Linux-Hardware Digest #79, Volume #13 Tue, 20 Jun 00 15:13:07 EDT
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Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution ("Richard Clafton")
How do you force a 10/100 card to step down to 10 Mbs?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP DeskJet 930C (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Dance with Crows pls read again! Need your help pls! (J Bland)
Re: How do you force a 10/100 card to step down to 10 Mbs? (Richard Harvey)
Re: pctel 'linmodem' driver with 2.2.16 problem (Edward Lee)
modem + sound + lan PCI combo? (Edward Lee)
Re: Kernel-Compilation for Athlon ? ("Mark Langsdorf")
Re: ls120 and linux 2.2.x? ("Mark Langsdorf")
Re: Linux on Aviion (Johan Kullstam)
Intense3D RealiZm Video Card in Linux (DISim)
Graphics Cards ("Iain West")
Re: Modems and Sound Cards (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Need a clean hard disk (Charlie Brown)
Re: Need a clean hard disk (Charlie Brown)
Re: Water cooling system (Serban-Mihai Popescu)
Need help with UNIFIED IDE kernel patches for 2.2.14-5.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution (Simon Brooke)
Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution (Simon Brooke)
Re: Mustek 12000SP ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
Ultra 66 Promise cards (Stephen Greene)
Re: Dance with Crows pls read again! Need your help pls! ("Rick Townsend")
Re: Ultra 66 Promise cards (Matthew Gatto)
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From: "Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:54:09 +0100
Reply-To: "Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You could also try....
www.OSRAQ.com
Regards
Richard Clafton
"Chris Beauchamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> >
> >I'm pretty sure there's a market for someone to produce a UK spec 1U
> >box at a reasonable (say, sub UKP1,000) price.
>
> I recently costed it out myself, buying the bits from Insight.com, and the
> case from the previously mentioned pcicase, and it came out the around
> UKP650 (inc. vat) (C550,64Mb,17GbIDE,CD,Floppy,2x100Mbps) [Anyone know any
> cheap colocation deals?]
>
> So, it is very possible - however, as another poster put it, you have the
> watch the cooling, so its one thing doing it for yourself, and another
> having to offer guarantees etc. for others. Then again, you can get stuff
> wholesale/trade, which reduces things a bit too...
>
> Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do you force a 10/100 card to step down to 10 Mbs?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:43:51 GMT
I'm running Redhat 6.1, and I hae a LinkSys Etherfast 10/100 card
running the tulip driver, as recommended (did I even phrase that
right?) When I type commands like "ifconfig -r" I can see the physical
address of the card, the IRQ, all kinds of goodies, leading me to
believe that the driver is properly communicating with the card.
The card cannot pind anything and I keep getting intermittent
connection lights on my 10 mbs hub. My gut tells me the card wants to
be in 100mbs mode, and isn't auto-detecting the 10 mbs router.
Can I force the card to run at 10 mbs? help, help, help!!!
Signed,
a Windows Convert.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 930C
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:24:27 -0700
Hi there,
you shoud go next webpage and configure you printer according
instructions there. Printer mostly works.
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=175232
Andrey
p e a r c e wrote:
> Does this printer work under Linux?
>
> TIA!
>
> p e a r c e
> ___
> NOTICE: Remove TNT to reply
>
> What would a chair look like if your knees
> bent the other way?
>
> -Steven Wright
>
> Get More Steven Wright Here: http://members.home.net/jwps3/home.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Dance with Crows pls read again! Need your help pls!
Date: 20 Jun 2000 16:28:30 GMT
> RT> If you don't understand any of this DON'T POST!!!! go read the
> RT> AUP's.
>
>All very well and good. But please understand that many of us scan thru
>500+ messages a day from our various newsgroup sucks. My reader shows
>me the top 22 lines of the message, and if the poster hasn't had
>anything to say in those first lines, I, like most, will not scroll down
>to see if indeed there is a real reply, but simply hit the next key.
In the "real" world you're expected to tow the line and follow the rules.
Why is it "oh, people just do it so stop complaining" continually pops up?
People take drugs and kill each other in the "real" world so let's just let
them get on with that.
