Linux-Hardware Digest #366, Volume #13 Sun, 6 Aug 00 19:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: second vga card ("PJC")
Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM ("PJC")
Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM (Staffan Emren)
ISDN: Adtran Express 3000 and Linux (Dragos A. Manolescu)
IDE/ATA66 patches / which? / how to install? (BIANCO ROBERTO)
Xerox WorkCentre 385 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems with ethernet card (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: Power Line Isolation via Ethernet Connections? (Chris Pitzel)
Re: Cannot install ISA Network Card ("Dheera Venkatraman")
Re: HELP! - "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" (Dances With Crows)
WInmodem->winenulator=solution? (Mimmo, Zanzara Blob)
Re: 20.4GB HD, bios limitation, EZ-drive or any other? (Mike Castle)
Re: I/O address changes on SMC card (Harold Bower)
nic doesn't work! ("morgan")
Installing an NIC ("Blayne Wessels")
Linux on a Powerbook 190? (Ryan Schram)
Re: isapnp.conf ("D. Stimits")
Re: WInmodem->winenulator=solution? ("Nick")
Re: second vga card ("D. Stimits")
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From: "PJC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: second vga card
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 14:06:13 -0400
Upgrade to XFree86 4.0 It has built in multihead support. I amusing it for
my two Matrox Millenium cards. If you have an old/bad motherboard, upgrade
(or wait) to Kernel 2.4.
Mgr. David Turai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I need use second vga card. How to do that.
>
> David
>
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From: "PJC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 14:10:24 -0400
Network installation is your best bet. Put a network card in both the
machines and get yourself a crossovercable. Set up anonymous ftp on the
machine with the cdrom and then mount it to the ftp subdirectory. Then all
you need is a boot floppy. With 200MB of space, you won't get much,
definitely not X, and maybe not even the kernel sources. Also, keep in mind
that it will probably take 3 hours to install!
Stefan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8mji36$fvh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi!
>
> 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? How would I "parcel off" the needed stuff from the CD to
get
> a bare bones Linux install running on a system with only a floppy? HDD
> capacity is a truely ancient (as well) 200meg Seagate drive.
>
> Or should I just forget it? 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stefan Viljoen
> --
> Starwars Forever!!!
>
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://home.intekom.com/rylan/
>
>
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From: Staffan Emren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 20:11:21 +0200
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> 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? How would I "parcel off" the needed stuff from the CD to get
> a bare bones Linux install running on a system with only a floppy? HDD
> capacity is a truely ancient (as well) 200meg Seagate drive.
If you have a NIC in each computer, you can do an FTP or NFS install
without too much trouble. 200 MB should be enough for a small system
without X, allthough you are also quite low on RAM. But if networking is
not an option, then... Considering the speed of serial transfers (9600
bps on a typical 386), the file copy part would take approximately 40 -
55 hours... zzzzzzzzz :-)
Best regards
Staffan Emren
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Subject: ISDN: Adtran Express 3000 and Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dragos A. Manolescu)
Date: 06 Aug 2000 13:50:58 -0500
I would like to know whether I would be able to use the Adtran Express
3000 with a Linux box for a 64K dial-up ISDN line. Any idea how much
this modem is worth paying for? TIA,
-Dragos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BIANCO ROBERTO)
Subject: IDE/ATA66 patches / which? / how to install?
Date: 6 Aug 2000 19:00:31 GMT
Hi all!
I need to patch my RedHat 2.2.14-5.0 kernel for a Promise ATA66
disk controller support.
I have gone to:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.15/
to download the patch, but:
- I don't know if the ide-2.2.15 is the right dir for my kernel version
- even if ide-2.2.15 were the right dir, which patch should I download among
ide.2.2.15-14.200003..> 16-Mar-2000 13:04 149k
ide.2.2.15-14.200003..> 16-Mar-2000 13:04 1k
ide.2.2.15-14.200003..> 16-Mar-2000 13:04 194k
ide.2.2.15-14.200003..> 16-Mar-2000 13:04 1k
...
...
- do I need the large 149k file together with the corresponding 1k file?
