Linux-Hardware Digest #424, Volume #12 Tue, 7 Mar 00 20:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: CD Writer failed after install!! ("Jim Tench")
Redhat 6.2 ("Jim Tench")
Re: SuSE 6.3 Doesn't Detect My 3Com NIC (Lucky)
Re: Partitioning A 13g HD (Nick Ma)
Re: Dell Poweredge 4100/200 install? (Kimo Bonnelycke)
Re: English version of German document (Rod Smith)
Re: Odd cua0 vs. ttyS0 bug from gpm w/kernel 2.2.14 (m buller)
Re: SB Live Value (jigga)
Re: Odd cua0 vs. ttyS0 bug from gpm w/kernel 2.2.14 (H. Peter Anvin)
Re: MB SIS 530 5595 help (Dances With Crows)
Re: HP 932C Printer? (pugfantus)
Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please (David C.)
Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux Rumor #2 (Stuart Lynne)
Re: CD Writer failed after install!! (Dances With Crows)
ISA PnP Misery, RH 5.1-6.1 (De Clarke)
Re: SuSE 6.3 Doesn't Detect My 3Com NIC (Dances With Crows)
What determines rebootability? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Jim Tench" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Writer failed after install!!
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:42:58 -0000
My apologies for the length of this post in advance, but I thought it best
for you to have the information in the correct format. Suffice to say, I am
still CDless. I have to say I am surprised that I can't mount it like any
other ATAPI cd, the kernel managed it just fine when it was installing. I
expected the writing side to be a pain, but am confused by the failiure to
read.
Hope you or someone can help.
Jim
This in dmesg
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: , ATAPI UNKNOWN (type 13) drive
And this is in dmesg.
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
This also in dmesg. I have an IDE hard drive, but also have a SCSI adapter
in there as I am in the process of building a SCSI disk array to plug into
the back of it, but it's doing nothing at the moment.
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 7/0
(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
(scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
(scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
(scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
(scsi0) during machine bootup.
(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 NO, Ext-50 NO)
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4
<Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
And this is a few things I thought may be usefull, with the exception of the
last line which is a little tounge in cheek :-) ...
[root@localhost /root]# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
[root@localhost /root]# ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Mar 7 21:21 /dev/cdrom -> ./hdc
[root@localhost /root]# ls -l /dev/hdc
brw------- 1 lee disk 22, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/hdc
[root@localhost /root]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
[root@localhost /root]# cd /dev
[root@localhost /dev]# rm cdrom
[root@localhost /dev]# ln -s ./scd0 ./cdrom
[root@localhost /dev]# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
[root@localhost /dev]# rm cdrom
[root@localhost /dev]# ln -s ./sr0 ./cdrom
[root@localhost /dev]# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
[root@localhost /dev]# just mount the darned thing will ya
bash: just: command not found
[root@localhost /dev]#
Oops and I almost forgot...
[root@localhost /dev]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda1
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
[root@localhost /dev]#
Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jim,
>
> All CD writers use the scsi command set, even when the electrical
> interface they use is IDE. This is what ATAPI means. They are
> therefore scsi devices and must be accessed as such.
>
> In Linux, this is supported by provision of generic scsi emulation in
> the kernel. If your CD-R device is hdb, then you must add to your
> /etc/lilo.conf in the appropriate section:
>
> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
>
> and then su to run /sbin/lilo and reboot.
>
> To test that this is working on the writer side try:
>
> cdrecord -scanbus
>
> The reader portion then must also be accessed as an emulated scsi
> device. It will appear at either /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0, depending on
> your distribution. With a data CD in the drive, you can test by
> mounting /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0 and seeing which one shows the
> contents of the CD. Your /dev/cdrom must then be symbolically
> linked (ln -s ... ...) to the correct one of those devices.
