Linux-Hardware Digest #706, Volume #12 Tue, 18 Apr 00 07:13:05 EDT
Contents:
About Bios Update (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Parienti)
Sound (Tristan McLeay)
Sound (Tristan McLeay)
Problems with HighPoint HPT366 Ultra ATA/66 and RedHat 6.2 ("Saso Trendafilov")
PnP sound card: no sound ... (Diethard Ohrt)
No Sound with "Maxi-Sound 64 pro" (Torben Keil)
Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V (Torben Keil)
Re: WangTek 5150 in Linux
Re: About Bios Update ("Tomas")
ethernetlink (Markus Unterguggenberger)
Intel EtherExpress causing networkload? ("H.J.W. van Os")
Printer makes 1/2 size pages (Torstein Finnbakk)
Re: I need old server info (PennGwyn)
Re: Can't send email (bbyeung)
Re: New Athlon 700 Box (Florian Schiel)
anybody manage to get a pcmcia token ring and toshiba tecra to work? ("Charles
Schneider")
Getting an ISDN card to work under Suse6.3 ?? ("Oud")
Re: Printer makes 1/2 size pages (Sven Bovin)
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Parienti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: About Bios Update
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:45:56 +0200
It is perhaps a newbie question, but I don't know where
to get an answer:
Is it possible to do a bios update from Linux?
Or do I need to instal dos, or windows to be able
to update the bios of my motherboard?
=
Micha=EBl Parienti
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:40:25 +1000
From: Tristan McLeay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound
I've got a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS16) sound card (ISA, non-PnP).
I've read (and done) _everything_ in the Sound-HOWTO, but I cannot get
the sound to work. When I do the cat >/dev/[what it's supposed to be], I
just get alot of headings with nothing underneath them. The IRQs and
DMAs are in their default settings
Distrib: Calder OpenLinux
Kernel: 2.2.?
PAS16 Soundcard, _does_ work under DOS and Win
32M RAM, Cyrix 6x86 P166+
Could someone please help me..?
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:38:06 +1000
From: Tristan McLeay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound
I've got a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS16) sound card (ISA, non-PnP).
I've read (and done) _everything_ in the Sound-HOWTO, but I cannot get
the sound to work. When I do the cat >/dev/[what it's supposed to be], I
just get alot of headings with nothing underneath them. The IRQs and
DMAs are in their default settings
Distrib: Calder OpenLinux
Kernel: 2.2.?
PAS16 Soundcard, _does_ work under DOS and Win
32M RAM, Cyrix 6x86 P166+
Could someone please help me..?
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From: "Saso Trendafilov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with HighPoint HPT366 Ultra ATA/66 and RedHat 6.2
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:47:48 +0200
Hello!
I have a problem installing RedHat 6.2 on my PC: Soyo MB SY-6BA+
V( http://www.soyo.nl/product/6ba+iv.htm ) with 4 ide connectors (1-4): 2
standard Ultra/33IDE channels and 2 channels Ultra/66 from HPT366 Ultra
ATA/66 onboard, PII Celeron 466, 64MB SDRAM, Quantum Fireball lct10
15GB/Ultra66 hooked as master on IDE 3 (first of HPT) and Sony CDU-311 ATAPI
hooked up as master on IDE 2 (second of standard Ultra/33).
The kernel 2.2.14-5.0 that comes with RH6.2 doesn't recognize the HPT366
and reports that no device to install on is present.
I tried tweaking the boot params as explained in UltraDMA-HOWTO, but I
managed only to get the disk reported as hdc, and then the installation
freezes.
Then I put the Quantum as master on IDE 2 instead of the CD, moved the
CD to slave on the same channel and managed to install everything, but the
disk is working now as Ultra/33, and the HPT366 is still not recognized.
After that I tried to patch the kernel source with the ide patches
(patch -p1 < pathces/ide....patch), but I always get rejects because I don't
have "HDIO_GETGEO_BIG' defined in hdreg.h. I expected that the patch will
insert that. I tried all the patches, starting from ide-2.2.14-9, the first
closest to my version, but still without success.
