Linux-Hardware Digest #346, Volume #13 Wed, 2 Aug 00 23:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: slow PIII850MHz performance... ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: PC to Apple printer cable?? ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: My Brand New Hard Drive Only Gets .95MB/s!!!! ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: CD-RW - IDE or SCSI? (Dances With Crows)
Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get? (Chem-R-Us)
Detecting a Regsiter Write ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
get 3d acceleration working in X (Mike)
Re: Problem with 3C509 network card (Charles Hart)
Re: My Brand New Hard Drive Only Gets .95MB/s!!!! (Marcus Lauer)
Re: no sound with sblive from audio cd's (Dougt)
Re: Arkeia Backup Software with an IDE streamer? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: CD-RW - IDE or SCSI? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HELP with modem (SiberianFurs)
Re: CD-RW - IDE or SCSI? (Steve Martin)
Re: best distro for old machine (Tim Moore)
Re: deleted partition table (Tim Moore)
Re: My Brand New Hard Drive Only Gets .95MB/s!!!! (Tim Moore)
Re: HELP with modem ("J. Escalante")
Help installing modem ("J. Escalante")
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slow PIII850MHz performance...
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:35:33 -0400
I'd like to know the answer to this question too. I've tried puting
hdparm in rc.local but it doesn't seem to work. I keep my server up all
the time so I've been doing hdparm -d1 by hand after I boot it.
EKK wrote:
>
> B. Joshua Rosen wrote:
> >
> > Is linux recognizing all of your memory?, if Linux is only seeing 64M
> > that could be your problem. Also check to see if dma is enabled on your
> > disk,
> >
> > hdparm /dev/hda
> >
> > if dma is off then do
> >
> > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
> >
> > EKK wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We recently bought a dual PIII machine with this motherboard
> > > and hard drive, CPU, etc.:
> > >
> > > TYAN TIGER 133 (VIA APOLLO PRO 133A) (Slot 1)
> > > (VT82C596B)
> > > WINBOND W83977ATF Super I/O CHIP
> > >
> > > IBM DTLA 307045 (45GB IDE UDMA66)
> > >
> > > 2 x PIII-850MHz
> > >
> > > 1GB RAM
> > >
> > > Redhat 6.1
> > >
> > > Now, this runs at 100Mhz, got PC100 memory.
> > > I run the same analysis code, compiled with g77,
> > > as a benchmark. I have two other machines:
> > >
> > > PII450MHz and PIII650MHz.
> > >
> > > The 650 is approx. 1.4 times faster than 450.
> > >
> > > BUT
> > >
> > > The 850 is approx. 1.1 times faster than 450.
> > >
> > > !!!!!!
> > >
> > > No matter what I do to the bios settings, I still
> > > get this problem.
> > >
> > > I compiled the kernel for SMP, and included the
> > > VT82***** IDE chipset option, since that's the
> > > chip on this motherboard.
> > >
> > > I cannot figure out why this is SOOO SLOW!!!!!!
> > >
> > > Anybody had a similar experience???? Is it the
> > > mboard?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > AG
> > > --
> > >
> > > Alessandro Giachino, Software Engineer
> > >
> > > EKK Inc.
> > > 2065 West Maple C309 tel. 248-624-9957
> > > Walled Lake MI 48390 fax. 248-624-7158
> > > _____________________________________________
> > > http://www.ekkinc.com
>
> Hi, how would I make DMA permanently on?
>
> I.E. where would I put 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda' ?
>
> Is it OK for it to be in rc.local or should it run
> before that (within lilo??)
>
> Thanks,
>
> AG
> --
>
> Alessandro Giachino, Software Engineer
>
> EKK Inc.
> 2065 West Maple C309 tel. 248-624-9957
> Walled Lake MI 48390 fax. 248-624-7158
> _____________________________________________
> http://www.ekkinc.com
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PC to Apple printer cable??
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:38:55 -0400
There use to be adapters available, I expect that you can still find one
at Comp USA or equivalent.
Josh
Keith Rhodes wrote:
>
> A friend has an Apple StyleWriter 2500 that he's lent me on trial to see if I
> want to buy it.
> According to www.linuxprinting.org, it should work, but that only considers the
> driver.