>
> Jim Tench wrote:
> >
> > Yo
> > I have an IDE CD Writer and Hard-Drive. I installed Linux fine
using
> > the Writer to read my installation ROM. Now when I try to mount a CD, I
get
> >
> > [root@localhost /root]# mount /dev/cdrom
> > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
> > [root@localhost /root]#
> >
> > Any ideas why this is not a valid block device?. I thought it would
just be
> > treated like any other IDE CDROM for reading .
> >
> > Jim
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
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From: "Jim Tench" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:51:29 -0000
Hi
I've got a machine with a voodoo 3003 Video card and an IDE CD writer,
the former was a pain to set up and the latter is still not working (posted
eldewhere on this group). Does anybody know if the hardware support in
Redhat 6.2, improoves in either of these area?.
Jim
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Subject: Re: SuSE 6.3 Doesn't Detect My 3Com NIC
From: Lucky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:02:37 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
>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 \
> ===== Usenet: ceci n'est pas une guerre des flammes =====
>
>
>
Are you saying I should replace the "off"??
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From: Nick Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning A 13g HD
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:27:51 GMT
1. fdisk and format the hard drive.
2. make the whole hard drive a partition for windows
3. install windows
4. use partition magic to make the windows partition 8 gigs
5. install linux, and use Druid to make a 5 gig partition for linux
Alternatively, if you do not have partition magic, create only a 8gig partition
for windows using fdisk, and then install linux
Melissa Nelson wrote:
> well im gonna put 8 gigs for win/ and 5 for linux
>
> do i put the extedned drive for win in before linux in fdisk or during linux
> with Druid or after both???
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From: Kimo Bonnelycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Poweredge 4100/200 install?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 15:17:22 -0500
Check www.redhat.com and look in the hardware comp. section. From what I
can see, you should not have a problem.
Do you know the make and model of the scsi cards? What is the machine going
to be used for, dasd, nfs?
Regards
Kimo Bonnelycke
"James.C.Johnston" wrote:
> 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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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: English version of German document
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:45:55 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8a3jqv$mq1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tony Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> 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.
Try http://www.freetranslation.com. The documents I've looked at with it
sound very strange in translation, as if done by somebody with a
far-from-perfect grasp of the destination language, but they're mostly
intelligible.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: m buller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Odd cua0 vs. ttyS0 bug from gpm w/kernel 2.2.14
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:30:16 GMT
Hi,
Sounds like this is similar to a problem I am seeing.
Just load 2.2.12-20 (redhat 6.1) and the DigiBoard Smart serial card
(accelport xem) using thier rpm package. When ever I login on one of these
serial ports I get the following message (2x):
tty_io.c: process 510 (getty) used obsolete /dev/cud0 - update software to
use /
dev/ttyS0
tty_io.c: process 510 (getty) used obsolete /dev/cud0 - update software to
use /
dev/ttyS0
The funny thing is the device in use is /dev/ttyD0, as created by the digi
rpm install. The actual inittab line is:
# digi board
D0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyD0 DT19200 addsvp60
I checked the version of getty (getty_ps 2.0.7j-7) looks like it is the
latest. I contacted Digi tech support they suggested I try deleting
cud0. I did this, but still get the same message. Note the port (dev) ttyD0
works fine.
Any Ideas ?
Larry Morley wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just built 2.2.14 from the sources on top of a RH 5.2 distribution. It
> works
> except for a few minor glitches. Not exactly the smoothest trip going,
> but
> I think I made it unscathed...
>
> One that I can't figure out is gpm triggering a '... used obsolete
> /dev/cua0 -
> update software to use /dev/ttyS0' from kernel source file tty_io.c
>
> Well, I did "update" gpm (downloaded and installed v.1.14 - Im not
> convinced
> it's any different from what was already there), and the source code
> definitely uses ttyS0 explicitly. The error message comes from
> tty_open() in
> tty_io when .type is TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SERIAL and .subtype is SERIAL_TYPE_
> CALLOUT; tty_io.c is set to generate this message 5 times and then shut
> up.
