Linux-Hardware Digest #414, Volume #12 Mon, 6 Mar 00 14:13:09 EST
Contents:
Proposed System Setup -- Is it possible? If so, how? (Jeff Schaffzin)
Re: AGP + Linux = ? ("Gregory M. Hebel")
Help! Linux and an ISDN internet connection ("David Elentok")
Adding new hardware in Linux by upgrading (Per Inge Oestmoen)
How to add new hardware in Linux? (Per Inge Oestmoen)
Re: Hooking up a monitor to a serial port? (Buller)
Re: Aladin V Chipset Question (Dances With Crows)
Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem (Svend Garnaes)
Mac Classic II as "Linux terminal" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Network adapter and sound card on IRQ 0 (Manuif)
Re: Fibre Channel support (Buller)
Re: Hooking up a monitor to a serial port? (mike)
Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please (David C.)
problems using Exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive (Craig Steffen)
Mac Classic II as "Linux terminal" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Proposed System Setup -- Is it possible? If so, how? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Ultra160 SCSI cards (Markus Kossmann)
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Subject: Proposed System Setup -- Is it possible? If so, how?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Schaffzin)
Date: 06 Mar 2000 18:07:21 GMT
Hi everyone,
I plan to take my present system (a Win95 box) and convert it to a triple
boot system (Win98,WinNT,Linux -- eventually WinME,Win2K,Linux) using the
following partitioning scheme:
Partition O/S Size File Format
/home/hd1 Win98 1024MB fat32
/home/hd2 WinNT 2048MB ntfs
/home/hd3 2048MB fat16
/home/hd4 2048MB fat16
/home/hd5 Linux 1024MB ext2
/home/hd6 Linux Swap rest of disk ext2 (?)
Please note that I also have a Castlewood Ultra SCSI drive (SCSI ID 4), a
Yamaha 8424 CDRW (SCSI ID 3) and an LS-120 ATAPI drive which I would like
to see as well with all partitions.
I was hoping to use lilo for this configuration --
I am pretty sure that this is doable, but I was hoping to get advice from
you all on what steps I would need to do to minimize the number of hiccups
along the way.
I hope to start this around Wednesday (03/08) so any advice would be
greatly appreciated ASAP.
Thank you for your time.
--
Jeff Schaffzin
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From: "Gregory M. Hebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AGP + Linux = ?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:08:11 GMT
anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any kernel support for the the AGP port such as
> filling in the GART / memory management / chipset init etc?
> Grepping with agp on kernel 2.2.5.15 doesn't show anything.
AFAIK, Linux sees the AGP slot as a PCI slot. As long as
your BIOS is configured correctly with all the tweaks you
want/need, you shouldn't have to do anything in Linux, kernel
or otherwise.
Greg
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From: "David Elentok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Linux and an ISDN internet connection
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:07:21 +0200
Please Help !
I'm using SuSE Linux 6.2 and I can't connect to the internet with it,
I have a Fritz PCI ISDN card.
I tried to follow the instructions in the manual but it didn't worked.
This is the problem: I'm using kppp to dial to the internet, I changed the
volume commands to ATS14=0&123 (instead of 123 I wrote my real phone number)
in order to initialize the MSN and because it got stuck when it tried the
set the volume, It succeeds to connect but when I'm trying to surf to a site
(e.g. http://www.netscape.com), the Netscape Navigator tries to find the
server and gets stuck..
How can I install the ISDN card correctly and connect to the internet ?
My computer is a Pentium 2 266 Mhz with 96 MB RAM, 8.4GB Hard Drive, Fritz
PCI ISDN Card, Creative Ensoiq 64, Voodoo 3.
Thank you very much.
David Elentok
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.davids.isMy.net
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From: Per Inge Oestmoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adding new hardware in Linux by upgrading
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:30:20 +0100
Hello,
As a newcomer to Linux, there is a question that seems less obvious than
it should be:
When one buys a Linux distribution, often you have hardware which is not
supported by the material found in the present package. That is cool; I
know that the support is under way.
However, there the problem arises: In the absence of a Windows-style
driver model, how is support for new hardware in Linux added?
