Linux-Hardware Digest #533, Volume #12 Thu, 23 Mar 00 07:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Looking for notebook with external SCSI port to install Solarisx86 ("S.
Ferlioni")
Re: Successful install of SuSE 6.3 on a Cpq Presario 2200 series? (Sven Bovin)
Re: cdrecord problem (Karl-Heinz Herrmann)
Re: Internal Modem for Linux ("Troy M. Turner")
Re: Panasonic 7503 CD-R in Linux? (MADIOT)
Re: EIDE HD manufacturer for Linux ("Jerry")
Keyboard problems with RH6.1 ("Nicholas J. M. Haggin")
Mounting a CDROM with 2 file-systems (Marc Desgeans)
speeding up the parallel port (Filippo)
Re: Linux sucks (Armin Faltl)
Re: STB PCI tv tuner with bttv (chien-yu chen)
Re: QUESTION: Linux Multiprocessor management ("Martin Sinot")
Re: Small and silent Linux hardware (Juha Laiho)
Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs? (Stan Young)
Re: Promise Ultra66 drivers for Redhat 6.1 (Matija Grabnar)
Re: LAN transfer speed ("Martin Beier")
Re: Problem with Lucent WaveLan/IEEE ISA (Jerome Corre)
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From: "S. Ferlioni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Looking for notebook with external SCSI port to install Solarisx86
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:11:54 GMT
Singapore Guy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My internal IDE disk will be setup to dual boot Win98 and 2000.
> Since I cannot boot Solarisx86 or Linux using a PCMCIA attached external
> SCSI disk, my other alternative is to look for a notebook with a small
> expansion unit/port replicator bar that has an external SCSI port to attach
> my
> SCSI disk to. Can someone recommend me a brand/model of notebook
> that has external SCSI support?
>
> Thanks,
> SG
I remember that Siemens had made a Notebook that used scsi drives inside.
I think the model number was something like 800s or so ..
not sure any more .
snoop around www.siemens.com and you might find some info on it ..
actually a nice notebook with a detachable IR keyboard, and magnesium case ..
anyways I hope this helps.
-- Sascha
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Sascha Ferlioni
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From: Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Successful install of SuSE 6.3 on a Cpq Presario 2200 series?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:26:52 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> has anyone successfully installed SuSE 6.3 on a Compaq Presario 2200
> series? I've run into some strange initial installation challenges
> (YAST2 doesn't get past the text-based loading process to the actual
> GUI), and I think they're hardware related, but I don't want to waste a
> tech support call if it's something the general community has already
> encountered and I can fix it myself.
>
> "...how could you be reborn, unless first you had become ashes." -
> Nietzsche
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Have you tried installing using YAST1 ? It is not as
`userfriendly' as YAST2, but it is far more robust.
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From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cdrecord problem
Date: 22 Mar 2000 18:06:22 +0100
Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do you mean "SysV IPC"? I am using cdrecord here on kernel 2.2.5-15,
> but do not have SysV filesystem installed, and it works like a charm.
> I do, however, have SysV IPC compiled in.
Thats just as well :-)
Only difference between compiled in and module ist, that the module
wont take up kernel space as long as it's not used (basically from a
user point of few anyway).
If you wouldn't have it compiled in *and* not as module it probably
wouldn't work, according to some remark by Joerg Schilling.
K.-H.
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 03:01:34 -0500
From: "Troy M. Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Internal Modem for Linux
>
Try an Actiontec PCI Call Waiting modem. www.actiontec.com.
$79.00 at Best buy
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From: MADIOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Panasonic 7503 CD-R in Linux?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:30:12 GMT
I got one for six months now, updated firmware to 1.08, and got no problem
burning CD's . I used Xcdroast. It appears to be a good fast capable unit.
Don't know about others, like Plextor .
bye
No one in particular wrote:
>
>
> I'm planning to buy a CD-R, and right now it appears that the Panasonic
> 7503B is what I want. Has anyone any experience with this drive in
> Linux?
>
> bye----
> ymca
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From: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EIDE HD manufacturer for Linux
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:53:02 GMT
Dragos-Anton-
Not to get into a flame war over the preferences of drives... I would like
to recommend Quantum, Maxtor, and IBM. I have used the first two
extensively, and the third comes with heavy recommendations from many
people.
Everyone has their favorites, and Maxtors definitely seem to be the lowest
priced/storage... You might also want to get the recommendation of a shop
that you plan to buy the drive from, they tend to see the bad lots come back
in.
There are many (and in the industry) that really like Western Digital.
That's great, and it's even better that they've had some great experiences
with Western Digital. I have about 4 or 5 dead Western Digitals of various
sizes. Western Digital recently had a recall on a series of drive, so you
might want to check that out. Their Expert line appears to be made by IBM,
and might give you a better price/performance ratio.
