Linux-Hardware Digest #662, Volume #12 Tue, 11 Apr 00 23:13:50 EDT
Contents:
Re: Driver for Yamaha DS-XG ("Thys de Wet")
trio 3D et suse 6.4 ("lem")
Re: Will a plextor ide cdrw 8/4/32 work? ("John Q. Lalas")
bios upgrade (artex)
Re: Controling computer with Remote. (Andrey Vlasov)
ZIP drive partition problem (bill davidsen)
Re: Logitech mouse (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Logitech mouse?! Part2 (Tony Curtis)
Re: eth0 failed (Lucky)
Re: Idea !!! (nightstalker)
Re: XFree 4.0 and Logitech Mouse (Roy Anger)
Re: ZIP drive partition problem ("ne...")
Re: Linux laptop recommendations for a year in Spain. ("Peter T. Breuer")
256 memory stack dump problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: high altitude modern systems performance (Kenneth Mankoff)
Uresolved Extern Function for sound dsp (Jaroslaw M Myszewski)
Linux Hardware Configuration ("Eric White")
Re: Fixed Freq Monitor (patrum)
Re: Idea !!! (Kenneth Mankoff)
Re: harddisk tragedy (Kenneth Mankoff)
Re: DHCP not working in kernel 2.2.x, was OK in 2.0.36 (The Bard)
Re: K90network, ifup-ippp help me ("����ȣ")
Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 12 Apr ("K.Tsakaloglou")
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From: "Thys de Wet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for Yamaha DS-XG
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:36:51 +0200
Is there any other way than the dos route ????
Please help......
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From: "lem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trio 3D et suse 6.4
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:28:25 +0200
I just installed suse 6.4 on my PC and I didn't find any working
configuration for my video card
I 'm using XF86config.
I tryed all possibilities ( with XF86_SVGA & XF86VGA16 ) each time i start X
I got a Black screen
I tryed also XF_86_S3 but it is not recognised .
Does anyone have any experience with this card ?
Are their many models of such card ?
Should I buy another video card to use linux ?
Thanks.
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From: "John Q. Lalas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will a plextor ide cdrw 8/4/32 work?
Date: 11 Apr 2000 20:37:39 GMT
Jim Bisnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am looking to build a system with a plextor 8/4/32 cdrw. Will this
: work under linux? Will it see the ide cdrom at least? Will I be able to
: burn a cd under linux??
According to linux.com, it is usable under 2.2.14 and will burn
cd pretty fast.
Let me ask you this, I was looking at the plextor, Sony Spressa 8/4/32, and
the Yamaha 8/4/24, why did you choose the plextor? The three seem to be
pretty good.
--
c ya,
John Q. Lalas, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: artex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bios upgrade
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:07:32 GMT
hello,
i have been looking for my bios upgrade coz my old bios doesn't
recognize my 10gb hard drive.
Anyone can help me out ?
here is the information i've got
Award modular bios
Sis-5511-5513-2ASIDA19C
date: 10/04/95
thanks !!
ps : i have tried the award site but :-(
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Controling computer with Remote.
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:11:45 -0700
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Look here,
http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/IR-HOWTO.html
Andrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> #include <std/disclaimer.h>
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to control my server with my TV remote. Therfore I recon I will need to
> build a IR recever, decode the signial and build a deamon wich will let the
> computer preform tasks when a certan 'code' is receved.
>
> Has annyone of you had any experiance with this?
>
> --
>
> grntz
> SysV
>
> The internet would be a far better place if PPP and TCP/IP
> support was never implemented in microsoft products.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ZIP drive partition problem
Date: 11 Apr 2000 21:13:11 GMT
I just installed a ZIP drive, 100MB internal ATAPI, in a system, and
I'm having an interesting problem. After I booted, I couldn't find the
partition table on any of my existing ZIP media.
My first thought was that the media might be bad. I wrote a new
partition table on a spare media, made a file system, write to it,
unmounted, pulled it out, put it back, mounted it... and it worked fine.
So that seems to let the hardware out. I took a disk which had been used
as a 100MB tape, with a backup just written as root to /dev/hdd. I was
able to read that just fine.
I was getting pretty sure that I really had erased my existing disks,
so I put them in another ZIP drive on another system. I have another
100MB internal ATAPI, a parallel 100, and an external SCSI 100. Lo and
behold the disks I wrote on old drives were all okay, the disk with a
partition table written on the new drive was not readable, and the disk
with the backup was perfectly readable on any drive. Since the backup
was a cpio with CRC on each file, I'm sure the data was read correctly.,
and I printed a table of contents which was correct.
