Linux-Hardware Digest #520, Volume #12 Tue, 21 Mar 00 10:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: USB Backport patch required (Hamid Misnan)
Modem flow control (Ben Blaukopf)
Re: Athlon/K7M problems? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linksys Ethernet Card Won't Initilize: Please Help (Andy Guibert)
synchronous serial help ("Rob Smith")
Can Linux report a dirty DAT drive? (Darren Bradnick)
Re: Leafnode problems with messages... ("Erik Verhulp")
Re: synchronous serial help (Dave Lonkart)
Re: Is there any TV tuner card compatible? (Gavin Schenk)
Re: Painful SiS6326 and XFree86 4.0? (April Kirby)
Re: Newbie sound problem on Debian with CMI8738 chip ("Catilina")
Errors in dmesg (John R. Shannon)
Re: 3COM SuperStack II 3300 ("Peter Haug")
accessing ntfs partition (Christopher Bream)
Askey Magic Tview (Stefan Uhlig)
Re: Can Linux report a dirty DAT drive? ("Gene Heskett")
epson stylus + RH 6.1 (jan matthews)
Re: What is an ATHLON? (mircea)
Re: which modem? (mircea)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamid Misnan)
Subject: Re: USB Backport patch required
Date: 21 Mar 2000 07:01:17 GMT
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:48:03 +0000, Keith Taylor wrote:
>Hi, Can anyone e-mail me the current USB backport patch for
>kernel 2.2 as the site at www.suse.cz looks to have lost all
>its development tree and I am nable to find it anywhere else.
>Hope its OK to make this request in this newsgroup as I am guessing
>USB support is hardware.
Have you try to go through http://www.linux-usb.org?
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- It is easier to fix Unix than to live with NT.
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From: Ben Blaukopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem flow control
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:00:58 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. I'm not sure this is strictly a hardware question, but
it is related:
My dialup connection works fine, until I try to ftp a file to
a remote server. I suspect the cause of this is badly configured
flow control, since the computer will be able to handle data
as fast as the modem can send it, but the modem will fall over
if too much data comes too quickly. The modem is configured to
use hardware flow control.
How do I configure /dev/modem to use hardware flow control with the
modem?
Thanks
Ben Blaukopf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Athlon/K7M problems?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:07:57 GMT
Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Look for memtest86 on freshmeat. It's an outstanding memory checker
> (most memory checkers do an extremely superficial test; memtest
> *really* exercises the memory.
OK, that seems to be the problem. I ran this program over night, and it
reported several errors. Now I'll only have to convince the vendor (I'm
still within the warranty).
Thanks,
Herbert
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Andy Guibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linksys Ethernet Card Won't Initilize: Please Help
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 06:33:00 -0500
I posted this on comp.os.linux.misc a few days ago...
There's a few things that you need to know about Linksys' LNE100TX (10/100 LAN
adapter). There's been three revisions of the card. All three cards are DEC
tulip variants and hence use the tulip (or slightly modified) driver. Have a
look at the network card and see what's printed on the biggest chip, if you
see a number ending with 168 or 169, you should use the "generic" driver
that's included in kernel 2.2.14 (there's been some issues with previous
kernels). More recent LNE100TXs (3rd revision, what they called version 2.0)
support a feature called "Wake-up On LAN" (WOL), and require a special driver
for it to work properly. Linksys includes this driver on "Disk 2" that is
distributed with such cards under a directory conveniently called "linux". The
compile instructions are included at the bottom of tulip.c, so just cat the
file and copy it at the command line... :)
I've got 6 LNE100TXs in machines at home right now and had to learn the hard
way... @ http://www.linksys.com/support/solution/nos/linux_lne100tx.htm ...
hehehe
Hope this helps,
Andy
--
Andy Ford wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:12:29 -0800, luckydaze
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I've tried a bunch of different Linux distros but the card
> >is not detected and I get an "initialize failed" at boot up. I
> >tried compiling the kernel in RH 6.1 for the Dec 21x4x tulip but
> >it still won't work. Doing a "insmod tulip" gives me an error of
> >"device or resource busy" I tried insmod ne since I heard the
> >Linksys is Ne2000 compatable but it didn't work either. I tried
> >setting the bios in my Abit BH6 to "no pnp OS" I don't know of
> >any way to turn off PNP on the Linksys LNE100TX card itself.
