Linux-Hardware Digest #436, Volume #13 Thu, 17 Aug 00 08:13:07 EDT
Contents:
ESS modem under Linux Mandrake ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Are there any that will work with the Intel i810? (Hammer)
Re: Are there any that will work with the Intel i810? (Hammer)
Re: Max Number of Serial Ports on one Machine (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Alps Touchpad (Glitch)
Re: IDE RAID on linux (Markus Kossmann)
linksys question... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 6.2 installation hangs (Wayne Pilgrim)
Re: AmbiCom Modem - Linux - anybody try it? (Vladimir Florinski)
Adding more space to my Linux System ("Gretchen Schoser")
Onboard modems (DTRenwick)
ViewSonic Monitor and Trident video adapter ("Arash Sayadi")
Specialix Speed 4 ("Pedot Wolfgang")
Re: IRQ under Linux (Sebastian Fischmeister)
Re: YAMAHA sound card ("XX")
IRQ and Modem (Todd Meier)
Re: IRQ under Linux (Sebastian Fischmeister)
USB modem under Linux ? ("Arnaud Jayet")
Re: SCSI CDRW Locks up Redhat 6.1 ("Harris L. Gilliam")
Fritz!X USB working under Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and USB support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Alps Touchpad (Erik Oomen)
SURFboard 1100 in Linux ...?? (Joshua Boyd)
36Gb hd as secondary hd ("Joao Viegas")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ESS modem under Linux Mandrake
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 01:10:17 GMT
Hi!
Recently I've bought Pine ESS 56TPI modem and now I want to use it on
server running Linux Mandrake.
I know that there is a problem with winmodems under Linux, but I've
found some info at
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
reffered in Links section at www.linux.com
There I found that there is a driver for Linux in ESSTECH FTP directory:
ftp://ftp.esstech.com/pub/modem/pci/unsupported/56t-
pi/linux/Kernel61/111.zip
I've downloaded and tried to install it, but I always get the following
when "insmod" is performed in install script:
esscom.o: unresolved symbol tty_get_baud_rate_R8e49bd36
esscom.o: unresolved symbol tty_hung_up_p_Rdc891c9e
esscom.o: unresolved symbol interruptible_sleep_on_Rc0f2a9fa
esscom.o: unresolved symbol tty_flip_buffer_push_Rabeed08a
esscom.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up_Rb2c45411
esscom.o: unresolved symbol tty_register_driver_R9a666159
esscom.o: unresolved symbol tty_unregister_driver_Ra61e8501
Could you help me to solve this problem?
Sincerely,
Artyom Chebotaryov
http://artyomch.da.ru/
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From: Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Are there any that will work with the Intel i810?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 01:19:31 GMT
In article <8necae$521$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> Who says Linux is free (Time == $).
That's why old addage: "Sometimes free software is TOO EXPENSIVE."
Some cliche's are cliche's for a reason.
It would be unfair to generalize that across the whole linux world for
one problem though. The addage holds true in some cases though,
obviously. For me, I'm learning that different distro's are better than
others... where I used to think "linux is linux" reguardless of distro.
My opinion of RedHat has gone down, not only from personal experience,
but from other stuff I have read as well.
What do I know though, I'm just a dumb Win32 guy turned Linux newbie :)
Good luck.
-=hammer
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From: Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Are there any that will work with the Intel i810?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 01:25:01 GMT
In article <8nebr2$4sn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>
> blah, blah, blah
> (WW) Couldn't open module glide2x
>
> blah, blah, blah...
>
> Need to have Glide installed ... and make a link.....
>
> blah, blah, blah....
>
> So, I'm guessing Glide (whatever that is didn't come with RedHat 6.0).
Where
> do I get it....
snaggle it off ftp.redhat.com or something like that. The RPM's to look
for are:
Glide_V3-2.60.16-1.1.i386.rpm
Glide_V3-devel-2.60.16-1.1.i386.rpm
I'll warn you in advance though, this didn't solve my problem. After
getting these libs in, XFree86 -configure would just crash on a signal
halt later in the game.
I'm willing to send you my working XFree86 4.0 config file for 810e, if
you want it. Good luck.
