Linux-Hardware Digest #30, Volume #13 Mon, 12 Jun 00 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: HomePNA 2.0 driver support? (Mark Darby)
Loadlin and above 1024th Cylinder SCSI ("Chad Worthman")
scsi-emulation (john calison)
Re: Old Monitor (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
3c509 PnP ("Wouter Verhelst")
Re: Modem won't hangup (Dex)
Re: SB Live! sound (Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Re: NO DIALTONE message with my modem
Elsa Gloria II (bulancea)
Re: Need soundcard suggestion. ("Oliver Clark")
Re: Books (Richard Watson)
Re: Old Monitor ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: SoundBlaster Live (emu10k1 module) (yet another sound card problem) (Ethan
Alpert)
Linux and Sprint PCS phones ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
how to set custom serial baudrate (40000bps)? (Clemens Kirchgatterer)
Re: Which modem is easy to setup, USB or com external? (aflinsch)
eMachines and other Integrated Systems (Mike Robbins)
A Genius Netmouse Pro Mouse (Michal Fikejs)
Re: IDE Activity Light Stays Lit ("Joe Avila")
Re: 3c509 PnP ("TJ Snider")
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From: Mark Darby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HomePNA 2.0 driver support?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:32:12 -0400
Broadcom, at the moment, does not directly provide linux support
for their iLine10 controller chip. I have talked to one of their
reps and he tells me that Broadcom provides Linux drivers to
their "large" customers that ask for it. Of course, I haven't seen any
linux drivers for any of the 10Mbps HPNA cards that I've seen
on the market (that includes the Diamond cards, the Intel 10M Anypoint
cards, the linksys cards, etc.). Also, notice that Broadcom doesn't
allow public access to the iLine10's datasheet, so that one
could potentially be made. Right now they're the only game in town in
the HPNA 2.0 chip market.
The AMD driver (pcnethme) only works on the AMD-based HPNA 1.0 cards,
and I have tried it on a couple (including Diamond and ActionTec) on
RedHat6.0.
The pcnet32 driver that comes with the linux kernel, starting with
2.2.13, also works on the AMD-based HPNA 1.0 cards, but doesn't allow
the flexibility to select either HPNA or 10BASET, like the pcnethme
driver does. I've used the 2.2.13 version of the pcnet32 driver
successfully in the Matterhorn
release of the Linux Router Project to create my own little
residential gateway.
Mark Darby
Larry Gardner wrote:
>
> I agree, the Diamond MM HPNA v2.0 is a Broadcom Chip! I think Diamond used
> the AMD for their HPNA 1.0 ( 1 mbps card). If the AMD driver does work for
> the Diamond HPNA2.0 cards, please post and let us know. Have been looking
> many places to find Linux support for the Diamond MM HPNA 2.0 (10mbps card).
> Your help would be appreciated
>
> Regards
>
> Larry
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > > I have not tried it yet but just ordered my HPNA cards based on this
> > > information. The Diamond Multimedia (S3) "HomeFree" cards are powered
> > by
> > > the AMD chip and therefore should work with the AMD "PCnethme" driver:
> > >
> >
> > Hmmn... my documentation says that my HomeFree 10mb PCI uses a Broadcom
> > (BCM4210) chipset. Broadcom does not indicate anything on their website
> > about linux support. I'll try the AMD, driver, though.
> >
> > --Josh
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
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From: "Chad Worthman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Loadlin and above 1024th Cylinder SCSI
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:06:13 -0230
I've got RedHat 6.2 installed on an 18GB SCSI drive with an Adaptec 2940UW
controller on a logical partition above 1024 (/dev/sda6), I don't want to
(can't) use LILO. I can boot with a boot disk, but it's damn slow. I've
been trying to use Loadlin. I've got my kernel image copied over to my
FAT32 partition. The machine boots halfway up, then when it tries to mount
the / filesystem it chokes and complains of a hardware problem and suggests
that I may have a problem with RAM (I don't have a RAM problem).
Has anyone seen this before? What did you do to get around it?
Thanks in advance,
Chad
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: john calison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi-emulation
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:48:58 -0400
I'm trying to get my HP9300i CD-RW internal recognized on
"scsi-emulation". On the secondary I have the CD as master and the ZIP
as secondary. I configured according to the "cd-writingHOWTO", except I
disabled ATAPI ide cdrom support. "cdrecord -scanbus" only shows the
ZIP on "scsi 0, 0,0,0", it does not see the CD.
Is there something to one device being seen as seven devices?
Should there be a "scsi1" for the cd. Any help would be appreciated.
