Linux-Hardware Digest #56, Volume #13 Sat, 17 Jun 00 12:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Lilo Problem (Martin Herrman)
IBM PC330 6577-79T ("Jason McNabb")
Re: Problems with D-Link DFE-530TX/Ethernet - solution ("Georg C. F. Greve")
Modem trouble ("RJ")
Re: Lilo Problem (Anita Lewis)
External Modem`s ("Ali")
Re: External Modem`s (Bit Twister)
Re: External Modem`s (Dan Glover)
Re: External Modem`s (Joeri Sebrechts)
Dual or single processor ("John F. Connolly")
MouseSystems PS/2 Optical Mouse gpm problem (mark carroll)
Adaptec AHA1520B SCSI card problems (mark carroll)
Re: Modem trouble (Rob Clark)
Re: Modem trouble (Rob Clark)
Compaq Proliant DL-series hardware (Chris Harshman)
Re: Random lockups - help! (Dances With Crows)
Re: booting from SCSI-device... (Dances With Crows)
Re: Random lockups - help! (Hal Burgiss)
Dumping Windows (Kevin Clark)
Re: Lucent Winmodem works for BeOS why not Linux? (Yhetti)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lilo Problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Jun 2000 12:16:08 GMT
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:50:53 +0200, FROZEN_Steam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I already tried it on a floppy disk as well
>
> lilo output is just:
>
> added Linux*
> added windows
>
> That's the normal ouput isn't it?
hm.. yep, that's what it should be..
>
> Any other ideas?
>
not really.. maybe first cleaning up the mbr with using 'fdisk /mbr' in DOS?
Then install lilo again in the mbr? Maybe you can put lilo at the first sector
in stead of in the mbr?
good luck!
Martin
--
Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
2:10pm up 9 days, 14:15, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.02
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: "Jason McNabb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM PC330 6577-79T
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:44:10 GMT
Just wondering if anyone has installed Linux (redhat specifically) on such a
system? I am attempting, and have encountered a problem mounting the root
fs ... anyone?
--
Jason Vee McNabb
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From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with D-Link DFE-530TX/Ethernet - solution
Date: 17 Jun 2000 14:42:08 +0200
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Hi again!
The card is running now - it appears that they put a new chip on the
network card that was unknown to the via-rhine driver. So I simply
added that device id to the list in the driver and
recompiled... problem solved.
I guess I was just a bit tired yesterday...
Later,
Georg
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Georg C. F. Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
the monthly GNU forum in English, German,
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From: "RJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem trouble
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:45:07 +0200
Hello,
Does anyone know whether my E-tech Bullit PCI56RVP+ modem (PCI version) can
be used in Linux (Red Hat 6.1)??
RJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lilo Problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:59:37 GMT
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:29:40 +0200, FROZEN_Steam wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm having some trouble using lilo.
>
>I've configured lilo on mbr, but when it starts, There's only an 'L' on my
>screen and I can do nothing but hit reset...
>
>I hava a Gigabyte GA71XE mainboard wth an AMD Athlon 700
>
>Could someone pls help?
>
>Thanx,
>Floris
>
boot with floppy and go into X if you can. cd /usr/doc/lilo-<number>/doc
and do gv User_Guide.ps. If you can't use X then copy User_Guide.ps to a
dos formatted floppy and view it with acrobat in windows.
while you are in the directory where the file is located, do:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (use msdos instead of vfat if you need
to)
cp User_Guide.ps /mnt/floppy
umount /mnt/floppy
Once you get in there, go to page 44 and look at the error messages. L
means basically a geometry mismatch. The correction for this is in section
3.4 of the doc. Good luck.
Anita
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From: "Ali" <cracker@$$$$ redhotant.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: External Modem`s
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:06:50 +0100
Will any external modem work with linux or is it specific brands.
Also are ISA modems easy enough to set up.
Thanks in Advance
Ali
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: External Modem`s
Reply-To: This_news_group.invalid
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:26:25 GMT
Externals always setup and you get to see the leds showing you what
is going on, depending on model.
ISA modems:
Some have hardware straps to set io/interrupt address and work fine.
Some require Micro$oft OS to set the interrupt/io address.
Then you could use it on linux.
Some require Micro$oft OS to work and will not work
on linux (winmodems).
A few winmodems will work on linux.
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:06:50 +0100, Ali <cracker@$$$$redhotant.com> wrote:
>Will any external modem work with linux or is it specific brands.
>Also are ISA modems easy enough to set up.
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From: Dan Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: External Modem`s
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:27:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ali"
<cracker@$$$$ redhotant.com> wrote:
>Will any external modem work with linux or is it specific brands.
Anything should work, provided it uses a standard serial port. If it's
USB then seek specific advice before buying.
>Also are ISA modems easy enough to set up.
Depends. I've had no problems, other people seem to get well and truly
stuck with the PnP side of things. Better to go for external unless you
have good reasons.
