Linux-Hardware Digest #525, Volume #12 Wed, 22 Mar 00 03:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Anyone make PCI board with 4 or more IDE controllers on it? (Petro)
Re: Kernel Panic ??? (Michael Kelly)
Re: NVIDIA Linux drivers soon... (Michael Kelly)
Macronix NIC ("Mister V.")
Re: Small and silent Linux hardware (Spiral Man)
Macronix NIC (Addendum-Forgot to mention: Using RedHat 6.1) ("Mister V.")
Printer on parrallel port not recognized by kernel (Michael Kelly)
Re: Small and silent Linux hardware (Jim Harvey)
Re: RH 6.1 Netgear FA410TX NIC ("Michael E. Martinka")
HP Pavilion 4440 ("TJ")
Re: Thinkpad 380D--any pitfalls? (Don Knott)
http://cgi.FA: Complete AMD 400 Linux System $165 ("Sales@NSM")
I need such linux box too. :-) (Habin)
Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 22 Mar ("K.Tsakaloglou")
Where?? $79.00 dedicated linux server (BodaBagHarry)
ATA/66 ("Ken Swain")
Re: ATA/66 (Hal Burgiss)
How to setup a multi-boot system having a scsi drive? (mike)
Re: Does Linux (2.0.30) work with AGP graphic cards? (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!! (Cameron L. Spitzer)
DDS4 tape drive? (Murphy Wong)
Re: Best sound card for Linux? (Ian Board)
file_cluster badly computed!!! X <> Y ("Jonathan E. Snow")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petro)
Subject: Re: Anyone make PCI board with 4 or more IDE controllers on it?
Date: 21 Mar 2000 21:11:35 EST
Reply-To: petro
On 19 Mar 2000 20:32:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Does anyone make a PCI card with four or more *separate* IDE controllers on
>it? I've seen the Promise Fasttrack controller, but it only has two
>controllers (each with a Master and Slave). What I'm looking for is four
>or more independent controllers (don't care if they got slave on them).
3ware does, although they might only allow 1 drive per port--at least
that's the way it's supposed to be set up--the make the cards for small
RAID systems (anything smaller than about 500g is small IMO).
Try www.3ware.com. I've got one of their cards here, and I'm going
to be experimenting with it this week.
Oh, and they have drivers for them in the latest beta kernels, written
(IIRC) by the company themselves.
--
"To sysadmin or not to sysadmin...That is the question, whether tis nobler
in the minde to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or climb
to the top of the building with a fucking high-power rifle and scope."
--Ralf Hildebrandt
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic ???
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:22:20 -0500
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:41:40 -0500, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The disk won't do anything or give any error messages so far
Mike, how did you make the boot disk?
Did you image it off the CD using rawrite?
That's usually best. Also make sure the
scsi drivers are compatible with your
system.
You try to boot the diskette and you don't even get
"non-system disk in drive A:" ??
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NVIDIA Linux drivers soon...
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:18:19 -0500
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:27:38 -0100, Alain le Sage
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I Use RedHat (6.0), but I recommend RH6.1 or Madrake 6.1. But, you can
>also download the latest 3.x version of XFree86 for easy installation
Thanks all for the replies, turns out the TurboLinux Workstation 4.0
is fine as far as the Promise controller and XWindows. The desktop
environment is pretty nice too. After 2 days the only major problems
I have are to stabalize internet response over the modem and get
the parrallel printer to work. Very easy setup. I haven't checked
the development tools out yet though, but I'm impressed with what
I've seen so far.
Thanks again.
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: "Mister V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Macronix NIC
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 02:33:30 GMT
I have a cable modem (uses DHCP to get IP address), and I use a tulip-based
card to connect to it. I want to set up my cable internet under linux, but
I don't know how. Here is what I do in windows, and I want to know what the
equivalent is in linux.
1. Go to Start->Run; type winipcfg
2. Select my ethernet card from the drop-down list
3. hit release, and then renew
And then its done. How do I do that in Linux?
Can I just copy the IP address and netmask stuff from winipcfg(in windows)
into netcfg(linux) or something like that, or do I have to use DHCP?
As long as you are answering my questions, do you know if it is possible to
use a TBS Montego II sound card under linux?
Thanks in advance,
A. Valys
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From: Spiral Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small and silent Linux hardware
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:16:05 -0600
if you dont mind doing some kinda complex stuff check our
wearables.stanford.edu go to their DIY department and they will tell you
how to build a server about the size of a matchbox. Its a 486.
