Linux-Hardware Digest #698, Volume #12 Mon, 17 Apr 00 03:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux Uses Less Power? (Markus Wandel)
Annihilator Pro, G400 Max ("NetRage247")
Re: Q: Best printer for linux box? ("Gordon Reeder on Tux.1")
Re: new hard drive, old motherboard, and linux (Markus Wandel)
Re: Cant use Parallel Port - parport gives weird mesg (Adam Schuetze)
Re: Annihilator Pro, G400 Max (Greg Faulds)
Re: Annihilator Pro, G400 Max (Steffen Kluge)
OPL3-SA3 sound chip setup problem. (Paul Poon)
Re: networking two boxen (Michael Meissner)
Re: Using 2nd Hard disk for swap file... (Michael Meissner)
Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use (Michael Meissner)
Re: HP LaserJet 8000 DN (jonathan hunsberger)
Can't send email (bbyeung)
Re: PCMCIA modem problem ("Shawn Yeager")
Re: New Athlon 700 Box (Doc Shipley)
Re: Help w/ SuSE 6.3 install crash - or any jobs open? (Doc Shipley)
Re: HP 720c in Linux (Klamer Schutte)
new monitor ("Chris Williams")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Linux Uses Less Power?
Date: 17 Apr 2000 01:08:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recently I did an energy audit on some of my more used
>equipment. I found my computer, when running Linux (Red Hat 6.0) only
>drew 0.80 amps of root mean square (RMS) current. When I booted it up
>into Windows 98, it drew 0.88 amps of RMS current.
I noticed the same thing when I first tried out my (then) new computer.
Virgin Win95 install, desktop idle - 0.54A. Virgin Redhat 5.2 install,
fvwm95 desktop idle - 0.45A.
Markus
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From: "NetRage247" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 3dfx.glide.linux,creative.products.3d_blaster.annihilator
Subject: Annihilator Pro, G400 Max
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:21:48 GMT
Does anybody know if the Creative Labs Annililator Pro and/or the Matrox
G400 Max are supported under Linux yet and through which set of
drivers? -NetRage247
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From: "Gordon Reeder on Tux.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Q: Best printer for linux box?
Date: 16 Apr 2000 21:22:47 EDT
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I recently bought a Lexmark OptraColor 40. It is network PS printer and
> > supports Linux/Unix as well as windows. It work great for both systems
> > for me. Check www.buy.com clearance page. When I bought it was $94 (new)
> > compared to more than $300 in stores.
>
People have reported good sucsuss with Epson Stylus 400/600/800
series and Some HP printers. Watch out, some HP printers(722)
are win printers. The 800 series should work. I have an 832
hooked to this system.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: new hard drive, old motherboard, and linux
Date: 17 Apr 2000 01:16:53 GMT
In article <4JHJ4.2537$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to install a new hard drive on a linux box that I plan to use as a
>backup/server machine. I'm pretty sure that the motherboard on the machine
>only supports up to 8.4gig. However, some sources I've read suggest that
>disk geometry can be handed off to operating systems that support it. So,
>in a nutshell, can linux (RH 6.0) handle a larger drive, even if the
>motherboard does not?
Yes.
The limitation is not in the motherboard hardware but in the BIOS. If you
can get a Linux kernel booted it will see the big drive. I have a 20GB drive
on a 1995 vintage P75 board and a 3GB drive on a 1991 vintage 486 board.
There are any number of fiddles that you can use to convince a BIOS to boot
of the big drive -- pretend it's a smaller one and locate the boot partition
in the part it can see, use a "drive manager" overlay etc -- but if you
can't, you can just leave the old hard disk in the machine as a boot drive
or, if worst comes to worst, boot the kernel from floppy (do a normal
install and when it asks if you want a boot floppy, say yes. Keep a backup
copy of the floppy.) For a server machine that's on all the time, it's really
no big deal to have to boot off a floppy, Linux servers aren't in the habit
of rebooting often.
Markus
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From: Adam Schuetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cant use Parallel Port - parport gives weird mesg
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:37:13 GMT
Majin Bu wrote:
> I'm trying to load the lp.o module so that I can use my parallel port. For
> that, it seems that I must load the parport.o module firstly. However,
> It appears as if has somesort of problem:
>
> > insmod parport
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/parport.o
> /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/parport.o: unresolved symbol request_module_R27e4dc04
It looks like parport.o has a dependancy on another module. Did you `make modules' and
`make modules_install' ?
