Linux-Hardware Digest #437, Volume #13 Thu, 17 Aug 00 13:13:05 EDT
Contents:
restoring / from tape (AndrewM)
lucky7.to - What a lucky Free URL Redirection Service! (Christine)
Re: Onboard modems (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Onboard modems (Jeff Peterson)
Re: restoring / from tape (Gereon Wenzel)
Re: Is there a standalone driver/source available for the Adaptec 29160 (Michael
Meding)
Color printer advise seek ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IRQ-Finding-Problem (Stefan Silberstein)
shotgunning two modems under linux ("Denis Baldwin")
Re: Not all memory detected under linux (Peter Robin Hiesinger)
Re: Not all memory detected under linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
Athlon systems? (Dave Sill)
Yamaha DS-XG and ALSA ("alien8")
Re: Adding more space to my Linux System ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Athlon systems? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
can't read contents of floppy disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
overclocking the nightshade serverboard ("Rob Love")
FWD: SuSE swipes AS/400 in IBM megadeal. (blowfish)
Is it possible to get Microtek phantom 330 cx scanner work in linux (Timo Vuorela)
Re: joysticks and cs461x/cs4280 ("Rich Rudnick")
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From: AndrewM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: restoring / from tape
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:05:32 GMT
I have 2 drives on my system, hda and hdb.
Root (/) and most other partitions are on hda. This drive is failing
and I can access it in RO mode by booting into Linux Single. I seem to
be able to read it OK, so after I back it up to tape how do I restore it
to a new drive.
I know I can add another drive and format it, so now that I have hdc,
can I just do a tar -xvf /dev/st0 > /dev/hdc ?
Will this install lilo as well?
Anyone with experience in this, please help me out.
Thanks
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christine)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: lucky7.to - What a lucky Free URL Redirection Service!
Date: 17 Aug 2000 12:53:13 GMT
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Subject: Re: Onboard modems
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Aug 2000 08:55:48 -0400
DTRenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an HSP56 onboard modem.
HSP = host signal processing
iow your computer -- not the card -- is the modem.
the card in and of itself is not a complete modem. you must have the
(microsoft windows specific) driver which runs on the host for it.
> Is there any chance
no, there is no chance.
from <URL:http://www.multiwave.com/support/right_faq_hsp.htm>
Q. Can I use my modem with operating system other than Windows?
Answer: No. We do not support OS/2 and Linux any other OS.
> 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.
get an external modem which uses rs-232c serial. watchen das
blinkenlights.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
sysengr
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From: Jeff Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Onboard modems
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:26:51 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DTRenwick wrote:
>
> 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.
The 3Com U.S.Robotics internal modem, model 5610A is a true hardware
modem
and is supported works under Linux by 3Com. I have one and it works
great.
Jeff Peterson
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From: Gereon Wenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: restoring / from tape
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:51:07 +0200
For sure LILO will not be installed by a tape recovery.
Maybe the way you describe will work,
but why don't you use dd for a disc to disc copy?
If both (all three) drives are installed.
When my disc crashed i did a minimum install from CD
then backuped from tape.
Gereon Wenzel
AndrewM schrieb:
>
> I have 2 drives on my system, hda and hdb.
> Root (/) and most other partitions are on hda. This drive is failing
> and I can access it in RO mode by booting into Linux Single. I seem to
> be able to read it OK, so after I back it up to tape how do I restore it
> to a new drive.
>
> I know I can add another drive and format it, so now that I have hdc,
> can I just do a tar -xvf /dev/st0 > /dev/hdc ?
>
> Will this install lilo as well?
>
> Anyone with experience in this, please help me out.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: Michael Meding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a standalone driver/source available for the Adaptec 29160
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:58:33 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No there is not, at least to my knowledge. Go to
people.redhat.com/dledford for sourcecode and development, he is the
maintainer I think. Any newer kernel source may also work for you :-)
Regards
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Color printer advise seek
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:55:28 GMT
Hello,
Would like to get an advise which color printer will best
suit me, conidering next criterias:
- Photographic quality, really important;
- Not very frequent use, nor high speed needed;
- Reliability
- Not too expenive the ink;
- Max $500.