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>
> 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: "Nicholas J. M. Haggin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Keyboard problems with RH6.1
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 03:24:24 -0600
After installing RH6.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 and rebooting, I
could not type a single character at the login prompt. However, I can
force it into interactive startup and, once finished, the keyboard works
just fine. Any ideas?
NJMH
A.M.D.G.
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From: Marc Desgeans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Mounting a CDROM with 2 file-systems
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:28:31 GMT
Hi Everybody,
My problem may be difficult to understand. I have a data CD-R with 3
tracks burned on it. The first 2 tracks where burned in a multi-session,
thus building 1 iso9660 filesystem. The guy who burned the 3rd track
forgot to turn the multi-session on, thus probably building a new
iso9660 filesystem on the CD. Now i have the following interesting
behaviour:
Mounting the CD with linux provides access to the 3rd track only, i.e.
the 2nd filesystem. I also get the message (dmesg output):
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
Mounting the CD with Solaris 2.6 or OpenBSD gives me access to the 1st
filesystem.
However i could not manage to tell the mounter which root it shall use.
To my understanding, i have a CD with several partitions on it. Does
anyone have an idea how i could access the 1st filesystem under linux?
I've tried the -L <label> option from 'mount', using the label of the
first filesytem, but without success.
Marc
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From: Filippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: speeding up the parallel port
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:29:30 GMT
I have a Linux printserver connected (it's the only way) to an HP3500CP
plotter. Using the JetDirect interface brings lots of problem, for the
server is acting in a Mac network. Here's what I get from
/proc/parport/0/
server:/# cat /proc/parport/0/autoprobe
CLASS:PRINTER;
MODEL:HP DesignJet 3500CP (C4724A);
MANUFACTURER:Hewlett-Packard;
DESCRIPTION:Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 3500CP (F sized);
COMMAND SET:PML,MLC,PJL,HP-GL/2,RTL,POSTSCRIPT;
server:/# cat /proc/parport/0/hardware
base: 0x378
irq: 7
dma: none
modes: SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2
The problem is that with EPP is not fast as it should be. Do you know of
any possible speed-up?
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error.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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From: Armin Faltl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:23:57 +0100
For unkown reasons today in morning I was aware I had to
clarify my own missleadings!
Armin Faltl wrote:
>
> In other words: a gateway is a machine or device that knows of two
> or more local networks. A UNIX machine is a network in itself,
> which only consists of "localhost" (127.0.0.1). Every other
> destination needs routing, wich is done by the kernels routing
> table. Since you got a single network card, that device will
> be your default route (mean's: where do I send packets, that
> are not covered by any ohter entry in the routing table).
> If you have a modem, your machine with the modem will be
> the gateway to the ISP for the rest of your local net (and
> the machine itself).
This means: your local net is no longer the default route.
To make a useful routing table, one has to obay the pattern
"special rule goes before general rule".
So you got an entry for your local net, and
the ISP is your gateway. It's the default route,
since behind the ISP there is the >>REST OF THE WORLD<<.
> >
> > Wait! Are you telling me I don't need to set a gateway on my
> > three-computer home network if it is not connected to the Internet?
> > What if each computer has a dialup modem and is connected to an ISP
> > once in a while?
>
> See above; under linux you need a routing entry, that tells
> what network interface (card) to use, for the desinations
> of your LAN, but since they are all in the same (sub)net,
> this is only one entry.
>
> In the three modem configuration, all the machines can be
> gateways from your LAN to the corresponding ISP, assuming
> they are different. This implies, the IP-addresses of the
> providers (destinations) are different. Otherwise the first
> entry in the routing table would be used, and only that
> machine would connect to the provider. But this makes
> sense, only if you got several phone lines, of course;)
With above configuration the desinations must not be the
providers. Otherwise one would only reach the ISPs
themselves, and a default route into your own LAN
would hide everything behind them, see above:-(
Having serveral routes to the same destination (rest o. w.),
makes only sense for dynamic routing, e.g. to implement
load balancing, but that's an advanced topic.
-- if this is still wrong, pleas hint me, not hit me --
Regards, Armin
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From: chien-yu chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: STB PCI tv tuner with bttv
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:40:55 -0600
> My (somewhat older) STB PCI always starts in muted mode under xawtv.