>
> I finally figured out why - gpm uses /dev/mouse by default, which was
> a link to /dev/cua0 under RH 5.2. A "ln -s /dev/ttys0 /dev/mouse" fixed
> it. But, can anyone give me a little more insight as to what this
> message
> means, if anything else is affected, why this change was made etc.?
>
> Also noted a few other oddities while I was doing this. If anyone is
> trying
> something similar and has any questions, feel free; I may have run up
> against it.
>
> Tomorrow I may update my glibc if I feel like causing myself some more
> grief
> :)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Larry
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From: jigga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live Value
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 23:30:30 GMT
Adrian Davey wrote:
>
> jigga wrote:
> >
> > I have the Value card with the digital din but cannot get CD sound. I
can
> > get MP3's to play though. Has anybody gotten this setup to work. Am
> > running Mandrake 7.0
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
>
> I'm on RedHat 6.2beta and the way i got it to work is to compile the
> latest emu10k1-2000xxxx.tar.gz from the creative opensource site. this
> gives you a much better mixer in gnome which is what you need.
>
> try http://opensource.creative.com for the latest drivers.
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> <pointless_html_tag>
> linux 2.2.13(ish) on cpu #0, up time -a lot-
> av load: user -a bit, sys -a bit more
> </pointless_html_tag>
Well I downloaded the drivers and isntalled them and I still get no sound
from my Cd player. Does anybody know if these drivers have support for the
digital din?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Odd cua0 vs. ttyS0 bug from gpm w/kernel 2.2.14
Date: 7 Mar 2000 15:54:32 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin)
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: m buller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.development.system
>
> I checked the version of getty (getty_ps 2.0.7j-7) looks like it is the
> latest. I contacted Digi tech support they suggested I try deleting
> cud0. I did this, but still get the same message. Note the port (dev) ttyD0
> works fine.
>
> Any Ideas ?
>
You probably have the majors on /dev/cud* and /dev/ttyD* reversed.
Digiboard have had problems with it... at least some versions of the
drivers put the smaller major as /dev/cud*, which violates the
invariant that you find the callout device by adding 1 to the major of
the callin one.
-hpa
--
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"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: MB SIS 530 5595 help
Date: 07 Mar 2000 18:57:23 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:53:11 +0100, Roy Engdahl
<<7Ydx4.263$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have a new Packard Bell computer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you value your sanity, return it immediately to wherever you bought it
and buy something else. Packard Bell makes cheap, nasty junk, and because
of this, their machines have a lot of hardware-related problems under any
OS.
>and have tryed to install Linux Red Hat
>6.0 on it but i dont can find my videocard in the list. I have tested costom
>and several different possibles without success. Is it possible that my
>mothercard (SIS 530 5595) not can work whith Linux.
Nah. RedHat 6.0 is relatively old as distros go and shipped with Xfree86
3.3.3.1 IIRC. The SiS 530 didn't get supported until 3.3.4, but it is
supported now. RedHat 6.1 comes with Xfree86 3.3.5, or you can upgrade
your Xfree86 installation--details on that in the URLs below.
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES.html
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/SiS.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhgraham/UpgradeXfree.html
Read that first paragraph I wrote again, though.
--
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: pugfantus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 932C Printer?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 23:36:05 GMT
I'm about to buy one my self, so we'll see!
--pug
KC wrote:
>
> Has anyone got the HP 932C printer working on Linux?
>
> Thanks
> KCF
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please
Date: 07 Mar 2000 19:03:34 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle) writes:
> 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.
But you don't need to have a separate drive for this advantage.
If your main drive is SCSI (I assume anyone so concerned about
performance would already be using SCSI anyway), you can realize the
same advantages via a swap partition on that same drive.