Once I have the right IDE patch, how do I install it?
Thanks,
Roberto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Xerox WorkCentre 385
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 19:29:34 GMT
I just got this laser printer. Has anybody had any success with it under
linux?
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Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 21:58:56 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with ethernet card
Alex Ongaro wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I'v just installed a not so old ethernet card, it's a DEC 21040. I have
> the support for that card using tulip driver.
> At boot time the card is founded with no problems.
> Than when the system try to start the network (dhcp client) the kernel
> says: SIOCSFFLAGS: resource temporary unaivable
> I think is a problem with IRQ, at sturt up the kernel says that the card
> will use IRQ 0 (it sounds me strange) that is
> always in use by the timer.
> Any advice?
>
> Alex
In your BIOS turn off
PNP OS (or any similar entry)
--
Bartek kostrzewa - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<< http://technoage.web.lu >>>
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From: Chris Pitzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Power Line Isolation via Ethernet Connections?
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 20:06:46 GMT
> Ethernet cabling is supposed to be isolated from the standard {120,240}
> volt wiring used in electrical wiring, unless someone's put an
> Etherkiller into the network somewhere.
Etherkiller ;-) hehehe..
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From: "Dheera Venkatraman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot install ISA Network Card
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 20:20:45 GMT
Hi,
I've included the results of those commands below. I've temporarily removed
the eth2 device that I was trying to add since it was giving me erros at
boot (insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/ne.o: init_module: Device or
Resource Busy).
dmesg, as shown below, said that such a card was not found at 0x300. Is
there a probing program that will tell me the io and irq...?
The card I'm trying to install is actually my third ethernet card - I have
two PCI ones working, and want to install the ISA one as my third - that's
why it's eth2... Can this output below help in any way to shed some light on
the problem? Or would it be best to simply get another PCI card?
Thanks again...
Dheera Venkatraman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
_________________
>From dmesg:
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: unable to get IRQ 11 (irqval=-16).
ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x300
__________________
'cat /proc/interrupts' gives me this:
CPU0
0: 9565833 XT-PIC timer
1: 4877 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 27445782 XT-PIC serial
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 388174 XT-PIC eth1
11: 4297 XT-PIC eth0
12: 120 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 940737 XT-PIC ide0
15: 285161 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
_________________
'cat /proc/pci' gives me this:
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 82437VX Triton II (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=128.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No
bursts.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=128.
I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1].
Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
USB Controller: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 USB (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=128.
I/O at 0xff40 [0xff41].
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 11.
I/O at 0xff80 [0xff81].
Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/VX (rev 2).
Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=128. Min Gnt=4.Max
Lat=255.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xf8000000].
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905 100bTX (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=128. Min Gnt=3.Max
Lat=8.
I/O at 0xff00 [0xff01].
"sideband" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: HELP! - "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device"
Date: 6 Aug 2000 20:24:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 19:01:32 +0100, Toby Hobson wrote:
>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?
Yes, it means that /dev/hdc is not where you would go to find your
CD-ROM drive. Since it's a CD-RW, to access the full capabilities of
the drive, it can't be presented to the system as an IDE device, as no
one's written a driver for IDE CD-RWs.
You read from /dev/scd0 (the first SCSI CD-ROM) and write to /dev/sg0
(the first SCSI generic device.) Check the HOWTO at
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
for more information on exactly what's going on here and why. It might
also be a good idea to do
ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
.
--
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] (Mimmo, Zanzara Blob)
Subject: WInmodem->winenulator=solution?
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 20:37:38 GMT
HI,
I got a winmodem with a Motorola chipset, 56k (i think it is because
on the cd there aren't drivers for s.o. other than win9x-nt):
i heard about Wine, a win emulator on linux.
Question: can I use this modem in Linux through the emulator (that
could be useful also for some only-win apllications)
Thanks
Ciao
--
http://mimmo.cjb.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: 20.4GB HD, bios limitation, EZ-drive or any other?
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 16:13:22 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there any other way to get the 20.4 gb from this harddrive?
