Linux-Hardware Digest #988, Volume #12 Mon, 5 Jun 00 14:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Printer driver for HP-Deskjet 970Cxi ("Timo Volkmer")
MicroDrive and SCSI cardreader :-( (Frederick Page)
Re: Defective memory? (Jean-Jacques Sarton)
Re: Defective memory? (Daniel Haude)
Best video cature card (Thierry)
R: Network Drivers: How to write them? ("Paolo Scaffardi")
Re: Advanced Power Managment for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
yes, this is a WinModem (-) (Dmitry Tarnyagin)
Re: Winmodem or Not? (Tony Curtis)
But how can you tell? What was the sign? (Yns)
Re: Microsoft Natural Keyboard (Chris Webster)
SCSI Timeouts on Mandrake 7.0 Installation ("Wade Oram")
Re: Maxtor 40 Plus & Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Galacticomm Serial Board (David Lesher)
Re: 9300i (john calison)
CD-RW HP 9100i ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD-RW HP 9100i ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Photo printing under linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Digiport for RedHat 6.1 ?? (Yan Seiner)
URGENT: Massive problems with network (adapter) ("Matthias Path")
USB Compact Flash Readers (Leon Hauck)
HELP PLEAE 3C900B-TPO
Configuring LS120 and Inspiron 7500 ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Timo Volkmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer driver for HP-Deskjet 970Cxi
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:23:07 +0200
Hi there,
does anyone of you know if there is a good printer driver for the HP-Deskjet
970Cxi?
I am currently using SuSE Linux 6.4 and it recognizes the printer as a
"970C".
It then offers to use different drivers like for 820C, 670C, 850C, 650C ...
Neither one of them produces a good printing quality in color. The 670C
looks best but
still not even close to the quality produced under Windows ;-(
The b&w quality is ok.
So, if anyone nknows a good way to solve this, please email me. Or if
anyone even
know where to get a driver for the 970Cxi please let me know.
Any help is appreciated - Thank's.
-Timo.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Frederick Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MicroDrive and SCSI cardreader :-(
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:03:02 GMT
Hi everybody,
running Debian 2.2 (potato frozen), Kernel 2.2.15, Tekram DC-390 U2W
(Symbios Chipset), kernel-driver ncr53c8xx, card-reader is Altec
i-Drive, SCSI-only system, no IDE- and/or PCMCIA-drivers.
The microdrive (340 MB) works with Win98 and a SanDisk USB Card
Reader (friend of mine), his flash-cards also work perfectly with
my SCSI card-reader.
Only the microdrive does not work with my card-reader, cannot mount,
fdisk, mkfs, etc.:
~# mount /dev/sdc1
mount: /dev/sdc1 is not a valid block device
~# fdisk /dev/sdc
Unable to read /dev/sdc
~#
/var/log/messages says:
SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 3 lun 0 return code = 28000002
Info fld=0x15, EOM Current sd08:20: sense key None
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
Anybody knows, what's going on here? I can access the microdrive
via the BIOS of my SCSI-hostadaptor, can perform a badblock scan
(0 Errors found), can also lowlevel format the drive.
TIA and kind regards
Frederick
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From: Jean-Jacques Sarton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Defective memory?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:11:33 +0200
Hello,
Daniel Haude wrote:
>
> 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?
The PCI-Bus may also cause problems. The PCI bus is a non terminated bus
which use reflections. If the board layout or a member of the BUS is not
OK
ECC Errors may occurs and probably cause a crash.
> 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"
Regards,
Jean-Jacques
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Subject: Re: Defective memory?
Date: 5 Jun 2000 15:41:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:11:33 +0200,
Jean-Jacques Sarton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in Msg. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| The PCI-Bus may also cause problems. The PCI bus is a non terminated bus
| which use reflections. If the board layout or a member of the BUS is not
| OK
| ECC Errors may occurs and probably cause a crash.
Is there a suggested way in which I'm supposed to fill the PCI slots with
cards? Beginning at the CPU, or at the far end?