Dan
--
Dan Glover ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: External Modem`s
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:29:27 GMT
It's not guaranteed that an external modem is not a winmodem (and thus
likely to only work in windows). I've seen external winmodems before.
You need to make sure it's not a winmodem (if they mention "designed for
windows" on the box, it's a winmodem probably), or otherwise check for
the winmodem support in the hardware howto on www.linuxdocs.org
Sadly enough the easiest way to know if your modem is a regular modem is
still checking the price tag. They are generally more expensive. But in
return you get a real modem, instead of a front-end to your cpu that
drains time away from more usefull stuff, like animating all those XXX
movies ;-)
As far as I know (but it's been a while) ISA modems are generally no
different from external modems to setup. I don't remember the details,
but I managed to set it up on my very first install of linux, back when
I knew absolutely nothing of *nix, so it can't be that hard.
good luck,
Joeri Sebrechts
Ali wrote:
>
> Will any external modem work with linux or is it specific brands.
> Also are ISA modems easy enough to set up.
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Ali
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From: "John F. Connolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual or single processor
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:52:39 +0100
I am about to upgrade my conmputer -
Should I go for a dual celeron 566, or a single P3 650?
I'm running Suse linux 6.3 with 128Mb Ram,
Thanks in advance,
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mark carroll)
Subject: MouseSystems PS/2 Optical Mouse gpm problem
Date: 17 Jun 2000 14:09:58 GMT
I have a three-button Genius mouse that, set as a PS/2 mouse on
/dev/psaux, works fine with gpm. However, it's dying.
So, I went out and bought a MouseSystems PS/2 Optical Mouse, also
three-button. It works fine on a Windows 98 machine.
However, I can't get gpm to recognise it. I try telling it it's on
/dev/psaux and have tried types ps2, ms, msc, etc., etc... but no
joy. Also, despite the fact that I shut down xdm, etc. before running
it, gpm-mouse-test variously hangs the computer completely or fails to
respond at all to me performing a requested action then pressing a
key.
Does anyone else have one of these mice working?
-- Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mark carroll)
Subject: Adaptec AHA1520B SCSI card problems
Date: 17 Jun 2000 14:20:57 GMT
Thanks to those of you who pointed out the aha152x driver. I've now
compiled it as a kernel module.
However, my aha152x card's being uncooperative. In its firmware
configuration utility it seems happy and can see my SCSI devices.
My BIOS seems to insist on doing some configuration of it even if
I tell it I have a PnP OS.
However, I just can't make the thing work under Linux. In the firmware
configuration I suggest that it live on IRQ 11 and has SCSI ID 7,
which doesn't seem to be used according to the BIOS startup stuff (it
mentions a couple of things) or /proc/interrupts. (0x140 and 0x340
aren't mentioned in /proc/ioports, either.) Some poking with pnpdump
-d on that card reveals things like: "# IO descriptor 0 at 60..61:
Base address 0x0340" which looks fine. So, I try things like
aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 on the LILO command line after the image name,
but insmod aha152x always gives:
niagara:/root# insmod aha152x
Using /lib/modules/2.2.15/scsi/aha152x.o
scsi : 0 hosts.
/lib/modules/2.2.15/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or
IRQ parameters
I can't find an IO port/IRQ combination that works, and there are only
so many plausible ones; could anything else be wrong?
-- Mark
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Subject: Re: Modem trouble
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:44:13 GMT
In article <8ifrvv$s4o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know whether my E-tech Bullit PCI56RVP+ modem (PCI version) can
>be used in Linux (Red Hat 6.1)??
No, it can't-- it's a Rockwell HSF (Soft Modem) chipset modem. Sorry :(
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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Subject: Re: Modem trouble
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:50:34 GMT
In article <8ifrvv$s4o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know whether my E-tech Bullit PCI56RVP+ modem (PCI version)
can
>be used in Linux (Red Hat 6.1)??
No, it can't-- it's a Rockwell HCF (controllerless) chipset modem.
Sorry :(
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Compaq Proliant DL-series hardware
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 08:04:19 -0700
I need to know if Linux has support for the hardware found in the Compaq
Prolinea DL series, specifically:
* Compaq NC3163 Fast Ethernet NIC Embedded 10/100
* Integrated Smart Array Controller (Ultra2 controller)
I've checked into it, and haven't found any indication as to whether or
not this hardware is supported. (The company would like to stay with
Compaq.) If anyone has any information, I would greatly appreciate
hearing from you.
Thanks!
Chris Harshman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Random lockups - help!
Date: 17 Jun 2000 11:04:45 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:37:28 +0100, The Dandy Highwayman
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I have NT4 installed on the 6Gb drive (primary drive), and RH6.2 (kernel
>2.4.0test1) on the 10Gb drive (/dev/hdb). My problem is that Linux will
>randomly hang without any errors being recorded/displayed, but 90% of the
>time it will be while fscking /dev/hdb1 (which would need fscking after the
>last hang!), nearly always at the same point (95.6%).