Is there some magic which tells the system where to find the partition
table or some such? Any ideas at all? If it helps, the unit is now made
under license by Panasonic, and it's hdb on the new system, due to cable
problems, this is an 11 bay tower, and the only free cable drop was
there, until I get another cable made up.
I checked master and slave settings, and the hda drive is okay, the
physical end to end read was okay, so I think the hardware is fine. I
also tried a 2.2.14, 2.2.15pre14, 2.3.48 and 2.3.99pre3kernel boot to
see if that made any difference. It didn't, all worked the same. Since
my kernels work on other systems, and read the physical sectors
correctly, I suspect a setup trick on this drive.
I am now sort of out of ideas, unless someone has a clear idea of
what's happening.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
"Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979"(tm)
The hardest test of maturity is knowing the difference between
resisting temptation and missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech mouse
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:16:43 -0700
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Try to check here
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
http://jcatki.dhs.org/imwheel/
there is info about Logitech mouse with wheel. (I beleive that you have that one)
Andrey
Cihl wrote:
> MC wrote:
>
> > The installation of COREL Linux OS is working fine. But after the first
> > restart and booting of the KDE my mouse (Logitech First Pilot mouse, serial)
> > doesn't work! I can't move it anymore! I can only climb through the menus
> > via the keyboard. That's my problem! I could solve this problem in Win98,
> > but I'm a absolute newbie in Linux (just want to see what's the difference
> > between Win and Linux)!
> >
> > Please help me!
>
> Did you see any mouse configuration in the installation procedure somewhere?
> I'm not familiar with Corel Linux but i'm pretty sure the mouse should also be
> working during the graphical installation. Did you try switching the mouse to
> another com-port? (i mean physically plug it over)
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech mouse?! Part2
Date: 11 Apr 2000 16:26:18 -0500
>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:50:56 +0200,
>> "MC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The installation of COREL Linux OS is working fine. But
> after the first restart and booting of the KDE my mouse
> (Logitech First Pilot mouse, serial) doesn't work! I
> can't move it anymore! I can only climb through the
> menus via the keyboard. That's my problem! I could solve
> this problem in Win98, but I'm a absolute newbie in
> Linux (just want to see what's the difference between
> Win and Linux)!
> Please help me!
Please stop posting the same article over and over again!
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Subject: Re: eth0 failed
From: Lucky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:32:02 -0700
OK then try using "pump" to initialize the card. That worked for
me once when nothing else would. 6.2 should already have it
installed.
>Pump fails. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup uses pump and
that's what fails on DHCP.
If I set a fixed IP for my workstation, the network comes up.
This works fine with kernel 2.0.36. It fails on kernel 2.2.x. It
seems that something is fundamentally different in the handling
of DHCP with kernel 2.2.x. It just won't come up on DHCP.
Any other ideas?
I guess I would try recompiling the kernel with the card's module
and some added network options and hope they somehow help <shrug>
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From: nightstalker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Idea !!!
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:03:51 GMT
Akbar Avliyaev wrote:
> The main problem of Linux is hardware support.
> On the other hand Windows supports most of hardware,
> most vendors ship products with drivers for windows.
> I'm thinking about making a way to use windows drivers in Linux.
> Have anyone thought about it?
> Is it reasonable/possible?
read www.slashdot.org :) there's an announcement of some kind about
this very thing today.
there's a company deliviring cross platform driver development kits.
the main problem is : speed.
also maybe the fact that it's so simple, a newbie can write a driver
using the thing. would you want drivers written by newbies ? :)
anyways, for your idea .. these drivers would have to be emulated
somehow ... i think the overhead this would cause would be
enormous. because you would have to first emulate the binary
code from the driver, and translate it into linuxlike system calls.
it would definately be a lot slower than drivers you are experiencing
today in linux.
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From: Roy Anger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: XFree 4.0 and Logitech Mouse
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:53:55 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After receviving a few responses and making another attempt to ocnfigure XFree
4.0 I found the problem I was having. After starting the X my mouse failed to
move at all, just this little cursor in the middle of the screen.
So I jumped back to the screen I started X with (CTRL+ALT+F1) and read the info
there, which I had checked before but not carefully enough. It said I was using
a Logitech 2 button mouse. With was correct. But every time I checked it the
same thing showed. It never changed. I found this weird, and I knew that I was
pointing (at the time) to some non Logitech procotol.