Thanks for the answer,
--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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From: Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best video cature card
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 09:08:39 -0700
Hi,
What is the best pci video capture card for linux, (chip, video4linux
compatible, and good quality).
Without TV reception.
Thanks a lot.
thierry
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From: "Paolo Scaffardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: R: Network Drivers: How to write them?
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:51:38 +0200
Sorry, but i dont know how to implement a software modem with a soundcard...
it's cheap to use it but time-expensive to develop it.
Sorry!
Bye,
Arsenio Pinguin ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
--> MAY THE PINGUIN B WITH U! <--
Daniel McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
01bfcc20$5dea01e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Maybe you can help me out,
> Id like to find a real cheap way to buy modems, modems that dont do data.
> All I want the modem to do is control the line and let the sound card do
> the rest.
>
> Regards
> Daniel McLean
> >
> > I'd like to find any simple network driver source... for example for a
> > NULL-MODEM 3 pin cable... but i dont know where to find it!
> >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Advanced Power Managment for Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:48:10 -0400
In message-ID
<UWmX4.2605$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
---
> The problem for me was in the apm package from
> RedHat 6.0. After the computer would come back
---
> setting it back a few hours for me. I solved it by
> upgrading to the one that comes with RH 6.2. So if
---
I, too, am running RH6.0. I have also experienced the problem of
coming out of suspend mode to find my system clock set as if my
hardware clock was in UTC. I was using the apmd-3.0beta5-8.i386.rpm
that one can get from RH's update site,
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh60-errata-general.html. I had
this problem even though my /etc/sysconfig/clock said "UTC=false" and
my /etc/sysconfig/apmd file lacked the "-u" (BIOS clock is set to UTC)
flag.
So, two nights ago I did as you suggested and upgraded to
apmd-3.0final-2.i386.rpm from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/.
Unfortunately, that did nothing to solve the problem.
This upgrade replaces /etc/sysconfig/apmd and adds a directory
called /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts. Reading through apmscript in
that directory, I gathered that I needed to add the line
---
> UTC="no"
---
to /etc/sysconfig/apmd. The problem appears to be that the
/usr/bin/apm program never reads from /etc/sysconfig/apmd. I cannot
even verify that it executes /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript. (I
added some "echo" statements to that script and never saw them
displayed.)
So, any suggestions? I appreciate any help in fixing this
annoying little bug.
--
Bernie Hoefer
(Change my address to fname.lname@company to e-mail me.)
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From: Dmitry Tarnyagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: yes, this is a WinModem (-)
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 19:39:37 +0400
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodem or Not?
Date: 05 Jun 2000 11:42:16 -0500
>> On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 14:03:37 GMT,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 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.
Yes, it's probably a WinModem. However, you might like to
try the Lucent linux driver, available from
http://www.linmodems.org/
You may get lucky...
hth
t
--
"Trying is the first step towards failure"
Homer Simpson
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:43:00 +0100
From: Yns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: But how can you tell? What was the sign?
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From: Chris Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:02:31 -0600
> Thanks for your reply. I have the old PS/2 one. I must have made a wrong
> choice at installation or something.
I have one at work and one at home, both work fine, both on PIII, with
RH6.2.
--Chris
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From: "Wade Oram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Timeouts on Mandrake 7.0 Installation
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:50:47 +0100
I have attempted to install the Mandrake 7.0 Installation from a magazine
cover disk and I am getting SCSI timeout problems.
A quick glance through a colleages 'Linux Unleashed' suggests that this is
caused by resource conflicts. However, my Windows 2k installation on the
same machine has no such problems (neither did NT4 previously).
Viewing the resource allocation on the Windows installation reveals that My
SCSI card is sharing interrupts with my video card. A second SCSI card is
also sharing an interrupt although in this case it is with the SoundBlaster
Live sound card.
Is it possible that it is the shared interrupts that are causing the Linux
installer such problems?
Machine Details:
Pentium III - 450 on 440BX motherboard with more than sufficient Ram.
