Linux-Hardware Digest #110, Volume #13 Sun, 25 Jun 00 04:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: PCI parallel/serial boards and RH6.2 (Chris Rankin)
Re: LILO not taking dual nic string (Steve Martin)
Finding a COM5 with Mandrake 7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LT Winmodem in Inspiron 7000 ("JM")
Mandrake 7.0 modem problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: need dual scsi2 card advice (keith)
Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse (Charles Tryon)
Hard Drive Problems with Redhat 6.2 - Bad Geometry? (Norm Ackroyd)
Re: ssh/rsh (Norm Ackroyd)
AOpen AX64Pro (Old_Linux_Geezer)
Re: DPMS in X 4.0 (Steffen Kluge)
Linux installation with ATI Rage 128 GL AGP ("Justin Kremer")
new asus p34vx board makes kernel think hda=hdb.. kernel panic :( plz help if you
can (Adam Schuetze)
PDQ drivers for lexmark Optra 40 (soumyadip ghosh)
Re: new asus p34vx board makes kernel think hda=hdb.. kernel panic :( plz help if
you can (Hal Burgiss)
Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?! (MH)
Re: Linux and RS/6000s, and a general RAID question (Greg Leblanc)
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: PCI parallel/serial boards and RH6.2
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:14:59 +1000
Bill Gee wrote:
> I need to add a third serial port and a second parallel port. The only
> free slot I have is PCI. There are several such boards available for
> sale. Has anyone run any of them? Do I need driver sets or anything
> like that?
I doubt you'll need a driver, but the card will probably need
configuring before you can use its ports. I had this problem with my new
PCI parallel port card, and had to write to the vendor for specs so that
I could write a little kernel module! However, since this module's job
was only to configure the card, all I had to do was load it in rc.local
and then immediately unload it.
The 2.3 / 2.4 kernel has done a lot of work on IO ports; I suggest
contacting the Parallel Port developers and seeing which cards are
supported. (Of course, you could also go the other way - get a card and
then work on getting it supported in Linux.) If you're using Linux 2.2
then they should be able to tell you what you need to do to get your
card working.
Cheers,
Chris
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO not taking dual nic string
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 21:52:48 -0400
David Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried to enter a dual nic setup into lilo.conf but its
> rejected when I run lilo. I tried the following plus all sorts
> of variations.
> LILO: ether=11,0x7b80,eth0 ether10,0x7c80,eth1
> LILO: ether=11,eth0 ether=10,eth1
> ether=11,eth0 ether=10,eth1
> etc. All returned syntax error.
I'm not sure exactly what you're indicating here. I assume you're
putting some variation of the lines above in your lilo.conf file.
The proper syntax for such a line would be
append="ether=11,0x7b80,eth0"
The important part is the
append=
Put this outside any section describing a boot image (I usually put
such things at the top of the file).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Finding a COM5 with Mandrake 7.0
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 03:51:22 GMT
I just installed Mandrake(a dual boot with win98) and my modem is on
com 5. Linux will not recognize a com 5. What can I do to fix my
dilemma. Thanks advance.
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From: "JM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LT Winmodem in Inspiron 7000
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:00:29 -0400
Reply-To: "JM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Has anyone been able to get the LT Winmodem in the Inspiron 7000 to work
with RedHat Linux? Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Thank you, JM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mandrake 7.0 modem problem
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 04:03:08 GMT
My modem in win98 is on com5. Mandrake only has com 1 & 2. Any ideas
on how Mandrake can find my modem? Thanks in Advance
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need dual scsi2 card advice
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 02:32:58 GMT
hi
initio ini-9250uw
dual uw with nic onboard
www.initio.com
keith
Anthony Ewell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone have a favorite dual channel SCSI-2 (10 MB/sec)
> or SCSI-3 (20 MB/sec) controller card that is Linux friendly?
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
> aewell @ gbis dot com (remove the spaces, change the "dot" to ".")
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From: Charles Tryon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 03:25:18 GMT
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I've been running the Linux version of Quake2 for a while, using a serial
mouse. I just upgraded to another motherboard with a PS/2 mouse. I got
Linux and X11 to recognize the new mouse, but Quake freaks out - as if it's
getting a continuous stream of negative coordinates or something. What do
I need to change in the configuration (or drivers) to get Quake to work?
Thanks!
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I've been running the Linux version of Quake2 for a while, using a serial
mouse. I just upgraded to another motherboard with a PS/2 mouse.
I got Linux and X11 to recognize the new mouse, but Quake freaks out -
as if it's getting a continuous stream of negative coordinates or something.
What do I need to change in the configuration (or drivers) to get Quake
to work?
<p> Thanks!
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Your
Servant,
<><
<br> B.
Baggins
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norm Ackroyd)
Subject: Hard Drive Problems with Redhat 6.2 - Bad Geometry?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:31:35 GMT
I just purchased two used Seagate ST15230WC SCA 4.2GB hard drives to
attach to my Linux box (using SCA to 50pin adapters). When I boot into
Redhat and run 'fdisk /dev/sdd' (or sde), it detects the drives, but
gives me an error saying that it cannot find "a valid DOS Partition
table, nor Sun or SGI disklabel". If I try to slice up the drive, it
has incorrect geometry for the drive that only adds up to about 31MBs.
