Linux-Hardware Digest #480, Volume #13 Fri, 25 Aug 00 22:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: low power linux devices (Nels Tomlinson)
Re: WD 8003WC (mst)
Help With Correctly Mounting SCSI CDROM Writer (brian)
Re: set up ISA modem (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Zip Drive install (Nels Tomlinson)
plustek opticpro 2400 hardware compatibility ("Clara")
Re: What is killing my ethernet? (mbortis)
Re: cannot get into Gnome (mbortis)
Re: Adaptec 29160 with 2.0.39 kernel (mbortis)
Re: help with Redhat and Raid (mbortis)
Re: CD-ROM woes (mbortis)
Re: RAID 5 on RH 6.2 (mbortis)
Re: CD-ROM woes (Chuck)
Using Promise Ultra66 in NORMAL mode (not LBA) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ADSL Alcatel Speed Touch: any driver ? (Bruno Costacurta)
Re: ADSL Alcatel Speed Touch: any driver ? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: plustek opticpro 2400 hardware compatibility (Paul Pygeon)
Re: FYI: Applix vs. StarOffice vs. WP8 for Linux.... (Dennis Lee Bieber)
d-link problem!!!! help (jw)
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From: Nels Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: low power linux devices
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:08:07 -0500
"Kurt M. Alonso" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone recommend a linux setup that doesn't consume too much power?
> I am about to get a cable inet link and would like to have a more or
> less permanently
> connected linux computer.
> I don't need a high performance system, just a small computer capable of
> running some net
> services, caching DNS, routing, perhaps retrieving stock prices, etc.
> In the short to medium term, however, I would like to computerize my
> home, stream
> MP3, OGG, RA, etc onto 1 or more linux devices having perhaps small LCDs
> for general
> information, ...
>
> (In the medium to long term it would also be fun to also stream MPEG-2
> files, if support
> for MPEG-2 cards under linux improves. But that is still fantasy.)
>
> I do not really require x86 compatibility. Price is not terribly
> important. Low power
> consumption is simply the main goal.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kurt
Hi,
If low power is vital and you are sure that you don't need any fancy
hardware, get an old cheap laptop. You can't upgrade them, and they
aren't fast for the money, but they typically have a 20W power supply,
compared to 200W+ for a desktop. Consider, though: if electricity cost
ten cents per KWh, a 250W power supply will take 4 hours to burn 10
cents worth of juice. That's 60 cents per 24 hour day, and won't break
most budgets. Perhaps the best argument for using a laptop is that they
are QUIET! If they have a fan, it's typically tiny and unobtrusive.
Get an older high-end laptop and hook it up to a larger monitor, and
you'll probably be pretty happy. One last thought: do you really need
it turned on 24/7/365? Can't it just be connected all the time, and
turned on when you want it? It does seem to be easier on the hardware
to keep it turned on all the time, but I don't think it's significant...
Anyway, good luck.
Nels
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WD 8003WC
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:14:57 -0400
John Janmaat wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to configure a system with an old WD ethernet card. I have
> no manuals. On the card is printed "8003WC B 2692", which suggests it
> is a Western Digital Ethercard Plus card. I cannot get the Debian
> install package to configure it. Redhat's install did O.K., but then
> seemed to forget the settings that were working after the install was
> finished.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
They are supported by the wd driver. Try a "modprobe wd", and if it
loads fine, configure your network. Take a look at the ethernet-howto,
there's some information about these cards.
MST
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help With Correctly Mounting SCSI CDROM Writer
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 15:13:26 -0500
Problem: when an external scsi cdrom writer is attached (through a
pcmcia card), the
system mounts the device, upon initial startup, to the same mount
directory of the internal cdrom player, using RedHat 6.2, kernel
2.2.16-3. For example, both the cdrom and the external cdrom writer
mount to /mnt/cdrom even though fstab clearly shows /mnt/cdromscsi as
the mount directory for the scsi.
Not sure if this is a /etc/rc.sysinit script problem or some other
problem.
What can I do to resolve this dual mounting problem?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: set up ISA modem
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:44:39 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Hague) writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
>>enabled
>You already have SHARE_IRQ enabled - i.e., serial port IRQ sharing WILL
>work, and you should ignore the other posters telling you otherwise or
>to recompile your kernel. That's not the problem.