-=hammer
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Max Number of Serial Ports on one Machine
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 02:00:49 GMT
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John Graves wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I am trying to figure out the maximum number of serial ports that I can
> configure on a Linux box. Is there any utility, kernel parameter, kernel
> source file, etc. that would tell me this information? Any assistance, or
> pointing in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> John
This is going to depend on the hardware you are using for serial ports. ISA
is limited to 4 or 6 and you cant't use them all at once unless you can
assign seperate interupts. PCI will use more, but you will run out of PCI
slots. Therefore, you need to lookinto one of the multiport boards that are
supported and determine if it is possible to use more than one of these in
your system.
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:37:28 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alps Touchpad
in console mode that is all you are suposed to have...in X windows the
cursor should be an X if i remember right...its been a few weeks since i
last used linux :(
David Elliott wrote:
>
> Hello All
>
> I have a problem with linux and my alps touchpad on my laptop. I do not have
> a mouse pointer i just have a block.
> Does anybody have a driver or any suggestions.
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE RAID on linux
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 03:51:26 +0200
Dick Visser wrote:
>
> Hello there
>
> I see alot of questions about how to get ATA66 and 100 to work, but has
> anybody managed to *really* get Linux to work with IDE RAID?
> If so, what hardware config do you have?
> I only want hardware IDE RAID, no need for the ATA100 or such.
>
The IDE RAID controllers made by 3ware ( www.3ware.com) are supported by
the standard kernel since 2.2.15.
--
Markus Kossmann
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linksys question...
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 02:54:55 GMT
hello. i'm trying to install a linksys 10/100 network in a box to
connect my win98 machine (amd k6-400 128mb ram) to my redhat linux 6.2
machine (pentium 233 64mb ram). i have the cards in their respective
machines, and now i need to know where to begin with the linux
installation. i'm relatively familiar with unix, but just got this
linux box about 3 months ago and this is my first hardware installation.
where in the world do i begin?
thank you,
trent
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From: Wayne Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 installation hangs
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:09:16 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had the same problem on a different machine and solved it by passing
PCI=BIOS at the linux prompt during bootup. From what I read this is the
default but it doesn't work on my machine.
Gey-Hong Gweon wrote:
> Hi, I have a brand-new Gateway E-5400 system and my first try to install
> the RedHat 6.2 failed because the installation program hangs after the
> message:
>
> PCI: PCI BIOS Revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>
> I wonder if anybody can shed some light on this problem. System
> configuration is roughly:
> Ultra 100 Bios Version 2.00
> Dual Intel 800MHz Pentium III
> 128 Mb PC600 ECC RDRAM
> Win2000 Promise Ultra 100 IDE Controller
> Two 20Gb 7200 RPM Quantrum ATA66 Hard drives
> etc ...
>
> Gey-Hong.
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AmbiCom Modem - Linux - anybody try it?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:07:12 -0700
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> sara wrote:
>
> > Has anyone heard of or used AmbiCom
> > Model AMB802 with Linux
> > PnP install for Windoze but says "Supports Linux" only $79
>
> I paid less than that for a US Robotics/3Com 3CP2976 with voice, fax,
> selective ring, and caller id. I hope that these features are all fully
> supported someday soon.
>
> JRT
Yeah, I got this one too. It was $52 if I remember correctly. However, US
Robotics modems in general have certain problems that makes some software
unreliable. That can be said about the voice feature, e.g., when you use your
modem as an answering machine. I e-mailed a report to vgetty mainteiners,
hopefully this issue will get resolved in the future. BTW, did you have any
problems with vgetty?
--
Vladimir
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Reply-To: "Gretchen Schoser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Gretchen Schoser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adding more space to my Linux System
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:51:32 -0400
I am currently using 1 partition of a 4 GIG drive. This partition is
currently sitting at 68%. How do I add additional partitions to my Linux
Box. I would hate to have to start over again. I have two partitions left
on this 4 gig drive each at around 1 GIG a piece. In Linux do they have
anything like LVDISPLAY or any of those commands. Any information would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Gretchen
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From: DTRenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Onboard modems
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 04:29:44 GMT
I have an HSP56 onboard modem. Is there any chance that it may work with
any of the following Linux systems: Caldera 2.4, Red Hat 5.2, or Mandrake
7.1? So far, I have not gotten started with any of these, but I would
first like to know if I have the required hardware.
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From: "Arash Sayadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ViewSonic Monitor and Trident video adapter
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:16:27 -0700
I just recently made a switch to Linux from using Windows NT/2000 server and
Win 98 workstations.. I am currently running Kernel 2.2.12-20 on a RedHat
6.1. I have a PII 300 that has a Trident 3D Image 985 video card and a
ViewSonic E771 monitor. Both the monitor and video card support 32-bit
color under 1024x768 resolution. However, I could only get the Gnome
desktop manager, in fact, any of the desktop managers, to display under the
800x600 for any color depth when I ran the standard RedHat Linux install.
