Linux-Hardware Digest #196, Volume #13 Sat, 8 Jul 00 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Config on dual intel etherexpress cards (Marc Nesheim)
ATI Rage Fury Pro doesn't work (Lorenzo)
Re: What modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: shutdown...? (Steve Martin)
Thinkpad 390 (OPL3-SAx) - low volume (Decklin Foster)
Re: Add SCSI tape drives ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Linux home server: Clean-slate hardware plan? (James Knowles)
Re: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards (Akira Yamanita)
Re: REPOST: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
("Doug Holtz")
can't read audio cd's on acer 50x max atapi cdrom (Danpcfl)
Re: mysterious noise from PC speaker (Danpcfl)
Re: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards (Rob Kroll)
Re: Tape Drive Support (Juergen Pfann)
LinkSys ethernet driver wanted ("Dennis Peacock")
Re: Add SCSI tape drives (Juergen Pfann)
Re: LinkSys ethernet driver wanted ("T.W. Stokes")
HP Hardware ("DOUGLAS SYMONDS")
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From: Marc Nesheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linus.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:46:41 -0500
I have an old 486 running redhat 6.2. The box contains two Intel
etherexpress Lan Adapater 8/16TP. I use the module called eexpress.o to
config the cards with. They work fine if only one card is in the system
at a time. However when I put both of them in and try to use both of
them eth1 never comes up. The message displayed to the console is
"Delaying eth1 initialization." The setup in my /etc/conf.modules is as
follows:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X300 irq=5
alias eth1 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X240 irq=10
I manualy set each card accordingly to those settings. If anyone can
help me out here that would be greatly appericated.
marc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Lorenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Rage Fury Pro doesn't work
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 18:36:28 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just purchased an ATI Rage Fury Pro (32 Mb) and i would use it with
Linux too. I'm new to linux so i hope you understand! If i begin the
setup with Linux Redhat 6 and set for generic card when i try X the
desktop comes black, if i try to install Redhat 6.2 the installation
just fail when passing to graphic installation mode.
Can someone help me?
Thanx, Lorenzo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What modem
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:28:12 -0400
In <%mq95.6908$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/07/2000
at 03:41 PM, "xiangola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Good idea! I have many modems that I want to rip out of my old 486s. But
>the thing is they need ISA port and I have only one (6 PCI and 1 ISA, now
>go figure).
Only one ISA port and you want it for something else, right? Hmm! Same
problem -- I have an ISA sound card because the PCI sound cards didn't
have Linux or OS/2 drivers when I bought my machine.
But IMHO the ISA modem is the way to go. I used to think external but
because of PnP issues I had a tough time getting my external to work in
Windows due to multiple conflicts (more a Windows issue than anything
else, IMO, but it would cause it not to work in Linux or OS/2). If I had
it to do all over again I'd do ISA internal and use a PCI sound card. The
sound card not working is less of a pain than not having a modem. I can
modem with the kids in bed but sound card is only for when they're awake
or away. ;-)
--
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Matt. 6:33; John 3:16; Rom. 8:1
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown...?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 22:02:12 -0400
Bit Twister wrote:
> The problem is between the keyboard and the chair :)
>
> Have you tried man shutdown
>
> and read the last line of this reply.
A little less arrogance and condescension, please, "Bit Twister".
I read the "shutdown" man page, and there is nothing there
that addresses his problem.
Now, to address the question in a useful manner...
I tried entering "shutdown -h now" on my RH60 system here
at home, and it shut down properly, so I assume that something
has changed between here and there. I'm no expert, but I'd
suggest double-checking to make sure nothing has messed with
/etc/inittab, /etc/rc.d/rc, or the files in /etc/rc.d/rc0.d.
There's also a small possibility that it might be the kernel,
although I doubt it. I only bring it up because I'm not running
the kernel that's packed with RH60; I downloaded and installed
2.2.14 on this system.
Hope something here is helpful.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Decklin Foster)
Subject: Thinkpad 390 (OPL3-SAx) - low volume
Date: 8 Jul 2000 02:01:10 GMT
I am using the OPL3-SAx driver to run the sound on my Thinkpad 390
laptop. It works, but the volume is only what I would call 'moderate'
with the PCM mixer and the physical volume control turned up to the
max. Under Windows, I can get a much higher volume. I believe that
this is due to the fact that the 'Vol' mixer has no effect, only PCM.
Windows, OTOH, has both a 'wave volume' and 'master volume' control
which work. So I assume that the master volume must be stuck at 50%
under Linux.