My Adaptec 2940UW controller detects the drives at bootup, and the
SCSI bios utility reports the correct size for the drives.
Furthermore, if I boot from a dos diskette, and run dos FDISK, it
works fine. (Actually, it didn't originally, but after a flash bios
upgrade to the controller, it worked)
Any thoughs/ideas/ramblings would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Norman Ackroyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norm Ackroyd)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ssh/rsh
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:32:04 GMT
Expect is a simple scripting language that could handle the job using
ssh. You tell it the command to execute ('ssh <hostname>') and what to
expect (ie "login" or "password"). Then tell it what to send when it
receives that prompt and so on. You can also specify timeout value so
that if the script does not get a prompt or string that it expects
with in the time you set, it will jump to the timeout clause.
Personally, I would do it with perl, although it would probably take
more scripting. With perl, you can use the 'open' command to open an
executable at a file descriptor. Then you can just print the commands
you want to send to the file descriptor. As for timeout in perl, often
what I will do is fork a child process that will send the commands and
then send a signal to the parent when it has completed. You can then
have the parent loop for whatever timeout value you want and if it
doesn't receive the signal by then, kill the child and continue. Check
out the Perl Cookbook for good examples and the Programming Perl book
for more details.
Norm Ackroyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:21:13 +0200, Thorsten Jungeblut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I need a solution to execute scripts or copy files automaticly to all
>unix hosts (sun, sgi, linux,...) in different subnets with
>root-privileges, for example for distributing new root passwords.
>
>Until now, I use a script which is run as root from out nis-master and
>which executes the wanted program via (again over nfs from the
>nis-master) rsh on the remote hosts.
>This is very slow, as there are several NT-Workstations, which don't
>answer on the request, and I get a timeout after ~30 sec. I figured out,
>that ssh2 recognizes this much faster, I get a connection refused after
>1-2 sec.
>
>1. Is there a way to tell rsh the time for trying to get the connection,
>until it aborts?
>
>2. I want to use encrypted connections using ssh, because rsh
>connections will be disabled soon.
>Is there a way to use ssh in the same way as rsh, where f.e. the
>connections from the nis-master are allowed to all hosts (as root)
>
>3. Is there a way to pass ssh(2) the right password automatically
>(perhaps already encrypted), so that I don't allow even the nis-master
>to connect as root to the other hosts without a given password???
>
>4. Any other hints or sollution for the problem?????
>
>Thanks in advance...
>
>Thorsten
>
>
>
>(sorry for my bad english)
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Old_Linux_Geezer)
Subject: AOpen AX64Pro
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 03:35:21 GMT
I am contemplating getting one of these MB's to run RH 6.2 with a 800 MHz PIII
and 133 MHz bus. Anyone had any good/bad experiences with this relativerly new
MB?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: DPMS in X 4.0
Date: 25 Jun 2000 03:46:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shippy! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I cannot seem to get my DPMS to work in X 4.0. Could
>someone that has done this one their system tell me
>how it is done?
I put the line `Option "DPMS"' in both the Monitor and the Screen
sections. That made it work.
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: "Justin Kremer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux installation with ATI Rage 128 GL AGP
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 00:04:24 -0500
Sirs,
First of all, I am a relative newbie to Linux. I'm trying to install Redhat
Linux 6.2 on my machine. It has an ATI Rage 128 GL AGP graphics card and a
CTX 17" monitor.
During the setup screen where I select the graphics card (I selected ATI
Rage 128 (generic)) and then hit 'Test this configuration'. The test screen
displays correctly, but when I'm brought back to Linux setup screen, the
display is very jumbled.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks,
Justin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Schuetze)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: new asus p34vx board makes kernel think hda=hdb.. kernel panic :( plz help if
you can
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 05:05:39 GMT
Hi all,
Well, my p2b board was causing no end of grief. I think there was
some sort of hardware fault, I was getting wierd intermittent
ethernet/cdrom problems.
So I broke down and bought a new board, an asus p3v4x, with a via
apollo pro133a chipset.
Anyway, I installed the new board, hooked everything back up, and
started it up.
After doing some bios config stuff so that the bios would recognize my
hardware, I restarted.
I get the lilo prompt, and choose my regular image.
The kernel boots, but then the wierdness starts. The following is an
excerpt from the end of the kernel messages:
hd1: C/H/S = 0/0/0 from BIOS ignored
hda: ASUS CD-S400, APAPI CDROM drive
hdb: WDC AC313000R, ATA DISK drive
hdc: no response (status = 0xa1), resetting drive
hdc: no response (status = 0xa1)
hdd: no response (status = 0xa1), resetting drive
hdd: no response (status = 0xa1)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdb: WDC AC313000R, 12416MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=25228/16/63, UDMA
hda: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128 kB Cache
.
. [floppy drive stuff]
.