Does anyone know if this limitation can somehow be remedied? If you could
help me configure the card and monitor to correctly display colors by either
instructing me or sending me a link to a HOW-TO, I would be a very happy and
appreciative man. It's absurd having to use a 17" monitor under an 800x600
resolution.
Happy computing,
Ash
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From: "Pedot Wolfgang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Specialix Speed 4
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:43:57 +0200
Hi,
I�m trying to get two Specialix Speed 4 running in my System (Industrial-PC)
but the Kernel-Patches wont work on my clean 2.2.16. Anybody got these Cards
running using a Kernel > 2.2.14 ?
greetings
Wolfgang
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: IRQ under Linux
From: Sebastian Fischmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Aug 2000 10:10:39 +0200
David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Your problem is not the same, because interrupt sharing in itself is
> not a problem.
It seems to be a problem of IRQ sharing support in the kernel
drivers. When I compile a kernel and add two devices which use IRQ 11,
then the computer freezes when Linux is booting.
I can have only one device at a time in the kernel in order to have a
non-freezing kernel.
When I compile no device in the kernel and compile every device driver
as a module, then I can only load the PCMCIA module so that it is
working. All other modules return an error message (probe
failed... either invalid IRQ or invalid IO). When I add e.g. the
IrDa support in the kernel and want to load the PCMCIA module I get
this error message too.
Btw. when I set the PC Card controller mode to PCIC then the PCMCIA
package does not work at all (even if it worked before). I have to set
the PC Card controller mode to "auto-selected"
Unfortunately I do not have an USB device, so I cannot test the USB
port. However, I can load e.g. the printer module (including usbcore)
at any time. The USB also shares the IRQ 11.
So there are many options now:
* IRQ sharing does not work properly
or
* pcmcia 3.1.19 does not support IRQ sharing AND
IrDa in kernel 2.4.0-test5 does not support IRQ sharing AND
the latest alsa sound modules do not support IRQ sharing
Additionally there is the following problem:
Once I loaded the pcmcia modules and they are running 'lspci' produces
an error. It does fail if the pcmcia modules are not loaded.
Any ideas about all this?
-Sebastian
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From: "XX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: YAMAHA sound card
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:26:42 -0400
YOu can also use last alsa driver which suports YAMAHA YMF 724 and series
Stuart Fotheringham wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>It's a YMF724 or YMF724e
>
>Flukezero wrote:
>
>> Stuart Fotheringham wrote:
>> >
>> > Does anyone know how to get the Yamaha sound card working under RH6.2
>>
>> Please provide the model of the card (ie. YMF-724), and in my
>> experiences with yamahas you can't use them unless you buy OSS with the
>> yamaha modules. I ditched the yamaha and got a Soundblaster 16
>
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From: Todd Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IRQ and Modem
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:29:42 GMT
I had to change my IRQ default setting for the COM 4 port (modem port) to
another setting (I used 04 to be exact) when I installed Windows 98, in
order to recognize/initialize my modem. Now that I have Red Hat 6.2
installed, I'm having the same problem I had initially with Windows 98;
but, I don't know how to change the IRQ setting (i.e. windows offered a
simple graphical display interface to make this easy for us amateurs).
I've typed cat /proc/interrupts; it shows that there is no IRQ set for the
modem; so, how do I set this manually?
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Subject: Re: IRQ under Linux
From: Sebastian Fischmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Aug 2000 11:28:57 +0200
Hi.
Correction of everything I said. The only thing that is broken or
does not work properly is _me_! After some recompiling and
re-configuring everything works fine now. The all the devices
correctly share IRQ 11 and work properly. (Hopefully will they also
work like this after the next reboot ;-)
Sorry for bothering,
-Sebastian
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From: "Arnaud Jayet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB modem under Linux ?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:45:42 GMT
Hi,
I plan to buy an USB modem (Elsa microlink 56k), I wonder if this modem is
correctly managed under Mandrake 7.1 release ?
Does kernel 2.4 soon available (with a complete distribution like mandrake)
? USB really well managed with kernel 2.4 ?
thanks
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From: "Harris L. Gilliam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI CDRW Locks up Redhat 6.1
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 06:02:58 -0400
bernieo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just purchased a Yamaha 8x8x24 SCSI CD Recorder.
