Linux-Hardware Digest #611, Volume #12 Tue, 4 Apr 00 19:13:09 EDT
Contents:
/dev/cdrom not a valid block device (Matthias Mulumba LUMALA)
PCMCIA!!! (EKK)
Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to boot Linux
Kernel 2.2.14 ? (Neil Koozer)
Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to boot Linux
Kernel 2.2.14 ? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: PCMCIA!!! (EKK)
Linux novice having modem troubles (Digital Reality)
GSM Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone? ("nick hanno")
Re: ATA66 and Linux ("Bobby Hitt")
Re: Creative 128PCI problem (Vsevolod Ilyushchenko)
Re: BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access ("Bobby Hitt")
Re: BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access (Hal Burgiss)
Experience using Jaz drive through traveller (Marc Lambrichs)
Re: PCMCIA!!! (EKK)
Re: BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access (NotMe)
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From: Matthias Mulumba LUMALA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: /dev/cdrom not a valid block device
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:22:08 +0200
Hi,
When I installed the RH6.0 system on my computer a month I could
mount the Cdrom's without any problems using the "Mount /mnt/cdrom"
command.
Today things turned out differently. Whenever I type this command I get:
"/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device". I recompiled the kernel last
week to include
port forwarding for my firewall but atapi cdrom support was still
enabled.
"cat /proc/devices" shows "22 ide1" as one of the block devices.
"cat /proc/filesystems" shows "iso9660" as one of the filesystems.
Will someone explain to me briefly what could be the cause of this
error?
Do I have to recompile the kernel?
Thanks to all who reply.
Matthias
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From: EKK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: PCMCIA!!!
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:23:33 -0700
Does RedHat's site actually serve a purpose?
...
Hello,
does the RH6.1 pcmcia-RHEA-1999:044.img boot image actually work?
it gives me a blank list of drivers to pick from when I boot from
this image on my laptop!
the only other option is to try "linux supp" with
RH6.0 which means I would first have to install RH6.0 and
then upgrade to RH6.1.
This also fails miserably.
The PCMCIA card I have is a 3Com589D, fully supported.
None of the combinations of commands suggested by RH on their site
seems to work.
Please feedback anyone who has gotten this to actually work.
Thanks,
AG
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From: Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to
boot Linux Kernel 2.2.14 ?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 13:55:07 -0700
Michael Aye wrote:
>
> Hi there...
>
> Artur Kucharski wrote:
>
> > David Stringer wrote:
> > >
> > > Can anyone help ?
> > >
> > > My current configuration is:
> > > -Abit BE6 motherboard with a built in HPT366 controll
> > > -18.2 GB Quantum Fireball KA
> > > -The disk is partioned like so:
> > > 1: 2 gb fat 32.
> > > 2: 4 gb fat 32
> > > 3: 16mb ext2 (/boot, this is within the first 1024 cylenders)
> > > 4: 3.8 gb ext2 (/)
> > > 5: 256 swap
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Please correct me if i am wrong, but i thought, Linux could only handle SWAP
> partitions with size not bigger as 128MB, or is this only valid for DEBIAN Linux?
Yes. DEBIAN is the only distro I know of that is still using the 2.0
kernel.
Neil.
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Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to boot
Linux Kernel 2.2.14 ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:05:30 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH) says:
>Redhat 6.1 will set you up a 512G swap partition
That's a bit excessive, doncha think? :-)
-Kenny
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Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
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Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: EKK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA!!!
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 10:09:42 -0700
EKK wrote:
>
> Does RedHat's site actually serve a purpose?
>
> ...
>
> Hello,
>
> does the RH6.1 pcmcia-RHEA-1999:044.img boot image actually work?
>
> it gives me a blank list of drivers to pick from when I boot from
> this image on my laptop!
>
> the only other option is to try "linux supp" with
> RH6.0 which means I would first have to install RH6.0 and
> then upgrade to RH6.1.
> This also fails miserably.
>
> The PCMCIA card I have is a 3Com589D, fully supported.
>
> None of the combinations of commands suggested by RH on their site
> seems to work.
>
> Please feedback anyone who has gotten this to actually work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> AG
> --
what's really weird is that upon using pcmcia-RHEA-1999:044.img to
boot, the installation program only gives you the option to install
off a hard-drive. ...hmm why would I use the pcmcia boot image then?
the bootnet image also gets me nowhere, it asks me for what type of
media contains the installation, NFS, FTP or HTTP, but it does NOT
ask me for a PCMCIA driver disk or anything of the sort.
So.....what is the pcmcia boot image for then?????
How on earth do you tell the install boot to accept some additional
drivers/modules/pcmcia stuff ?
