Linux-Hardware Digest #679, Volume #12 Thu, 13 Apr 00 18:13:12 EDT
Contents:
MODEM doesn't work? (Goya Lin)
Re: MODEM doesn't work? ("Scott C. Zielinski")
Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone? (Mathias Mildenberger)
optra e+ (Alexis Bilodeau)
Re: Idea !!! (Johan Kullstam)
Re: HP 720c in Linux (C. C. McPherson)
i810/adi1881 sound configuration-help reqd (highflyer)
MB: DFI CW35-3 (Patrick Radulian)
windows compadibility. (GEK1297)
Re: windows compadibility. (Cihl)
Re: kernel detects only 64mb out of 128mb -- why? (Cihl)
Re: HP 720c in Linux (Cihl)
sb16 locking system up (Blast of Flame)
Re: Linux on a DSP (Cihl)
Re: AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Will a plextor ide cdrw 8/4/32 work? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: kernel detects only 64mb out of 128mb -- why? (J Bland)
Re: Cdrom just stopping ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sun keyboard on a PC, all keys avail? (Paul Callahan)
Re: Idea !!! ("Larry Ebbitt ")
Re: optra e+ ("Larry Ebbitt ")
win98/linux timed disk read discreprency (MGatto)
Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V (Tellplace)
D-Link DE-100+ ISA network card ("Stuart St.John")
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From: Goya Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MODEM doesn't work?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:04:30 -0500
My modem is U.S. Robotics 56K Voice Win
Will it work for Linux?
It is on COM2 (set it on ttyS1), but when I query the modem in KPPP, it
says the modem is busy. I guess the OS can't communicate with it. So
does that mean my modem is only for "Win"?
Thanks a lot!
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:31:29 -0400
From: "Scott C. Zielinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MODEM doesn't work?
Goya Lin wrote:
>
> My modem is U.S. Robotics 56K Voice Win
>
> Will it work for Linux?
>
> It is on COM2 (set it on ttyS1), but when I query the modem in KPPP, it
> says the modem is busy. I guess the OS can't communicate with it. So
> does that mean my modem is only for "Win"?
>
> Thanks a lot!
That's EXACTLY the problem. What you have is a WinModem. A modem that is
largely controled by software drivers, not hardware. As the name states,
a WinModem is ONLY compatible with Window$. Sorry.
--
Scott C. Zielinski
from his Linux Box
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From: Mathias Mildenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:02:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As we are talking 'bout xperience: Even in some systems seeming to be up to date, you
have to tell lilo/kernel the amount of RAM. A good example for this is my GA7ix/Athlon
500, which had to be told it had 128M, not 64M. This was with SuSE 6.3 and a kernel
2.2.13. Now it's working almost perfect.
If your machine after all these tips still won't work, begin replacing some parts...
Mathias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> >Support for auto-detecting more than 64M is in the 2.2.x kernel.
> >
> >The problem is that it also requires BIOS support. The original BIOS
> >calls for detecting memory size won't return more than 64M. The 2.2.x
> >kernel will use the newer call, if it exists, but it doesn't always
> >exist.
> >
> >Adding append="mem=128M" to lilo tells the kernel to use the
> >value you specify and don't bother checking the BIOS.
> >
--
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Mathias Mildenberger 8-)=
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: optra e+
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:03:23 GMT
Hi,
I've just bought a Lexmark optra e+ laser printer. It has native
postscript support so it should be easy to set up. My problem is that
the printer doesn't even receive data when i send a job (using pdq). my
parallel port worked fine with my old BJC-240 printer. Does anyone have
an easy setup solution for this?
Thanks,
--
Alexis Bilodeau
eMagiK Technologies
819.371.9273
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Idea !!!
Date: 13 Apr 2000 16:12:27 -0400
"Larry Ebbitt " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:44:32 -0500, Akbar Avliyaev wrote:
>
> >I'm thinking about making a way to use windows drivers in Linux.