> I need a cable to connect it to the D-shell serial port of my Linux PC.
> The StyleWriter has Apple's round-shell 8 pin connecter on an asynchronous
> serial interface (RS-422).
>
> Are cables vailable for this, or does somebody know a pin-to-pin equivalent so
> I can cobble together a cable?
>
> KR.
>
> --
> ==
> I don't like spammers. So take the warning
> out of my address before you reply.
> ++
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Brand New Hard Drive Only Gets .95MB/s!!!!
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:41:04 -0400
Is your BIOS upto date? You might want to update it to the latest rev
that your system supports.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have RedHat 6.0 installed. I've been using this for three years now on
> a five year old Western Digital 2.5GB Caviar. Currently, that gets about
> 6 MB/s from hdparm -t. So, I installed my new 15GB Western Digital
> Caviar UDMA/66 hard drive (without an Ultra/66 controller). There are no
> partitions on it, the entire drive is /home. I put it on as the master
> of the second IDE channel. I have no problems with it, but when I
> benched it with hdparm -t it only gets .95 MB/s. I have gone through all
> the usual tweaks, turn on 32bit transfers (with sync as well), unmasked
> interrupts, and turned on DMA (unfortunately, the Caviar won't allow me
> to set multiple sector counts or write-back caching). The best I can get
> it to is .95MB/s. I'm not really sure what to do here. Is there an
> updated Linux IDE driver I can be using, or is it a problem because the
> drive isn't partitioned into chunks less than 4GB, or a problem with the
> second channel, does it think it's using Ultra/66 when in fact it's not
> and that's slowing transfers???? HELP!!
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CD-RW - IDE or SCSI?
Date: 3 Aug 2000 00:48:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:23:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos) writes:
>> Why? It took me about 30' to figure out how to set the devices and
>> options in the kernel to use ide-scsi emulation for the CDRW, but after
>> that I've used the IDE CDRW for almost a year with no problem.
>How much other stuff can you do while burning a CD?
System: All-IDE, 7200RPM UDMA/33 drive on /dev/hdb, 4/4/16 CD-RW on
/dev/hdc, 400MHz K6-2, 96M.
Capable of: Burning a data CD at 4x with Netscape actively surfing,
and compiling a kernel, and posting this message, and running KDE, all
at the same time. cdrecord reports min buffer fill as 92%.
The system above is not exactly Godzilla, either. It's possible the
"only SCSI is suitable for CD-R(W)s" information is a bit out-of-date.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 17:57:48 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi, hope to get dsl rsn. i have a 120mhz cyrix 686 pr150 with 96 mb and a
> 350 mhz amd k6-2 with 64 mb. both have various nic's, cd's and modems. i
> could buy a new system (i have about $700).
>
> what hardware combinations should i prefer or avoid?
>
> fry's usually has something with linux installed? is this any good?
>
> eventually, i want to run a web server and anonymous remailer and ftp.
I have ADSL running on this machine. I have two network cards, one to
the external DSL modem, and one to my local network. Just set it up so
that the NIC to the external DSL modem is the default route. `man
netstat' and `man route' to see how it's done.
It will work over either static IP (best) or dynamic IP (DHCP).
--
.~. ))
Chem-R-Us /V\ ((
//Y\\_c|^^|
/(_|_) `--'
^^ ^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Detecting a Regsiter Write
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:54:24 GMT
A simple question about register communication:
A particular circuit requests or is expecting data or a command through
a data bus. How does it know when data has been written to its input so
it may read it in?
For example:
1) wait for ready bit on address 0x1100
2) write data byte A on address 0x1101
3) wait for ready bit on address 0x1100
4) write data byte B on address 0x1101
How does it know that I have changed the data at 0x1101 without me
specifically specifing that I have loaded new data?
Thanks,
Mike
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: get 3d acceleration working in X
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:32:39 -0500
hello
I wasn't quite sure which group should field this question, but I figured
it is about 3d hardware. I'm in the new RedHat beta 7.0, and I am
having a hard time getting 3d acceleration in X. Open GL applications
and screensavers run really slowly.
