Linux-Hardware Digest #530, Volume #12 Wed, 22 Mar 00 18:13:11 EST
Contents:
Setup for USB Ethernet (Ian)
Re: US Robotics 56k faxmodem giving problems (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Linux sucks ("LFO")
Q: EIDE HD manufacturer for Linux (Dragos-Anton Manolescu)
Re: CHALLENGE: Port Linux to a Mountain Dew can! (Mike)
Re: Sound Blaster PCI-128 (Kristian Duus =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8stergaard?=)
fixing red pixel (Neil Zanella)
Re: Performace with Maxtor 7200RPM 40GB Hard Drive (Mike Castle)
Re: Setup for USB Ethernet (Rod Smith)
Help with SB PCI 128 configurations and conflicts with ATI Xpert 2000 ???
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux modem...... (Pete)
Window Maker ("F�bio Vira��o")
Re: HELP - LOST LINUX TO PARTITION TABLE WIPEOUT!! (p_tux_news)
Window Maker ("F�bio Vira��o")
USR 56k Voice Win (Scott Anderson)
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From: Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Setup for USB Ethernet
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:57:40 GMT
Can anyone offer tips for setup of a USB ethernet device? I am an AT&T
@Home subscriber and am trying to use linux to connect to the internet
via a cable modem and an external USB ethernet device, either a CATV or
Peracom USB adapter.
Also, any network configuration tips would be most welcome. Where do I
start with the configuration? I am running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3.
Thanks for your help.
Ian
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: US Robotics 56k faxmodem giving problems
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:30:10 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>If this is covered in a FAQ then I appologize. I
>tried searching for the comp.os.linux.hardware
>FAQ on a few search engines and couldn't find it.
>I am having problems with my modem under Linux.
>I have a Pentium 166 on a trition mb with 64MB
>RAM, 6.4 GB EIDE HD, Voodoo 3 2000 PCI video
>card, Soundblaster 16 and my modem is a US
>Robotics 56k faxmodem internal ISA Model No.
>5687. I have set the jumpers for /dev/ttyS1 IRQ
>3.
[...]
These settings will cause conflicts with your secondary built-in
serial port, unless you already manually disabled it in your system's
CMOS settings.
In case you already did that, "setserial" is the tool you need.
Michael
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From: "LFO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:47:33 -0600
Ditto -
I used to be a "Unix sucks!" guy. Not anymore. I consider myself a
hard-core Windows API network programmer (C++ and VB 6.0). True...if you
needed it 'Yesterday' Windows is the way to go. However, if you need it
'working' tomorrow...Unix is the way to go.
"Craig Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Has it been forgotten that Linux was not made for folks born in the
> Windows world? I had one hell of a time trying to figure out all the
> weird/foreign things in Linux but in the end (without any real
> documentation) it made me a much better Windows user.
>
> Sometimes going at something blind is a good thing?!
>
> Craig
>
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:44:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jordan)
> wrote:
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) dijo a todos por la internet:
> >
> >>On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 19:10:04 GMT,
> >> John Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>"Orest M. A. Zarowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo a todos por la
> >>>internet:
> >>>
> >>>>What does suck is the assumption made by many Linux "experts" and
advanced
> >>>>users that the documentation that comes with Linux is superb and more
than
> >>>>adequate. It is not. Lots of stuff out there, but what kills it is
the
> >>>>assumption underlying ALL of the documentation that the person using
it is
> >>>>already familiar with the OS.
> >
> >>>Exactly so. Failure to define terminology, assuming the reader knows
> >>>the meaning of the term, is a common sin, e.g., "place the address of
> >>>the gateway here." What if the user has never heard of a gateway? Or
> >>>if the user has heard of one, has no idea where to get the address to
> >>>put in the blank? Or what will happen if you leave it blank -- why it
> >>>is important, what its function is? Authors of the Linux documentation
> >>>that I have read so far assume too much knowledge on the part of the
> >>>reader.
> >
> >>Except in your example, Windows is no better. It still needs to know
> >>the address of the gateway, and the 'help' it offers is to "ask your
> >>network administrator".
