Linux-Hardware Digest #558, Volume #13 Mon, 11 Sep 00 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: BIOS setup on an old 386 (Tom Massey)
Re: Ethernet Really Slow in Linux ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: buffer_dirty - what's the @#$%? (Kasper Dupont)
Re: HP CDWriter SCSI support (Chris Rankin)
Does anybody use TEQL? or bonding? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Opinions: An Adequate Starter System? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: HP DeskJet 720C (Steve Gage)
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI Rage Fury Maxx (Magus)
Re: BIOS setup on an old 386 (Brett C. Cammack)
Re: Synaptics Touchpad and kernel 2.2.16 (Vollmer)
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive (Michel TALON)
Re: Help! setting up multiple PNP Devices (Paul Dailey)
Re: Mouse Problems ("Frederik Tilkin")
AD/DA converter for Linux (Uwe Sydow)
Re: lucky tech ("Bartek Kostrzewa")
serial port server ??? (Miguel De Buf)
Re: BIOS setup on an old 386 (M. Buchenrieder)
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From: Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIOS setup on an old 386
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:05:21 +1100
Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your reply. Do I have to use a 360k floppy for this? This
> > would explain why I've been unable to get it to boot using 1.2M disks.
> > I've got a couple of generic setup programs that should work, but I just
> > can't seem to make a boot disk that will boot the machine.
>
> I'd try formatting a diskette to 360 kb capacity. Try FORMAT /F:360, and
> see also the DRIVPARM command.
Well, now I've used every configuration I can manage in both 5.25" and
3.5" disks, all the different capacities, set up as DOS boot disks. None
of them seem to work, ie the drive reads them, the drive light goes off,
the machine hangs with no messages displayed. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Tom
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Really Slow in Linux
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:57:03 -0600
> Okay, I've noticed a large bottleneck on my linux box; I have a Linux box
> with a 3com 100/10mbit card connected to a D-Link 100mbit switch. Three
> computers are connected to this switch, the Linux Box, and two winblows
> boxes. Transfer rates from Linux Box <=> Winblows boxes tops out at
> transfer rates of 2meg/s ... transfer rates from Winblows <=> Winblows
tops
> out at about 7meg/s. Why are my transfer rates terribly slow from the
Linux
> box. All three machines share same type of setups, 3com 3c509 cards. I
> should get 7meg/s from the Linux box just like between the windows
machines.
> I thought maybe kernel server optimization would help, I have not done
this
> yet, but I'm skeptical, not that the windows TCP/IP stack is all that
> optimized and blowing away the Linux machine. How would I go about fixing
> this? Ideas what is wrong, or how I can go about finding out how to fix
> this? Thanks alot.
Give us more details. What are you using to transfer data, what kind of
CPU's do the machines have, and do you *really* mean <=> (i.e., you've
tested both ways)?
steve
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From: Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: buffer_dirty - what's the @#$%?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:50:28 +0200
Lurch wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> to make sure the umount is done after the copy, you can use the "&&" instead
> of ";" (the second instruction won't start executing before the first one
> has terminated successfully
>
> i.e. mount /mnt/fd && cp /mnt/fd/* /prj && umount /mnt/fd
>
With ; commands are not executed in parallel.
seperating with & gives parallel execution
separating with ; gives serial execution, and continues on errors
separating with && gives serial execution, and stops on errors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> was accessed) (if you interrupt it while it is writing to the fat
> sector(s) on the floppy, it will probably not just be a bad time stamp)
> and if you interrupt while it is writing to the floppy the record on the
> floppy may be faulty.
FAT does not have read time stamps, so reading from a FAT disk will
not result in any write opperations. Ext2 timestamps readings and
also mounts, so mounting an ext2 filesystem rw will always result
in write opperations, on my system the write opperations will be
finished before umount returns. (The same is true when remounting ro.
I'm using Red Hat 6.0, there might be systems with other behaviours.)
Ken Walter wrote:
>
> In a properly designed file system, caches should be written out
> to removable media as quickly as possible. If the user manages
> to remove the media before everything is written, the system should
> request the media be reinserted and then finish.
> Otherwise the removal should be an automatic dismount.
> Anything else is user unfriendly.
