Linux-Hardware Digest #352, Volume #13 Thu, 3 Aug 00 21:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Ultra 66 Promise cards - Ultra66.txt ("Jake")
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? ("Alan Pettigrew")
Re: Network card suggestion? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Asus P2B mainboard -- AGP slot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Re linux & ASDL (Dances With Crows)
Re: How to create compressed archive directly to tape? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? !!!SOLVED!!! ("Steve Wolfe")
CHEMBOOK LAPTOP FOR SALE $800 ("www.havenofbliss.com")
Re: Newbie alert (sideband)
Re: Real/Non-real time communication over Ethernet? ("Klaus K�niger")
Sound cards. HELP!! ("Domestos")
cdrdao an LG
Re: Soundcard VIA 82C686 Red Hat 6.2 problems (Hisao)
Re: guest ftp user can't see files? (Ulrich Roth)
Re: Re linux & ASDL (Hal Burgiss)
Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Plug and Play Question (J Escalante)
Prosignia VS SCSI controller driver ("John Anderson")
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From: "Jake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra 66 Promise cards - Ultra66.txt
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:51:07 -1000
Hi James,
James Richard Tyrer wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I just finished installing a Promise Ultra66 card today. My
>suggestions:
I'm on day two, still not working ... :-)
>1. Read the Ultra-DMA HOW TO available on the web. The instructions
>for the Ultra33 card about passing the paramaters to the kernel should
>enable you to boot from the floppy and use the hard drive with the
>Ultra66 card.
>
>2. The issue is not the version of some distribution of Linux, but
>the version of the Kernel. You need to upgrade the Kernel to v.2.2.16
>and apply the patch to the source before you
>build it.
Thanks, didn't know about the 'ide .2.2.16.all.20000722' patch.
Maybe that's my last problem. :-)
>The patch is somewhat burried at
>.../pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
Thanks again,
Scott
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From: "Alan Pettigrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:57:54 +0100
The memory problem, not recognising >64M, is down to the BIOS setup.
I have a K7M and Athlon 600.
I changed the BIOS setting of
ACPI aware O/S
to
No
and the system recognised all 192M
Alan
"root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I recently replaced a slightly dated motherboard with an Athlon 650 and
> K7M motherboard and a new 128MB DIMM. Running RedHat 6.2.
>
> I'm a little frustrated with performance. Memory access is roughly half
> the speed of another machine (dual P-II/400 on ASUS P2B-DS 256MB).
>
> I don't really notice the performance difference until I do anything,
> meaning I can boot, log in, and everything works fine... it's just a
> slow pig when I want to push the machine and make it do anything
> significant.
>
> Any ideas? I assume that this is a hardware issue, not a setup issue,
> but I've been wrong before.
>
> ---
> Rambling symptoms:
>
> I've noticed this through several indicators:
>
> 0) VMWare (latest download) crawls (to the point of being useless) on
> the Athlon and is perfectly usable on the P-II.
>
> 1) hdparm -T /dev/hda
> P-II: ~108MB/s
> Athon: ~48MB/s
>
> 2) Boot-up RAID 5 test:
> P-II:
>
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 872.871 MB/sec
> p5_mmx : 925.068 MB/sec
> 8regs : 689.229 MB/sec
> 32regs : 377.571 MB/sec
> using fastest function: p5_mmx (925.068 MB/sec)
>
> Athon:
>
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 74.676 MB/sec
> p5_mmx : 72.771 MB/sec
> 8regs : 91.821 MB/sec
> 32regs : 37.719 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (91.821 MB/sec)
>
> 1/10th performance? Ugh!
>
> 3) I wrote a program that allocates a huge chunk of memory (16/64/96
> MB), and fills it with zeroes sixteen times. This program is always
> twice as fast on the P-II than the Athlon according to the 'time'
> command.
>
> On both machines I've had to manually put append="mem=xxxM" in lilo.conf
> else neither machine recognises anything more than 64MB RAM.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Network card suggestion?
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 20:34:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:11:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Can anyone suggest the best 3Com PCI card for Suse Linux? I'm about
to
> >go and buy... and want an easy installation. Thanks
>
> 3Com 905B or 905C. The 3Com590 will also work if you can find one
> (they're cheaper, but they're limited to 10Mbit.) Use the 3c59x
> module--the 3c90x one has problems.
>
> --
> 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
>
Thanks!!! That's what I did!!!
Peter
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Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: Asus P2B mainboard -- AGP slot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 20:49:36 GMT
Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all
>
> Not really a Linux specific hardware question, but I can't
> seem to find an answer in other places ...
You could try writing Asus; you could check the manual for your
motherboard, either online or in print; you could call Asus; you could
ask the place where you bought your motherboard.
In any case, this is not the proper place for your question.
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"hand, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and
commonly thrust into somebody's pocket." - Ambrose Bierce
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Re linux & ASDL
Date: 3 Aug 2000 21:10:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 21:08:53 +0200, Pete051 wrote:
>does anyone know if linux would work with a ASDL connection?