Am I doing something wrong or is there maybe some modification that has
to be done manually? I didn't find any docs about this...
I planned to try compiling and installing 2.3.99-pre5, I saw that the
hdreg.h is OK there, but I'm not sure if this kernel version is stable
enough...
Please send me a copy of your comments on my e-mail.
Thank you for your help.
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Best regards,
Sasho Trendafilov,
Network Management
MTnet
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web: http://www.mt.net.mk
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From: Diethard Ohrt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PnP sound card: no sound ...
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:15:30 +0200
On a (self-assembled) i486 I installed SuSE Linux 6.2. So far I didn't
succeed in making the sound card work. I tried isapnp and the oss
utility; oss complained about something like "Generic ALS not
supported", and isapnp detected "conflicts" like:
"... resource conflict allocating 16 bytes of IO at ..."
"... Error occured executing request <IORESCHECK> -- further action
aborted"
pnpdump detects the card as "ALS100 Media Audio Controller".
In /proc I didn't find any conflicts, or maybe I looked at the wrong
entries?
Which /proc files could help detect those conflicts?
TIA
Diethard
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From: Torben Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No Sound with "Maxi-Sound 64 pro"
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:00:41 +0200
Hi,
I hope that someone can help me here.
I'd like to install my soundcard. On my system is Suse-Linux 6.3 running.
The soundcard ist from Guillemot and the name is: Maxi Sound Homestudio 64
pro
I set the right IRQ and the right adresses for that card. But I can't hear a
sound.
Thanx,
T.Keil
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From: Torben Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:11:18 +0200
Hi,
I bought a Athlon500MHz and a Gigabyte-Mainboard GA71X. 64MB Ram
No Problems.
I'm using Suse-Linux 6.3
I did not need to compile a new kernel.
Bye.
choi daniel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am planning to buy a new computer, with an Athlon system.
> But i am concerned about compatibility with linux.
>
> Has anybody installed Linux on an amd's ATHLON processor on Asus K7 V
> (via 133 chipset) motherboard ?
> (I plan to use IDE hard-disk and ATI 128 rage pro card)
>
> As the chipset is rather new, a friend of mine told me Linux may be not
> entirely "compatible".
> Thanks in advance
>
> Daniel CHOI
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WangTek 5150 in Linux
Date: 18 Apr 2000 09:30:16 GMT
Forgot to mention the complete model number
of the tape drive:
It is a WangTek 5150EQ.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hello everybody.
>I have a WangTek 5150 tape drive that
>came
>with an ISA card (8 bits) from Compaq
>labeled
>as: Tape Host Adapter, Diagram 000775.
>Does
>anyone knows how to get this tape
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Reply-To: "Tomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Tomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: About Bios Update
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:44:45 +0300
You don't need to install Dos but you need to
boot your machine to Dos using a Dos system
floppy disk. If you don't have any then find a
computer somewhere running Dos or Windows 9X
put in a floppy disk and type (from a Dos prompt
if using Windows) sys a: and hit Enter
Dos anwers "system transferred"
copy the bios flash program to this floppy and
then use this floppy to boot your PC, start the bios
flash program direct from the floppy, upgrade your
bios BEE CAREFUL, READ THE HELP FILES
BEFORE YOU DO THIS!
and voila! your bios is upgraded!
Hope this helps :)
Tomas
"Micha�l Parienti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
It is perhaps a newbie question, but I don't know where
to get an answer:
Is it possible to do a bios update from Linux?
Or do I need to instal dos, or windows to be able
to update the bios of my motherboard?
Micha�l Parienti
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From: Markus Unterguggenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ethernetlink
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:55:51 +0200
is there anyone out there to give me some inf�s about ethernetl link
configuration and cable modem configuration.
thanks a lot,
markus
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From: "H.J.W. van Os" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Intel EtherExpress causing networkload?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:55:06 +0200
We are having problems with some Red Hat 6.1 machines in our
organization. These machines are attached to our NT-network through
Intel EtherExpress cards with the 82557 chipset. The network throughput
is ok until we shutdown the Linux machines. Somehow the network becomes
unbearably slow. We only telnet out to our big unix servers from these
linux machines, so it's not something like clients trying to reach
them... Anybody got any idea what's going on here?