> >Have anyone thought about it?
> >Is it reasonable/possible?
>
> The programming interfaces are quite different. They would have
> to be rewritten. If the hardware manufacturer will give you specs,
> that's quite reasonable, if not, you would have to reverse-
> engineer them and that is probably not legal.
reverse-engineering of hardware certainly *is* legal.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 720c in Linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:19:52 -0400
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 01:30:12 GMT, James
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >see if all of my hardware is compatible. Through this I found out that my
> >printer, which is an HP 720c, will not work in Linux. I went to the the
> >HP website, and it said the most printers work with Linux, except for th
> >thee 720c, and another one, because it is whats called a "host-based
> >printer". What does this mean, and is there any way to get past it.
>
> Host-based printer: A printer with no real "brain", just printheads, a
> mechanism for moving them around, and a small controller that only accepts
> a weird control language which no one knows the details of. The computer
> must act as the printer's brain here, hence the name "host-based." Real
> Printers have some RAM and a Postscript/PCL/Epson interpreter inside.
> Host-based printers are cheaper than Real Printers, so they've become
> popular for much the same reason LoseModems have become popular.
>
> You could write a driver for your printer, of course... just hope you have
> a good deal of time to spare and a fair bit of programming skill.
>
> You can also connect this printer to a Windows machine, enable file/print
> sharing on said Windows machine, configure Samba appropriately on your
> Linux box, hook the two machines together, and go. Or get a Lexmark Optra
> Color 40, a reasonably cheap Postscript inkjet printer...
>
>
There are linux drivers around for these printers. You want
the pbm2ppa or pnm2ppa drivers (RedHat 6.2) comes with
pnm2ppa. You can even get them off the net.
-Clyde
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Subject: i810/adi1881 sound configuration-help reqd
From: highflyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:17:38 -0700
we've got an intel 810 chipset with onboard sound and graphics.i
got the Xserver, but the SuSE linux 6.3 distr.(evaluation
version) which i installed didnt configure the sound.
i tried plug n play, but pnpdump gave "no boards found"
it is supposed to be an ADI 1881 analog codec. manufacturer-
analog devices. could somebody help me out? which modules to link
and how?i'd be grateful.
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:12:31 +0200
From: Patrick Radulian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MB: DFI CW35-3
Hi!
I got an Aptiva PII Celeron with a DFI cw35-s motherboard - everything
(sound, video) onboard.
I cant get my X running but in 640x480x8bpp modus (which is very
annoying on a 17" monitor).
I don't even know exactly what video card it is, and on www.dfi.com on
the info-page for the mainboard cw35-s they don't mention it's name
(just that it has some 3d capabilities...).
So what the heck can i do??
Help appreciated.
[L:Mental]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GEK1297)
Subject: windows compadibility.
Date: 13 Apr 2000 20:46:12 GMT
Question:
Does linux support windows sogtware, like games and stuff
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From: Cihl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows compadibility.
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:52:30 GMT
GEK1297 wrote:
>
> Question:
> Does linux support windows sogtware, like games and stuff
"Sogtware" - cool word! :-)
Try 'Wine' or 'VMWare'.
Wine is a (forever beta) implementation of the
Win32-API in Linux,
VMWare is a virtual machine emulator which runs
all sorts of OS's and their sogtware (slow but
effective).
--
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From: Cihl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel detects only 64mb out of 128mb -- why?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:55:52 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:47:45 +0200, Marek Futrega
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I've kernel-2.2.14-5 and shuttle av11 with 128mb memory but kernel detects
> >only 64mb out of it.. win95/98/2000 detects 128mb without problems.
> >Is something wrong with shuttle av11 or kernel?
> >And how can I have all the 128mb memory detected by kernel?
>
> RTFFAQ. This gets asked every day in almost every Linux NG.