And a second question: how to get a second paralel port on
a matsonic M727 board? - the first port is for my laser
printer, where do I attach the second one?
Thank, George
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From: Stefan Silberstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ-Finding-Problem
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:29:02 +0200
David Weis wrote:
>
> I've got a few available that I can loan you, but I need them back when
> you're done. :-)
>
> Check in /proc/interrupts and see which don't have anything listed. If
> it's pci it will probably share with other cards fine.
>
> david
>
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Stefan Silberstein wrote:
>
> > I need an availble IRQ for my SCSI Controller.
> >
> > How do I search for one?
> >
> > Thanks for Helping,
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> >
>
> --
> David Weis | 10520 New York Ave, Des Moines, IA 50322
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice 515-278-0133 Ext 231
> | http://www.perfectionlearning.com/
> When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
> When they took the Fifth Amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
> When they took the Second Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
> Now they've taken the First Amendment and I can't say anything.
Thank you!!
I succeeded in this step.
Stefan
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From: "Denis Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shotgunning two modems under linux
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:28:42 -0400
I currently having IP chains hooked up on my Redhat 6.2 box with one 56k
modem shared between 20 computers. This is dirt slow. I was looking at
shotgunning together two modems with the linux box (two modems, two phone
lines). This would in theory get me 100k/sec or so downstream. This also
brings up another thought. What if I shotgunned four modems together over
four lines? Has anyone ever done this under linux? Here are a few things
to keep in mind:
1. I can't get ISDN, DSL or Cable modem where I am, so shotgunning is one
of my only options.
2. My whole network (except the Linux box) runs on DHCP.
3. I have four open PCI slots and can get four USR/3com modems if needed.
4. I have four open phone lines.
If anyone has done this, please let me know how. Please write back to me
directly (as well as posting to the group if you would like) as I have
limited newsgroup access.
Thank you in advance,
Denis
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From: Peter Robin Hiesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not all memory detected under linux
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:16:07 +0200
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> : Does anyone know where the missing 17M might be gone?
>
> Nowhere of course. Show the data to us for comment, but don't expect
> anything from a statement like 'memory is missing'. Here for example
> is the output of /proc/meminfo for my 128MB machine:
>
> cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 131395584 125083648 6311936 22073344 45395968 38891520
> Swap: 264200192 43274240 220925952
> MemTotal: 128316 kB
> MemFree: 6164 kB
> MemShared: 21556 kB
> Buffers: 44332 kB
> Cached: 37980 kB
> SwapTotal: 258008 kB
> SwapFree: 215748 kB
Hi Peter,
thanks for your help, I will seriously try to work on my beliefs. In the
meantime, here is what I meant with /proc/meminfo says there are only
111M:
robin@openair:~ > cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 113836032 109998080 3837952 67899392 14376960 45223936
Swap: 271425536 167936 271257600
MemTotal: 111168 kB
MemFree: 3748 kB
MemShared: 66308 kB
Buffers: 14040 kB
Cached: 44164 kB
BigTotal: 0 kB
BigFree: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 265064 kB
SwapFree: 264900 kB
In contrast, in /var/log/boot.msg we can see:
4>Memory: 127560k/131072k available (1416k kernel code, 412k reserved,
1620k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
The machine definitely has 128M, but it has not video card - in fact,
it's a laptop.
Can anyone make sense of this?
robin
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not all memory detected under linux
Date: 17 Aug 2000 14:55:27 GMT
Peter Robin Hiesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
:> : Does anyone know where the missing 17M might be gone?
: thanks for your help, I will seriously try to work on my beliefs. In the
: meantime, here is what I meant with /proc/meminfo says there are only
: 111M:
: robin@openair:~ > cat /proc/meminfo
: total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
: Mem: 113836032 109998080 3837952 67899392 14376960 45223936
: Swap: 271425536 167936 271257600
: MemTotal: 111168 kB
^^^^^^^^
Yes, well, that's over 108MB and under 109MB. 20MB of your memory "is
missing".