> >I tried
> >the Diagnostic utility they include it gives no option to turn
> >this off. I don't what to try at this point. I tried a bunch of
> >different IRQ's in the bios but it doesn't help. Does anyone know
> >how to get this damn card working in Linux please?
> >
> >
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>
> I had luck getting more recent drivers and compiling the tulip.o myself
> on some Linsys cards. Others just work.
> --
> yours,
> Andy
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From: "Rob Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: synchronous serial help
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:43:27 -0000
Hello Linux World,
Im hoping that someone will know the answer or at least point me in the
right direction to the answer to this question.
I have a satcom unit that talks to the INMARSAT system, and with this we
pass 64K data back to a land-based end. At present we use a Cisco router to
interface between the satcom unit (A Nera "B" if it helps) and the
lan/computer
Now I think that its got to be possible to remove the router and interface
the satcom unit directly to a linux box, one major stumbling block is that
the satcom units data comes out via a V24-rs232, but in SYNCHRONOUS data,
now I have looked though the HOWTO's and FAQ's but can find little or no
reference to synchronous serial - or even a card manufacturer who supplies
such a card
Has anybody any idea on this or am I onto a looser here?
Many Thanks in Advance
Rob Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Darren Bradnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can Linux report a dirty DAT drive?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:37:28 -0000
I need to establish if a SCSI DAT Drive (Sony/IBM) requires cleaning or
not. Can linux give me this information?
If I use the 'mt' command I get the output below, and I was wondering if
the 'General status bits' number (41010000) can tell me if the drive
requires cleaning. (Going on the assumption that if a drive needs
cleaning, one of the data bits will change). I want to compare the 'mt'
output with a dirty drive, but unfortunately we have no drives that
require cleaning at present.
This is the output from 'mt -f /dev/st0 status' (Drive = Sony SDT-5000)
:
con:root (/root) # mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
Thank you
DTAB
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From: "Erik Verhulp" <E.Verhulp@##Elektron.et.tudelft.nl>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.setup,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Leafnode problems with messages...
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:00:19 +0100
> you'll get this when you read the syslog.conf man page.
> basically, log messages are categorized in two ways, a facility and a
> priority. facility is where the message comes from, such as mail, news,
> kernel, etc. priority is how important the message is, such as warn,
debug,
> info, etc. so he meant that you could control messages going to a
> particular logfile based on whether they were from the news facility or
not.
Adding
news.* /usr/adm/news
and editting the line for your messages-file to something like
*.=info;*.=notice;\
mail,news.none /usr/adm/messages
in your syslog.conf (and of course killall -HUP syslogd) will do the job.
Erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Lonkart)
Subject: Re: synchronous serial help
Date: 21 Mar 2000 12:38:02 GMT
For synchronous serial communications, you'll need a WAN card. Some
manufacturers I know of are SDL (sdlcomm.com) and Emulex (emulex.com).
SDL used to make a card called the RISCom 8si that had 8 synchronous
capable serial ports. The linux kernel has support for the
"RISCom/8" (CONFIG_RISCOM8) board. I don't know if these are the same card.
It's probably best to check with these companies to see if they support
linux on their WAN cards.
--
Dave Lonkart
http://www.jvncomm.com
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From: Gavin Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there any TV tuner card compatible?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:43:32 +0100
Alexis Bilodeau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to watch Tv on my PC, without being obliged to run Windows :)
> (I'm sure you understand...)
> Anybody knows about a good Tv tuner card which is Linux - compatible ?
> (I'm running a pIII -450 with an Asus p3b-f board and I have a Diamond
> Viper v770 video card).
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Alexis Bilodeau
> ----
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have this Hauppauge WinTV Radio Card and it works great.
there are links to linux-manuals according tv-cards on www.hauppauge.com
Bye Gavin
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:52:22 -0700
From: April Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Painful SiS6326 and XFree86 4.0?
Hi Davis,
Davis Eric wrote:
> Hi, there,
>
> Just want to tell you my recent experience with this hopeless card. I
> have tried XFree86 3.3.3, XFree86 3.3.6 and this XFree86 4.0.
>
> I let the tar balls of XFree86 4.0 to overwrite my old XF86 3.3.6
> because I have made back up of it. So, I began my painful ordeal.