What I would like to know is, is there any way (another driver, a
configuration option, etc) that would allow me to utilize the Vol
mixer? If at all possible, I would to be able to use the Bass and
Treble mixers as well (however these are not essential). Having to put
the physical volume control up all the way is a pain, as it really
degrades the S/N ratio.
Thanks in advance, CCs are welcome.
--
There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY. There
are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very probably wrong. -- BSD fortune(6)
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add SCSI tape drives
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 22:02:38 -0400
> There are scsi tape devices listed in /dev (st0,st1, etc). but if i
> use an mt command with any of the device names listed, it says NO
> DEVICE FOUND.
>
> I went to my kernel configurator and there is a scsi host adaptor
> listed in the module list. But how do i deterine if tape support is
> compiled in and how do I check to see if added to my scsi chain. I
> tried using makedev and it indicated that wasn't a valid command.
> Sorry to be so confused but appreciating your help.....
The script is MAKEDEV, not makedev. You may or may not have it. All it
does is call mknod with the right major and minor device numbers. But
if you already have /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0, you probably don't need to
run MAKEDEV or mknod.
You say there's _a_ scsi host adaptor in the module list. Do you mean
_your_ SCSI host adaptor? I'm not being pedantic, just making sure I
understand.
I'm not running Linux right now, but as I recall in the SCSI section of
the kernel configurator, you have to enable SCSI support, select the
right module for your adaptor, and also select "SCSI tape support" as
well as any of the others (CDROM, hard disk, etc.) that you might want.
Then build your kernel.
If you have /dev/{,n}st0 with the right device numbers, and SCSI
support, SCSI tape support, and your SCSI adaptor module in the kernel,
then you should be ready to go.
One suggestion, once you get it working: I suggest that you compile SCSI
tape support and your SCSI adaptor module directly into the kernel,
instead of making them modules. The reason is that in case of
catastrophic failure, you want to be able to reboot with your kernel,
not counting on any modules still being present on disk, and restore
from tape.
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux home server: Clean-slate hardware plan?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 20:10:07 -0600
> This is a home server not a corporate server,
Personally I still run RAID-1 on a home server. It may not put me out of
business to lost home stuff, but it's still a huge headache. I'll fork
out the extra cash for a second hard drive. They're not *that*
expensive, especially compared to the headache.
Just MHO
--
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
- Lazarus Long
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 02:18:53 GMT
Marc Nesheim wrote:
>
> I have an old 486 running redhat 6.2. The box contains two Intel
> etherexpress Lan Adapater 8/16TP. I use the module called eexpress.o to
> config the cards with. They work fine if only one card is in the system
> at a time. However when I put both of them in and try to use both of
> them eth1 never comes up. The message displayed to the console is
> "Delaying eth1 initialization." The setup in my /etc/conf.modules is as
> follows:
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 eexpress
> options eexpress io=0X300 irq=5
> alias eth1 eexpress
> options eexpress io=0X240 irq=10
>
> I manualy set each card accordingly to those settings. If anyone can
> help me out here that would be greatly appericated.
>
> marc
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taken out of comp.os.linus.setup since there's no such group.
Followup set to comp.os.linux.help.
Try this:
alias eth0 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X240 irq=10
alias eth1 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X300 irq=5
Alternatively, try swapping the order of the two cards on
the system bus.
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From: "Doug Holtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: REPOST: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:00:12 -0500
Bert;
You need assistance. Linux is not a clustering solution. A RAID 5
controller manages a set of 3 disks or more, not 2 servers. I'd suggest
finding a local reputable network consulting service.
Doug
Bert [reposted because of HipClone cancel] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> Hi!
>
> I need to set up a mail /web server at where I'm working, and after
> thinking about it for a while, I thought it better to have a fault
> tolerant set up. I sort of managed to determine what bits & pieces I'd
> required... but putting it together is entirely another matter!!
>
> I'd appreciate any help, pointers, advice, resources anyone could point
> me towards.
>
> The basic stuff are:
> 2 linux boxes, built-in dual channel SCSI RAID
> 1 load balancer
> 1 external RAID
> RH Linux 6.2
> (Mix well....ugghh)
>
> What i need to do is to have the 2 Linux boxes to be identical, these 2
> boxes access 1 set of data on the external raid. ie, there should be
> only 1 set of mail app, mailboxes etc.
>
> So these 2 boxes need to have their own OS? Can they share data?