I have a Geforce card (the original) and am running XFree 4.01. Mesa
is installed as well, during RedHats installation procedure. I distinctly
remember that when I installed Suse 6.4, ( before redhat) that there was
an option to enable 3d acceleration for supported cards in XFree. How
can I get that in Red Hat?
Thanks guys
Mike
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From: Charles Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with 3C509 network card
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 02:03:49 GMT
I'm having the same problem. have 2 3c509's set with the 3c5x9cfg program while
booted to dos, and set pnp disable on both and set valid IO/IRQ's. Once the DHCP
client loads and tries to get ip info the eth0 nic sends data then a couple seconds
later the Status led on the eth0 just starts blinking green off and on.
With medaione and had them provision the new mac addresses. I've tried two
different 33509's in two different PC's. Both nicks show in ifconfig as functioal
with TX's but no Rx'.
Now I'm looking for a pre-compliled mod for a intel ehter pro 100 that's in my w98
pc that's functional with RoadRunner.
Any help would be extremely appriciated.
Dougt wrote:
> News Club-Internet wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I've a problem with a 3C509 Ethernet Card.
> > I've a little network of 2 PCs one under w98 and the other under Linux
> > Redhat 6.1
> > connected througth a Hub.
> >
> > The problem is that my network card seem to be unable to exchange data.
>
> This card is probably still in PnP mode. The driver will still load ok, you
> just wont get any activity. To see if it is in PnP mode, type pnpdump | grep
> ANSI. Any hardware that is returned is in PnP mode. To disable PnP, get disk2
> of the 3c509 driver set ( ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c509/3c509x2.exe). The
> file u need is 3c5x9cfg.exe, boot to dos (not windows) u can use a dos boot
> floppy if u dont have windows on yer system, and run that exe. Its a menu
> driven utility where u can disable PnP and manually set IO and IRQ.
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Brand New Hard Drive Only Gets .95MB/s!!!!
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 19:10:29 +0200
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have RedHat 6.0 installed. I've been using this for three years now on
>a five year old Western Digital 2.5GB Caviar. Currently, that gets about
>6 MB/s from hdparm -t. So, I installed my new 15GB Western Digital
>Caviar UDMA/66 hard drive (without an Ultra/66 controller). There are no
>partitions on it, the entire drive is /home. I put it on as the master
>of the second IDE channel. I have no problems with it, but when I
>benched it with hdparm -t it only gets .95 MB/s. I have gone through all
>the usual tweaks, turn on 32bit transfers (with sync as well), unmasked
>interrupts, and turned on DMA (unfortunately, the Caviar won't allow me
>to set multiple sector counts or write-back caching). The best I can get
>it to is .95MB/s. I'm not really sure what to do here. Is there an
>updated Linux IDE driver I can be using, or is it a problem because the
>drive isn't partitioned into chunks less than 4GB, or a problem with the
>second channel, does it think it's using Ultra/66 when in fact it's not
>and that's slowing transfers???? HELP!!
>
>
>
Have you used Western Digital's utility to turn the UDMA/66 feature
of the hard drive off? The hard drive does _not_ default to what the
motherboard can support.
In case you're wondering, I have an WD Caviar 7200 RPM on a FIC
VA-503+. In other words, a similar setup :)
Marcus
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From: Dougt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no sound with sblive from audio cd's
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 02:33:41 GMT
Karl wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've got RH6.2 with kernel 2.4.0-test5. I can read data cd's no problem,
> and mp3 files sound great. But I don't get any sound from audio cd's.
> It looks like it's reading the cd just fine (using xmms), but no sound.
> I have an sblive sound card, with my speakers plugged into the DIN jack
> on the digital i/o card. When I plug the speakers into the jacks on the
> main card I only get sound from the front speakers (but mp3's still give
> me sound from all 4 speakers). This is driving me crazy. Does the
> emu10k1 module not support rear speakers? With windows I get sound from
> all 4 speakers using the DIN jack. I hate the fact that widows sounds
> better that linux. Any help would be greatly appreciated, before I go
> out of my mind.