> >>
> >>I've found Microsoft documentation severely lacking. Pretty screen
> >>shots of "hey, this box here.. ask your network administrator what to
> >>put there" are unhelpful.
> >
> >I networked my NT box with my Windows 95 laptop without needing to
> >know what a gateway is. I installed the cards and connected the cables
> >like the guy at the computer store said to. Then I just poked at
> >stuff. Each computer saw the other immediately in the network
> >neighborhood. I don't know if I was even running TCP/IP, let alone
> >what a gateway is.
> >
> >I now have a Linux computer as well, and I finally managed to get at
> >least the NT computer to see and browse it. I haven't gotten the Linux
> >box to see the NT box, however. And I still don't know what a gateway
> >is or why it is important (which may be why it isn't all working yet).
> >
> >>>Troubleshooting is another aspect of the problem. What if the user
> >>>puts the address in the gateway, but it still doesn't work? What else
> >>>might be wrong? Good troubleshooting manuals are designed to take the
> >>>user step by step, like a flowchart -- "1) Be sure the device is
> >>>plugged in, 2) ..." -- that sort of thing. Corporations do this for
> >>>their products in order to cut down on tech support calls. They
> >>>wouldn't bother if it wasn't successful in meeting that goal.
> >
> >>Again, Microsoft doesn't do this. ("Contact your network
> >>administrator", is also what their mail clients say when they fail to
> >>find the smtp server, or IE fails to resolve a host.)
> >
> >Evidently you never used the Windows Resource Kits. Granted, they
> >still don't answer a lot of questions, but the Resource Kits are way
> >better than the stuff I've found for Linux. For even more obscure
> >problems there is the KnowledgeBase that you can access on the web.
> >
> >Of course, you are right, the Resource Kit does not come with the OS,
> >so the user may not even be aware it exists. Ditto for the
> >KnowledgeBase. And I'll also grant that both the Resource Kits and the
> >KnowledgeBase assume that the user knows what a gateway is. But the
> >fact that Microsoft documentation is lacking is no excuse for Linux
> >documentation to be equally lacking. I thought the whole idea was that
> >Linux was supposed to be better than Windows. To me, that includes the
> >documentation, not just features, applications and stability.
> >
> >>>And this will become more and more important as Linux invades the
> >>>desktop. When it was mostly just a server OS it was used primarily by
> >>>system administrators, usually with degrees or at least advanced
> >>>knowledge of computers. These people already knew what a gateway was,
> >>>so the term didn't need to be defined in the documention. But for
> >>>Windows users, considerably more help is going to be necessary.
> >
> >>I think you're basing this on the incorrect assumption that corporate
> >>users configure their own system. They don't. The IS staff configures
> >>it and delivers it with their networking configured and will be very
> >>annoyed if the user changes the networking setup.
> >
> >I wasn't thinking of corporate users at all. I was thinking of John
> >and Jane Doe, who buy a computer at the local computer store to use at
> >home. Who will they turn to for help?
> >
> >Of course, at this point in time, they will probably buy it with
> >Windows preinstalled, and then decide to install Linux themselves
> >because they heard that it is cool. Therefore they will likely have at
> >least a passing familiarity with Windows.
> >
> >
> >NOTICE: The e-mail address is deliberately incorrect.
> >Delete "xnospam" from the username.
>
>
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Subject: Q: EIDE HD manufacturer for Linux
From: Dragos-Anton Manolescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Mar 2000 15:23:39 -0600
I am planning on buying an EIDE drive (10-15Gb) and since I've been
using SCSI for the past few years (and therefore have been out of the
loop), I'd like some advice regarding which manufacturer to
choose. The local stores carry WD, Fujitsu, Samsung and Maxtor--I know
I could get a better deal online but I'm in a hurry. Here's how I see
it:
- I am not sure how reliable Samsungs are and therefore I should
probably stay away from them.
- About 8 years ago I had a bad experience with an WD--sometimes the
disk won't spin unless I flicked the case. However, maybe things
have changed since then?
- My laptop has a Fujitsu (MHA2021AT) and I've never had any problems
with it.