When I took a look through the 'man XF86Config; page the first thing you go
through is a list of all the XF86Config files, or rather where the server checks
for those files. So I ran 'find | grep XF86Confi*' I choose that instead of
locate to properly search the files, in case locate wasn't updated. It came back
with a XF86Config file in another location where the server checks, my /root. I
renamed that file, so the only XF86Config file my server could look at was the
one I was editing in /etc/X11 and then tried to start up the X server.
It crashed pointing to some parse errors, which was a good sign. Is was now
reading a different XF86Config. I went in and fixed the errors. One I had
forgotten quotations and the other was a spelling error. After fixing those my X
server started jsut fine and my mouse works. I still have to get the scroll to
work, but all three buttons work.
But the thing that threw, and had keep me from looking at the existence of other
XF86Config files was my earlier attempt to get X running. I had edited
/etc/X11/XF86Config to include the correct HorSync and VerSync options for my
monitor, and after editing those the X Server had started up, so it was reading
from that file. So what I learned last night is the XFREE 4.0 seems to read
from any XF86Config file on the machine, and my parsed and used the
/root/XF86Config file I had as a primary file and read others after it. So while
what I had been trying was right, it wasn't being read by the server, and
implemented.
Anyway, I just wanted people to know about that problem in case the same thing
was happening to someone else.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Roy
Adam Lussier wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> >I have recently upgraded my system to the latest XFree 4.0, using the
> >source. I have it up and running, with the proper video and resolution
> >and colours, but I am having a problem with the mouse. I'm using the
> >Logitech First Mouse, the mouse with two buttons and scroll wheel. When
> >I start up X the mouse doesn't move at all.
>
> >I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, or is using this
> >mouse and knows how to get it working.
>
> When I switched to a PS/2 style mouse I had a similar problem. While
> searching usenet I found a reply that stated you should try holding down the
> left mouse button while X starts.
>
> I gave it a try and it worked. If you haven't tried it already, give it a
> run. Might work for ya!
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Adam
>
> --
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZIP drive partition problem
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:37:59 GMT
On Apr 11, 2000 at 21:13, bill davidsen eloquently wrote:
>
> I just installed a ZIP drive, 100MB internal ATAPI, in a system, and
>I'm having an interesting problem. After I booted, I couldn't find the
>partition table on any of my existing ZIP media.
>
> My first thought was that the media might be bad. I wrote a new
>partition table on a spare media, made a file system, write to it,
>unmounted, pulled it out, put it back, mounted it... and it worked fine.
>So that seems to let the hardware out. I took a disk which had been used
>as a 100MB tape, with a backup just written as root to /dev/hdd. I was
>able to read that just fine.
Zips store their info on partition 4 ie sda4, hdd4 etc.....
<snip>
--
Registered Linux User # 125653
"The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as
we could with both of them."
-- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
6:36pm up 67 days, 6:02, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux laptop recommendations for a year in Spain.
Date: 11 Apr 2000 22:39:37 GMT
Robert J. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Beginning in August, 2000 I will be spending a year in Spain (normally I
: live in the US) and would like recommendations for a laptop for
: dual-boot linux/Win 98. This is to replace a Micron Transport XKE (233
sony = 1; toshiba = 2; ibm = 3 (for repairs).
: MHz, 96MB RAM, 8GB disk) used exclusively with Win98.
: The first question is the common one for inexperienced linux users:
: which laptops are likely to be provide the most trouble-free linux
: installation given my requirements (my dabblings in the past have
This changes too frequently to be trackable. Just make sure your model
is at least 6months old and you should be mostly ok.
: exposed me to the pain of graphics and network problems). I have seen
: talented post doctoral researchers waste weeks battling installation
: issues.
But they're not researching installs. Most postdocs are usually pretty
good at it, neverthless. Basic intelligence counts. They can usually
hammer a sysadmin-type into the ground after 2 weeks at it. At least
they're not prone to superstitious irrational crazy beliefs.
: Is there anything to choose between the major vendors in terms of
: service availability for warranty repairs and tech. support while I am
: in Spain? I will purchase the machine in the US.
Toshiba is best for fixing. Stadard parts. IBM cost double any number you
think of, but they're here. But get a sony. No support, but the VAs are
just beautiful.
Lucky you .. you have money!
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 256 memory stack dump problem
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:59:13 GMT
Hi all,
I put in another 128M memory stick in my Athlon/MSI MB system and
updated the lilo.conf append memory line so the system would see it.