>
> A load balancer will determine which box gets the job etc. for a fault
> tolerant setup.
>
> How can I put everything together? Are there any extra special bits that
> I require?
>
> Is there a better way of doing this? ie, sharing data on 1 RAID
> subsystem is a no-no?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!!
>
>
>
> Bert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danpcfl)
Subject: can't read audio cd's on acer 50x max atapi cdrom
Date: 08 Jul 2000 03:06:12 GMT
i am running redhat 6.2
i have an atapi acer 50x max cdrom drive
i can mount data (iso9660) cd's fine,
but i have tried a bunch of audio cd's and players
as well as rippers and none can access
they all think there is no disc in the cdrom
the permissions are wide open (rw all around)
the device name i am using in the player programs is the same
as the one i have in /etc/fstab for the mount point
is there something weird about this particular cdrom drive ?
i have used other atapi cdroms without any problems
please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unfortunately i bought the wrong king of modem, and it only works under
winders and i can't figure out how to get aol to display newsgroups
in a decent way (like netscape)
thanks,
dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danpcfl)
Subject: Re: mysterious noise from PC speaker
Date: 08 Jul 2000 03:08:03 GMT
do you have a microphone ?
maybe it's feeding back
you can open the mixer and turn down the level on the mic
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linus.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Config on dual intel etherexpress cards
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Kroll)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 03:24:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Nesheim) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I have an old 486 running redhat 6.2. The box contains two Intel
>etherexpress Lan Adapater 8/16TP. I use the module called eexpress.o to
>config the cards with. They work fine if only one card is in the system
>at a time. However when I put both of them in and try to use both of
>them eth1 never comes up. The message displayed to the console is
>"Delaying eth1 initialization." The setup in my /etc/conf.modules is as
>follows:
>
>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>alias eth0 eexpress
>options eexpress io=0X300 irq=5
>alias eth1 eexpress
>options eexpress io=0X240 irq=10
>
>I manualy set each card accordingly to those settings. If anyone can
>help me out here that would be greatly appericated.
>
>marc
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
**BTW, you seem to have crossposted to a heck of a lot of newsgroups. I
filtered the ones that aren't really pertinent in this reply. To
compensate, I am forwarding the reply to you via e-mail.**
Your problem is caused by having two options lines. The second one will
override the first one, and the second card will not be seen. This will
invariably cause a "Delaying eth1 initialization" message at bootup.
To fix it, rewrite your /etc/conf.modules to look like this:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eexpress
alias eth1 eexpress
options eexpress io=0x300,0x240 irq=5,10
and it should fix your problem.
HTH
-RK
rkroll(at)ottawa(dot)com
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Drive Support
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 05:32:33 +0200
Mark Feller wrote:
>
> Can Linux be used with any of Onstream's offerings?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
I wouldn't recommend buying an Onstream tape drive
for use in Linux, at least for the moment.
To me, the problem seems to be, they don't comply
to neither SCSI nor ATAPI standard tape ioctls,
respectively, using proprietary command sets.
To say it more clearly : They're NOT supported by
Linux's st, ht, or pt drivers !
I know the company has just recently announced Linux
drivers for their HW in c.o.l.announce, and I admit
I didn't follow the link (I don't have such a drive);
but I'm afraid they're "closed-source" binary-only
modules, but look for yourself...
The point that a company is not willing or able
to implement well-known, well-established standard
interfaces is just enough reason for me to ignore
them; I don't need additional open/closed source
issues for that...
Juergen
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From: "Dennis Peacock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LinkSys ethernet driver wanted
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:34:42 -0500
I have a new SuSE Linux box up and running. I just bought a LinkSys
LNE100TX (10/100) ethernet card to put in it so I can network it with my
WIN98 box. I really need to know how to setup this ethernet card so it will
work in my Linux machine. I have tried several times to get to the
linksys.com web site without success. Does anyone have the linux driver
that I need for this card? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dennis
Acxiom Corporation
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add SCSI tape drives
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 06:57:19 +0200
Myra Hager wrote:
>
> There are scsi tape devices listed in /dev (st0,st1, etc). but if i
> use an mt command with any of the device names listed, it says NO
> DEVICE FOUND.
>
I'm glad you're familiar with another UNIX (if Linux is to be counted
as one of 'em also, but please no flames here...), so I won't have
to start with Adam and Eve...
Unlike the monolithical kernel of e.g. SCO, in Linux you have the option
to include all HW drivers statically in one kernel file also, or you
can load or unload a heavy part of the drivers as kernel modules.
