Linux-Hardware Digest #475, Volume #13 Thu, 24 Aug 00 21:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: 70Gb Harddisk (Peter Eddy)
Re: Inexpensive IR or Ethernet Laser Printers (Bruce Forsberg)
Re: set up ISA modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Asus A7V slow disk speed (bernieo)
Re: set up ISA modem (Rob Clark)
Re: set up ISA modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kenwood cdrom (Spiral Man)
Change of domain (Justin Hamm)
Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working ("David N. Haney")
Re: Extremely slow GeForce with NVDIA (Jim Broughton)
Re: set up ISA modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
??:How To Read Multiple Data Tracks From A CD?? (Douglas E. Mitton)
Scanner & CD Burner advice? (Robert Jones)
Re: Scanner & CD Burner advice? (Alex)
Re: SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset.... (Mohammed Ishaq)
Re: Scanner & CD Burner advice? (Mike Frisch)
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From: Peter Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 70Gb Harddisk
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:12:54 -0400
Daniel Ammon wrote:
>
> It's an additional one and I need full capacity on one drive
>
How about this, partition the drive into several partitions, then make
them all look like one again with Linux's software RAID?
I don't know if it'll work, but it sounds like fun :)
Peter
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From: Bruce Forsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Inexpensive IR or Ethernet Laser Printers
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:14:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Joseph C. Kopec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I ultimately bought a Brother HL-1270N, for $500, and I like alot it
so
> far. It was really quick to set up the network printing under Linux,
> though I did first change the IP address of the printer using
Brother's
> included Win98 software (you apparently also can do it directly under
> Linux). Brother's "Network User's Guide", which comes on the included
> CD (which I guess requires Win or Mac to read), devotes a great deal
of
> attention to Unix and Linux issues: Chapter 1 is entitled "How to
> Configure TCP/IP printing for Unix Systems". Overall, I am very
pleased
> -- this is probably the cheapest laser printer with a built-in
ethernet
> port and it has very Linux-friendly documentation.
>
Glad to here that you like it so far. I seem to remember I had some
difficulty changing the IP address as well. I think I printed out a
status sheet which gave me their default IP address and then changed
the IP address on my laptop so that it could see it. Then changed it
by telnet or rlogin into the printer.
One great software package to use with postscript printers is the
psutils package. You can find this at freshmeat.net. They have a
utility called psnup which will print 2 or 4 pages to a page. A great
paper saver.
Bruce Forsberg
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: set up ISA modem
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:58:05 GMT
It and the three on the shelf are not winmodems. As for the /dev/modem
pointing to /dev/ttyS0 that is where pppsetup 1.98 pointed it (I
guess).
I hope to set an old 486 HP as a firewall. It is Zipslack 7.0 that I
have put on it. I am using RH 6.2 on my LAN server.
# pnpdump
Trying prot address . . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
No boards found
#more /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 82794 XT-PIC timer
1: 334 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 11 XT-PIC eth0
12: 0 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 35923 XT-PIC ide0
NMI: 0
# more dmesg
Linux version 2.2.13 (root@zap) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1
.1.2 release)) #2 Wed Apr 26 20:20:19 PDT 2000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 12.47 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30008k/32768k available (1548k kernel code, 416k reserved,
696k data, 10
0k init)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
mode... Ok.
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: 486
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: No PCI bus detected
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 0K size
loop: registered device at major 7
hda: QUANTUM ELS170A, ATA DISK drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: QUANTUM ELS170A, 162MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=1011/15/22
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is an 8272A
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
WARNING - no ppa compatible devices found.
As of 31/Aug/1998 Iomega started shipping parallel
port ZIP drives with a different interface which is
supported by the imm (ZIP Plus) driver. If the
cable is marked with "AutoDetect", this is what has
happened.
imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k freed
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels,
max=256).
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
PPP BSD Compression module registered
eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 a0 24 1a f7 c2,
IRQ 10.
3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.14
kernel build: 2.2.13 #22 Wed Oct 20 17:32:52 CDT 1999
options: [pci] [cardbus]
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
registered device ppp0
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:27:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
># ls -l /dev/modem
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 27 18:06 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0
>
># ppp-go
># Connect script failed
>
>I have been through the man pages for pppd, pnpdump, chat, setserial,
>and more. I have printed out and read PPP-HOWTO, the Modem-HOWTO, as
>well as FAQs, scoured usenet posting . . . anything that might
>possibly provide a clue.
>
>I have set-up a LAN with four boxes (two of which are Win98),
>configured Samba, Apache, written Perl scripts and C programs. I have
>done all this without asking for help; by Reading The Fine Material
>available. But I can not get a freaking modem to work under Linux.
>
>About ready to throw it all in the trash and go back to pounding nails
>for a living.
