Linux-Hardware Digest #36, Volume #13 Tue, 13 Jun 00 06:13:06 EDT
Contents:
What is a decent inexpensive 100BT 4 port hub? (Nick)
Re: Motorola 56k modem with linux (Bit Twister)
Problems mounting CD-ROM (DS641)
Montego II Sound Card (root)
Trying to get SIIG PCI parallel card to work. (John Morey)
Re: vga card not suitable (Richard Petty)
Linux sur IBM hardware ... ("Arian Novruzi")
SMC EZnet 1660 (james trudeau)
Re: 2.2.15 + USB patch hangs on my Athlon (Anders Skovsted Buch)
Re: scsi-emulation (Benjamin Black)
Re: Internal PCI modem busted on kernel 2.2.15 (Peter Bloomfield)
Re: Diamond modem problems (any init string I can try?) (Lesley Lawless)
Re: [Help:] Advice on SMP machines required ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Loadlin and above 1024th Cylinder SCSI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Emachine 333cs (Mohamed Sentissi)
Re: Books ("Milan Goellner")
Re: Diamond modem problems (any init string I can try?) ("Wouter Verhelst")
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From: Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is a decent inexpensive 100BT 4 port hub?
Date: 12 Jun 2000 21:18:08 -0500
What is a decent inexpensive 100BT 4 port hub?
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especially when one of their principles is, that principles
ought not to be questioned. --John Locke
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Motorola 56k modem with linux
Reply-To: This_news_group.invalid
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 02:22:19 GMT
maybe there is a lock file laying around that you need to delete.
As root, try,
updatedb runs for a few minutes.
locate modem | grep -i lock
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:11:24 +0200, matthieu schipman
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I tried to install my 56k modem on a Redhat 6.0 . the modem is detected,
>but when I want to connect, it is always busy.
>what can I do ?
>
--
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If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man every_command_here, before doing anything or running a script.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DS641)
Subject: Problems mounting CD-ROM
Date: 13 Jun 2000 02:27:32 GMT
Linux refuses to mount my CD-ROM even though it installed from it.
Im trying to get access to the packages on my Redhat 6.1 CD and linux tells me
that I have the incorrect media type.
Im running the CD off of an old Adaptec AHA-1542B SCSI Card. I was able to
install from the CD-ROM with out problems and I have been able to mount it in
the text-mode of linux but not under X.
-Todd
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Montego II Sound Card
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:25:42 -0700
I have a Montego II sound card, is there any way to make it work with
linux?
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From: John Morey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trying to get SIIG PCI parallel card to work.
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:32:23 -0400
I am trying to add another parallel port to a box running RedHat-6.2 and
am having trouble getting it to work. The box only has PCI slots so I
am
adding a SIIG CyberParallel 1 port card. Before I added the card I
would
get an error that /dev/lp1 was not configured when trying to copy a file
directly
to it. After adding the card the cp command just hangs. I do not know
how
to fix this and get the port working. The output of lspci for the card
is:
00:11.0 Parallel controller: Siig Inc CyberParallel (1-port)
The output of cat /proc/pci is:
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
Parallel controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 0).
Vendor id=131f. Device id=2020.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11.
I/O at 0xffe0 [0xffe1].
I/O at 0xfff0 [0xfff1].
>From what I have read this card should be able to work. Can anyone tell
me
how to do this?
Thanks for any help or ideas,
John Morey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Richard Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vga card not suitable
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 02:56:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jeffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>if my video card not suitable for the linux,got any way to configure it?
>
>i am using red hat 6.1
>
Probably.
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From: "Arian Novruzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux sur IBM hardware ...
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 02:56:57 GMT
Hello all,
I am a novice with Linux but I want to install it in my computer and
once I will be familiar with it I think to make it my only OS.
Actually I have an IBM Aptiva with these parameters:
P3, 96MB, HDD IDE, PCI/ISA, S3 Savage,
Rockwell HCF 56K, CD-RW.
-Do you think that my hardware supports Linux and also X Window?
-What Linux distribution would be the most convenable?
-Are supported my modem, CD-RW, printer by Linux?