We don't make up rules for the fun of it. AUPs are for *everyone's* benefit,
so everyone should try to stick to them.
Frinky
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From: Richard Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do you force a 10/100 card to step down to 10 Mbs?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:35:11 +0000
This happened to me too - I got our SYS admin to force the hub to
10 Mbits/s on my segment.
RH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm running Redhat 6.1, and I hae a LinkSys Etherfast 10/100 card
> running the tulip driver, as recommended (did I even phrase that
> right?) When I type commands like "ifconfig -r" I can see the physical
> address of the card, the IRQ, all kinds of goodies, leading me to
> believe that the driver is properly communicating with the card.
>
> The card cannot pind anything and I keep getting intermittent
> connection lights on my 10 mbs hub. My gut tells me the card wants to
> be in 100mbs mode, and isn't auto-detecting the 10 mbs router.
>
> Can I force the card to run at 10 mbs? help, help, help!!!
>
> Signed,
>
> a Windows Convert.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pctel 'linmodem' driver with 2.2.16 problem
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:51:51 -0700
Linnix 2.2.16 should solve your problem. You can also try Linnix 2.4.0,
but the kernel is not yet stable enough for production systems. Make
sure you download the same version of kernel and driver (PCtel 7890 chip
set) at http://linnix.com. There are substantial changes between 2.2.14
and 2.2.15 (several months of updates). Please do not simply "insmode -f
wrong_version.o", it won't work.
lobotomy wrote:
> I have been using a Zoltrix Phantom 56k winmodem (yes I know it is
> junk and I should get a real modem...but it was really cheap and it
> does generally work...) under RH6.0 with the pctel 'linmodem' driver
> for some time with the included 2.2.5-something kernel and it has
> worked reasonably well. I upgraded to 2.2.16 recently, and recompiled
> the pctel module for it as well. I don't think the configuration is
> much different than before, other than enabling svga text mode and
> compiling in the sound and iomega drivers, but now whenever it
> accesses the modem, it gives a segmentation fault. I tried it with
> 2.2.15, and the same problem occurs, however it does work under 2.2.14
> (each time I have recompiled the driver, same .config). Is there
> anything I can do?
>
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem + sound + lan PCI combo?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:59:55 -0700
Is anyone aware of a PCI combo card with modem (must be PCT0211), sound
(probably CMI8738) and 10T/100T lan (DVM9102 or anything else)? We have
this combination in an integrated motherboard. We would like to have
this in an embedded board with single PCI slot. We don't need joystick,
just RJ-11?, RJ-45 and phone jacks. It should not be too difficult to
layout a board for this, but existing reasonablely priced board would be
ideal.
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From: "Mark Langsdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel-Compilation for Athlon ?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:15:56 -0500
Andreas Tretow wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>yesterday I installed an Athlon 700, now what option do I have to use
>for the kernel configuration (i386;i486..etc) ?
My Athlon kernel (based on the stock 2.2.15 code) uses the PPro/6x86MX
option in 'make menuconfig'. This is not the best optimization possible
but the best stable and available choice until the 2.4 kernels come out.
-Mark Langsdorf
AMD, Inc.
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From: "Mark Langsdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ls120 and linux 2.2.x?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:18:43 -0500
Tim Kelley wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Has anyone gotten this to work?
>
>I have an LS120 and cannot use it either as a floppy or as a
>superdisk.
>
>I've tried the "ide_floppy" module and it does not work ...
I have an LS120 working on SuSE 6.3 (2.2.13 kernel). It
have to use /dev/hdd instead of /dev/fd0 for the mount command,
but everything else works fine.