AG
--
Alessandro Giachino, Software Engineer
EKK Inc.
2065 West Maple C309 tel. 248-624-9957
Walled Lake MI 48390 fax. 248-624-7158
_____________________________________________
http://www.ekkinc.com
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From: Digital Reality <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux novice having modem troubles
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:32:01 GMT
I have a Toshiba 2615DVD notebook with a 433MHz Intel Celeron
processor. My original modem was a Winmodem, and though it was one that
Lucent had built a driver for, I couldn't quite get it to work ... or at
least, I thought it was the modem. Now I'm not sure. I have since
bought a 3Com 56K external Faxmodem, which is not a winmodem, and I am
having the exact same problem. I've pored over newsgroups and websites,
implored the assistance of tech support (who said they couldn't help
me), and still, I've found nothing. Here's my situation:
My modem is configured and tests fine, but when I attempt to connect
with Kppp, the program hangs on the "Initializing modem..." task. It
never initializes the modem, and I am forced to cancel the process. I
have attempted to use minicom to connect as well, and though it
connects, the connection only last for around ten seconds before I am
disconnected, and I'm not experienced enough with the program (or Linux,
for that matter) to figure out on my own what's going wrong. I would
offer a debugging log from Kppp, but it never reaches the logging
stage. As I said, Kppp hangs during initialization. Does anyone out
there know of a way to solve this problem, or can at least tell me why
this is happening? I'd appreciate it greatly.
A Usenet newbie as well,
Justin
If any other specs are required, just let me know, and I'll do what
I can to provide.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GSM Modem
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:28:01 GMT
I'm trying to set up a GSM modem that will work both in the US and in
Europe. The easiest way would be to have an external modem that
communicates through the serial port. However, until now I've only
found such modems for Europe (i.e. 900 and 1800MHz).
The only triband option (900, 1800 and 1900MHz) are the PCMCIA cards
from Option.com. However, they offer drivers only for Windows.
So, does anybody know of either a) a 1900MHz (US) GSM modem with a
serial (RS232) port or b) a Linux driver for one of the Option cards or
c) some other solution that I'm missing.
Thanks!
Dragos
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "nick hanno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone?
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:46:44 +1000
it must be this BIOS as i'm runnning slackware 7 aswell, but DID have to add
the line...
Bobby Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Bobby Hitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA66 and Linux
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:43:23 -0400
I tried 2.3.4, but had mysterious lockups while the system was idle. Since I
had 4 RAID-1 partitions, it took a long time to verify after reboot.
I've determined that 2.3.40 has both RAID-1 and support for the promise
controller, but 2.3.50 and above do not.
Yes, I'm using the udma66 cable. And I've read that the card only works as
udma-2, aka ultra33.
Bobby
"Michael Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:44:42 -0400, "Bobby Hitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I've been downloading the various 2.3.x kernels to see where RAID/1/4/5
was
> >removed, so far haven't found it. Of course at 19-23 MB per file, it's
going
> >to take a while :^)
> >
> >BTW what type drives are you using? I've used nothing but Maxtor drives
for
> >years, but have seen a couple posts about Maxtors not working with the
> >Promise udma66 controller.
>
> I'm using DeskStar 22GXP model DJNA 372200
> with the Ultra66 Ribbon interface cable. I'm told
> if you don't have that cable(which supposedly is
> limited to a foot long) you don't get Ultra66 support.
>
> From posts I've been reading on the various Linux
> groups, udma33 and udma66 may be tantamount
> to the same thing, as some guys are saying benchmarks
> show no diff.
>
>
>
>
> Mike
>
> --
>
> "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
> -- Groucho Marx
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From: Vsevolod Ilyushchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: Creative 128PCI problem
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:44:48 -0400
> Not all linux' have /dev/sndstat setup (mine doesn't). Debian
> doesn't even set up /dev/audio or anything for you at all.
>
> what distro are you using?
I use Redhat 6.1
> If you have a /dev/audio and /dev/mixer it should work ... what
> happens when you try to play a wav file? anything? can you run
> any mixer programs?
If I use mpg123, I get:
/dev/dsp: No such device (several times)
audio: No such device
Actually, I have just learned about ALSA, and these results are for
their driver. I did not achieve any progress with it, either.
Thanks,
Simon
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From: "Bobby Hitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:46:06 -0400
I'm running a Promise ultra66 with Maxtor drives and have had no problems
with 2.2.14. I switch to 2.3.4 since there was support built into the kernel
for the Promise, but had mysterious lockups, even while idle. I'm running a
Gigabyte dual cpu mobo with 500Mhz celerons.
Bobby
"diggida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi.