I'm running RH 6.1. On reboot I got a stack dump type error. I
couldn't get to the login under root and my system was hosed. I
reinstalled and same thing. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Steve
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From: Kenneth Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: high altitude modern systems performance
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:03:13 -0600
Hi all,
Dell has just called to say "Our engineers are terribly shocked that
our webpage has operating environments above what our suppliers
recommend, and they will asist me however they can". So, that all works
out.
I think i'll ask them for a desktop with no hard drive. I will then buy
a slow rpm hard drive (maybe used), and install a second fan, and drill
holes in the case. Any suggestions? Anyone know of speical heat-sink glue
that works better than the rest? Any fans that are extra good? Anyone
with a house at sea-level?
Thank you all for your suggestions. If you don't hear from me, it means
that for some reason the desktop works.
peace,
ken.
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From: Jaroslaw M Myszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Uresolved Extern Function for sound dsp
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:53:34 -0400
Howdy. I have redhat 6.2 I compiled kernel with support for Turtle Beach
pinnacle. The driver load in during boot, howvever I do get an error in
kernel log that says:
Apr 11 18:55:59 localhost modprobe:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/msnd_pinnacle.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_dsp
Apr 11 18:55:59 localhost rc.sysinit: Loading sound module (msnd_pinnacle)
failed
Apr 11 18:55:59 localhost modprobe:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/msnd_pinnacle.o: unresolved symbol
mod_firmware_load
Apr 11 18:55:59 localhost modprobe:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/msnd_pinnacle.o: unresolved symbol
register_sound_dsp
Apr 11 18:55:59 localhost modprobe:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/msnd_pinnacle.o: unresolved symbol
register_sound_mixer
Apr 11 18:55:59 localhost modprobe:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/msnd_pinnacle.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_mixer
Apr 11 18:55:59 localhost modprobe:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/msnd_pinnacle.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/msnd_pinnacle.o failed
I noticed that some of these unresolved functions are declared as
externs in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sound.h
extern int register_sound_special(struct file_operations *fops, int unit);
extern int register_sound_mixer(struct file_operations *fops, int dev);
extern int register_sound_midi(struct file_operations *fops, int dev);
extern int register_sound_dsp(struct file_operations *fops, int dev);
extern int register_sound_synth(struct file_operations *fops, int dev);
extern void unregister_sound_special(int unit);
extern void unregister_sound_mixer(int unit);
extern void unregister_sound_midi(int unit);
extern void unregister_sound_dsp(int unit);
extern void unregister_sound_synth(int unit);
My question is: where should be implementation of functions declared in
that header file sound.h
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Jarek M
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein
***********************************************************************
Jaroslaw Myszewski http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~myszewsk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
State University Of New York at Buffalo
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From: "Eric White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux Hardware Configuration
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 18:01:15 -0600
Hi,
I've been trying to put together a new linux system. Here is what I have
come up with. Does anyone know if there are problems with Linux systems and
the new AMD bus?
MOTHER BOARD
GA-7iXE Athlon board
CPU
ATHLON 750 MHz
HDD
Western Digital 20gb 7200rpm
CD/DVD
40x Panasonic
VIDEO CARD
ASUS - V6800 32mb DDR AGP - exerts the power of nVidia's GeForce 256 GPU
MEMORY
Micron 128MB PC133 SDRAM
SOUND CARD
Sound Blaster Live! Value with digital out OEM
NETWORK
3COM 3C905C-TX
Feeback would be greatly appreaited,
Eric White
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: patrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,dc.org.linux-users
Subject: Re: Fixed Freq Monitor
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:30:10 -0400
Actually my monitor has a 13W3 connector but I already have it working with 640 x 480.
Just wanted to know if
anyone had more specs on how to set it up for 1200 x 1024 or 800 x 600. Thanks for
the links though.
James Hunter Heinlen wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 23:21:40 -0400, patrum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) suffered dangerous
>fits of clarity and wrote:
>
> > I have a SUN GDM-1955A fixed frequency monitor and can only get my
> > xserver to work with 640 x 480 at 32bpp. I don't know the actual
> > refresh and scan rates of the monitor and am looking for some help.
>
> Sun sold at least 6 different models of the GDM-1955a. They were all
> 1152 x 864 composite sync monitors with hsync of 61.8 kHz and vsync of
> 66 Hz. They were 19" monitors with 4 BNC connectors (but you knew
> that), and the primary difference between them was the tube model.
> Sony made all of the tubes (and changed the tube model when the spirit
> moved them). More info at:
>
> http://www.monitorworld.com/monitors_home.html
>
> Getting fixed frequency monitors to work can be a chore (3 down, 2 more
> to go), especially if you do not have a video card that was designed to
> work with fixed frequency monitors. Here are some faqs about this:
>
> http://www.devo.com/video/
> http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/
>
> Good luck!!