>
>signed, very frustrated
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From: bernieo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Asus A7V slow disk speed
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:00:29 GMT
"Ralph D. Ungermann" wrote:
> bernieo wrote:
> >
> > I just upgraded from an AMD K6-2 400 w/FIC VA-503+ Motherboard to
> > a AMD Athlon 800 (Thunderbird) w/Asus A7V Socket A motherboard.
> [snip]
> > On the K6-2, I was getting between 10-12 MB/sec transfer rate with
> > hdparm -t with parameters hdparm -c3 -d1 -X34 /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.
>
> Try
>
> hdparm -m16 -c1 -d1 /dev/hd[ab]
>
> These settings work nice with my Asus K7M (VIA 82C686).
>
> The -X option prints an error message, but it seems to be unneccessary
> either.
>
> BTW, you did enable 'Generic PCI bus-master DMA support' in your kernel,
> didn't you?
>
> Ralph
No go on the parameters provided. Knocked back down to approx 3 MB/s.
How do I check to see if 'Generic PCI bus-master DMA support' is enabled?
I've got the 2.2.12-20 Kernel that came with Red Hat 6.1.
Bernie
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Subject: Re: set up ISA modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:06:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
>ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
>ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
That's probably not going to work (sharing IRQs between two serial
devices). Could you disable your on-board COM1?
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: set up ISA modem
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:18:04 GMT
How?
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:06:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
>>ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
>>ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>
>That's probably not going to work (sharing IRQs between two serial
>devices). Could you disable your on-board COM1?
>
>Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>
>
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From: Spiral Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kenwood cdrom
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:14:33 -0500
i need to get a new cd-rom drive, and was looking around and found a
neat kenwood 72x that split the beam to read multiple tracks at once.
unfortunately, the required os is listed as windows, and i was wondering
if anybody knew if this would work under linux as a standard atapi cd
drive
also, if anybody has any sugestions for a good, reliable, fast cddrive
that would be nice (preferable ide, cause i dont wanna buy a scsi card
for this comp, but if there is something really cool...)
thanks
spiralman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Justin Hamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Change of domain
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:36:42 GMT
I'm running Debian kernel 2.2.16, during the network configure, I
specified a hostname for my computer that doesn't exist. Anyone know how
I can rename my system? I know the name name for the machine is edited in
/etc/hostname but I'm not sure where to change the domain name. Any
ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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From: "David N. Haney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:56:28 -0700
A E Lawrence wrote:
>
> "David N. Haney" wrote:
> >
> > I also have the FA311. I tried the fa311.c provided by Netgear without
> > success.
Dr. AE Lawrence:
I'm sorry I seem to have lost your correct email. I respect your
interest in slowing the relentless SPAMMERs. Since I have not
yet tested the FA311 at 100BT, you are right I may run into problems.
This machine is destined for my son's dorm room where I think they
have 100BT.
Could you please update me on how to deal with the problems:
eg get Netgear to replace the card with on that works, or eat
the loss and get ??? Is it possible to tell the card to use
10BT on a 100BT network?
> I had very little problem at 10Mb/s.
>
> >I dont
> > know what would happen if you tell it to run at 100BT, but I am
> > very happy with it so far.
>
> So you may yet encounter the difficulties :-)
> Dr A E Lawrence (from home with apologies for spam enhanced reply
> address)
Thanks for the help.
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Extremely slow GeForce with NVDIA
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:21:37 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan-K}re Bording wrote:
>
> I'm running RedHat 6.2 with the 2.4.0-test4 kernel, XFree86 4.01 and
> I have
> installed both the NVDIA kernel and GLX driver for my GeForce card.
>
> /sbin/lsmod gives:
> Module Size Used by
> NVdriver 447976 18 (autoclean)
>
> OpenGL aplications are compiling without problems, but they are
> extremely slow.
> The OpenGL program ssystem has a framerate of about 10 which is at most
> 1/30
> of the speed I should experience.
>
> ldd ssystem gives:
> libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x4001c000)
> libglut.so.3 => /local/X11R6/lib/libglut.so.3 (0x4003b000)
> libGLU.so.1 => /local/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x4006d000)
> libGL.so.1 => /local/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x40089000)
> libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401e7000)
> libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x401f4000)
> libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x40208000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40210000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x402d3000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402f0000)
> libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x403e6000)
> libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x403ef000)
> libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x40405000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40450000)
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40463000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>
> I conclude that the OpenGL rendering is actually done in software rather
> than
> the hardware on my graphics card. Does anyone know how to fix this...??
>
> Sincerely J.K.Bording
Certainly. REREAD THE NVIDIA DOCS. Your libGL links must be relinked to the
Nvidia
libGL.so. All traces of mesaGL must be removed or a new link created to point at
the
Nvidia libGL.so. I get Great frame rates with my GTS 2.
