Linux-Hardware Digest #422, Volume #12 Tue, 7 Mar 00 14:13:10 EST
Contents:
HEEEELLLLPPP !!! driver for Rockwell AM56HCF/SP modem ("Linux User")
Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem (Dances With Crows)
Re: Sound blaster pci 128 (Lien-Fei Alex Chu)
Dell Poweredge 4100/200 install? ("James.C.Johnston")
Re: SuSE 6.3 Doesn't Detect My 3Com NIC (Dances With Crows)
Re: Power down Conner 2GB SCSI Hard Drive? (Eric Wick)
Re: Zip-100 under Linux.... (Ript)
Re: adding a scsi controller ("Ron S")
DirecPad joy ("Chou")
Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem (J.R. Lockwood)
Re: SCSI tape drive, device not ready (phil)
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82 (was: 3C905c Network Card with 2.3.44/45
kernel) (Thomas Herchenroeder)
Re: TNT2 Clock Utility - Detonator 3.76 (Jan Knutar)
Re: Modems & Linux (Jan Knutar)
Re: best graphics card? (Gary Beldon)
Proxy Setup for Open Linux
SCSI tape drive (Gunnar Lindholm)
Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please (Mike Castle)
Re: Remote Display Problem. (Andrey Vlasov)
Waves sound on linux (Scott Kiesling)
Supermicro P3SCD - Guillemot GeForce - SB!Live1024 ("Mayad B Rassam")
English version of German document ("Tony Wright")
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From: "Linux User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HEEEELLLLPPP !!! driver for Rockwell AM56HCF/SP modem
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:52:19 +0100
Is there driver for this modem?
Rockwell AM56HCF/SP
thank's
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem
Date: 07 Mar 2000 12:17:46 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:31:22 +0100, Atle <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>Ellen Koinz wrote:
>
>> Nope. _Because_ Windows is doing OK I'm confident that it's the serial port
>> isn't set up properly. It's a matter of initializing the 16550A at boot
>> time. Put something like
>>
>I just came to wonder: Isn't there one of these that has a hardware
>buffer and the other doesn't - or they both have, but one is bigger than
>the other?
>Or does this date back to the 8250?
8250: No buffer, original UART, had bugs.
8250A: No buffer, fixed 8250 bugs, but that broke XT systems that
expected the bugs.
8250B: No buffer, no bugs, but didn't work at 9600 bps.
16450: 1-byte buffer, capable of at least 33600 bps but sucked a lot of
CPU time.
16550: 16-byte buffer that didn't work AVOID.
16550A: 16-byte buffer that *did* work, capable of at least 115200 bps.
16650: 32-byte buffer, 230400 bps.
16750: 64-byte buffer, 460800 bps.
HTH,
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: Lien-Fei Alex Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound blaster pci 128
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 12:18:57 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Birkenmaier wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if SB PCI 512 is supported. If so, what is the
> nane of the driver and where do I find it? Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
sorry, do not know the answer to this...
>
> > Can you indicate approximately where the chip is located on the card. I
> > have a SB128 PCI card that I can't get working with Redhat 6.1 but does
> > work with the OSS sound drivers. I have looked over the card and cannot
> > find anything that has either number.
Just out of curious... If you have OSS driver (it works with PCI 128), why
can't you get it to work under Redhat? (The OSS driver is for Linux, right?)
When I did the installation, everything works pretty well right from the
begining... Although I did get in trouble later on with the card... BUT, I got
it working again by running the sndconfig again.
I can't remember where the chip or identification is at the moment... It might
take a week or so before I have the time to open my box up again.
Good Luck.
Alex.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Harvey
> >
> >
> >
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From: "James.C.Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell Poweredge 4100/200 install?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 12:02:29 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone tried to install Linux on a Dell Poweredge 4100/200 server?
It has dual Pentium Pro 200 processors, built in ATI Mach 64 display
controller, and 2 SCSI chains - a narrow one for the CD-ROM and 4mm tape
and a wide one for the disk drives.