- I've heard good things about Maxtor but I've never used one.
Having said this, which brand should I go with? I'm looking for
something reliable and Linux-friendly. The warranty is also important;
if something goes wrong a few years from now, I'd like to be able to
send it back to the manufacturer without hassle. Any recommendations
or horror stories will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
-Dragos
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: Port Linux to a Mountain Dew can!
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:37:29 -0500
Say, what about one of those new Carusoe chips? I understand Linus has
already developed a Linux for them, and low power consumption seems to
be one of their better qualities :=>
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:41:33 +0100
From: Kristian Duus =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8stergaard?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI-128
D Grimm wrote:
> bryant wrote:
>
> > I cannot get my Sound Blaster PCI-128 sound card to work on Red Hat Linux
> > 6.1. I tried using sndconfig, it detects my sound card as a ES1371. Is
> > there anything else I can do?
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
>
> Try using the alsa drivers. You can get them at www.alsa-project.org/ Make
> sure you get the applications, and read the mini how-to. Pay particular
> attention to the section on using amixer (an alsa utility) to unmute the
> card. You unmute it after the drivers are loaded. I use the comands
> 'amixer set Master 100 unmute' and 'amixer set CD 100 unmute'. Also, load
> the snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss to get your kde sound utils to work.
Bryant,
If you compile a recent kernel 2.2.x -> it should detect your PCI-128 as an
ES1370 or ES1371.
My PCI-128 is compiled in the kernel as an ES1370 (yours should probably an
ES1371)
It's been working for quite some time now.
--
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fixing red pixel
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:20:23 -0330
Hello,
I have been running Linux on a laptop with a TFT screen for about
three years or so. Recently I noticed a red dot on my screen that
wasn't there before. Rebooting reveals that this red dot appears
shortly after I turn my laptop on. So it looks like one of the
pixels broke down.
The funny thing is that the pixel changes color as the color it's
supposed to be changes. I am running the X Window system. I would
like to know if there's a way I can tell X to paint that particular
pixel a particular color and leave it painted with that very color
no matter what the window manager and other applications do.
So, does anyone know of an X configuration option or other application
that will do this?
I guess all I need is an application called drawpixel and invoke it
with:
$ drawpixel -geometry +x+y -color color
and make it StaysOnTop in my window manager or something like that.
All suggestions are welcome,
Thanks,
Neil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: Performace with Maxtor 7200RPM 40GB Hard Drive
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:37:03 -0600
In article <uh9C4.20120$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Curtis Magyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recently purchased a 40GB Maxtor IDE drive. I already own a 27.2GB
>version of this drive.
>(http://www.maxtor.com/diamondmaxplus/40p.html)
Go scan the linux-kernel archives and see some recent discussions I had
there. If you've not updated your kernel to either a VERY recent pre-2.4
kernel, or a 2.2.14/2.2.pre15 kernel with ide patches, you're probably not
going to get very far (maybe you already had and I missed the details in
your post).
www.deja.com/usenet and look for something like ~g fa.linux.kernel ide
and go from there.
mrc
--
Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all
www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Setup for USB Ethernet
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:56:12 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8bbc3q$odn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anyone offer tips for setup of a USB ethernet device? I am an AT&T
> @Home subscriber and am trying to use linux to connect to the internet
> via a cable modem and an external USB ethernet device, either a CATV or
> Peracom USB adapter.
My best suggestion is to chuck the USB-to-Ethernet adapter and get a
conventional PCI Ethernet card. These can be had for under $30 (under $15
if you shop carefully), and are likely to cause far less grief than a
flaky USB-to-Ethernet adapter.
If you really must use this thing, check http://www.linux-usb.org for
information. I don't know if anybody's really used such a thing in Linux,
but that's your single best source of information, aside from possibly the
comp.os.linux.hardware or comp.os.linux.networking newsgroups.
> Also, any network configuration tips would be most welcome. Where do I
> start with the configuration? I am running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3.
A lot depends on how your cable modem provider configures its network.