Spiral Man
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm interested in building up a very small system capable of running
> Linux and wonder if anyone else has done the same.
>
> Basically, I want a small, silent box that can be my IP firewall, SMTP
> server, etc, etc. It doesn't have to be fast, doesn't have to have
> loads of memory or disk space, but I want to be able to leave it
> switched on 24h without CPU fans, power supply fans, spinning hard disks
> and the like.
>
> Ages ago I remember seeing ads for PC motherboards the size of a 5.25"
> hard disk, but now I can't find the references again.
>
> It doesn't have to be an Intel system. If anyone has a suggestion that
> involves another CPU, please tell me!
>
> TIA,
>
> Alan
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Mister V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Macronix NIC (Addendum-Forgot to mention: Using RedHat 6.1)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 02:36:30 GMT
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer on parrallel port not recognized by kernel
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:28:06 -0500
I have TurboLinux Workstation 4.0 newly installed and have most
stuff working, but during boot it puts in /var/log/messages
something like "lp driver loaded but no hardware found"
and the printer doesn't go through the initialization cycle
during bootup. The printer works in 2 other MS OSs so
I'm wondering if maybe Linux gets confused if the Parrallel
port isn't in a particular mode or something.
It's a DeskJet 500 and it works fine on an old 486 with
a 2.0.27 kernel so I'm surprised the TurboLinux install
didn't seem to configure it correctly.
Anyone run into this and solve it?
TIA
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Jim Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small and silent Linux hardware
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:01:58 -0500
Mark Kirby wrote:
>
> http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener
>
> :)
But it has no real ethernet port :(
--
Jim Harvey, Naperville, Ill. Amiga person - Linux person - WB8NBS/9
This message came from Netscape running on a LINUX machine!
He who dies with the most software wins.
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From: "Michael E. Martinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 Netgear FA410TX NIC
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 02:56:07 GMT
All -
It turns out that the FA410TX is supported and is a 8390 [pcnet_cs]. Two
things caused the card not to work.
1) the pcmcia control software was not starting until after networking.
Thanks to this
news group for pointing it out. I rearranged the start sequence and
got closer
2) /etc/pcmcia/config.opts the line exclude irq3 was commented out. So the
LAN card was being assigned IRQ3. I am assuming this came like this from RH
since I didn't modify it. Thanks again for the help.
Mike
"Michael E. Martinka" wrote:
> Anyone,
> I am trying to get RH 6.1 to use the netgear FA410TX NIC I have in my
> lap top. I can tell the hardware is OK since it works under windows, and
> Linux can see the card but I can't get it to activate it. RH 6.1 auto
> detected it as a 8390 [pcnet_cs]. I don't think that is correct but I
> can't find any driver info anywhere. Any help would be great.
> Mike
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "TJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Pavilion 4440
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:04:49 -0500
I have an HP Pavilion 4440 with the video RAM set in the BIOS. I.e., 64 MB
machine, with 60MB devoted to processing and 4MB used as video memory.
Display adapter is a thing called an (Silicon Integrated Systems) SiS
5597/5598.
I'd like to install Debian/GNU Linux. From what I've read, I'm thinking his
BIOS enabled memory sharing seems like it will wreak havoc with Linux. Can
anyone advise me?
Thanks,
TJ
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From: Don Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thinkpad 380D--any pitfalls?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 03:30:56 GMT
I installed Redhat on a 380d without much trouble. I don't think I messed
with getting sound working though. When you configure X-windows you'll
have to play with the settings in xconfigurator to get it to look good.
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
>
> I was able to pick up a used IBM Thinkpad 380D for relatively cheap, and
> I'll be taking delivery in about 4 days. I'm excited. However, I
checked
> on the main Linux-Laptops web page at
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
> and wasn't able to find anything about the 380D model. There were two
> pages listed--the one at
> http://www.mnsinc.com/js/Neomagic.html
> is concerned with display drivers only, and the one at
> http://spacenetindia.com/tech/linuxthinkpad.html
> refers specifically to the 380XD model. The prognosis for getting Linux
> up and running looks great, provided the 380D and 380XD aren't horribly
> different. Does anyone know if this is the case?
>
> I tried to get more detailed info on the 380D from IBM's site, but no
> dice. (Guess they don't keep specs for "old hardware"!) Anyway, if
> anyone knows of any pitfalls/trouble spots/things I should look out for,
> please post to this NG. No need to cc: me unless you feel like it; all
> comments encouraged.