> I'm having the same problem on my BP6's, but with different drives /
> CPU's.
>
> After much discussion with various people and excessive testing (I
> have four BP6's) I think it may have something to do with the 2.2.x
> implementation of SMP in this case. This could be because celeron's
> aren't really supposed to do this, or that there is a problem in the
> kernel with SMP for celeron processors. . .
>
> My system was set up as follows:
>
> 300W PSU
> BP6 with NJ bios release
> Dual Celeron 533MHz (not overclocked)
> 256M ECC SDRAM (PC100)
> 5 - Seagate 15.3GB UATA66 drives
> 1 - Quantum fireball lct 5.1GB drive (swap)
> 3c905 10/100 Ethernet Card
> Trident 975 4MB AGP
>
> To test, I tried compiling several SMP kernels of version 2.2.14 with
> the latest Hedrick IDE patch, same problem. I then tried 2.2.15pre14
> SMP with latest IDE patches and it still hangs with no oops. I
> thought it might be the HPT366 so I bought a Promise Ultra66 card and
> disabled HPT366 in the kernel. Same problem. Swapped motherboards,
> video cards, power supplies, RAM, and everything else with other BP6
> based machines, same problem.
>
> I then recompiled under 2.2.15pre14 with the ide patch and NO SMP (you
> have to do 'make distclean' to get rid of all the SMP related stuff
> that will stay behind with just 'make clean'). When in single
> processor mode everything works beautifully, even on the HPT366. I
> tried swapping the processors to see if I had a defective one, but it
> made no difference.
>
> I suppose that since Abit states in the manual that SMP is solely
> experimental, that this could be a problem with their implementation
> of it. It could also be a result of celeron's not being designed for
> SMP use. I'm not an expert by any means, but I have 4 systems running
> this board with multiple processors now (unfortunately 3 are NT/W2k),
> and the other three do SMP with no problems. Could there be some
> unknown issue with the SMP code in the 2.2.x kernels that could cause
> the processors to get out of sync (or confused?) and freeze the box
> with no oops or errors?
>
> This is the wierdest thing I've ever seen from linux, and I've been
> running it since '95 in the 1.x series . . . I've never had a
> hardware problem like this where the machine just goes cold with no
> oops or diagnostic messages. . .
>
> Thoughts?
>
> diggida
>
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:39:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petri Lehtonen)
> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:47:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >(Jehsom) wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I have a 40gb udma66 Maxtor hard drive that I am using as a secondary
hard
> >>drive with my BP6 motherboard. It works fine when I connect it to the
PIIX
> >>(udma33) controller, but when I connect it to the HPT366 (udma66)
> >>controller, it completely hangs my entire linux system.
> >
> >As far as I understand this is a known problem with HPT366 and Maxtor
> >drives and Hedrick is trying to fix the problem.
> >
> >I have exactly the same problem as you and for now I have connected
> >the drive to PIIX controller.
> >
> >Petri
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:46:16 GMT
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 20:26:05 GMT, diggida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having the same problem on my BP6's, but with different drives /
>CPU's.
>
>After much discussion with various people and excessive testing (I
>have four BP6's) I think it may have something to do with the 2.2.x
>implementation of SMP in this case. This could be because celeron's
>aren't really supposed to do this, or that there is a problem in the
>kernel with SMP for celeron processors. . .
Neither I don't think, really. Now there may be a problem with the NIC
driver though, or something along those lines.
>My system was set up as follows:
>
>300W PSU
>BP6 with NJ bios release
Try the QQ Beta BIOS just to see. This has solved lockups for many,
including me, though I think our problems are different. I just had a 42
day uptime before rebooting (and it was by choice this time!).
>Dual Celeron 533MHz (not overclocked)
>256M ECC SDRAM (PC100)
>5 - Seagate 15.3GB UATA66 drives
>1 - Quantum fireball lct 5.1GB drive (swap)
>3c905 10/100 Ethernet Card
>Trident 975 4MB AGP
>
>To test, I tried compiling several SMP kernels of version 2.2.14 with
>the latest Hedrick IDE patch, same problem. I then tried 2.2.15pre14
>SMP with latest IDE patches and it still hangs with no oops. I
>thought it might be the HPT366 so I bought a Promise Ultra66 card and
>disabled HPT366 in the kernel. Same problem. Swapped motherboards,
>video cards, power supplies, RAM, and everything else with other BP6
>based machines, same problem.
Have you tried moving PCI cards around? I would be a bit suspicious of
the NIC causing a conflict (just as a possibility).