All other things being equal, having a second physical drive isn't an
much of an advantage when it's much slower than your main drive.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem
Date: 07 Mar 2000 19:07:22 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 00:01:04 +0100, Atle <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>What's the chance of a straight 16450 being on a Linux system - and what
>do we do?
Depends on the system. The 16450 was mainly used in 286 systems, but it
might've snuck into lower-end 386 and old 486 boxen, or so says the
Hardware Bible. The serial driver should detect the UART upon being
loaded and print something that can be read with dmesg, like
ttyS0 at 0x3f8 is a 16550A
and from that, you can draw some conclusions.
>I remember programming the PC/XT serial port, there I had to set up my
>own circular buffer in SW, I suppose these chips are backward-compatibe
>in the sense that the buffer can be disabled ... will check this, but if
>these chips are not in the machine park anymore, it is not much sense
Yes, it seems that I was barking up the wrong tree. I'd be surprised if
you had anything other than a 16550A on anything built after 1992...
--
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 \
===== Usenet: ceci n'est pas une guerre des flammes =====
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Subject: Re: Linux Rumor #2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Lynne)
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:23:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Aaron S. Hawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I believe that many are seriously underestimating the difficulty of
>writing software to run hardware devices. This is, as I commented, the
>most difficult of all programming tasks. I have done a fair amount of
>this in the past, along with writing diagnostic programs to test out
>hardware.
have to say I think writing device drivers is easier than lots of other types of
programming (which is probably why I do it..)
--
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<http://www.thinlinux.org> _-\<,_ 604-461-7532
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CD Writer failed after install!!
Date: 07 Mar 2000 19:27:46 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:42:58 -0000, Jim Tench
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>My apologies for the length of this post in advance, but I thought it best
>for you to have the information in the correct format. Suffice to say, I am
No problem. This verbosity helps a LOT.
>scsi : 0 hosts.
>scsi : detected total.
>This also in dmesg. I have an IDE hard drive, but also have a SCSI adapter
>in there as I am in the process of building a SCSI disk array to plug into
>the back of it, but it's doing nothing at the moment.
>(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 7/0
Hrm. This *might* cause a problem later on; I don't know how well the
ide-scsi emulation coexists with real SCSI devices. I'm pretty sure you
can do it, but I can't say for sure *how* as I have no SCSI devices here.
Try this:
# modprobe sr_mod
and see if you can mount a CD-ROM using /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0. If not,
then try these and see what errors you get:
# insmod scsi_mod (this *might* not be necessary...)
# insmod ide-scsi
# insmod sr_mod
# insmod sg
# insmod isofs
If all that works, you should be able to mount a CD-ROM, and also, you
should be able to write to a CD-ROM using the cdrecord program and the
/dev/sg0 device.
Until you get the real SCSI card going, I suppose you could just put this
line in /etc/conf.modules:
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
then mounting CD-ROMs should just work. YMMV, HTH, HAND.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (De Clarke)
Subject: ISA PnP Misery, RH 5.1-6.1
Date: 8 Mar 2000 00:34:27 GMT
It started out simple. I got DSL at home. I built a little
Linux router out of used parts. Then I wanted to put an
ethernet card in my old Linux tower/peripheral farm. "Old"
in this case means about 4 years old (and has never run
anything but Linux in its life :-)).
I put 2 PCI NE2000 clones in the router, which is an ATX
board with P2 233. This worked fine, once I got past
PROBLEM 1: driver loadable modules ne.o and ne2k-pci.o
do not load. cannot be insmod'd.
This is true under RH 5.1, 5.2, and 6.1 -- if you insmod -v
either of these drivers, you get undef syms and failure.
Why?
However, when I rebuilt the 5.2 kernel with this driver configured
in statically, it worked. I could see the ne2ks and they worked.
So far so good, I could talk to my DSL provider.
The card for the older machine was an ISA ne2k clone. This
was because the older machine is full of cards, no free slots.
The card I could most easily sacrifice was the modem card
(if you have DSL you don't need dialup, right?) which was ISA.
