Linux-Hardware Digest #365, Volume #13 Sun, 6 Aug 00 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: REQ printers (Fabian Gebhardt)
Re: Crystal Labs (CrystalWare?) CS4236B Sound Controller Install? (SuSE) ("Daniel
Groendal")
errr... help help help! modem woes ("Gary Morris")
UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers (David Steuber)
Re: CS4236B Sound? (SuSE) (Dances With Crows)
Re: Cannot install ISA Network Card (sideband)
armada e500 modem ("Arnaud DESMONS")
I/O address changes on SMC card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
second vga card ("Mgr. David Turai")
Re: Driver Situation in Linux (Juergen Sauer)
X11 mit SiS630 auf Notebook (Heinz Rohde)
Re: video card problem ("Mgr. David Turai")
Re: BogoMips (Gregg C Levine)
Linux with the Realtek RTL8129 and RTL8139 Fast Ethernet Controllers for PCI
("SPEWWY")
ASUS CUWE no good for 1U, need suggestion for alternative. (Bob)
Are all external modems linux compatible? ("Psyches")
Re: X11 mit SiS630 auf Notebook ("M�sl Roland")
Re: Are all external modems linux compatible? (Rob Clark)
Abit onboard raid (Steve Hutton)
Re: Dual processor board? ("D. Stimits")
isapnp.conf (Marius Andra)
Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM ("Michael Faurot")
Re: HELP! - "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" (Toby Hobson)
JetDirect 170X and Red hat 6.2 (Jeff Robinson)
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From: Fabian Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: REQ printers
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 14:38:29 +0200
You should use apsfilter for printing.
It should work.
--
CU, Fabian Gebhardt
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Schul-Seite: http://www.ebg.org
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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 20:59:38 +0800
From: "Daniel Groendal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Crystal Labs (CrystalWare?) CS4236B Sound Controller Install? (SuSE)
Perhaps www-alsa-project.org?
Have a look atleast...
/daniel
"GHouck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have just installed SuSe Linux v6.4.
>
> I have a PentPro-200, with a Crystal Labs CS4236B
> sound controller (on-board?) which did not appear
> to be listed during the Sound Card Installation.
>
> Would anyone have any ideas on a resolution, or a
> driver? I tried several of the others, to no avail.
>
> My documentation says that it is a 16-bit ISA,
> PC97 Compliant controller.
>
> Default Controller parameters:
>
> Parameter Default
> ------------------------- -------
> Base I/O Address / MPU-401 220/330
> 8-bit Playback DMA 1
> 8-bit Capture DMA 3
> Base IRQ / MPU IRQ 5/15
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geoff Houck
> systems hk
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Gary Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat
Subject: errr... help help help! modem woes
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 01:25:50 +1200
Hi All
I have just taken the step of fragging my system and installing Linux.
This part has been fairly <g> painless (i am a poor little lamb who has lost
his way...) except when it comes to installing my modem.
I just purchased a Dynalink modem model DL 1456VQH-T2, the PCI internal one.
I have downloaded the recommended file
(http://www.dynalink.co.nz/support/drivers/1456vqh-t2_linux.zip) but seem to
get an error message when I run the install script.
I am running REDHAT Linux v6.2 kernel 2.2.14-12 The message i get is that
the module was compiled for a different version.(an earlier one) Can some
kind soul tell me how to update this or if there are some instructions on
how to change the kernel? I am fairly new to Linux so please bear with me.
thanks
Gary
lost in linux
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 14:00:02 GMT
I noticed the other day when moving a few GB of files from one
computer to another that when the disk light goes on, the network
traffic halts. Once the disk light goes off, the network traffic
resumes again. This seems to defeat the whole purpose of having a
100bt ethernet network.
My first thought was that the interrupt for the IDE drive was taking
up all the CPU time so that the NIC couldn't be serviced. But a
friend of mine told me that Windows does not have this problem so long
as DMA is enabled.