A case in point is my own SCSI card, scanner and graphics card. Neither
of these pieces of equipment are supported in my present SuSE 6.3, but
if and when it comes, there must of course be a procedure for adding it
to one's Linux installation. The same is of course true for all new
hardware any Linux user might buy.
Then the question arises: How do we a) find and b) install the necessary
additions that will allow the use of new hardware? Understandably, some
form for upgrade must happen, but how is this accomplished? I take for
granted that one does not have to buy/download a new distribution after
each time a new piece of hardware is added, but what exactly are the
procedures for adding it?
--
Per Inge Oestmoen
http://home.powertech.no/pioe/
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From: Per Inge Oestmoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to add new hardware in Linux?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:34:50 +0100
Hello,
As a newcomer to Linux, there is a question that seems less obvious than
it should be:
When one buys a Linux distribution, often you have hardware which is not
supported by the material found in the present package. That is cool; I
know that the support is under way.
However, there the problem arises: In the absence of a Windows-style
driver model, how is support for new hardware in Linux added?
A case in point is my own SCSI card, scanner and graphics card. Neither
of these pieces of equipment have have support in my present SuSE 6.3,
but if and when it comes, there must be a procedure for adding it to
one's Linux installation. The same is of course true for all new
hardware any Linux user might buy.
Then the question arises: How do we a) find and b) install the necessary
additions that will allow the use of new hardware? Understandably, some
form for upgrade must happen, but how is this accomplished? I take for
granted that one does not have to buy/download a new distribution after
each time a new piece of hardware is added, but what exactly are the
procedures for adding it?
--
Per Inge Oestmoen
http://home.powertech.no/pioe/
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From: Buller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hooking up a monitor to a serial port?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 11:29:12 -0700
Tom Massey wrote:
> Hi, an old 486 of mine recently went dead, and so I've got a spare VGA
> monitor hanging around and nothing much to do with it. I've noticed that
> the kernel config has an option something like 'Console on serial port',
> which mentions that it's possible to plug a monitor into a serial port
> and see console messages there. Which sounds kind of fun. :-) I've
> looked for more detailed docs on how to do this, but can't seem to find
> anything - just selecting the option while compiling the kernel doesn't
> seem to work. Could anybody give me some hints on how to do this? Do I
> need any special cables beyond an adapter to change the VGA pin into the
> standard serial? Thanks.
You need an async/ASCII type terminal (VT100, IBM3151, Wyse, etc) to plug
into the serial port (or appropriate software to emulate a serial terminal
on another PC/workstation).
Nothing is going to turn a VGA display directly into a serial device that
doesn't cost more than a serial terminal.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Aladin V Chipset Question
Date: 06 Mar 2000 13:34:08 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:09:38 +0000, John Duffy
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>
>Will motherboards using chipsets other than Intel work under Linux?
Yes. Whatever gave you the impression that only Intel chipsets worked?
(Sparc Linux, Alpha Linux, Linux-PPC... no Intel hardware in any of
those architectures!)
>Both of these boards use Aladin V chipsets.
The Aladdin V (1541/1543) should work out of the box, but you won't get
the best performance out of your hard drive(s) until you get the Unified
IDE driver patch and apply it. This patch may have already been folded
into the latest 2.2.15 kernel; not completely sure.
--
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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From: Svend Garnaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:37:47 +0100
Try running
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 (or whichever ppp interface applies)
near the end of a sluggish online session (i.e. while the
interface is still up) to see if your problem has anything
to do with transmit or receive errors. This may provide a
clue as to the possible sure. If in doubt, post the output
for the group to see.
HTH
Svend
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.appletalk,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Mac Classic II as "Linux terminal"
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:25:44 GMT
Hello,
is it possible to run a Linux server with Intel processor and then
connect some old Mac Classic II's as X-Terminals ?
I am using RedHat 5.1 which apparently understands Appletalk just
fine. I was wondering how to connect the server and the (Mac) clients
from a hardware point of view. I have not yet found an Ethernet card
for the Mac Classic. Does such a thing exist or is there any other
alternative ?
Thanks a lot for any help.
Cheers
Rolf Leggewie
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Subject: Network adapter and sound card on IRQ 0
From: Manuif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 10:41:28 -0800
I have installed Go!Linux (RedHat Linux) as a second operating
system together with Win98. Linux seems to work, except of the
sound output. My sound card is detected but I always get the
message that the device or resource is busy, even with the ALSA
drivers. Now (with the ALSA drivers installed) I looked into my
"/var/log" directory and opened the file "messages". By this I
found the following two error messages I don't understand:
..