-Mark Langsdorf
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Subject: Re: Linux on Aviion
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:27:49 GMT
"Lynn Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, Anybody know if Linux runs on the Data General Aviion range ok?
you mean like an ALR revolution quad6 (4 ppros)? i am using one to
compose this message right now.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: DISim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intense3D RealiZm Video Card in Linux
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:41:50 GMT
I'm using an Intergraph TDZ-425 Dual Pentium II 266MHz Machine with an
Intense3D RealiZm Video Board. I am trying to get this video card to
work with RedHat Linux 6.2. For X setup, I'm using a Cirrus Logic
driver chosen from the list that it comes with, and the best I can do
that is 800x600 at 8 bits color depth. Also, I'm trying to use IRIS
Performer 2.3 which uses the Mesa OpenGL Library. I am getting no
hardware acceleration whatsoever, so while the graphics do appear, they
look like crap and they have no textures. I would appreciate it if
someone could tell me how to get X setup better, and some hardware
acceleration drivers.
Thanks,
Kevin Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Iain West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Graphics Cards
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:42:29 +0100
I have on my home system a dual booting system with windows 98 and linux
with a Hercules Prophet II GTS 64MB graphics card. When I try and configure
this graphic card through red hat 6.2 installation I am presented with a
garbled display. A collegue has exactly the same system with the exception
that the graphic card is the 32MB version and has no problem with the
display.
I have downloaded the driver from NVidia and xfree86 version 4.0 but this
has not fixed the display problem.
Has anybody out there got this graphics card to work?
Thanks in advance.
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modems and Sound Cards
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:29:26 +0200
Dances With Crows wrote:
> There are several institutions that *should* jump at the chance to
> write a real LoseModem driver. Just think how many more copies of
> RedHat 6.3 they could sell if they could advertise "Works with
> WinModems!" in big letters on the box.
Unfortunately, even if someone would spend the time to write a driver
they would not be able to advertise "Works with WinModems!". They would
only be able to advertise "Works with WinModems of Brand X!". Winmodems
are not standard as a 16550A compatible uart.
regards Henrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Brown)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Need a clean hard disk
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:54:58 GMT
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:04:35 -0700, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
shocked the world by writing:
>I don't think wipe.exe returns the disk to "needing an fdisk/format". It simply
>writes 0's over the existing info, leaving it partitioned and formatted just fine.
>And some programs, I'm not sure about wipe.exe, will write 0's, then go back over
>it with 1's, then 0's again, or as many times as you specify.
Have you tried it?
Have you even read the description?
WIPE.EXE from IBM is not the same as a wipe utility from, say,
Symantec.
>
>
>> I'm not quite sure exactly you want to do, but if you truly want to
>> clean a drive, try a utility (such as WIPE.EXE from IBM) that will
>> write zeros to each sector, returning the drive to esentially the same
>> state it was in when it was first sold. That is, needing an
>> fdisk/format.
>> This way, there are no old boot or partition records to get in the way
>> of anything.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Brown)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Need a clean hard disk
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:57:02 GMT
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:04:35 -0700, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
shocked the world by writing:
>I don't think wipe.exe returns the disk to "needing an fdisk/format". It simply
>writes 0's over the existing info, leaving it partitioned and formatted just fine.
>And some programs, I'm not sure about wipe.exe, will write 0's, then go back over
>it with 1's, then 0's again, or as many times as you specify.
>From the IBM site: the description of WIPE.EXE:
Wipe is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to every sector
on a hard disk drive up to 8 GB. It can be used with both SCSI
and IDE drives.
When it says "every sector", it means it. I've used it.
>
>
>> I'm not quite sure exactly you want to do, but if you truly want to
>> clean a drive, try a utility (such as WIPE.EXE from IBM) that will
>> write zeros to each sector, returning the drive to esentially the same
>> state it was in when it was first sold. That is, needing an
>> fdisk/format.
>> This way, there are no old boot or partition records to get in the way
>> of anything.
>
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From: Serban-Mihai Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:04:04 GMT
Daniel Haude wrote:
> A processor dissipates maybe ten watts, most likely a lot less. You'd
Are you sure? New processors easily eat up to 30Amps @ 1.6V. This makes
fifty Watts. Chances are that the "cool", kick-arse next-gen CPUs from
both Intel and AMD to run even hotter (in the 80-90Watts range).
Serban
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Subject: Need help with UNIFIED IDE kernel patches for 2.2.14-5.0
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:25:18 GMT
Hello,
I'm trying to lcate the correct UNIFIED IDE kernel patches for my kernel,
which is 2.2.14-5.0.