Adaptec 2940UW - Shares interrupt with Matrox Millenium
LUN 0 - Seagate 4.5
GByte Cheetah
LUN 2 - Pioneer CD ROM
LUN 4 - HP 4000S Travan
4 Tape Streamer
LUN 15 - Seagate 18GByte
Cheetah
Adaptec 2930CU - Shares interrupt with Soundblaster Live
LUN 6 - Microtek E6
Scanner - normally powered off
Primary IDE
MASTER - Toshiba SD R1002
DVD/CDR/CDRW combo
Matrox Millenium G400 Max video card - Shares interrupt with 2940UW
Sound Blaster Live Sound card - Shares interrupt with 2930CU
For the purposes of the Linux installation, I am booting of of the SCSI
CDROM.
--
Wade Oram
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Maxtor 40 Plus & Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:14:42 GMT
In article <8g2buf$m9q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In addition to upgrading to 2.2.15 you need to get the latest
"util-linux"
> package (that's what it's called in Debian anyway). This contains the
> latest disk tools such as fdisk, which finally allowed me and my
Pentium
> Pro 200 to see all 40GB.
>
> Jeremy Bassis wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We would like to install Maxtor 40 plus in our linux server. Does
> > anyone know about problems accessing the 40GB under linux using an
old
> > motherboard (pentium 200 MHz Asus TX97-XE).
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > Hartwig
>
>
How do you boot your system????
I have the same MB with a K6-2/450 cpu, a 16GB IBM as primary master and
the 40GB maxtor as primary slave.
with the limiting jumper the system boots but i cant access anything
bejond 32 GB under linux, without the jumper the system won�t boot
unless i unpower the maxtor when turning the system on and connect the
drive to the power supply after about 10 sec so that the drive is not
yet spun up when atapiprobe (or whatever checks the ide-channels) is
executed; but then i can access the whole drive under linux. i set
primary slave to "not installed" and tried a lot of setting and bios�
but i didn�t find a cure....
please let me know if you have a solution.....
jimmy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lesher)
Subject: Galacticomm Serial Board
Date: 5 Jun 2000 13:29:12 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lesher)
I've got a 8-port serial gard labeled "Galacticomm" Galactiboard RevB.
It has eight 16550AFN's and support glue. Has anyone heard of drivers
for such?
--
A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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From: john calison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 9300i
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:38:19 -0400
Dances With Crows wrote:
> 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
That makes sense.
thanks for your reply,
john
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CD-RW HP 9100i
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:46:26 +0100
Hi all!
I am a rather new commer to linux world.
Nevertheless I have been exploring all fstab doc, cdrom-howto's and
moste of available messages in the group.
But still a total failure to use this CD-RW HP 9100i with Linux Mandrak.
fs type is told to be wrong, or too much file sytem mounted...
I installed Linux from the cd drive. Then it is fully functional.
(Wrong?)
I don't know if problems are due to fstab or something else. Help!
Gilles Tabary
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CD-RW HP 9100i
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:45:54 +0100
Hi all!
I am a rather new commer to linux world.
Nevertheless I have been exploring all fstab doc, cdrom-howto's and
moste of available messages in the group.
But still a total failure to use this CD-RW HP 9100i with Linux Mandrak.
fs type is told to be wrong, or too much file sytem mounted...
I installed Linux from the cd drive. Then it is fully functional.
(Wrong?)
I don't know if problems are due to fstab or something else. Help!
Gilles Tabary
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Photo printing under linux
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:40:48 GMT
Have a request for a photo ID system using Linux.
Thus far I have not had the best of luck with photo printing under
linux.
Are there any printers and/or applications that cam print color photos
with reasonable quality.
John
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Digiport for RedHat 6.1 ??
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:55:33 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It has native support - built into the kernel and available as modules.
make menuconfig and read the helpfiles for nonstandard serial ports.
--Yan
Panos wrote:
>
> ok, ok, i mean digiboard... :-)
--
Think different
ride a recumbent
use Linux.
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From: "Matthias Path" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: URGENT: Massive problems with network (adapter)
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:54:39 +0200
Hallo alle zusammen!