Before `make modules_install' did you move your old /lib/modules/xx directory out of
the
way?
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From: Greg Faulds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 3dfx.glide.linux,creative.products.3d_blaster.annihilator
Subject: Re: Annihilator Pro, G400 Max
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:40:16 GMT
Go to Nvidia's website to get the Linux drivers for your CLAP. I don't know
Linux but I found them there. Hope it helps. (if not sorry) ;)
NetRage247 wrote:
> Does anybody know if the Creative Labs Annililator Pro and/or the Matrox
> G400 Max are supported under Linux yet and through which set of
> drivers? -NetRage247
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Crossposted-To: 3dfx.glide.linux,creative.products.3d_blaster.annihilator
Subject: Re: Annihilator Pro, G400 Max
Date: 17 Apr 2000 02:11:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <MGtK4.30566$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
NetRage247 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anybody know if the Creative Labs Annililator Pro and/or the Matrox
>G400 Max are supported under Linux yet and through which set of
>drivers? -NetRage247
Check www.xfree86.org for support status in the various versions
of XFree86. I can tell you first hand that the G400 MAX is
supported nicely by the later versions (including 4.0).
As far as console (fb or SVGATextMode) support is concerned, I
don't know how well the Annihilator will work. This may mean
80x25 text console only. I doubt that the chipset is supported
directly, but if it supports VESA 2 it may work with vesafb.
The G400 works for me with kernel 2.2.14 using matroxfb. I'm
running it at 800x600x16, giving me a 100x37 text console at
100Hz and about 10 pages scrollback.
Hope this helps
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: Paul Poon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPL3-SA3 sound chip setup problem.
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:30:12 GMT
I am using Red Hat Linux 6.1. When I try to use "sndconfig" to setup my
sound card, it can automatically detect my sound card with the "OPL3-SA3"
sound chip but it cannot play a sound. I have tried to enter different I/O
Control, IRQ, DMA and MPU I/O but it still did not work. Should anyone
help me about setting up this sound card. Thanks!
--
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http://www.help.com/
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Subject: Re: networking two boxen
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 Apr 2000 22:58:11 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi) writes:
> I have a Linux box and a Win98 box that I want to network. I'll be using
> the Linux box as a gateway, and possibly running an Xserver on the Win9x
> box.
>
> Both have a free PCI slot.
>
> I want to use a hub, because I will probaly want to add other nodes
> to the network in the future.
>
> What kind of hardware do you suggest I use to get them both networked ? Is
> there any advantage of getting a fast card or should I just go cheap ?
> Any particular recommended models ?
>
> What hardware do I need exactly ?
The simplest approach is to get the boxed set from LinkSys or Netgear that has
two pci cards, a hub or a switch, and cables (I suspect Intel, D-link and SMC
also make similar boxed sets). Provided you are running a recent version of
Linux, it should support the PCI cards from any of those vendors. I know
LinkSys and Netgear actually mention Linux on the box. I tend to llike the
Intel ethernet pro cards, but they are not as cheap as some of the other
alternatives.
In terms of the speed of the ethernet card, 10/100 Mbit cards are in the $20
range, so I would recomend against the NE2000 clones that were popular a few
years ago, that may be cheaper, but have some compatibily problems and use more
cpu resources than the 10/100 cards.
In terms of hub speed, you have to ask yourself why are you networking. If you
are primarily just sharing an internet connection, then you might as well save
yourself some money and go with the 10 Mbit hubs (unless you have a T-3
connection into your house, anything slower is 1 Mbs tops). If you are serving
files and having a lot of network traffic, then by all means consider the 100
Mbit hubs, or even better, the switches that are now getting fairly cheap (well
at least cheap considering what they were before). I do see 50-75% utilization
on my network when I'm doing dumps across the network, but usually it is 1%.
The difference between a hub and a switch is that in a hub, all of the packets
compete against the other packets on the wire (with a backoff and retransmit if
two packets were sent at the same time), while with a switch, there is a
switched connection and you won't have the retransmits. I like the 3com 8 port
office connect hubs (which I originally bought because I was connecting hubs
between the basement and 2nd story and my previous hubs kept needing to be
power cycled -- they also have nice lights that show your network utilization),
but these are definately pricey, likewise my older 10 Mbit 4 port Netgear hub.