Chances are you'll use DHCP to obtain an IP address and configure most
items automatically. I don't recall exactly how you set this up in COAS,
but COAS does include some fairly easy to use network configuration
tools. The trickiest part will be adding a driver for the USB-to-Ethernet
adapter, if you choose to go that route.
If you need step-by-step instructions, you might want to consult whatever
documentation Caldera provides, or a third-party book. (I've got a few
listed at http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/ and
http://www.rodsbooks.com/books/books-network.html.)
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with SB PCI 128 configurations and conflicts with ATI Xpert 2000 ???
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:41:53 GMT
please help me I bought a SoundBlaster PCI 128 card and I can't get it to
work ??? the chipset should be ES-1370 / ES-1371 BUT it is not !!!! it's
CT-4750 ???
the windows recognizes it well as SoundBlaster PCI 128 though ???
the autodetection under the linux results in Ensoniqe PCI 97 ( ES-1371 )
using different programs from sndconfig (RedHat) Lothar(Mandrake) , and OSS
when I recompile the kernel with Ensoniqe PCI 97 ( ES-1371) support it hangs
while booting after it recognizes the Card and continue for few lines and
just before it finish booting it stops responding ???
another problem is the ATI xpert2000 AGP card it insests on using the Same
IRQ as the Sound Card no matter what I do in the Bios they always get to be
the same IRQ
I'm using a FIC SD-11 motherboard with Athlon 600 processor and AMI BIOS that
only let me to assign which IRQ are to be set for the PCI bus and which for
the ISA / EISA bus BUT not to assign a specific IRQ for a Specific CARD
????
please tell me where is the wrong ???
and what to do ???
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From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux modem......
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:30:08 GMT
Just finished installing Linux on my old 486 computer.What I need is a
modem that will work.Any ideas?The modems that I installed are not
recognized.I try a 56k and a 33.6.No good.Thank you
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "F�bio Vira��o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Window Maker
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:43:35 -0300
Reply-To: "F�bio Vira��o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
New .
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From: p_tux_news (p_tux_news)
Subject: Re: HELP - LOST LINUX TO PARTITION TABLE WIPEOUT!!
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:52:57 GMT
Thank you very much for your help. Since then, there have been a
couple of developments.
I have used diskedit.exe (part of Norton Utilities) to create an
extended partition entry covering all the remaining space (up to the
1024 cylynder limitation). My Boot Magic can now see my linux
partition and I can boot from it. The problem is that Partition Magic
now complains. The reason why it complains is that it says that the
partitions within the extended partition exceed the upper limit of the
extended partition itself (again, this is because of the 1024 cylinder
limit). I feel like something was done to get around this when the
extended partition was created the first time, but since my repair,
that has kind of gone out of synch.
-> I don't know enough about extended partitions, but can anyone help
me with this and tell me what I need to fix so that it doesn't look
like the partitions within the extended partition are going beyond the
upper limit of the extended partition itself?
Also, since recreating the extended partition, I was able to run
partinfo (part of the Partition Magic suite) and obtain the exact
location of the various sectors. Here is the data:
============================================================================================
Partition Information for Disk 1: 13481.0 Megabytes
Volume PartitionType Status Size MB PartSect #
StartSect TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects
============================================================================================
*:EMPTY Hidden FAT16B Pri 2037.6 0 0 63
4,173,057 4,173,057 0
C:WIN98_HDA1 FAT32 Pri,Boot 3802.1 0 1
4,173,183 7,786,737 3,985,158 3,801,579
*:TMP98_HDA1 Hidden FAT32 Pri 1388 0 2
11,959,920 2,842,560 1,827,972 1,014,588
Extended Pri 332.2 0 3 14,802,480
680,400 680,400 0
EPBR Log 4732.4 None -- 14,802,480
9,691,920 9,691,920 0
Warning #113: EPBR partition starting at 14802480 overlaps extended
partition.
Linux Ext2 Log 4732.4 14802480 0
14,802,543 9,691,857 3,135,047 6,556,810
Error #113: Logical starting at 14802543 overlaps extended partition.