Wir haben SuSE 6.4. Unser Netzwerk ist ein 100 MBit Ethernet und im
Linux-Problem-Rechner ist eingebaut eine RealTek 8139 als eth0.
Wenn ich mit der Boot-Diskette boote, funktioniert alles normal. Boote ist
allerdings das System ohne Bootdiskette (verwendet wird der mit SuSE 6.4
ausgelieferte Kernel 2.2.14 in der "Pentium-optimiert"-Fassung),
funktioniert die Netzwerkkarte �berhaupt nicht mehr.
Der Rechner l��t sich von au�en nicht anpingen, wie er auch von innen an
keinen Rechner keine Pings schicken.
Oh, Moment, ich sehe gerade:
64 Bytes from ?.?.?.?, icmp_seq=341 ttl=255 time=157678.221 ms (DUP!)
Au�erdem erhalte ich im /var/log/messages-Protokoll ununterbrochen etwas
wie:
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0004 media 00.
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 8008a062
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 8008a062
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 8008a062
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 8008a062
eth0: MII #32 registers are: 1000 782d 0000 0000 01e1 40a1 0001 0000.
Immer mal wieder etwas wie:
eth0: RTL8139 Interrupt line blocked, status 5.
oder status 4, wie's beliebt.
Wie gesagt: Das Interessante ist, beim Booten von der Diskette klappt alles
prima.
Was kann da das Problem sein???
Matthias Path
P.S.: Die Netzwerkkarte kann's nicht sein, denn das ist jetzt schon die
zweite, mit der das Problem auftritt!
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From: Leon Hauck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Compact Flash Readers
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 10:44:27 -0700
Has anyone had luck getting any of the USB Compact Flash Readers to work
under Linux? I didn't see any mention of these devices at the
www.linux-usb.org site...
Thanks...
Leon Hauck
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP PLEAE 3C900B-TPO
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 06:58:10 -0400
Reply-To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am trying to get a 3C900B-TPO working under RedHat LINUX 6.2
When I try to run the "install3c90x" program I get the following:
"Attempting to install the 2.2.14-5.0 version of the 3c90x
driver module.
You are running the 2.2.14-5.0 version of the kernel release...
The 3c90x driver module was not built for this kernel release.
You will need to compile the driver yourself.
Installation of 3c90x driver module failed."
The "compile_UP" worked fine.
I copied the 3c90x.o to /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net
I went into /etc/conf.modules and added
alias eth0 3c90x
I did a insmod 3c90x.o.
Yet when I boot the system I get a message in /var/log/messages
ifup: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is down
Any help you can provide would be appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Configuring LS120 and Inspiron 7500 ?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:45:52 GMT
I have a new Inspiron 7500 with DVD / LS120 Combo.
I cannot for the life of me set the LS120 to mount on my machine.
( An LS120 is a Super Disk drive which backwards compatible to
the original floppy disk drive. 3.5" 1.44MB
with the ability to store data on special formatted
120Megabyte disks. )
The standard floppy disk controller will not work with an LS120
instead it is IDE device much like IOMega ZIP Drive.
THe LS120 is primary on the 2nd IDE device (/dev/hdc)
and the DVD is secondary (/dev/hdd)
I inserted a preformatted 1.44HDD 3.5" floppy and tried the
following command:
mkdir /ls120
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc0 /ls120
I get the error message "hdc0 is not a block device. -
try -o check loop device?".
The funny thing is that I think I can write to the LS120 a kernel
on another preformatted disk
dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/hdc0 bs=18k
And then read the data back
dd if=/dev/hdc0 of=/tmp/kernel.data
cmp /tmp/kernel.data /vmlinuz; echo $?
Results in exit code 0(!). So I know the drive works on Linux.
When I stick one my older Windows floppies 1.44 HDD floppies
back into the LS120 I cannot mount the thing as a VFAT floppy.
Why???
Any body out there will DELL Inspiron 7500 who has a working
LS120 drive under Linux. PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.
Any Ideas.
TIA
Peter Pilgrim
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