--
Jim Broughton
(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
If Sense were common everyone would have it!
Following Air and Water the third most abundant
thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: set up ISA modem
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:38:46 GMT
In Windows I can open terminal utility, select a device from a drop
down, then send it AT commands. Thus I can send a modem an AT command
and if it is a happy modem it will respond with an "OK".
My question is this: How do I do that under Linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ??:How To Read Multiple Data Tracks From A CD??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:40:51 GMT
Hi All;
I'm trying to find out how to read multiple data tracks from a CD! If
I use "dd" I only get the first track. Do I need a separate program
to do this or can I give specific parameters to "dd" to do it. I
haven't been able to figure it out from the man page.
In particular, I'm trying to read the individual tracks listed when
you do a "cdrecord -toc" on a multisession CD.
Just as a side note I can read audio tracks off with cdda2wav, then
write them back to create a new audio CD. How do I do it with data?
Thanks in advance.
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'City of the Thousand Islands'
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Scanner & CD Burner advice?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:45:26 -0500
I'm seeking recommendations for hardware to handle a specific task
initially but which will be useful in the future. Initially, I'd like to
scan all of my granddaughter's wedding pictures (4x5) and burn them onto
CDs for myself and other members of the families. The hardware *must* be
compatible with Linux because, while I would grudgingly consider Windows
for this specific job, I'm doing my best to put Microsloth in my past.
I'm running RH6.0, kernel 2.2.16 on a homemade AMD K6-2 400MHz ATX box.
I have only one IDE port available (secondary slave) but have an Adaptec
2940 with nothing attached except a DAT drive.
Price IS an object, which is why I don't want to buy junk and have to do
it all over again.
Any suggestions on scanners and CD RWs would be appreciated -- as would
any software solutions (but this ain't the right group for that).
TIA
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scanner & CD Burner advice?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:55:00 -0400
> Any suggestions on scanners and CD RWs would be appreciated -- as would
As for scanner, check out the following web page
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
It has a list of supported scanner.
I use UMAX 600S... It's not very expensive... However, the resolution is
just ok.
As for CD-RW, I prefer SCSI... EIDE device also works.
Software:
The most important one is
cdrecord
xcdrost and gcombust are pretty good front end programs that use cdrecord.
Alex.
>
> any software solutions (but this ain't the right group for that).
>
> TIA
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From: Mohammed Ishaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset....
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:51:06 GMT
The HE Supports AGP 2x. AGP 4x will be supported in soon.
ishaq
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Trent Piepho wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Does anyone know anything about the SuperMicro 370DL3 mother board?
Does
> > >anyone know anything about the performance of the ServerWorks
SeverSet
> > >III LE chipset? I've been looking for benchmarks & reviews of this
> > >board but I haven't found anything. Any thoughts or suggestions?
> >
> > I've read on a mailing list that someone does in fact have linux
running on a
> > serverworks III chipset, the LE I think. It was just a recent stock
kernel,
> > so it appear that Linux should work on that motherboard. I don't
know
> > anything about the performance, but would be very interested in
finding out.
> >
> > Both Supermicro and ASUS have a ServerWorks III LE based board out.
Tyan
> > supposedly has a III HE board, the Thunder 2500, which should give
better
> > performance than the LE chipset. Tyan doesn't list the board on
their site,
> > just the thunder 2400 which is intel 840 based. They do have a pdf
manual for
> > the 2500 on the support page. I can't find anyone selling a 2500,
so I don't
> > know what's up with that board.
> >
> > Neither the LE nor the HE chipsets support AGP, which greatly limits
the
> > performance and selection of graphics cards you can use. The
serverworks III
> > WS chipset supports AGP, but I don't know of any motherboards that
use it.
> >
> > It looks like if you want 64-bit PCI slots and AGP, your only option
is the
> > intel 840 chipset. Except the 840 chipset doesn't work, so there
are no
> > options!
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Scanner & CD Burner advice?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:04:53 GMT
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:45:26 -0500, Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Any suggestions on scanners and CD RWs would be appreciated -- as would
>any software solutions (but this ain't the right group for that).
You asked, so I'll tell :-)
I use an Epson Perfection 610 USB scanner, which seems to work pretty well
with (SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy) and a recent 2.2.x kernel with the
backported 2.3.x USB driver). The software crashes occasionally, but I
blame the software not the scanner itself. The scan quality is decent and
scan speeds are good.
For a CD-RW drive, I use a Sony CRX100E (IDE/ATAPI; 24x read; 4x write; 2x
rewrite) and cdrecord. It has worked flawlessly for almost 2 years now.
I cannot burn 700MB CDs, but that's not a big concern of mine.
Hope this helps,
Mike.
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