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama
critics
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: http://cgi.FA: Complete AMD 400 Linux System $165
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:05:50 GMT
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great with Linux. RH 6.1 loaded and media included. Current bid $165!
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From: Habin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I need such linux box too. :-)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:09:36 GMT
Hello there,
I just hooked up a cable modem in my little home.
I'm currently involving web hosting stuff in the company. The company
just hooked up DSL. Anyway, I persuade the boss but, he seems not to
trust Linux cause it's free. Most IT guys prefer commercial software.
I'll show the power of Linux. :-)
Well, I need the firewall of my home network. Cause the cable modem
always connected to internet. A machine which is to be the firewall
stable power supply, I'll perchase a UPS. Regular PC is a lot power
consumption so the little size and little Watt is good for me. I'm not a
rich guy.
In the company, there is a small UPS but it only support mini machines:
answering machine, fax. Today as I plugged a color printer, the UPS went
down and all the machines shut down. :-(
Small linux box which consumes little electric power is necessary. I
believe.
In article <8b9240$6cr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm interested in building up a very small system capable of running
> Linux and wonder if anyone else has done the same.
>
> Basically, I want a small, silent box that can be my IP firewall, SMTP
> server, etc, etc. It doesn't have to be fast, doesn't have to have
> loads of memory or disk space, but I want to be able to leave it
> switched on 24h without CPU fans, power supply fans, spinning hard
disks
> and the like.
>
> Ages ago I remember seeing ads for PC motherboards the size of a 5.25"
> hard disk, but now I can't find the references again.
>
> It doesn't have to be an Intel system. If anyone has a suggestion that
> involves another CPU, please tell me!
>
> TIA,
>
> Alan
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
--
Software Engineer
Homepage URL is "http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/dropzone/3313"
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Before you buy.
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From: "K.Tsakaloglou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 22 Mar
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 06:33:25 +0200
Questions and answers from this newsgroup (archived by subject) can be found
at http://server.hellug.gr/LUGistics/en/pub/QA_articles_main.php3
Links suggested in those messages are categorized at
http://hq.hellug.gr/~tsakf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BodaBagHarry)
Subject: Where?? $79.00 dedicated linux server
Date: 22 Mar 2000 04:42:52 GMT
Hope this is a good place to ask...
A friend read a press release (and can't remember where) on some website that
a new company was coming online with $79.00 a month dedicated linux webservers
with root access.
Is this true????? Anyone have the URL, phone or more info???????
Is this a REALLY a dedicated machine on the net for cheap??? If so I want
one...
Thanks in advance
Harry
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From: "Ken Swain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATA/66
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:48:16 -0500
Does linux work with ATA/66?
Thanks for the help
/kswain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: ATA/66
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 05:53:35 GMT
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:48:16 -0500, Ken Swain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Does linux work with ATA/66?
Yes, with kernel patch from kernel.org under people/hedrick. Some
distros probably are already including this.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to setup a multi-boot system having a scsi drive?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:58:41 -0500
Hi,
I would like to create a system with Linux and Dos and maybe
some other operating systems on my computer which has
all scsi devices. ( hard drive, cd-rom, and tape unit).
I understand somewhat how to do it with a computer with ide
hardware, but am not sure of the different issues relating to
the scsi system. I know that without the proper scsi driver,
the peripherals, most importantly, will be useless.
Where is there documentation on this? Can lilo multiboot
with a scsi drive into different operating systems or is some
other software needed. Does scsi drivers have to be installed
on the DOS partition?
Thanks
Mike
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux (2.0.30) work with AGP graphic cards?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:42:30 +0000
I've got two machines with FIC VA-503 mobos, one has a Viper 550 AGP,
and the other has a Viper 770, and they both work fine. I think Linux
looks at them like they're PCI slots (watch me get corrected!). SuSE and
RH were both able to ID the card, and they ran OK. I also bought
Metro-X, and they were listed under it.
Regards, Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To:
uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!!
Date: 22 Mar 2000 06:29:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lewis Ingersoll wrote:
>
>
>Martin wrote:
>
>> When installing RH 6.1 on my system after the LILO configuration has
>> completed upon rebooting my system I get the 10101010... string running
>> accross the screen. I then have to boot into DOS and "fdisk /mbr". I have an
>> IBM Deskstar 20.5GB drive with 2 partitions of 10GB running Win 98 and a 4GB
>> Quantumn Fireball running Linux. I did not have any probs with LILO before
>> the IBM drive was installed.