-Has anybody installed Linux in such machine or a similar one?
Thank you in advance for any suggestion.
Arian.
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From: james trudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SMC EZnet 1660
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:59:21 -0400
I have an SMC EZnet 1660 ehternet card (ISA) it's supposed to work with
the NE2000 driver but it doesn't. when I boot the folloing message is
displayed: "ne.c: No PCI cards found. Use "io=0xNNN" value(s) for ISA
cards ." what does that mean and what can I do to make it work?
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:18:40 -0400
From: Anders Skovsted Buch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.15 + USB patch hangs on my Athlon
> >> >I am using RedHat 6.1 on my Athlon 500, and have recently installed a
> >> >2.2.15
> >> >kernel with the USB backport patch. After that my machine has had
> >> >occational
> >> >lockups. Before it was running rock-solid. Does anybody know about a
> >> >fix? (If
> >> >it matters I have my ATAPI CD-RW configured as an scsi device.)
> >> Hmmm I think you are not alone. I have the same problem running on a HP-Omnibook
> >> 4150. It has a PIII.
> >> Can it be, that you have the lockups happening during high memoryload?
>
> >No, it has mostly happended when I left my computer idle for a couple of hours.
> >But it hasn't happened a lot.
> Hmmm strange I thought for quite some while that vmware killed it. But now I had
> lockups without it. Do you use APM?
Yes, I like to have my computer shut itself off. I just checked my kernel
configuration. I chose "yes" for "Make cpu idle calls when idle", and "no" to all
other
APM options. Maybe that is my problem? From the help text:
Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. ... On some
machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or whenever the CPU becomes idle.
Anders
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From: Benjamin Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi-emulation
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 03:35:55 GMT
john calison wrote:
>
> 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.
>
it shouldn't be anywhere near as all that. all i had to do was add the
lines
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
options ide-cd ignore=hdd
to my conf.modules file, add the line
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
to my linux image section of lilo.conf, add the line
modprobe ide-scsi
to my rc.local, change the symbolic link to /dev/cdrom1, rerun lilo, and
reboot.
i have a HP CD-Writer+ 9300i as well, and i'm running Red Hat 6.2.
--
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From: Peter Bloomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal PCI modem busted on kernel 2.2.15
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:37:26 -0400
jonnyc wrote:
> My USR 5610 internal PCI 56k modem just stopped working when I upgraded my
> system to Mandrake 7.1. I have historically always configured my modem out
> of rc.local with the commmand:
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0x2070 irq 11 uart 16550A
>
> (This corresponds to COM5 in the windows world. US Robotics conveniently
> does not give you any other options with its PNP software. Not very
> impressive)
>
> After upgrading to Mandrake 7.1 (and kernel 2.2.15) my modem has just gone
> silent, minicom refuses to talk to it. The modem is definitely there and
> is readily visible through 'lspci'. The base address and IRQ is correct
> (Its been correct for 12 months through 3 different linux flavors).
>
> In reading the various howtos, I've discovered that there were apparently
> some changes to serial port configuration in kernel 2.2.15, so I'm
> somewhat suspicious of that....
>
> Also, In trying to debug this I've noticed some strange behavior out of
> setserial which compounds my suspicion of it. I tried running setserial
> with the autoconfig flag to see if it could actually see the modem. If I
> do:
> setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0x2070 irq 11 autoconfig
> it returns an unknown UART (not a good sign).
>
> but if I do:
> setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x2070 irq 11 autoconfig
> it returns a 16550A UART (what I was hoping for).
>
> the only difference is the device! Why should that make any difference?
> Anyways, I'm painfully unknowledgable about the serial port stuff. This
> may just be red herring.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> Does anyone have a similar PCI modem running on a kernel >= 2.2.15?
>
> Thanks - Jon
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
An upgraded serial driver may be identifying the 5610 as a different tty--I
use the stand-alone driver (https://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=310
--it was the only way I found to get the 5610 working under RH6.1) and my
5610 jumped from ttyS1 to ttyS4 with the upgrade from 4.95 to 5.00.