>
> It turned out that the introduced tool called XFree86 -configure did
> not work well with my on-board SiS6326 card. It gave me a blank screen
> with some meshed background. It was just like the background when GNOME
> in RH 6.0 starts. I guess that it was part of a whole Xwindow.
>
That is what is supposed to happen.
>
> So, I turned to the old RH6.0 setup. I used "X configuration" in the
> setup. But it turned out that it could not test X-window. It told me
> that "there is a problem with your Xwindow...". So, I have to change
> again.
>
> Finally, I used xf86config. It gave me the Xwindow with the new Xserver
> using 8 bpp. But I can not start Xwindow with 16 bpp, not to mention 24
> bpp.
>
It takes some tweaking to get it right, the file just gives the basics to
start with.
>
> With 8 bpp, there were still some problems. I could not find the
> pointer of my Logitech Serial mouse. It is Microsoft compatiable.
> Although there was no pointer for the mouse, I could switch from one
> xterm to another by moving my mouse. So, it was kind of a game in which
> I had to guess where was my mouse actually pointed to.
>
You mention it is a Microsoft mouse, so in the configuration file put
Microsoft
instead of auto that is there.
>
> Also, there seemed that it still had the same glitches as the previous
> x server to SiS6326, such as the shades on the items after the
> highlight moved away.
>
> So, I don't know what is going wrong. Especially for my mouse. It was
> said that XFree86 4.0 supports SiS6326 better than ever. But...
>
> BTW, my hardwares worked just well in XFree86 3.3.6 except the slow
> refresh rate in 24 bpp.
>
> If there are anyone else who has done some work with XFree86 4.0 on
> SiS6326, could you share your experience?
>
> Davis,
>
> --
> I do not feel shameful if I was and am an idiot; I
> will feel shameful if I haven't realized it.
> --Myself
>
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> Before you buy.
Now, options do vary as to what works best for you and your monitor, but
first thing to put in the config file is the monitor refresh rates, as X
now detects the modes needed at startup that will just help it along to
fine tune it. The man page for the config file will help there. Then when
you did the 'XFree86 -configure' the file that it created has alot of the
options for the SiS6326, they are just commented out. Try them out. Then in
the 'Screen' section put in 'DefaultDepth 16' for starters and see what
you get. That is pretty much what I did on my moms machine and the monitor
now uses 1280x1024 (eek small).
April
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From: "Catilina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie sound problem on Debian with CMI8738 chip
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:07:54 +0100
Any tips on building a new kernel in Debian 2.2? I tried, but failed
miserably :-(
Martin Platter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi !
>
> A Friend of mine hase the same soundchip and we have seen that in Kernel
2.2.x
> it is not supported. In 2.3.x it worked fine.
>
> Greetings
> Martin
>
> Catilina wrote:
>
> > I have a CMI8738 soundchip onboard, and I'm using Debian 2.2 (potato).
I'm
> > trying to get the soundcard to work, but not with very much success :-(
> > During install, I specified somewhere to include cmpci, which is the
driver
> > for this card according to http://www.cmedia.com.tw/edl8738.htm Now i
have
> > /dev/audio and /dev/sndstat, but when I use gqmpeg, i receive an error
> > 'can't open /dev/dsp'
> > ls -l /dev/dsp gives: crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14,3 Mar 9 01:39 /dev/dsp
> > What can I do to make my soundcard work?
> > Thanks for any advice!
> >
> > Frederik
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John R. Shannon)
Subject: Errors in dmesg
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:13:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I encountered a problem reading a file from a backup tape created
under RH6.1. I typed 'dmesg' to see if there were problems and saw
some messages that I don't understand. The trimmed-down dmesg output
is:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.2M: PCI Ultra 16 CDB: IO DC00/F, IRQ 10
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: TECMAR Model: TRAVAN NS20 Rev: S255
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape total.
st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 4, s/g segs 16.
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Unable to get major 9 for SCSI tapes
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
The last message is generated periodically until dmesg returns nothing
but a long list of this message.
How do I figure out and fix what's going on?