In `make menuconfig' there is a `Use DMA by default when available'
option under `block devices'. I've got it turned on. Is there
something else I have to do, or are IDE drives just fundamentally
screwed up this way. I hate the idea of disk access bringing other io
and perhaps even the CPU to a halt. I can't afford to install the
equivalent amount of SCSI disk.
Any hints on how I can optimize machine performance? This box will be
an HTTP server that also uses PostgreSQL (until I can get a seperate
box for the SQL server) and mod_perl/HTML::Embperl.
ie should I increase or decrease the bdflush interval from the default
of five seconds?
--
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NRA Member | a hoploholic.
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The problem with AI is that it has a mind of its own
--- Devon Miller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CS4236B Sound? (SuSE)
Date: 6 Aug 2000 14:05:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 02:44:15 -0700, GHouck wrote:
>I have a PentPro-200, with a Crystal Labs CS4236B sound controller
>(on-board?) which did not appear to be listed during the Sound Card
>Installation.
>
>Base I/O Address / MPU-401 220/330
>8-bit Playback DMA 1
>8-bit Capture DMA 3
>Base IRQ / MPU IRQ 5/15
Try this:
modprobe sound dmabuf=1
modprobe cs4232 irq=5 io=0x534 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=15
modprobe opl3 io=0x388
You may have to fiddle with the io= parameter on the cs4232 module.
SuSE 6.4 has all those things already set in /etc/conf.modules ; just
remove the # signs from lines 111-114 of that file and you will probably
be good to go.
--
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: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot install ISA Network Card
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 10:34:03 -0400
if it's the second ethernet card, it's probably called eth1, as the primary is
called eth0.
at any rate, there's something else going on here, as well..... IRQ/DMA/port
conflict, or some other problem with the card. If it's PnP, you should try to
disable it and manually set the settings.
How about posting the results of 'cat /proc/interrupts' and 'cat /proc/pci' as
well as the relevant dmesg output, so maybe we can make some sort of intelligent
response.
-SSB
Dheera Venkatraman wrote:
> 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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From: "Arnaud DESMONS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: armada e500 modem
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 14:48:53 GMT
My modem on an armada e500 doesn't work !
What must I do...
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I/O address changes on SMC card
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 15:14:27 GMT
I have installed a SMC 8216 nic card as a second card in
my PC (goes to my cable modem). I have run the DOS utilities
and show the setup of the card as irq 3, io 0x300, mem 0xD800 - 0xDBFF.
Under Windows these parameters work fine.
With Linux (2.2.14 kernel) the card appears to load O.K. with
the drivers loaded into the kernel or as a module. The above
mentioned parameters are returned by the driver when loaded.
Problem is when I do an ifconfig it shows the card as having
io address 0x330 instead of 0x300. Although I can ping the
card's IP address, it does not send or recieve any traffic.
Any ideas on why the i/o address change?
Thanks in advance.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Mgr. David Turai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: second vga card
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:08:10 +0200
I need use second vga card. How to do that.
David
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From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver Situation in Linux
Date: 6 Aug 2000 13:56:37 GMT
Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Fri, 04 Aug 2000 13:51:30 +0000 in comp.os.linux.hardware:
SF> In article <8mbqld$uh3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
SF> Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
SF> I am not sure that legal action is necessarily the best approach here but if
...
The point is, mostly all Hardware manufacurers does not release their specs,
protocols, even if I request for it.
Mostly all DONT want to support LINUX. This is not accepable.
Those companies, which offers all Linux support, break their press-released
words, they lie, if a customer wants to get linux support:
HP, Compaq, Dell, and much more...
HP: Omnibooks are not supported in Linux. (my one works ten times better in
Linux than in Windoze. Windows crashes, Linux not...)
Dell: Linux not supported in Notebooks, in their Server Line, they require
much too much money. I think they break the GNU Licence indirectly, they
cash support before ...
mfG
Jojo
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From: Heinz Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
de.comp.os.unix.x11,de.comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.portable,de.comp.x11
Subject: X11 mit SiS630 auf Notebook
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:31:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(See english version below...)