It currently runs NT 4.0 but we are having problems with it. I would
like to dump NT and move to Linux (red Hat 6.1) but I want to see if
anybody has managed to get it to run successfully before I try it. (I've
got a fair amount of data to move around to make this happen)
Chris Johnston
NASA Glenn Research Center
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.3 Doesn't Detect My 3Com NIC
Date: 07 Mar 2000 12:25:53 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 23:29:43 -0800, Lucky
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have a 3Com 900b nic. It works fine in Debian and Slack.
>I removed the "off" next to "alias eth0" and uncommented the
>3c59x module
>in /etc/modules.conf If I do a cat /proc/pci it's there but SuSE
>doesn't detect it at boot up. I get a "failed" for a unknown eth0
>device. Ifconfig eth0 comes up OK if I load the 3c59x module
in /etc/conf.modules:
alias eth0 3c59x
...just removing the "off" would leave you with "alias eth0 " which
wouldn't work too well. Also make sure you're starting the DHCP client
(if you want that) or you have the IP and all set correctly. YaST can do
all that for you really easily. Bonne Chance...
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: Eric Wick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Power down Conner 2GB SCSI Hard Drive?
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:02:40 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Curtis Magyar wrote:
> hdparm, but it only seems to work with IDE drives. Is there a SCSI
> equivilent? It's easy to use hdparm with -S on my IDE drives to have
Yes try a Websearch for "scsistop". This little tool can stop and start
scsi drives that support this feature.
> I'd like to do something similar with the SCSI drive.
Thats a little problem, the tool sends the command and the drive spins
down immediately, and the drive must be restarted with the tool again.
I�m using it for my backupdrive in the server.
> DOS, Windows, and Linux. I'm not worried about the consequences of
> turning the drive off and on. If it goes, it will have served it's
Most actual drives have 50000 start and stop in their sheet.
--
Linux-Computing, SpeedDragon http://www.hanse-net.de/eric.wick
ByeBye
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ript)
Crossposted-To: alt.iomega.zip.jaz,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Zip-100 under Linux....
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:18:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Werner Kliewer) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Then either Iomega has changed their policy, which would surprise me
>only a little; or you have a cartridge that was not partitioned and
>formatted by Iomega, which would surprise me more. Unless you did it
>yourself. Or unless the newest IDE drives hide the partition
>information somehow ...
>
>There are many possible explanations for this, and I have not followed
>Iomega and Zips for the last few months ... since they replaced my SCSI
>drive with the click-of-death, I have had no other problems with the
>new drive or my older parallel port model.
>
>Sent using Virtual Access 5.01 - download your freeware copy now
>http://www.atlantic-coast.com/downloads/vasetup.exe
>
>
>
No, its always the 4th partition on my IDE zip....
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From: "Ron S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding a scsi controller
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:37:22 -0500
Michael J Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8a35j1$6ue$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> =>Even with kerneld running, an attempt to mount the drive results in:
> =>
> =>mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda as a block device
> => (maybe 'insmod driver'?)
> =>
> =>Here again, if I manually do the insmod for the driver, it does mount. Why
> =>isn't kerneld dynamically loading the module?
> =>
> =>BTW, what is the normal mechanism for starting kerneld. I didn't see it
> =>anywhere in the rc configuration or inittab.
>
> In newer kernels, I think it is kernel thread. In 2.0.xx, it was a
> seperate process. Any messages in /var/log/messages? dmesg? How
> about modprobe scsi_host_adapter? Did you recompile the kernel
> without kerneld support? CONFIG_KMOD=y in /usr/src/linux/.config
> would enable kerneld support.
>
There is nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg when the mount is attempted.
modprobe scsi_hostadapter does correctly load the module. I have not recompiled
the stock RH6.1 kernel (2.2.12-20). I believe it has kerneld support by default
(???).
Ron
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From: "Chou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DirecPad joy
Date: 7 Mar 2000 17:40:57 GMT
Does anyone know how to install a LPT Port joy under Linux??
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From: J.R. Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:30:03 GMT
Following the advice of "Bit Twister" in a previous reply, I added the line
"setserial /dev/modem spd_vhi" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. When I run
"setserial -a /dev/modem" after boot, it is set to very high speed.