I agree. Unfortunately the only OS i know where this is properly
implemented is Amiga OS. From multiple sources I have heard that
the PC floppy controller is not good enought to do that kind of
things.
Brian V. Smith wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William
>Burrow) writes:
>
> |> This would be nice, but under certain weird circumstances the user
> |> copying to the media may not be in control of the media. Technically,
> |> removable media should be lockable such that someone with access to the
> |> media cannot remove it while it is mounted.
>
> You mean like the floppy drive on the Mac? I've always hated it's fascistic policy
> of not being to pop out the floppy by pushing a button, but for *nixes it makes
> sense because of the caching.
IMHO the right solution is that the OS can lock the disk in the drive,
but
when the eject button is pressed the OS should be informed. The OS
should
then umount and eject the disk as soon as possible. On single user
systems
the user can be requested to reinsert the disk if needed again.
The only problem is how to make sure the eject button will eject the
disk
when there is no power on the system. But some cleverly designed
mechanics
should do the job.
--
Kasper Dupont
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: HP CDWriter SCSI support
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:45:11 +1100
To use my IDE CD-Writer with cdrecord, I have done the following:
- compiled IDE CD-ROM support as modules (ide-cd.o, cdrom.o)
- compiled SCSI CD-ROM support as modules (sr_mod.o, should I want it.
Probably redundant.)
- compiled generic SCSI support as modules (sg.o)
- compiled SCSI emulation for IDE as modules (ide-scsi.o)
Then I put this line in my modules.conf file:
# CD-Writer
pre-install sg modprobe -k ide-scsi
This approach probably requires that the ide-cd module be unloaded
before the SCSI emulation is loaded, but I'm still playing with it. I
don't need any parameters in my lilo.conf before "cdrecord --scanbus"
gives me the following output:
# cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.16
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX145E ' '1.0b' Removable
CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
These modules are loaded for the above:
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
sg 22524 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 8180 0 (autoclean)
scsi_mod 87284 2 (autoclean) [sg ide-scsi]
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Does anybody use TEQL? or bonding?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:05:40 GMT
Hi All!
I need to use load balancing with two netcard Intel EtherExpressPro100.
I've attempted to use TEQL in the kernel 2.2.16, but it doesn't work
(it looks like all works, but icmp-packets do not pass to other hosts).
My steps:
# tc qdisc add dev eth0 root teql0
# tc qdisc add dev eth1 root teql0
# ifconfig teql0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 \
broadcast 192.168.1.255
# route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev teql0
# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
195.239.142.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 teql0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.10 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 teql0
What do I do wrong?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Date: 11 Sep 2000 11:27:47 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In comp.os.linux.development.system Peter Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> changed the PNP/PCI Config from PNP OS Installed NO to YES.
: This is in principle BAD. For OS such as Linux FreeBSD and even WinNT i think
: the correct setting is PNP OS NO, so that the BIOS initializes as much cards
: as it can.
Except that the meaning of this switch depends on the bios. Turning it
to No can mean that it switches off access to PnP. That's taiwanese for
you!
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Opinions: An Adequate Starter System?
Date: 11 Sep 2000 11:35:39 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Bento Loewenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Sat, 20 May 100 03:35:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Avoid Debian and Slacware if you're new to Linux. This distros are suposed
: to be used by experienced users. They're extremelly hard to install and
: configure, and most of the administrative tasks are done by hand. RedHat
: is a breeze to install if compared with Debian and Slack, and it has
I've never understood the basis for that part of the assertion: RH has
never installed itself "automatically" for me, whereas slack has worked
liek a charm every time.
: linuxconf as default admin utility, which makes it easyer to maintain.
Unfortunately, for anyone with half a brain, redhats interposition of
guis between yourself and what you're trying to do makes it harder to
administer, not easier. One only has to learn one rule for adminstering
text files: (a) read the FILE section in manual or strace the
executable to find out which the file is; (b) read the file comments;
(c) edit the the contents to taste; (d) restart the executable in question.
You have to learn the names of dozens of guis and learn and manoever around
tricky hidden menu systems to work via a gui.
: SuSe has a similar tool called Yast and Caldera has COAS wich are very
: easy too.
: If you want an easy distro based on Debian Corel is Ok. It's one of the
: easyest I've ever seen. Another option is the brazilian distro Conectiva.