>
> Adding the line
> append="mem=128M"
> before the first "image=" line in /etc/lilo.conf and then re-running LILO
> and then rebooting will work wonders. There's probably nothing wrong with
> the motherboard; some BIOSes report a max of 64M with the function
> call, some can report much more than that. The development kernel,
> 2.3.99-pre{3,4} has better support for detecting large amounts of memory
> automatically and seems pretty stable for me... 2.4 should fix this
> problem for good once it is ready for release.
Just wondering, under what circumstances does this
problem occur?
I've got two computers running Linux. One with
80MB and one with 96MB of ram. I don't have to add
anything to lilo.conf. Can anyone please explain
this?
--
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From: Cihl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 720c in Linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:00:00 GMT
> There are linux drivers around for these printers. You want
> the pbm2ppa or pnm2ppa drivers (RedHat 6.2) comes with
> pnm2ppa. You can even get them off the net.
Too bad you won't get any color out of it, though. Also,
it's very hard to set it up properly, because it's basically
a piece of shit utility.
James would be better off buying himself a new printer.
(Epson always works, btw.)
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blast of Flame)
Subject: sb16 locking system up
Date: 13 Apr 2000 21:04:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm trying to install a sb16 in my computer but as soon as it's
inserted in one of the ISA slots the comp doesn't boot. Any idea why?
any help would be greately appreciated,
BoF
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From: Cihl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a DSP
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:11:59 GMT
Nicolas Dentant wrote:
>
> Does Linux run on a DSP ?
> What distribution should I use ?
> Do you have any good sites I could look at ?
>
> Thanks
I don't think any Linux-version runs on a DSP-based system
at the moment. Probably your best bet would be a DSP version
of a 68k-processor. (i don't remember their names atm.) From
what i remember these have similar instruction sets.
If you want to get this to work, you'd have to strip down
the Linux-kernel yourself and replace the instruction sets
in the kernel. It would take months, if not years to figure
out how to do this exactly. I certainly am not going to try.
Good luck anyway.
Oh and by the way, if you do get it to work, tell Linus
Torvalds, Alan Cox and the others. I think they would be
quite interested in your work!
--
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% Why not?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:13:37 GMT
On 6 Apr 2000 16:41:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J
Bland) wrote:
>>
>>I thought I try this one more time since so far nobody answered my
>>question. Thanks!
>>
>
>K6-2 : 5th gen chip
>
>i586
>
>"Pentium/K6/TSC" option when compiling a kernel.
>
>AFAIK.
>
>JB
k6 is not 5th gen. it is 6th.
amd 386,486,k5,k6
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will a plextor ide cdrw 8/4/32 work?
Date: 13 Apr 2000 16:54:17 -0400
"John Q. Lalas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
plextor has a very good reputation. until recently, they've been 100%
scsi which is why you may not be as familiar.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: kernel detects only 64mb out of 128mb -- why?
Date: 13 Apr 2000 21:09:28 GMT
>> Adding the line
>> append="mem=128M"
>> before the first "image=" line in /etc/lilo.conf and then re-running LILO
>> and then rebooting will work wonders. There's probably nothing wrong with
>> the motherboard; some BIOSes report a max of 64M with the function
>> call, some can report much more than that. The development kernel,
>> 2.3.99-pre{3,4} has better support for detecting large amounts of memory
>> automatically and seems pretty stable for me... 2.4 should fix this
>> problem for good once it is ready for release.
>
>Just wondering, under what circumstances does this
>problem occur?
>I've got two computers running Linux. One with
>80MB and one with 96MB of ram. I don't have to add
>anything to lilo.conf. Can anyone please explain
>this?
It's BIOS dependent. At some point a mod to some BIOSes were made which
wasn't made freely available, which is why Linux doesn't pick up the right
amount on some systems.
Some BIOSes work right, some don't. Luck of the draw. None of my systems
needed it, my friends did.
I believe there's a patch for 2.2 kernels (possibly) and will may be
totally fixed in 2.4.