However, the problem persists. Is my action equivalent to your
suggestion? (you're suggestion looks more complicated...what is
"0setserial"?). Have I made an error by replacing /dev/ttyS0 with
/dev/modem?
hopelessly newbified,
J.R.
> Nope. _Because_ Windows is doing OK I'm confident that it's the serial
port
> isn't set up properly. It's a matter of initializing the 16550A at boot
> time. Put something like
>
> ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS1 irq 3 port 0x2F8 skip_test autoconfig spd_vhi
${STD_F
> LAGS}
>
> into your 0setserial and your done (adjust the parameters to your need).
> The 'spd_vhi' command does the trick.
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From: phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive, device not ready
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 18:23:34 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I don't understand it either, Gene, but it worked. I changed the
> Dat address (SCSI ID) from 0 to 4, now it works fine :)
> Thanks, Phil!
>
> Aaron
>
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> Hi. Please help...
> Phil replied:
> > > Try changing the Dat address to 2 or higher.
> >
> > Excuse me Phil, but what has this to do with access to the drive? In
> my
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Aaron
Glad I was of help, I suggested changing SCSI ID as ID's 0&1 are
normally for Hards Disks and your failure info was saying removeable hdd
not ready I believe.
Phil Jones
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From: Thomas Herchenroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82 (was: 3C905c Network Card with
2.3.44/45 kernel)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 19:21:53 +0100
I dont know if anybody is still following this issue, but since I came
across it recently, I thought I post my findings ...
In article <89eoj0$gpb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
fred anger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:19:33 GMT, Brian Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I'm running linux 2.3.45 (also had the same problem with 44) and using
> > >the 3com 905c network card (3 of them in the
machine actually). they
> > >seem to be working fine except I frequently
get a "eth0: Transmit error,
> > >Tx status register 82." in my logs
> > Are you a kernel hacker? Then you know how to debug the driver and
> > perhaps fix it.
> >
> > If you aren't, stop using 2.3.x kernels but take the latest stable
> > kernel, 2.2.14.
>
> I'm using 2.2.14, and I'm getting the same errors with a 3c905b. Any
> more helpful comments?
I have seen this problem on 3com 3c90* cards a
couple of times. I dont know what the message
means, but I found that it relates to
transmission speed and mode (10/half, ...,
100/full). The problem arises when the card runs
in "auto-negotiate" mode (the default on this
cards) and the auto-negotiation seems to fail
once in a while. I found two ways around it:
- Configure a fixed mode on the card, like
100/full.
- Force a new auto-negotiation, e.g. through the
attached switch.
I found that the auto-negotiation works fine when
you change the port settings on the switch, while
the PC is running, but fails once in a while,
when done from the PC, e.g. after a power cycle.
Cheers, Thomas
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From: Jan Knutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TNT2 Clock Utility - Detonator 3.76
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:59:23 +0200
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>In the French case would the separator after " %f\r" really be a period?
>Or would it be a comma? My understanding is that for numbers the European
>convention is 1.000,00 whereas the Anglo-Saxon convention is 1,000.00.
European convention? There must be several different ways here for that...
I type 1 000,00
Some countries use
1'000,00
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From: Jan Knutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modems & Linux
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:54:24 +0200
On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am a computer student and as part of my course I have to post 5
>messages onto a newsgroup and get some replies so I thought I would
>kill two birds with one stone.
You have to get replies too? Haha!
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Aww.... Come on, they should atleast require you to use a real client....
As for your question about modems, an external modem that connects to the
serial bus is the easiest for Linux.
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From: Gary Beldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: best graphics card?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 18:21:58 +0000
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:56:53 +0000, Chris Beauchamp wrote:
> I've got a Hollywood Plus PCI card, which, yes, is separate, but I get
> good picture quality (AFAICT - how does one measure such things?
I don't know about measuring it, but I also think it's good.
IMHO the output from my H+ is *much* better than the (software decoded?)
output from my G400. There is also much less processor load. (obviously)
> Sigma Designs appear to be making
> noises about supporting linux, so they may be a good bet. Then again,
> they are so far just noises...