Mar 6 19:18:07 localhost kernel: ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99
D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
Mar 6 19:18:07 localhost kernel: WARNING: The PCI BIOS
assigned this PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is unlikely to work!.
Mar 6 19:18:07 localhost kernel: You should use the PCI BIOS
setup to assign a valid IRQ line.
Mar 6 19:18:07 localhost kernel: ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone
'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 0.
Mar 6 19:18:07 localhost kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at
0xd000, IRQ 0, 00:E0:7D:7B:10:F6.
..
Mar 6 19:18:31 localhost kernel: snd: unable to grab IRQ 0 for
Ensoniq AudioPCI
Mar 6 19:18:31 localhost kernel: snd: Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard
#1 not found or device busy
Mar 6 19:18:31 localhost insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o: init_module: Device
or resource busy
..
I think that these two messages indicate that my network adapter
is on IRQ 0 (does such an IRQ really exist?) and my sound card
shall also be on IRQ 0 which is occupied by my network adapter.
But I don't understand how to change the IRQ's in the PCI BIOS. I
have already entered my BIOS (ASUS P3B-F Mainboard) and fixed the
IRQ's of the slots. So my soundcard must be on IRQ 5, my network
adapter on IRQ 10 and my graphic card on IRQ 11. This is the case
under Win98, where everything works fine.
Does anybody know how to fix my problem and how to get my
soundacard (SB PCI128) work?
Thank you very much in advance,
Manuel.
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From: Buller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fibre Channel support
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 11:40:33 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does Linux kernel 2.2.x support any fibre channel
> controllers ?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Can't speak for all 2.2.x, but 2.2.12-20 has support for the Qlogic 2100
(and maybe 2200) FC adapters.
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hooking up a monitor to a serial port?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:46:00 -0500
Hi Tom,
Your monitor does not have that function built in to it.
It needs a whole computer to do it. The computer could be
of lower functionality like a 386 or maybe a 286 and you would
basically be using it as a plain "dumb" terminal. What you
would do is have a very simple operating system like DOS or higher
or even Linux. You would need to run a simple communications
program like Kermit or Telix or Procom or Minicom and a serial
port on the computer to send out the signal and a null modem
adapter or cable to allow you to hook up two serial ports together.
You would set up a "getty" or is it "mgetty", I forget. It is a daemon,
program that keeps looking at your serial port for someone to
login.
Old computer terminals for mainframes where basically a
simple computer with a serial port and a video interface to the
video screen.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please
Date: 06 Mar 2000 13:48:03 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle) writes:
>
> Another good option is putting SWAP on SCSI. If you can find some old
> 40Meg SCSI drives for cheap, stripe SWAP across them.
Not really. These old drives are slow compared to new drives.
The fastest 40M drive I ever saw had a 28ms seek time. Most of the
ones I used were 65ms.
Modern drives have seek times below 10ms, and they have substantially
larger caches.
The amount of performance you'd lose (due to the speed of the drive)
will be far more than you'd gain by switching from IDE to SCSI.
-- David
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From: Craig Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems using Exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:49:47 -0500
I tried to use an exabyte tape drive this weekend on my Linux system.
I believe that not being able to invoke the drive as a compressed drive
might have something to do with it, but I'm not sure. (See the end of
the message for speculation)
The symptoms are:
-With no tape in the drive, any mt command invokes I/O error (probably
normal)
-With a tape in the drive, mt -f /dev/st0 status gives a status screen
that looks reasonable; it displays WT_PROTECT or whatever when the write
protect is set, and not when it isn't
-Any other mt command gets an IO error
-any tar command acts like its at the end of the tape, even if it's at
the beginning
Intel 486/66
Debian Linux 2.1
kernel 2.0.34 (I think)
SCSI card: Adaptec 1520
I use the card with other drives, and its fine, including with an
Archive Viper QIC-150 (or something like that; it's a 1/4 inch 150 MB
tape drive), which I use all the time. I tested the tape drive itself
on a SGI Indigo, and was able to read and write tapes.