: MemFree: 3748 kB
: MemShared: 66308 kB
: Buffers: 14040 kB
: Cached: 44164 kB
: BigTotal: 0 kB
: BigFree: 0 kB
: SwapTotal: 265064 kB
: SwapFree: 264900 kB
: In contrast, in /var/log/boot.msg we can see:
: 4>Memory: 127560k/131072k available (1416k kernel code, 412k reserved,
: 1620k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
: The machine definitely has 128M, but it has not video card - in fact,
: it's a laptop.
That means it DOES have a video card (onboard or not). What do
SuperProbe and X -probeonly say about it?
: Can anyone make sense of this?
Not without more data. What is the kernel version, for example?
(we'll have to go away and look in the source code to see if that
kernel checks the ram to see if it's present after taking your
command line bootoptions).
Personally I would check through the rest of your bootup messages!
Peter
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From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Athlon systems?
Date: 17 Aug 2000 11:05:05 -0400
I'm looking for a good supplier of Athlon-based Linux systems. I want:
- quality components (t-bird cpu, 133 MHz ECC memory, good monitor)
- web-based system configurator
- good reputation
- low prices
Any suggestions?
I know I could build my own, but local policy prohibits that. I could
buy a Windows system and install Linux, but (1) I don't want to buy
Windows, and (2) I don't want to deal with Linux h/w compatibility
issues.
--
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
"Life with qmail", everything you always wanted to know: <URL:http://lwq.w3.to>
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From: "alien8" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yamaha DS-XG and ALSA
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:37:12 GMT
I recently purchased Corel Linux and I've got it running in a dual-boot with
Win98. This computer's motherboard is Intel's MU440EX which has the Yamaha
DS-XG onboard PCI audio.
I've followed linuxnewbie.org's ALSA installation how-to, and everything
went great up until the command 'modprobe snd-ymfpci' which brought up the
following error:
============================================================================
----
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/snd.o: unresolved symbol printk_Rsmp_1b7d4074
soundcore: Device or resource busy
snd-mixer: No such file or directory
snd-mixer: No such file or directory
snd: No such file or directory
============================================================================
----
I tried rebooting anyways and I get to the log-in screen fine, but as soon
as it starts loading KDE, everything freezes up and the only solution is to
3-finger salute, and then reboot to console and rename /etc/conf.modules to
something else and rename the backup.
Ive tried the following versions of the ALSA drivers:
0.5.8
0.5.9
0.5.9a
and I always get the same results. I've also tried opening up the Task
Manager and sending the Kill Signal to all open audio processes (kwmsound
and kaudioserver) which were marked as Sleep and Zombie respectively, but to
no avail.
I've searched all the forums here with no luck, as well as read all of
ALSA's documentation and I've come to the following decision: If I can't get
it to run I'll have to go out and buy an old SB ISA card, but I'd really
rather get this one working... Any suggestions?
=======
alien8
www.planetunreal.com
www.planetunreal.com/modcentral
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adding more space to my Linux System
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:30:41 GMT
In article <mlJm5.8903$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Gretchen Schoser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
You need fdisk or cfdisk to create new partitions,
then you'll need mkfs to create filesystems.
See http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/LDP/sag/x885.html#AEN1017
and http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/LDP/sag/x1038.html#AEN1116
--
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Technical Analyst
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Athlon systems?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:43:12 GMT
I can get you something...Let me know how much you are looking to
spend...
-Manny
http://www.wastenotime.com
http://www.softwarezrus.com
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for a good supplier of Athlon-based Linux systems. I want:
>
> - quality components (t-bird cpu, 133 MHz ECC memory, good monitor)
> - web-based system configurator
> - good reputation
> - low prices
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> I know I could build my own, but local policy prohibits that. I could
> buy a Windows system and install Linux, but (1) I don't want to buy
> Windows, and (2) I don't want to deal with Linux h/w compatibility
> issues.
