drive is not currently configured for win89" then is wants
to config it but if i let it, it will whipe all my current partitions and
files.....
what can i do to run both win98 and RH6.1 on the same 13g HDD???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: swap mouse buttons for lefty?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 00:53:18 GMT
I want to use my mouse with my left hand and swap the buttons
around, IE, hitting the left button registers as a right button,
and vice-versa. Can anyone tell me how to do that? THanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: which CD-RW for Linux?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 00:55:13 GMT
Can anyone reccomend to me a CD-RW for my Linux box? I'm looking
at an internal SCSI perhaps. How about a Plextor?
Thanks!
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