Linux-Hardware Digest #608, Volume #13 Wed, 20 Sep 00 18:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (-ljl-)
Re: boot floppy (Henrik Carlqvist)
Mobo for Duron - any advices? (Kirill)
seagate 20gb drive question (Tristan White)
dual sound cards with linux (slack7) (Andrew Cudzilo)
Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP! ("Nisi")
Re: Mobo for Duron - any advices? ("Nisi")
Re: Frustrated new attempted linux user ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PCI Sound card (es1371) help (David.B.Snyder)
Re: IBM 60G0611 LAN adapter configuration (Valentin Guillen)
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (Richard J. Freedman)
Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hardware for Mail Server ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: PCI Sound card (es1371) help (Dances With Crows)
Re: IDE CD-RWs (Dances With Crows)
ATHLON and RedHat 6.2. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PCI Sound card (es1371) help (Yidao Cai)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:02:53 GMT
In article <8qatp7$5t7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
...
> 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.
This should not be a problem. It is my understanding that if you
boot with a SCSI drive you need to go the initrd route so the kernel
can read the drive; but like Leonard I have an IDE drive and only use
SCSI for my DAT.
I suggest that you create a kernel with built-in support for the
following SCSI stuff:(/usr/src/linux/.config)
"CONFIG_SCSI=y", "CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y","CONFIG_SCSI_your-adapter=y".
Red Hat, et al, lock "st" into memory because some tape drive go
crazy when it is unloaded.
cat /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
...
# If a SCSI tape has been detected, load the st module unconditionally
# since many SCSI tapes don't deal well with st being loaded and
unloaded
...
In view of this a production system should have _all_ SCSI support
built-in, IMHO.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot floppy
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:30:01 +0200
"Hemant R. Mohapatra" wrote:
> > cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0
>
> dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
Most people say so, but cp has always worked fine for me. What kind of
advantage does it give to type those extra characters that dd requires?
If ther kernel lives in / or /boot depends on your distribution.
regards Henrik
--
spammer strikeback:
root@localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Kirill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mobo for Duron - any advices?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:10:20 +0200
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
PPL, does anyone have a Duron-based system? Please tell what motherboard
you have chosen and how it works for you.
<br> Thanks in advance,
<br> Kirill</html>
------------------------------
From: Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: seagate 20gb drive question
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:24:15 -0400
I have a question about a 20gb seagate drive. I have it installed on a
P100 with a bios overdrive card. I can get untranslated geometry of
16383,16,63, or a variety of LBA translation methods which don't seem to
quite cut it.
When I've used IBM drives of similar size it has been no problem to give
the physical geometry to linux and let linux handle the whole size.
Doesn't seem to work in this case. I wonder if there are any ideas?
I installed once without specifying the geometry and when I did "v" with
fdisk I got a lot of errors about things not ending on cylinder
boundarys
and after a couple of days some of my stuff "went away" and I got a
bunch
of geometry related errors and I'm back to the format now.
I wish I could give more information, but I'm kind of baffled and this
is all I can find now. Seagate's site is not useful so please don't
reccomend that.
Tristan
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:37:10 -0400
From: Andrew Cudzilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dual sound cards with linux (slack7)
I recently purchased another sound card for my linux box for dabbling in
DJing....but there are some problems.
One, my bio's doesn't recognize it.....and linux doesn't see it either.
My current setup is AWE64 on ISA1 and the new sound card I bought is a
MagicSound PCI (i have it plugged into pci slot 3)[which is SB pro
compatable]. Disregarding the fact that this could be a bios problem,
would linux have a problem with this setup? I have yet to recompile the
kernel with the new card installed [I actually don't know if its
required].
Second, the card (which was just a cheap experimental buy) has no
listing of irq ports/dma channels etc to use, which confuses me as to if
it is a linux or bios problem. The card itself is jumper-less. My
current setup has the sound card on irq5 dma1 on 1 dma2 on 5 (i think)
at address 0x220. and the mpu address 0x330 base -1. So i might just be
up a river without a paddle. Any help or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: "Nisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP!
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:36:09 -0400
I saw over at www.linuxnewbie.org they had a howto on getting this card to
work under linux. It seems that a few people had some trouble with this
particular card.
Nisi
www.mindlessmayhem.com
Greg Davis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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
>
------------------------------
From: "Nisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mobo for Duron - any advices?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:42:35 -0400
Tom of tomshardware.com just did a review of 10 boards for the Duron. Here
is the link:
http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000919/index.html
He only tested them under Windows, but he does give alot if info in terms of
features and stability. However, like with all new hardware, make sure that
the motherboards chipset is supported by your kernel/distro, and if not
upgrade.
BTW, if you can wait, AMDZone is reporting that Q4 2000 will be the big
release of the DDR boards.........
NISI
www.mindlessmayhem.com
Kirill wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
PPL, does anyone have a Duron-based system? Please tell what
motherboard you have chosen and how it works for you.
Thanks in advance,
Kirill
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Frustrated new attempted linux user
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:11:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik) wrote:
> [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
> How do I install lilo??? And do I need it since I am using a
different bootloader for my different os?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David.B.Snyder)
Subject: Re: PCI Sound card (es1371) help
Date: 20 Sep 2000 16:03:50 -0400
I have the same problem using RH 6.1. (not yet solved)
But I will also note that 'cat /dev/sndstat' gives an error:
device not found.
I have checked the permissions on /dev/sndstat, and /dev/ dsp and made
sure I can read/write it. And have tried re-executing MAKEDEV. But so
far no luck and I'm out of ideas.