[...]
Uh, that's not quite correct. The SHARE_IRQ feature is not meant to
work on standard onboard ports _unless_ these ports have non-standard
features that do allow for IRQ sharing. The CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ
option - following the Configure.help text in the kernel docs - just
allows this for specific devices:
"Some serial boards have hardware support which allows multiple dumb
serial ports on the same board to share a single IRQ. To enable
support for this in the serial driver, say Y here."
Typically, you can use this with dumb multiport cards such as
the AST 4port, the Cyclades cards etc. Note: Newer boards partially
do indeed provide the needed components to allow this, so it is worth
a try. On an old 486 board, however, this is pretty moot.
Michael
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From: Nels Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip Drive install
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:18:25 -0500
Hugh Dunlop wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to install my Zip drive on Mandrake 6.0. On Installing the SCSI
> driver for the ppa it will not find my Zip Drive, it works fine under
> Windows.
> Any help would be welcome
>
> Thanks
> Hugh Dunlop
Hi,
Two thoughts:
First:
I made mine work by putting the appropriate line in /etc/fstab
dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat user,noauto 0 0
Create the /mnt/zip directory before you try to actually use it, of
course!
Then I put the following in my /etc/rl.d/rc.local file
#####my stuff to mount zip
insmod parport
insmod ppa
This worked under Mandrake 6.0 and 6.1
Second:
I had troubles with Mandrake 6.0 periodically failing to unmount the
drives! This meant periodic fsck's, and a lot of worry and irritation.
Mandrake 6.1 hasn't given me that problem. I'll soon be upgrading to
Mandrake 7.1, so we'll see how that one works.
While I had my rc.local open, here's a third thing I noticed. Might be
interesting to you. It made my box run a bit faster.
######My stuff to speed up the hard drive
hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hda
#####This roughly doubled the drive speed, from 2.86 MB/sec
#####to 5.82 MB/sec. Found in
######http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html
##### or try man hdparm
Good luck,
Nels Tomlinson
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From: "Clara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.hardware.scanner
Subject: plustek opticpro 2400 hardware compatibility
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:11:05 GMT
Hello,
Do you know how I could use my scanner Plustek OpticPro 2400 ( scsi) with
linux?
Is there any compability with other scanners ?
Thank you very much
Clara
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From: mbortis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is killing my ethernet?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:24:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am a newbie to linux, and recently installed
> Mandrake Linux v7.1. After installing, I had many
> problems getting all my hardware setup, but I
> will worry about all that at a later time. My
> main concern is that afterwords I couldn't get my
> DSL to work in Linux, so I decided to go back
> into Win98 and check some online help. To my
> dismay, I found that my ADSL connection stopped
> working in Win98, and I couldn't even connect to
> my LAN. The thing that confuses me is that my
> Linux is on hdb, and my windows is on hda.
>
> Why would the mbr on hda cause problems with my
> network card? Under windows, there aren't any
> resource conflicts, and it tells me everything is
> kosher. I have since then installed a very
> minimal Linux configuration on a 500mb boot
> partition on hdb and I could then use my ADSL
> connection in win98, but there was no network
> support or browser application installed in the
> Linux config. Has anyone else conquered this
> problem?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
OK the mbr has no bearing today-tomarrow or the next on network
communication. Anyone tells you otherwiz is lying! wht you've done is
perhaps tweeked a setting or puored a coffee over something to get it
running. The net and its hookups aren't 100% instant-on.
Thus you would have to give more info as to where the problem lays:
Do you use DHCP for and IP address or is it assigned?
What is the NIC card (brand, chipset that is on the NIC card?
Is it (the NIC card) PCI or ISA?
How many NIC cards (really not silly 'cause if you've two and you switch
the cable back and forth the prob is with arp and the NIC address not
timing out due to arp)
I hope this helps... Good Luck!
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From: mbortis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot get into Gnome
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:26:25 GMT
Anson Ng wrote:
> I just installed Redhat Linux 6.2 onto my new PC. I use a Voodoo3 2000
> w/16MB video card. But after I login, and type "startx" in my shell
> prompt, a little portion (about 10%) on top of the GUI screen shows up.