I've had bad luck with my 5 port LinkSys hub (it goes dead every so often, and
I have to power cycle it), my LinkSys 5 port switch used to connect my hubs
(one of the ports is no longer functional), and Soho-ware hub (fan extremely
noisy).
So, if you aren't going for the boxed set, you need:
2 PCI 10/100 Mbit ethernet cards
(Intel Etherexpress pro, 3com 3c905B, Netgear 310TX, LinkSys
Etherfast, and probably others)
1 hub or switch with at least 4 ports
1 straight through cable with RJ-45 connectors (length up to 100 feet)
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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Subject: Re: Using 2nd Hard disk for swap file...
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 Apr 2000 23:04:02 -0400
"Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> mkswap -c partition size
>
> where "partition" is of the form /dev/hdb2 (for IDE drives this would
> be the second partition on the second hard drive) and "size" is the number
> of 1024-byte blocks. A swap partition is preferable to a swap file, BTW.
>
> Don't forget to execute a "swapon /dev/hdb" to enable the swap partition.
> Hope this helps.
Or edit your /etc/fstab and put a line of the form:
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
(change /dev/hda6 to be the partition actually used).
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 03:04:23 GMT
Hi, Matt
Got it going fine. I in fact moved the old symbolic links into a backup
directory ...just in case :)... and made new ones, which work fine. Only
thing now is that I get a request for root password when mounting drive 1 in
user. drive 2 cannot be mounted but I now that's an fstab issue. Do
permissions need to be set on the underlying scsi drive or on the symlink...or
somewhere else?
Thanks.
John
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:07:29 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><<ln8K4.54337$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>>Matt,
>>
>>Thanks so much :) May I continue?
>>
>>In order to get both my CDs recognized by X-CD-Roast/cdrecord, they must run
>>under scsi emulation, as I now understand. I also get the impression that I
>>should create a symbolic link from the new "emulated" CDs to the ide device
>>names. Is this correct? And, if so, where should these two links live..what
>>directory, that is. The idea I have is to be able to have programs which
>>expect hcd to be at cdrom and hdd to be at cdrom1 to be able to find them.
>
># ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom (the first "SCSI" CD-ROM will keep its
>real device name but be accessible under /dev/cdrom)
># ln -sf /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom1 (the second "SCSI" CD-ROM will keep its
>real device name but be accessible under /dev/cdrom1)
>
>If I were you, I wouldn't mess with /dev/hdc and/or /dev/hdd. It's easy
>enough to recreate them using mknod, but why bother? It's entirely
>possible you'll get another IDE device in the future, one that doesn't
>need SCSI emulation, and for that you mihgt as well keep hdc and hdd
>around. HTH,
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 Apr 2000 23:13:31 -0400
"JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm looking for some wireless LAN products for home use that will work with
> both Linux (RedHat) and Windows 98.
>
> So far I've seen 2 possible product lines:
> Lucent ORINOCO - http://wavelan.com/products/
> 3Com Air Connect - http://www.3com.com/mobile/wireless/product.html
>
> For now I have 2 PC's I need to connect that are about 50 feet apart. The
> network cards will need to be PCI or ISA cards. I may be adding a notebook
> computer so PC cards should also be available.
>
> Does anyone out there have any experience with these products using Linux?
> Any other recommendations?
I just tried to get the Webgear Aviator 2.4's to work between my laptop and a
desktop box and just returned it. Fortunately Microcenter doesn't have a 15%
surcharge on returned merchandise like CompUSA does :-) When I tried it, it
made my other ethernet cards in the desktop box unusable (notably an Intel
etherexpress Pro card). It may be that the Linux kernel doesn't seem to have
ray_cs driver except as a pcmcia driver, and there may have some
incompatiblities in using pcmcia on the desktop.
Here is a link for Linux Wireless support:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: jonathan hunsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 8000 DN
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:00:10 -0400
As far as i know, the 4000 and 8000 series are all compatible with 5Si,
so you should be able to use a 4/5Si driver.
Andr� Fernando da Silva wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> Does anybody known where I can find a driver for the HP LaserJet 8000 DN
> (or a compatible one) ? I've searched the HP site but could not found.
