Linux-Hardware Digest #606, Volume #12 Tue, 4 Apr 00 07:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: kernel processor type for AMD-K6-2 ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Listening For Ports, How ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SoundBlaster Live and RedHat Linux 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mounting second hard disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
how to install network driver? (ajax)
Re: ATA66 and Linux ("Bobby Hitt")
Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone? ("Bobby Hitt")
anybody using new AIT technology tape drives? (Michal Szymanski)
Re: Question from a Linux wannabe ("PJC")
Re: laptop compatability question.... (robert t. lemmon)
WinTV + GA-586STX2 (Torsten Blank)
Re: Question from a Linux wannabe (Andrew Wong)
Dual celeron system? (Erik Max Francis)
quantum 13GB HDD and Suse 6.3 (J Mars)
Hardware config. ("Mark Thompson")
Re: Dual celeron system? (Dave Thompson)
Re: Soundblaster Live! Value card not supported ("Roaster")
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Date: 4 Apr 2000 0:38:42 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel processor type for AMD-K6-2
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Dragos A.;
DAM> I find AMD's naming scheme of the K6 family pretty confusing.
DAM> What processor type should I select when I build a new kernel
DAM> for an AMD-K6-2, "PPro/6x86MX" or "Pentium/K6/TSC"? I thought
DAM> the K6-2 has the additional goodies of the PPro (plus the 3D-now
DAM> stuff). I could be wrong though... Thanks!
DAM> -Dragos
I've been running all my compiles with the Pentium/K6/TSC switch set,
seems to be ok.
Cheers, Gene
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RC5-Moo! 350kkeys/sec, Seti@home 16 hrs a block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Listening For Ports, How ???
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:22:40 -0800
In article <8ca0nb$2btv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Paul McGrath"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Does anyone know how to make a port available for tcp/ip listening. I've
> been asked to open port 4107 for tcp/ip connection so as our firewall can
> transmit its log files to us. I'm using SuSe Linux 6.3.
Unless you are running firewall software on the linux box you do not specifically open
a port, you tell an application (like ftp or telnet) to listen on a specified port.
You need to find out what application the firewall is trying to contact, then run that
application at port 4107.
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Jim Zubb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live and RedHat Linux 6.2
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:25:09 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vassilios Kassapidis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any one have an idea for a driver for Sound Blaster Live for Linux? (I have
> Redhat 6.2) that supports serial multiprocessing? (SMP)
> (with instructions for installation! :-))) )
>
> The one I found fron Creative Does not support SMP :-(((
> (i had to turn of my kernel smp support off!)
>
Go to opensource.creative.com and download the latest source and compile. should work
fine with smp.
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Jim Zubb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mounting second hard disk
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:42:13 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Markus Wagner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I partition my second harddisk with cfdisk as one large Linux
> partition I get the following results:
>
> cfdisk reports one partition "sdb5".
> fdisk reports two partitions: "sdb1: Extended", "sdb5: Linux", both
> occupy the same disk area
>
> Why do I get two partitions?
When you use extended partition you create a logical partition upon the extended
partition. You use the logical partitions device number when mounting, you never use
the extended partitions number. So in your case, when you mount the new partition you
use /dev/sdb5.
> Why aren't the partitions numbered incrementally?
> What's the difference between "primary" and "logical" partition?
This is for x86 Linux only...
Primary partitions are just normal partitions. Logical partitions are partitions
which are created within extended parition space. So if you have a 2 GB extended
partition you can create 2 1GB logical partitions on the extended partition disk.
In Linux it does not matter which you use, however you can only have 4 real partitions
(a remnant of the good old days) so you create an extended (you can only have one) to
allow you to create logical partitions.
So you can have 3 primary partitions and one extended. Then within the extended
partition you can create many logical partitions (don't remember the limit offhand).
I think there is a partitioning mini-howto, so if you need more info look around the
doc sites.