I have posted request for help on this before and to all those who
have responded I have tried your suggestions, but nothing has worked. I
haven't replied because I was still trying to figure this out. In any
case, thanks to all and any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
john
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Re: Old Monitor
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.turbolinux,comp.os.linux.x.video
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:58:39 GMT
In <8i2gt6$muo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer:
[Snip...]
|> At 14" I would expect it to only do 1024x768 interlaced, not full.
I've found interlaced modes the only viable ones on some older Nec monitors
and others of 14" or so, but have no direct experience with Daytek models.
Those interested in purely Linux/monitor issues can stop reading now. There
is an offtopic netiquette rant following.
|> Is that enough clue?
Ya know Peter, you have a lot to offer, but abrasiveness gets the messenger
shot long before a message is heard no matter how compelling or accurate. I
think you entered many killfiles over needless dustups you have provoked in
apparent impatience with some newsgroup comments. You may not care now, but
I think that portends a Bad Thing (tm), for *all* of us.
Perhaps you meant to ask if readers needed more help they should ask. There
are more perceptive ways to accomplish that, and your obvious fluency in an
idiomatic language like english makes it clear you're well aware of it. You
may feign innocence, but it *appears* deliberately demeaning, and what does
matter more is how your insight is received, "factual" or not.
Even a simple smiley after tossing barbs like that would help immensely for
those struggling with what's for them arcana of a most frustrating kind. It
doesn't change reality, but it does affect *perception* of it. Why feed any
more noise into the signal than is naturally there anyway? You're running a
difficult race with entropy before you even leave the starting block.
I make these comments in the context of Open Source development, which does
not thrive in an environment which chills communication. That is not to say
all is to be sweetness and light in any human endeavor. But none of us need
to make it any more difficult to *hear* each other than is required. If you
wish to see such isolation run amok, ask Bill Gates whazzup lately.
Such perception may matter not one whit to you. Your call; I don't know.
I'm not asking you to tolerate spammers or the studiously lazy which likely
seems *not* the case here. My call; you may not agree.
But if you care about civilized sensibility, please moderate the attitude.
[Snip...]
--
Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS *
Pardon the bogus email domain (dseg etc.) in place for spambots.
Really it's (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. DO NOT SPAM IT.
Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.
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From: "Wouter Verhelst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c509 PnP
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:04:06 GMT
Hi,
I heard that there should be a linux config utility available for this NIC
to switch off its Plug n Pray-mode. Is this true? If so, do you know where
to download it? I just hate booting my other machine to DOS, but would like
to get it on the net ;)
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From: Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem won't hangup
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:03:11 -0400
Nope....not a winmodem. This one was working fine under Linux for the past year
or so. The not hanging up problem is a recent deal. It works fine except for
that, I'm using it right now.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Subject: Re: SB Live! sound
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:28:54 GMT
Phil Bridges wrote:
>I very happy that I managed to get my SB Live! up and running on my
>soon-to-be linux jukebox. I installed mpg123 today, and I can get my mass
>collection of mp3s playing, but there are "pops" and "clicks" when they are
>being played. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? I am
>using SuSE 6.4 (2.2.14), with the emu10k1 2.2.14 drivers for the Live!
don't use emu10k1 drivers, ALSA works much better, you can find
it on www.alsa-project.org
the only good thing in OSS drivers it's beggining effect support
(there is flanger, delay, and small tools to create new fx)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: NO DIALTONE message with my modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:29:47 GMT
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:39:36 GMT, M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>elwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:8hrflr$o82$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>> Hi Linux people,
>>> I'm trying to connect to my ISP with Linux, but I got the message NO
>>> DIALTONE immediatly. If I remember correctly I'd the same problem
>
>[...]
>
>>>
>>The Trick will be to put in your modem initialisation string the command
>>"x3" or "x4"
>
>[...]
>
>X3, yes. X4, no. X4 is the default setting, which includes "wait for
>dialtone". X3 is the correct setting here.
fire up minicom
enter:
atm1
atd
You should hear the dial tone out of the speaker. If not, then you don't
have the modem connected to a working phone line.
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From: bulancea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Elsa Gloria II
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:28:42 +0200
Hallo !
ich k�nnte gut etwas Hilfe gebrauchen : In meinem PC ist eine
Grafikkarte Elsa Gloria II eingebaut und ich wollte Suse 6.4
installieren. Alles ging reibungslos bis zur Einrichtung des X-Servers:
ich bekam nur ein voll gestreiftes Bild und das war`s. Gibt es eine
M�glichkeit meinen Computer unter KDE zu verwenden ?
Didi
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From: "Oliver Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Need soundcard suggestion.
