Linux-Hardware Digest #607, Volume #13 Wed, 20 Sep 00 15:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Frustrated new attempted linux user (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: What's to do with too much RAM? (Paul Kimoto)
Acer Warplink Wireless NIC Driver ("Barry Smith")
PCI bus not recognized after re-compile ("Fountainhead")
Re: tulip won't compile under Mandrake? (Ron Ifferte)
Radeon ("dpc")
Re: What's to do with too much RAM? (Vilmos Soti)
RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card ("Lorenz")
Re: Problem: PCMCIA IDE/ATAPI CDRW as SCSI (Christian Burger)
Card for PCs for gathering data (Mark Carroll)
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (Leonard Evens)
PCI Sound card (es1371) help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hardware for Mail Server (" �j��")
Re: Linux-compatible Sound Card suggestions (Edward Lee)
Re: SMP gaming platform? (Edward Lee)
Re: Hardware for Mail Server (Mark Carroll)
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (Harshal)
Re: Hardware for Mail Server (Mark Carroll)
Re: Card for PCs for gathering data (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Legacy Floppy (Chuck)
Re: RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which Soundcard? (Stanislav Kogan)
linksys lne10/100tx HELP! (Greg Davis)
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Subject: Re: Frustrated new attempted linux user
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:06:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <8qah22$m59$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I did download the latest 2.4.0-test kernel. I think I can figure out
>how to compile it. You said "When you have the new kernel working, and
>can verify that the HPT366 chipset is detected on bootup (You can find
>this oyt by doing a "dmesg |less"), compile yet a new one that has the
>"Boot offboard chipsets first support" option enabled." What is the
>dmesg |less and where do I type this? And then do I recompile my 2.4.0-
>test kernel again to get the "Boot offboard chipsets first support"?
You can type "dmesg | less" in a terminal like xterm or in a console and
use the arrow keys to scroll through the output. Better yet, type "dmesg |
grep -B1 HPT366" to see the relevant lines only. If you do not get any
output, try the first option and see manually. There should be at least two
lines about the HPT 366.
It is not absolutely necessary to recompile with the "boot offboard
first..." option enabled, but it is a lot easier that way (You would
otherwise have to edit /etc/fstab manually). You can also enable this
option on the first attempt, but you will then have to pass an option
"ide=reverse" to the kernel at startup, which may be a little trickier
especially ehan using grub. I'd recommend using lilo as a boot loader, as
this is much easier to configure. You can do this using DrakConf (After
ompilation, the new kernel is in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage, you
should copy this to /boot).
Here's a few pointers to relevant material:
http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html
http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/Config-HOWTO.html
http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html
Take a look around on the LDP pages, there's lots of interesting stuff for
Linux Newbies.
(It is safe to install lilo without removing grub first)
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What's to do with too much RAM?
Date: 20 Sep 2000 11:10:55 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Georg Woeste wrote:
> I have a Sony Vaio Notebook with 96 MB of RAM. Because
> of the TX-Chips, only 64 MB can be addressed by the Cache.
> Now my questions:
>
> 1)Is it usefull, to restrict Linux (SuSE) to only 64 MB?
> (The Computer seems to be a little bit slow)
Try it. It might help.
> 2) If I restrict it, can I do something useful with the remaining
> 32 MB?
You can try the "slram" patch, which lets you use the extra memory as
(relatively) very fast swap space:
http://home.austin.rr.com/bkeryan/slram/
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my
consent, and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: "Barry Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Acer Warplink Wireless NIC Driver
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:06:03 -0500
Howdy!
I saw a few old messages about these cards, but nothing recently.
Is there a Linux driver available for the ISA Warplink Wireless NIC from
Acer? I have an existing windoze network using these cards. I would like
to connect this network to my RH 6.1 box using a Warplink card.
TIA
-Barry
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Reply-To: "Fountainhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Fountainhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.corel
Subject: PCI bus not recognized after re-compile
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:14:49 -0500
Sorry for the cross-post, but I am in desperate need of help.
Corel Linux 1.2 - upgraded to 2.2.17 from 2.2.16. 233Mhz Pentium, 32MB RAM,
CL co-existing with DOS.