In article <8qapr6$n4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
...
--
David B. Snyder | Where were you when I laid the earth's
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | foundation? Tell me if you understand.
| Who marked off its dimensions?
| Job 38:4
------------------------------
From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IBM 60G0611 LAN adapter configuration
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:58:16 GMT
If all else fails, open the case, pull a card out, and look at the main
chipset on the card. Then research thepart number on the chip.
Usually, any brand/model of NIC which uses the same chipset would use
the same "driver" and you could, when installing/configuring the card,
specify one of these other more popular cards which use the same chip.
Good Luck,
Valentin Guillen
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard J. Freedman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: 20 Sep 2000 20:58:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:58:16 GMT, Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Thanks for all your help.
>
>I can now use the tape drive if I manually load the aic7xxx and st
>modules.
>
>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?
>
>Thanks again,
>- Harshal
>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
Yes.
--
Dick Freedman
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP!
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:09:07 GMT
Greg Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I bought the Linksys Etherfast 10/100tx because it specified linux
: compatibility on the box. So far that has been a lie. Neither the
Its not a lie ... not really.
The crux of the problem is that there are many different versions of the
card, and that the diff versions aren't necessarily compatible. Look at
your card -> mine says that it is version 4.1 (this is most likely your
case as well). The problem w/ 4.1 is that the drivers that are:
a) provided with the card
b) provided on the linksys site
and
c) pointed to in the tulip pages over on www.scyld.com
are not the most recent and don't support the 4.1 version. Howeve,r there
is a newer version (the src RPM is like netdriver-2.0-3.src.rpm or
something like that) which *does* work. See my post on
comp.os.linux.networking entitled "LNE100TX success" or something like
that (do a deja search if you can't find it -> was just yesterday or the
day before).
--
Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You're one of those condescending UNIX users! ...."
"Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
------------------------------
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 20:57:10 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
>
>
I just had a problem with my laptop. Make sure the PCMCIA service is
starting before the Network service. If PCMCIA starts after Network,
you will get a error 'Delaying eth0 initialization', or something like
that. I used DHCP and reserved an IP for Linuxbox let the DHCP server
do its magic. badda boom
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Hardware for Mail Server
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:19:18 -0600
> 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 ?
Assuming that you're using qmail (it's hard to argue with reliability,
security, and efficiency), the hardware you describe will easily handle ten
times the load you're planning on.
A lowly Celeron 450, 160 megs of RAM, an IDE drive, and a 512K connection
that I used sent a little over one thousand messages to distinct recipients
in a little over a minute. With the hardware you are planning on, the
largest limitation will be the bandwidth you have to the Internet.
Eventually, when your company has several hundred more employees, the disk
I/O will become the bottleneck.
steve
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: PCI Sound card (es1371) help
Date: 20 Sep 2000 21:29:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 Sep 2000 16:03:50 -0400, David.B.Snyder wrote:
>I have the same problem using RH 6.1. (not yet solved)
>But I will also note that 'cat /dev/sndstat' gives an error:
>device not found.
>
>I have checked the permissions on /dev/sndstat, and /dev/ dsp and made
>sure I can read/write it. And have tried re-executing MAKEDEV. But so
>far no luck and I'm out of ideas.
Because the ES1371 doesn't quite use the same interface to the rest of
the world as most sound cards, /dev/sndstat doesn't exist when you're
using this card. I have one of these, and all I had to do was put the
lines
alias char-major-14 es1371
options es1371 joystick=0x200
in /etc/conf.modules. Works well, just adjust the volume levels with
kmix or aumix or gmix. However, cat /proc/pci shows mine as "rev 6" and
I think there have been some problems with later revisions of the
hardware.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: IDE CD-RWs
Date: 20 Sep 2000 21:29:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 Sep 2000 04:48:42 GMT, Mark Carroll wrote:
>Can anyone recommend any cheap, popular, reliable IDE[1] CD writers
>that work happily with Linux?
I've had excellent luck with a Philips 460 4/4/16 CD-RW. It was
relatively cheap ($180 10 months ago) but I don't think those are being
manufactured anymore. I believe their latest entry in the 400-series
works almost exactly the same way, but it's 8/4/24 and probably cheaper
(say, $150.)
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ATHLON and RedHat 6.2.
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:25:17 GMT
Hello !
I tried to boot my linux after installing Red_Hat 6.2.(kernel version is
2.2.14, Thunderbird 900 and ASUS7V).
I read the article here and followed the advice.
Here is the step I followed for booting.
1. Using boot disk with the command " lilo : linux x86_serial_nr=1", I
could boot and recompiled the kernel. (I used "make menuconfig" and
reset CPU type as i386. That is the only change I made in kernel
option.)
However, the result is same. Kernel panic occurs. It still trys to
disable the CPU id serial number.
2. Because I could boot using the command "lilo : linux x68_serail_nr=1"
with booting diskett,I inserted this option to /etc/lilo.conf using
"append"
here is my lilo.conf.
boot=/dev/hda
delay=50
root=/dev/hda1
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
image=/boot/vmlinuz
append="x86_serial_nr=1"
label=Linux
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
But the result is same.It also trys to disable the CPU id serial number
and generates protection fault.
Could you help me?
Thanks!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI Sound card (es1371) help
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:39:41 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had problem with a newer version of es1371 and finally it worked.
All I did was put a line in /etc/conf.modules:
alias sound es1371
The sndconfig program gave me some trouble but finally it worked
after several reboots.
cai
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Hardware Digest
******************************