> And when I move the mousedown to the black region of hte screen, it
> disappears, i.e. everything is visible only at the top 10% of the screen
> after switching to the GUI screen. What would the problem be and how I
> could solve it??
>
> Best Regards,
> Anson
Ummm pushing it too hard? A little over zelouse? Turn the silly thing down
in resolution then back up step by step. X is damned powerful enought o
blow up monitors. Yup....stress the internals and tube and boof.. a $400
paperwieght.
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From: mbortis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 29160 with 2.0.39 kernel
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:36:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Any one know if Adaptec 29160 works with 2.0.39 kernel?
>
> I did the following:
>
> Added 29160 to a rh6.1 system.
> Have old uw drive as drive 1 and new u3w as 4.
> Want to copy all the current partitons to new drive and switch.
>
> Under rh6.1 all went fine with no errors.
>
> Switched id numbers and booted under tom's boot disk.
>
> Every thing looked all right at first but got lots of scsi errors.
>
> Was unable to make it bootable because of all the errors.
>
> Switched back and every thing is great.
>
> The driver not being correct on tom's boot disk that uses 2.0.39 kernel
> would sure make a sense of it all.
>
> Can anyone confirm?
>
> John
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Cool.. you actually thought something built 4 months ago would have a
driver in a kernel built several years ago. Actually just surf to your
favourate linux web site... check the hardware comatipility list and see
what driver you'll need to run (trick it or download a newer driver) the
card. I hope you find the answer and that it works. Good Luck!
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From: mbortis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: help with Redhat and Raid
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:39:55 GMT
"Peter de B. Harrington" wrote:
> Hi:
>
> We are attempting to install Linux Redhat 6.2 on a Dell Web server. We have
> installed the device driver from Dell, but there is not much documentation
> that we could find to assist us in configuring the drivers.
>
> We are having difficulty configuring the firmware to recognize the Dell Perc
> 2-Si Raid Controller (which actually is Adaptec). We would like to
> configuring the RAID for mirroring (RAID 0). Has anyone succeeded? Are
> there step by step instructions on the web or that could be sent by e-mail?
>
> Please e-mail me a copy of any reply posts and I will forward them to the
> people doing the install.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete
Pardon? Are you asking us a hardware question : to install Perc card into a
(insert name of PC here)PC?
More info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: mbortis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM woes
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:46:19 GMT
Chuck wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have a Plextor PX-20TS, SCSI CDROM drive, mounted on a
> BusLogic BT-930 PCI Ultra SCSI host adapter, and it's giving
> me problems.
>
> The system boots fine, and I have no issues with the SCSI hard
> drive on the same bus. All logs concerning SCSI and/or CDROM
> appear without any hints of errors *(see footnote). I can mount
> the CDROM, and it's somewhat useable. I can copy a couple files
> off the drive, but if I keep working it, the machine will lock up. If I
> put in an audio CD, the GUI software (XPlay or whatever) will
> identify the CD label, and start to play. Within a few seconds, the
> machine will lock up. (The CD keeps playing lound and clear.
> I think it's just mocking me.)
>
> Any advice - Chuck
>
> * In /proc/scsi/BusLogic/0, the one thing looks a little funny to
> me is that the CDROM ID in the 'Tagged Queuing' column is
> listed as 'Not Supported'. The hard drive ID in the same column
> is listed as 'Active'. I don't know what tagged queuing is, so I
> don't know if this is significant.
That could indicate lousy termination, not working or interitant working
devices. Try a differnt cable for the CDROM with exterior termination
(don't terminate at the cdrom).
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From: mbortis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID 5 on RH 6.2
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:50:07 GMT
"R.E.Coutch" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got RAID 5 set up on a Linux server running RH 6.2 (new install).
> I'm using an Apatec hardware SCSI RAID card but letting the software do the
> RAID.
>
> The card wasn't supposed to work at all in Linux so I downloaded a driver
> disk image from Red Hat. When I used the driver, the SCSI card and drives
> were not recognized by system at all. FYI - It's an Adaptec card with the
> AIC78xxx controller.
>
> I rebooted without the driver disk. The system recognized the SCSI drives
> (hmmmm).