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From: "Peter Haug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.os2.networking.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.server
Subject: Re: 3COM SuperStack II 3300
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:48:00 +0100
Hi Sara,
crossover cable are only necessary for interconnetions between switches or
hubs, or even when you set up a peer-to-peer Network to connect 2 network
adaptors. To connect a PC to a hub / switch you use a regular patch cable.
Good luck !
Peter
Sara schrieb in Nachricht <89tnka$ils$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a 3Com Superstack II 3300 used for my colocation at my ISP. When I
>hook all the cables the status lights signal a-ok except the line provided
>by my ISP (which I think is called the uplink). I've heard that this line
>is a crossover cable, but not sure. How do I go about making this
>connection work?
>
>
>
>
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From: Christopher Bream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: accessing ntfs partition
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:52:35 -0500
I'm pretty new at this so I was hoping somebody could help me. I am
trying to access an NTFS partition while running Linux. I went and
grabbed kernel 2.2.14 and configured it to install NTFS support (I only
did read only, if the kernel config said it was dangersous to do
read/write, then I'm not doing it). I set up a directory in /mnt for
the new ntfs partition. As root, I went in and checked all the
permissions for the directory so that everybody (namely the user
I normally log in as) would have access. That's fine. Now, as soon as
I mount the partition, the newly mounted partition (/mnt/ntfs) has
permissions only for root.
I want to be able to access the partition as my normal user. I mean, I
can always su and then grab the stuff I need but that's such a pain
and I really don't want to log in as root every time. I played with
fstab but couldn't figure much out there. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks
Hannibal
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From: Stefan Uhlig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Askey Magic Tview
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:21:37 +0100
Hi there....
I have an Askey Magic Tview videocard and want it to work with linux.
So far I haven�t found a possibility to make it run.
Are there any drivers or software for this card or some which are
compatible with it?
thx
Stefan Uhlig
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Date: 21 Mar 2000 9:13:52 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Linux report a dirty DAT drive?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Darren Bradnick;
I have a WangDat 3400DX, and when its in need of a cleaning, the status
report doesn't seem to change, but it blinks the front panel lights and
is otherwise un-responsive until you stick a cleaner tape in it. Since
I'm a videotape familiar broadcast engineer who cleans heads by hand and
considers the cleaners only slightly better than 600 grit sandpaper,
this is a PITA. But thats how the internal software in the drive is
written, no amount of hand cleaning will do when its internal timer
says its time to run the cleaning tape.
Your Sony *may* be different, but probably not enough to make notes
about.
DB> I need to establish if a SCSI DAT Drive (Sony/IBM) requires
DB> cleaning or not. Can linux give me this information?
DB> If I use the 'mt' command I get the output below, and I was
DB> wondering if the 'General status bits' number (41010000) can tell
DB> me if the drive requires cleaning. (Going on the assumption that
DB> if a drive needs cleaning, one of the data bits will change). I
DB> want to compare the 'mt' output with a dirty drive, but
DB> unfortunately we have no drives that require cleaning at present.
DB> This is the output from 'mt -f /dev/st0 status' (Drive = Sony
DB> SDT-5000)
DB>:
DB> con:root (/root) # mt -f /dev/st0 status
DB> SCSI 2 tape drive:
DB> File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
DB> Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)).
DB> Soft error count since last status=0
DB> General status bits on (41010000):
DB> BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
DB> Thank you
DB> DTAB
Cheers, Gene
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From: jan matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: epson stylus + RH 6.1
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:42:34 +0000
Hi,
My epson stylus 600 is not detected by RH 6.1 I have complied a kernel
with parallel printer support, but still no joy when i run printtool...i
can set it up manually through the filter (if thats what i am actually
doing) but when i try and print an applixware document nothing
happens...
can anyone help?
thanks
Jan
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From: mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is an ATHLON?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:50:32 -0500
mike wrote:
>
> Hi,
> What is the difference between an Athlon and a pentium III or
> pentium II?
> Mike
http://www.amd.com
MST
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From: mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which modem?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:49:52 -0500
"Rev. Reverse" wrote:
>
> i got an IBM 486 desktop machine at an auction for two
> dollars. it doesn't have a modem, so i am wondering which one i
> should get.
>
> i am planning on running slack 7 (if that makes any difference).
>
> Rev. Reverse
Any ISA jumpered modem should do (assuming your IBM machine is ISA
architecture, of course, not MCA). Or an external serial one.
MST
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