Linux-Hardware Digest #610, Volume #13 Thu, 21 Sep 00 06:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: ATHLON and RedHat 6.2. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
JATON CIRRUS LOGIC PCI MODEM COMPATIBILITY ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
adding a modem to Slackware V3.0 (James D. Robinson)
Re: LS120 C/H/S values ("H.AJ. van Niekerk")
Re: adding a modem to Slackware V3.0 (George Georgakis)
Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard (Brad Remedios)
Re: ATX and power fail (Henry L)
Re: Keyboard dead at login prompt (Henry L)
Re: dual sound cards with linux (slack7) (seikocoder)
Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard (pete)
Re: IOMagic UDMA66 card: any luck? (James Richard Tyrer)
PCMCIA Modem (Ohanesian Raffi)
Re: Frustrated new attempted linux user (Kenneth R�rvik)
DECStation 3100/200 compatibility... (Eugenio Alessi)
Athlon TB 750 + Asus A7V with RH6.2 ("Ruben Merz")
Re: "Uniform CDROM driver" and CDRW Burn Errors?!?!?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATHLON and RedHat 6.2.
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:01:14 GMT
First of all, Thanks Mike !
So I reset the CONFIG_X86_PN_OFF option in "make config" as NO. After
recompiling, the booting procedure
seemed to be O.K.
After the hardware checking is done, like device checking, This
messages comes out.
"Freeing unused kernel memory : 68K freed
Kernel panic : no init found
Try passing init=option to Kernel".
I have no idea what's wrong.
Thanks!
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: JATON CIRRUS LOGIC PCI MODEM COMPATIBILITY
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:19:06 GMT
HI guys some friend offered me a jaton cirrus
logic 56k PCI faxmodem w/voice v90, i need to
know if this modem will work with linux, do
someone knows? please if ya know something about
this modem, reply this message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] please, thankx!
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James D. Robinson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: adding a modem to Slackware V3.0
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:40:47 GMT
Hi,
I am about to add a modem to 486 running Slack V3.0.
I seemed to remember that I have visited a site that lists
supported modems.I know I should have bookmarked it. I have tried
searching the www using various searches but in most cases the lists
are so long as to be impractical. At one site a list was found but it
was in ,gz form which will be ok one when I am running a modem and
access under linux. But my current internet access route is a windoze
machine.
I have various internal modems that I can use :-
ZOLTRIX RPI modem (14.4k)
GVC 28.8
Supra 33.6i
Cardinal Connecta 56K
I would prefer to use the later because I have one in a PC
that is no longer used for phone access.
From memory the Connecta was useable, but as mentioned
previously, I cannot find the web site again.
I also believe I can use the Zoltrix but by not using the RPI
function. Does anyone know how to disable the RPI function in the
modem when using Slack?
Once I get it running I will only using it to access
newsgroups and possibly an e-mail list (linked with linux).
--
Best Wishes
Jim R
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From: "H.AJ. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LS120 C/H/S values
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:51:25 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> Does anyone have C/H/S values for an LS120?
> >>
> >> The old BIOS in the PC on which I'm trying to use the LS120 doesn't
> >> autodetect it, so I will need to manually enter the values.
> >> (I believe that it has 1736 tracks when used with a 120MB disk?)
> >>
> >> I'm hoping that by making the LS120 the IDE bus master, and setting the
> >> boot seqence to C: then A:, that I'll be able to boot from a 1.44 Mb
> >> floppy.
>
> > You shouldn't have to use the BIOS to use the LS120. Just create a
> > directory-mount e.g. /mnt/ls120 and add a line to /etc/fstab :
> > /dev/hdx /mnt/ls120 msdos noauto,owner,rw 0 0
> > (where x is the IDE-port, a,b,c or d)
> > This should work. Then you can directly mount it by 'mount /dev/hdx'
> > and accessing it by 'cd /mnt/ls120' or something like that.
>
> Maybe so. But first I have to be running Linux, which means I have to
> boot Linux, which means I have to boot from a 1.44Mb floppy (my
> 'cold-start' floppy) in the LS120, because there's nothing on the HD
> (it's a new one) and there's nothing else to boot from (I'm away from
> home).