JB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cdrom just stopping
Date: 13 Apr 2000 21:29:43 GMT
cam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hey just a short question.... i'm guessing that if my cdrom works under
: linux but not in install, and stops after copying about half a meg then it's
: not supported right??
: It's a LITEON something or other in a packard bell so its prob propreity, or
: is there something i can do to get it working ...
: thanks in advance
: cam
It's probably being detected improperly by the bootdisk you're using. See if
you can figure out the proper kernel parameters to pass at the boot: prompt to
get it to detect properly.
I had a similar problem with a Slackware install and an SBCD(-compatible) setup
not too long ago. Had to tell the kernel *exactly* what to look for and to
skip the autoprobe. Had to do the Ethernet card too (damn "NE2000" cards).
--J
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From: Paul Callahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sun keyboard on a PC, all keys avail?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:32:38 -0500
If I use a converter like the ultraspec 5189, what do
the L keys map to? (STOP, AGAIN, etc)
I want more space on my desktop, and have only 1 terminal,
instead of my present Sun and PC. The switches I've found
convert things to PC, then switch. If I wanted a PC kbd,
it would be easy, but I'd like all my sun keys to work when
talking to my sparc.
Anyone used the ultraspec (or similar)?
--
Paul Callahan
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
From: "Larry Ebbitt " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:34:20 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: "Larry Ebbitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Idea !!!
On 13 Apr 2000 16:12:27 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
>reverse-engineering of hardware certainly *is* legal.
Perhaps, but disassembly usually is in violation of
code licenses. Windos drivers are often so buggy as
to make it a waste of time, anyway.
Larry - Atlanta - IBM Global Services
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From: "Larry Ebbitt " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:38:14 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: "Larry Ebbitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: optra e+
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:03:23 GMT, Alexis Bilodeau wrote:
>I've just bought a Lexmark optra e+ laser printer. It has native
>postscript support so it should be easy to set up. My problem is that
>the printer doesn't even receive data when i send a job (using pdq). my
>parallel port worked fine with my old BJC-240 printer. Does anyone have
>an easy setup solution for this?
When I set up my Optra 40 with printtool, I just selected "generic
postscript printer", so I didn't learn much about the innards of the
process. I'm on OS/2 right now, but I'm willing to send a copy of the
printer definition, if you think it would help (and if I can find it.)
Larry - Atlanta - IBM Global Services
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From: MGatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: win98/linux timed disk read discreprency
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:29:40 GMT
I just bought maxtors latest and greatest DiamondMax plus 40 ATA-66
20GIG hard disk drive. according to http://storagereview.com 's tests
and my own (winbench), it's getting a starting disk read access rate of
30.x MB/sec. (and an ending disk read rate of about 18 MB/sec.); the
fastest ATA disk right now. Unfortunately, on linux (with the patched
kernel promise ATA-66 driver) gives on average this:
$hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.23 seconds =15.13 MB/sec
Does anyone have any ideas as to why its so much slower in linux? maybe
linux doesnt give the hard disk drive all the CPU it wants because of
more "egalitarian" CPU sharing methods of resource sharing?
Maxtor tech-support was as expected, clueless..
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From: Tellplace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:47:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
choi daniel wrote:
cut...
> but one question : why recompiling to 486 ?
Just taking it one step at a time. Next is Pentium.
> is that to say there is no optimization for K7 ?
In xconfig I dont see any K7 processor choice.
Only 386, 486, 586, K5, Pentium, K6, PPro family.
I dont know which is best suited for an Athlon.
Anybody any ideas?
Regards
Tellplace
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From: "Stuart St.John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: D-Link DE-100+ ISA network card
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:51:45 +0100
Anyone know if there's a driver available for the D-Link DE-100+ ISA network
card?
If you know of one, or a way I can configure this card I'd love to know!
Thanks,
Stuart St.John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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