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:40:08 +0100
My SB Live! Value is recognised instantly by Linux Mandrake 7.0
I suppose if you used the analogue audio connector to one cdrom and the
digital to the other then you could support 2 cdrom drives...
Jason Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8htnle$lrg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Here's something that ought to short out any search engine :)
>
> I'm building a new computer from scratch and I am searching for a
> soundcard with the following specs:
>
> True legacy SB support for old DOS games.
> Linux support. (Probably synonymous with first requirement.)
> The ability to accept audio from two cdrom drives. (A stretch, I
> know.)
> Good quality wavetable sound.
> Must be PCI.
> Under $200.
>
> Anyone know of any such card and where to buy it?
>
> Of course, if anyone has had good experiences with a card that has
> everything but the dual-cdrom support, I would welcome their suggestions
as
> well.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> --
> /*********************************\
> * Jason Brown *
> *---------------------------------*
> * Replace pickled@eggs with the *
> * @ sign to send an e-mail reply. *
> \*********************************/
>
>
>
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From: Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Books
Date: 12 Jun 2000 16:40:54 +0100
"Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi All,
> I have installed a Linux distribution at home and started to get used to
> using it. I need a reference book which will fill in the knowledge gaps and
> get me up to speed quickly. I don't want to run before I can walk with
> Linux and so any suggestions for decent, lucid, informative, and generally
> easy to follow books to help me along which also stop me flooding the
> newsgroups on an hourly basis will be greatly appreciated. What did other
> users buy and has anyone purchased 'Linux Clearly Explained' as I'm
> considering that publication??
There's a whole load of stuff at linuxdoc.org, but if you're like me
and want some dead tree to read at bedtime, then you might find "Linux
- The Complete Reference", by Richard Petersen quite useful.
--
Richard Watson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pentagon Web Design Ltd ICQ: 65274884
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.turbolinux,comp.os.linux.x.video
Subject: Re: Old Monitor
Date: 12 Jun 2000 15:11:45 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In <8i2gt6$muo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer:
: |> At 14" I would expect it to only do 1024x768 interlaced, not full.
: I've found interlaced modes the only viable ones on some older Nec monitors
: and others of 14" or so, but have no direct experience with Daytek models.
: Those interested in purely Linux/monitor issues can stop reading now. There
: is an offtopic netiquette rant following.
: |> Is that enough clue?
: Ya know Peter, you have a lot to offer, but abrasiveness gets the messenger
: shot long before a message is heard no matter how compelling or accurate. I
I was just hoping that that would be enough input for him. I didn't
feel like explaining the difference and/or monitor electro-optics to boot.
There are standard interlaced modes in the XF86Config file. The person
in question seemed to have been fiddling around so I hoped they wouldn't
need any more than that indication.
: think you entered many killfiles over needless dustups you have provoked in
: apparent impatience with some newsgroup comments. You may not care now, but
: I think that portends a Bad Thing (tm), for *all* of us.
:-). Perhaps - at least in this case - you are misinterpreting an
entirely innocuous sentence.
: Perhaps you meant to ask if readers needed more help they should ask. There
: are more perceptive ways to accomplish that, and your obvious fluency in an
: idiomatic language like english makes it clear you're well aware of it. You
: may feign innocence, but it *appears* deliberately demeaning, and what does
: matter more is how your insight is received, "factual" or not.
You'll let me try and add inflection?
"Is that (rising) enough (half tone drop) clue (rise for anxious tone)".
: Even a simple smiley after tossing barbs like that would help immensely for
Mmm .. I don't see the barb. It was an entirely innocent question.
: those struggling with what's for them arcana of a most frustrating kind. It
: doesn't change reality, but it does affect *perception* of it. Why feed any
: more noise into the signal than is naturally there anyway? You're running a
: difficult race with entropy before you even leave the starting block.
But as you know, it's not difficult for people who don't introduce
entropy in the fisrt place.
: I make these comments in the context of Open Source development, which does
: not thrive in an environment which chills communication. That is not to say
: all is to be sweetness and light in any human endeavor. But none of us need
: to make it any more difficult to *hear* each other than is required. If you
: wish to see such isolation run amok, ask Bill Gates whazzup lately.
Bill? Whassup? Y'awl OK? Giddap'ya!
: Such perception may matter not one whit to you. Your call; I don't know.
Not one whit, I assure you. I'm old enough to know that ascii doesn't
carry tone. I don't assume it does, and I assume that anyone of
intelligence does not assume it does. That's the only viable conclusion
that can be drawn from observation!
Instead of worrying about the social resonances that you are
reconstructing, I'd worry about truth and accuracy first. Worry whether
it looks polite to the abyssinian bushman later. You are all abyssinian
bushmen wrt 80% of the people out there! You certainly can't count on
your interpretation as being standard. What you should count on is the
netiquette book as defining a workable standard, and you probably know
what it says about news, mail, and ascii.