Thanks in advance for any answers.
Regards,
Marco
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From: Torstein Finnbakk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Printer makes 1/2 size pages
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:11:18 +0200
Subject:
Re: Printer makes 1/2 size pages
Date:
Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:42:22 +0100
From:
Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization:
KULeuvenNet
Newsgroups:
comp.os.linux.hardware
References:
1 , 2 , 3
Torstein Finnbakk wrote:
>
> John McKown wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:52:44 +0200, Torstein Finnbakk
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I have installed RedHat 6.1. My printer is an Canon BJ-30 (for ink)
> > >There is no option for this one in Printtool. When I use the driver for
> > >any of the other Canons, it works, but the pages are only 1/2 of the
> > >size of the A4 format.
> >
> > You didn't say what printer setup that you did use. I assume that it was
> > another Canon. In the three that are list on my RedHat 6.0 system, all
> > had a paper size of A4 available. Did you set your paper size in
> > printtool
> > to A4? Or did you leave it at the default of letter? If you did change
> > it,
> > I have no idea why you are only getting A3 sized paper.
> >
> > John
>
> Yes, I have changed it to A4
>
> Torstein
>
>I once had a similar problem under SuSE. Using apsfilter,
>when printing a plain text file, it would print it at about
>half the size, rotated 90 degrees. Turned out to be a
>filter `problem': apsfilter had been set up to print 2up (I
>found this out upon printing my first multi page text file).
>Maybe you have a similar problem (I'm not familiar with RH,
>so I can't say for sure).
>HTH
>Sven
My pages are not rotated 90 degrees, just too small.
But where can I find the apsfilter?
Torstein
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Crossposted-To:
alt.2600,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: I need old server info
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PennGwyn)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Apr 2000 09:24:38 GMT
In article <HlRK4.47835$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>
>I recently acquired an old Pyramid Technologies Model #210x server. I have
>NO info about the inner working of this particular box, and am in need of a
>place to contact for tech docs. Does anyone have ANY ideas where, or better
>yet WHO, I can contact for some info regarding this unit. I have done an
>exhaustive search-engine query for any leads...and aside from contacting
>Siemens-Pyramid directly, I have found no leads. Please throw me any bones
>or feedback re: this HUGE box....(it weighs over 300lbs.!!!).
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris Moody, CCNA
As I recall -- it was ~15 years ago and I wasn't directly involved -- its
selling point was ROMs designed to support both Sys V and BSD system calls.
Not sure if you could mix both in a single process, but I believe you could
have processes of both sorts running simultaneously.
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From: bbyeung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't send email
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:30:04 GMT
Dear Mr. Basak,
It's a 10baseT with a leased line to our ISP.
Thanks.
P.S. How can I contact you? I tried to reply by email, but the address
didn't work.
Robie Basak wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:30:07 GMT, bbyeung said:
> >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.
>
> It sounds like a hardware problem; your NIC sent an ethernet frame
> and didn't get an acknowledgement?
>
> What kind of network is it (10base2/10baseT/etc)?
>
> Robie.
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From: Florian Schiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Athlon 700 Box
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:47:40 +0200
Neil Nelson wrote:
> > The FIC SD11 ($140) runs at 200mhz FSB.
> [ No it doesn't. Their statement on the website is incorrect. The FSB
> [ is clocked at 100MHz, as with any board using the AMD-751 north
> [ bridge. It is a property of the EV6 FSB to transmit data twice per
> [ clock cycle, thus providing a bandwidth equaling to a 200MHz tradi-
> [ tional (Intel) FSB. Again, this is true for all boards using the
> [ AMD-751 chip, including the Gigabyte boards.
Yes, this is correct.
> [ There is an alternative to the AMD chipset in the new(ish) VIA KX133
> [ chipset. Motherboards using this chipset are clocking the FSB at
> [ 133MHz, achieving a bandwidth comparing to a 266MHz "traditional"
> [ FSB. They will need PC-133 RAM.