> So I really do need those values for the number of LS120
> cylinders/heads/sectors.
>
> --
> Roy Millar, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you try to boot from the LS-120 like from an ordinary floppy drive?
Because Linux detects the LS-120 hardware without problems and will find the
media (e.g. floppy) if it's in it.
Huub
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: adding a modem to Slackware V3.0
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Georgakis)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:53:21 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James D. Robinson) wrote in <39c97abf.7826759@news-
west.look.ca>:
> I seemed to remember that I have visited a site that lists
>supported modems.I know I should have bookmarked it. I have tried
>searching the www using various searches but in most cases the lists
>are so long as to be impractical. At one site a list was found but it
>was in ,gz form which will be ok one when I am running a modem and
>access under linux. But my current internet access route is a windoze
>machine.
>
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
George
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From: Brad Remedios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 05:12:54 GMT
I never had the CPUID problem on my anthlon 700 (ASUS K7M) only my
thunderbird 850 (A7V).. both had RH6.2 installed in them, neither had a
previous install.. I think its a thunderbird prob rather than
anthlon...
Mike Oliver wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if this combo will work? After taking care of
> the known problem regarding the CPUID, I mean
> ( see <news:39C7F2F6.4A6175E%40ninewalkers.com> ).
--
Brad Remedios ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Henry L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATX and power fail
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:26:06 -0400
Check your BIOS configuration to see if your new motherboard supports
auto-restart.
HL
Superuser wrote:
> How can I configure an ATX system to reboot after a power interruption??
>
> The older boxes would boot, allowing the operating system to
> do what it needed to do to get going again.
>
> With an ATX motherboard and PIII 450 MHz,� there is no reboot
> after power is restored.� I'm not keen on getting a UPS given
> the extra power consumption and fire issues.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Henry L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keyboard dead at login prompt
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:38:05 -0400
Boot your linux to single user mode (type "linux single" at boot prompt),
then try to configure your keyboard settings again.
HL
Tom Law wrote:
> ��� I have a dual booting pc (Win98/Linux), which started behaving
> strangely today.
> ��� When it gets to the "boot:" prompt, I type in "linux", as usual.
> But then, when it gets to the "login:" prompt, the keyboard is seemingly
> dead!� I've tried 2 different keyboards, and I've tried booting from my
> emergency disk, with the same results.� The keyboard works at the boot
> prompt, but not when I get to login!
> ��� If I boot into Windows, the keyboard works normally.
>
> ��� This may be relevant:� I had been using a Belkin 4-port
> monitor/keyboard/mouse switcher connected to my 2 pcs.� This morning, I
> found that the MOUSE on my OTHER PC (with Win 98 only) would no longer
> work, until I bypassed the switcher.� So now I'm using the switcher just
> for the monitor, and have keyboards and mice plugged directly into the 2
> pcs.� But I'm still having the above-mentioned keyboard problem in
> Linux.
>
> ��� Any suggestions will be GREATLY APPRECIATED!� (I'm going to go see
> now if I can telnet into the linux pc from the other one...)
> --
> =======================================
> Tom Law
> WP Law, Inc
> Lexington, SC, USA
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:51:36 -0400
From: seikocoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual sound cards with linux (slack7)
I have done your reccomendations, and compiled my kernel again (both sound
card drivers as in kernel- not modules), unfortunetly, the new card has yet
to work.
here is the output of dmesg:
Linux version 2.2.13 (root@Quasar) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
(egcs-1.1.2 release)) #5 Thu Sep 21 01:23:19 EDT 2000
Detected 233294875 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 465.31 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62728k/65536k available (1300k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1032k
data, 60k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: AMD AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions stepping 02
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb11
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
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
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 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
solo1: version v0.6 time 00:59:27 Sep 21 2000
Sound initialization started
<Sound Blaster 16 (4.16)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5
uart401: bad devc
<MPU-401 0.0 Midi interface #1> at 0x330 irq 9 dma 0
sbmpu: I/O port conflict (330)
Sound initialization complete
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 58, VID=10b9, DID=5229
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, 3337MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=847/128/63
hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
hdc: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
hdc: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
etc......