In fact, it is debian, cut down to 200MB or so, and with a graphical
install screen added.
: It's based on RedHat, but is as easy a Corel to install, and comes with
: liunuxconf too.
Peter
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From: Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 720C
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:00:45 GMT
Richard Garand wrote:
>
> I have an HP DeskJet 720C. I know these aren't supposed to work very well in
> linux, but is there any way to get it working? Does anyone else have
> experience with this?
Works fine thanks to the work of the folks who made pnm2ppa - don't have
the URL handy right now but I believe they're on sourceforge.
- Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: 11 Sep 2000 08:05:09 -0400
In comp.os.linux.hardware Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, had not seen this one, but i think SPP will be slow. EPP would be
> better.
Well, ZIP drives are known not to work well or at all with ECP.
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From: Magus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury Maxx
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:05:27 +0100
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 18:17:48 GMT, "Edd Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone had any luck setting this card up? I must be missing something!
>I can't even get a simple svga server to work. Any suggestions or
>directions would be, of course, welcomed.
>
>Thanks
Hey Edd - Just to say - I am in the same boat.
I cant get SVGA or Mach64 to work with the Fury Maxx
Not bothered about speed freak X, I just want my modest 1024x768
desktop back :)
Heres hopin, I will post more should I get success.
Magus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett C. Cammack)
Subject: Re: BIOS setup on an old 386
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:16:19 GMT
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:05:21 +1100, Tom Massey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
command.
>Well, now I've used every configuration I can manage in both 5.25" and
>3.5" disks, all the different capacities, set up as DOS boot disks. None
>of them seem to work, ie the drive reads them, the drive light goes off,
>the machine hangs with no messages displayed. Any thoughts?
I suspect that it doesn't really want a DOS boot disk, but one with a
particular bootstrap loader unique to that motherboard which loads the
CMOS configurator into executable memory. This may be a bitch to
accomplish unless you can find an exact binary drive image and a
method to put it to diskette. Wish I had better information for you,
but maybe it'll put you onto something that will lead you to a
solution.
Regards,
Brett C. Cammack
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Synaptics Touchpad and kernel 2.2.16
From: Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Sep 2000 14:52:34 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Clouter) writes:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 13:36:03 -0400, Josh Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have an Acer Travelmate 737TLV portable, and am having a problem
> > configuring the touchpad to work correctly. I originally installed Red Hat
> > 6.2, which had the 2.2.14 kernel. I recently upgraded the kernel to 2.2.16,
> > and now when I move my touchpad, the hard drive spins nonstop for a few
> > seconds while the mouse becomes unmovable, and then stops. It's possible to
> > move the mouse but it is very difficult and not really usable. I tried the
> > "tpconfig" touchpad driver version 2.2 (a popular driver provided by a third
> > party source) but it doesn't seem to do anything... When I was running
> > 2.2.14 the mouse worked, but had a tendency to "float" along the screen.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> You must *not* run tpconfig with anything else using the /dev/psaux
> port! This means X and gpm must *not* be running.
>
> See what happens now :)
>
> Also the synaptics touchpad can be set up to automatically scroll
> (drift), be used without actually touching the pad and other fancy
> things, such as being a third mouse button when you tap a corner etc
>
> Alex
The kernel 2.2.16 seems to not support the SynPS/2 touchpad properly.
There is a patch for this problem at:
http://www.suse.de/~garloff/TravelMate/
http://www.suse.de/~garloff/TravelMate/synps2216.diff
(didn't try it myself , though)
--
Peter
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From: Michel TALON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:42:58 +0200
In comp.os.linux.development.system Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In comp.os.linux.misc Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: : In comp.os.linux.development.system Peter Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: :> changed the PNP/PCI Config from PNP OS Installed NO to YES.
: : This is in principle BAD. For OS such as Linux FreeBSD and even WinNT i think
: : the correct setting is PNP OS NO, so that the BIOS initializes as much cards
: : as it can.
: Except that the meaning of this switch depends on the bios. Turning it
: to No can mean that it switches off access to PnP. That's taiwanese for
: you!
: Peter
Perhaps you are right. However for sure you are rude.
On my bios, PNP OS to ON means that bios initializes only the bare minimum and
leaves the rest to a pnp aware operating system.