>
> Thanks
u need to hook up the analog audio cable from yer cd rom to yer soundcard
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Date: 2 Aug 2000 22:24:21 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arkeia Backup Software with an IDE streamer?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to John Antrosiglio;
JA> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I don't see why not, Ronny. As long as your parport equ to mt, pt
>> I think it is, can see it, then so should arkeia. Its running on
>> my machine right now, but to /dev/st0 on a scsi card, and wasting
>> half of each tape because it isn't using the hardware compression
>> that is turned on, therefore only doing 4g a tape. That sucks a
>> bit. But I may have missed a comfig option someplace too.
>>
>> Cheers, Gene
JA> I'm using bru rather than arkeis, but this may apply to you. I
JA> had the same problem with a exabyte 8505 and bru didn't know how
JA> to turn on compression. I did some digging and it turns out under
JA> linux you have to use the mt command to set the tape density. The
JA> 8505 used the value 140 to turn on hardware compression. Think I
JA> found this in their reference manual. Bru also provides a hook
JA> so you can call a startup command before it starts the backup. I
JA> created a two line script with the following lines:
JA> mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
JA> mt -f /dev/nst0 setdensity 140
I can query the drive with mt, and it tells me the compression is turned
on.
JA> and now bru is using the fill 14Gigs on the tape.
Yes, I was using the freebie version of bru, and frankly I liked it.
Unforch, it was always timed out when I next needed it. I don't feel
$250 is a good price for it, but I just now noted they have reduced that
to $89 'for the home version', so I might drop my card for it yet.
Bru is nice, but Diavolo on this amiga kicks it where it hurts though.
About the same price too. For instance, Diavolo looks at the drive and
the tape in it, makes some tests and configures itself for optimum
performance.
Arkeia seems to be a bit harder to setup, but those whiz-bang bells and
whistles graphics only serve to hide a confusing (to me) interface. It
should self configure like diavolo does.
I did find that tape characteristics file though, and I may play around
a bit by resetting the 4000 megs to 7250 or so, which is what bru put on
those same tapes the last time it worked after a fresh download and
install.
JA> Maybe arkeia has such a hook, or you can start arkeia up from
JA> within a script that sets up the tape drive before arkeia starts.
See above, already done. And I've not found the file it uses to drive
the mt device driver yet...
Dynamicly switching the compression on and off would be the holy grail,
and I *think* I caught bru doing that once.
Thanks John
Cheers, Gene
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Subject: Re: CD-RW - IDE or SCSI?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 02:41:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
> >How much other stuff can you do while burning a CD?
> System: All-IDE, 7200RPM UDMA/33 drive on /dev/hdb, 4/4/16 CD-RW on
> /dev/hdc, 400MHz K6-2, 96M.
> Capable of: Burning a data CD at 4x with Netscape actively surfing,
> and compiling a kernel, and posting this message, and running KDE, all
> at the same time. cdrecord reports min buffer fill as 92%.
Huh. 4X isn't blindingly fast, but it's still a pretty good rate.
> The system above is not exactly Godzilla, either. It's possible the
> "only SCSI is suitable for CD-R(W)s" information is a bit out-of-date.
Perhaps so. I can manage 100% constant on the buffer at 8X, but my
computer sort of is Godzilla. Also, I'm paranoid about ruining CDs,
since God only knows I can't afford to pay the $0.80 or whatever for a
new one.
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"felon, n.: A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in
embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SiberianFurs)
Date: 03 Aug 2000 02:44:01 GMT
Subject: HELP with modem
I'm a newbie and I just installed RedHat 6.2 and nothing works, I mean my modem
and my sound card. How do I install these things, I have a 3com winmodem model
3013. Please do not respond with a whole bunch of technical jargon, remember I
am a newbie so take it easy on me.
Thank you.,
Henry
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW - IDE or SCSI?
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 02:49:11 GMT
Phil Regier wrote:
> I'm looking to get a PC for home use and run RedHat 6.2.
> I want to get a CD-RW device so I can do backups and make the occasional
> music CD. I would also use it as my CD reading device, rather than
> have a separate CDROM. I'd also have an IDE disk and that'd
> be it to start with.
Performance will be better with SCSI, but you'll probably not
be disappointed with an IDE unit (which will be cheaper). I'm
running an IDE unit here using SCSI emulation, with no problems.