>
> --
> Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<URL:http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
> Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
> "Life with qmail", everything you always wanted to know:
<URL:http://lwq.w3.to>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can't read contents of floppy disk
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:44:42 GMT
I have made a boot floppy rather than booting from the hard drive. All
my attempts to read the contents of the drive in order to insert boot
parameters has failed. When the floppy is mounted the dialog returned is
"/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device." I mount using mount /dev/fdo
/mnt/floppy and I do have a /mnt/floppy directory.
Also while I am asking for help, I know how to format a floppy and put a
file system on it; but how do i put a boot.img on it and still be able
to read the disk contents? I use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 to format and
/mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0.
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From: "Rob Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: overclocking the nightshade serverboard
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:17:43 -0700
Hello,
I have a nightshade serverboard that is running 2 PII 400s. I would like
to overclock them, but I can't seem to find any support or info on the web.
I assume that it's because most users don't have this board and any company
that buys the server isn't going to overclock it. Anyone have any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Rob Love
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: FWD: SuSE swipes AS/400 in IBM megadeal.
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:25:49 -0700
SuSE swipes AS/400 in IBM megadeal
By: Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 17/08/2000 at 10:05 GMT
SuSE is leading a charge to put Linux on IBM's AS/400 servers, and public
demonstrations should be ready before the end of the year the company said
yesterday.
Dirk Hondel, SuSE CTO, told The Register that a number of big customers were
piloting large S/390 projects which involved replaced hundreds of infrastructure
PCs with virtual counterparts running in mainframe partitions.
The news came as SuSE announced that IBM would make its Linux 7.0 distro available
across the full range of IBM business PCs and RS/6000s. SuSE will be first choice
in Europe, and along with Caldera, top choice in the US too.
If you knew SuSE
Although partnerships between OEMs and distros are announced every day, what
swings this one is that SuSE has got across the board coverage for IBM kit on
ThinkPads, NetVista clients, Intellistations and NetFinity servers.
Full Story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12646.html
=========================================
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer user.
(Have Fun with geek's culture:-Version
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Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
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lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That will bring
us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh.
(c)Copy Righted by Alex / blowfish. -2000. All Rights Reserved.
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From: Timo Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is it possible to get Microtek phantom 330 cx scanner work in linux
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:29:58 +0300
I got my scanner (Microtek phantom 330 cx) couple of months ago and
since then I have been browsing internet and hoping to find some help
but
without any luck.
Is it possible to get it work in linux and if it�s possible can somebody
tell me how?
_______________________________________________________
Timo Vuorela
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Rich Rudnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: joysticks and cs461x/cs4280
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:36:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:16:58 GMT, Rich Rudnick wrote:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>(Prasanth A. Kumar) wrote:
>>> "Rich Rudnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>> has anyone gotten a joystick to operate with a cs4280? Specifically,
>>>> joy-gravis.o using a blackhawk digital on a 2.2.15-mdk kernel running
>>>> on an emachine 466is with onboard cirrus logic 4280 chip :-), although
>>>> any experience would be appreciated!
>>> So specific advice but did you read the 'joystick.txt' file that comes
>>> with kernel source? It is fairly informative though in your case, it
>>> doesn't elaborate anything more than load the joystick and joy-gravis
>>> modules
>>I'd like to get this chip going, but I'm open to suggestions about sound
>>cards where the game port usage is well known and documented.
>
> Well, for a Gravis Pro, I do:
> modprobe es1371 joystick=0x200 modprobe joy-gravis
> For the ES1371, joystick support is not enabled unless you pass the module
> the joystick= parameter. Which module(s) do you use to drive your sound
> card here? It might be worth your while to grep through the source of
> those modules in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/ for references to
> "joystick" and see if there's a magic sequence you need to pass, or if
> your particular soundcard puts its joystick bits somewhere other than
> 0x200.
>
The cs4280 is not supported by the sound modules provided with the kernel; I
use alsa for sound support. I've grepped thru my modules there, and no
joystick. Apparently, from what I've seen in the kernel source, not many
cards show much joystick support.
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