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Jim Zubb
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From: ajax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to install network driver?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 06:30:20 GMT
let say i got network card driver on my rh6.0 (Realtek 2139, i download frm
linhardware.com) but the things is that i dont now how to link the driver
because rh6.0 do not recogniced my eth0? pls help ...
thanx for advance.
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From: "Bobby Hitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: ATA66 and Linux
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 02:33:21 -0400
Is kernel version "2.3.4" a misprint? I'm looking at the 2.3.x kernels now,
and so far, I see support for the Promise controllers, but don't see support
for software RAID-1/4/5, which I need.
Bobby
"Michael Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8cbkif$1jve$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) writes:
> > On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:43:53 +0000, Prem S Kang
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> >
> > UDMA66 drives work fine in UDMA33 mode. They can't run in UDMA66 mode
> > (at least with RH6.x) since there is absolutely no support for this in
> > the stock RH kernels. It was not even available at the time 6.0 came
> > out. 2.3 kernels have this, and there is a patch for 2.2. Dunno about
> > Mandrake, maybe the patch is in there. What does hdparm, hdparm -i, and
> > hdparm -tT say for your drive?
> >
>
> Hi Hal! Just thought I'd followup since now I see the difference to
> some kind of udma! Wow! Just for curiosity's sake, here's some
> numbers from bonnie with 2.2.12 kernel:
>
> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential
Input-- --Random--
> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per
Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec
%CPU
> 100 4152 85.6 6723 93.2 2610 72.6 4289 49.1 34005 70.7
5793.3 34.8
>
>
> Now here's the numbers after I compiled 2.3.4 kernel with Promise
support(PDC4whatever driver):
>
>
> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential
Input-- --Random--
> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per
Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec
%CPU
> 100 21507 93.5 22018 21.7 5797 13.6 11654 42.1 92221 39.6
4785.0 32.3
>
>
> Like, wow! I just hope everything keeps working and fsck doesn't get sick
on it!
>
> --
>
> Mike
> --
> "I don't want to belong to any club that would have *me* as a member!"
> -- Groucho Marx
>
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From: "Bobby Hitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone?
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 02:35:47 -0400
I'm currently running 2.2.13, but am pretty sure it's been working at least
on 2.2.5 and up.
Bobby
"Mickey Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Which kernel are you using? I thought I read some kernel erratta somewhere
that
> mentioned ramsize autodetect in one of the newer kernels.
> Mick
>
>
> Bobby Hitt wrote:
>
> > I'm running Slackware 7.0 with 128 MB of RAM, and didn't have to add the
> > "mem=128M" line to lilo. A while back I installed RedHat 6.0 on a system
> > with 128 MB, and it only showed 64MB. This appears to be associated with
the
> > distribution, not with the kernel.
> >
> > Bobby
> >
> > "nick hanno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > just add the line
> > >
> > > append="mem=128M"
> > >
> > > to the global section in /etc/lilo.conf and run 'lilo' to re-install
it
> > and
> > > reboot...
> > >
> > > show work now...
> > >
> > > Nick.
> > >
> > >
> > > Kris Luyten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:8c9dvc$fg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > Can anybody help me with this one: I have a PC with 128 MD RAM and I
am
> > > > using the latest Mandrake release. When I boot Microsoft it detects
128
> > mb
> > > > ram, but when I boot Linux it only detects and _uses_ 64 mb ram. I
NEED
> > > the
> > > > 128 mb because I am using JBuilder foundation for Java development
while
> > > > working with PostGres (on Linux of course) and JBuilder (with the
JRE)
> > > eats
> > > > lots of RAM.
> > > >
> > > > My configuration: AMD Athlon 600 Mhz.
> > > > 128 MB RAM (like mentioned :-)).
> > > > ASUS K7M motherboard.
> > > > Matrox G400 Millenium Max.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanx, Kris
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal Szymanski)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: anybody using new AIT technology tape drives?
Date: 4 Apr 2000 06:55:43 GMT
Hi all,
I'm looking for people having any experience with new Advanced
Intelligent Tape (AIT) drives, possibly the AIT-2 standard
(and willing to share this experience ;-)
Is it supported by standard SCSI/tape drivers in Solaris/Linux?