Free Space Pri 5921 None -- 15,482,880
12,126,240 0 12,126,240
EPBR Log 132.9 14802480 1 24,494,400
272,160 272,160 0
Warning #113: EPBR partition starting at 24494400 overlaps extended
partition.
Linux Swap Log 132.9 24494400 0
24,494,463 272,097 272,097 0
Error #113: Logical starting at 24494463 overlaps extended partition.
EPBR Log 1388 24494400 1 24,766,560
2,842,560 2,842,560 0
Warning #113: EPBR partition starting at 24766560 overlaps extended
partition.
D:WIN98_HDA2 FAT16B Log 1387.9 24766560 0
24,766,623 2,842,497 351,735 2,490,762
Error #113: Logical starting at 24766623 overlaps extended partition.
QEUSTION -> I guess I have the sector numbers to rebuild the table
with linux fdisk now. Are we absolutely sure that linux fdisk is NOT
like dos fdisk and it only touches the partition tables, leaving the
boot sectors alone?
PS -> I cannot dd to another hard disk. I forgot to mention that this
is a laptop (yes, with a 14Gb hard disk).
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:44:10 +0200, "Andreas Meile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>p_tux_news (p_tux_news) schrieb in Nachricht
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>
>>My disk structure was as follows (approximate sizes):
>> 14Gb hard disk:
>> 2.0Gb FAT16 partition (NT4 Server)
>> 3.8Gb FAT32 partition (Windows 98 SE)
>> 1.4Gb FAT32 partition (Windows 98 SE)
>> 5.7Gb externded partition:
>> 3.8Gb linux ext2 partition
>> 128Mb linux swap partition
>> 1.4Gb logical d: FAT16 partition
>
>
>Linux has a *powerful* fdisk command where you can do nearly everything.
>Another benefit of Linux's "fdisk" is the fact that it modifies only the
>partition table sector, *not* the content itself. Microsft's FDISK.EXE for
>example always overwrites the first sector so remaining data are lost. In
>Linux for example, I also often have "hiddened"/"disabled" partition (for
>example installing a Windows 98 which should not fiddle on an existing
>MS-DOS 6.22 environment or installing IBM OS/2 on a removable medium to
>influence to drive letter assignment during installation). It's also
>possible to delete any (primary only!) entries and recreating them later. If
>you use exactly the same number of cylinders and starting cylinder itself
>with the same fstype itself (for example 0x6 for DOS FAT 16bit), you will
>find your filesystem's content without damages. :-)
>
>Prerequisites for a successful recovery are to know the *exact* layout: What
>was primary partition? What was on a logical drive? How many cylinders
>(exact numbers!) had every partition. A good tip for preventation: Make a
>"p" (Print partition table) inside "fdisk", you will get a valueful
>documentation for printing out and storing on a safe place.
>
>Because you only known the approximate sizes: You only can try working by
>"trial and error": fsck will savely report "bad superblock" when you choosed
>the wrong start cylinder. Note that you may run fsck in "read only" mode!
>When you found the superblock, then you will get an appropriate message that
>the file system size differs so try different sizes until fsck does not
>longer shows any messages.
>
>I know that in such a process, it's easy to even destroy more than recover.
>So if you have a secound harddisk drive where there's at least so much free
>space as the size of your destroyed disk drive, then you can make a backup
>with
>
>dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/fullsave/fullsave_disk_c.bin
>
>Do this *before* every kind of recovery attempt! This saves *every* sector,
>so you can restore to the state like at the beginning to get a further
>chance for restoring when something went wrong by using "dd
>if=/mnt/fullsave/fullsave_disk_c.dat of=/dev/hda".
>
> Andreas
>
>
write to p_tux_news living at yahoo.com
linux: the revenge of the nerds!!
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From: "F�bio Vira��o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Window Maker
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:42:13 -0300
New .
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From: Scott Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR 56k Voice Win
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:03:48 -0600
I've heard several different things from several different sources, I
would appreaciate it if someone could please clarify for me. I have
RedHat 6.1 and I have a "US Robotics 56k Voice Win" modem. Is there any
way that my modem will work under linux? Is there a place that I can
get a driver for it?
Thanks
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