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From: bbyeung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't send email
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:30:07 GMT
My Linux mail server stop responding when I ping it once in a while. When
I check the screen of the Linux server, I got this message: eth0:transmit
timed out, tx_status 00 status e000
Flags;bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 2157 current 2173
Down list 00000000 vs. 00250128
Could someone translate the message for me? I'm using a 3com 3c905-tx NIC.
Thanks a lot.
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From: "Shawn Yeager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem problem
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:49:59 -0500
I'm using the same Dell laptop and Mandrake 7.0 installed and had the modem
operational without a hitch.
Shawn
zoobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8d9qtt$1c2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a similar problem. I'm using a Dell Latitude CPi with a Xircom
> ethernet/modem combo. I've read the PCMCIA HOWTO several times and have
> found no help there. I'm new to Linux on laptops.
>
> How are you verifying that it does not connect with any serial port? I'm
> using Redhat 6.1 and according to the PCMCIA howto cardmgr should record
the
> device information for each socket in the "stab" file; however; I cannot
> find the "stab" file in any of the locations it lists. Do you know where
it
> is located in the Redhat dist?
> (HOWTO: section 4.1)
>
> Erik
>
>
> "Alexei Pankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8d86q4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I installed Redhat 6.2 on my Compaq Armada 7800. PCMCIA driver loads
> > and cardctl recognizes successfully my modem, but it looks like it does
> not
> > connect with any serial port and minicom does not work.
> >
> > I would appreciate any suggestions.
> >
> > Alex.
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Athlon 700 Box
Date: 17 Apr 2000 01:06:50 -0500
Neil Nelson wrote:
>
> I am looking at the Athlon system (700mhz, FIC SD11) for the initial
> node component(s) of a Beowulf cluster using RedHat Linux. <snip> Does anyone see
>any likely
> problems with using the Athlon in these areas?
By the definition od the Beowulf cluster, as long as the individual
nodes are stable themselves, the hardware used is not an issue.
--
Doc Shipley
Network Support
TARL Labs, UT
Austin, Texas
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help w/ SuSE 6.3 install crash - or any jobs open?
Date: 17 Apr 2000 01:10:28 -0500
Chris,
Try sticking one DIMM in slot1 and one in slot3 (or 0 and 2; I don't
remember how the BioStar numbers 'em), leaving the middle slot empty. I
know that sounds crazy, but that's the only way my boss' Biostar with
Athlon 750 will boot Linux. It IS a memory issue, but both RAM and board
are solid. The Athlon boards are all notorious for memory-related
quirks. It's no surprise that Win95 doesn't notice. Win95 is only using
about 25% of your physical RAM.
As far as the kernel finding only 64M without the append line, that's a
problem I ran into on a K6-2 FIC board, and did some research. Some of
the newer BIOS's do that, depending on the kernel version. But nobody I
found or heard from reported crash/malfuntion problems with it.
I'd turn of the S.M.A.R.T disk in BIOS, too. I don't think the boot
kernel supports it. Other than that, I'd let the BIOS auto-detect the
drive and partition it normally.
FWIW, any number of painless installs teaches ya pretty much nothing at
all. It's the dozen or so really agony-ridden installs that'll make you
the Linux-install Whiz Kid. Welcome to class!
--
Doc Shipley
Network Support
TARL Labs, UT
Austin, Texas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Klamer Schutte)
Subject: Re: HP 720c in Linux
Date: 17 Apr 2000 06:53:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cihl wrote:
>> 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,
This is not correct. The new pnm2ppa does support color.
>it's very hard to set it up properly, because it's basically
>a piece of shit utility.
There now are rpm packages for popular distributions. In the last
few months color support has switched from ALPHA to BETA stage.
I suspect version 1.0 to be released Real Soon Now (tm) --
current version is 0.99preX (X >= 2).
>James would be better off buying himself a new printer.
>(Epson always works, btw.)
I don't agree on that. My HP 710C is doing fine now.
Klamer
Have a look at:
- relevant page at sourceforge, www.sourceforge.net
- http://www.httptech.com/ppa/
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Electro-Optical Systems, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Tel: +31-70-3740469 -- Fax: +31-70-3740654 -- Mobile: +31-6-51316671
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From: "Chris Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new monitor
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:07:46 -0400
hi, can someone give me the name of a nice monior
that wiil go well with my new shinny aluminum case?
chris
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