Linux-Hardware Digest #361, Volume #13 Sat, 5 Aug 00 13:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Dynalink 128Kbps TA ISND Card in Linux Mandrake 7.1 ("PETTER ARNE EKROLL")
tekram SCSI controller (for a cdrom) ("Cesar")
Re: DHCP Linux server/Win98 client configuration questions ("B")
Re: tekram SCSI controller (for a cdrom) ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Rockwell 56K ACF II Modem (Rob Clark)
intermittent disk freezups (Grant Reaber)
*** AIR FRANCE CONCORD UPDATE *** ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: the new kernel.... ("Greg H.")
Which distro? ("Mark Diplock")
Any experience with aacraid.o ? (Staffan Emren)
Re: new LILO? burning Linux? (John in SD)
Re: Which distro? ("Paul")
Re: Which distro? (Mike G)
Cannot install ISA Network Card ("Dheera Venkatraman")
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From: "PETTER ARNE EKROLL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dynalink 128Kbps TA ISND Card in Linux Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 10:24:29 GMT
Anyone know how to get Dynalink 128Kbps TA ISND Card to work in linux
mandrake 7.1? The kernel is 2.2.15.
-TranceJay
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From: "Cesar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tekram SCSI controller (for a cdrom)
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 11:22:17 GMT
hello,
i have scsi controller, tekram DC315, is it soported under linux? any module
not standard?
Thanks in advance
--
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El c�digo fuente, como el esti�rcol, si lo diseminas ayuda al crecimiento
si
lo acaparas solamente apesta.(Zachary Kessing SLASHDOT)
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From: "B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP Linux server/Win98 client configuration questions
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 21:44:08 +1000
[chomp]
> 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).
if you mean to be able to access files on the linux machine, then you need
to
install samba server and maybe client if you want to look at the windows
files from
the linux machine...
> 2) How do I get 'sophie' (Win98 with modem) to try to use 'spots' to
> resolve names first?
>
in your tcp/ip properties, set the IP of your linux machine as a default
gateway
have fun...i do...
-Lucas
___
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
-- Cartoon caption
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tekram SCSI controller (for a cdrom)
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 08:08:43 -0400
> i have scsi controller, tekram DC315, is it soported under linux? any module
> not standard?
It is supported, I use the similar DC395UW. Get the driver from
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/.
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Subject: Re: Rockwell 56K ACF II Modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 12:30:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
lightfootstuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have this modem and am assured that it is not a win-modem despite it
>being of the internal variety. Still, I can't get linux to play with
>it! Any ideas?
If it has jumpers, how do you have it jumpered? (address & IRQ)
If it is PnP-only, are you using isapnptools?
Have you tried it with minicom?
It's kind of hard to tell where you've hit the wall... the modem itself is
fine (Rockwell ACF, ACF-2 modems are full hardware modems).
Have you seen the Modem-HOWTO at http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO ?
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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Subject: intermittent disk freezups
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Reaber)
Date: 5 Aug 2000 05:45:42 -0800
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT (to give you an idea of the era,
it's a Pentium 100 with 32MB of RAM and a 1.2GB disk). I'm running
SuSE 6.3 with the included 2.2.13 kernel with no APM support.
A couple weeks ago, I decided to play around with hdparm to try to
improve my disk performance. Well, it seemed to work at first, but
soon I noticed that my I/O on my system would freeze up periodically
for anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. Well, I eventually
undid these hdparm settings (i.e., I cold rebooted and didn't change
the settings back), but not before one rather scary experience where
the BIOS reported an I/O error and it was only after power cycling
several times that I got to a LILO prompt and was able to boot Linux.
E2fsck reported lots of problems then, but everything seemed to work
OK afterwards. Except that the freezeups persist and or have even
gotten worse.
I wrote a program to test this phenomenon by trying to read or write a
file every five seconds, calling fsync, and reporting how long the
cycle has taken. The number should always be 5 since that's how long
the sleep is, but it is often longer, in which case the program prints
out the length of the delay in parentheses. I ran two copies of the
program at the same time, one doing reads and the other writes. The
data below are side by side, but they don't line up exactly since
sometimes one program was able to make a read (say) while the other
was still locked up. Also, the number before the colon is the number
of seconds since the program was launched, and these numbers do not
exactly correspond for the two runs since I didn't start the programs
at exactly the same time. I include the data and source code below.
There don't seem to be major differences between the write and read
results (I was afraid readahead could screw up the read results, but
apparently not). The major observation is that there are long periods
with no problems at all, like from somewhere in the 30000s to
somewhere in the 70000s. These periods correspond to times when I was
not using my computer and these I/O testing programs were the only
active processes. The 15 minute freezeups correspond to the times
when I most wanted to get work done.