>I then recompiled under 2.2.15pre14 with the ide patch and NO SMP (you
>have to do 'make distclean' to get rid of all the SMP related stuff
>that will stay behind with just 'make clean'). When in single
>processor mode everything works beautifully, even on the HPT366. I
>tried swapping the processors to see if I had a defective one, but it
>made no difference.
>
>I suppose that since Abit states in the manual that SMP is solely
>experimental, that this could be a problem with their implementation
>of it. It could also be a result of celeron's not being designed for
>SMP use. I'm not an expert by any means, but I have 4 systems running
>this board with multiple processors now (unfortunately 3 are NT/W2k),
>and the other three do SMP with no problems. Could there be some
>unknown issue with the SMP code in the 2.2.x kernels that could cause
>the processors to get out of sync (or confused?) and freeze the box
>with no oops or errors?
>
>This is the wierdest thing I've ever seen from linux, and I've been
>running it since '95 in the 1.x series . . . I've never had a
>hardware problem like this where the machine just goes cold with no
>oops or diagnostic messages. . .
This board is very temperamental. The HPT is flaky by all accounts. I
would avoid it altogether until you get it stable. Just for reference my
formally lockup prone, but now seemingly stable, setup:
2x400's not OC'd, 2.0v
128M RAM (2x64) PC100
Matrox G200 PCI
2ea 3c905b 100bTX NIC
2ea WD HDD on IDE0 std controller (UDMA33 & UDMA66) -u1d1c1m16
ATAPI CDROM 24x on IDE1, floppy
SB AWE64 ISA
PS/2 mouse and keyboard
kernel: 2.2.15pre9
XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA Server (X always running)
250w PS w/UPS
QQ BIOS
Case fan and heat compound on BX chip
All power management disabled in BIOS.
'noapic' boot option.
Try the 'noapic' too. This may help. The QQ is what made a big
difference for me.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Marc Lambrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Experience using Jaz drive through traveller
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:54:00 +0200
Anyone out there has any experience using Iomega Jaz drive on a linux
box through the parallel port interface (using Iomega's traveller)?
What about installation problems? Speed?
Thanx.
Marc
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From: EKK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA!!!
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 10:32:17 -0700
I found this on RH Linux mailing list, but no solution!!!
...
Posted: 11/11/1998 03:09:13 AM
From: Andrae Muys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ok, here is the problem.
My boss has bought a brand new Toshiba Notebook, specifically for
the
purposes of running Linux on it. A nice little beast, ~156MB of
RAM, and
PCMCIA ethernet and SCSI. Naturally, having an almost direct
ethernet
connection to the primary Australian sunsite mirror, I would like
to do an
FTP install.
Start install.
Do I want to use PCMCIA? Yes
Supp' disk... Initialising PCMCIA...
<Beep>
Second stage install.
(select FTP)
Pick Network Card...
Now this is funny, there isn't an 3c589x listed... (quick check
of the
supported PCMCIA ethernet card list
http://www.redhat.com/support/... yep,
first card on the list [3Com 3c589, 3c589B, 3c589C, 3c589D]).
Go back check the list again... Nope not there.
Check logs (ALT-F3/F4). Lot's of error messages!
cardmgr[14]: couldn't open /var/run/cardmgr.pid No Such File or
Directory.
cardmgr[14]: version 3.0.5
cardmgr[14]: writing 2 sockets
cs: IO Port probe 0x1000 - 0x17ff probe failed.
cs: IO Port probe 0x100 - 0x04ff excluding 0x220-0x22f,
0x330-0x337,
0x378-0x37f, 0x388-0x38f, 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO Port probe 0x0a00-0aff clean
cardmgr[14]: fopen stabfile) failed No such File or Directory
cardmgr[14]: initialising socket 1
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff excluding
0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:clean
cardmgr[14]: socket 1 anonymous memory
cardmgr[14]: executing : 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/memory_cs.o'
memory_cs: mem0 : anonymous : unknown size
cardmgr[14]: fopen(stabfile) failed No such File or Directory
cardmgr[14]: executing : './memory start mem0'
cardmgr[14]: + ./memory : cannot open /var/run/stab : No such
File.
cardmgr[14]: start cmd exited with status 2
Switched to the shell prompt on tty2.
#cat /proc/modules
...
memory_cs 2 0
ds 2 [memory_cs] 2
i82365 5 2
pcmcia_core 9 [memory_cs ds i82365] 0
#cat /proc/devices
Char 127 pcmcia
block 9 md
126 memory
#cat /proc/interrupts
11 i82365
Check spec's on card:
I/O - 16bytes from 200h-3a0h default 300h
irq - 3,5,7,9-12,15 default 10
===
I go to /lib/modules/.../pcmcia/
#insmod 3c589_cs.o
Checking /proc/modules indicates it's loaded. Don't know if it
works, but
at least the module is loaded.
