Linux-Hardware Digest #987, Volume #12 Mon, 5 Jun 00 11:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: A simple solution needed.... (Andreas Ender)
Re: Epson Color 640 -- inkjet cleaning? ("Edward T. Rewolinski")
Re: Building a wearable computer ("Liam Graves")
Re: HP 8250i (Steve Martin)
Radio modems (Yan Seiner)
Small TBU needed (Yan Seiner)
Re: Radio modems ("Peter T. Breuer")
9300i (john calison)
Re: no memory left ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Re: 9300i (Dances With Crows)
Re: Epson Color 640 -- inkjet cleaning? (Jean-Jacques Sarton)
Re: Building a wearable computer ("Jim Williams")
Re: Commuter ide disk an Parallelport ("J�rgen B�hm")
Re: SV: American modem (Yns)
Winmodem or Not? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help: 64 bit PCI motherboards ("John Lam")
Serial Port Problem ("Chong Jiayi")
Re: ASUS CUBX based system has MAJOR linux problems! Desperate plea for help...
(Tobias Haist)
Production SMP Linux? Worth the risk? (Nicola Pedrozzi)
Defective memory? (Daniel Haude)
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:09:03 +0200
From: Andreas Ender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,at.linux,aus.computers.linux,be.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: A simple solution needed....
Yuval schrieb:
> Under Linux, I installed a driver (what's called a module) by the guidance
> of someone from here... he instructed me to run through all the modules
> using the modprobe command until I don't get an error message, so that what
> I did, I found that a module called 82596 isn't causing any error messages
> (does that mean it is the right one?), so I defined the same IP address and
^^^^^
you have to use a unique IP address for each computer !
> subnet mask as I defined under Windows '95 using the ifconfig command, and
> brought the eth0 interface up, and tried to ping the Windows '95 computer
> and ... it didn't work, I tried to ping the Linux computer from the
> Windows '95 and it didn't work too...
>
> W H A T D I D I D O W R O N G ? ? ?
>
> Yuval.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Edward T. Rewolinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Color 640 -- inkjet cleaning?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:27:34 GMT
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The 640, too, has a cleaning button on the front. My machine came with all
the necessary instructions on decals under the swing-up top.
"Robert M. Taylor, Jr." wrote:
> Johan Uiterwijk Winkel wrote:
> >
> > "K. Bruner" wrote:
> >
> > Buy a cheap pc with a network card, install windhoos on it, install
> > samba on the linux pc and share the printer. With this cheap solution
> > it's possible to clean the printheads ;-)
> >
> > Kind regards,
> I'm not familiar with the Epson Stylus 640 but my Stylus 600 has a
> cleaning button on the front of it. The printer came with a manual that
> talks about printing in DOS so printing with Linux is much the same;
> i.e. use the manual controls if you have them.
> --
> Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ________________________________________________________
> Welcome to SuSE Linux 6.3 (i686) - Kernel 2.2.13 (tty1).
>
> Osprey login:
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From: "Liam Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Building a wearable computer
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:23:05 -0000
"� Mundeep �. Verdee �" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 17:12:50 GMT, Jim Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following and also nicknamed it:
> <mWRZ4.2209$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> �As I said, any advice anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Check out http://thesync.com/etc/ and the video entitled "How to Turn
> a Laptop into a Wearable"
>
> </Quote>
> Got an old laptop? Turn it into a wearable computer with wireless
> Internet connectivity for under $1000. Tom gives step by step
> instructions on how to do it.
> <Quote>
>
> HTH
Apologies if this has been posted before - but I could only see this reply.
Look at:
http://wearables.stanford.edu/
for a ~300USD matchbox sized PC
--
Liam ;�)
Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 8250i
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 07:38:32 -0400
Martin Booth wrote:
> I recently bought a new CDRW, an HP 8250i, I'm having problems
> accessing it with cdrecord - it keeps saying something along
> the lines of sense error.
I started a thread not long ago regarding the 8250i. I bought
one that, after it spun down from inactivity, refused to spin
back up until I ejected the disk. Turns out that the 8250i
was OEM'd by two different manufacturers. The one I originally
bought (built by Philips) had a hinged front door and sixteen
small holes along the front panel. It was a turkey. I took it
back and swapped it for another 8250i, this time making sure
it was the other type (built by Sony) with no hinged door and
no slots. It works like a charm, both for burning and for
regular CD use.