PCI bus not recognized after upgrade according to Control Center, which
tells me "PCI-bus not found or is not currently supported." There is no pci
listing under /proc and cat /proc/bus/pci returns invalid argument. The PCI
bus was recognized under 2.2.16 and the presence of an ethernet controller
was detected as well, though not the vendor, which is why I upgraded the
kernel.
During the compile, I modularized several things, but nothing PCI-related as
far as I know. I know I am doing (or, have done) something stupid; I just
don't know what though. I would really appreciate your help.
Thank you in advance.
Naveen
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From: Ron Ifferte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tulip won't compile under Mandrake?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:30:02 -0000
I have had the same problem. It seems that the tulip that came with MD7.1
is out of date, and the new one will not compile. If anyone has a
suggestion - please let me know!
I actually have two Linksys LNE10/100TX cards installed on the machine. I
would love to get them working. Also, I have gotten it to compile and
work in RH6.2 (so it is definitly a software issue.
Thanks,
Ron
sturman wrote:
>
>
> I have Mandrake 7.1 and when I try to compile tulip v0.91 with the
provided
> command line, gcc spews several pages of errors. Errors about not being
> able to parse the kernel source files correctly, incomplete structures,
> unknown types, pointer dereferencing!!!
>
> But I can install RH6.0 and tulip will compile without any errors. And
the
> card (Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100) works correctly. The
> chipset on the card is NC100 v2. I know it works with tulip because I
have
> had it running with the version of tulip I have on RH6.0.
>
> Has anybody else had these problems or used this card with Mandrake 7.x?
>
> sturman
>
>
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From: "dpc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Radeon
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:44:19 -0400
Has anybody gotten the new ATI Radeon to display anything X, nevermind 32bit
1600x1200 resolution?
Doesn't seem to be supported at all. I know Precision Insight has been
contacted to write drivers, but I have no clue when those might be
released...Thanks for any info.
dpc
To reply directly to me, remove YourHat
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What's to do with too much RAM?
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:02:22 GMT
Georg Woeste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a Sony Vaio Notebook with 96 MB of RAM. Because
> of the TX-Chips, only 64 MB can be addressed by the Cache.
> Now my questions:
>
> 1)Is it usefull, to restrict Linux (SuSE) to only 64 MB?
> (The Computer seems to be a little bit slow)
In my opinion, it can be useful. Once I had a 486 with 4MB
ram, and Linux ran acceptably. When I upgraded it to 20MB,
it became much slower. Here is an expert from
/usr/doc/HOWTO/INFO-SHEET on a RH box:
RAM:
> Up to 1 GB on Intel; more on 64-bit platforms. Some people
> (including Linus) have noted that adding ram without adding more
> cache at the same time has slowed down their machine extremely,
> so if you add memory and find your machine slower, try adding
> more cache. Some machines can only cache certain amounts of
> memory regardless of how much RAM is installed (64 MB is the
> most one popular chipset can cache). Over 64 MB of memory will
> require a boot-time parameter with kernels 2.0.35 and earlier,
> as the BIOS was originally designed to be unable to report more
> than 64MB. Recent 2.1.x kernels and later are able to detect
> more memory in a system.
Vilmos
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From: "Lorenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:12:34 +0200
Hello there,
I'm rather new to Linux, so i apologize if my question seems too simple.
I have just installed redhat 6.2 on a compaq Armada V300 laptop; it has a
3Com 3c574 PCMCIA 16 bit 10/100 Ethernet card (a very common model), and it
seems that the card is correctly identified and initialized (the 100mb led
on the cable turns on as Linux boots). Now i'd like to connect my laptop to
the network (that is, i think, loading the correct module an configuring the
ETH0 interface); but i don't know how.
So: how should i find if this card has an appropriate module for it? How
should i configure the ethernet connection?