Does it really have "advertised" performance?
Which vendors to choose? Etc. etc. etc.
Any information will be appreciated,
regards, Michal.
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Michal Szymanski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND
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From: "PJC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question from a Linux wannabe
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 02:53:56 -0400
There is nothing "special" about Linux other than the price - FREE. Just
about everything you can do on Linux can be done on any other operating
system. However, mostly due to the GPL (Gnu Public License) you will find
that anyone and their dog develop apps for Linux. The result of all this
is that you get a whole lot more FLEXIBILITY and can do a lot more TWEAKING
than you could on proprietary operating systems. To be perfectly honest the
best thing about Linux is that it can be ported to run on just about any
hardware. Everything from Macs to Alphas to Sparcs to you standard 386 can
run Linux with some success. The only exception being hardware designed for
specific operating systems (winprinters, winmodems,...) Again, this is all
b/c Linux is not developed by any specific company or group (can you imagine
Microsoft making win98 for the Power PC?). A better question for you to ask
would be what do people use Linux for? For most people Linux doesn't really
make sense due to time and effort that goes into tweaking (however with
RedHat 6.2, Mandrake 7.0 and Suse 6.3 things are changing), but for does who
want to play with it or just want to setup a machine that they have complete
(and I do mean COMPLETE) control over, it is the only way to go.
P.S. You will notice that most people who run Linux also run another OS,
something to think about.
Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have been considering trying to install Linux but the more I read in the
NG's for linux the more
> apprehensive I become.I ain't no genius and it seems as though there are a
lot of problems with
> installation and hardware support and all.Is it really worth it?What is so
special about Linux that
> makes people change over?Is it faster,stronger,got more bells and
whistles?What is it that people
> see about Linux that makes them decide to switch over?
> I really am serious with these questions.If I can get some idea about
what's special about Linux,
> maybe I'll give it a try.Any help with this would sure be appreciated.
>
>
> If you can't dazzle em with brilliance,
> baffle em with bullshit
> Shakespeer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert t. lemmon)
Subject: Re: laptop compatability question....
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 16:37:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 13:36:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am considering buying my friends Compaq 1800 laptop. It has a 600 P3
>processor, 64mb memory, an 8mb ATI mobility 3D card, and 12.0G
i have gateway 9300 laptop with similar setup - i installed linux OK
but you will have to wait a little for video card support on an
install CD - if you are fluent in Linux u can download XFree 3.3.6
which supports ATI mobility. u may also want to install an external
modem.....
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From: Torsten Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WinTV + GA-586STX2
Date: 04 Apr 2000 10:44:22 +0200
Is there anyone with a WinTV frame grabber card and a Gigabyte
GA-586STX2 mainboard? My opinion is, that this combination doesn't
work with linux. I got kernel freezes when i try to watch tv in
overlay mode.
Torsten Blank
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:51:20 +0800
From: Andrew Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question from a Linux wannabe
Bill wrote:
> I have been considering trying to install Linux but the more I read in the NG's for
>linux the more
> apprehensive I become.I ain't no genius and it seems as though there are a lot of
>problems with
> installation and hardware support and all.Is it really worth it?What is so special
>about Linux that
> makes people change over?Is it faster,stronger,got more bells and whistles?What is
>it that people
> see about Linux that makes them decide to switch over?
> I really am serious with these questions.If I can get some idea about what's
>special about Linux,
> maybe I'll give it a try.Any help with this would sure be appreciated.
>
> If you can't dazzle em with brilliance,
> baffle em with bullshit
> Shakespeer
http://www.linux.com to read more bout linux.
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From: Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Dual celeron system?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 02:12:26 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My dual Pentium Pro 200 MHz system is finally reaching the end of its
life, and it's time for me to upgrade. I'm not particularly interested
in forking out the dough for a dual Pentium III system (not to mention
the fact that availability is a joke lately), but a dual Celeron system
sounds good.