IIRC they said that they would support Linux with their next card,
not the current ones. Perhaps we need to hassle them more.
> [do _any_ cards have Linux support yet?]
The only one I know of is the Creative Dxr2.
> I believe there are instruction on the H. Plus to disable region coding,
> out there somewhere! I did a search on yahoo and found some stuff, but
> didn't bother, since all my DVDs (all 3 of them) are European.
I've got several hacks which do this, but the best one just patches a
DLL file, and makes it region & macrovision free. If anybody wants it,
email me and I'll send it to you. (It's not big.)
Gary.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Proxy Setup for Open Linux
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 18:30:06 GMT
I'm accessing the Web through a proxy machine. I've set up my browser so
that it can access the Web, but I can't ping the web or check my mail. Am
I missing something?
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From: Gunnar Lindholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI tape drive
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:47:48 +0100
Hello.
I will soon install a HP Sure Store T70 in a Linux box, so I have two
questions:
1) Can someone tell me something (in general) about how to manage a SCSI
tape drive. Can I rewind, multiple sessions on one tape, etc,...
2) Does any body know anything about this HP Sure Store T70. It is scsi,
that is all I know right now.
Please respond with email aswell to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best wishes
Gunnar.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 18:46:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Not when there's a 6:1 difference in speed between the drives.
Yes, even with a 6:1 difference in speeds.
The ability to do other things while swapping more than makes up for this
difference.
mrc
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all
www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remote Display Problem.
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 10:44:46 -0800
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Hi,
you should do next steps
Client (Computer where you are sitting and where you expect to get program
window)
Server (Computer where you run application)
Client side - open new terminal and make xhost+ (You allow to connect to
your window server from all another mashines - but better xhost +server).
Login into server:
Server side - export DISPLAY=client:0 and just start application.
So, it should works now if there is no any restrictions like firewall ports
and something like that but as you run it through PPP connection you will
get a picture not immideatly. There is some protocol for dialup connection
(but I do not have URL at the moment to point there) which able speedup
getting output ot a program.
Andrey
ognomos wrote:
> I've been trying to get X-windows programs running on a remote machine
> to display on my local Redhat linux box.The remote computer was running
> Sun 5.6
> OS, and the coonection was ppp. I set the display variable remotely with
>
> $ export DISPLAY=my ip adress:0
>
> after I telnetted into the remote machine.
> I tried an insecure
>
> $ xhost +
>
> to get a display, but not even that worked.I got the error message:
> Xt error: Could not open display <my ip address>
> Has anyone else running linux come across this problem? Any ideas as to
> why I'm not getting a display? Could it be a hardware problem? I have an
> old VGA monitor and S3 graphics VGA graphics card.Any help would be much
> appreciated.
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From: Scott Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.speech,comp.speech.research
Subject: Waves sound on linux
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 12:07:49 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using Entropics Waves on a linux machine, and I'm getting a short,
but loud and annoying pop whenever I play part of a file to earphones or
speakers, right at the beginning of the segment. Any suggestions on how
to get rid of this would be greatly appreciated.
Scott Kiesling
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From: "Mayad B Rassam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Supermicro P3SCD - Guillemot GeForce - SB!Live1024
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:51:37 -0000
Hi,
I wonder whether anyone has had any hardware problems with:
Supermicro P3SCD with UDMA/66 IBM hard disk
Guillemot 3D prophet - GeForce
SB!Live1024
Pioneer DVD drive - but ATAPI as far as I know
HP CD-RW 8200i
when installing RedHat 6.1???
I have Win98 and Win2000 already running with the Win2000 boot manager
taking care of booting.
Thanks
Mayad
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From: "Tony Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: English version of German document
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:02:06 -0000
Reply-To: "Tony Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Does anyone know where I can get an English version of
/usr/doc/packages/i4l/README.SuSE?
I'm trying to install a PnP ISDN card (ASUSCOM) and the SuSE 6.2 manual
says look in the above doco file.
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Tony Wright
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