On the OS i use (FreeBSD) it is explicitly recommended to put
PNP OS to NO.
For several experiences i had with network cards on Linux, they were
recognized after having set PNP OS to NO and not before.
--
Michel TALON
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From: Paul Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! setting up multiple PNP Devices
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:07:13 GMT
OH! I didn't realize I was configuring the software driver. I was
thinking purely in hardware terms. Thank you!
One more question:
In your reply you recommended using the script:
setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x02f8 irq 3 autoconfig
isapnp will not let me set my pnp modem to port 0x02f8 citing a conflict
with ttyS1 already using it. Does this matter? Can I set my pnp card
to use any available port and then run the above script? Am I still
missing the point? (I realize I could "try" this but I guess I'm
looking for more of an academic discussion...)
thanks in advance,
paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a PNP modem and I would like to set it up the "right" way.
>
> But I'm confused, because when I used to set up modems with
> jumpers, at boot up the modem was considered a serial port
> and worked fine. (Assuming I understand correctly)
>
> On boot up, linux detects the following serial ports:
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 irq 4 and
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 irq 3
> (MANY_PORTS, MULTIPORT, & SHARE_IRQ are enabled)
>
> So to get my modem to work I have to do the following:
>
> I use isapnp to configure my modem with the following parameters:
> I/O: 0x02e8 irq: 3
>
> I then use setserial as follows (from my script):
> setserial /dev/modem autoconfig
> setserial /dev/modem port 0x02e8
> setserial /dev/modem autoconfig
>
> and then my modem works fine. (But X locks randomly when I'm dialed in)
>
> Here's the Q:
> Why can't I set the modem to
>
> io 0x02f8 irq 3
>
> and then use setserial to point the modem to ttyS01?
>
> I seems that this should work... but it doesn't. It also seems that
> this is the "right" way but I must be understanding something
> incorrectly...
>
> thanks in advance
> paul
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From: "Frederik Tilkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse Problems
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:30:07 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am having a problem w/ a Micro$oft PS Intellimouse. I am trying to
> install it to my SuSE 6.3 installation. I have no problems with the
> installation in text-mode. GPM works fine. However, when installing to
> Xfree86, The cursor migrates to the left and upper edges of the
> screen. I have tried SuSE's own X configurator SAX, and the text based
> config utility ConfigX. Any ideas? Thanks......
(...in XF86Config)
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse"
Look at the thread "Mouse problem under XFree86" of 6 sept. 2000
Frederik
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From: Uwe Sydow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AD/DA converter for Linux
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:00:40 +0200
Hi,
can someone point me to some information on AD/DA cards/software
for use under linux (i486 system)
Thanks a lot
Uwe Sydow
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From: "Bartek Kostrzewa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lucky tech
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:37:57 +0200
try disabling PNP OS in BIOS, it helps a lot of things sometimes.
--
Bartek Kostrzewa - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<< http://technoage.web.lu >>>
Mario Passaggio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
QzSu5.21405$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> hi
> a couple of days ago I got this luckytech mather board and a mountain of
> problems fell on me (CPU's K7 700Mhz)
> BIOS can see fd but it's unbootable I installed Linux and I found fd
cannot
> be mounted
> PCI cards cannot be detected (but the videocard) and this was hardware
> that worked on a celeron cpu
> is there anyone can help me??
> thanks a lot in advice
>
>
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From: Miguel De Buf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: serial port server ???
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:56:34 +0200
Hi there,
I am looking for a hardware device just like small a print server that
puts a serial port onto the network. Is anybody aware of such a device
? Where can I find info about it ?
Thx in advance,
Miguel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: BIOS setup on an old 386
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:15:05 GMT
Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>Well, now I've used every configuration I can manage in both 5.25" and
>3.5" disks, all the different capacities, set up as DOS boot disks. None
>of them seem to work, ie the drive reads them, the drive light goes off,
>the machine hangs with no messages displayed. Any thoughts?
I already expected that, admittedly. What you will need is not a DOS
(or Linux or whatever) bootable floppy, but a floppy that holds the
BIOS setup program. This is like the old EISA configuration floppies -
unless you updated the BIOS, you'll not be able to bootup any OS.
Michael
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