I looked through some online catalogues of local shops, and the only
dual Celeron motherboard I could find was the ABIT BP6. From the user
guide (freely downloadable), it is listed as only working with speeds up
to 433 MHz.
The latest Celeron speeds available are 500 and 533 MHz. Does anyone
know if these simply will not work with the BP6, or is it just the case
that the documentation writers for it listed the highest speed Celeron
available at the time?
Any other suggestions for someone interested in upgrading to a dual
Celeron system, given that he's been running a dual Pentium Pro for
several years? Thanks.
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Alcyone Systems | web http://www.alcyone.com/max/ | q3a Product
San Jose, CA | languages en, eo | icbm 37 20 07 N 121 53 38 W
USA | 968.994 Ms p.L. | 272 days left | &tSftDotIotE
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From: J Mars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: quantum 13GB HDD and Suse 6.3
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:30:08 GMT
I have a 13GB Quantum drive, which I successfully installed with diskgo,
since my bios does not recognise the capacity. However, when I wanted to
install Ss\use 6.3 I got a drive failure message. Please help.
[HDD's western digital 4.3GB, quantum 13GB, pentium 133, RAM 48MB]
Thanks.
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From: "Mark Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hardware config.
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:01:05 +1200
I'm buying a new machine soon, so here are the specs, does anyone know if
Linux likes them?
Panasonic Panasync/Pro P70
Abit BP6 Dual Celeron Motherboard
2 x Intel Celeron 500A Processors
CNet 10/100 NIC
Maxi Tower Case
128 MB SDRAM
20GB Seagate Barracuda
Keyboard
Logitech Mouseman Wheel
Sound Blaster Live OEM
Hewlett Packard 8250i (4x4x24x)
8x CD-Rom
180watt Speakers
100MB zip drive (External)
Riva TNT2 M64 32MB AGP Graphics Adaptor
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Cheers,
Marc Thompson
Website: http://i.need.proz.ac.nz/~voy1d/
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 42617502
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From: Dave Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Dual celeron system?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 10:32:47 GMT
I've got two bp6's -- one running only one celeron 400 at 500mhz (bus speed
running at 80), and one with dual 500's running at 589 (again bus speed
running at 80).
the board itself supports all the latest gear -- check out www.abit-usa.com
Dave Thompson
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> My dual Pentium Pro 200 MHz system is finally reaching the end of its
> life, and it's time for me to upgrade. I'm not particularly interested
> in forking out the dough for a dual Pentium III system (not to mention
> the fact that availability is a joke lately), but a dual Celeron system
> sounds good.
>
> I looked through some online catalogues of local shops, and the only
> dual Celeron motherboard I could find was the ABIT BP6. From the user
> guide (freely downloadable), it is listed as only working with speeds up
> to 433 MHz.
>
> The latest Celeron speeds available are 500 and 533 MHz. Does anyone
> know if these simply will not work with the BP6, or is it just the case
> that the documentation writers for it listed the highest speed Celeron
> available at the time?
>
> Any other suggestions for someone interested in upgrading to a dual
> Celeron system, given that he's been running a dual Pentium Pro for
> several years? Thanks.
>
> --
> Erik Max Francis | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | icq 16063900
> Alcyone Systems | web http://www.alcyone.com/max/ | q3a Product
> San Jose, CA | languages en, eo | icbm 37 20 07 N 121 53 38 W
> USA | 968.994 Ms p.L. | 272 days left | &tSftDotIotE
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From: "Roaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster Live! Value card not supported
Date: 4 Apr 2000 10:58:23 GMT
>
> Cheers, Gene
> --
> Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 400mhz
> Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |This Space for rent
> RC5-Moo! 350kkeys/sec, Seti@home 16 hrs a block
> email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
> This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material, is
> � 2000 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
> --
>
>
What kind of a signature is that guff?
No offence, but whats the point? oh, right interesting hearing how may RC5
/ Seti blocks you can rattle off - and really? Still using an Amiga???
Sorry, but of all the sigs i've seen recently, with geek codes etc, this
still rates as pretty sorry.
Chris.
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