The cheap ISA ne2k clone card I got was a new kind of ISA, with
no dip switches! ISA PnP, or so it claimed. Of course there
was some floppy disk with WinDope configuration software on it,
but I'm a linux purist. I don't permit the MicroSloth virus on
any machine I own.
PROBLEM 2: new ISA cards software configurable only,
requiring M$ software! what happened to DIP
switches and real doco?
I cannot get 5.2 or 6.1 to see that ethernet card. I've tried
scanport. I've tried isapnptools. isapnptools can see that
the card is there, and correctly id its vendor, model, etc.
It claims the card is at x0200 (len 32) irq 3. I believe this
is in conflict with the default game port location. scanport
says there is something at x0200, len 8 (ouch) that it thinks
is a game port.
Now, isapnptools (from my quick reading of the doco) can
set the addr and irq on the card, but the author says you
must use loadable drivers with it, so you can load the driver
AFTER configuring the card. Since the loadable drivers
for en2k clones won't insmod, I can't do this. Another
brick wall?
And I can't set the address on the card otherwise, without
going out and buying WinDope (fate worse than death!).
PROBLEM 3: RH 6.1 doesn't help and in fact seems more
broken than 5.2
I tried installing 6.1 to see if it would be any happier.
The result of installing 6.1 was that I still could not
see the ISA PnP enet card; but, to make matters worse,
I could no longer see my parallel port card! So now my
printer is gone as well! 6.1 also did not recognize my
No. 9 video card, but misidentified it as some 800x600 VGA
junk.
Overall, 6.1 was not a happy experience -- have you ever
run Gnome on a P133 :-) ? I will put it on the router
to get ipchains latest version, but I am not thrilled
with it for a sit-down workstation. Ever noticed how
in the "graphical" install program, the mouse ptr
disappears near the end, on the screen where you make
the boot diskette? Cute, RH.
Anyway, I am at wits' end what to do with this stupid
PnP ISA card. Any clues, strategic suggestions, etc.
will be gratefully received. At present I'm thinking of
bailing on the ISA card & putting a PCI card in the
tower (sacrificing a PCI slot ouch!), and restoring the
modem card (in case DSL gear fails :-)).
What a PITA. I just wanted to connect an older linux box
to a standard 10bT home ethernet, and I've gone through hell
and high water trying to do it... building an entire
router from junk parts turned out to be a simpler project
than putting one card into an existing, perfectly functional
machine.
help... help... in need of bright ideas
de
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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 19:35:24 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:02:37 -0800, Lucky
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Are you saying I should replace the "off"??
Let me get this straight: You now have a line in /etc/conf.modules that
says--
alias eth0 off
right? If so, then there's no way the network interface will ever be
detected automatically! I leave it to you to figure out the logic behind
that. "man conf.modules" :-)
If you have a 3Com 59x or 90x network card, then the line containing
"eth0" should read:
alias eth0 3c59x
Then, whenever something tries to access ethernet interface 0, the 3c59x
module will be loaded if it isn't already loaded. Make sense?
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What determines rebootability?
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:30:11 GMT
I have a 486-66, and so far I haven't been able to do a warm reboot on
it. It's a fairly old motherboard. I'm not sure that it can handle large
hdds (but I have a 1Gb in there now. Would Linux be able to work like
that? It does have LBA support. I can never remember what the
significance of all this is)
When I execute the reboot script, it just hangs when it gets to
the end. I can't even get it to reboot using ctrl-alt-del when it gets
to the end of a 'halt' or 'reboot' script. This wouldn't be that big a
deal, but sometimes it'll be necessary to restart remotely, when I'm not
even in the room.
My guess is that it is the bios or motherboard or something that is
getting in my way, however, I can perform a reboot w/ctrl-alt-del before
LILO loads the kernel. This leads me to believe that there is a software
solution to my problem.
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