Thank you for your help,
-Lorenz
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From: Christian Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem: PCMCIA IDE/ATAPI CDRW as SCSI
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 Sep 2000 12:30:41 -0500
In comp.os.linux.portable Thomas Weiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I've got a Freecom IQ-Series IDE/ATAPI PCMCIA Adapter with a Yamaha
> CRW8424E CDRW. It is correctly recognized with the ide_cs Module from
> the PCMCIA driversi as Device /dev/hde.
> Now I want to get it work with scsi emulation to use it with cdrecord.
> Does anybody know, how to get it work?
> I've tried boot option "hde=ide_scsi" but it doesn't help.
I just got a Smart&Friendly Pocket CD-RW which came with the same
Freecom IDE/ATAPI PCMCIA adapter. I had some partial success so far:
The kernel must be configured with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI, CONFIG_SCSI,
and CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG. Everything must be compiled as modules. The
kernel option "hde=ide_scsi" is required. When I plug in the PCMCIA
adapter, it says "kernel: hde: driver not present". Now "modprobe
ide-scsi" and "modprobe sg" and everything works fine, I successfully
burned a few CDRs with cdrecord.
Any change of this procedure, like not using modules, changing the load
order of the modules, etc leads to failure. Also once I do a "cardctl
eject" or rmmod any modules there is no way to get hde recognized as
emulated scsi again until the next reboot. Anyone had more success?
> I've also tried to bind the Freecom drive to a driver I called "scsi_cs"
> which should load the modules scsi_mod.o and sr_mod.o from the kernel.
> But I got error messages about unresolved symbols :-(
I think scsi_cs will not work, and sr_mod.o is only needed to read the
burned disc, to write it you need sg.o.
Can anyone shed some more light on this?
Christian
--
Christian Burger
Dept. of Chemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Carroll)
Crossposted-To: sci.comp-aided
Subject: Card for PCs for gathering data
Date: 20 Sep 2000 16:33:53 GMT
Can anyone recommend any cheap ISA or PCI cards I can use from Linux, into
which I can plug inputs from equipment, maybe with a couple of on-board
analogue to digital converters, etc.? So that I can gather a bit of
digital and analogue data from devices from my software. Such things
should be cheap to make but I'm not sure how big the market is.
-- Mark
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:29:36 -0500
Harshal wrote:
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
> I can now use the tape drive if I manually load the aic7xxx and st
> modules.
All we had to do was to put
modprobe scsi_hostadapter
in rc.local. Apparently it took care of loading the st module
itself.
>
> But even though I have the 'alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx' line in
> /etc/conf.modules, the module is not automatically loaded on re-boot.
>
> Do I have to use '/sbin/mkinitrd' to generate a new ramdisk image?
I still don't understand just when the scsi host adapter module
is loader. Clearly if you are going to boot from a SCSI hard
disk, you will have to load something first to access the drive.
You can't rely on the kernel using the module before it is loaded.
But it would seem overkill to use an initial ramdisk if you don't
need it. If someone can explain exactly what happens in each
circumstance, it would be interesting.
>
> Thanks again,
> - Harshal
>
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--
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PCI Sound card (es1371) help
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:49:50 GMT
Hi. I am running Red Hat 6.2 (2.2.14) with a 16 bit Creative Labs
sound card (based on the Ensoniq ES1371). I thought I had everything
set correctly, but get no sound. I first used sndconfig which
autodetected the card, but got no test sound. Then I tried manual
configuration.
My /etc/conf.modules has the lines:
alias char-major-14 es1371
options es1371 joystick=0x200
I loaded the module with modprobe:
Module Size Used by
es1371 25924 0
soundcore 2692 4 [es1371]
The interrupts are not conflicting (as far as I can tell), and the card
shows up in /proc/pci:
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 7).
Slow devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min
Gnt=12.Max Lat=128
Can anyone think of what could be wrong with this (dead card)?
Thoughts?
Thanks
jpk
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From: " �j��" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Hardware for Mail Server
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:03:59 +0800
Hi,
I'd like to get some suggestion for the hardware of my Email Server.
My company have staffs around 50 - 70, and I dunno what is the min
hardware requirement for this. The mail server will host mail for 5 virtual
domain and around 1300+ mails per day.