Anyway, any ideas on this? Is this a normal failure mode for hard
disks? I've heard that drives periodically have to adjust for the
current temperature; is it possible that this part of my drive is
broken and takes forever? Is it possible that fooling with hdparm
somehow pushed my drive over the edge when it was already on the
brink? Or might it be possible to get my drive working normally
again? I really don't have any choice at this point except to do
important work on this computer.
Also, for anyone familiar with the 430CDT, I don't have the external
floppy drive. Does that mean that if my hard disk fails the only way
to boot is to get another hard disk with an OS installed and use that?
There doesn't seem to be an option to boot from CDROM.
Thanks.
The Data:
-DDOWRITES -DDOREADS
307: (105)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 315: (104)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2148: (12) 2156: (12)
4537: (75)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4545: (73)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6809: (15) 6817: (12)
9798: (16) 9806: (15)
11236: (12) 11244: (12)
14088: (15) 14096: (13)
15158: (11) 15166: (15)
15620: (8) 15626: (8)
21296: (233)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 21144: (75)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21337: (15) 21304: (160)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
23793: (12) 21345: (16)
24746: (15) 23801: (14)
24766: (15) 24754: (13)
24831: (15) 24774: (15)
24917: (16) 24839: (15)
24992: (75)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 24925: (11)
25062: (65)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 25000: (75)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25147: (75)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 25070: (60)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25272: (125)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 25155: (75)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25373: (46)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 25280: (125)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25923: (11) 25381: (41)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25943: (15) 25931: (13)
25983: (15) 25951: (15)
29887: (14) 25991: (15)
30938: (13) 29895: (15)
32583: (255)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 30945: (15)
32645: (62)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 32581: (244)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
33002: (14) 32591: (10)
33097: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 32642: (51)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
34008: (911)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 32653: (11)
34071: (53)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 33010: (15)
34102: (31)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 33505: (440)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
34121: (14) 34016: (511)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
34424: (303)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 34079: (53)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
35225: (801)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 34110: (31)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
35342: (112)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 34129: (14)
35399: (15) 34282: (153)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
36064: (593)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 35232: (950)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
36711: (601)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 35350: (112)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
36749: (12) 35408: (13)
36776: (11) 35531: (54)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
37728: (9) 36071: (540)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
78266: (15) 36719: (603)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
78868: (194)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 36757: (11)
79207: (16) 36784: (11)
79281: (64)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 78274: (13)
79336: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 78766: (85)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79426: (75)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 78876: (110)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79466: (35)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 79214: (11)
79586: (95)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 79288: (63)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79631: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 79344: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79781: (150)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 79434: (75)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79806: (15) 79474: (35)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79841: (15) 79574: (75)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79891: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 79594: (20)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79936: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 79789: (190)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79981: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 79814: (15)
80066: (65)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 79849: (15)
80401: (335)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 79899: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
81024: (13) 79944: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79989: (45)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
80074: (65)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
80409: (335)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
81032: (15)
The Source Code:
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <time.h>
int main()
{
int rdfd, wrfd;
char buf[1];
char writeit[] = "X";
time_t s,t, old_t;
s = time(NULL);
if (s == -1) {
perror("time");
return 1;
}
#ifdef DO_READS
rdfd = open("/usr/lib/libc.a", O_RDONLY);
if (rdfd == -1) {
perror("libc.a");
return 1;
}
#endif
#ifdef DO_WRITES
wrfd = open("floop", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT);
if (wrfd == -1) {
perror("floop");
return 1;
}
#endif
for(;;) {
old_t = t;
t = time(NULL);
if (t == -1) {
perror("time");
return 1;
}
if (t-old_t>7)
fprintf(stderr, "%5d: (%d)%s\n", (int)(t-s),(int)(t-old_t),
t-old_t>19 ? "!!!!!!!!!!!!!" : "");
#ifdef DO_READS
if (read(rdfd, buf, 1) != 1) {
perror("read problems?");
return 1;
}
#endif
#ifdef DO_WRITES
if (write(wrfd, writeit, 1) != 1) {
perror("write problems?");
return 1;
}
#endif
#ifdef DO_READS
fsync(rdfd);
#endif
#ifdef DO_WRITES
fsync(wrfd);
#endif
if (sleep(5) != 0)
fprintf(stderr, "got a signal?\n");
}
return 0;
}
--
Grant
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: *** AIR FRANCE CONCORD UPDATE ***
Date: 5 Aug 2000 12:50:41 GMT
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the French finally figured out how to kill Germans.
===================================================================
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Arrive Hotel Gonesse 1703
===================================================================
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been killed?
A.) Scratching weakly at the inside of his body bag.
===================================================================
Wealthy German tourists love the Hotel Gonesse. They drop in all the
time.
===================================================================
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From: "Greg H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: the new kernel....