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From: Lesley Lawless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: it.comp.hardware.modem,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Diamond modem problems (any init string I can try?)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 06:34:25 +0100
Lesley Lawless wrote:
>
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> >
> > Lesley Lawless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip original]
I can add the following.
The failure to get a response from the modem was cured by
running Lothar. I think I tried changing symbolic links and
that stopped it being available. I'm afraid I'm a newbie and
make a lot of mistakes, in spite of the reading I do (and
sometimes because I try something I read but don't
understand yet).
I cut the speed to 19200 and managed a stable connection at
the same slow sped for 40 minutes before being disconnected.
I do have very long line to the modem and that may be at
least partly the trouble. 56K modems are much more sensitive
to errors than slower ones, I believe.
Does anyone have an init string that they've used
successfully with a Rockwell chipset modem, who has also had
to use a long line from the phone socket to the modem? And,
as I am such a newbie, where do I put it, in the pppd
arguments?
> >
> > Various things may be happening.
> > 1. I don't think it's a modem problem. I have exactly the same model, and
> > have had no problems over the last six months.
>
> Maybe it's the firmware? I have the 2.0. 1 (I think) version
> but have just downloaded .3, although I haven't installed it
> yet.
>
> > 2. Did you use the software on the CD-ROM shipped with the modem that
> > changes your modemsettings to what it should be in your country? This may be
> > important...
>
> Of course, it won't work without that.
>
> > 3. Try to find out whether your modem- and dial-up settings are correct.
> > After all, a modemconversation needs two sides, so if your settings are not
> > completely what the other side expects, you may have disconnects. Especially
> > check the 'enable software compression' under windoze. If this solves the
> > problem, you may have to do something likewise under Linux. Check your
> > logfiles for a line saying pppd cannot find a certain module. If so, you've
> > got to add three alias-lines, but I don't know by heart what needs to be
> > entered, and I'm not at home right now. I found the names of those modules
> > in the helpfiles of kppp, you may want to check those.
> >
>
> I've done all that and there are no errors. Last night I
> unticked 'enable software compression' and ticked 'only
> connect at' setting it for 38400 after trying different init
> strings that did no good at all. I managed to stay connected
> for over 2 hours in windoze after doing that, untill I chose
> to disconnect.
[snipped for brevity]
>
> > As I said, I did'nt have any problems over the last six months, to me this
> > has proved a very good modem...
>
> Thanks for the encouragement.
>
> --
> Lesley Anna
--
Lesley Anna
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: [Help:] Advice on SMP machines required
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 06:41:47 GMT
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez wrote:
> There's also the possibility of using AMD Athlon processors, but
> I
> think I've read somewhere that the SMP kernel part doesn't work very
> well with AMD processors. Can you confirm or reject this point?
>
The issue with the Athalon isn't that the kernel can't support them, it's
that SMP Athalon doesn't exist. You can't get a dual-Athalon yet. They're
working on it though. You can be sure as soon as there's a motherboard for
dual SMP (and I can afford it) I'll have one in my server room ;)
-Kara
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Loadlin and above 1024th Cylinder SCSI
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:34:40 GMT
Chad Worthman wrote:
> 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]
Ok, can you install LILO to the MBR, try and squeeze in a tiny (under 50mb)
partition at the beginning of the drive, and mount it to /boot. This should
solve your boot problems, if it's related to the <1024 stuff...
If Something windows related is on your first partition(s) perhaps you're
interested in commercial stuff like system commander. Just some thoughts..
-Kara
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From: Mohamed Sentissi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Emachine 333cs
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 01:43:48 -0600
Hello I just got an emachine 333cs and I had problem getting my onboard
ATI rage IIc graphic card to work:after playing around the x conf file the
best result I can recieve is a normal screen with some very disturbing
fragment in the right hand side . please if any body has the same machine
or know about what I am sayinfg can you please help me ?
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From: "Milan Goellner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Books
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:58:48 +0100
i guess michael kofler would be a good choice, published by addison wesley.
a new edition is due this or next month (only know the german title). a-w
also have a nice command reference which might be helpfull too
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From: "Wouter Verhelst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: it.comp.hardware.modem,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Diamond modem problems (any init string I can try?)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:17:43 GMT
Lesley Lawless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Lesley Lawless wrote:
> >
> > Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > >
> > > Lesley Lawless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [snip original]
>
> I can add the following.