The first plan is to use a single 733Mhz w/256MB ECC SDRAM, 18GB Ultra3
SCSI Drive. Will it be over power ?? What's your suggestions ?
ThanX....
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux-compatible Sound Card suggestions
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:16:23 -0700
Brendan Killackey wrote:
> Howdy--
>
> I'm relatively new. Anyone have any suggestions for a 4-channel sound
> card runs under Linux?
>
I am aware of three multi-channels sound chips/cards.
1. Turtle Beach Santa Cruz based on the Crystal CS4630 engine.
2. Best Data Theatrix 5.1 based on a custom chip.
3. ESS Maesto 1978+, potentially 32 channels.
1. and 2. have no Linux driver yet. 3. is capable but not enabled in
standard driver. Actually, I thought I had 4 channels working at one time
but then lost it again. For what is worth, I am trying to play Dolby
Suround sound from my Toshiba Laptop. Unfortunately, I can't figure out
where the additional channels are routed to.
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP gaming platform?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:28:54 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Each processor can run, give or take a little, one process or thread
> at a time. You will thus see virtually no speedup for a
> single-threaded application. You will realize minor gains as things
> like disk I/O or whatever are offloaded to other CPUs, but that will
> likely be pretty small.
>
SMP is actually useful for limiting CPU hogging (until there is a better way
than setting thread priorities). For instance, the video thread of an mpeg2
player can easily max out a single CPU and starving the audio thread. Audio
under-run is much more annoying than video under-run.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Carroll)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Hardware for Mail Server
Date: 20 Sep 2000 18:02:59 GMT
In article <8qaqnb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
�j�� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I'd like to get some suggestion for the hardware of my Email Server.
>
> My company have staffs around 50 - 70, and I dunno what is the min
>hardware requirement for this. The mail server will host mail for 5 virtual
>domain and around 1300+ mails per day.
>
> The first plan is to use a single 733Mhz w/256MB ECC SDRAM, 18GB Ultra3
>SCSI Drive. Will it be over power ?? What's your suggestions ?
That will probably easily cope with the load you describe. Of course,
it's relevant whether or not users will just be downloading their mail
with POP or something, or will be keeping all their saved mail folders
on the server and accessing them with IMAP encrypted sessions, but
either way I suspect you'll be fine.
It never hurts to buy overspec, though, to cope with peak demand and
the day when some 40Mb mail attachment becomes amazingly popular or
your DNS resolver goes down and mail gets queued, or whatever.
-- Mark
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From: Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:57:08 GMT
[...]
> > Do I have to use '/sbin/mkinitrd' to generate a new ramdisk image?
>
> I still don't understand just when the scsi host adapter module
> is loader. Clearly if you are going to boot from a SCSI hard
> disk, you will have to load something first to access the drive.
> You can't rely on the kernel using the module before it is loaded.
> But it would seem overkill to use an initial ramdisk if you don't
> need it. If someone can explain exactly what happens in each
> circumstance, it would be interesting.
The hard drive on this machine is not SCSI. The only SCSI device is the
tape drive.
On a different machine where this setup works fine, /var/log/messages
has this;
kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
kernel: scsi : detected total.
kernel: md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
kernel: Partition check:
kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >
kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
kernel: autodetecting RAID arrays
kernel: autorun ...
kernel: ... autorun DONE.
kernel: EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck
kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI
15/0
kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions
downloaded
kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI)
5.1.20/3.2.4 /3.2.4
kernel: <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
kernel: scsi : 1 host.
which leads me to believe that it uses the RAMDISK to load the drivers.
I guess running /sbin/mkinitrd and re-booting would work but I don't
want to do this before understanding the effects.
Thanks,
Harshal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Carroll)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Hardware for Mail Server
Date: 20 Sep 2000 18:12:12 GMT
In article <8qau4j$a6o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <8qaqnb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>�j�� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(snip)
>> The first plan is to use a single 733Mhz w/256MB ECC SDRAM, 18GB Ultra3
>>SCSI Drive. Will it be over power ?? What's your suggestions ?