^^^^
"Ancient, Slow Delay Loop"? Oh, wait, you mean "Asymmetric Digital
Subscriber Line", commonly abbreviated as "ADSL". Yep, it's how I'm
sending this message to Usenet. There's even a mini-HOWTO on the
subject at http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/ADSL-HOWTO.html . That
document is a little out-of-date, though, and doesn't cover new subjects
like PPPoE and those never-to-be-sufficiently-damned "Internal DSL
'modems'" that only work under Windoze.
If you're thinking of getting DSL service, talk to your provider and see
if you can get an external DSL router--those are the best solution for
Linux atm. Ask if they use PPPoE--there are PPPoE clients for Linux
available at http://roaringpenguin.com/ . HTH, good luck....
--
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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How to create compressed archive directly to tape?
Date: 3 Aug 2000 21:13:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:05:46 GMT, Gerry Ginty wrote:
>How does one create a .tar.gz directly to tape without first creating
>the archive on disk first and then doing the "tar cvf /dev/nst0
>somename.tar.gz ??????
tar cvzf /dev/nst0 /path/to/tree/to/be/archived
Read the info page for tar if you want to do this; there are some
potential gotchas that can occur if you try, for example, compressing a
big directory tree into a 2G tape, and gzip compresses the directory tree
to a size > 2G.
--
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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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? !!!SOLVED!!!
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:45:09 -0600
> > The only thing I dare generalize on is that an SMP system can handle a
> > heavy load from mupliple active processes better. For single-user
> > systems, there's generally no point.
>
> A few years ago, I'd say that.
>
> Today, however, most people I know run multiple processes at once.
Even a few years ago, I would have said that SMP is a Good Thing. If a
person is using an IDE drive, then one CPU can spend it's time fiddling with
the hard drive while the other CPU does things that you notice....
As you said,
> Most of the time, the second processor probably doesn't contribute much,
> but when one of them decides to start using a lot of CPU, having the
> other one around keeps the system responsive.
Exactly. ; )
steve
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From: "www.havenofbliss.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CHEMBOOK LAPTOP FOR SALE $800
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:32:49 -0700
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.havenofbliss.com
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie alert
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 18:01:40 -0400
Why don't you post this a few more times... Make sure everyone reads it....
-SSB
Conanthelegend wrote:
> ive just installed corel linux from a march 2000 pc user cd. its running
> well...but i have no idea how to install/setup my creative tnt2 ultra
> video card nor my sound blaster live! value sound card. could somebody
> please help me.
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: "Klaus K�niger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.realtime,comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject: Re: Real/Non-real time communication over Ethernet?
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:04:55 +0200
Hi,
have a look at rtnet found at
http://www.zentropix.com/products/download.html
Perhaps that helps ?
bye
Klaus
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From: "Domestos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound cards. HELP!!
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:29:26 +0100
I have an Opti930 sound card. While it's not listed as supported (although
the 929 and 931 are) I know it will work because i had it working, but
unfortunately the beta version of kde2(1.91 to be precise) messed up my
passwords when i tried to use it to add another user. I thought i knew how i
had gotten it to work, so didn't bother to try and hack my way back in,
especially as i was going to reinstall anyway(i was downloading it from the
ftp site peice by peice and it didn't take too kindly to having some
components installed over a running system). Now i can't get it to work I
tried recreating what i did that made it work. And I can get the setting
windows uses with ease. If anyone could tell me how to use these to make it
work i'd be gratefull. I think i used the MAD16 driver but now since i can't
get it to work using that i'm not so sure.
PS the CPU in the comp has just blown so this may well end up being
accademic. as i may well get a motherboard with an integrated chipset for
sound. then no doubt i'll post here asking how to get that to work :-)
But i'd really like to know why the card is not listed as supported when it
does indeed work. although opti deny having ever made sound cards. Indeed
the plot thickens.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: cdrdao an LG
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:51:08 GMT
I've a problem with cdrdao and a supported driver (it's listed in the
cdrdao homepage). The driver is the LG CD-ROM CRD-8480. I've tried it
as source-device with all the possible --source-drivers options, but it
always causes a lot of scsi errors, i/o errors, illegal requests and
such other strange things. What can I do? Has anyone experienced
the same problem?
I hope to have explained the question clearly enough.
Thank you in advance.
--
paolo,
Co-MoD di it.scienza.medicina
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UIN: 50157603 --- Linux user 180069
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From: Hisao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundcard VIA 82C686 Red Hat 6.2 problems
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 07:46:09 +0900
Hi, Rod.
I also use VIA 82C686.
I installed ALSA drivers.
When I am using alsaconf, it asks me to input card_no and
I/O adresses.
What is the card_no?
How should I write I/O adresses?
(B000h-B003h, B400h-B403h, B800h-B8FFh)
I got those from Win98 System property.
Thanks in advance.
Rod Smith wrote:
> In my experience, the kernel drivers for the 82c686 are weak at best.
> The ALSA drivers (available from http://www.alsa-project.org) work much
> better, although they're a nuisance to compile and install.
--
================================================
Hisao Ueki
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ulrich Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: guest ftp user can't see files?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 01:07:15 +0200
Hello Devon,
> I created a guest ftp user, but upon login, no files or dirs are shown. I
> created the bin,etc,lib dir with associated files in the /home/guest dir.
