Linux-Hardware Digest #355, Volume #13 Fri, 4 Aug 00 07:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Siemens I-Surf ISDN-Card on SUSE 6.4 ("Rudolf R�pke")
Bad hardware, but how to tell which device? (BadBoo)
Re: Bad hardware, but how to tell which device? (BadBoo)
DHCP Linux server/Win98 client configuration questions (Graham Smith)
SV: Partition Size Advice ("Martin Karlsson")
Looking for driver for USR Sportster ISDN TA card (Marc Monlouis)
10/100Mbit, ethernet, PCMCIA, cheap (Andreas Neukoetter)
AMR slot / scsi / multimedia (Eric Dondelinger)
Who's fault is it anyway? (Robert Schweikert)
Embedding linux ("Andy Roffe")
Re: lilo boot problem: hangs on LI (James Stafford)
Re: What distribution to install ? (James Stafford)
Re: Castlewood ORB (James Stafford)
Re: HP laserjet 2100 (James Stafford)
Re: Laserjet 1100 and delay between pages (James Stafford)
Re: Re linux & ASDL (James Franklin)
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From: "Rudolf R�pke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Siemens I-Surf ISDN-Card on SUSE 6.4
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:09:59 +0200
Is there anyone who already installed a Siemens I-Surf 2.0 ISDN-Card?
The point is, I don't know, if it's the Card or the ipppd that doesn't work.
When I start a connection in KIsdn /var/log/messages says it's dialing but
nothing else happens until timeout cuts connection.
Loading the Hisax-Driver with rc.config and rc.isdn as mentioned in the
ISDN-HOWTO's works well. But Maybe, there is
no driver for the I-Surf 2.0 yet ? The Hisax-Readme only says to the I-Surf
2.0 "try Asuscom" I also tried out that card-type.
Can anyone tell me, what I could do ? thanks!
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From: BadBoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bad hardware, but how to tell which device?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:13:36 GMT
I have a news server that apparently has bad hardware. I don't know
wether it is the ram, or the hard drive, controller, etc.
Here is the kernel error, anyone have a clue what how-to or faw covers
how to decipher this so I know what device to replace?
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address 475248c4
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 02d60000, %cr3 =
02d60000
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: Oops: 0002
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: CPU: 0
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: EIP: 0010:[error_code+44/52]
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: eax: 00000001 ebx: c4674000 ecx:
c7e519f8 edx: c0244380
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: esi: 401be8c8 edi: 08108bc0 ebp:
bffff794 esp: c4675fc4
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: Process innd (pid: 517, process nr: 30,
stackpage=c4675000)
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: Stack: 00000000 42835000 00cabb58 401be8c8
08108bc0 bffff794 0021c9e4 0000002b
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: 0000002b ffffffff 0807c6c2 00000023
00010212 bffff778 0000002b
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 5 20:20:43 news kernel: Code: d1 83 c4 08 eb 82 89 f6 6a 00 68 a0
ab 10 c0 eb c3 8d 76 00
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From: BadBoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bad hardware, but how to tell which device?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:31:05 GMT
I guess I should have described the system a bit:
It is running RH6.2, INN, has three IDE hard drives,
You'll see at the end of dmesg which I am pasting in here now, the
error on the hard drive, this is apparently casued by the previous
postings reported kernel msg. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Linux version 2.2.14-5.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Mar 7 20:53:41
EST 2000
Detected 199969824 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 398.95 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127888k/131072k available (1084k kernel code, 416k reserved,
1620k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb11
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 58, VID=10b9,
DID=5229
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: Maxtor 85120A8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-ROM TW 120D, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: WDC AC420400D, ATA DISK drive
hdd: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA18.2, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: Maxtor 85120A8, 4884MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=622/255/63
hdc: WDC AC420400D, 19470MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63
hdd: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA18.2, 17624MB w/371kB Cache, CHS=35808/16/63
hdb: ATAPI 12X CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 307.467 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 353.949 MB/sec
8regs : 208.788 MB/sec
32regs : 155.067 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (353.949 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdc: [PTBL] [2482/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 >
hdd: hdd1
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -2)
EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,5)): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free
inodes count in group 37, stored = 3895, counted = 3896
EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,5)): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free
inodes count in super block, stored = 6761728, counted = 6761729
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From: Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP Linux server/Win98 client configuration questions
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 01:45:09 -0700
I have three computers at home that I'm trying to configure using DHCP,
but there's several things I don't understand about DHCP, and I haven't
been able to find the answers on any of the news groups or FAQs. I want
to configure my Linux box as the DHCP server and the two WIN98 boxes as
clients. The hardware/OS are as follows:
hostname 'spots':
Redhat 6.2
Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686
dhcpd Version 3, Beta 1, Patchlevel 17
dhcpcd-1.3.18pl3
hostname 'sophie':
Win98 SE with modem
hostname 'arthur':
Win98 SE no modem
All systems have have Linksys EtherPCI LAN Cards
This is my dhcpd.conf file:
default-lease-time 120;
max-lease-time 120;
shared-network "cats.home" {
option domain-name "cats.home";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.60 192.168.1.99;
}
}
host spots {
hardware ethernet 00:20:78:13:9C:95;
}
host sophie {
hardware ethernet 00:E8:01:02:03:05;
}
host arthur {
hardware ethernet 00:E8:01:02:03:04;
}
Here is the results of 'ifconfig eth0':
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:13:9C:95
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1952 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1347 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800
I realize that the 'host' and 'shared-network' entries in the dhcpd.conf
file aren't strictly
necessary. With the configuration, I can ping 'sophie' from 'arthur',
and 'arthur' from 'arthur'. I can also ping 'sophie' from 'sophie', and
I can ping 'arthur' from 'sophie', but when I do that 'sophie' first
tries to connect to my ISP via the modem. No machine can ping 'spots'
(the Linux server), and 'spots' can't ping anyone else.