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 13:32:40 GMT
B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when the kernel becomes availible (if it already isnt, or when red hat, suse
> and the like start getting out distro's with it) is it likly to still run on
> craooy low end machines? (like 486's with 16 megs / ram
Yep. And 386s, too.
Greg
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From: "Mark Diplock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Which distro?
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 16:53:41 +0100
I have an old AMD K6-II 350 which I would like to install Linux on, the only
problem is that it has a PC Chips motherboard that Redhat 5.2 doesn't like.
Has anyone had any success in running a newer version of Redhat (with
X-Windows)on a PC Chips motherboard? If not, could anyone please recommend
another distribution (with X-Windows) that sits happily on a PC Chips
motherboard.
Thanks,
--
Mark Diplock
usenet at diplock dot net
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From: Staffan Emren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any experience with aacraid.o ?
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 17:46:36 +0200
Hi all!
Does anybody out there have any experience with the aacraid driver
included in 2.2.16-3 from RedHat? The download page mentions support for
Adaptec RAID controllers, but it doesn't state which controllers are
supported. Furthermore I have not found any docs on it, and the source
code (drivers/scsi/aacraid/) doesn't provide much help.
When running "insmod aacraid" out of the box on an AAA-131U2 I get a
"device or resource busy" message. The controller does not share IRQ
with any other device in the machine.
Any comments on this would be appreciated.
Best regards
Staffan Emren
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new LILO? burning Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 16:18:33 GMT
LILO 21.5 will boot beyond cylinder 1023. It requires BIOS support for EDD
packet calls on int 0x13. The source distribution includes a bootable floppy
disk (make floppy) to test your BIOS.
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
--John
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:07:40 -0400, Zachary Uram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, I read some months ago that a new version of LILO was under
>development which would allow for an install past 1024th cylinder
>on disk. I had installed Mandrake 6.x in dual boot environment
>(Win98,SE) and ran into LILO problems which I think was because
>Win98 had been installed first and occupied space past the 1024th
>cylinder of my disk. Is this new LILO version done and does
>anyone know what Linux distrubtions currently come with this
>version? Also I wanted to download different Linux distributions
>off the net at high speed connection (10MB/s ethernet) at work
>and try them at home. We have a CD-RW but I don't know what's
>involved in setup for downloading and buring a Linux distribution
>onto the CD(s). Thanks!
>
>SDG,
>Zach
>
>________________________________________________________
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have faith." - John 20:29
>
LILO version 21.5 (18-Jul-2000) source at
ftp: brun.dyndns.org dir: /pub/linux/lilo
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From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Which distro?
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 17:20:09 +0100
I use SUSE 6.3 on a very old PC chips board (VX pro I think) with a very
slow cyrix p133 and 16mb of memory, you can get it for about �30 on 6 cds,
it comes with loads of apps (star office, word perfect, blender, demo
games...) though there is some dodgy german translation but its not a major
problem. The only issue I had was installing the right kernel (486 instead
of a pentium) but you should have no probs if you have lots of ram and a
good graphics card, I think it has 3D support for TNT, 3DFX and Matrox.
"Mark Diplock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8mhd4c$1odh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an old AMD K6-II 350 which I would like to install Linux on, the
only
> problem is that it has a PC Chips motherboard that Redhat 5.2 doesn't
like.
> Has anyone had any success in running a newer version of Redhat (with
> X-Windows)on a PC Chips motherboard? If not, could anyone please recommend
> another distribution (with X-Windows) that sits happily on a PC Chips
> motherboard.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Mark Diplock
> usenet at diplock dot net
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike G)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Which distro?
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 16:43:10 GMT
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 16:53:41 +0100, "Mark Diplock"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an old AMD K6-II 350 which I would like to install Linux on, the only
>problem is that it has a PC Chips motherboard that Redhat 5.2 doesn't like.
>Has anyone had any success in running a newer version of Redhat (with
>X-Windows)on a PC Chips motherboard? If not, could anyone please recommend
>another distribution (with X-Windows) that sits happily on a PC Chips
>motherboard.
Which PC Chips board do you have?
I ran Redhat 6.0 for a while on my old PC Chips M571 (SiS 5598
chipset), with a Cyrix 233 - no apparent problems.
Mike
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From: "Dheera Venkatraman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot install ISA Network Card
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 17:09:18 GMT
Hi,
I just wanted to hook in another network card to my RedHat 6.2 computer, and
I happened to have a spare ISA card lying around (on windows, it used to use
the rtl8029 driver... i'm assuming it's ne2000 compatible).
I went to netcfg and put in the driver, using ne.o as the module in
/etc/conf.modules ... but when I try to activate the interface, it says
"Delaying eth2 initialization." and doesn't work.
Any ideas, or is there a program available to autodetect and install this
card (it's ISA)?
Dheera Venkatraman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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