>>
>> Any help on how to get around this problem will be greatly appreciated.
Next time, take the advice in the LILO mini-HOWTO and make a floppy that
boots at hard drive speed.
Don't install LILO on your hard drive unless you know what you're doing,
you're sure it will work, and you can boot all your OSes by other means.
Don't let your OS distribution do it for you. They seldom get
it right.
>> Martin
>
>I had alot of problems with lilo. I've overwritten my MBR, gotten the 1010101,
>and got stuck with LI waiting for the LO. I have a 6 gig and 10 gig
>HD and am doing alot of installing and checking things out. I have just
>switched to using loadlin.exe. It is very simple to use and I think I can
>experiment without all the complications of LILO. I can usually get to the C
>prompt without problems. I have copied a vmlinuz file from each of the boot
>images. They are on the boot disk used to install(either floppy or cdrom) When
>I copy to the c: I label them vmlinuz, vmlinuz1, so I can test different
>versions or kernels. So far it seems less complicated that LILO.
Lilo is not the best boot program for everyone. Unfortunately,
the boot sequence is one place where Microsoft can mess with Linux,
through its control of the BIOS developers. Remember, Microsoft controls
the mass market PC industry. It was by their design that the 1024 cylinder
limit was left in for so long. I'm glad that era is finally past.
Cameron
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From: Murphy Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DDS4 tape drive?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:36:54 +0800
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We have just boughta DDS4 tape drive for data backup on the Linux Redhat
6.0. The capacity of the DDS4 tape is 20GB/40GB compressed. However,
when I issue command:
> dump -0cu -d 122000 -s 492 -f/dev/nst0 /
It returns message:
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Mar 22 12:27:08 2000
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda5 (/) to /dev/nst0
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 2249857 tape blocks on 5.57 tape(s).
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: Closing /dev/nst0
DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured
DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
and request for a new volume (tape). Now, my filesystem is about 2G and
I guess a single tape should be able to make a few archieves. I have
specified density to 122000bpi and length of the tape to 492 feet. Am I
missing other parameters such that the dump command calculate wrongly?
Thanks a lot.
The following is the tape drive status:
> mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x26 (unknown to this mt).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
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From: Ian Board <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best sound card for Linux?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:04:43 GMT
Depends on what you are using it for. I don't do much gaming, but just
want to record/playback sounds. I have the Ensoniq AudioPCI which I
bought for $25. It seems to work well and I saw a test somewhere that
indicated that the A/D and D/A convertors are pretty good on it. It's
cheap because it uses the system memory and since it is on the PCI bus,
there weren't a lot of PnP hassles.
- ian
f11, at, @linuxstart.com wrote:
>
> My wrists are beginning to ache from typing, and I'm hoping to take some of the data
>input load off my hands. Thus, voice recognition to dictate long documents and
>scripts instead of typing.
>
> My current sound card, a Creative Sound Blaster ViBRA, runs fine as a SB 16 PnP, but
>it will not record 16-bit sound. 8-bit, yes, but it seems that there are two 8-bit
>DMA channels, instead of one 8-bit and one 16-bit. I'm using the Linux kernel
>drivers, because I have not discovered if ALSA supports 16-bit recording for this
>card.
>
> Thus, I'd like to purchase a new sound card. Hopefully less than $50. I'd like it
>to support full duplex, but that's not necessary for now. It must be able to record
>and play back 16-bit, medium- to high-quality sound under Linux.
>
> Could you describe your experiences with good (or bad) sound cards?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -lf
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From: "Jonathan E. Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: file_cluster badly computed!!! X <> Y
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:12:13 +0100
Mar 21 11:12:51 Merckx kernel: file_cluster badly computed!!! 22 <> 25
Mar 21 11:12:51 Merckx kernel: file_cluster badly computed!!! 23 <> 26
I noticed a lot of these in my /var/log/messages,
and a search turned up nothing but a lot of other people
with the same problem. I did find a snippet of old
driver code (from a patch to kernel 1.3 apparently!)
that suggested that it is a problem specific to the
vfat file system. Apparently the only consequence was that the
cluster involved would not be stored in the inode cache.
I haven't noticed any fs corruption, so it seems
benign.
Can anybody confirm, deny or otherwise shed light on
this problem? Check your /var/log/messages people, doesn't
everybody with a vfat file system mounted have this?
Please reply by email if you *really* know what's
going on -- I will be glad to summarize and submit it
to the FAQ.
Cheers,
jon
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