Hallo,
auf folgendem Notebook versuche ich verzweifelt X11 zu installieren:
IPC Top Note H Celeron 566
64 MB, 6 MB HDD
Grafik-Chip SiS630
Was bisher versucht wurde:
Red Hat 6.0
Corel Linux
Turbolinux
Suse 6.4
X11 v3.3.6 und v4.0.1
XSIS von Suse
Bei SiS war ich schon auf der Homepage, ohne wirkliche Verbesserung.
Bei IPC gibt es keine Unterst�tzung f�r Linux
Resultat:
Entweder, ich bekomme etwas, was nach 320x240 aussieht, oder einen
schwarzen LCD-Schirm.
Wer weiss Rat?
Gru�,
Heinz
Hello,
I try to install X11 on the following notebook:
IPC Top Note H Celeron 566
64 MB of RAM, 6 MB HDD
Graphic-Chip SiS630
What has been done until now:
Tried
- Red Hat 6.0
- Corel Linux
- Turbolinux
- Suse 6.4 with
- X11 v3.3.6 und v4.0.1
- XSIS von Suse
The SIS homepage gives hints to X11 and Linux, but everything failed
IPC does not offer support for Linux on their website.
Results:
Either I get somewhat that looks like 320x240 pixel or black screen.
Please help.
Good bye,
Heinz
--
Heinz Rohde NetUSE AG
Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel, Germany
Fon: +49 431 386435 00 -- Fax: +49 431 386435 99
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From: "Mgr. David Turai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video card problem
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:25:01 +0200
I have the same problem with AGP SIS 6326 card.
David
Michael wrote:
> Hi everybody, I bought a SIS6326 8mb PCI video card tonight and am having
> problems getting it working.
>
> It displays the colour blue as black, and solid bars under things like
> pine/pico/vi as brown. That and when running X i get small vertical lines
> appearing on the monitor.
>
> The X problems don't bother me that much, rather it is the colour
> switching, and the way the card can put flickery lines over the screen
> when I run something like Xconfigurator. Is there any secrets to fixing
> this or do I have a busted card? is this normal for the card?
>
> [root@enigma /root]# cat /proc/pci
> PCI devices found:
> Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems Unknown device (rev 0).
> Vendor id=1039. Device id=5517.
> Slow devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
> Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
> ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems 85C503 (rev 1).
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
> Bus 0, device 1, function 1:
> IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems 85C5513 (rev 8).
> Fast devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
> I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801].
> I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401].
> I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
> I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
> I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
> Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems Unknown device
> (rev 11).
> Vendor id=1039. Device id=6326.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2.
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb800000 [0xfb800008].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb7e0000 [0xfb7e0000].
> I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
> Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: Realtek 8139 (rev 16).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master
> Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
> I/O at 0xc800 [0xc801].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb7d0000 [0xfb7d0000].
>
> I am running a slightly older motherboard (SIS5513/SIS5511) made back in
> 1995. I am using redhat 6.2 and will be upgrading to the newest lot of X
> servers soon to play around with them.
>
> The card detects okay on boot and can be found by Xconfigurator.
>
> thoughts anybody? =)
>
> (huge thanks in advance for any help)
>
> --
> Michael Ross
> Shard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://shard.cjb.net irc.shadowfire.org
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> "How can love ever be called a failure?"
> --luminara
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
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Subject: Re: BogoMips
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregg C Levine)
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 15:53:48 GMT
Hello from the Master Jedi Gregg C Levine
Would you believe it is mostly used to calibrate the bus hardware, so that
Linux will be able to tell how long software will take to run? On a PCI
based Pentium 100, I am getting 39.73.
Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<This article, and this signature is protected by an attack Rancor>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>
>Whats this number measure? I get 53.1 on a Pentium 133 with 48MB, and
861
>on a Celeron 433/128 (i810), and 947 on a K6-2 475/128 ..... I'd figure on
>the K6 getting less than the Celeron, even with 42 more mhz....