> I usually just go to the xawtv window and press 'a', which unmutes for
> me. If you right-click in the xawtv window you should get a menu
> which lets you mangle other settings.
no. this is not the problem. have been playing with this for the whole
week and still no progress. seems like the driver init. teh TDA9850
chip alright...i2cWrite comes back successful...so...
thanks for the help though
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From: "Martin Sinot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,co
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Linux Multiprocessor management
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:38:06 GMT
Christian Langis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>We see that the usertime column increases with different increments (30,
15, 21, 14...) >hile the system time increases as well with more regular
increments. However, it is >disturbing to see such high system time (and
order more than user time ?!) since our test >program doesn't use the system
at all. The last observation is that the total of both >increases very
regularly.
>Why???
Your program DOES use the system. And fairly heavily, too. It prints, and
printing things is a pretty heavy operation. So what you see is true - most
of the time is indeed spent in the system. Try collecting the results and
print everything at once at the end of the simulation, and you will see
that the system times almost drop to zero.
Oh, and would you please send postings in plain text instead of rich text
please?
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Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Subject: Re: Small and silent Linux hardware
From: Juha Laiho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:22:16 GMT
In article <8b9240$6cr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
I'm considering pretty much the same.. but I think in reality you won't
get rid of spinning disks or fans, so the quality of fans and disks,
as well as quality of casing matters a lot.
As for the components, see http://www.pc104.com/ .
..Juha
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Young)
Date: 23 Mar 2000 05:25:50 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Harkless) wrote in
Lexmark printers.
>
>Could people who've installed SIMMs in their Optra Color 40s and have
>verified that they work say what they used? I know a lot of people in
>past posts said "just raid your old 486", but I don't have one, so I
>need to know what I can buy that will work.
>
>Thanks, and sorry this was so long-winded (I just expected all this
>research to get me closer to the answer than it has).
>
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Goto http://www.crucial.com/index.asp and you can pick the right
memory for you printer. Great people to work with.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matija Grabnar)
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 drivers for Redhat 6.1
Date: 23 Mar 2000 11:56:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8b3hih$3su$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But certainly you dont need extra drivers for RH6.1. The problem
>though is that you cant enable DMA trasfer (at least not myself!).
The UDMA-howto contains the URL of the unified IDE patch. If you apply this
patch to your kernel, linux will autodetect the promise board (no more
entering ide data at the boot prompt) and it will enable the DMA for disks
being run by that board:
hdparm -Tt /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 0.72 seconds =88.89 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 1.68 seconds =19.05 MB/sec
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From: "Martin Beier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: LAN transfer speed
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:33:55 +0100
Frenzy Killa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
guQB4.8961$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm having low transfer speeds between two computers connected through a
> single twisted pair cable.
>
It is not clear to me if you are transfering lots of small files or just
some few big ones!
Note, that your best hardware won't help you if you are loading small files:
it takes
much time to create inodes etc. If so, better create a single archive for
transfer
and check out if the up/download times are still that worse!
*Have Fun*
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From: Jerome Corre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problem with Lucent WaveLan/IEEE ISA
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:46:01 GMT
In article <8aul8p$elv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Anthony Hinsinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> i'm trying to install a WaveLan/IEEE ISA card (compose by a pcmcia
wavelan
> card and a ISA-to-PCMCIA card) on a linux RedHat 6.1.
>
> pcmcia_core.o module is loading....
> i82365.o module doesn't find my ISA-to-PCMCIA card (based on a Vadem
VG-469
> Chip)
>
> dmesg output - > Intel PCIC probe: not found.
>
> (pcmcia-cs-3.1.13 installed on a 2.2.14 kernel)
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks Anthony
>
This is part of the read me file which come with the last version of
the linux driver for the wavelan (now orinoco). check www.wavelan to
get the file.
5.1 Using the WaveLAN/ISA adapter
Description: The WaveLAN/IEEE solutions was designed
as a one-card solution, providing the same
PC Card type for operation in standard
Type II PC Card slots of either:
* laptop computers or
* Lucent Technologies WavePOINT-IIs.
To allow operation in desktop computers
Lucent also provides an optional ISA bus
to PC Card adapter (also referred to as
"swapbox").
This WaveLAN ISA Adapter can be configured
for two different I/O Address values:
* 3E2 (factory-set default)
* 3E0
Impact: By default the i82365 module of the Linux
pcmcia package will only probe at 3E0.
Action: 1) Read the manual page on the probing
of the i82365 module, by typing the
command:
man i82365
2) Apply one of the two following options:
a) Change the I/O address strapping of
the ISA card by replacing the jumper
on the ISA board.
The correct jumper setting is
pictured in Figure C-1 of Appendix C
in the electronic user's guide
provided on the WaveLAN Software
CD-ROM. This guide is provided in
Adobe's Acrobat PDF format.
b) Alternatively, you can load the
i82365 module with the
"extra_sockets" parameter set to 1.
salut
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