: I'm not asking you to tolerate spammers or the studiously lazy which likely
: seems *not* the case here. My call; you may not agree.
: But if you care about civilized sensibility, please moderate the attitude.
: [Snip...]
What did you snip? I thought you quoted me in entirety!
Peter
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From: Ethan Alpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live (emu10k1 module) (yet another sound card problem)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:42:02 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jacek Pop�awski wrote:
> Ethan Alpert wrote:
> >trying to get my SoundBlaster Live card to work.
>
> hmmm... I don't give any parameters to module, try download
> newest snapshot from opensource.creative.com, or
> alsa-0.5.8
> if IRQ is a problem - maybe you should change slot? but
> I tried few slots and never have any conflict...
I'll give this a try thanks.
-ethan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux and Sprint PCS phones
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:44:28 GMT
Hi,
I'm running RedHat 6.2 with all the usual goodies on a vanilla MATX
motherboard (Celeron 500/64M/i810 video + audio). I've been using my
SprintPCS cellphone with the web connection kit on my Windows machine
for a while, and I'd love to be able to do it under Linux. I'm pretty
new to the Linux platform, and I don't know how to make Linux recognize
that the phone is plugged in to my serial port (I've used kppp with a
regular modem, so I know a bit about that). If anybody has done this
in the past, or has suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks,
Bill Gerba
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:16:41 +0200
From: Clemens Kirchgatterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: how to set custom serial baudrate (40000bps)?
hi friends!
i have to program a low level library for a proprietary hardware
(connected via nullmodem serial cabel to a linux box). this hardware
contains a 80c51 compatible microcontroller driven by a 16Mhz
crystal-oscillator resulting in a non-standart baudrate of somewhat
around 40000bps. (com paramerters are set to 38400bps, 7E1. does anybody
know, what exact baudrate that would result in?)
i had a look at the kernel source (serial.c) and it seems as it would be
possible to adjust the baudrate to fit the connected hardware. has
anybody done this before? i guess there is no posix complient way to do
this, but maybe someone can point to some syscalls (kernel 2.2.14) or
even give me the right values, that the UART must be fed with. :-)
tnx & best regards ...
clemens
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which modem is easy to setup, USB or com external?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:14:03 -0500
Kelvin wrote:
<nothing in the main message body>
USB is probably easier to setup under windows, but Linux does not have
complete support for USB yet.
Under Linux, the easiest modem to install would be a plain old serial
external one.
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From: Mike Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eMachines and other Integrated Systems
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:30:11 GMT
I am looking to put together a system to co-locate somewhere as a
webserver. I see that these eMachines are cheaper to buy than I could
build a system. I found a good deal on a 400i (
http://www.e4me.com/infocentral/product_tower400i.html ) and was wondering
if I'm going to have any problems with the integrated motherboard. I know
the onboard sound won't work -- that's not a concern. I assume the video
will work in just plain mode, nothing accelerated? I'm not going to use
the modem, so that's no problem. But my biggest concern is reliability.
I'm not going to be able to physically get at the machine at all, so it
better not be having hardware trouble! Please let me know if you've had
any good or bad experiences running Linux (Red Hat 6.1) on these
integrated machines.
Thanks,
Mike Robbins
Chief Programmer, gamerack.com
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Michal Fikejs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A Genius Netmouse Pro Mouse
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:24:47 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hallo folks,
I've got a Genius Netmouse PRO (with a middle button for scrolling), but
I cannot get it work in Linux (RH6.1)
Is there anyone who has a solution? (Not to buy a Microsoft wheel mouse
:-)
Thanx
Michal
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From: "Joe Avila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE Activity Light Stays Lit
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:47:52 -0700
"Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Do you have any desktop applets that might be CDROM utilities? Some of
> these 'watch' the device for disk change, etc and as a result keep the
> light on. If so, kill the app and see.
>
Good point. Both Gnome & KDE watch the drive for insertions and automount
it. I'll look into this. The light stays on actually from POST. I guess I
should have included this little tidbit. Thanks for the info.
Joe Avila
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From: "TJ Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c509 PnP
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:05:47 GMT
There is Donald Beckers configuration program at
http://3c5x9setup.mini.dhs.org/3c5x9setup.mini.dhs.org/
You'll have to compile it under Linux...
TJ
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In article <q5615.186382$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wouter
Verhelst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I heard that there should be a linux config utility available for this NIC
>to switch off its Plug n Pray-mode. Is this true? If so, do you know where
>to download it?
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