>
> I installed the system files (/,/var,/usr, etc.) on a single SCSI drive and
> combined the other 3 drives into a RAID 5 array which hosts the /home
> partition (by using Disk Druid).
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> 1 - If I want to add a second drive to mirror the system drive, can I do
> this without harming (re-partitioning/initializing) the current drive? How?
>
> 2 - If a drive goes bad in the RAID-5 array, will the system alert me and
> how will I rebuild the set after the bad drive has been replaced?
>
> 3 - If my system drive dies before I mirror it, can I install Linux on a
> new drive and be able to have the new installation recognize my current
> RAID 5 array?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
New at what your doing eh? Goto linuxdoc.org and read up on RAID then go to RH
and read up on thier RAID (which by the way is one of the best implementations
IMHO of all the distros). Oh yah... RTFM!
Good Luck!
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From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM woes
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:40:44 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mbortis wrote:
> That could indicate lousy termination, not working or interitant working
> devices. Try a differnt cable for the CDROM with exterior termination
> (don't terminate at the cdrom).
The system freezes happen both when the CDROM is the only SCSI device
and termination is set, or when the SCSI hard drive is on the bus with it
set as terminator. Thus I don't think it has to do with termination, but
I will look into switching cables...thanks-Chuck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Using Promise Ultra66 in NORMAL mode (not LBA)
Date: 25 Aug 2000 17:54:16 -0400
I'm thinking of using a Promise controller on my Asus K7M Athlon motherboard.
The reason is that I can't get DMA to work reliably with this board.
It seems like Promise cards might be a good solution since they have
(relatively) uniform controller and bios chips.
Promise cards would also be good for software RAID.
The problem is that the Promise Ultra66 controller autodectects my drives as
LBA. I want to use NORMAL mode (to be compatable with my existing
filesystem). Usually you can set drives to LBA or NORMAL mode in the
motherboard Bios. Does anyone know how to do this with the Promise
controllers?
Thanks in advance,
Richard
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From: Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ADSL Alcatel Speed Touch: any driver ?
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:21:48 +0100
Same situation for the *external* Alcatel Speed Touch ?
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Bruno
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:58:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:50:51 +0100, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>about the ADSL PC NIC card
>>is there a compatible driver for the internal Alcatel Speed Touch ?
>
>Nope. Unless there is something in development somewhere and it has not
>reached the wild.
>
>--
>Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: ADSL Alcatel Speed Touch: any driver ?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:46:37 GMT
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:21:48 +0100, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Same situation for the *external* Alcatel Speed Touch ?
>
There is USB, which would be considered external? There is beta program
for that. The ethernet model of course works, with a compatible NIC.
--
Hal B
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From: Paul Pygeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.hardware.scanner
Subject: Re: plustek opticpro 2400 hardware compatibility
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:26:29 -0400
Clara a �crit :
>
> Hello,
>
> Do you know how I could use my scanner Plustek OpticPro 2400 ( scsi) with
> linux?
> Is there any compability with other scanners ?
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Clara
Hi,
I don't know but try: www.mostang.com/sane/
Bye
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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FYI: Applix vs. StarOffice vs. WP8 for Linux....
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:23:15 -0700
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:51:08 -0500, Nels Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
declaimed the following in alt.os.linux.mandrake:
> I'd recommend tht you try Star Office 5.2. I've used 5.1 and been
> disappointed, but 5.2 seems to be quite a bit better. It imports
The version included with Mandrake 7.1 has yet to print for me
-- I keep getting a PostScript error trap instead (through GhostScript,
to an Epson SC800).
>
> Normally I don't use the word-processors at all. I use emacs for
> entering text and programming, and Latex when I need pretty output.
Mandrake 7.1 installed Lyx (and KLyx, though the latter seems to
be one version behind Lyx?). I spent the weekend printing the help files
(aka, manuals) for Lyx. (K)Lyx looks to be a reasonable tool for routine
Latex usage -- not WYSIWYG, but not at the level of having to code the
Latex commands themselves.
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From: jw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: d-link problem!!!! help
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 19:40:32 -0600
can anyone tell me how to get my d-link dfe-530tx adapter
recognized by my slackware distro???
what driver ???
where from???
i use netconfig to no avail
cus my dmesg shows only local loopback and no broadcast
i am stumped?
please help
jamie
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