Partition check:
hdb: [PTBL] [1582/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 . . . hdb14 >
cdrom: open failed
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:09
Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:09
Well, there you have it. The kernel thinks hda=hdb.
The hard disk is set up as primary slave, and the cdrom is set up as
primary master. On first glance, you'd think the answer would be to
switch slave/master. However, the bios won't detect the hdd if I set
it as the master. I don't know why.
I had my old p2b board configured the same way, disk = slave and cdrom
= master, without any troubles.
I'm also concerned about the
hdc: no response (status = 0xa1), resetting drive
hdc: no response (status = 0xa1)
messages. Especially because I setup the bios such that the bios only
knows/looks for the primary master/slave, and no secondary bus drives.
I guess, if I booted my system with a floppy, I could mount /dev/hdb9
(the root partition), re-do /etc/lilo so that it points to
/dev/hdb(n), and then rerun lilo.
I'd also have to remake the /dev/cdrom link to point to /dev/hda,
rather than /dev/hdb, and rewrite /etc/fstab to reflect the change
from hda to hdb.
If I go this route, are there any other configuration changes I need
to make?
I remember reading/hearing somewhere that there is a lilo option you
can add on the boot: prompt to switch the order of the drives.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I seem to recall such a thing. Of course, now
that I need it, I can't find any reference to it.
I suspect that perhaps the problems have something to do with the via
apollo chipset, perhaps it works/acts/thinks differently than the
intel 440bx chipset that is on the p2b board.
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance for any responses.
Adam Schuetze
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From: soumyadip ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PDQ drivers for lexmark Optra 40
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 01:25:01 -0400
Hi,
I need the driver and interface files for running pdq to use the optra
40 printer. I quess I could write one as the HowTo instructs, but I
figure in the spirit of Linux, I shouldn't wirte anything that may
already have been perfected elsewhere by someone else!
Thanks in advance,
Soumyadip
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: new asus p34vx board makes kernel think hda=hdb.. kernel panic :( plz
help if you can
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 05:33:45 GMT
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 05:05:39 GMT, Adam Schuetze
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>I suspect that perhaps the problems have something to do with the via
>apollo chipset, perhaps it works/acts/thinks differently than the
>intel 440bx chipset that is on the p2b board.
>
>Any ideas?
This doesn't answer the real question, but for performance reasons I
would put the CDROM as master on 2nd channel. As to the rest, I would
only guess that the BIOS is confusing the kernel.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?!
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:45:53 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MH wrote:
>
> I've read the posts here on 3C509 and they all seem to revolve around
> loadable modules. I'm confused. Recent kernels offer support for this
> card compiled directly into the kernel, or as a module. (Why would
> anyone install a NIC as a module?) Once PNP has been disabled on the
> card, why would there be any problems?
>
> I'm almost certain I've run this card before without any configuration
> on my part, but I can't get it to work on my latest box which is
> dual-homed. The other card is a 3C905B, both cards' drivers are
> compiled into the kernel. Only the 3C905B (eth0) loads at boot
> however. The 3C509 (eth1) "fails to initialize". I tried setting
> parameters via Linuxconf, but nothing seems to work. The parameters for
> this card are IRQ 10/0x300 and there are no conflicts. What am I
> missing?
Removing the 3C509 driver from the kernel and making it a loadable
module solved the problem.
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From: Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and RS/6000s, and a general RAID question
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 07:02:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What support does Linux have (if any) for IBM's RS/6000 boxes? ISTR
> hearing that the PPC RS6Ks were supported, but I don't know anything
> about the earlier RISCs. And, speaking of, did IBM stop putting PPC
> chips in the RS6Ks when they took off the PPC branding?
Halejleuah, looks like Deja finally fixed the posting problem with line
wraps. As for RS6K boxes, I think that most of the current ones are at
least partly supported. I think that they're still using PPC chips,
although they aren't branded as such. I'm by NO means an expert on
that, but you should be able to call IBM and ask.
> Now, for the RAID question (which has absolutely nothing to do with
> the above). What kind of support does Linux - general Linux, not
> RedHat-enhanced Linux or anything like that - have for RAID
> controllers? How complex can I get? I mean, can I get a new 4U box
> to go on top of the one I just bought, stick in a backplane and eight
> 9.1GB drives, put in an ARO-1130SA, and Kill Bugs Dead? Or does Linux
> have peculiarities or shortcomings (or just plain incompatabilities)
> when it comes to certain RAID configurations/hardware?
I don't know what an ARO-1130SA is, but assuming that you're using a
hardware RAID controller that's supported in the kernel, or which there
are patches to support, then it can do anything you want. RAID
controllers will make the RAID arrays just show up as SCSI disks to
Linux. I've got a DPT smartRAID V, running a 3 disk RAID5, and it works
wonderfully (and screams, to boot). I've also got a software RAID 1
using the RAID drivers for the kernel, and it's worked wonderfully. I
even had a real disk failure last week, although I haven't been able to
find a replacement disk yet, the machine is still up and running nicely.
Grego
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