My questions are as follows:
1) What do I need to do to get 'spots' (the Linux server) show up on
the network? Do I need to run 'dhcpcd' on the server as well as
'dhcpd'? I've tried this but I can't get it to work (I'm using
dhcpcd-1.3.18pl3).
2) How do I get 'sophie' (Win98 with modem) to try to use 'spots' to
resolve names first?
Any help or pointers to useful information would be appreciated.
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From: "Martin Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: SV: Partition Size Advice
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:11:46 +0200
This weekend i am installing RH 6.2 on my system for the first time. Any
ideas how big my w98SE partition has to be. It's 1.1GB now. My thought is to
make it 2GB, and leave the rest for linux. It's a 13GB drive. Also if i
install it, how do I upgrade lilo for the 1024 thingy once it is installed
or do you do it befor the setup? And is there a good chemistry program to
use drawing synthesis on the computer as chemdraw?
Martin Karlsson
*real newbie at this*
David Stackis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:3986eac9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Does anyone out there in Linux land have any advice on partition sizes?
>
> Here is what I have....
>
> 6.4GB Hd...
> /usr = 5GB
> /root = 500MB
> /home = 500MB
> /swap = 127MB
>
> Do I have too much for /usr?.....I am installing staroffice, and such in
the
> dir, so I just I just thought that this would be the ideal dir to make
> larger than the rest.
>
> Does this layout seem to be a good one?......everything on my 6.2 box
seems
> to be working great.....sound, modem, display....all cards were
> found.....though it took me three weeks to get everything working.....*s*
>
> I would hate to redo the partitions, but I want me Linux box to hummmm
> properly....
>
> Thanks for any advice...
>
> TIA!
> David Stackis
> http://www.stackis.com
>
>
>
>
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From: Marc Monlouis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Looking for driver for USR Sportster ISDN TA card
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:18:57 GMT
Hi,
I 'am looking for a driver for my US Robotic ISDN TA Card.
If you known a site where i can find lots of Linux drivers i 'am
interested too !!!
thanks you by advance
--
Marc Monlouis
Bad weather in France Today !
Dammed sun where are you ?
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andreas Neukoetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 10/100Mbit, ethernet, PCMCIA, cheap
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 10:38:00 +0100
Hi,
I need/want the above.
My last 10/100 cost below 30$, but doesn't work under linux :(
Any recommendations ?
If it is more than 80$ I'll go for Firewire instead.
Thanks.
Anti
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From: Eric Dondelinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMR slot / scsi / multimedia
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:52:16 +0200
Hi,
Since most of the Athlon boards come with an AMR slot (ex. Asus A7V),
I am wondering if there's any good use for them, i.e. are there
any decent cards for this slot, if so, are any of those supported
by Linux? A search at linhardware.com didn't show many hits for AMR.
If not I'll probably go for the ABit KT7 (not yet available around
here).
While I'm at it, I'll be happy for any suggestions for
- well supported fast graphics card
(currently thinking about GeForce / 64mb ddr)
- dual-channel scsi controller that won't make a fuzz
(Adaptec, Tekram?)
- some solution allowing watching tv and grabbing video w/ hw support
(mpeg-2 or somesuch at good quality). Do I need separate cards for
this, is this well supported on Linux? I have experience with a
simple tv card, I know about Broadcast 2000.
- good & well supported soundcard
Greetings & thanks, Eric
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Who's fault is it anyway?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 05:45:19 -0400
Under certain circumstances I was able to produce the following
messages:
hda lost interrupt
Stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU #0)
Does anyone have any idea who's to blame here?