This is not correct.
The VIA KX-133 Chipset still uses 100MHz on the FSB, since the Processor
is not (yet) designed for more. The advantage is, this chipset can run
the Memory on a different speed than the processor: You can choose
betwenn 100MHz and 133MHz clock rate on the memory-bus. This can give
you some extra speed for memoryaccess if you have PC-133 RAMs. I have
PC-100 Memory from Siemens/Infineon overclocked to 133 MHz without any
Problems, but this is not really recommended :-)
> Thank you for the detailed explanation. Does this also suggest that
> clocking the KX133 chipset at 133Mhz, which would not be over-clocked
> for a _chipset_ designed for 133Mhz, would require over-clocking the
> cpu from 200 to 266Mhz to obtain the benefits of the PC-133 RAM? I.e.,
> do we need to exceed the intended specifications of the cpu?
Note, that the now-selling series of the Athlon Processor _always_ runs
at 100MHz FSB, but transferring data twice per Cycle.
Some Manufacturers, also call this "Double Data Rate" (DDR)
This term is mosty used for DDR-RAM, which use essentially the same
mechanism.
Cu,
Florian
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From: "Charles Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: anybody manage to get a pcmcia token ring and toshiba tecra to work?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:49:52 +0200
I've got this Toshiba Tecra 750, and a Madge 16/4 Token Ring adapter (as
well as a Noteworthy Token Ring adapter) and RH 6.2.
I can't seem to get these guys to work together.
Has anybody managed to make a similar combination work?
I'd really appreciate any tips on where to look or what to do.
Btw, I've already installed the pcmcia stuff from Hind, and I've already
grabbed the drivers from www.madge.com. The drivers from madge were
published in Nov 99 and they're for an older kernel. The binaries fail and
the source code has errors I can't resolve.
Am I doomed to never use token ring (or even ethernet) on my linux/toshiba
setup? :) Do I have to install windoze?
Chuck
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From: "Oud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting an ISDN card to work under Suse6.3 ??
Date: 18 Apr 2000 10:19:55 GMT
Does anybody know if it is possible to load a firmware driver on an active
ISDN card (Woerltronic A16) under DOS and then boot Linux (Suse 6.3) using
loadlin and still have the driver on the card and get it functional. So far
I've got the card recognised with isapnp, but my computer does not want to
mount (?) the ippp0 device. Woerltronic does not have any Linux drivers for
this card.
B.t.w. I'm pretty new at Linux, but a fast learner ;-)
Thanks
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From: Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer makes 1/2 size pages
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:48:20 +0100
Torstein Finnbakk wrote:
> >
> > John McKown wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:52:44 +0200, Torstein Finnbakk
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >I have installed RedHat 6.1. My printer is an Canon BJ-30 (for ink)
> > > >There is no option for this one in Printtool. When I use the driver for
> > > >any of the other Canons, it works, but the pages are only 1/2 of the
> > > >size of the A4 format.
> > >
> > > You didn't say what printer setup that you did use. I assume that it was
> > > another Canon. In the three that are list on my RedHat 6.0 system, all
> > > had a paper size of A4 available. Did you set your paper size in
> > > printtool
> > > to A4? Or did you leave it at the default of letter? If you did change
> > > it,
> > > I have no idea why you are only getting A3 sized paper.
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > Yes, I have changed it to A4
> >
> > Torstein
> >
>
> >I once had a similar problem under SuSE. Using apsfilter,
> >when printing a plain text file, it would print it at about
> >half the size, rotated 90 degrees. Turned out to be a
> >filter `problem': apsfilter had been set up to print 2up (I
> >found this out upon printing my first multi page text file).
> >Maybe you have a similar problem (I'm not familiar with RH,
> >so I can't say for sure).
>
> >HTH
>
> >Sven
>
> My pages are not rotated 90 degrees, just too small.
> But where can I find the apsfilter?
>
> Torstein
The apsfilter home page is at
http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas/
HTH
Sven
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