>Should I install EZ-Drive software that comes from maxtor? Will this
>screw up the things?
Stay away from EZ-Drive and similar work arounds.
Instead, rebuild your kernel with the IDE patches. See www.linux-ide.org
for details.
I think it will work best if you put a small (64M or so) boot partition on
your smaller drive, and mount things like /var, /home, /usr off of your
larger drive.
I currently run 3 >8G harddrives on my old machine that doesn't support >8G
via BIOS.
Though, I'm not sure how to go about installing on such a machine. Maybe a
minimal installation (pretty much only gcc and enough networking to ftp
patches) on the 4G drive, then when you get the new kernel working, format
the new drive, move over /var, /usr, /home into appropriate partitions, and
fix up your /etc/fstab to point to the new things. Then use appropriate
packaging util to load the rest of the stuff.
mrc
--
Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all
www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:23:02 -0400
From: Harold Bower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I/O address changes on SMC card
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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]
I went through the same thing. The parameters you list are via the
jumper on the board, correct? It seems that the EEPROM contains a
different base address. I fixed mine by downloading the configuration
program from SMC (www.smc.com, I think). The setup program requires
DOS/Windows, however. This can set many more parameters than the three
shown on the jumpers.
Hal
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nic doesn't work!
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 11:26:00 +0800
I use redhat 6.2. Nic is realtek 8139 (10/100M). It workes well before i
reboot my system.when the system start ,it tell me some problems in eth0
initializtion.
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From: "Blayne Wessels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing an NIC
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 22:30:34 GMT
I have Debian Linux installed on one of my machines and want to get it on my
network. I put in a Linksys 10/100Mbps network card (LNE100TX) and it
didn't recognize it. I later found that I would need the "Tulip Driver." I
also found, under "\Linux" on the driver disks for the NIC, a file called
tulip.c. So I guess that what I'm really asking is: do I need to compile
the kernel with the tulip.c to use the NIC and if so, how?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan Schram)
Subject: Linux on a Powerbook 190?
Date: 6 Aug 2000 22:40:13 GMT
Hello, Linux List:
Can anyone point me to resources for installing Linux on a Powerbook 190
(m68k, 8mb RAM 500 mb hd). If possible, what variety of Linux is
required? If not, what exactly is holding me back? Are PB 190's missing
something that Linux requires?
Thanks for your help,
Ryan
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Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 16:44:39 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: isapnp.conf
Marius Andra wrote:
>
> 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
Those don't go into isapnp.conf at all. They go in /etc/conf.modules (or
on some dists, /etc/modules.conf, same thing).
isapnp.conf is used for irq and address setup of plug-n-play hardware in
ISA slots. conf.modules is used to insert kernel modules, which is what
that is.
If you are asking about an editor to do this with, there are many text
editors. Assuming you don't know how to use something not initially user
friendly, such as emacs or vi, you might use nedit or pico (pico comes
with pine). There are many other editors as well. You can do a search
for nedit or others on http://las.978.org
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From: "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WInmodem->winenulator=solution?
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:46:56 +0100
> I got a winmodem with a Motorola chipset, 56k (i think it is because
> on the cd there aren't drivers for s.o. other than win9x-nt):
> i heard about Wine, a win emulator on linux.
Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. : )
It's an implementation of the Win32 api on Linux. Winmodem drivers, like
most drivers run at a level above the Win api.
So, in short..no...unfortunately. But it could help you out with running
some windows programs on Linux.
---
Nick
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Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 16:49:30 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: second vga card
PJC wrote:
>
> Upgrade to XFree86 4.0 It has built in multihead support. I amusing it for
> my two Matrox Millenium cards. If you have an old/bad motherboard, upgrade
> (or wait) to Kernel 2.4.
>
> Mgr. David Turai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I need use second vga card. How to do that.
> >
> > David
> >
Added note: The desired feature in 4.0 is Xinerama. There are other
means as well, such as commercial servers with multihead, or multiple
single-head servers. The real trick is to research your particular
hardware to find which servers it can run on, before installing it. 4.0
is probably a good bet, but video card brand/model does matter.
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