and /dev/sndstat lists only one sound card ...output:
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver compiled into kernel
Kernel: Linux Quasar 2.2.13 #5 Thu Sep 21 01:23:19 EDT 2000 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 5: Roland MPU-401
Type 26: MPU-401 (UART)
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 29: Sound Blaster PnP
Type 7: SB MPU-401
Type 36: SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table
Card config:
SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5
Roland MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0
(SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 1 drq 0)
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX)
Synth devices:
0: SoftOSS
Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 0.0 Midi interface #1
Timers:
0: System clock
1: SoftOSS
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
I am not sure, by all this, looks like irq/dma conflicts but I have no real
idea. Any suggestions
Thankyou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:39:19 +1100
Mike Oliver wrote:
> Does anyone know if this combo will work? After taking care of
> the known problem regarding the CPUID, I mean
> ( see <news:39C7F2F6.4A6175E%40ninewalkers.com> ).
What problems would they be? Please tell.
I have Mandrake 7.1 (prety much the same as RH) running on a Thunderbird
800MHz processor and a EPOX 8KTA mthrbrd. Everything worls fine.
pete
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IOMagic UDMA66 card: any luck?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:59:04 GMT
alex wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck using the iomagic UDMA 66 card, perhaps using a
> kernel >2.3.4 or with the unified ide kernel patches ? I gather from
> usenet posts that IOMagic uses the Promise chipset (which has been
> reported to work), but is somehow different from Promise. I'd like to
> know whether to return it or start hacking.
>
> www.iomagic.com doesn't even specify the chipset!
>
> --
> Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html
JRT
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:13:36 +0200
From: Ohanesian Raffi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA Modem
Hey,
I am a new linux user and really have no idea what I am doing. I am
learning though. I am trying to install a PCMCIA modem. No luck. Does
anyone know where I can find a step by step on how to install the modem?
Or does anyone have time to give
me step by step instructions on how to install this modem.
PCMCIA modem is a Megahertz 3CCM156B on Redhat Linux
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Raffi Ohanesian
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Subject: Re: Frustrated new attempted linux user
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 07:21:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <8qb5km$g8k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> How do I install lilo??? And do I need it since I am using a
>different bootloader for my different os?
To install lilo, you first need to edit /etc/lilo.conf, and then you have
to run /sbin/lilo to update the configuration. Lilo is recommended for
beginners, as it is much easier to configure than grub. However, grub is
more flexible. I once again refer you to the documentation I mentioned in
the previous post (http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html). typing
"man lilo" at the prompt may also give you some help.
BTW, it would be nice if you did not quote all of the prevoius posts, as
this makes it much easier to locate your response :)
Regards, Kenneth.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eugenio Alessi)
Subject: DECStation 3100/200 compatibility...
Date: 21 Sep 2000 10:25:29 +0200
Hello!
Anyone out of there have experience abot installing Linux on DecStation 3100
WS ? (old Digital model...)
Thanks in advance
Eugenio Alessi
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From: "Ruben Merz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Athlon TB 750 + Asus A7V with RH6.2
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:26:01 +0200
Hi, I 'm going to upgrade my Linux box with the following hardware: Athlon
TB 750, Asus A7V with RH 6.2 and I was wondering If anyone had bad or good
issues with the kinf of hardware, and for what I've read in this newsgroup
especially with the Athlon TB 750. Thanks
Ruben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "Uniform CDROM driver" and CDRW Burn Errors?!?!?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:17:21 -0700
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:52:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E.
Mitton) wrote:
>Hi All;
>
>I'm still investigating a problem that I (and others) are having with
>the newest kernels, in my case V2.2.14 to V2.2.17. The problems
>involves an error abort at some point in the burn cycle with cdrecord.
>The error DOES NOT occur with 2.2.13 and earlier. Also, I have just
>discovered, Mandrake (with kernel 2.2.14-15mdk) kernel also does not
>exhibit this failure.