One recommendation if you do go IDE: make sure the CD-R and your
hard drive are not on the same interface. The CDR will use
slower data access modes than will the hard drive, which will
slow your hard drive down for general accesses. Put the hard
drive on the primary IDE interface and the CD-R on the
secondary.
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best distro for old machine
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 02:55:09 GMT
> i have a 486 DX (33MHz) with 8Mo RAM 230Mo HD and two 3com 3c509b cards in.
> I plane to configure it as a router (maybe firewalled), so i'm looking for a
> the good linux (or BSD) distribution.
>
> I think the potential problem are:
> 3com 3c509b driver
[Ethernet-HOWTO]
...
5.1.5. Etherlink III, 3c509 / 3c509B
Status: Supported, Driver Name: 3c509
This card is fairly inexpensive and has good performance for an ISA
non-bus-master design. The drawbacks are that the original 3c509
requires very low interrupt latency. The 3c509B shouldn't suffer from
the same problem, due to having a larger buffer. (See below.) These
cards use PIO transfers, similar to a ne2000 card, and so a shared
memory card such as a wd8013 will be more efficient in comparison.
...
> 203 Mo of HD
May only get ~1MB/s but good enough for the task.
> my knowledge about linux is limited to Redhat like distribution...
I'm running RH 6.2 on my Dell 486 firewall/gateway/printspooler,
2xNE2000, 2 EPP parallel port cards. 16MB is probably minimum to keep
your sanity.
At boot: prompt, "text expert" gives me the most control (looks like the
RH 5.0 installer).
With 230MB I would not install:
- Documentation
- X11 anything
- development libs
and anything you don't need. You can always add packages afterwards.
/ 10MB
/swap 20MB
/usr 200MB
There are some floppy based firewalls out there, but working through an
installation build was more satisfying.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: deleted partition table
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 02:58:08 GMT
> However, not being too bright, I managed to delete the partition table using
> the linux fdisk on a 1G Jazz drive that had a single dos partition on it. No
> changes have been made since.
>
> Is there any way to recover the data on that disk? My computer dual boots
> win98 and Suse 6.4 so any utilities for either OS would be helpful.
I've done this to an 8GB IBM EIDE drive. You can recover if you can
recreate the partition table exactly as it was (order, values,
everything). I had saved a copy of fdisk -l output.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Brand New Hard Drive Only Gets .95MB/s!!!!
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 03:00:07 GMT
please post dmesg output.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: "J. Escalante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP with modem
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 03:02:27 GMT
Because winmodems are only for Windows OS's they only work with Windows.
Sorry about being so blunt, but the truth is that winmodems are garabage to
UNIX.
Get a real modem, they work faster under UNIX any ways.
Good luck!!
"SiberianFurs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm a newbie and I just installed RedHat 6.2 and nothing works, I mean my
modem
> and my sound card. How do I install these things, I have a 3com winmodem
model
> 3013. Please do not respond with a whole bunch of technical jargon,
remember I
> am a newbie so take it easy on me.
>
> Thank you.,
> Henry
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From: "J. Escalante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help installing modem
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 03:03:22 GMT
Setting up a ISA USRobotic PNP modem I have done the following.
1.) Using isadump
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At the command prompt typed
isadump > /etc/isapnp.conf
isadump filled /etc/isapnp.conf file with the available ISA pnp resource
information.
isadump provided me with 4 options to choose from, sequentially I tried
each one until I found the one that made isapnp happy, thus reporting OK.
2.) Using isapnp
~~~~~~~~~~~~
At the command prompt typed
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
I tried this several times for each of the choices that idsadump provided
me with, until isapnp returned OK.
3.) Using setserial
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At the command prompt typed
setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x2e8 irq 3
effectively setting the serial port to /dev/ttyS2
Someone suggested to check /var/log/dmessage to see what devices the
kernel detected at boot up time. However, /var/log/dmessage does not exist
4.) Testing
~~~~~~~~
Using kppp I set up the modem with the above parameters and proceeded to
log in, this time I heard the modem dialing and latter the protocol
transferring took place [the modem started to scream], but after a second or
two a message box poped up saying that the pdeamon had unexpectedly died.
NOTE: Sorry for the lengthy of the explanation, but I feel that this way we
can avoid redundancy of the work already done.
Thanks in advance.
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