(snip)
I should have added that I'm assuming that you'll arrange decent
networking for it too - for instance, if people are moving large mails
around internally, a PCI ethernet card onto a 100Mb/s switched network
would be nice. (-:
-- Mark
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: sci.comp-aided
Subject: Re: Card for PCs for gathering data
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:23:49 -0700
Hi Mark,
check here:
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~jhonan/
http://www.bitscope.com/
http://www.mindspring.com/~otterson/tdsdump/
http://www.etcsk.com/linux/
if you will find something new please email me URLs.
Andrey
Mark Carroll wrote:
> Can anyone recommend any cheap ISA or PCI cards I can use from Linux, into
> which I can plug inputs from equipment, maybe with a couple of on-board
> analogue to digital converters, etc.? So that I can gather a bit of
> digital and analogue data from devices from my software. Such things
> should be cheap to make but I'm not sure how big the market is.
>
> -- Mark
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From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Legacy Floppy
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:27:32 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim wrote:
> Do you have the ftape and zftape modules loaded? If so, unload the modules
> and it should work then.
No... in fact I don't even have them compiled.
-Chuck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:27:08 GMT
In article <8qanal$r30$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Lorenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I'm rather new to Linux, so i apologize if my question seems too
simple.
>
> I have just installed redhat 6.2 on a compaq Armada V300 laptop; it
has a
> 3Com 3c574 PCMCIA 16 bit 10/100 Ethernet card (a very common model),
and it
> seems that the card is correctly identified and initialized (the
100mb led
> on the cable turns on as Linux boots). Now i'd like to connect my
laptop to
> the network (that is, i think, loading the correct module an
configuring the
> ETH0 interface); but i don't know how.
>
> So: how should i find if this card has an appropriate module for it?
How
> should i configure the ethernet connection?
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> -Lorenz
>
>
if your card is initialized already,
its not a question of module.
with rh, theres an utility called linuxconf,
to setup (among others) your network.
you probably just have to assign a networkadress to eth0.
but go through the full menu -
card up at boot, ipadress, subnetmask, gateway -
test with ifconfig -a
--
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'there's too much confusion, i cant get no relief...
so let us not talk falsely now, the hour's getting late'
(robert zimmermann)
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From: Stanislav Kogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Soundcard?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:40:07 -0400
Hi!
Steve Bradley wrote:
> Really? A different slot?? I will try that immediately. I'm using an
> EPOX MVP3G5 - it uses the VIA chipset, which I understand some people have
> had problems with...but I haven't had any problems until this video driver
> update...and I'm not willing to switch my video card, it was too damn
> expensive!
If it is VIA, then you may not be successfull. VIA chipsets are very
broken up.
>
> You're right, the vortex2 *is* a great soundcard - and I love it for
> playing Windoze games...too bad Aureal isn't around to help make drivers
> for it! I ordered an SB Live! for now - but if changing the slot solved the
> problem, I'll be sending it back!
The problem of Aureal is not that they don't help, but in the fact that
they actively inhibt the development. (they didn't release the specs of
their chips) The development has to rely on their precompiled hardware
interface, which is very buggy.
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From: Greg Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linksys lne10/100tx HELP!
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:55:45 -0700
I bought the Linksys Etherfast 10/100tx because it specified linux
compatibility on the box. So far that has been a lie. Neither the
setup tools with RedHat 6.2 nor with SuSE 6.4 will recognize my card as
even being there. The Linksys website says to use the tulip.c module as
a driver for compatibilty with some DEC chipset. Well, when I run a gcc
compile command like the tulip.c driver recommends, the compiler reports
errors in the kern_compat.h file. Swell. I try configuring the card
directly into the kernel. That does not work; eth0 does not want to
start. I try configuring the kernel so it loads as a module (tulip.o)
and that does not work either. What the heck is going on!? I remember
setting up the card in windows and I used up the last IRQ to do so.
Still, the card runs fine in windows. Another thing: when I try to run
modprobe tulip.o from the /modules/net directory, bash complains that it
cannot find tulip.o, even though tulip.o appears there.
Do I have a piece of garbage as a card, or is there some kind of
hardware conflict here?
Greg
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sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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