> When I use a normal user, I can see all files.
Such a bug was in SuSE 6.1. You had also to have a dev directory and
in this a device. But I don't remember which one it was, maybe tty. I
found the solution for this problem in the SuSE support database (sdb),
which you can find somewhere under www.suse.de.
Bye
Uli
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Re linux & ASDL
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 23:16:41 GMT
On 3 Aug 2000 21:10:21 GMT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 21:08:53 +0200, Pete051 wrote:
>>does anyone know if linux would work with a ASDL connection?
> ^^^^
>"Ancient, Slow Delay Loop"? Oh, wait, you mean "Asymmetric Digital
>Subscriber Line", commonly abbreviated as "ADSL". Yep, it's how I'm
>sending this message to Usenet. There's even a mini-HOWTO on the
>subject at http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/ADSL-HOWTO.html . That
>document is a little out-of-date, though, and doesn't cover new
>subjects like PPPoE and those never-to-be-sufficiently-damned "Internal
>DSL 'modems'" that only work under Windoze.
Actually and coincidentally, I am in the midst of updating the ADSL mini
HOWTO. Rewrite might be better characterization. A partially ready draft
is at
http://feenix.eyep.net/ldp/adsl
I would love any feedback, from Dances or anyone else ;) Would even like
feedback from the uninitiated just to make sure it makes sense.
The PPPoE/A stuff is not in there yet. Someone else is working on a
PPPoE mini HOWTO, which may or may not get combined into this one.
>If you're thinking of getting DSL service, talk to your provider and
>see if you can get an external DSL router--those are the best solution
>for Linux atm. Ask if they use PPPoE--there are PPPoE clients for
>Linux available at http://roaringpenguin.com/ . HTH, good luck....
I have other info available at
http://feenix.eyep.net/dsl/linux_dsl.html
For Pete, ADSL is a technology. Asking this question is like asking if
Linux works with telephones. The technology does not care ;) Now, the
ISPs and telcos, well, maybe another story there. They can make getting
up and running more of a chore than it needs to be, but many of us are
doing it. But its a case of YMMV with the providers. Your question will
make the FAQ section, BTW, so thanks.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 23:13:34 GMT
modprobe lp had no effect. still "device or resource busy" when trying
to load either imm or ppa. is there anything else I can try? a
diagnostic of some sort?
gabe.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 15:23:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my Iomega zip drive to work under linux.
> >unfortunately, I ok, the kernal is compiled per the instructions in
the
> >zip drive mini-HOWTO. all the switches (SCSI support, etc.) were
set.
> ># insmod -f parport
> ># insmod -f parport_pc
> ># insmod -f imm
> >/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
> > I still don't have a working zip drive. how do I get rid of the
> >device or resource busy message and load the module so I can mount
the
> >drive? also, FWIW, after I get the module loaded, how will I know
how
> >to mount the drive; e.g., will it be sda, sda1, sda2, sda4, etc.?
>
> modprobe lp
> modprobe imm
>
> (ZIP drives on the parallel port require the lp module to be loaded.
> Until then, they won't work.)
>
> Once that is done and you don't get any error messages, you should be
> able to mount a ZIP disk by doing "mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip" assuming
> the directory /mnt/zip exists. Most ZIP disks are partitioned so that
> all the data resides on partition 4, but a few of them are partitioned
> so that the data resides on partition 1.
>
> --
> 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
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: J Escalante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plug and Play Question
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:21:39 GMT
Outstanding!! The information you provided me with was not only clear , but also very
accurate. Needless to say, I am now broadcasting from with in linux. However, adding
the "setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x2eb irq 3 " to my " /etc/rc.local " did not do
anything. I still have to type the command at the prompt to get the modem working.
Thanks again!!
Rod Haper wrote:
> Are you sure that the io_port address is 0x2eb? The standard io_port and irq for
>/dev/ttyS3 (DOS COM4) is 0x2e8 and 3. If the io_port really is 0x2eb, you wil need
>to use the setserial utility to set the io_port and irq. Try this "setserial
>/dev/ttyS3 port 0x2eb irq 3" which you can put in your /etc/rc.local file so it wil
>get done when you boot. If the modem is set to port 0x2e8 and irq 3, it should be
>recognized as /dev/ttyS3 without any configuration. What serial devices and
>parameters does the file /var/log/dmesg show that the kernel detected during the boot
>procedure? Also check the pseudo-file /proc/ioports to see what the running kernel
>has for serial port address.
>
> "J. Escalante" wrote:
> >
> > I have, FINALLY, configure my modem, is a US Robotics pnp using port:
> > 0x2EB and IRQ: 3.
> > However, using kppp I tryed all the ttySx but non of them worked. How do
> > I connect the modem to one of the ports?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
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From: "John Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Prosignia VS SCSI controller driver
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:52:20 GMT
I'm working with RHL6.2.
I am in need of an onboard SCSI controller driver for the Compaq Prosignia
VS server.
It runs what Compaq calls a SMART CONTROLLER.
I've checked linhardware.com. The only driver there is for the Smart2
Controller.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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