The latter is the default for the installed kernels of most
distributions. Of course, you can compile a new kernel with your
own balance of static and modularized drivers, what I'd recommend
in any case anyway, for several good reasons.
As an example covering our case here, the SCSI driver layers are
like this (all of which *can*, but don't need to be modularized) :
There's one driver/module for your host adapter, and above that,
drivers/modules for SCSI disks, CDROMs, tape drives, and generic
devices like scanners or CD-writers. In the case of CDROMs, for
instance, there's additional layers for interface-independent
CDROM support and, of course, the filesystem for mounting data
CDROMs.
Now, you need to know about tools for loading and unloading the
modules : There's a running daemon, kerneld, that's listening
for requests of a specific driver and loading the requested
module then, unloading it again after some idle time. But you
can do this manually also, if you like. The tools for that
are among others 'modprobe', 'insmod', or 'rmmod' (the latter
2 being shortcuts to modprobe only IIRC).
The modules installed by your distribution (or compiled newly
by you) reside under /lib/modules/`uname -r`/<class>, where
class is one of e.g. "block", "char", "fs", "misc", or "scsi".
So now you should be able to locate and verify first, if the
modules for your HA (e.g. "sym53c8xx.o" and for scsi tapes
("st.o") do exist at all under /lib/modules/<version>/scsi !
If they do, you can try immediately to load them manually
by 'insmod <HA-module>' (without the ".o") and 'insmod st',
for instance. If that succeeded (watch the syslog output
in /var/log/messages), you can test your tape drive with
the tool 'mt' (e.g. 'mt status') - and you've nearly
got it !
Next, you'd want your kernel to load the HA and/or tape
driver automatically - there's a config file for the
above kerneld/modprobe mechanism, called /etc/conf.modules
in some distros (or /etc/modules.conf in others; well,
that's the disadvantage of Linux not being the work of
one company only).
Anyway, you'd edit the file to read
"alias scsi-hostadapter <your HA-module>", this time
*with* the .o ! You don't need a line for the tape driver
itself.
So now kerneld will find and load the HA module next time you
access any SCSI device, and load the specific device driver
afterwards...
If, however, you haven't got the modules I was talking of
above, you either didn't install the precompiled set
(packages might be named modules-<version> or similar,
don't know exactly for RH - in SuSE that's called 'kernmod'),
or you miss them for some other reason. You can easily
reinstall the modules then - but, again, that's a good
opportunity to compile your own, customized kernel...
As my posting has gotten too long already, try to figure
that out for yourself - in Linux, there's, in addition to
the normal "man" documentation, a lot of step-by-step
instructions called "HOWTOS", usually in /usr/doc/howtos;
you'll find the Kernel-HOWTO and the SCSI-HOWTO there, a.o.
One last item, if you please, regarding the degree of
modularization : For SCSI, I personally prefer to have
the HA module and hard disk support *static* (which is
a MUST if your root partition resides on SCSI ;-)),
and have CD-ROM and tape drivers loaded as modules on
demand - but, often you're free to decide with Linux...
Again, I have to apologize for the too long posting -
but I wanted to be of some real help instead of just
saying 'man st', knowing for myself that HW
configuration IS quite different in SCO (my first steps
with that OS weren't too successful, either....).
Juergen
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From: "T.W. Stokes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LinkSys ethernet driver wanted
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 01:03:46 -0400
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Dennis Peacock wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I have a new SuSE Linux box up and running.
I just bought a LinkSys
<br>LNE100TX (10/100) ethernet card to put in it so I can network it with
my
<br>WIN98 box. I really need to know how to setup this ethernet card
so it will
<br>work in my Linux machine. I have tried several times to get to the
<br>linksys.com web site without success. Does anyone have the linux
driver
<br>that I need for this card? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
<p>Thanks,
<br>Dennis
<br>Acxiom Corporation</blockquote>
You should use the Tulip driver for your LinkSys. Use samba to make it
talk to Windows.
<p>T.W. Stokes</html>
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From: "DOUGLAS SYMONDS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Hardware
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:02:18 +1000
Hi,
I have installed RedHat 6.2 on a HP Pavilion 8603, it can't find the Intel
(r) 82810E Graphics Controller 4.12.01.2576 on the system.I am new to
computers(early March), hate the Windows 98 OS and I'm desperate for help.
I would appreciate any advice, thankyou.
Doug Symonds.
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