> This replaces an IDE CD Recorder which I could not get to work under
> Linux.
I'm having similar problems with the INITIO Ultra SCSI card and a
Yamaha 6x4x16 CDRW. I'm pretty sure what happens is that the Yamaha
gets confuzzled when the termination isn't just right and then does
some sort of SCSI bus reset that crashes the machine.
In my config I have the Yamaha and an AIWA 4mm DAT connected at the
same time. The DAT is external. Someone mentioned in another thread
that sometimes the SCSI card doesn't have enough juice to power the
internal and external terminators. So my next attempt is to enable
the terminator power on the DAT and see if things improve. You might
want to try something similar.
This is either a bug in the Yamaha firmware or the INITIO device
driver, I can't tell which yet.
---Harris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fritz!X USB working under Linux?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:10:44 GMT
hi
does the AVM Fritz!X USB external ISDN solution work with Linux?
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux and USB support
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:15:58 GMT
The SuSE distribution has quite good USB support - even with the 2.2.x
Kernel - they wrote their own USB drivers.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Kent R. Frazier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been away from the Linux scene for awhile, and would like to
build
> another Linux box. How is the support for USB now? Any distro.
supporting
> this more than the others? I was probably going to build on Red Hat,
since
> this is what I am use to, but I am open to any and all suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kent
>
> --
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> Kent R. Frazier, KD5AES
> Grid: DM91sk
> SETI at Home: 88WU/1444hrs
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
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From: Erik Oomen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alps Touchpad
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:38:25 GMT
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, David Elliott wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I have a problem with linux and my alps touchpad on my laptop. I do not have
> a mouse pointer i just have a block.
> Does anybody have a driver or any suggestions.
That is a software problem related to your videocard driver.
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Erik Oomen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Joshua Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SURFboard 1100 in Linux ...??
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:55:32 GMT
Hello.
I recently signed up with Adelphia cable for their cable modem service,
the only downside is that it's one-way ... Well, they gave me the choice
between the SURFboard 1000 (internal) and the SURFboard 1100 (external)
and I of course chose the external. I've got the thing plugged into my
3Com 905C card and it works well in Windows through it's web interface,
accessed through http://192.168.100.1/ ... well, then I tried it in
Linux ... oops, look at that, you can click the Connect button, but then
it waits for a reply that never comes ... I look around at the source
some, and I saw that if I go to http://192.168.100.1/connecting.html in
Linux, it'll connect ... but, I can't figure out how to disconnect,
and I know that it's not supposed to be this hard to set up ... I am
running RedHat 6.2 with the 2.2.16 kernel, and I really, really would
appreciate any help that you could give me. Right now the only way that
I can disconnect in Linux is to unplug the phone line from the wall for
about 30 seconds ...
Thanks.
Joshua Boyd
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From: "Joao Viegas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 36Gb hd as secondary hd
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:08:13 +0100
Hello there!
Originally, i installed RedHat 6.1 in a Maxtor 36gb hd. Because of several
inconsistencies, I decided to reinstall
RedHat in a 1Gb hd (it's also Maxtor but quite old), so that I wouldn't have
problems with booting (once in a while
fsck would complain and give me cold sweats).
Everything was okay, until I tried to mount the 36gb hd as a secondary
drive.
I upgraded my bios, wich now recognizes the disk correctly, giving the
following chs; 4441,255,63. It seems a
bit strange, but the total gives around 36gb. The sticker in the drive says
the geomtry is 16693,16,63 giving a total of
8gb.
Linux recognizes a disk with 5543,16,63, having a total of 2.4Gb.
I changed the lilo to force him to recognize the geometry recognized by
the BIOS. I can use fdisk and make
a partition with the total amount of blocks, and the total size is +- 35gb
wich is ok. The problem is when I try to make
the filesystem with mke2fs. I have to tell it the total amount of blocks or
else we're back to the beggining (with the
5543 cylinders). He can't write the extra superblocks, mount gives problems
and I can't use the drive properly.
All I want is to have a 36gb disk as a secondary drive so that it can
store all my files.
The funny thing is, Originally, although Linux would complain about some
inconcistencies once in a while, I
had no problems installing it in the drive, and it recognized the full size
of it.
Can anyone help?
The computer is an Athlon 650Mhz, 768Mb RAM and a FIC SD11 Motherboard.
It's used as a server.
thanks for any help.
joao viegas
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