SPECULATION:
I think that it might have something to do with being able to invoke the
tape as a hardware compressing drive. I files off of an 8mm drive here
at work this morning, using a basically identical tape drive (this was
on an SGI system, though). When I tried to pull the files out of a tar,
it died almost immediately (command: tar xvf /dev/mx0). However, when I
invoked it as a /dev/mx0vc (verifying and compressing, I think), it
worked fine and pulled the files off of the tape.
I don't know if that has something to do with it, or if it's something
completey different. The tape lists as a generic SCSI-2 tape drive,
which the card allegedly supports. I'm quite sure that my termination
is correct; I've hung two and three drives off of that system before,
without any problems. My 150MB tape works fine when on the same bus.
If anyone has faced this problem before, any information would be a big
help. Thanks a lot!
Sincerely,
Craig Steffen
--
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Craig P. Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
home#:812-323-0756 work#:812-855-2317
http://php.indiana.edu/~crsteffe
current goal: run Linux on all my computers
career goal: to be the first Vorlon Time Lord
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.appletalk,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Mac Classic II as "Linux terminal"
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:42:23 GMT
Hello,
is it possible to run a Linux server with Intel processor and then
connect some old Mac Classic II's as X-Terminals ?
I am using RedHat 5.1 which apparently understands Appletalk just
fine. I was wondering how to connect the server and the (Mac) clients
from a hardware point of view. I have not yet found an Ethernet card
for the Mac Classic. Does such a thing exist or is there any other
alternative ?
Thanks a lot for any help.
Cheers
Rolf Leggewie
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Proposed System Setup -- Is it possible? If so, how?
Date: 06 Mar 2000 13:54:18 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 06 Mar 2000 18:07:21 GMT, Jeff Schaffzin
<<38c3f3d9$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I plan to take my present system (a Win95 box) and convert it to a triple
>boot system (Win98,WinNT,Linux -- eventually WinME,Win2K,Linux) using the
>following partitioning scheme:
>
>Partition O/S Size File Format
>/home/hd1 Win98 1024MB fat32
>/home/hd2 WinNT 2048MB ntfs
>/home/hd3 2048MB fat16
>/home/hd4 2048MB fat16
>/home/hd5 Linux 1024MB ext2
>/home/hd6 Linux Swap rest of disk ext2 (?)
Nope. Like this:
/dev/sda1 FAT32 1G C: (98)
/dev/sda2 NTFS 2G C: (NT)
/dev/sda3 extended 5.1G
/dev/sda5 FAT16 2G D:
/dev/sda6 FAT16 2G E:
/dev/sda7 ext2 1G /
/dev/sda8 swap 100M
Though if I were you, I'd allocate more space for the Linux root
partition. A stock RH 6.1 install sucks up about 800M when you install
the cool stuff. Shoot, pick up a larger disk or two... they're cheaper
than ever, and with 3 OSes, you'll want more space than 7G.
The real tricky part comes in getting the order of the install right.
Linux goes last, but I don't remember whether you install 98 before NT or
the other way around. Whatever you do, don't install LILO in the MBR--NT
gets really annoyed with LILO in the MBR. You'll probably have to copy
the Linux kernel to the NTFS partition and create an entry for Linux in
the NT boot menu.
>Please note that I also have a Castlewood Ultra SCSI drive (SCSI ID 4), a
>Yamaha 8424 CDRW (SCSI ID 3) and an LS-120 ATAPI drive which I would like
>to see as well with all partitions.
??? You mean "with all OSes", right? The only partition type that all
those OSes can read is FAT16. Linux can read everything, but NT can't
read FAT32 and 98 can't read NTFS. LS-120 disks are usually formatted
FAT16; no problems there. CD-ROMs are usually formatted iso9660,
sometimes with Joliet or Rock Ridge extensions. Linux handles those no
problem. Linux should play nicely with all those pieces of hardware so
long as your SCSI card is supported--check that. Good luck...
--
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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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra160 SCSI cards
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:51:28 +0100
Rafal Wysocki wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Are the Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI cards (e.g., 29160 or 29160N) supported by
> the kernel?
Well , /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx says:
[...]
Supported cards/chipsets
[...]
AHA-29160M
[...]
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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