Go back to install program, try and bypass the network adaptor
stage. (Yes
I'm in expert mode). No luck. I try ESC, I try everything I can
think
of, but I can't bypass it.
Neither can I test the network interface because despite loading
two disks
of compressed tools -- One of which is exclusively dedicated to
PCMCIA and
Network installs -- I still don't have the most basic of network
config
tools I need to setup the network!
Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong? Or does anyone
know how to
bypass the adaptor selection dialog? (Note F12 dosn't work).
===
RedHat, you don't really offer a network install option UNTIL you
allow
people to troubleshoot it. This would be about the 12-14th
aborted RedHat
system, aborted ONLY because I couldn't troubleshoot the network
configuration. This has been both embarassing for me personally,
and
extremely detremental to your own reputation. I personally do a
full
order of magnitude more NFS and FTP installs then I do CD
installs.
At the very least I MUST have access to the equivelent of
[andrae@reynier /sbin]$ du /sbin/ifconfig /sbin/route /bin/ping
24 /sbin/ifconfig
24 /sbin/route
15 /bin/ping
That's 64k, most of which is already included in your install
program.
They don't have to be binaries, they can be symbolic links to the
install
program which uses argv[0] to access internal functions if you
want. I
don't care. I only need the functionality. Neither do they have
to be on
the boot disk, only on the supplimentary disk.
Please fix this ASAP.
Andrae Muys
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From: NotMe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:49:32 -0700
The only problem with your theory is that there are many of us out
here who are running Linux with the 2.2.14 kernel and SMP and not
having any problems at all, myself being one of them.
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 20:26:05 GMT, diggida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi.
>I'm having the same problem on my BP6's, but with different drives /
>CPU's.
>
>After much discussion with various people and excessive testing (I
>have four BP6's) I think it may have something to do with the 2.2.x
>implementation of SMP in this case. This could be because celeron's
>aren't really supposed to do this, or that there is a problem in the
>kernel with SMP for celeron processors. . .
>
>My system was set up as follows:
>
>300W PSU
>BP6 with NJ bios release
>Dual Celeron 533MHz (not overclocked)
>256M ECC SDRAM (PC100)
>5 - Seagate 15.3GB UATA66 drives
>1 - Quantum fireball lct 5.1GB drive (swap)
>3c905 10/100 Ethernet Card
>Trident 975 4MB AGP
>
>To test, I tried compiling several SMP kernels of version 2.2.14 with
>the latest Hedrick IDE patch, same problem. I then tried 2.2.15pre14
>SMP with latest IDE patches and it still hangs with no oops. I
>thought it might be the HPT366 so I bought a Promise Ultra66 card and
>disabled HPT366 in the kernel. Same problem. Swapped motherboards,
>video cards, power supplies, RAM, and everything else with other BP6
>based machines, same problem.
>
>I then recompiled under 2.2.15pre14 with the ide patch and NO SMP (you
>have to do 'make distclean' to get rid of all the SMP related stuff
>that will stay behind with just 'make clean'). When in single
>processor mode everything works beautifully, even on the HPT366. I
>tried swapping the processors to see if I had a defective one, but it
>made no difference.
>
>I suppose that since Abit states in the manual that SMP is solely
>experimental, that this could be a problem with their implementation
>of it. It could also be a result of celeron's not being designed for
>SMP use. I'm not an expert by any means, but I have 4 systems running
>this board with multiple processors now (unfortunately 3 are NT/W2k),
>and the other three do SMP with no problems. Could there be some
>unknown issue with the SMP code in the 2.2.x kernels that could cause
>the processors to get out of sync (or confused?) and freeze the box
>with no oops or errors?
>
>This is the wierdest thing I've ever seen from linux, and I've been
>running it since '95 in the 1.x series . . . I've never had a
>hardware problem like this where the machine just goes cold with no
>oops or diagnostic messages. . .
>
>Thoughts?
>
>diggida
>
>On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:39:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petri Lehtonen)
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:47:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>(Jehsom) wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have a 40gb udma66 Maxtor hard drive that I am using as a secondary hard
>>>drive with my BP6 motherboard. It works fine when I connect it to the PIIX
>>>(udma33) controller, but when I connect it to the HPT366 (udma66)
>>>controller, it completely hangs my entire linux system.
>>
>>As far as I understand this is a known problem with HPT366 and Maxtor
>>drives and Hedrick is trying to fix the problem.
>>
>>I have exactly the same problem as you and for now I have connected
>>the drive to PIIX controller.
>>
>>Petri
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