>
>--
>Posted via CNET Help.com
>http://www.help.com/
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From: "SPEWWY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux with the Realtek RTL8129 and RTL8139 Fast Ethernet Controllers for PCI
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 15:48:18 GMT
for drivers instalation etc etc goto
http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
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Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 12:05:54 +0100
From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ASUS CUWE no good for 1U, need suggestion for alternative.
Beware...ASUS CUWE problem.
CUWE motherboard in 1U case, available PCI slot shares interrupt with
video so can't use quad ethernet board. Sheesh, Any suggestions for
a Linux friendly S370 mboard for use in 1U case?
Please,
Let me know if you have found and tested something that works....
-bob
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From: "Psyches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Are all external modems linux compatible?
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 17:11:42 +0100
I need to get a cheap external modem that'll work with Linux. From
information I've gathered it seems that all external modems will work with
Linux - but is this true or does anyone know of any external winmodems to be
avoided?
Thanks,
Psyches
hotmail alias: thisispsyches
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From: "M�sl Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
de.comp.os.unix.x11,de.comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.portable,de.comp.x11
Subject: Re: X11 mit SiS630 auf Notebook
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 17:46:55 +0200
"Heinz Rohde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> (See english version below...)
>
> Hallo,
>
> auf folgendem Notebook versuche ich verzweifelt X11 zu installieren:
> IPC Top Note H Celeron 566
> 64 MB, 6 MB HDD
> Grafik-Chip SiS630
Sieht ganz nach einen billigst Notebook
mit Desktop CPU aus
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Subject: Re: Are all external modems linux compatible?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 16:27:17 GMT
In article <Magj5.3187$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Psyches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to get a cheap external modem that'll work with Linux. From
>information I've gathered it seems that all external modems will work with
>Linux - but is this true or does anyone know of any external winmodems to be
>avoided?
As long as you get a serial port external instead of USB, any newer
external modem should be compatible.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Hutton)
Subject: Abit onboard raid
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:14:09 GMT
Will linux support hardware raid via the
new abit socket a motherboard? (See:
http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/mainboards/abit/kt7/index.html )
If so, will this perform better than software raid?
Thanks,
Steve
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Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 11:17:06 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual processor board?
Chris Rankin wrote:
>
> "D. Stimits" wrote:
> > I have personally talked on the phone for hours with SuperMicro, and
> > they are simply not interested. They can only quote that it is stable
> > under NT (which isn't entirely true, but that probably isn't the mobo
> > problem). I don't know who to ask about supporting this, since
> > SuperMicro won't even provide information, but possibly Intel is the
> > next choice, since they have their hopes into both the chipset and
> > linux. But consider SuperMicro a non-linux-compatible source from now on
> > (at least for newer chipsets like i840).
>
> In *that* case, maybe we should talk to "Linux Online" about removing
> their endorsement from the Supermicro website? Claims like "superior
> quality and technical support" and "logical choice" etc
> seem to be ringing a little hollow right about now ...
>
> FWIW, is this likely to even be fixable? I could live with reflashing my
> BIOS / firmware, but there's always the nightmare scenario of something
> wired incorrectly on the mobo itself.
>
> Chris
I agree. I did send them a note on the subject, but have seen no action
on it. Perhaps if more people would ask them to remove it. I find
SuperMicro a strange mix, with some people extremely dedicated and
willing to go the extra mile to help. But then when getting to the linux
side, it just drops out without any willingness to even talk about it. I
was told that they recently lost their product manager, and all of his
work was dumped on everyone else, so this may be the reason for the cold
shoulder. In any case, I won't be shopping at SuperMicro anymore, at
least not for motherboards (so ends a generation of purchasing).
I don't know if this is fixable, but I doubt a BIOS flash would cover
it. Possibly it is related to the manner in which the APICs are
connected, but I don't know. So yes, likely this is a hardwire
situation. Check out, in the kernel source Documentation subdirectory,
file IO-APIC.txt. I mentioned the problem to Alan Cox, but haven't heard
of any solutions yet, aside from running with noapic kernel option. If I
knew who "mingo" is from the IO-APIC.txt file, I'd ask him as well. I'm
currently looking at Iwill's DCA200, but it would require dumping
current ram for rdram, and dumping both cpu's for xeon's, along with
purchasing a separate scsi controller...which is a bit expensive.