I get a feeling that HP didn't really do a lot of QA on the
8250i product. I'd suggest getting rid of it.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Radio modems
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 06:51:08 -0400
Is anoyone using radio modems with linux?
I've been playing with the idea of linking the office to my house with a
decent speed radio modem,and I see some advertise rates as high as
2mb/sec, enough to make a network connection feasible.
I have not found any that claim to support linux.
I'd welcome any suggestions for manufacturers, models, or contacts.
Thanks,
--Yan
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Small TBU needed
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 06:48:41 -0400
I need a small tape backup unit for my home PC. Space is at a premium
so I really don't want to get a larger case.
I have one external 3.5" half-height slot available.
I need a capacity of only about 4 GB; speed is not really an issue.
--Yan
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Radio modems
Date: 5 Jun 2000 11:53:26 GMT
Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is anoyone using radio modems with linux?
Yes .. I have a pcmcia wavelan on my desk. Apparently it's supported
but I haven't got arround to making it work yet.
: I have not found any that claim to support linux.
?? Why would they?
Peter
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From: john calison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 9300i
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 08:34:29 -0400
Hope someone can help with the following question.
I running RH6.1 with an HP9300i CD-RW (internal, ide-atapi). I'm
trying to enable SCSI emulation support and
am stuck at selecting a low-level SCSI driver for this device, the rest
I've figured out. Does anyone know which
driver to select?
Thanks in advance,
john
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no memory left
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:42:18 GMT
How are you checking how much memory is free? I know that the "free"
command is misleading.
Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:45:48 -0500, duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >i have 96m of memory and it is all being used up
> >any ideas why?
>
> Would you rather not have it used? The kernel is assuming you want it
> all put to good use, so it finds uses for it -- like buffers, cache,
> etc.
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 9300i
Date: 05 Jun 2000 08:55:06 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 08:34:29 -0400, john calison
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> I running RH6.1 with an HP9300i CD-RW (internal, ide-atapi). I'm
>trying to enable SCSI emulation support and
>am stuck at selecting a low-level SCSI driver for this device, the rest
>I've figured out. Does anyone know which
>driver to select?
Don't select one. The "lowlevel SCSI driver" for IDE devices is the
IDE-SCSI emulation that you enable elsewhere.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: Jean-Jacques Sarton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Color 640 -- inkjet cleaning?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 14:41:47 +0200
Hello,
You tell the printer tp perform head cleaning from the computer.
Look at http://home.t-online.de/home/jj.sarton
You will find ther the epsUtils which is a status monitor like
utility.
"Edward T. Rewolinski" wrote:
>
> The 640, too, has a cleaning button on the front. My machine came with all
> the necessary instructions on decals under the swing-up top.
>
> "Robert M. Taylor, Jr." wrote:
>
> > Johan Uiterwijk Winkel wrote:
> > >
> > > "K. Bruner" wrote:
> > >
> > > Buy a cheap pc with a network card, install windhoos on it, install
> > > samba on the linux pc and share the printer. With this cheap solution
> > > it's possible to clean the printheads ;-)
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > I'm not familiar with the Epson Stylus 640 but my Stylus 600 has a
> > cleaning button on the front of it. The printer came with a manual that
> > talks about printing in DOS so printing with Linux is much the same;
> > i.e. use the manual controls if you have them.
> > --
> > Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ________________________________________________________
> > Welcome to SuSE Linux 6.3 (i686) - Kernel 2.2.13 (tty1).
> >
> > Osprey login:
Regards,
Jean-Jacques
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From: "Jim Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Building a wearable computer
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:07:08 GMT
Thanks, I've been to the stanford site. They use a custom-made circuit
board, which immediately went beyond my abilities to duplicate. They also
now sell that matchbook size pc as the TIQIT. Unfortunately, it costs $1500
for a 486/66 class computer. And that goes over my $1k max spending limit
without providing for display or input. But I'm still looking 8c)
I think I'll be able to turn my laptop into a wearable, my only
disappointment being that it won't have 3D acceleration. 8c(
Liam Graves wrote in message <393b8d82$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>"� Mundeep �. Verdee �" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in
>message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 17:12:50 GMT, Jim Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote the following and also nicknamed it:
>> <mWRZ4.2209$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> �As I said, any advice anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Check out http://thesync.com/etc/ and the video entitled "How to Turn
>> a Laptop into a Wearable"
>>
>> </Quote>
>> Got an old laptop? Turn it into a wearable computer with wireless
>> Internet connectivity for under $1000. Tom gives step by step
>> instructions on how to do it.