>
>The failure mode is as follows; at some random point during the burn
>cycle this error is generated:
>(Sorry for the HUGE dump)
>==================================================================
>Mitton<P2>dmitton:/image$ cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data
>mandrake71.raw
>Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
>TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
>scsidev: '0,0,0'
>scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
>Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
>atapi: 1
>Device type : Removable CD-ROM
>Version : 0
>Response Format: 1
>Vendor_info : 'CREATIVE'
>Identifikation : 'CD-RW RW6424E '
>Revision : '1.41'
>Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
>Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
>Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
>Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB
>FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
>Track 01: data 649 MB
>Total size: 745 MB (73:50.65) = 332299 sectors
>Lout start: 745 MB (73:52/49) = 332299 sectors
>Current Secsize: -1
>ATIP info from disk:
> Indicated writing power: 5
> Reference speed: 2
> Is not unrestricted
> Is erasable
> ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00)
> ATIP start of lead out: 335100 (74:30/00)
> speed low: 0 speed high: 4
> power mult factor: 5 6
> recommended erase/write power: 3
>Disk type: phase change
>Manuf. index: 81
>Manufacturer: ILLEGAL: Old Ritek Co.???
>Blocks total: 335100 Blocks current: 335100 Blocks remaining: 2801
>RBlocks total: 353448 RBlocks current: 353448 RBlocks remaining: 21149
>Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
>Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
>Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer
>ready.
>Starting new track at sector: 0
>Track 01: 54 of 649 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output
>error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
>CDB: 2A 00 00 00 6D 20 00 00 10 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: F1 00 05 00 00 6D 20 0C 00 00 00 00 10 02 00 00
>Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x10 Qual 0x02 (id crc or ecc error) [No matching
>qualifier] Fru 0x0
>Sense flags: Blk 27936 (valid)
>cmd finished after 2.720s timeout 40s
>
>write track data: error after 57212928 bytes
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>Writing time: 103.329s
>Fixating...
>Fixating time: 77.717s
>cdrecord: fifo had 1874 puts and 1747 gets.
>cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1619 times full, min fill was
>96%.
>Mitton<P2>dmitton:/image$
>==========================================================================
>
>I have tried investigating many things and I have found a difference
>between the stock Mandrake drivers and the Slackware drivers in the
>standard kernel.
>
>When Mandrake boots and loads the ide-scsi module the following
>"Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56" message is displayed in dmesg.
>The slackware boot does not display this.
>
>Stock Mandrake 7.0 boot (this works OK with cdrecord):
>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
>scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD-RW RW6424E Rev: 1.41
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
>
>Slackware 7 updated to Kernel 2.2.17:
>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
>scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD-RW RW6424E Rev: 1.41
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
>Slackware loads the proper modules (sg, sr_mod, ide_scsi) via
>/etc/conf.modules as per the How-To, and sometimes it does actually
>burn a cd, just not everytime as it does under Slackware and kernel
>2.2.13.
>
>Does any one recognize this different boot message? Are you aware of
>a standard patch that Mandrake applies to its kernel tree that I can
>try in Slackware?
>
>I tried searches on the "Uniform CDROM driver" and found lots of
>interesting reading but it looks like this should be in the current
>kernel source, my question is how do I activate it and can it be
>causing my problem?
>
>Thanks in advance to any and all responders. I'm getting very tired
>of being stuck at Kernel V2.2.13 just because I can't get around this
>intermittent CD burning issue.
I have this same Creative drive and I am observing similar behavior.
I have compiled and booted 2.4.0-test8 kernel -- that did not help.
The results were essentially the same, although higher quality media
seems to perform slightly better. I am starting to think the Creative
6424 drive is a fragile drive.
I found some "suggested" patches for the sg module per the author Jorg
Schilling at his home page for cdrecord (found it on linux.org). I
have not yet applied the patches to the 2.4.0 kernel sources to test
them, however. I also ordered a mandrake disk from cheapbytes in case
I can't manage to get the redhat 6.2 version to work. BTW, I don't
see the "Uniform CDROM" driver in the RedHat build either.
If you run across something, feel free to drop me a note at pdhanson
at pacbell no spam dot net. (Remove the obvious)
-- Dean
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Doug Mitton - Brockville, Ontario, Canada
> 'City of the Thousand Islands'
> EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.cybertap.com/dmitton
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