Initial response from Iwill is that so far as they know, there is no
APIC problem with their board on linux, but they are checking to make
sure (no reply back yet). What is unclear is how many i840 boards are
connected in this manner, ending up with "unexpected IO-APIC".
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Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 19:27:46 +0200
From: Marius Andra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: isapnp.conf
how to put these lines inside isapnp.conf???
insmod parport
insmod paride
insmod epat
insmod pcd
insmod pg
Can anybody give me a straight answer, not like read the manual...
---
m9
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM
Date: 6 Aug 2000 17:49:05 GMT
Stefan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have a truely ancient machine (386DX with 4 meg of RAM and no CD
: drive). I have the RedHat 6 distrib on CD.
: Is it somehow (by some miracle I suppose!) possible to get Linux installed
: on this system?
Several ways occur to me.
1) Network your 386 to your host system, and do a network
install. Read the installation instructions for RedHat for
how to do this.
2) Borrow the CDROM from a machine and put it in the 386
temporarily.
3) Temporarily pull the hard drive out of the 386, put it in the host
system, and disable/remove the host's regular drives.
4) Use a mini-distribution on the 386, instead of a full blown
one. Look here for options:
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/console/mini%20distributions.html
NOTE: You'll really have to work at it, to strip down the RedHat install
to fit on the small drive in the 386. Given what you want to do with
the 386, the simplest option would probably be to use one of the many
mini-distributions available.
: I want to try and see if I can set up some kind of remote terminal
: thingy with a serial cable - I have some info on getting a getty
: process running on my host system (400mHz Celeron with 256 megs of
: RAM). Or would I do better to leave DOS installed on the 386 and run
: some kinda terminal emulator thingy? Any URL's for such DOS programs?
Under DOS you could use kermit:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html
If you want to network, which might be easier and faster, there's NCSA
Telnet for DOS:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Consulting/Doc/Telnet.html
--
==============================================================================
Michael | mfaurot | You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
Faurot | atww.net | -- Janis Joplin
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From: Toby Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! - "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device"
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 19:01:32 +0100
On Sun, 06 Aug 2000, Glitch wrote:
>I believe this usually means that Linux doesn't know the drive exists
>therefore doesn't think that hdc is a device causing the error. Are you
>sure that Linux realizes you have a cdrw and that it is indeed on hdc?
>The best way to tell is to look at the messages at boot time to see what
>all drives Linux finds; you might also be able to see in
>/var/log/messages or try issuing the command 'dmesg' at the prompt.
Linux definitely knows it's there - this is from dmesg:
"hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8000, ATAPI CDROM drive"
However I've also seen this at startup:
"ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi"
- Does this mean anything?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Toby
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Robinson)
Subject: JetDirect 170X and Red hat 6.2
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 18:06:25 GMT
Can anyone tell me if this possible ?
I have Windows 98, Windows NT and Red Hat 6.2 on one computer and
Win98 on another. They use a cable modem connected to a hub to access
the internet and have IP addresses assigned by DHCP. I also have an
HP Jet Direct 170X print server connected to the hub. The printer is
an HP 660C.
Both Win98 and NT print fine using the Jet Admin software that came
with the print server. I can't get linux to print, though. I
downloaded HP's Web Jet Admin for NT and found out that the print
server has the default IP address of 192.0.0.192 (which, of course, is
completely different from the IP addresses assigned to the two
computers by my ISP). I could change the IP address with Web Jet
Admin but I don't know what I would change it to.
Win 98 and NT are using IPX\SPX to print.
I know the print server has two built-in queues named "text" and "raw"
(according to some websites I've visited). But when I try setting it
up with printtool or even typing it into printcap using the settings I
got from various websites, nothing prints.
Do I just have to accept that it won't work with linux ?
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