>> <Quote>
>>
>> HTH
>
>Apologies if this has been posted before - but I could only see this reply.
>
>Look at:
>http://wearables.stanford.edu/
>for a ~300USD matchbox sized PC
>
>
>--
>
>Liam ;�)
>
>Login incorrect.
>Only perfect spellers may
>enter this system.
>
>
>
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From: "J�rgen B�hm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Commuter ide disk an Parallelport
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:18:45 +0200
Schau doch mal hier : http://www.datastortech.com/
Cu Jogi
"Beispielbenutzer SuSE Linux 6.3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hey, ich habe eine ide-disk in einem Datastore Commutergeh�use am
Parallelport h�ngen, und w�rde diese gerne ans laufen kriegen. Laut Doku
brauche ich daf�r das Modul 'pd.o' oder 'comm.o'. Is auch da, sagt mir
nur st�ndig 'device or resource busy'. Auch ein alleiniges einbinden von
comm.o (Commuter low-level) funktioniert zwar, allerdings passiert
danach nichts weiter. Ist danach alles erledigt, und ich mu� nur das
richtige device treffen ? Wenn ja welches ...... ?
Oder mach ich einen grunds�tzlichen Fehler.
Gibt es evtl. eine Doku speziell f�r IDE-Devices am Parallelport? (Nicht
nur f�r ZIP)
MfG,
Marc Neuhaus
PS: Ein ZIP am Parallelport mit 'modprobe ppa' funst einwandfrei.
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:06:40 +0100
From: Yns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SV: American modem
Mats Nyberg wrote:
>
> Paul Voller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
> diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:Pine.GSO.4.21.0006021617200.29752-100000@helpfu
> l.dcs.warwick.ac.uk...
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Yns wrote:
> >
> > |I'm based in the UK and recently bought an external US Robotics
> > |Sportster modem from an american friend.
> > |
> > |Unfortunatly, I cannot get it to work on my linux machine.
> > |
> > |I couldn't even get it to work on a windows pc.
> > |
> > |I've probably tried all dip switch settings without success.
> > |
> > |I gave up on the modem about 2 weeks ago - however
> > |is there anyone who can shed some wisdom on why an
> > |american modem won't work in the UK.
> >
> > I do not think that the two telephone systems are compatible in terms of
> > the hardware that you can pout into the plug in the wall. Also, the modem
> > will not be BABT approved, which means that it is actually /illegal/ to
> > use it on BT sockets.
> >
> > I would ditch it and spend 30 quid on a new one from the UK.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > P.
>
> Try adding B&G2&P1 to your modem-initstring.>
Great stuff!! A shimmer of hope!
I'll try it when I get home.
I've been searching high, low and sideways for an answer and haven't
come accross this init string before - where can I get more info
on this?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Winmodem or Not?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 14:03:37 GMT
Is this a winmodem or not. I cannot tell by reading
the HOWTOs or by the Winmodem pages. Any advice?
Below is the Linux system information on the hardware,
and the manafacture is Lucent, and its in a Compaq
1800XL laptop.
# dmesg
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
This reports ttyS00 above, but setserial reports
# setserial -a /dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
# cat /proc/pci
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Communication controller:
Lucent (ex-AT&T) Microelectronics Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=11c1. Device id=441.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
IRQ 3. Master Capable. No bursts.Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4101000 [0xf4101000].
I/O at 0x14d0 [0x14d1].
I/O at 0x1000 [0x1001].
# cd /dev
# mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 # base address 0x03f8
# ls -al /dev/ttyS0*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 64 Jun 4 19:14
ttyS0
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "John Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: 64 bit PCI motherboards
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:25:00 +0100
Hi all,
I hope someone can clarify whether Linux supports any motherboards with
64 bit PCI slots.