I need to get UDMA 33 or 66 working on my system ASAP.
I've gone to Andre's site,
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.14/
but I 'm not sure how to apply the patches.
I dont know what the .bz extension means. I haven't seen this type of file
before.
And what does the .sign mean on these files ??
Where are the READMES ?????????????
Would someone clue me in ?
thanks.
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution
From: Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:32:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Beauchamp) writes:
> >
> >I'm pretty sure there's a market for someone to produce a UK spec 1U
> >box at a reasonable (say, sub UKP1,000) price.
>
> I recently costed it out myself, buying the bits from Insight.com, and the
> case from the previously mentioned pcicase, and it came out the around
> UKP650 (inc. vat) (C550,64Mb,17GbIDE,CD,Floppy,2x100Mbps) [Anyone know any
> cheap colocation deals?]
>
> So, it is very possible - however, as another poster put it, you have the
> watch the cooling, so its one thing doing it for yourself, and another
> having to offer guarantees etc. for others. Then again, you can get stuff
> wholesale/trade, which reduces things a bit too...
It's worth noting that the Cobalt RAQs are MIPS processors, which run
cooler. Having said that I've seen a lot of 1U boxes in the States
which run intel processors, and IBM had one I saw recently with twin
450MHz PIIIs - mind you, although it was only 1U high, it was pretty
long front-to-back, and they wanted UKP5K plus for it. So it is
possible to sort the cooling problem...
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
Due to financial constraints, the light at the end of the tunnel
has been switched off.
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution
From: Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:33:06 GMT
"Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You could also try....
>
> www.OSRAQ.com
>
> Regards
>
> Richard Clafton
Perfect! Thanks. That's the baby - I want one, in fact I want several.
<URL:http://www.oseu.co.uk/prices.htm>
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
Due to financial constraints, the light at the end of the tunnel
has been switched off.
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mustek 12000SP
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:35:32 +0200
Jim Conner wrote:
> Here's a web page that should help you out. The drivers are in beta.
>
> http://panda.mostang.com/sane/
>
> Jim
>
> "H.A.J. van Niekerk" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Mustek 12000SP scanner and it works flawless under W95. Now I
> > would like to use it under RH 6.1 as well. Does anyone know if there's a
> > driver or possibility at all to do so?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Huub
Thanks you for the advice, but how do I use it?
Huub
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From: Stephen Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ultra 66 Promise cards
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:42:29 GMT
Hi,
Does anyone know how to configure linux to work with promises'
Ultra 66 pci card?
I have downloaded drivers from the promise site, unfortunatly they
don't come with any hints!
Thanks
- Stephen Greene
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From: "Rick Townsend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dance with Crows pls read again! Need your help pls!
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:43:30 +0100
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Unrot13 this;
> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Rick Townsend;
> All very well and good. But please understand that many of us scan
thru
> 500+ messages a day from our various newsgroup sucks. My reader shows
> me the top 22 lines of the message, and if the poster hasn't had
> anything to say in those first lines, I, like most, will not scroll
down
> to see if indeed there is a real reply, but simply hit the next key.
If the message is not quoted there's no reply so no need to scroll down.
> I agree, the etiquette says we should, but this is the *real* world.
Most experienced netters will assume you are a newbie or lack net savy
if you reply at the top. If you <snip> the message and reply at the
bottom there should rarely be any need to scroll at all. Thats the
*real* world. This is not simply an issue of your convienience, its
about all the other ppl who receive your posts and the amount of
bandwith and the storage space used.
As I said... If you don't understand any of this DON'T POST!!!! go read
the AUP's.'
Regards.
Rick.
www.albrich.com
Albrich Interactive
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Gatto)
Subject: Re: Ultra 66 Promise cards
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:58:17 GMT
This has been talked about too many times to repeat;
deja.com/usenet search it.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:42:29 GMT, Stephen Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>Does anyone know how to configure linux to work with promises'
>Ultra 66 pci card?
>I have downloaded drivers from the promise site, unfortunatly they
>don't come with any hints!
>Thanks
>
>- Stephen Greene
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