Thanks,
Robert
--
Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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From: "Andy Roffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Embedding linux
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:58:44 +0100
Hi all,
anybody know where I can find some makers of
devices that I can embed linux on. I'm really looking
for some kind m/board with a flash chip or something.
I've found loads of links to small distributions (Lineo, et al.)
but can't find the hardware.....
TIA
andy
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo boot problem: hangs on LI
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 10:29:46 GMT
Chem-R-Us wrote:
>
> dan wrote:
> >
> > i have windows 98 on the "C:" drive (/dev/hda1)
> > i have rh 6.2 linux on the "first" scsi drive (/dev/sda1)
> > the scsi drive is 9Gbyte and has 1100+ cylinders
> > the root partition was created first, and is about half of the disk
> > so /boot should be below the 1024th cylinder ?
> > the boot disk (/dev/hda) is 13G, with a 6G partition with win98
> > on it
> > the bios has LBA on for the ide disk
>
> Typically the "LILO hangs on LI" problem is caused by a boot partition
> that straddles the 1024 cylinder limit. By putting your boot directory
> into a partition of its own and that is well within the 1024 cylinder
> limit, this problem almost always clears up.
>
> On this box, I have
>
> DEVICE DIR
> ------------------
> /dev/hda1 /boot
>
> /dev/hda2 /
>
> etc. etc.
>
> This way, my boot partition is always contained within the 1024 limit,
> regardless of what size the / partition may happen to be.
>
> --
>
> Chem-R-Us
Before you change anything try this first. Boot your computer with a
boot disk, at the prompt that asks for 'any parameters' type mount
root=dev/sda1, after the computer boots type lilo at the prompt. This
hanging at 'LI' happened to me once and this is how I fixed it.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What distribution to install ?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 10:42:59 GMT
"B�rre Nordbakken" wrote:
>
> RedHat 6.2
> SuSE 6.4
> Slackware 7
>
> --
> B�rre
I have always used Slackware. I installed RedHat once (on another
computer), didn't use it for awhile, forgot the password, wasn't as easy
to fix forgotten password as Slackware, format drive. Then awhile back I
installed Mandrake 6.0 (RedHat clone), couldn't get X to work with my
3Dfx video card, installed the driver that came in a separate directory
on the CD, didn't work, download X from the Xfree site installed it, got
the 3Dfx to work. Then I made the mistake of recompiling the kernel!!!
Had to manually add all the modules to the mod.conf file just to get
them to work. Format drive! Never had a problem with Slackware.
Good luck,
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Castlewood ORB
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 10:56:17 GMT
Smitty wrote:
>
> Bartek Kostrzewa wrote:
> >
> > Does the Castlewood SCSI Orb drive work? I'm interested in a good backup
> > solution, I considered JAZ but the mediums are very expensive, the ORB
> > mediums have more space and are cheaper, but do they work?
> >
> > --
> > Bartek Kostrzewa - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <<< http://technoage.web.lu >>>
> The internal EIDE and SCSI work under Linux, but there is no official
> support from Castlewood.
> Smitty
I thought that awhile back Castlewood was at one of the Linux expos
showing off the hardware, saying that Linux would be supported. Anyway I
want to get one of their internal SCSI drives. I'm so bummed though; I
missed my chance to get one for $139.00, now that their $20.00 rebate
has expired. Snif...sniff :(
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP laserjet 2100
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:01:05 GMT
FSF-Kusa wrote:
>
> someone as ever make one of those working under linux?
> I need to make one work on my LAN server (turbolinux 6.0.4 SE) running
> samba for a bunch of WIN98 boxes
I have a HP LJ 1100 on my network (connected to my Linux server). Can
print to it from Windows 98 perfectly. Tips read the
Linux-PRINTING-HOWTO and get a Samba book.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Laserjet 1100 and delay between pages
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:04:57 GMT
The Black Crow wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a hp laserjet 1100 but every time i print something
> through ghostscript (even version 6.01) there is a pause (4/5 sec.)
> between each page that comes out.
> So the effective speed falls down to 2ppm!
>
> Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
>
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I have a HP LJ 1100 on my Linux box, it does the same thing. It would
print faster if I added more RAM to the printer. You can get 16 MB of
RAM for this printer for +- $43.00 if you look around on the web.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Franklin)
Subject: Re: Re linux & ASDL
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Aug 2000 06:13:32 -0600
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 21:08:53 +0200, Pete051 wrote:
>does anyone know if linux would work with a ASDL connection?
>
>
To answer your simple question, YES. Depending on your ISP, hardware, etc. you
may have some configuration work to do though.
--
James
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