>On the other drive, the NT install just keeps on running. Now to my mind,
>this would suggest a problem with the hard drive that Linux is installed on,
>rather than a physical problem with other components, but surely fsck
>wouldn't be brought down by that? After all, its supposed to work around
>disk problems!
Nope. fsck can't do a thing if there are bad blocks on the disk--to fix
that sort of thing, you need to do "mke2fs -c" on the partition, which
checks for bad blocks and tries to work around them. Modern IDE drives
have a bunch of spare sectors internal to the drive, and they map marginal
sectors to those spare sectors in a manner transparent to the end-user.
If you notice your modern IDE drive is developing bad sectors, you really
need to think about replacing the drive/taking it in under warranty.
Kernel 2.4.0-test1 is also not exactly the epitome of stability, but then
you knew that, right?
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: booting from SCSI-device...
Date: 17 Jun 2000 11:26:22 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:53:19 +0200, Thirsty McGuinness
<<8ifeeo$1e9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>My BIOS is prepared for booting from SCSI-devices even if there are
>EIDE-drives next to it.
>I got the following configuration:
>20GB EIDE, 20GB EIDE, 2 GB SCSI
>I�d like to put LILO, /boot and a swap to the SCSI-drive, Win98 to the first
>EIDE and Linux to ca.10-15GB of the second EIDE.
>But since Win98 needs to be booted from the first drive, I also need to
>CHANGE or swap these numbers again for Win98.
>Is this true? And if it is, wouldn�t Win98 run with drive-numbers different
>from those set in BIOS? (I don�t think LILO changes the BIOS-settings?)
>Can this cause problems?
I don't think you will have any problems. If you're booting off the first
SCSI drive, and you put LILO in the MBR, everything should just work.
When LILO boots an operating system other than Linux, it constructs a
"pseudo-MBR" and handles drive remappings automatically. At least that's
what happened with a friend of mine--he put Lose95 on /dev/hdb1 and Linux
on /dev/hda[1-4] with LILO in the MBR of hda. Lose95 does not ordinarily
like to be booted from the primary slave drive, but he can boot either
Linux or Lose95 and run them both with no problems.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Random lockups - help!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:49:18 GMT
On 17 Jun 2000 11:04:45 EDT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:37:28 +0100, The Dandy Highwayman
><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
>shouted forth into the ether:
>>I have NT4 installed on the 6Gb drive (primary drive), and RH6.2 (kernel
>>2.4.0test1) on the 10Gb drive (/dev/hdb). My problem is that Linux will
>>randomly hang without any errors being recorded/displayed, but 90% of the
>>time it will be while fscking /dev/hdb1 (which would need fscking after the
>>last hang!), nearly always at the same point (95.6%).
>>On the other drive, the NT install just keeps on running. Now to my mind,
>>this would suggest a problem with the hard drive that Linux is installed on,
>>rather than a physical problem with other components, but surely fsck
>>wouldn't be brought down by that? After all, its supposed to work around
>>disk problems!
How long are you waiting? I've seen where fsck will seemingly pause for
a long time (20-30? minutes on 1G partition) with no output. I thought
it was hanging too, but finally just left it for a while, and it
eventually finished. Just a thought ...
>Nope. fsck can't do a thing if there are bad blocks on the disk--to fix
>that sort of thing, you need to do "mke2fs -c" on the partition, which
>checks for bad blocks and tries to work around them. Modern IDE drives
What about e2fsck -c? The man page says it will mark bad blocks. I am a
little suspicious how well this works. Maybe because of your point
below though.
>have a bunch of spare sectors internal to the drive, and they map marginal
>sectors to those spare sectors in a manner transparent to the end-user.
>If you notice your modern IDE drive is developing bad sectors, you really
>need to think about replacing the drive/taking it in under warranty.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kevin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dumping Windows
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:55:40 GMT
Here is my problem,
I have linux installed on my slave hard drive hdb (swap, boot, root)
Windows is installed on my master hard drive hda
Lilo is installed on MBR on hda
I want to get rid of windows and make hda a linux drive and still be
able to boot.
What are the steps to get this done and what call the new mount? /usr?
Even tho /usr exists on hdb
Thanks
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From: Yhetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.dial-up,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lucent Winmodem works for BeOS why not Linux?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:58:57 GMT
Goofy root wrote:
>
> I was at a LUG meeting last week someone handed me a BeOS 5.0 personal
> edition CD-ROM I immediately installed in one of my Thinkpad. Me
> sometimes don't read README.TXT or manuals so I did this guy said: boot
> Windows 98, insert the CD, install it just like a Windows program, etc.,
> which I exactly did. He didn't say anything about modems so I
> configured PPP just like a Linux KPPP and dialed out using Winmodem. To
> my big surprise it worked. Since BeOS supports POSIX utilities, how
> come Linux vendors can't come up with using Winmodem?
Try http://linmodems.org/linux568.zip
This is the binary driver from Lucent and it works fine on my Presario
1200.
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