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> dracus __ __ ____ ___ ___ ____
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From: Kenneth Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Idea !!!
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 18:27:32 -0600
>Akbar Avliyaev wrote:
>
>> The main problem of Linux is hardware support.
>> On the other hand Windows supports most of hardware,
>> most vendors ship products with drivers for windows.
>> I'm thinking about making a way to use windows drivers in Linux.
>> Have anyone thought about it?
>> Is it reasonable/possible?
>
>read www.slashdot.org :) there's an announcement of some kind about
>this very thing today.
>
>there's a company deliviring cross platform driver development kits.
>the main problem is : speed.
>also maybe the fact that it's so simple, a newbie can write a driver
>using the thing. would you want drivers written by newbies ? :)
>
>anyways, for your idea .. these drivers would have to be emulated
>somehow ... i think the overhead this would cause would be
>enormous. because you would have to first emulate the binary
>code from the driver, and translate it into linuxlike system calls.
>
>it would definately be a lot slower than drivers you are experiencing
>today in linux.
>
VMWare does it. You can watch DVD's through Windows running in VMWare on
Linux.
-k.
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From: Kenneth Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: harddisk tragedy
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 18:24:46 -0600
>I wonder if I recreate the partition table with linux fdisk,
>if I'll be able to mount the window disk.
had this happen. I knew the partition numbers from a printout, but windows
would not see the disk. fdisk had the partition numbers up around 650gb,
on a 18gb disk. Fixed, wrote, and Linux would not mount it. Gave errors of
some sort. Booted to windows and window saw it. All good.
if you _need_ the partition and don't know your old partition numbers, you
can use "dd" to strip the disk at lowlevel, even if its unmounted. Then,
compare what you see with whatever the front of a vfat partition looks
like.
-ken.
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From: The Bard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP not working in kernel 2.2.x, was OK in 2.0.36
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:45:27 -0500
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:39:58 -0400, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>WHen I upgraded my Linux kernel to 2.2.x from 2.0.36 my DHCP stopped
>working.
>
>My PC recognizes the network card, and it works if I set a fixed IP for
>my workstation. But when I try to connect via DHCP, it fails. During
>boot, the initialization of eth0 service fails.
>
>The initialization of the service is a call to
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup. I tried running it by hand and
>watching what's going on, but I can't spot any obvious clues. It fails
>on the call to 'pump'.
>
>Any help appreciated.
>
>Mark
Make sure that in linuxconf, the correct module is being loaded by
eth0...
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From: "����ȣ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.madrake,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,corelsupport.linux.networking,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,fj.os.linux.networking,fr.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: K90network, ifup-ippp help me
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:54:19 +0900
Thomas P. ��(��) �������� �ۼ��Ͽ����ϴ�...
>Bonjour,
>j'ai un probl?e avec ces deux fichiers.
>
>Je d?ir configurer mon r?eau avec linux, ma carte Ethernet est reconnu
>comme une realteck alors que c'est une sn3200 mais bon je pense que leur
>pilote doivent ?re compatible...
>
>A l'arr? il me dit: ligne 4 k90network 1161 killed
>initlog $initlog .... [FALSE]
>shutting down http [FALSE]
>
>je ne sais pas pourquoi ???
>le fichier k90network se trouve /etc/rc.d/k90network.
>
>et au d?arrage il me dit ifup-ippp error ippp0 doesn't exit.
>je ne sais pas pourquoi non plus ???
>/etc/sysconfig/netwprk-script/ifup-ippp
>
>En fait si je sais un peu pourquoi, j'ai essay?de configurer mon r?eau
>local avec linux mandrake 7.0 dans kde et c'est quand "adaptateur 1" dans
>"config r?eau", "config de base ..." est activ?que j'ai ces erreurs. Mais
>lunux d?arre quand m?e.
>
>Si non, quand je fais un ping il me marque ping: wrote ThomasL+ThomasP
>64chars,ret = -1
> ping:
>sendto:Network is unreacherchable
>
>voil? si vous pensez que vous savez ce qu'est le probl?e je vous remercie
>de me donner les instructions ?suivre pour me permettre de m'en sortir.
>Si non, une adresse web qui parle de cela ou tout ce qui pourrais m'aider
me
>ferais tr? plaisir.
>
>merci.
>
>a+
>
>I am sorry
>
>
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From: "K.Tsakaloglou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 12 Apr
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 03:54:49 +0300
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