> The failure to get a response from the modem was cured by
> running Lothar. I think I tried changing symbolic links and
> that stopped it being available. I'm afraid I'm a newbie and
> make a lot of mistakes, in spite of the reading I do (and
> sometimes because I try something I read but don't
> understand yet).
> I cut the speed to 19200 and managed a stable connection at
> the same slow sped for 40 minutes before being disconnected.
> I do have very long line to the modem and that may be at
> least partly the trouble. 56K modems are much more sensitive
> to errors than slower ones, I believe.
That is indeed true, but that does not mean you cannot use a very long line.
I do use a line of 10 meters to my modem, and do not have problems...
> Does anyone have an init string that they've used
> successfully with a Rockwell chipset modem, who has also had
> to use a long line from the phone socket to the modem? And,
> as I am such a newbie, where do I put it, in the pppd
> arguments?
>
> > >
> > > Various things may be happening.
> > > 1. I don't think it's a modem problem. I have exactly the same model,
and
> > > have had no problems over the last six months.
> >
> > Maybe it's the firmware? I have the 2.0. 1 (I think) version
> > but have just downloaded .3, although I haven't installed it
> > yet.
Can't check that, since my other computer (the one that modem is connected
to) has had a short circuit, so it is in for reparation :(
But I have not upgraded any firmware, and I bought it in January of this
year. Perhaps you'll be able to find out what firmware is on it...
> >
> > > 2. Did you use the software on the CD-ROM shipped with the modem that
> > > changes your modemsettings to what it should be in your country? This
may be
> > > important...
> >
> > Of course, it won't work without that.
> >
> > > 3. Try to find out whether your modem- and dial-up settings are
correct.
> > > After all, a modemconversation needs two sides, so if your settings
are not
> > > completely what the other side expects, you may have disconnects.
Especially
> > > check the 'enable software compression' under windoze. If this solves
the
> > > problem, you may have to do something likewise under Linux. Check your
> > > logfiles for a line saying pppd cannot find a certain module. If so,
you've
> > > got to add three alias-lines, but I don't know by heart what needs to
be
> > > entered, and I'm not at home right now. I found the names of those
modules
> > > in the helpfiles of kppp, you may want to check those.
> > >
> >
> > I've done all that and there are no errors. Last night I
> > unticked 'enable software compression' and ticked 'only
> > connect at' setting it for 38400 after trying different init
> > strings that did no good at all. I managed to stay connected
> > for over 2 hours in windoze after doing that, untill I chose
> > to disconnect.
I use nothing else than AT&F... should work...
If it doesn't, you may want to try the '+ms='-initstrings. This puts the
maximum speed lower than it originally is, so that if you connect, it wont
choose a connection speed it can't keep up...
These are the values accepted for +ms:
0: disable V90 entirely.
1: enable V90 completely (no AT-string intervention)
2: maximum speed is 28800 bps
3: " " " 29333 bps
4: 30666 bps
5: 32000 bps
6: 33333 bps
7: 34666 bps
8: 36000 bps
9: 37333 bps
10:38666 bps
11:40000 bps
12:41333 bps
13:42666 bps
14:44000 bps
15:45333 bps
16:46666 bps
17:48000 bps
18:49333 bps
19:50666 bps
20:52000 bps
21:53333 bps
example: AT&F+MS=16
which means: Reset to factory defaults, and connect at maximum speed of
46666 bps
You may want to lower the maximum speed your modem will allow, so that, as I
said above, he will not try to connect at a speed he cannot keep up because
of a bad telephoneline on the way to your ISP.
If this solves the problem, contact your telephone company and ask them if
they could be so kind to test your line for problems...
> [snipped for brevity]
> >
> > > As I said, I did'nt have any problems over the last six months, to me
this
> > > has proved a very good modem...
>
> >
> > Thanks for the encouragement.
> >
> > --
> > Lesley Anna
>
>
> --
> Lesley Anna
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