According to various Linux sites I've understand that Supermicro boards are
quite good in general and according to the Supermicro site they do support
Linux but neither go into any detail.
regards,
john
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:19:45 +0800
From: "Chong Jiayi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial Port Problem
Whenever I do the setserial for ttyS0 which is my COM1,
I get the message: No such device. (for ttys0 I get:input/output error)
I've checked my bios and it says that my base address is 0x03f8 which I have
set
but I still get the error message...
Any of you guys have any advice?
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
============================================
mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chong Jiayi
"Principles: You can't say A is made of B or vice versa... all mass is
interaction"
- Richard Feynman
my 3D engine's web page:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/7233/index.html
"phong shading, texture-mapping and other pixel glowing stuff..."
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From: Tobias Haist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: ASUS CUBX based system has MAJOR linux problems! Desperate plea for
help...
Date: 05 Jun 2000 16:50:28 +0200
"Warren Postma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have installed 3 different distributions of Linux on my CUBX motherboard.
> I have the same sound card and network card as on my previous system (a
> PII-400Mhz) and my new system (PIII-600Mhz, Socket-370 ASUS CUBX
> Motherboard,128 Mb RAM) have the following problems:
>
> 1. Tulip ethernet card not recognized (dec 21143), worked in redhat 6.1 on
> my old system, doesn't work in redhat 6.2 or 6.1 or Storm Linux on my new
> system.
>
> 2. Both Redhat 6.1, 6.2 and Storm Linux (Rain Release) lock up the keyboard
> as soon as X/KDE login prompt starts up. The system keeps running, video is
> live, X input cursor is flashing, but both the keyboard and mouse are locked
> up.
>
> Can anyone offer me any hope!?
Hope yes, but unfortunately no solution.
I use a CUBX mit P3-600E, 256 MB, german keyboard, SUSE 6.4.,
no ethernet card.
Everything worked (and still works) very fine.
Strange !
> support, IrDA, 5 USB ports, 2 normal UDMA33 IDE connectors + 2 UDMA66
> (Promise CMD ATA66). I have the hard drive connected to the ATA33 connectors
> since I know UDMA66 is not well supported in Linux 2.2.x kernels.
I used ATA33 as well as ATA66 (in ATA33 mode) without problems.
--
"We have joy, we have fun - we have tetris on the sun!"
======================================================================
Tobias Haist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Institut f�r Technische Optik, University of Stuttgart
PGP Welcome
("finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to obtain public key )
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From: Nicola Pedrozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Production SMP Linux? Worth the risk?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 16:57:12 +0200
Hi Linuxers,
We have had a Pentium-PRO180 for 2.5 years with Linux 2.0.30 and
no one crash at all (at least for the OS).
We are now planning an HW and OS upgrade of our Linux box.
I'd like to get a SMP system, our main concern is RELIABILITY; it MUST
NOT
be a weak OS installation because it's a production machine.
Configuration will be similar to:
- OS: Linux 2.2.13 (Slackware 7.0, 7.1 if available soon)
- motherboard: ASUS P3C-Dual (133Mhz)
- processor(s): 2x PIII-800Mhz
- Hard Disks: 2x IBM 9.1GB U2Swide (SCSI)
- RAM: 512MB (133Mhz)
Questions:
1. Will Linux be reliable enough in this HW/OS configuration?
2. How good/bad will the OS benefit of the dual processors?
I know multi-thread works with MySQL, it will with Apache 2.x...
Thanks a lot guys,
Ciao ciao nIc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Subject: Defective memory?
Date: 5 Jun 2000 14:58:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the following problem:
Occasionally, I experience weird crashes of XWindows or other large
applications on my computer (486DX4/100) with 72M of EDO RAM. When I boot
DOS, himem.sys claims to find defective memory. I had to disable the
bootup mem check because it found problems, too. All this smells a lot
like bad RAM.
But I have heard that gcc was most sensitive to bad RAM as well, and I've
had the machine build kernels dozens of times, and there never was any
problem. Does anybody have a clue about what might be going on here? Maybe
the compiler just hasn't hit on the bad spot yet.
Are there any known problems that just look like defective memory but
aren't? Can they be solved?
BTW: Is 90+ minutes too much for a 2.2.15 kernel build on this computer?
I'm too used to working with faster machines...
Thanks a lot,
--Daniel
--
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy
way to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead"
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